Chapter 43: Mustard Mountain
"There is a saying, how do you say it? Pengsheng hemp, don't help yourself, Ha Luha. Facing the mountain peak pressed by the black clouds, Xue Yang showed a very excited expression.
"Senior brother means ......" Chi Tang didn't fully understand the intention of Xue Yang's sudden sentence.
"It may not be very appropriate, I mean, those of us who can subdue demons and eliminate demons walk on the road, naturally we will often encounter demons, you see, this is not a mountain of demons entrenched in front of us. ”
"Hah, that's a very good thing. Thinking that before meeting the demon on a moonlit night, he had never seen a demon for many years after walking the rivers and lakes, and after that, the demon things came one after another, which was the magnet trouble after the demon thing, Chi Tang nodded.
"What do you say?" Xue Yang turned back loudly and asked the three of his peers, in fact, he mainly asked Feng Yingxiu, "Do you want to continue on your journey or wait for us for a while, and then set off when we finish our business?"
Juan'er asked in a very gentle tone, "Brother Xue, what's wrong?" After many days of getting along, her address to Chitang Xue Yang has also changed from a respectful and polite hero to a more affectionate big brother.
Feng Yingxiu tilted her head and looked at the mountain in front of her with a very solemn expression, and the little squirrel named Mi Li couldn't stop jumping on her shoulder, squeaking in her mouth, looking like she was calling the police.
"Do you mean, this mountain in front of you?"
Xue Yang responded with Feng Yingxiu's usual gesture of spreading his hands: "You can also see it?" Yes, there are demons on this mountain, I don't know if you can see the black clouds surrounding the top of the mountain, but judging from the situation of this black cloud covering the sun, it shows that the demons in this mountain have eaten many people." ”
Hearing that there were man-eating monsters on the mountain, Juan'er and Mrs. Feng couldn't help but change their colors, but Feng Yingxiu said very calmly: "Aren't you the best at subduing demons and eliminating monsters? ”
"So if you want to continue your journey or wait for us for a while, Senior Brother Chi and I will have to go over and do what we should do. Or, goddess fairy, will you also help us?" Xue Yang's words still had a deep meaning, he wanted to take the opportunity to make Feng Yingxiu step into the Demon Path.
Feng Yingxiu is not fooled: "From here to the mountain, according to your footsteps will take at least two hours, this back and forth will take four hours, not counting the time you fight with demons on the mountain, this girl can't stand it for so long and wait, besides, I remember that this girl's messenger is to escort Aunt Feng and Sister Juan'er, the road is far away, and it can't be delayed, in this case, then let's say goodbye, I'll take them around the road, if you have time, you can catch up with us after finishing the business." ”
Juan'er sighed, seemingly a little surprised and reluctant to part ways with Xue Yang Chitang, but soon lowered her head with a red face.
"It's okay, if we don't catch up afterwards, don't wait for us, anyway, we won't go far, we will eventually go our separate ways. Miss Feng, Aunt Feng and Miss Bai all rely on you. Remember, after the incident, I went to Mochizuki Valley Qianjiazhuang in Lidong County, Wuling County. Xue Yang bowed his hand to a few people and admonished again.
"Zhilu said, how could this girl forget the things that have money to make and benefits? Okay, you can go. Feng Yingxiu waved her hand and quieted the rice grains on her shoulders.
The separation was imminent, Juan'er's eyes were a little red, but she endured it, lowered her head for fear of being seen, and said softly: "Take care." Mrs. Feng struggled to get off the wheelbarrow, it seemed that she was going to bow and thank her, Xue Yang and Chi Tang hurriedly helped Mrs. Feng into the car, and said in a loud voice: "Auntie, you can't do it." ”
"By the way, let's go, you and Miss Juan'er are pushing this wheelbarrow in turn, right?" Xue Yang grimaced at Feng Yingxiu.
Feng Yingxiu reported with a mocking smile, and suddenly snapped her fingers very chicly, only to see a huge mountain monkey swishing out of the mountains and forests, standing in front of Feng Yingxiu. ...,
Feng Yingxiu had words in her mouth, the mountain monkey couldn't stop nodding, Feng Yingxiu pointed at the wheelbarrow again, the mountain monkey swaggered straight over, and under the stunned gaze of Chi Tang and Xue Yang, he raised the handlebar and pushed the wheelbarrow swayingly.
