Chapter 15: Hugging
The black fox demon slowly told a story in a sad but calm tone.
Many years ago, there was a beautiful girl in Yuhai City.
Like the heroines in many stories, she is beautiful and generous but comes from a poor background, fortunately, her cultivation is good, and she was favored by Lan Caiyun, the bishop of the Yuhai Life Temple, and accepted as an apprentice.
After the girl entered the Temple of Life, she devoted herself to cultivation with devotion and hard work. Although the environment near Yuhai City was not so suitable for the cultivation of life dependents, with her superhuman efforts and qualifications, she still managed to advance to the third-order transcendent realm in the fifth year of cultivation and became an earth walker.
According to the law of the Shuo Dynasty, after becoming extraordinary, as long as you register as a national reservist and accept the call of the state to participate in military missions at any time, then you can receive a certain amount of money every month, so the girl did not hesitate to register as a reserve extraordinary soldier of the Shuo Dynasty and began to use these money to subsidize the family.
At the same time, at the suggestion of Lan Caiyun, she volunteered to help in the city's medical center, so as to sharpen her Dao heart and work towards a higher realm.
On that day, when the girl was helping in the hospital, she treated a rich man who was nearly forty years old.
This person is a landlord on the outskirts of Yuhai City, and when he was wandering in the field reclamation that day, he somehow stepped on his empty foot, and actually broke his head and bleed, and the bridge of his nose fell to a comminuted fracture, so his subordinates hurriedly sent the landlord to the big hospital in the city to seek treatment.
For a landwalker, such an injury is not difficult, but it certainly cannot be repaired instantaneously. The girl spent about five days taking care of the landlord and healing all his injuries, but she did not notice that during these five days, the landlord's eyes gradually became more and more greedy and full of desire.
Of course, the identity of the girl is a disciple of the bishop of the Temple of Life, a registered transcendent, even if this landlord is rich, it is impossible to snatch the beauty by force.
So, the landlord came up with a trick.
He first inquired about the girl's family history, and after learning that her family was poor and her parents were ordinary farmers, the landlord told the girl that in order to thank her for the grace of healing and caring for her during this time, he would invite the girl's parents to work in his farm and become a small supervisor, and gave them dozens of acres of land and a dozen farmers to manage, and promised a good monthly salary.
Although the girl tried every means to shirk it, she could not resist the sincere and enthusiastic invitation of the landlord, and her family was indeed poor, so she had to agree in the end.
In this way, more than half a year passed, and it was the season of late autumn and early winter.
Generally speaking, this season is a critical season for the northern soldiers to fight against monsters, and the imperial court will collect grain from the whole country, and this year is no exception, and this landlord also bears a lot of grain payment tasks. Of course, the task at hand will be assigned to each supervisor, who will turn in the appropriate amount of grain from the autumn harvest grain under his management.
Every farmer knows these things, and the girl's parents certainly know that from the beginning of the autumn harvest season, they began to prepare and reserve the military rations that needed to be handed over, and specially allocated a granary to store them.
However, the night before the military rations were to be handed in, the warehouse where the girl's parents had been used to store the military rations caught fire.
In the dead of night, a fire engulfed the whole granary, and the girl's parents wanted to take their farmers to put out the fire, who knew that when the farmers screamed fiercely, in fact, when they rushed into the fire, the farmers all turned around and ran, leaving the two old men alone in the burning granary.
When the girl arrived the next day, there were only two charred corpses left at the scene.
The maiden was overwhelmed with grief, but there was nothing she could do, and the yamen did not find the arsonist, believing that the fire was caused by the dry weather, and although the peasants fled on the spot, they were only greedy for life and afraid of death, and could not be judged on this basis.
Although there were all kinds of suspicions in her heart, the girl had no evidence at all, and even her master Lan Caiyun was quite helpless about this matter and could not provide any help at all.
What's even more terrifying is that on the day when the girl buried her parents, the landlord found her and told her that the officials who collected the military rations were going to be held accountable.
The landlord said that because of her parents' mistakes, she had to bear an additional 30 percent of the grain payment, and because she had delayed the payment of grain, she was punished by officials.
He asked the girl to take this responsibility away.
The food in a whole granary is not cheap, with the girl's savings, she can't afford it at all, even if she asks the master for help, Lan Caiyun can't mobilize the funds of the Temple of Life to help her, and if she uses private money, it is equivalent to hollowing out Lan Caiyun's small half of her wealth, the girl is uneasy and doesn't dare to make such a request to the master.
Therefore, she could only agree to the landlord's request, be a slave and a maid for the landlord, repay it by herself, sign a deed of sale, and leave the temple of life and reserve service.
And just a few days after the girl entered the landlord's mansion as a slave, the landlord's insidious and greedy face was finally exposed.
