8. The road meets the rat demon

Ji Chengyu ran in the mountains and forests in the direction of Shouyang Mountain in the northwest for a day, because the jungle was dense and thick, although he didn't rest much, he didn't run for a few miles. Until the red sun fell in the west, I felt tired and hungry, and there happened to be a ruined temple not far in front, Ji Chengyu decided to rest inside for one night, and continue to hurry early tomorrow morning.

The ruined temple looks very old, and although it is large, it is extremely dilapidated. There was a statue inside, with a fierce face, Ji Chengyu couldn't call his name, and there were piles of rocks and weeds on the ground.

Ji Chengyu tidied up the weeds on the ground, used the ground as a bed, and just slept on it. For more than ten years, he often ran around with the old ape, and wherever he went, he found a place to sleep, and lived in broken temples, caves, and cottages. Of course, more often than not, I sleep on the floor in the open air.

Ji Chengyu ate some dry food that he carried with him, it was the only bit of dry food that his grandfather left, but it was enough to support him to rush to Ji Cheng.

After eating dry food, I went outside to the ditch and drank some water, came back and lay down on the weeds, and soon fell asleep.

I don't know how long I slept, I suddenly heard someone talking in a daze, it seemed to be coming towards the broken temple, I opened my eyes, I went to the window and looked out, and by the bright moonlight, I saw three people walking towards the broken temple.

Ji Chengyu didn't know who it was, so he lightly hid behind the idol, ready to hear what they had to say.

The three of them quickly entered the house, and one of the girls said "Huh" and said, "How can there be the smell of people and demons in this ruined temple?" ”

Another woman said: "Sister Hong, there is only this broken temple within a radius of more than ten miles, and there are naturally many people and demons resting here, and it is not strange to leave some smells." ”

The woman said earlier: "What Bai Mei said is reasonable. ”

A man's voice said, "I'm a little hungry, and I don't know if there will be a man or a beast to rest in this ruined temple tonight, just grab and eat." ”

This sentence surprised Ji Chengyu, it seems that these three guys are not people at all, but demons, but they all have human appearances, and they don't know how they got it. I didn't dare to move at the moment, I held my breath and listened quietly. I thought to myself, although I ran fast, I might not be able to beat these three demons, if I was caught and eaten by them, I really became a big wrongdoer, and I had to shout that I was wronged when I got to the underworld.

Bai Mei said, "Brother Hei, didn't you just eat an elk and get hungry so soon?"

The man known as Brother Hei said, "That elk is so small, and the good meat has been eaten by the two of you, so I am naturally hungry." ”

Sister Hong said: "Brother Hei, we two sisters want to thank you well, but since you are a brother, you naturally have to protect us everywhere and let us do it." ”

Bai Mei said: "Brother Hei, you can bear with it a little longer, wait for us to go to Jicheng to steal the gold, go to Heping City, and have whatever you want." ”

Brother Hei said: "I heard that there is a wizard named Yu Nuo in Ji City, who has strong mana, don't be caught by him, although gold is important, life is even more important." ”

Bai Mei smiled and said, "Brother Hei, are you afraid?" Her laughter was sharp and piercing, startling Ji Chengyu.

"It turns out that these three guys are thieves and want to steal gold from Himejo. Ji Chengyu thought in his heart, "Hmph, you are afraid of the wizard Yu Nuo, and when you get to Ji City, I will just lure Yu Nuo here and arrest you all." ”

Brother Hei also let out a sharp laugh and said, "What am I afraid of, I'm not even afraid of a spirit master, and I'm afraid that a little wizard won't be successful?"

Sister Hong looked at Brother Hei by the moonlight and said, "Brother Hei, your human skin face JU may not last tomorrow, and the lower forehead has been broken, revealing mouse hair." ”

Ji Chengyu said in his heart, it turned out to be three rat demons.

"Really?" Brother Hei hurriedly reached out and touched it, and sure enough, the human skin on the lower forehead cracked open, and he felt the long mouse hair, so he said: "If you enter Jicheng like this, I'm afraid that you will be recognized as soon as you enter, how can this be good?"