"Out of the mountain road, I will hire a car and walk in Shudi, this girl is more familiar than you. Feng Yingxiu smiled proudly, "Okay, goodbye." I wish you all the best in getting rid of demons. ”
Feng Yingxiu threw it with his hand, and a kernel fell steadily to the mountain monkey, and the mountain monkey pushed the cart, and the dexterous stretching out of the mouth did not affect the smooth progress of the wheelbarrow, and the red buttocks that shook were dazzling.
"This money-greedy woman has already had a way to push the cart, but she still made us work hard for so many days. Watching them drift away, Xue Yang muttered unwillingly.
Chi Tang smiled and didn't speak, for so many days, the two of them kept talking, which was quite interesting when he was walking with no food.
"Senior brother, get ready. After they disappeared from the end of sight, Chi Tang tightened the gray cloak he was wrapping around, and touched the Cloud Dragon Sword behind him, Xue Yang nodded slightly, and the two vigorous figures ran towards the high mountain covered by black clouds.
Feng Yingxiu was right, the high mountain seemed to be right in front of him, but it was really calculated according to the distance, but it was at least more than twenty miles away, and the road was rugged and winding, full of strange rocks, and it was never easy to walk, so when Chi Tang and Xue Yang rushed to the foot of the mountain, it took two hours.
The trees on the mountain were a strange dull yellow, there were no people, no animals, not even a single bird could not be found, and there was a dead silence all around, and the mountain seemed to stand lifeless and lonely between heaven and earth.
Not far from the foot of the mountain, there was a village in the shape of a village, but when Xue Yang and Chi Tang went to investigate, they found that they were full of ruins and broken walls, and some broken clay pots and clay pots were scattered on the ground, and the scene was extremely desolate.
"Unsurprisingly, no one. It should be the evil created by this monster, and the people in this village were either eaten by him, or some of them were eaten by him, and the rest of the villagers abandoned their homes and fled. Xue Yang turned his head and looked around.
Chi Tang looked at this deserted village with the vigilant gaze of a chivalrous man, swept an abnormality out of the corner of his eye, jumped over, opened a place where the grass was overgrown, and a dry well appeared in front of him, Chi Tang looked into the well, only to feel a stench straight to the brain, and then looked at it, and couldn't help but gasp, from the mouth of the well only three feet down, piled up the bones of countless dead people, and at the head was a few burnt yellow skulls, the black hole hole seemed to be looking at himself faintly.
Rao is Chi Tang's many demonic things, but when he suddenly saw this scene, he was also a little chilled in his heart. Xue Yang leaned up, bent down as if nothing had happened, and reached out of the well for a skeleton.
At this time, it was noon, the sun was in the south, and the light was also abundant, Xue Yang looked at the sun, carefully observing the skeleton, and his fingers stroked the charred and cracked skull.
Chi Tang looked at Xue Yang's preoccupied expression towards the skeleton, and always felt strange, although he was already a demon slayer, but after all, the time for entering the Tao was too short, and he was still a little unaccustomed to such a scene, although he had also witnessed the terrifying scene of demon cannibalism.
"It should be a villager in this village, and he should be a man in the prime of life when he looks at his teeth. Xue Yang pointed and poked at the skeleton and explained to Chi Tang, "You see that there are traces of biting on the head, when the demon is holding this head, gnawing the flesh and blood on the head one by one, and there is also a broken bone in the neck cavity, which means that this person's head was broken alive." Perhaps, he was eaten alive. ”
Chi Tang was already angry at this moment, and seeing such a tragic thing, the demons were eating people and wreaking havoc, killing living beings, and eating people alive like livestock, and he would punish them with his own hands. ...,
Xue Yang put the skeleton in his hand back into the well, leaned out and looked inside for a while, and his voice was muffled due to the refraction of the dry well: "This well is not deep, it is full of broken bones, there are men and women, judging from the decayed cloth, these people should have been dead for more than half a year, but it is unlikely to be the whole village, I think there are at most more than a dozen people's skeletons." ”
Xue Yang straightened up, coughed a few times, waved his hand to dispel the stench in his nose, and walked to Chi Tang, who had a solemn expression: "Maybe not the whole village is suffering. But this village has long been abandoned because of the demons, and there are probably no traces of people in the surrounding dozens of miles. ”
"Then what are you waiting for? I went directly to this mountain to eliminate the demon trouble!" Chi Tang's hand had already touched the hilt of Yunlong's sword.
Xue Yang looked at the high mountain, thought for a moment, and then nodded: "If you can, we'd better not act in a hurry, it's not that we're afraid of demons, but we don't know how many demons there are in this mountain. ”
Chi Tang immediately used Xuan Gong, and his spiritual power spread to the mountains under the urging of his consciousness.
