Chapter 5: Killing Demons (2/2)
One day, about two months later.
The peasant households, who were originally cultivating in the fields, were suddenly beckoned by the village chief to go to the village chief's house to discuss matters, and only asked the male young adults to go before, and soon the village chief's house gathered twenty or thirty male young adults, and then a middle-aged man wearing a fine brocade robe walked out of the crowd and told everyone a big thing.
The middle-aged man in the long shirt: "Today I have a very remarkable thing to tell you, as you know, the harvest in our field has been very bad in the past few years, and some people have even run out of food at home. And then there is that in recent years, the children in the village have always been inexplicably sick and even died, I reported the matter here to the city government, and now I have received a definite answer, the reason why we have encountered natural disasters and strange diseases for many years is the sin of the remnants of the demon clan! They are a group of anomalies who use sorcery, and their sorcery has harmed us, because they want us to die, so that they can possess everything here, and their wealth will be taken away from us. ”
As soon as these words came out, the villagers present immediately looked at each other, not knowing whether to believe it or not, and not knowing what to do.
At this time, a hairy boy squatted outside the window and secretly listened to the conversation in the house, and this hairy boy was not an outsider, it was Niu Wa.
Villager: "Really? It's incredible. ”
The middle-aged man in the long shirt: "It's true. ”
Villager: "What can I do?" ”
The middle-aged man in the long robe: "Don't panic, now not only we are here, but in many places in Cangluo Country, there are cases of the demon clan harming people, but fortunately, there are many of us, and we have not declared war on the demon clan, and now the whole country is carrying out a demon eradication operation, and hundreds of thousands of demon clans have been killed by us, and this time I have already made a plan with the government when I come back!" ”
Villager: "Huh? That's great, tell me what we should do? ”
The middle-aged man in the long robe: "Don't panic, I have already reported the general situation of the demon clan here to the government, and the government has arranged a hundred catchers to help in the battle, and three powerful demon exterminators will also come to help us get rid of the demons, and finally it is us." ”
Villager: "What? Are we going to go on our own? ”
The middle-aged man in a long shirt: "Of course! After all, this is a matter at our own doorstep, and we also have to contribute, I looked at the situation in our village, there are about 500 households in our village, about less than 4,000 people, of which there are nearly 700 men between the ages of 20 and 35, and these 700 people can form a village Yong to eliminate demons! By the way, the demon exterminator and the hunter will be here in about three days, so we must hurry up and send the old and weak women and children in the village to the woods, let them hide there for a few days, and then bring them back when we destroy the demon clan here. ”
The villagers looked at the village chief, only to see the village chief nodding in agreement, and the villagers did not dare to say much, according to the instructions of the middle-aged man in the long shirt, everyone should find out the weapons available at home after they go back, such as sickles, forks, and chopping axes, and sharpen them, because there will be a fierce battle in three days.
Niu Wa fell into deep thought at this time, on one side is his family and clansmen, on the other side is his friends, three days later, one side will definitely be hurt, Niu Wa does not know how to choose, the young Niu Wa fell into pain, he can't watch his friends being killed, but he also doesn't want to see his relatives and clansmen killed, after some distress, Niu Wa decided to go to his friend, find a way to make him understand what is going to happen next, and let him tell his people to escape!
So in the afternoon of this day, Niu Wa ran to the place where he met the demon child like crazy, where the demon child was waiting for him, he was still smiling, and his eyes were shining with kindness, when he found Niu Wa running over, he was first happy and then when he found the painful expression on Niu Wa's face, he didn't know what was going on, so he had to stand there and watch with a blank face, because of the language barrier, he couldn't know what trouble Niu Wa had encountered. Niu Wa stood in front of the demon child like this, and then pointed at his own village, and then stretched out his hand with five fingers together in front of the demon child, and compared the blade at the bottom of the palm to the demon child to show the demon child the chopping action, and then pointed to the demon child's home, and finally Niu Wa slashed the blade on his neck, and then lay on the ground, covering his chest with his hand and pretending to be in pain, and finally closed his eyes......