He took the opportunity of asking the girl to tidy up his room, tricked her into drinking a potion that suppressed divine power, making her an ordinary person who could not resonate with divine power, and tried to forcibly violate her, and in an arrogant mood, he told her how he designed to frame her whole family and trick her into selling herself into the house.
However, perhaps it was the girl's luck, or maybe God tried to torture her in another way, and at the most critical moment, her incomparably sad and indignant emotions attracted the divine power in her body, broke through the confinement of the potion, and summoned a stone cone, which pierced directly into the back of the landlord's head and ended his life.
In the Shuo Dynasty, even if a transcendent became someone else's servant, then it was the master's private property, and the maiden killed her master, and there is no doubt that according to the law, she must be executed.
Originally, the girl had already been disheartened, and after knowing everything and killing the landlord, she had no idea of continuing to live.
However, the unexpected happened again.
The person who was sent to detain the girl was actually a catcher she had rescued. This Catcher is not extraordinary, he has been cultivating for almost thirty years, and he is only a second-order peak life dependent, and it is difficult to take another half a step. That year, when he was still serving in the army, when he followed the army to encircle and suppress the bandits around Yuhai, he was shot in the heart by a stray arrow, and the arrow was only half an inch away from piercing the heart.
Later, it was the girl sent by the Temple of Life who did her best to save him and pull him back from the ghost gate.
At that time, he saw a pale, exhausted but unusually beautiful girl in a trance, and he was haunted by his dreams.
When the catcher who was on a grappling mission saw the girl sitting next to the landlord's corpse with her hair scattered and her soul lost, his heart also shattered into powder. Almost without hesitation, he quickly took the girl and began to run.
Just like the plot in many scripts, the girl didn't want this one-sided catcher to give her life and future, but the catcher had no hesitation and moved forward, and in the process of escaping, his hot and gentle heart slowly warmed the girl's broken soul and pieced it together.
In the killing array gradually surrounded by former colleagues, the catcher got the love that the girl personally admitted, and there were no regrets, for a wish that was destined to not die well, he was covered in blood and fell on the grass soaked in his own blood.
And the girl, in sorrow, turned and threw herself down from the cliff and fell into the raging waves of the sea.
What she didn't know was that the fierce obsession of the catcher who wanted her to live turned into a yin wind that no one could see, crying and roaring, and rushed into the body of an ordinary silver black fox.
"I, that is, that, the fox, the same one, catch fast. ”
The black fox demon lowered its huge head, and let out a low roar from its mouth, like a cry.
The obsession of catching fast and the consciousness of the fox turned into one in the chaos, it immediately sensed the divine power between heaven and earth, and subconsciously cultivated, I don't know if this fox has a special physique, or the soul that integrates human consciousness is special, it grows very, very fast.
From the moment it saw the girl fall into the sea to the moment it jumped headlong into the sea, the fox's size doubled, becoming the size of a wolfdog, and its strength approached the third-order realm.
The fox could have swam, and although it didn't have the memory of catching it at this time, an instinct drove it to swim desperately towards the girl.
In the turbulent waves and tides, how the fox struggled with the girl to sink to the bottom of the sea, how he burst out with all his instincts and dragged the girl to find the nest in the muddy, and how he crawled with her to the cave, the black fox demon can no longer remember.
"I just remember that she was still alive, and I was so happy, and I held her, and gradually lost consciousness. ”
This sad but bizarre story made Qi Wanli and Bai Qiyu sigh.
"I didn't expect that there would be such a thing. Bai Qiyu's eyes were full of sympathy when he looked at the black fox demon, and asked, "Then what about later, did you live together in that lair?"
The black fox demon nodded.
"At that time, my consciousness was chaotic, and she, because of the suffocation in the water for too long, lost a lot of time, memory. ”
The girl who lost most of her memories and the fox demon who only had instinct to rely on lived in this way in the undersea lair. The girl has no way to leave the depths of the sea, but the fox demon can occasionally go out to the surface of the sea and steal some household items and clothes from the small human villages, and although it doesn't know why it does so, it always seems to find something suitable for the girl.
As time progresses, the girl becomes a mature woman, carefree and happy after losing her memory, and the fox demon gradually grows in strength, and begins to have higher wisdom, and begins to gradually regain some of the memories of her time as a human.
It is getting bigger and bigger, and its strength is getting more and more advanced, it can already hunt powerful sharks in the sea, and can kill sea monsters that were originally going around carefully.
At this time, the fox demon began to become entangled.
The memory soul of humans and beasts has become one in this body, and it can no longer distinguish whether its consciousness belongs to the catcher or the ordinary fox, it cannot open its mouth to convey its heart to the woman it loves, and it is also worried that once the woman recovers her memory, she will fall back into confused and painful memories and cannot extricate herself.
"Every day, I am entangled and confused, only at night, hugging her to fall asleep together, can I feel at ease. ”