Chapter 3: The Empty Moon of the Daoist
The open mountain temple exuded ominousness in the night, and a rustling sound was heard, as if something was coming towards a group of people outside the mountain temple.
"Be careful!" Zhu Yu grabbed Sun Yueyue and rolled to the side, and a gust of fishy wind swept by.
"Ahh
Zhu Yu looked back, oh my God! What is that?
"There's a monster!save me!save me!ah~"
"Help, I don't want to die! Don't eat me!"
"Ah~"
For a while, the screams resounded through the mountains and forests, startling the birds in the forest.
Several buffalo-sized bobcats swooped through the field, yelling at them, intimidating, and driving everyone towards the temple.
Some villagers fled down the mountain in a panic and were bitten to death by bobcats. The corpse was eaten by the lynx, and the flesh was scattered.
The village chief on the other side was not happy, and they were directly scared to the ground, and there were water stains dripping down their trouser legs, and there was a pungent smell.
"Don't eat me! don't eat me!" the village chief's eyes flashed fiercely, grabbed the villager next to him, Da Zhuang and threw it at the bobcat, and then the man ran down the mountain.
Zhu Yu knew that the village chief was finished, it was okay if he didn't escape, and if he escaped, he would definitely die.
Sure enough, after a while, the village chief's screams came from the mountains and forests, but Da Zhuang, who he regarded as a substitute for the dead ghost, was unscathed.
Zhu Yu clearly saw the banter in the eyes of the bobcat, like a cat catching a mouse, catching it, not biting it to death, but chasing and enjoying the pleasure of hunting.
The monster was smarter than he thought, and as a result, their situation was more dangerous than they thought.
Each of these bobcats is the size of a buffalo, with sharp teeth like a scimitar that the moonlight reflects sharply.
There are eight bobcats, four of them are tearing at the villagers' bodies, and the rest are constantly roaming around them, in a posture of encirclement.
The greedy gaze of these lynx fell on them, especially Sun Yueyue who stayed the most. Harazi dripped down his teeth to the ground, and the smell was so foul that he wanted to vomit.
Zhu Yu could see that they were hungry, but he did not attack them.
"Xiao Yu'er, what's the matter...... What should I ......do? Scared!" Sun Yueyue was so frightened that she cried out, and grabbed the corner of Zhu Yu's clothes with one hand, as if only in this way did she have the courage to stand.
Zhu Yu swallowed his saliva, forcibly shook Sun Yueyue's hand calmly, and whispered comfortingly, "Don't be afraid! They just wanted to drive us to the mountain temple. ”
She had just found out that except for the first few people, the lynx had not killed anyone since then. As long as they don't move around and don't want to run away, the bobcats won't hurt them.
"What, there is a master?" Sun Yueyue screamed, she couldn't imagine how anyone could raise such a terrifying thing.
"Silence, don't provoke them!"
Sun Yueyue secretly looked at the lynx and swallowed her saliva, "Xiao Yu'er, what should we do now.....?"
Zhu Yu understood what Sun Yueyue meant, and shook his head, "Don't act rashly first, wait and see what happens!"
The encirclement is getting smaller and smaller, Zhu Yu and his party have already arrived in front of the mountain temple, it seems that everyone has found the law, no longer fleeing, and walking to the mountain temple in a regular manner.
Everything that happened in front of her was beyond Sun Yueyue's imagination, even Zhu Yu didn't expect that her temples tingled, and her thoughts were chaotic, who was behind these lynxes? Why did the other party deceive the mountain people in the name of the mountain god bride?
From childhood to adulthood, the experience of hunting from the mountains and forests countless times told Zhu Yu that the more dangerous it is, the more calm he must be. Only in this way can there be a glimmer of life.
Sun Yueyue held the pig-killing knife, trembling constantly, but still leaning close to Zhu Yu's side.
After Wang Shenpo found out that the lynx did not eat people, she was very unwilling. She took out a purple medicine bag, her eyes were full of madness, even if she offended the mountain god, she would let these people pay for her son's life.
"Die, die! Good baby, you should be very lonely down there alone. Don't be afraid, my mother will accompany you!" A pair of hands full of green tendons and old age spots tore open the medicine bag, and then the dark brown powder swayed.
The powder fell around, and the bobcats who smelled it turned red-eyed, and all the people and things that were infected with the powder, including their own kind, became the target of attack.
The goddess Wang was the first to bear it, and was torn apart by the lynx in an instant.
"Oh no, it's Silver Moon Grass!" shouted a villager, running out frantically.
Silver Moon Grass is a type of grass unique to Mt. Tsurugate, and grows only in Tsurutachi Gorge. This grass is of little use to people, but it has a very strong attraction to wild animals. The beast smelled as if it was drunk, its blood surging and its ferocity raging.
The Heli Canyon is the location of the spiritual veins of Heli Mountain, and the silver moon grass that grows here absorbs spiritual energy all year round, and it is already considered a first-order spiritual grass. The strength of these bobcats is between mortal beasts and first-order demon beasts, so they can't resist such a strong taste at all, and they all go crazy.
Goddess Wang's speed was too fast, everyone didn't expect that she actually had the Silver Moon Grass in her hand, let alone that she would use it at this time. Many people were bitten to death by bobcats without even reacting.
