Chapter 277: The Pig (2)
The summit has arrived.
The sea of clouds is churning, and the white tower is proud. Because there are no trees and flowers, it is a little less lonely and more majestic.
Looking down, there are dangerous cliffs on all sides, a lonely tower is uplifted, just in time for the morning sun to spray a thin glow, which makes people tremble.
Mingjing stopped in front of the White Pagoda Gate, Hairpin Star looked at him for a moment, and asked, "What is this?" ”
In front of the door of the White Tower, there is a stone sculpture.
The statue looked like a goat, but with only one horn and more than twice the size of a normal goat. It stood in front of the white tower, looking down on everyone condescendingly, its head slightly bowed, as if it was about to touch someone with its horns.
The goat's eyes are inlaid with black stones, and for some reason, the hairpin star felt a little uncomfortable at the first sight of the goat statue. It was a statue, it was a beast, but she always felt that the goat's eyes revealed some humanity, as if they were scrutinizing her coldly and carefully.
The statue is located at the entrance of the White Tower, blocking the entire tower gate. Nie Xinghong of the Yin Feng Sect shook his fan for a moment, and looked at Ming Jing in confusion: "Master, this statue is at the door, how can we get in?" Is it to break the statue? Or move it out of the way? ”
Mingjing said: "The pig, the sheep with one horn, is guilty of sexuality." He looked at the white pagoda and said softly: "This is the condition of the pagoda. ”
"Only those who are innocent can enter the tower."
The hairpin star clenched the carefree stick in his hand.
The pig, a sheep with only one horn, is a legendary beast, and there have been priests who have used this sheep to judge the case. As long as you touch the prisoner with the horn of the pig, you will know that the prisoner is guilty or not.
And now in front of the five-wheel pagoda, there is such a statue of a pig, silently watching everyone.
Mingjing said: "For hundreds of years, there have been many monks who have been here and wanted to enter this tower, but there are also many people who have not entered this tower and have been isolated by the pigs. The pig will devour the guilty, and the innocent will pass through this door. He said to the people, "That's why I say that even if you come here, you may not be able to enter this tower." ”
"What a joke." Someone in the demon exterminator retorted: "Bald donkey, you said that the guilty cannot enter the pagoda, and that this hedgehog will devour the guilty. That demon has killed a lot of living people, and all the sins he has saved can go to eighteen layers of hell. Why did he get in? Could it be that a person whose hands are covered with blood is innocent? ”
This is also where Hairpin Star is puzzled, she looks at Mingjing, waiting for Mingjing's answer.
Mingjing shook his head: "I don't know how he got in." But the pig doesn't lie. ”
"Of course the pig doesn't lie, it's you bald donkey who lies!" The man sneered and swaggered out of the demon slaying army, who was originally a disciple of the Chihua Sect. He walked up to the statue, grabbed the horn on the head of the pig with one hand, and used his Yuan Force as if to throw the statue of the pig to the side.
"High power!" Some disciples called his name.
Gao Quan didn't answer, and suddenly said "Huh", with a strange look on his face.
Although his cultivation is not outstanding, he has a strange power, which can usually pull up a thousand catties of stone pillars, and the statue in front of him looks no more than a hundred catties, and he did not shake it for a while, as if this statue is connected with the earth, no matter how hard he tries, he can't shake a bit. He felt strange in his heart, so he simply held the horn on the statue's head with both hands, only to hear an exclamation in his ears: "Gao Quan be careful!" ”
He looked up and met a pair of bright eyes.
The statue's eyes opened.
Gao Quan's heart moved, and he subconsciously wanted to let go, but found that his body suddenly couldn't move. The goat's black eyes narrowed slightly, pressed against his forehead, and looked at him coldly.
Seeing by those eyes, it seemed that all the secrets in his heart were hidden, and a piercing chill suddenly appeared on Gao Quan's back, and he said, "Save ...... Help me! Help me! ”
He wanted to call it that, but unfortunately he opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't say anything.
On the side, someone in the demon slayer army asked, "What is he doing?" Why are you holding that statue in a daze? ”
In the eyes of everyone, Gao Quan just held the horns of the statue with both hands, as if he was trying to lift the statue, but there was no reaction for a long time.
"Can't you pull it up? If you can't pull it up, forget it, fellow practitioner Gao, we won't laugh at you, what are you angry about. A disciple of the Yin Feng Sect said, "Hurry up and get out of the way, you can't split this statue." ”
Seeing that the man was motionless, he felt a little strange in his heart, and as soon as he lowered his head, he saw that Mimi was staring at the statue of the pig and bowed his body slightly, and the hair on his body exploded, and he felt more and more wrong.
"That's not right." Gu Baiying looked at it, suddenly frowned, and the silver spear in his hand stabbed at the head of the pig statue.
"Knock".
The silver spear flew back into his hand, but the man holding the statue fell from the stone sculpture and lay on his back.
"High power!" Someone in the Demon Slayer Army screamed.
Gao Quan lay on the ground, his whole face still retaining a look of fear, and his eyes were wide. At his throat was a hole the size of a bowl, and blood was bubbling out, staining half of his clothes bright red.
"What's going on?" Everyone was shocked and inexplicable, and someone pointed to the stone carving and said, "Look! ”
The pig stood silently in place, as if it had been the case since the beginning, and the blood was dripping down its slightly lowered horns.
"This ...... What the hell is going on? In the Demon Eradication Army, there were disciples whose voices trembled, and they couldn't help but take a few steps back.
Not only was the demon exterminator army afraid, but even the demon people who were used to seeing demons and monsters were also slightly chilling in their hearts at this moment, and it was rare that they didn't say sarcasm.
But in a moment's time, Gao Quan died. The crowd didn't even see how he had lost his life. From the beginning to the present, he just touched the statue of the hedgehog, and died so inexplicably.
And the stone sculpture didn't even move.
However, is it really not moving?
If it really didn't move, where did the blood on the stone horns come from?
No matter how reckless Gao Quan is, it is impossible for him to stab himself to death with a sheep's horn. Unless something happened when he was moving the stone carving, but the people around him didn't see it, or rather, they couldn't see it at all.
The pig still stood quietly at the door of the white tower, and the blood on the horns fell to the ground one by one, tired of a small pile of bright red. Those black eyes were still plain and cold, and everyone looked at them, but there was an inexplicable chill in their hearts.
"He was a guilty man, so he was punished by the pig." Someone's sigh came, and the gray-clothed monk's gaze fell on the dead monk, and there was a flash of compassion in his eyes, but the words he said were calm and cold: "You, is there anyone still going to enter the tower?" ”
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獬 (xie) 豸 (zhi)
"Brother Shen!"
"Hmm!"
Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.
But it doesn't matter who it is.
There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.
on this.
Shen Changqing is used to it.
Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.
Arguably.
In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.
When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.
When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.
The Demon Suppression Division is huge.
The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.
Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.
Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.
Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.
Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.
Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.
Have memories of the predecessor.
He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.
It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.
Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.
At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.
Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.
Access to the attic.
The environment has changed in vain.
A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.
The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.