Later, when Niu Wa stood up again, the demon child in front of him seemed to understand Niu Wa's meaning, Niu Wa patted the demon child's shoulder with her hand, and then used her index finger and middle finger to imitate human walking, signaling him to run quickly. The demon child looked at the cow baby, and tears flashed in the eye frame, and the demon would cry too?
The two young children each stretched out their hands and held each other's hands tightly. At that moment, even if they didn't understand the language, they probably knew that they would soon become enemies.
Three days passed quickly. Niu Wa, her mother, her two sisters, and a large group of women, children, and elderly people were taken to a camp in the middle of the forest, where they set up improvised tents and took shelter.
Sure enough, as the middle-aged man in the long shirt said, the eighty catchers from the government had arrived that morning, and it seemed that a hundred people couldn't get together, and then it was said that only two of the famous demon slayers came, and it was supposed to be three.
When the village chief came to the demon exterminator, he respectfully pressed his right hand with his left hand and bowed, and his waist was almost folded at a right angle, showing how much the village chief respected the demon exterminator in front of him. And these two demon slayers are a man and a woman, they are estimated to be around thirty years old, although their appearance is very ordinary, but their eyes seem to contain a faint blue fire, and between their eyebrows, it seems that they can see blue Ling Yan Huadian.
The height of the male demon slayer is about 167 centimeters, his body is not strong but very tough, he is wearing a pleated rat uniform, and he is holding a demon flag in his hand.
The height of the female demon slayer is about 155 centimeters, her body is a little thin, she wears an ebony hairpin on her head, she wears a pleated mouse uniform, and she carries a demon sword behind her back.
【Source World Weapon Spectrum】
1. Pleated mouse road uniform (excellent quality): The standard road uniform for people in the soul path is dark gray as a whole, and there are dark brown road scarves sewn on both shoulders, the length of the road scarf is five feet three inches, half of it hangs in front of you, half of it hangs behind you, and it weighs like ordinary clothing, and the effect of resisting physical attacks is slightly stronger than that of ordinary clothes, and the effect of resisting spirit attacks is better.
2. Demon Banner (excellent quality): Soul Dao weapon, a bamboo pole hung with a flag, the upper and lower ends of the banner have short bamboo strips inserted into the flag, and fixed on the bamboo pole, the flag is written with the special demon Dao text, the overall length of the weapon is five feet seven inches, the length of the flag is one foot six inches, the width is one foot short and one inch, and the weight is more than one pound and nine taels, in addition, the four corners of the flag are hung with a hollow copper bell of hazelnut size, and the attack power of this weapon on people is almost equal to an ordinary broom, which is better than the demon power.
3. Demon Sword (Excellent Quality): A universal weapon of the soul path, made of exorcism wood, similar to an ordinary sword, the overall length is two feet nine inches, the sword body is two feet two inches long, and the weight is more than three taels, the attack power is not weaker than the ordinary iron sword, and you can get additional attack power bonuses when attacking monsters.
[Details]
Physical Attack: The most commonly used type of attack, an attack with a tangible object, such as punches and kicks, swords, axes, hammers, and even various qigong attacks, are physical attacks.
Spirited Attack: An unusual type of attack, an attack that uses intangible objects, such as fire, flooding, lightning strikes, poison devouring, epidemics, or even evil infestations and magical attacks.
Absolute Attack: An irreversible attack, such as aging (physical death), longevity (soul death), near-death status in battle, and death state.
After the village chief saluted the two demon slayers, he came to the head catcher and bowed to him as a sign of respect.
At this time, the man in the long shirt also ran over and explained the situation to everyone.