"Otherwise, when we arrive in Jicheng tomorrow, Bai Mei and I will go in and steal it, you wait outside, and when we steal the gold, we will hurry to Heping City and buy you a new pair of human skin noodles. Sister Hong said.

Brother Hei said helplessly: "That's the only way." ”

Bai Mei said: "I heard that there is a lot of gold in Jicheng, we must steal more this time, so as not to run around, I am afraid of this poor life." ”

Sister Hong sighed and said, "Just by the two of us, how much gold can we bring out, the things in Heping City are too expensive, even if we steal more gold, it will not be enough." ”

Bai Mei said: "That is, a pair of human skin noodles JU costs fifty taels of gold, and a pair of demon spirit wings also costs fifty taels of gold, which is really expensive." ”

Brother Hei said: "I think I'm glad, I heard that those souls went to Heping City to buy their bodies, and they cost a hundred taels of gold!"

Bai Mei said: "A pair of human skin noodles is much smaller than a pair of bodies, and the price difference is only double, I think those souls are making a profit." ”

Sister Hong said, "What do you know! When people's souls go to buy bodies, the owner of the store will match them with a soul suit that can fly, so the price is actually the same as ours." ”

Bai Mei said indignantly: "The owners of those shops in Heping City are really insatiable, one day I will also go to Heping City to open a shop and taste what it is like to be the boss." ”

Brother Hei said: "We can't open it, I heard that the owners of the shops in Heping City are all relatives of the patriarchs, elders or wizards of the demon clan, the soul clan and the human race, and ordinary people can't open a shop there." ”

Bai Mei said: "That's fine, let them drive! They will transport the gold they have earned back to the city, and we will go to the city to steal it back, isn't it more interesting than being the boss?"

Ji Chengyu hid behind the statue and listened to the three demons chatting, thinking it was quite interesting. A gust of wind blew in from the hole in the broken wall behind, picked up the dust that fell on the windowsill, and got into Ji Chengyu's nose, and his nostrils itched for a while, and he couldn't help but sneeze.

Ji Chengyu thought in his heart: It's over, it's over, the damn wind doesn't blow sooner or later, but at this time, the wind, the wind, don't you deliberately make me bad and force me to die?

Sure enough, the three demons heard the sneeze and immediately jumped up from the ground, looking at the idol. Brother Hei shouted, "Who, who's here?"

Bai Mei said: "Could it be that this idol thinks we disturb his peace?" It seems that the demon is still quite afraid of the idol.

Sister Hong said, "Just look at it?"

The three demons carefully surrounded the statue from the side, Brother Hei was on the left, Sister Hong and Sister Bai were on the right, and soon appeared in front of Ji Chengyu.

Ji Chengyu couldn't hide, he didn't know how thick the temple wall was, whether he could knock it down, although it looked dilapidated, but if he couldn't knock it down, he would knock himself into a daze, and he would die faster. Anyway, there was nowhere to run, so Ji Chengyu thought about maneuvering with them and finding an opportunity to run out of the door, whether he could outrun them or not, run for a while first. With a decision, Ji Chengyu smiled "hehe" and said, "Three demon gentlemen, hello! Oh, no, it should be two demon ladies, one demon gentleman, don't come unharmed?"

Brother Hei said loudly: "Stop talking nonsense, tell me who you are, why do you have both human and demonic smells?"

"Really?" Ji Chengyu deliberately snorted so that the three demons couldn't figure out their own details, "Do I have so much smell on my body?" In fact, he didn't know how these three guys could smell the demon smell from his body.

"You're human. Sister Hong said coldly, "The human smell on your body is heavier than the demon smell, and those demon smells are not yours." ”

"Sister Hong is still smart. Ji Chengyu stretched out his thumb towards Sister Hong, and then spread his two hands, looking like a lai, and said: "Sister Hong said that I am a human being, then I am a human being!" Then he waved his hand and said, "The back is too narrow, let's go to the front to talk." ”

Brother Hei took a few steps back. Ji Chengyu said: "I still like to go from Sister Hong and Sister Bai. As he spoke, he walked towards the two, he deliberately did this, just to deter the three demons, so that they could not figure out their details.