The scene was chaotic for a while, and the screams were endless.
Zhu Yu picked up a firewood knife from the corpse of one of the villagers and slashed at the bobcat that pounced.
"Yueyue, run to the mountain temple!" Zhu Yu dodged backwards and escorted Sun Yueyue to the mountain temple.
Sun Yueyue is not only physically big, but also has a lot of strength to match her. So for the bobcat, in addition to being unfamiliar with it at the beginning, she basically cut the bobcat later.
"Xiao Yu'er, I'll break off!" Sun Yueyue's face was full of blood, her eyes were shining, and she was waving it left and right with a pig-killing knife, which reminded Zhu Yu of Sun Butcher's appearance every time he chopped pork.
The two good sisters supported each other and broke through to the mountain temple. However, the chaotic villagers around them completely blocked their way, and coupled with the attack of the lynx, it was difficult to move forward.
Zhu Yu was still fighting, although his arm was sore, he still didn't dare to stop.
"It's not going to go on like this, there will be a time when our strength will run out. The people around him fell one by one, and Zhu Yu's heart became heavier and heavier.
"If you want to run to the mountain temple alive! The mountain temple is the only way to live!" Zhu Yu shouted, pulling Sun Yueyue to run to the mountain temple quickly.
Even though these bobcats are in a frenzy, they don't get too close to the mountain temple, which means that there must be something to fear them. Zhu Yu runs in the mountains and forests all the year round very clearly, and animals know how to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages. It stands to reason that their master is in the temple, and they shouldn't be. But something unusual happened.
There was such a big movement outside, and the owner of the bobcat did not show up, there must be something more important delayed. In the past, she used to go to the town, and according to the storyteller's routine, the owner of the lynx may have been practicing at a critical juncture, so she couldn't show up.
As for the truth or falsehood, Zhu Yu can't care so much, so he can only gamble. If you win the bet, you can live.
Zhu Yu and Sun Yueyue were back to back, and finally entered the mountain temple, followed by Da Zhuang and three other villagers.
The bobcat found that Zhu Yu and the others had run into the mountain temple, and immediately turned around and attacked the remaining villagers. The screams outside grew quieter and quieter until they were gone.
The lynxes began to attack each other, and it was not until this moment that Zhu Yu and them breathed a sigh of relief and fell to the ground.
Sun Yueyue leaned on Zhu Yu in fear, grabbed Zhu Yu's sleeve with a trembling hand in one hand, and still held the ancestral pig-killing knife in the other.
There were dozens of people who went up the mountain, and in the end, only five people remained, which is not tragic.
Before Zhu Yu and them could recover their strength, a bell rang from behind the mountain temple, and the sound became louder and louder. The voice came to mind and made people drowsy, powerless to resist.
Da Zhuang and the others fell into a deep sleep.
The bobcat outside the mountain temple slept past.
Sun Yueyue fell asleep.
Within 500 meters of the mountain temple as the center, all the living beings fell asleep, except for Zhu Yu.
A black aura spread from behind the mountain temple. Everywhere he passed, whether it was grass or wood, all life force was sucked away in an instant, and it was gray and white with a fiasco.
Da Zhuang and the other three villagers were entangled in black aura in their sleep, aging at a rate visible to the naked eye, dying, and turning into a layer of miserable white ashes.
As if feeling the breath of a natural enemy, the jade on Zhu Yu's neck emitted a faint light, and a layer of moon-white light formed a layer of barrier, protecting Zhu Yu and Sun Yueyue, who was leaning on her.
The jade cauldron turned slowly, and the black aura around it was also absorbed by it.
Zhu Yu didn't know anything about these strange things, she was lying on the ground, her eyelids were heavy, and she wanted to sleep, but she couldn't.
In a daze, she smashed her shoulder again.
The original bloody wound began to bleed again, and the pain brought a moment of lucidity, so much so that Zhu Yu witnessed what happened next.
A jade pot glowing red vibrated up and down in the air. The pot is the size of eight seals, which is as big as the big iron pot of the uncle's house for stir-frying. Zhu Yu subconsciously touched her neck, only to find that the red thread had long been broken before she knew when, but her baby pendant was missing.
The blood flowing from Zhu Yu's shoulder was constantly absorbed by the jade pot, and as the blood passed, Zhu Yu clearly felt that the connection between himself and the jade pot was getting stronger and stronger.
The light of the jade pot became more and more intense, until it reached a certain critical value, and the jade pot suddenly emitted a huge suction.
The surrounding aura and black aura were intertwined like hemp ropes, and were continuously absorbed by the jade pot.
"Damn! Damn! Who is it? Who is it? Dare to spoil the old man's good deeds, and it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart if I don't cut you with a thousand knives!"
With a bang, the entire statue of the mountain god cracked, revealing a deep hole the size of two people, with steps leading directly to the ground. A thick breath of blood or black breath spread out from the cave.
All the wooden beads that were touched by this breath were all corrupted at a speed visible to the naked eye. And Zhu Yu and Sun Yueyue are fine because of the protection of the jade pot. As soon as the night breeze blew, the entire mountain temple was blown away like a mirage, leaving a ground of ashes.
A dry Taoist stood in mid-air, with a hooked nose and hanging eyes, exuding a rotten aura all over his body.