Chapter 8: Famous Demon Hunters (1)

When you make a wish on the stars,

It's millions of light-years late,

The star is long dead,

Just like you wish......

Ding Lingxiu, the forty-ninth generation of the Ding family.

He was born in a mysterious demon hunter family who is keen on subduing demons and catching monsters - the Ding family, the people of the Ding family have extremely strong spiritual power and innate yin and yang eyes, and have fought against the demons and monsters in the world for generations.

As the stars change, human society has undergone earth-shaking changes, but demons and monsters have become more sinister and vicious, deceiving people and coercing them to do the most evil things. They disturb the order of the world and cause turmoil in the times. And the demon hunters are a special group that exists in order to hunt these monsters, maintaining the balance of the world.

Like the cycle of life and death, the struggle between demon hunters and demons is endless.

They are similar to but different from demon alchemists, they do not refine demons into pills or treasures to make a living, but directly hunt the monsters that have been rewarded by the prefecture and arrest them, so as to obtain a high bounty. Moreover, compared to other strange people, the demon hunter can accurately tell the name, habits, and weaknesses of each monster, so often two demon hunters who don't know each other will immediately know each other's profession once they talk about the same kind of monster. Ding Lingxiu also guessed her identity only when Xia Xianyao recognized her rain girl demon qi at once.

In 1991, in the middle of the Ganzhi calendar, Ding Lingxiu fell to the ground and was born. It was this year that Ding Lingxiu's father, Ding Lin, got this book of Qinglong Hundred Ghosts.

The Qinglong Hundred Ghost Diagram is one of the fragments of the true Hundred Ghost Diagram, in the Ming Dynasty, a demon hunter who completed the Qinglong Hundred Ghost Diagram hid it in the Nuwa Peak of Guling Mountain, and the time has passed, and the demons in the Hundred Ghost Diagram have long been scattered. When the people who found it arrived, it was empty.

And the person who discovered the Hundred Ghost Diagram was not Ding Lingxiu's father, but a man named Guo Wangchuan.

Guo Lichuan is the descendant of the Guo family, another demon hunter, and it has gone through a lot of hardships to find this Qinglong Hundred Ghost Map, so it stands to reason that he should cherish it in every possible way. Transported to gold into iron, when the iron is like gold, it's a pity that everyone has their own lives, this Guo Wangchuan is a competitive person, an accidental gamble made him lose both his life and the hundred ghosts.

The origin of this gamble starts with Ding Lin's father, Guo Lichuan and Ding Lingxiu's father Ding Lin were friends and enemies when they were young, although they are both demon hunters, but the skills and styles of demon hunting are different. Because Ding Lin is the forty-eighth generation of the Ding family, his demon hunting skills are better than Guo Wangchuan's, so he has repeatedly made the competitive Guo Wangchuan lose face, but Guo Wangchuan knows that his skills are not as good as others, but he is unwilling to be subservient, so he tries to find a powerful demon hunting artifact.

Finally, the sky lived up to his wishes, and by chance, Guo Wangchuan got this Qinglong Hundred Ghosts Map.

And when Guo Wangchuan got the Qinglong Hundred Ghost Map, his temperament changed greatly, and his life also underwent earth-shaking changes. He used the Hundred Ghost Diagram to subdue a monster called Rain Girl in Jiangnan, which greatly increased his strength, so he began to get carried away and squeeze Ding Lin everywhere. From time to time, he obstructed Ding Lin's demon hunting operations.

In the end, in a demon hunting operation in Guangxi, Ding Lin, who was hindered again, couldn't bear it anymore, found Guo Wangchuan, and decided to rectify this arrogant demon hunter, but he didn't want his small punishment to cause an insoluble grievance between Ding Guo and the two families.

At that time, Guo Wangchuan was boasting to the fellow demon hunter in the teahouse about how he had gone through hardships and dangers to obtain the Qinglong Hundred Ghost Diagram and how he had subdued the rain girl, and just when he was elated, Ding Lin, who had just finished checking the equipment, came over and politely arched his hand and said:

"Brother Guo, since I got this Qinglong Hundred Ghost Map, I really have to be impressed by you, but I didn't expect to be cut off by you again today."

"Where, a good horse with a good saddle, this picture of a hundred ghosts is a gift from heaven. If you don't have this superb ability, how can you be chosen by God? Guo Lichuan said triumphantly.

"Oh? I really don't know this, it turns out that Brother Guo can subdue demons without the help of this hundred ghost diagrams? Ding Lin deliberately made an incredulous expression.

The other people in the company also laughed, although it was not something that really made them happy, but Guo Wangchuan's usual arrogance had already made many people unhappy.

"Huh? How do you speak? You don't believe in my strength? Guo Lichuan heard this off-string sound, and became angry.

"This ......"

Ding Lin was full of sneers, looking around at everyone, everyone also looked at each other and smiled.

