Chapter 38: Hunting Demons
Tsing Yi holds an umbrella, and under the umbrella is another world.
"You're bullying my junior brother?"
There was boundless darkness in his empty eyes.
It was deeper and darker than the night in the sky, and all the light around it was distorted and swallowed up as soon as it approached, and it was even darker than darkness.
Obviously he didn't have eyes, but the villain still felt a pair of sharp eyes sweeping over his body.
Ji!
The hairs on his body stood on end at the same time, and his heart was filled with fear, and all that was left in his mind was the thought of escaping.
Obviously, the villain himself was still driving the black light, but it seemed to be firmly fixed by an invisible nail, and his muscles were so stiff that he couldn't even move a little finger.
Tsing Yi held an umbrella in his left hand, and with a slight lift of his right hand, a faint blue flame appeared in his palm.
The villain involuntarily flew to Tsing Yi's right hand, his bean-sized pupils were full of horror, and he really couldn't struggle no matter what.
until they fall into the flames.
Tsk –
The villain wanted to scream a few times at first, but he was jumping and jumping in the palm of Tsing Yi, desperately trying to leave the palm that was only square inches.
But after a while, the villain gradually stopped waving and struggling.
He found that those dark blue flames did not bring him any harm, but even had some nourishing feelings.
The villain stretched out comfortably in the flames, and he was sure that the flames were only good for him, so he kept devouring the flames with his mouth wide open, and his face showed a look of satisfaction.
"Hee-hee-haha-ha-ha......"
The villain laughed, greedily swallowing the flames.
Under the paper umbrella, Tsing Yi just gently hooked the corners of his mouth, revealing a cold smile.
"Twitter......"
The villain found that he didn't know why he couldn't stop, and he could only watch as the flames scrambled into his mouth.
No matter how good things are, eating too much can be bad.
"Twitter......"
He reluctantly let out a few cries of begging for mercy, but no one answered.
As the saying goes, people are iron and rice are steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry. But if a hungry person is allowed to keep eating, and eating, until he is able to hold on, and he will still eat, and he will die of eating.
The villain is now slowly being strangled to death.
The evil qi that he couldn't absorb rampaged through his body, and slowly the meridians under his skin bulged, like small snakes clinging to and wrapping around his skin.
Tsk –
In the end, the villain could only let out one last terrible scream from his throat.
Then there was a bang, and it turned into a wriggling mass of minced meat.
The black air rose, and he threw the lump of flesh and blood into the mouth of the colorful tiger that had been squatting in the jungle.
Click, click, click.
The tiger chewed, swallowed the black mist mixed with flesh and blood, and then bent his limbs and made three kowtows to the sky.
With a flick of its tail, the tiger disappeared into the jungle in three jumps and two leaps.
And the man in Tsing Yi looked playfully at the monster Neidan lying quietly in the palm of his palm. It has a jade-like texture, but the thick black demonic aura makes it impermeable.
The man in Tsing Yi pinched Nedan with two fingers, he looked up and down, and then threw Nedan into his mouth like eating jelly beans.
Under the paper umbrella, there was a creaking and crunching chewing sound.
Whew, a gust of autumn wind blows.
The landscape painting on the paper umbrella trembled for a while, but the scenery depicted on it gradually became clear.
Birds groom their wings, animals chase and play.
Occasionally, fish leap above the lake, stirring up the calm waters into cascading waves.
In the corner of the cornices of the Lake Center Pavilion, there is a small and delicate wind chime, which sways left and right under the blowing of the autumn wind, making a crisp sound.
"Wan'er, did you hear me...... Today's autumn wind is very urgent......"
As soon as the paper umbrella was closed, everything disappeared as if it had never been there.
Only tonight's autumn wind, howling into the distance.
……
"Where did you run early in the morning? That Zhao family boy ran over to say hello, and I found out that you were gone. ”
Nan Er looked at Xia Zhicicada, who was sitting at the tea table and drinking tea in small sips, and asked with a puzzled expression.
Whew-
Xia Zhicicada gently blew away the white mist floating on the teacup, and then took a shallow sip. He didn't even wear his most commonly used black and white robe today, but simply wore an embroidered white robe.
Even a person like Nan Er, who is slow to react, can feel that something is wrong with Xia Zhicicada, but no matter how he asks, the other party just doesn't answer.
"Last night there was a sudden thunderstorm, and then the sky was as bright as day...... Is it your fault? ”
Nanji sat across from him and took a teacup and put it in front of him.
"Just a few words, you asked me seven or eight times in the morning. You're not annoying, I'm annoying......"
