Chapter 2: Jinhua Demon Cat (1)
There is only one rule for catching Jinhua demon cats, and you have to live.
Huo Yan saw it and said, "Why do you want to live, this cat demon has nothing of value on it." ”
Wuzhiqi Hotel actually belongs to a non-governmental monster hunting organization, and the reason why many monster hunting teams are willing to take on tasks here is because it is more free than the official organization, and second, because the remuneration here is more flexible.
Any monster caught by the monster hunting team can choose to keep the magic weapon on the monster as their own, or they can choose to give it to the hotel for money.
And these magic weapons actually refer to a certain part of the monster's body, which may be fur, horns, or kidneys, only functions that you can't think of, and they can't grow without him.
However, once a certain provision is specifically emphasized in the mission it releases, for example, this Jinhua demon cat must live, which means that there is something on this demon cat that the Qi Hotel wants, then it is equivalent to saying that no matter what the demon hunting team finds on the demon cat, it must be exchanged for star coins.
Rhino answered: "It's not that I haven't encountered this situation before, just live it, whatever he does with it." ”
Because this is the task that An Lan took over before joining the team, Xi wants to establish a tacit understanding between the four of them through this cooperation, and it is best to eliminate the estrangement between each other, so he doesn't care about the hotel's intentions.
An Lan understood his kindness, and he didn't hide anything, and said his conjecture: "I think it may be that someone is waiting to eat the meat of this demon cat to save his life." ”
Huo Yan grabbed a handful of red hair and said, saying with a disdainful face: "The meat of monsters is not delicious, and some are even poisonous, how can anyone want to eat this demon cat?" And it must be alive, and the dead can't be cooked? ”
"You say someone is waiting for help?" Tianming immediately grasped the point, "What do you mean?" ”
An Lan said: "The best skill of this Jinhua demon cat is to charm people's hearts, whoever is tricked, if you want to live, you have to stew this demon cat and eat meat in order to be saved, and it must be effective within half an hour after the demon cat dies, it may be because of this reason that they want to live." ”
"Anlan, how do you know?" Rhino asked, confused.
An Lan smiled: "I said that my demon power is low, if I don't have a little housekeeping ability, how can I survive under the hands of all demon beasts so far." ”
An Lan said that these are all things that I have read in books before, especially the ancestral "Demon Hunting Encyclopedia" of the An family, because she couldn't practice demon hunting back then, her grandfather took out this book to her out of nowhere, saying that this is the An family's heirloom book, and told her to master it word for word.
She had always regretted not being able to practice demon hunting, so she studied the book wholeheartedly until she knew it by heart. Unexpectedly, the content of the book has played a big role here.
Now, although the rules of the universe do not allow the existence of demon hunting, it is precisely this that makes her think of another way.
"I knew I wasn't wrong about you!" The rhino was very happy, with a smug smile on his face, and turned to show off to the two, "Look, I believe that the rhino is right!" ”
Seeing this, Huo Yan rolled his eyes and turned his head away, Tianming's expression did not change significantly, he just glanced at An Lan, nodded and said, "Let's go, go early and return early." With that, he took the lead and walked out.
An Lan followed behind them, like a mirror in her heart, among the three, it is estimated that only the rhino really wanted to invite her, while Huo Yan and Tianming have actually been in a wait-and-see attitude.
Huo Yan was an impatient, and when he went out, he said: "Jinhua demon cats like to hunt in the city the most, let's go directly to a crowded place to find it." ”
"Demon cats like to haunt at night," Tianming suggested as he looked at the big sun in the sky, "and we'll have to wait until midnight to act." ”
Tianming was reasonable, and An Lan nodded in agreement after hearing this.
So the four of them went together to find a massage parlor and stayed all day. The four of them asked for a large private room.
An Lan enjoyed a foot massage, watched a documentary on the origin of the demon world, and sucked a bowl of Chongqing noodles in his hand, and the whole massage room was filled with a spicy smell.
Most of An Lan's attention is on the documentary, according to the record of this documentary, the demon world here originated from the arrival of the end of the world on the earth 10,000 years ago, it is said that when the earth was destroyed, the sky collapsed, the sea flooded the continent, and the violent crustal movement led to the awakening of the sleeping ancient demon.
These big demons with the monsters who woke up one after another, left the earth with the human starship, and came to the current galaxy, and then there were several demon wars, and finally both races were physically and mentally exhausted, and the humans and the demon race suddenly arrived in the new galaxy and were not familiar with the environment, so they finally decided to coexist peacefully, divided the territory equally, and maintained peace for many years. Later, the territory of mankind was the human world; The territory of the demon clan is called the demon world.
Seeing this, An Lan secretly said: Peace is only on the surface, interests are the key, and I don't know what treasures are on the energy star that the two worlds are fighting for, so that the two worlds have been fighting for nearly ten years, and the war has lasted for nearly ten years, so the demon world continues to be closed, and if this continues, when will I go to the human world to live a normal life! Alas!
An Lan was chewing noodles in her mouth, and the rhino lying next to her suddenly came over and asked, "Is this thing so delicious?" ”
An Lan came back to her senses, turned her head and saw that the rhino's head was about to stick into her bowl, and quickly moved the bowl away: "What are you doing?" ”
At this time, Huo Yan, who was lying next to the rhino, said, "What the hell is this, why is it so strange." ”
An Lan didn't expect that there would be Chongqing noodles here, and the taste was quite authentic.
