Chapter 1: The Monster Controversy
West Continent, Yuhai City.
The moonlight sparkles across the sea, reflecting the lights of distant cities.
The summer sea breeze shuttles through this bustling city, the bustling city is noisy, and on the seaside street not far from the coastal pier, a luxurious restaurant stands here, and people come and go.
The people in the lobby of the restaurant drank and celebrated the arrival of summer, both for the soldiers stationed in the "bones of the north" for once again protecting the country in the season of monsters, and for their own coming summer of peace.
Unbeknownst to them, a fierce quarrel broke out in the large private room on the top floor of this restaurant.
In the private room, there is a group of young people in their twenties, they are both men and women, but without exception they are wearing the most expensive clothes and jewelry, and every young person's eyebrows and eyes reveal a nobility that cannot be concealed.
"You know what a fart, where is there such a monster, the instinct of the monster is to eat, that thing is slaughter! Slaughter understand?" A young man with particularly thick eyebrows slapped the table, pointed at the person sitting across from him and shouted, "Would you kill the entire group of sword pigs in order to eat a sword pig?"
Sitting across from him was a big fat young man with slender eyes and a full face of meat, he snorted disdainfully and sneered: "I know a fart? Lao Tzu went to the sea with a boat to kill monsters at the age of fifteen, I don't know better than you?"
"You're just bragging!" The man with thick eyebrows also sneered: "Didn't you just follow the people in your family to catch a few stinky fish and rotten shrimps? You have been blowing this for five or six years, and I think my dogs have killed more monsters than you!"
When the fat man said this, his eyes lit up, but he didn't have a seizure, he just lit a cigarette, picked his chin, and said, "Okay, your Young Master Tang is amazing, you can tell me, that thing is not a monster, what is it?"
Young Master Gao with thick eyebrows was about to speak, but a woman sitting next to the fat man suddenly smiled and said, "Young Master Tang, what if you say something wrong?"
Young Master Tang was stunned for a moment, and a woman sitting on his side also crossed her eyes, and snorted coldly: "You don't believe him when he says it, it's a fart, Brother Hao, you don't pay attention to them, what's the point of arguing with these people." ”
But the young master named Tang Hao didn't do it, he also asked others for a cigarette and lit it, and lit it with his finger holding the cigarette, and said: "Damn, fat man, if Lao Tzu can't say one, two, three, or four today, you will be my master in the future, and I will call you a mortal master when I meet!"
The fat man raised his eyebrows, clapped his hands and said, "Yes, if you can really convince me, I will buy the order for the entire restaurant tonight!"
"Humph!"
Tang Hao snorted coldly, ignoring the persuasion of several friends around him, he first filled himself with a glass of wine, drank it in one gulp, and then said very quickly while smoking a cigarette: "Let's first analyze the details of this thing that appeared this time." ”
"First of all, it was so big that it almost hit a fishing boat, and several fishermen saw that it was black at the time. ”
"Secondly, it was slaughtering monsters at the time, and later the garrison here also went to investigate, and the monsters that were killed were of a single type, leaving only two monsters, the ghost eye fish and the sea monkey, and all of them were torn to pieces. ”
"The two monsters of the ghost eye fish and the sea monkey are in a symbiotic relationship, the sea monkey has poor eyesight but the strength is terrifying, the ghost eye fish is weak but has a very strong eyesight in the sea, basically the ghost eye fish leads the way for the sea monkey to hunt food, and then eats the remaining prey corpse of the sea monkey. ”
"These two monsters live in groups, they are very aggressive, there are often fourth-order or even fifth-order strength leaders in a sea monkey group, the number of corpses of the two monsters found this time should exceed hundreds, at least their leaders are also fourth-order peak strength. ”
"Such a monster settlement, not to mention walking sideways in the sea, must be very domineering, basically what to eat, both monsters are omnivorous, in this case, even if the sea patrol ship encounters it, you have to walk around, otherwise the ship can be gnawed clean......"
"The more the you talk, the farther and farther away!" At this time, the fat man suddenly interrupted Tang Hao and said impatiently: "Who the wants to listen to you talk about sea monkeys!"
"So you know a fart!" Tang Hao scolded back unceremoniously: "Use your pig brain to think about it, such a group, even if it is a sea creature that is much stronger than them, will basically hide away, who has nothing to do to fight with them when they are full? You don't know the reason, how to analyze the origin of that thing?"
Seeing the fat man blowing his beard and glaring at him but not knowing how to refute it, Tang Hao drank a glass of wine in a happy mood and continued.
"According to the unanimous statement of the fishermen, although that thing slaughtered the entire monster group cleanly, it also had a lot of wounds on its own body, obviously risking its life to fight with sea monkeys and ghost-eyed fish, if you are a monster, put so many fish and shrimp in the sea and don't eat them, go and fight with them?"