The middle-aged man in the long shirt: "I have been observing the hillside not far away for a long time, but today there seem to be very few people in their village, I don't know where the people went two days ago, it shouldn't be that the news has leaked, but it shouldn't be possible, they can't understand our language, it's really weird." ”
Female Demon Slayer: "How many people were there in their village?" ”
The middle-aged man in the long shirt: "Originally, there should have been more than 110 households, and the men, women, and children together were less than 500." ”
The female demon slayer didn't speak, just glanced at the male demon slayer next to her, and saw the male demon slayer walk to a high slope next to him with a comprehension, and took out a three-inch high hollow copper bell from his pocket, only to see him take the copper bell in his hand, and shook it three times, the villagers on the side didn't know what it meant, and they couldn't hear any sound, and they didn't know what it was doing, but the two demon slayers and the monsters hiding within ten miles nearby could hear the crisp copper bell ringing, especially the young demon was even more frightened by the sound. It's like a dog being sent to a dog slaughterhouse, and he is so frightened that he holds his tail.
Male Demon Slayer: "No problem, they are still here, it seems that they have sensed the danger, but they have no intention of escaping, probably trying to fight us to the death, everyone should be careful, the monsters are ferocious and powerful." ”
The head catcher on the side was fighting with monsters for the first time, and he didn't know their true strength, so he couldn't help but be a little nervous, and looked back at the catchers he brought, and one by one he inevitably showed a panicked look. In this way, the head catcher took a group of people to catch fast and gathered together with the Xiangyong not far ahead, fortunately, the Xiangyong is a large number of people, which has increased a lot of momentum for everyone, so a large group of people do not divide the troops into formation, and they directly hug and advance to the nest of the demon clan, when the Xiangyong army walked to the entrance of the demon village, they found that there were more than 20 middle-aged demon men standing there at the entrance of the village, holding shovels, shovels, short-handled iron pickaxes, and long-handled iron pickaxes, seemingly waiting for their arrival.
Since a long time ago, the two groups that have not been in contact at all suddenly had a conflict at this time, and then each took up arms, both sides were angry, and the leaders on both sides also shouted to each other, but because of the language barrier, the people on both sides were talking to each other, and the human village chief was shouting.
Village Chief: "You monsters! Why do you want to use demon magic on us, which has caused us to have a drastic reduction in food production for several years, and many people are hungry, and what good is it for you to do so? Also, why don't we even spare our children? The young son is innocent, even if you have any grievances against us, you should not take revenge on the child! You demons, we have saluted you all these years, and we have never committed any crimes, but you are calculating us like this today......"
And those demon adults are also saying something loudly, but they don't understand it at all, it's just that they have already put their weapons up, and they can enter the battle at any time, and our side is not to be outdone, the catchers also drew their waist knives, and the situation immediately became tense, at this moment, I don't know who in the crowd thought of a way, I saw dozens of stones thrown out of the human team, directly smashed into the middle-aged man of the demon clan, but the demon people were really fast, and they easily dodged the flying stone attack, and it was precisely because of this flying stone attack, The demon clan suddenly went crazy, shouting and rushing over, the catchers were not to be outdone, and rushed up directly, only to see a middle-aged man of the demon clan who rushed to the front when he was less than six feet away from the catch, and the sharp acceleration suddenly jumped to the attack distance, and the starting hand was a shovel, which smashed directly on the head of the catcher, fortunately he didn't attack with a bladed part, but this time he also directly smashed the catcher to stun, and after the fall of the catcher, two or three catchers rushed up, and they waved the waist knife in their hands to the middle-aged man of the demon clan who held the shovel,But they all found a clever parry to block the attack,Soon the people on both sides fought together,Although there are many people on the human side,But because the entrance of the demon clan village is not wide enough,You also have to consider the weapon not to hurt your own people by mistake,So basically the battlefield here can only accommodate fourteen people at the same time,Seven people on each side,The others can only line up in the back,You have to wait for the people in front of you to fall or retreat,You can make up for it,This kind of battle is very unfair to the human race,Because the demon people are really good at fighting as rumored, Their strength is very great, even if they use some farm tools and catch fast to fight, these fast catchers will quickly have to retreat because of the wrist injury caused by the collision of