Xia Zhician took the teapot and poured a cup of tea for Nan Er, but he complained a few words, and then continued:
"It's over anyway, and it's useless for you to know ......"
"But I want to know."
Nan Er stood up without even drinking tea, then pointed outside and said:
"Do you know that I can't find you this morning, the way that Zhao Gongzi looked at me...... I almost pulled out my knife. ”
"If you really want to know, go out and see for yourself."
Xia Zhician said casually, he was just annoyed to find a reason to send Nan Er out.
"Go out, where are you going?"
Nan Er turned around and was about to leave, but he was almost at the door before he remembered to ask.
"Go wherever it's lively......"
Xia Zhician put down the teacup and waved his hand in disgust.
"Humph!"
Nan Er pushed the door with a knife.
……
Three days later, it was nightfall.
Dark clouds drifted by, obscuring half of the moon, allowing the bright moonlight to hide above the clouds.
The embroidery building where Miss Zhao was located was shrouded in shadows, without a trace of light.
Since the embroidery building where Miss Da was haunted, the servants and maids only dared to enter the embroidery building during the day, and they all hid out at night.
I heard that Miss Zhao began to become abnormal at night.
Anyway, when it comes to the night, it is said that the young lady is the only one left in the entire embroidery building.
Even if you occasionally walk in front of the courtyard where the embroidery building is located, you can hear a faint whimper, which is creepy.
The monster in the backyard corridor occasionally reappeared, scaring the passing servants and maids unconscious, but no one had been killed so far.
"Xia Lingguan, let's ...... this"
Zhao Bin tiptoed behind Xia Zhician and Nan Er, he looked at the empty dark environment around him, and couldn't help but be scared for a while, and finally couldn't help it before he asked in a low voice:
“…… What are you going to do? ”
"Catch the demon."
Xia Zhicicada was strolling leisurely, and when he heard Zhao Bin's somewhat frightened voice behind him, he didn't even say a word back, and then he heard the footsteps behind him in chaos.
"That'...... Why don't you bring more people, we have dozens of caretakers in our family, why ......"
Zhao Bin's legs were weak for a while, he was just a businessman and didn't know martial arts. Why did Xia Zhician want him to follow him to catch demons?
"No need, real monsters can't be defeated by ordinary people, and no matter how many people there are, it's useless."
Nan Eryi raised his eyebrows, he noticed that Xia Zhician used "real" in front of the word demon, plus when they first came, Xia Zhician said that there were no demons here, so the Zhao family could only be pretending to be a ghost.
Woo......
The autumn wind hurried through the hallway, making a sound that sounded like a whimper.
Zhao Bin shivered all over his body, his eyes widened and stared at the corridor in front of him for a moment, obviously he didn't see anything, but he always felt that there was a pair of eyes peeping at him in the dark night.
"What are you afraid of, it's just a gust of wind......"
Nan Er looked at the son of the Zhao family who was shaking like a little chicken behind him, pouted and said.
Roar –
A low roar came down the hallway, a sound like a tiger and a lion, whatever it was, a huge one.
"Ahh
Nan Shuang shook, he pretended to be calm and leaned next to Xia Zhicicada, lowered his voice and asked:
"Didn't you say there are no youkai? What the hell is this......"
"It's fine."
Xia Zhicicada waved his hand and took the lead.
The second leader of Nan behind him landed on the hilt of his knife, his eyes gradually sharpened, he was adjusting his state, once something came out, give it a knife first.
The last Zhao Bin was a series of bitterness, he reluctantly moved his steps, and he didn't dare to get too far away from the two people in front of him, so he could only follow closely behind the two while reluctantly.
Roar –
The farther you go, the clearer the beast's roar becomes.
Until they came to a corner, this was the place where those maids saw the huge black shadow for the first time, and it was also the beginning of strange things happening in the Zhao family.
Trample.
Xia Zhician stopped, he had already seen the figure hidden in the darkness not far away.
Nan Er and Zhao Bin also saw it.
The scarlet eyes were like two small lanterns, shooting two red rays of light down the hallway. A mouth full of protruding fangs, sticky saliva dripping from the corners of the mouth, smashing into the bluestone floor with a ticking sound.
"Summer ...... Summer...... Xia Lingguan? ”
Zhao Bin's voice began to tremble, although he had already learned the appearance of the monster in the corridor in the backyard from the servant's mouth, but this was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes.
Minami turned over and took the most convenient posture for the knife.
Xia Zhician stared at the monster in front of him without arrogance or impatience, even if the other party roared at him several times, he did not waver at all.
"It's kind of interesting......"
He laughed instead, then took out a white pill from his sleeve and handed it to Zhao Bin, the son of the Zhao family, who had been trembling behind him, and motioned for the latter to take the pill in his mouth.
