Chapter 53: Impermanence
"Huhu, did you kid lose his soul, what are you thinking stupidly! Come on, come on, lucky, dig up a big blood stone, the old man has spoken, belong to you kid, hehe!"
The familiar butcher wiped the sweat from his head and panted, as if he had put a lot of effort into this blood stone, and his clothes were stained with blood, but it was not his.
He hooked Ji Ge's neck with his sweaty thick arms, and carried Ji Ge, who had not fully understood, to the old wilt tree in the right corner of the courtyard.
This old wilted tree stands out in the small courtyard, the mountain is mostly dry, and it is rare to be moistened by rain and dew on weekdays, but it is watered by the fresh and hot blood water in the slaughterhouse every day, and it is wantonly raised, no one can say how many years, in short, these men only remember to pee under this tree when they were young.
The older ones in the slaughterhouse like to rest against the trees, take a sip of wine, sip their tongues and shake their heads slightly, which is the most pleasant thing.
The branches of the old tree are crooked, their teeth and claws are crooked, and the skin on the stump is cracked, but it grows very vigorously, very wantonly, revealing a sense of darkness, and a smell of decay permeates.
At this time, the butchers had already surrounded the tree, and a large piece of the crowd was empty, as if there was something, and the men nodded their heads from time to time, and they were amazed.
"Such a big thorn scale is indeed very rare, something that is rare to see, and the head grabbed two of them as soon as he grabbed them!"
"Eh, but look at its body, the scales on its back have been torn off a few pieces, and there is a blind eye, this is not the style of the leader......" Someone suddenly noticed something and said suspiciously.
"Yes...... Anyway, the blood stone dug out of its heart is really not small, and it is bigger than a fist. ”
"Get out of the way, get out of the way! Old man, I brought Ji Ge. The man dragged Ji Ge with one hand, separated the crowd with the other, walked to the open space in the middle, and said to an old butcher who looked the oldest and had gray eyebrows.
"Well, Xiao Jige, this time I have seen it for a long time, I guess I haven't seen such a hideous and huge beast before, haha......"
The old butcher nodded, touched his beard, pointed to something on the ground, and laughed at Ji Ge, squeezing his eyebrows and eyes, very complacent.
Only then did Ji Ge see what was lying under the tree, they were two beast corpses, and he had seen both of them!
One was a mantis-like beast that he had just dragged out of the house and had been cut in half, while the other, the beast of the old butcher's fingers, turned out to be the thorn scales with whom he had fought viciously!
Ji Ge stared blankly at the dead beast corpse, looking at the wound caused by his own hands, the blind eye, he couldn't help but feel a little, he was quite miserable that day, the piece of blood that the old butcher secretly stuffed into his arms was what he dreamed of before, but now it is so easy to get into his hands, the world should be impermanent.
When the butchers saw Ji Ge in a daze, they thought they were frightened, and they laughed, but they didn't say anything to mock, which of them didn't feel scared when they saw it for the first time.
After the old butcher stuffed the large piece of blood into Ji Ge's arms, he stroked his beard and smiled more and more heartily, and his two old eyes were about to narrow.
"I left the wound on this thorn scale! Its eyes were blinded by me. Ji Ge closed his eyes, opened them again, and said lightly, thinking of something unpleasant.
"Haha...... Poof!"
"Uh-huh, what did you say?"
The butchers laughed to themselves, and suddenly heard this, and after a long time they comprehended it, and one by one they stared at the bull's eyes, their faces were full of incredulity, and some of them still didn't believe it, and muttered.
"You, you're really kidding......"
The old butcher blew his beard and stared, his eyes were straight, and he slapped the man's head hard when he heard the words, "What are you talking about!", and smiled again, patted Ji Ge's shoulder heavily, and the thick appreciation in his eyes was self-evident, as if looking at his juniors, his words were full of kindness, and he said three "good" words in a row.
"Good, good, good, good boy!"
Such a gaze, Ji Ge had only seen it in the eyes of Mo Ya's father, and at this time, it seemed to fall in the softest place in his heart after a lifetime, making his eyes a little moist.