"This is Chongqing noodles, and it says on the menu." An Lan explained, and then said to the rhino, "You have to eat yourself, don't think about me." ”
Rhino said: "I think so, but the demon eating these things will affect his cultivation, aren't you afraid?" ”
An Lan's spicy red lips paused for a moment, and then said: "What is the purpose of cultivating a demon in human form, not to do what a person can do, as the saying goes, people take food as the sky, and the most enjoyable thing for people is to eat, you have all worked hard to cultivate into a human form, but you dare not eat the food that people eat, so what is the meaning of your demon life." ”
After An Lan finished speaking, she suddenly felt that she was reasonable, so she took another big breath, and the voice made the three swallow saliva, she thought that she had passed the test, but she didn't expect that there was a sober one inside.
Tianming asked An Lan: "But in order not to affect their will, human beings choose to take Bigu Dan, don't you know?" ”
"Bigu Dan?" An Lan was surprised, "Isn't Bigu Dan something that only exists in the demon world, how can people have it?" ”
"You really don't know?" Rhino explained, "Many years ago, humans experimentally analyzed the Bigu Dan in our demon world, and then improved and researched the Bigu Dan suitable for human physique, and now their generals are taking this thing. ”
This An Lan really doesn't know: "You said that the generals, that means that the common people still have to eat, right?" ”
"Naturally, you have to eat, but there are also people who eat Bigu Dan, but they need to be divided into a level, most of the Bigu Dan eaten by ordinary people can only last for three to five days without eating, and the generals will use it, for example, Li Zhengbai, the commander of the Human Federation, it is said that his Bigu Dan is exclusively for use, and eating one can manage for a year." Rhino replied and asked, "Why don't you know anything about these things?" It's all common sense. ”
An Lan lowered his eyes and said confusedly, "I didn't pay attention to these. "She's only been here for a long time, how to survive is the most important thing, where to pay attention to this. But this also reminded her that she had to understand these things, so as not to cause suspicion in the future.
Well, this mission is over, go back and make up for it! Thinking about it, I took another sip, and finally drank all the noodle soup!
The four of them waited until the dead of night to come out of the massage parlor, and as soon as Huo Yan came out, he shook his short red hair, moved his limbs, and the night was silent, only listening to a few clicks of his joints and bones, and then sighed "comfortable".
The nine-tailed fox starry night sky is bright and clear, the lights of thousands of homes have been extinguished, the high-rise buildings are towering into the clouds, like a dormant beast at night, but the street lights on the city street are not extinguished day and night, and the flight track in mid-air has no lively daytime, only one or two civilian aircraft occasionally pass by, and disappear at the end of the bend in a blink of an eye.
This is the most densely populated but quietest part of the city, and it stands to reason that it should be the first choice for Jinhua demon cats to hunt, but An Lan and the four of them stayed here all night, and they didn't find any trace of the demon cat, not even a paw print.
When Chaoxia appeared, the grumpy Huo Yan couldn't help but say, "What's going on, where did the demon cat go!" Do you know we're waiting for it here? ”
Tianming said: "The demon cat is cunning and cautious, and may have sensed our arrival and changed the place of hunting. ”
For the next three days, they guarded all the places in the city where the demon cats often haunted and where they might appear, and they didn't find the slightest trace.
Is this demon cat still in the sky?
The time given by the Wuzhiqi Hotel is five days, and seeing that the deadline is approaching, if the task is not completed in the end, it will affect the credit value of the team and its members. They're real-name verified.
The four of them walked into the coffee shop on the side of the road, found a corner and sat down, the three were discussing what was going on, An Lan looked at the monsters walking in human form outside through the transparent floor-to-ceiling glass window, and they couldn't see their true identities, what was their body? Suddenly, she turned her head to look at the three who were fighting like a blessed spirit.
They received An Lan's eye signal, and they couldn't help but feel weird. Tianming sensed something and asked, "Did you think of something?" ”
An Lan nodded, but still didn't speak.
Huo Yan couldn't help it: "You have something to say." ”
Rhino also said: "Yes, tell me what's wrong, you look at me like this and panic." ”
An Lan said to them: "What I want to say next may be a little sensitive, you don't want to answer, you can not answer." Then he asked directly, "Is there any one among you who is a canine?" ”
As soon as An Lan's words fell, the three of them were surprised and asked in unison, "How do you know?!" ”
"There really is!" An Lan didn't expect that he had guessed correctly.
The demon's body is the biggest secret for a demon who cultivates into a human form, and if his own body is known, it is easy for people to know their weaknesses, so demons generally don't mention it to others. An Lan just asked so tentatively, but he didn't expect their reaction to be so direct, or so unguarded.
Perhaps they also realized that their reaction was too direct, so they suddenly shut up and kept quiet, and the rhino rolled his big eyes to look around, fortunately, there was a lot of noise here, and no one should have paid attention to what they said just now, so they approached An Lan and asked in a low voice: "How do you know?" ”
Anlan always felt that it was not safe to talk about this topic here, so he suggested: "Let's change places first?" ”
The three nodded in unison, and together they went to the primeval jungle behind the city.