weapons in their hands, and even some catchers because their martial arts are better than their colleagues, when their teammates retreat, they were caught by their teammates' enemies and fell to the ground directly, and more than 20 middle-aged people on the demon clan's side carried out the battlefield personnel in an orderly manner, and they rarely saw their people hanging colors, and the catchers of the human army quickly lost more than half, and the villagers who came to cheer were really here to cheer, Seeing that the people of the demon clan were fighting so fiercely, they were so frightened that they didn't dare to step forward, so they could only hide behind and watch, and some people even secretly began to run away. At this moment, the male demon master exerted his legs and jumped directly onto the five-foot-high stone on the side, and then began to shake the demon flag in his hand, at this time, everyone seemed to be able to see the four copper bells on the demon flag, spreading cyan ripples outward, when the ripples passed through the body of the middle-aged man of the demon clan, their faces immediately showed a painful expression, followed by the movement also became sluggish, and the catchers could also take the opportunity to cut them with the weapon in their hands, and the people of the demon clan also began to retreat with their injured partners, Seeing this, the head catcher knew that the opportunity to grab the merit was coming, and hurriedly beckoned the crowd to rush up, taking advantage of the weakness of the middle-aged people of the demon clan, he rushed up directly and waved the waist knife in his hand, and slashed at them, the middle-aged man of the demon clan who was still dominant soon became a big disadvantage, more than half of them were directly cut and killed, and the remaining few people also retreated even if they retreated into the house, the copper bell that made them miserable still did not stop, and soon the head catcher rushed into the house with the catchers, The remaining middle-aged people of the demon clan were also slaughtered. Immediately afterwards, the villagers also rushed in, and together with the hunters, they searched for the remnants of the demon clan who were hiding, and of course, there were also some villagers, who took the opportunity to search the various houses, and saw things that seemed to be useful or valuable.
Female Demon Slayer: "It seems that there are only some demon civilians here who have no combat power, I came for nothing, and I don't have a chance to play." ”
Looking at the busy Terran army in front of him, he said such a sentence casually.
Before I knew it, it was already afternoon, and finally someone in the village found a hidden iron door, and behind the iron door was a very large cellar, the iron door was locked from the inside, someone rushed over directly and tried to smash the iron door with an axe, but smashed a few times, the blades of the father and son were broken, and the iron door still did not move. A group of people began to surround the land near the iron gate, looking for other entrances or windows. Dozens of people searched for nearly a quarter of an hour, but still couldn't find another entrance. Just then, someone suddenly shouted.
Villager: "I found their vents." ”
When everyone heard this, they immediately surrounded it, and saw that there was a hidden small hole in the grass here, the size of which was the size of an ordinary person's rice bowl, and then someone shouted that they also found a ventilation opening, so soon everyone found a total of six ventilation openings in the grass, but this hole is too small, obviously people can't get in, if you use tools to make the hole bigger, and worry that someone inside will put cold arrows, everyone is thinking about what to do, suddenly the middle-aged man in the long shirt spoke.
The middle-aged man in a long shirt: "Don't panic, everyone, I have a way, as long as we guard the iron gate, I can let them run out by themselves!" ”
Villager: "How is it possible, could they be stupid enough to run out on their own?" How safe it is. ”
The middle-aged man in a long shirt: "Haha, listen to me, everyone go and get more fire oil and hay, let's set fire directly, I want to see if these demons are afraid of fire attacks!" ”
As soon as the villagers heard it, they hurriedly clapped their hands and applauded, and immediately ran home lively, rummaging in the village for flammable materials such as fire oil, hay, firewood, etc., and soon everyone came over with more than a dozen jars of fire oil and two cars of flammable materials, and then the head catcher led the crowd to catch fast and dozens of villagers in the iron gate to form a fan shape to block the way out, and then other villagers began to put flammable materials into the vent one after another, and then poured a large amount of fire oil, and soon the vent was filled with a pungent smell of fire oil, with the order of the man in the long shirt, the torch was immediately thrown into the vent, In just an instant, the entire cellar turned into a sea of fire, and the screams of women, children and the old man could be heard inside, and soon the iron door was opened from the inside, and more than ten middle-aged demon men rushed out, still holding farm tools in their hands, only to see that their eyes were red from the smoke and fire, it seemed that the taste inside was really unbearable, and they were determined to rush out and fight to the death.