Sister Hong and Sister Bai saw that Ji Chengyu looked indifferent, they didn't know what he was capable of, and they didn't dare to mess around, so they had to take a few steps back and let Ji Chengyu come to the front. However, Brother Hei blocked the door early to prevent Ji Chengyu from escaping.

Ji Chengyu saw that Brother Hei had already taken precautions, and couldn't help but secretly complain. I thought: This stupid-looking demon is very smart. However, Ji Chengyu thought again, no matter how smart the demon is, it is always no better than humans, as long as he thinks of a way, he will definitely be able to fight these three demons.

Thinking that the three demons smelled human and demon smell on their bodies, and for a while they couldn't tell whether they were humans or demons, they suddenly sighed, walked a few steps behind their backs, and said, "I've lived for hundreds of years, and I have forgotten whether I am a human or a demon." He looked at Brother Hei and said, "Brother Hei, please do one thing, they all say that demons run faster than people, I will have a race with you, if you can outrun me, it means that I am a human being, and you can dispose of it." If you can't outrun me, it means that I am a demon, and demons can't kill each other, so let's say goodbye to each other, I'll go my way, and you go and steal your gold, how about it?"

In order not to make the three demons suspicious, Ji Chengyu deliberately turned his head to look at Sister Hong and Sister Bai, and said: "But I'm very conflicted now, if I win, do I really want to leave?

Sister Hong didn't know what to do, she smiled charmingly, and said coquettishly: "If you don't leave, our sisters will accompany you, but I just don't know if you can afford it." This smile turned out to be full of charm.

Of course, all the demons know that people will never be able to outrun the demons, and the three demons really hit the trick, Brother Hei said: "Hurry up, if you are a human, I will eat you in one bite, it just so happens that I am very hungry now." ”

Ji Chengyu waved his hand and said, "If I lose, you can eat whatever you want, roast and eat, stew and eat, boil and eat, whatever you want." Ji Chengyu said this sentence is also helpless, if he really loses, in this barren mountain and wilderness, he will never be able to run away, how do the demons want to eat themselves, don't they really have to follow the convenience of others?

Ji Chengyu walked to the westernmost side of the house, beckoned to Brother Hei, and said, "Come, you come over too, let's run over there together, run back and forth, whoever comes back first wins." Ji Chengyu only wanted to run back and forth, thinking that no matter whether he could outrun Brother Hei or not, when he returned, he would not run this way again, but ran out of the door, and ran up for a while, in case the three demons had scruples in their hearts and didn't come to chase him, wouldn't this life be picked up.

Brother Hei really left the door and came to his side, and Ji Chengyu deliberately asked Brother Hei to stand on the side near the door. looked at Sister Hong and said, "Annoyed Sister Hong shout, we will run when we hear your shout." ”

Sister Hong nodded and shouted loudly, "Run." ”

Ji Chengyu and Brother Hei rushed out almost at the same time, and the speed was amazingly fast.

The distance between the east and west ends of the broken temple was about ten zhang, and the two of them ran to the opposite side in the blink of an eye, but at this distance of more than ten zhang, Ji Chengyu was about three steps faster than Brother Hei. Ji Chengyu was surprised in his heart, he was even faster than the demon. He didn't know that he had been running with the ape demon since he was a child, and the ape demon was the fastest of all the demons, and even the ape demon couldn't catch up with him, how could this rat demon catch up.

Ji Chengyu turned back in an instant, and after running for a few feet, when he was about to be level with the door, he suddenly ran to the gate, instantly rushed out of the broken temple gate, and ran away in the distance.

Brother Hei didn't react, he was about to run to the starting point before he stopped, and when he ran to the door, he couldn't see Ji Chengyu's figure anymore.

Brother Hei knew that he couldn't catch up with him, so he was so angry that he stood outside the broken temple and scolded.

Ji Chengyu's voice came from afar: "Don't go to Ji City to steal gold, if you dare to go, you will definitely let the wizard arrest you." ”

The three demons looked at each other, and Sister Hong muttered to herself, "Is he a human or a demon?"