"What do you mean you? If you are really unconvinced, do you dare to compete? Guo Lichuan slapped the table and looked at Ding Lin angrily.

"Brother Guo, I don't mean anything else, your level is obvious to all. But you have repeatedly obstructed everyone's business, which makes no sense and reason. Ding Lin replied calmly.

"Cut, this thing eats according to its ability, you are not as good as others, do you blame me? Whoever is not convinced, let's compete. Guo Wangchuan raised his head and said arrogantly.

As soon as these words came out, the demon hunters present all changed their faces, and several demon hunters with bad tempers rolled up their sleeves.

"Damn, Lao Tzu can't look at it for a long time, if you don't rely on that book of hundred ghosts, you will catch demons? I really laughed at it. The competition is the competition, if you have the ability, don't use the hundred ghost diagram. A relatively athletic demon hunter stood up and said angrily.

"Yes, yes, what kind of skills are you using that hundred ghost diagram?" The other person chimed in.

Ding Lin smiled secretly in his heart, and things really developed in the direction he expected.

Ding Lin saw that everyone was coaxing, so he hurriedly waved his hand to stop, and said leisurely:

"Hey...... This is not right, the purpose of our trip is to subdue the demon, don't break the harmony because of trivial things, I don't have to try it, Brother Guo is also the heir of the feng shui family, so questioning his strength is really wrong, I personally still admire Brother Guo, but since everyone has a mustard, I don't think it's better to do this, by sitting in the village, making a gambling contract, let Brother Guo serve the public with strength, what do you think? ”

"Okay, okay, Ding Ye said so, just do what Ding Ye said." Someone in the crowd chimed in.

Immediately after everyone nodded in agreement, Guo Lichuan looked at everyone, looked at Ding Lin and said:

"Oh? Now that you've decided to make a bet? Let's talk about it, how to gamble. ”

Ding Lin smiled and asked:

"Brother Guo, what is the specialty of the demon hunter compared to other strange people?"

"Then you need to ask? Know yourself and know your opponent, and win all battles. What the demon hunter is best at is to defeat the enemy with one blow according to the habits and weaknesses of the demons and monsters. Guo Wangchuan glanced at him and replied disdainfully.

"Oh? Since Brother Guo knows, he won't sell it anymore, I made this gambling contract, I don't know if Brother Guo dares to gamble? ”

Ding Lin took out a blank piece of paper and wrote down the content of the gambling contract:

The two agreed that if Guo Lichuan dared to spend the night peacefully in the open space in the small mountain village where the zombies were infested in Guangxi without borrowing any spiritual tools, then Ding Lin would announce that the Ding family would retire from the rivers and lakes as the orthodox heir of the Ding family and would no longer engage in the demon hunting industry. And if Guo Wangchuan escapes halfway or unfortunately dies, then Ding Lin will get this Qinglong Hundred Ghost Diagram.

After reading the gambling contract, Guo Lichuan laughed and happily accepted the challenge. Because although the Guo family is a demon hunter who is a half-way monk in a feng shui family, he works hard and has a good understanding of the habits, characteristics and weaknesses of various demons and monsters.

Zombies are terrifying, bloodthirsty, and cruel. But what makes them different from other demons is that most of them are reckless and violent human beings who leave their bodies after death, and their bodies are still occupied by fierce energy, so they become zombies and do evil. But they don't have an independent consciousness of their own, in other words, just like the jiqì, they are the easiest species for demon hunters to deal with.

It is said that because of the car accident of several strangers in the bus near the mountain village, because the resentment has not disappeared, every night will go around to plague the living, less than half a year's effort, the small number of residents of the small mountain village escaped cleanly, and this place has become a famous ghost village.

Because Guo Lichuan also knows zombies very well, although he agreed not to use spiritual tools, he did not say that he was not allowed to use other things, so he also made some preparations, he made an iron cage with thumb-thick steel bars in the open space of the agreed place in the village, leaving only a half-inch-wide gap between the fences of the cages. He also borrowed a double-barreled shotgun and a flashlight from a nearby hunter.

In this way, he can observe his surroundings and ensure that he can spend the night in peace.

With his knowledge of zombies, these demons can find themselves by sniffing blood, but they can neither use tools nor cooperate. You can't break the cage with that kind of body under any circumstances.

So that night, after the other demon hunters dispersed, he sat in the middle of the cage, holding a double-barreled shotgun, even if the zombies really came, they couldn't get through the iron cage, and could only eat his guns.

He set up the camera and recorded his movements, proving that he had indeed spent the night in this cage.

At midnight, when the wind was miserable, he was awakened by the restlessness around him,

The zombies are wandering outside the cage and are about to come close.

He first smiled and picked up the gun, and was about to clean up the zombies.

And when he saw the situation in front of him clearly, he was suddenly stunned and wanted to cry without tears.

Then he made the last call in his life to Ding Lin:

"You damn it, why didn't anyone sue me, these zombies were squashed before they died!"