The surrounding scenery was flickering rapidly, the dark yellow shadows of the trees were almost connected into a glare, and suddenly, a pungent fishy smell made Chi Tang wake up suddenly, when he opened his eyes, he still remembered the most obscure picture, it was a huge black shadow, and there were some shadows around the black shadow shaking.
Qingmang had just disappeared from Xue Yang's body, and it was obvious that he had also used the Demon Seeking Technique just now. Xue Yang opened his eyes and looked at Chi Tang: "An old demon, there are dozens of little demons under his command. ”
Chi Tang nodded, indicating that it was the same as what he saw.
"According to the traces of the Demon Seeking Technique...... Xue Yang's fingers moved straight towards the high mountain, and stopped halfway up the mountain to the west, "The old demon's habitat is not on the top of the mountain, but here. ”
With their fists clenched, the two of them had already discovered the demon's lair, and they were about to go up the mountain to perform the duties of a demon slayer and eradicate the old monster that was insatiable and cannibalistic.
A strange sound of wind slowed down the pace of the two of them, and the wind pointed to where they were, Chi Tang and Xue Yang paused, glanced at each other, and Xue Yang showed a relaxed smile: "We haven't found them yet, but they have found us first, it seems that things are going more smoothly than expected." ”
A black wind whistled, surrounding Chi Tang and Xue Yang for a few turns, and then, I heard a few strange laughs of laughter, and in the laughter, the black wind reached the ground, and in a blink of an eye, it turned into several burly human figures.
It was the demon in this mountain who appeared, Chi Tang pressed the thought of wanting to stand up immediately, and looked coldly at these figures who had just appeared.
There were three of them, of course, it wasn't accurate to say that they were human, they just had human bodies, and they were much taller and burlier than ordinary people, and their heads undoubtedly showed their true appearance, just like the image of the Moonlit Night Thorn, the four spirits of Fly Mountain who began to kill the assassins.
One of the three men had a wolf's head, a sheep's head, and a face full of fluff and high raised lips.
"Haha The wolf-headed man looked at Chi Tang and Xue Yang's eyes with a hungry green light, but when he spoke, he had a strong Bashu accent, thinking that it was a local monster.
This is just a very hungry little wolf, Chi Tang didn't care at all, speaking of wolf monsters, he hadn't seen it, it was the blue wolf monster Yueshi in the four spirits of Fly Mountain, when the Yueshi changed into a human form, he was much more powerful than the wolf-headed man in front of him, and even the Yueshi, under the full force of his fire crow divine power, he had to flee from the wind, so this little wolf spirit was even less troublesome. ...,
The monster with the head of the ape stretched out his nose and sniffed carefully: "They are all strong men, their heads are the most chewy, and they are captured and returned to the king, I don't want anything else, as long as the king rewards me with their heads." ”
The sheep-headed man did not speak, and by the nature of the sheep, he always looked at people with a blank gaze, and appeared extremely cautious.
"Huh, why are they looking at us like that? Are they scared silly?" the ape-headed man took a threatening step forward.
"What kind of place is this, and who is the king you are talking about?" Xue Yang suddenly said.
The wolf-headed man and the ape-headed man were stunned, as if they did not expect that the man in front of them would be so calm in such a situation, but soon they laughed wildly, perhaps a brave traveler, he thought we were robbers in the mountains?
"This is the Mustard Mountain, our king is a thousand-year-old bearded king, and the king likes to eat people the most, especially a strong man like you. Do you understand?" the ape-headed man was eager to see a look of horror on their faces.
"Rather than resisting in vain, it is better to know the obedience of the times. You are a monster that haunts the mountains, and it seems that our two brothers are certain to die if they strayed into this place today, so please bring us to the bearded king, and we will be slain by the neck, but we will be happy. Xue Yang said before Chi Tang, who was already on the verge of breaking out, his intention was obvious, that is, to let the three little demons personally bring themselves to the old demon, and also save themselves from looking for it all the way, if they go to the pool, it will not be beautiful.
Although the ordinary little demon refines the horizontal bones and cultivates the human body, it is far superior to mortals in terms of strength, but intellectually it cannot be compared with the scheming humans, so Xue Yang is convinced that his shallow plan will not be detected by the little demon in front of him.
Sure enough, the ape-headed man and the wolf-headed man were overjoyed: "Okay, you are refreshed, when I turn around and eat you, I will bite you to death first, so that you don't feel too much pain, how about it?"
The sheep-headed man, who had been silent, suddenly interjected: "Wait!"