But the brass bells of the Demon Banner not far away were still restricting their movements, they endured the pain, dancing farm tools and fighting with the Terran army in one place, the difference from just now was that even if they defeated the enemy, they would not kill the enemy, and this time they were almost desperately attacking, intending to kill the enemy. There was no sense of proportion, and everyone was even more angry when they saw this.
Everyone: "These demons are going to fight hard!" Everyone, fight to the death, kill them, kill! ”
At the iron gate, soon more than ten middle-aged demon men were cut down, and at the same time, more than 20 corpses and forty or fifty corpses of Xiangyong were left here, and at this time, some women and children of the demon clan ran out of the iron gate, but the army of the Terran who had killed the red eyes would not show mercy to their subordinates at all, and the women and children of the demon clan who rushed out in this way also died under the knives and axes of the human race, and the women and children of the demon clan hiding in the cellar were all burned to death or suffocated by fireworks.
On the battlefield here, the Terrans have won the final victory, and the victorious team is cheering for the victory of the demon exterminator, and at this time, in the Terran team, a child wearing a Terran patch clothes and a hat on his head, but he looks so out of place, he walks alone in the crowd, is walking out of the crowd.
The two demon exterminators who are not far away seem to have noticed the abnormality, it seems that there are still remnants of the demon clan stealing life, two people cast Taoism to search for the demon that has not been eliminated nearby, Taoism promotes Taoism, Taoism turns into a light that ordinary people can't see, in the wilderness, in the crowd to search for the hidden demon, but it is also strange to say, obviously you can really feel the existence of the demon, but you can't find the whereabouts of the demon, when the light shines on the children in the crowd, the patched clothes are like light glasses, directly blocking the light from the body, It makes it impossible to detect the child's unusualness. When the two demon slayer were engrossed in searching for the remnants of the demon clan, suddenly a crack more than a foot wide opened on the ground and was bottomless, and the villagers who were dancing near the crack to celebrate the victory were frightened by this sudden situation, and two people did not stand firm for a while, so they fell directly into the crack and disappeared, and the villagers on the side also hurriedly ran away, and everyone immediately became very nervous. Suddenly jumped out of the crack a demon beast, the monster beast is only the size of a domestic dog, the whole body is covered with red flames, the villagers did not feel how terrible it was at first, when it rushed to the crowd, the villagers even dared to use the weapons in their hands to attack it, but obviously the attack power of these farm tools is far from enough, it is impossible to break through the defense of the demon beast, so it is impossible to cause damage, but the damage of this demon beast to people is not ordinary, I saw it bite the arm of a villager, and the arm was immediately ignited by the fire, After a few seconds, the whole body turned into a burning torch, and he ran around because of fear, no matter who he touched, it would cause the other party to quickly become a burning torch like himself, so soon dozens of people were connected into a wall of fire, and the nearby villagers were so frightened that they fled for their lives, and they were also afraid of death, as soon as they saw this monster, they were directly scared away, and no one dared to engage in the battle, and this monster was like entering the hunting ground, and began to chase and kill the fleeing people everywhere, and whoever was caught up by it was directly cremated, This flame is very conscientious, and will directly incinerate people into ashes.
Seeing this, the two demon slayer knew that they had encountered a difficult guy, and the male demon slayer hurriedly shook the demon flag in place and danced a strange dance, and the copper bell was even more powerful than just now, and the sound wave of the copper bell hit the child in the patch clothes in the distance, but the patch clothes were blessed by the sincerity of the people, so it largely defended against the attack of the demon flag, and although the demon beast was also affected by the sound of the copper bell of the demon flag, it was stronger in itself, and it was not afraid of this degree of restriction at all, At this time, the female demon slayer had already pulled out the demon sword behind her back and rushed over, wanting to duel with the demon beast, but the demon beast had a speed advantage, so she ignored the demon slayer at all, and chased and killed the villagers who participated in the arson until the last person was burned to death, and what was worse was that the woods hiding the women and children of the human race in the distance were also ignited at this time......
When the demon beast killed the last arsonist, it stopped, and stood three feet away from the female demon slayer.