"The instinct of monsters is clear, which is to eat, and even if they are intelligent, their purpose is to eat. Do you know that the "Monster Illustrated Book" knows? People have already published books, and all the logic of monsters' behavior is essentially to 'eat' and 'develop the group', so why did that thing risk its life to fight with sea monkeys?"
Tang Hao mentioned the well-known "Monster Illustrated Book" in the Western Continent, and the fat man was also a little unconfident, he muttered: "Maybe the sea monkey group attacked that monster?" Or attacked another monster group, so this more powerful monster came to seek revenge?"
Tang Hao sneered, snorted and said, "It seems that you haven't watched the "Monster Illustrated Book" at all, right?"
"Monsters don't have such an act of seeking revenge at all! For them, the law of the jungle is the most basic law, if you can beat me, I will only avoid you, change territory to find living space, how can I turn around and seek revenge? Therefore, it can't be a monster at all, it's another creature!"
The fat man was said to be gloomy, and his face became more and more ugly.
Tang Hao's heart became more and more happy, and he said lukewarmly: "When I say this, you pig brain probably can't understand it." But you know, there have been many similar events recorded in history, and the protagonists of the events are creatures of unknown origin, whose behavior logic is completely different from that of monsters, but they have extraordinary abilities, how similar is this to this incident?"
The fat man didn't speak, but the other young people at the table had already been fascinated by it, and when they heard this, they finally couldn't help but ask, "Young Master Tang, what do you mean, the thing that appeared near Yu Hai this time is also this kind of creature?"
"That's right. Tang Hao was a little drunk, but his thinking was still clear, and he said: "I don't dare to say that it must be, but I am eighty percent sure." ”
The young men were thoughtful, and one of them seemed to suddenly remember something, and said, "I seem to have an impression, I heard that many years ago, a city was completely destroyed overnight, and countless people died, and a village not far away witnessed that it was a white, serpent-like thing that made all this!"
"Yes!" Tang Hao's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "The May Siege Incident! I heard that the high-level officials of the imperial court and several major temples know about this matter, but there are very, very few people among us ordinary people who know about it, and I have heard a little bit from my father, and I heard that they call this strange creature 'demon'!"
"Demon?" When the young people at the table heard this term, they inexplicably heard a strange feeling, and they each muttered and pondered.
At this time, the fat man saw that even the female companion who had been speaking for him was thinking about Tang Hao's words with flickering eyes, and his heart was irritable.
He slammed the table, raised his hand and waved it in the air, and suddenly a transparent palm condensed by divine power burst out from between his hands, and slammed into Tang Hao, knocking the defenseless Tang Hao into the chair and rolling on the ground several times before stopping.
At the same time, the table shook with the power of his palm, and the soup spilled on the table.
The young people at the table were shocked, two of them hurriedly left the table and rushed to Tang Hao's side, while the others looked at the fat man in surprise, and someone shouted: "Zhao Fan, what are you doing!"
The fat man named Zhao Fan poured himself a sip of wine and scolded: "It's all nonsense! It's all nonsense, not a word of truth, it's not a 'legend', or 'it is said', then I will say it too?"
"Legend has it that there have been at least ten kinds of monsters that can seek revenge in the past 100 years! It is said that there are at least 100 kinds of monsters that have not been recorded in the Bestiary, hehe, what do you say?"
"I see, you don't know any bullshit at all! I just asked someone about what I didn't have, and I started guessing, and I went around saying that I was a fucking detective, and I thought you were a god. Anyway, I don't care, if you see me in the future, you have to call Lord!"
"The master thinks you're not right, so it's not too much to slap you, right?"
At this time, Tang Hao, who was knocked to the ground, had already sat up with the support of his companions. He was also a second-order peak martial artist, although his realm was not as good as Zhao Fan, but he would not be seriously injured by this slap.
It's just that at this time, there was a crimson palm print on his face, half of his face was high and swollen, one eye couldn't be opened, blood was flowing from the corners of his mouth, and his teeth were even loosened, which was extremely embarrassing.
"Zhao Fan, I'll fuck your mother!" Tang Hao was also a violent temper, shook his head, and after reacting to what was happening, he immediately jumped on the table and pounced on Zhao Fan.
Suddenly, a good meal became a full martial arts.
The fight was raging in the private room, and the friends of the two men who had made good friends also scuffled together, and the adjacent table, who might have toasted each other at the wine table before, now picked up the wine bottle and greeted each other in another way.
In the lobby downstairs, people are singing the military song of the Shuo Dynasty for some reason, cheering for the soldiers in the distance.