If Daddy knew that his little guy had become a man who could fight against evil beasts with his bare hands, he would be crazy with joy, right?
Ji Ge couldn't speak, so he could only nod his head desperately, making the butchers look a little sour, originally impressed by Ji Ge, but at this moment he was just a bitter child after all.
Whether or not he can compete with the scales, he is still the silent young man he was when he first came in......
"Okay, nod again, the dog urine will flow out, haha!" the old butcher said gently, turned around, clapped his hands and shouted loudly: "What are you doing standing, don't work yet! You must deal with this ugly praying mantis before nightfall today, if anyone is lazy, hum, you don't have to drink alcohol!"
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Ji Ge got down from the back cliff stone platform, returned to his hut, took out the things in his arms, and fell asleep at the end, today his eyes were staring at the butcher's head's knife, deep in his heart, the whole person was immersed in it, it was really sad, so that his nose was faintly warm, as if to bleed.
In the following three days, in addition to going out to the courtyard of the female teacher, he learned that she had been out for many days, so he was slightly relieved, took care of the living dead and flower clusters in the flower room, and went back.
He even had a burning thought, if the female teacher died outside, wouldn't he be out of her clutches? But after thinking about it, Ji Ge solemnly looked at the red dots that always existed in his palm, and his head suddenly became as big as a fight, and he was very uneasy.
In the past three days, Ji Ge didn't know how to eat, and he couldn't sleep well, thinking about the coldness of the knife all the time, replaying it in his mind countless times, and even when he was blessed to his heart, he used his hand to make two strokes, and the whole person fell into a state of idiocy, almost stunned.
The butcher's knife is like a tiger pounced, and the fangs only bloomed for a moment, but nothing did not urge, nothing did not break!
Even a mantis beast with its joints outside could easily be cut in half, Ji Ge tried to put himself under the knife, but every time he shuddered and broke out in a cold sweat!
He couldn't dodge this knife, he couldn't block it! Even, it was difficult to even have the slightest thought of resisting, so he could only wait for destruction to come.
Whether the butcher used external force, Ji Ge didn't know, maybe the flame-like light on his body was the key point, but the knife was just an ordinary beast slaughtering knife, and everyone in the slaughterhouse held such a knife.
Ji Ge looked at the knife in his hand, there were a few small potholes on the knife body that were corroded by acid, he was stunned, thinking hard, and suddenly his eyes lit up, as if he had caught something in an instant.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Ji Ge slapped his head suddenly, the light in his eyes became brighter and brighter, the smile on his face became thicker and thicker, and he suddenly realized that he roared in his heart.
"Since, since there is a flame in the head, then I, I can completely replace it with the black qi in my body!"
"As long as I simulate every step of his movements, every subtlety, I can make this kind of chill in my own hands, reproduction!!"
Ji Ge's eyes burned with ambition, he longed to become stronger, longed to have the magic power to slaughter living beings.
He swung the knife a few times, eager to try, but after thinking of something, he looked gloomy as if he had been splashed with cold water, and muttered: "No, no, that kind of power can be replaced, but I still can't reproduce that knife, even if the action is the same, but the intention that exists in it, I don't have it!!"
The knife on the butcher's head, Ji Ge felt it almost with his whole body, he faintly felt that it seemed that the movements were not important, what the butcher's head really made him see was the "meaning" in it.
The "meaning" is indescribable, the way is unclear, but it is real, the butcher head has been bumpy for half a life, and has gone through variables that many people can't imagine, so that he has achieved the present, his knife is no longer limited to moves, but a will, that is, to destroy the ancient decay.
And all this, Ji Ge didn't, even if he studied hard, he was just a ridiculous child who still drew a beard, which made his expression slightly gloomy, and his heart rose into frustration.
But soon, that frustration turned to perseverance.
"Even if I don't, my Ji Ge must be refined!"
In the corner he didn't notice, a small bone was purple, fluttered slightly, and then it went back in, becoming inconspicuous again.