Looking at the female demon exterminator's eyes without any emotion, the flames on the demon beast's body were also much smaller at this time, the female demon exterminator exerted her spiritual power, only to see a cyan aura under his feet, the size of the halo was only slightly larger than the outer edge of his feet, and at this time, the female demon exterminator's cultivation level was revealed, and the second stage of the soul path was second.
And the male demon slayer who traveled with him also exerted his spiritual power, but no aura appeared under his feet, but his cultivation level was also revealed, and the seventh stage of the soul path was the first order.
The demon beast looked at the cultivation steps of the two people, and then violently exerted its demon power, and the flames on its body immediately became even more vigorous than just now, and at this time, its cultivation level also appeared, the second and third stages of the true demon.
The female demon slayer immediately swung the demon sword and stabbed the demon beast in the face, the demon beast dodged to the side, the demon sword barely scratched the shoulder of the demon beast, the demon beast pounced directly on the arm of the female demon slayer holding the sword, the female demon slayer retreated, and the arm was slightly bitten by the demon beast after a little delay, fortunately, there was a road uniform that made the flame of the demon beast unable to burn the arm of the female demon slayer, and under the protection of the pleated mouse uniform, the flame on the sleeve was quickly extinguished, and the female demon sorcerer stabbed the demon beast with the sword again, and the demon beast bit the demon sword, The female demon slayer used the index finger and middle finger of the other hand, and gently tapped the wrist of the sword-holding arm, and the demon sword immediately sensed the Dao method, and directly hit the body of the demon beast with a cyan light, directly hitting the body of the demon beast, the demon beast hurriedly retreated in pain, and glanced at the male demon magician who was shaking the demon flag on the side, and was even more annoyed in his heart, the demon beast changed the target of the attack and rushed towards the male demon magician, but it underestimated the cultivation of the female demon magician, and at the moment when it launched a pounce, the female demon magician stabbed its body with a sword, The damage of this blow is not light, the demon beast fell from the air in pain, and ran to the other side, and because of the injury, the copper bell of the demon flag, which had little impact on him, also made it feel a little painful at this time, the demon beast knew that he couldn't deal with the two people in front of him today, so he took a deep breath and exhaled violently, and immediately formed a wall of flames more than one zhang high and more than ten zhang long three feet away in front of it, and the spirit attack of this flame wall was already too much higher than the defense of the pleated rat suit, Therefore, the two sorcerers did not dare to force their way through, and the two ran towards the boundary of the wall of flames, and when they ran out of the wall of flames, they found that the demon beast was gone.
At this time, the demon beasts on the hillside were gone, and the demon clan was gone, but there were nearly two hundred villagers who were killed by the remnants of the demon clan and the demon beasts, and dozens of hunters were also killed in the battle, and what was worse was that the demon beasts fled. The demon exterminator suggested that everyone had better leave this village, otherwise the demon beast would be injured and would definitely come back to seek revenge, and he couldn't stay here for a long time, but fortunately, this time everyone attacked the demon clan first, otherwise the consequences were only unimaginable, because this demon beast, according to the demon exterminator, should be the demon raised by the demon clan, if they continue to let them go, once the demon beast is formed, they will not be able to deal with it at that time, and then the whole village will be eaten as food for the demon beast.
The picture turned again, back to the familiar farmhouse under the night, the old grandfather told the story of his personal experience to Xiao Lingzi, and the little girl was obviously attracted by this story, she stared at the grandfather with big eyes.
Xiao Lingzi: "Grandpa, if only the monsters didn't eat people, we could be friends with them and play together." ”
Old man: "Hey...... Yes, it would be nice if the monsters didn't eat people, but I'm afraid it's also impossible, because the monsters are the embodiment of evil, and if we don't get rid of them, they will definitely come to harm us. ”
The old man said this, I don't know what he remembered, his eyes were full of tears, that year his father and mother also died in the battle with the demon clan, they are all their loved ones, their tragic death can not be removed from his mind, even if he once knew a friend of the demon clan, even if the demon friend saved his life, but he and his people have already formed a blood feud with themselves.