"Hmm."
Zhao Bin did as instructed by Xia Zhicicada, and the white pill had a faint aroma of wine in his mouth, but he couldn't taste what kind of wine it was.
Also, the taste of this white pill is a bit like it is made of white paper.
"Mine?"
Nan Er watched the white pill enter Zhao Bin's mouth, and then looked at Xia Zhicicada with wide eyes, although he didn't say it, but his expression was asking his own part?
"You don't need it."
The white pill that Xia Zhician handed to Zhao Bin was actually made of white paper with a drop of immortal brew, and the main purpose was to protect Zhao Bin from being violated by demonic energy.
Didn't you say that there are no demons, why are you afraid of the encroachment of demons?
The monster on the other side is not a demon, but Xia Zhicicada has a real cat demon.
The left sleeve of the robe shook.
A slender black shadow fell to the ground, she swayed her broken tail, and gently rubbed Xia Zhiciao's trouser leg with her body.
"Meow~"
"You don't have anything to eat when you're done."
Since Xia Zhicicada had a ghost bone in his hand, the black cat has become more and more sticky to him, and he is coquettish and cute in front of him, all in order to eat the black cookie.
Xia Zhician naturally didn't say anything polite to her, and pointed his finger to the other side.
The black cat licked its little paws, and then took a few steps with a cat step.
Roar!
The monster let out a loud roar.
The black cat licked its paws unhurriedly, then stretched its body and stood up straight.
Where are the cute kittens?
It was clearly a black tiger that was bigger than an ordinary tiger, and it appeared in front of everyone with its head shaken.
Whew!
A roar was not only deafening, but also made people smell a bloody stench rushing to their faces.
"Vomit ......"
"Vomit ......"
There were two sounds of violent vomiting, but these two voices did not come from the three Xia Zhicicadas, but from the opposite side of them.
"Let's go check it out."
Xia Zhicicada raised his chin in front of him, Nan Er walked over with the knife in his hand, and Zhao Bin also followed closely behind him, looking over Nan Er's shoulder.
At this time, the moonlight also reflected very cooperatively.
I saw the monster fall to the ground and turn into a fur made of several pieces of animal skin.
Beneath the fur, two squirming figures emerged vomiting, their faces as white as paper, and after vomiting the contents of their stomachs, they were retching vigorously.
"You ...... Who are you? ”
As soon as Zhao Bin saw that the other party was a human, the fear in his heart subsided, and he walked over and pointed at the two of them and asked sharply.
"Rao...... Vomit...... Spare ......"
"The two of us...... Is it employed...... That's why I'm pretending to be a monster here......"
"Spare ...... We...... Please......"
Nan Er and Zhao Bin glanced at each other, and then turned their heads at the same time to look at Xia Zhicicada who was teasing the cat on the side.
Xia Zhician hugged the black cat that had changed back into a cat, and he noticed the gazes of the two, so he said unhurriedly:
"They just took the money to pretend to be a monster here, and they didn't hurt anyone......"
"yes, yes...... Spare ......"
The two men crawled on the ground trembling and kowtowing, begging for mercy one by one.
"Send it to the yamen, make a dozen boards, let them remember it for a long time, and don't do this kind of thing in the future."
took the money to pretend to be a ghost to scare others, so that the people of the Zhao family were restless for two months, although this crime is not a heinous crime, it must also be punished.
"Then I'm going to call someone to tie them up and send them to the government?"
Zhao Bin looked at the cat in Xia Zhiciao's arms, didn't dare to step forward, just stood in place and asked. In the past few days, he often saw Xia Zhician holding a black cat, but he never thought that this black cat was not an ordinary thing.
"Not now, we will have time when we come back from the embroidery building......"
Xia Zhician glanced at the two people who were paralyzed on the ground, and continued:
"They won't be able to get up for a while."
Being attacked by the demon qi of the cat demon into the body in an instant, they are usually as strong as an ox martial arts, and they will feel a burst of weakness in their legs, and they can't use their strength for a long time.
Xia Zhician didn't take care of the two people on the ground anymore, but took Nan Er and Zhao Bin through the corridor and came to the courtyard where the embroidery building was located in the backyard.
The embroidery building was pitch black, without any light.
The three of them walked up to the embroidery building, and at the corner of the stairs on the second floor, they saw a woman in white with a red candle lit and her back to the three of them who had been combing their hair.
"Woo......"
A shrill whimper.
Just when Zhao Bin felt his scalp tingle, and Nan Er was about to draw the knife, he heard Xia Zhicicada let out a broken cry:
"Wipe the makeup off your face!"