The Phantom Butterfly is a very peculiar monster.

It mostly grows in mirages, grows in illusions, and changes in myriads, but it itself is like a fish in water, and it cannot exist outside the illusion.

Therefore, the number is scarce, and the records are sporadic and scattered.

Occasionally, there is only a few words, saying that it comes out with the sea market, conjuring up the fairy mountains and pavilions of the island, luring passing ships to dock, and falsely claiming that the fairyland makes people stranded, but secretly parasitizing people's intestines and abdomen with insect eggs, assimilating human organs at first, and then gradually occupying the dove's nest, replacing it, and finally molting into a butterfly.

It is said that the way in which the Phantom Butterfly spreads into the population is also very special.

They will select one or two "lucky ones" from a batch of prey, and send them into the eggs as well, but instead of hatching, they will release the "lucky ones" back into the world, so that their eggs can survive outside the illusion.

And those who were released, although they were able to escape for a while, did not get a glimpse of the truth, only thought that they had really encountered the fairyland, coupled with the secret influence of the insect eggs, they would never forget the "fairyland", and sooner or later they would sail overseas again and visit the fairyland.

But the fairyland is faint and difficult to find, lucky, bumped into a mirage, if it is suitable for the hundred illusion butterflies to inhabit, the demon insects in the abdomen will take the opportunity to hatch: bad luck, long search, the demon insects will be troubled, so that the "lucky one" thinks that he has been inspired by the immortals, and then calls friends to lead a boatload of people into the "fairyland".

There are many rumors of immortals on the sea, and there are many people who seek immortals and ask questions, but everyone knows how many of those immortal seekers who are enthusiastic and invite people to accompany are sent by demon insects and lead people to death?

Stop gossiping.

All in all.

For the Hundred Illusion Butterfly, where is a more suitable habitat than Xiaoshui, an ownerless fantasy realm, and where is there a better breeding ground and reserve food than these tens of thousands of muddy monsters?

And the most valuable of these tens of thousands of demons are undoubtedly those big monsters.

In the battle between Phantom Butterfly and Yu Mei, the two sides can be said to have done everything, but they both tacitly bypassed the big demon.

There is no other reason.

Yu Mei is afraid that the big demon will wake up, making the already fragile illusion even worse.

Phantom butterflies are simply greedy for their bodies, and they are powerless to control them by relying only on demon insects.

Even now, they are just taking care of those big demons, waiting for them to completely control the illusion before dealing with them.

Li Changan's plan is aimed at this.

He cooperated with Yu Mei in the division of labor, one lurked near the left side of the Water Moon View and waited for an opportunity to move, and the other assassinated the big demon in Xiaoshui City and forced the Phantom Butterfly to appear, which was inevitably seen by the Phantom Butterfly, and also slaughtered the idle monsters to confuse the public.

But.

The plan didn't go well.

............

Ming'er should be a Dionysian sacrifice.

Two nights of celebration were coming, and the excitement seemed to have started early this morning.

On the street, buying, shouting, loitering, men, women and children, rubbing shoulders. There was a celebratory atmosphere everywhere, as if even the haze of the day was just last night's dream.

However, a group of people came to the end of the street, but it was incompatible with the joy around them.

It was a team of errands.

Carrying knives and guns, most of them were expressionless, their eyes were also straight ahead, their faces were as if they were cast in iron, and there was no noise at all, silently walking through the crowd with neat steps.

Only the two leaders are a little more vivid, with some "human" flavor, but they are fierce and vicious, their eyes can't help but scan the surroundings, and they are still greedy in their vigilance.

The joy around them didn't infect them at all, and their slaughter didn't affect their surroundings either.

The crowd on the street only parted when they arrived and closed when they left, like a bucket of oil paint poured into a canal.

"Three. ”

At a noodle stall not far away, Li Changan, dressed as a coarse cloth and a boatman, silently wrote down a number.

This is the third patrol team he has been in the past in a short period of time.

Although the Taoist priest's plan did not go well, it still had some effect.

The repeated killings made it impossible for the phantom butterfly to sit in the water and moon view. It sent a large number of rampant soldiers and insect cubs that were controlled to leave the lair and patrol Xiaoshui day and night.

It's a pity that the phantom butterfly itself has always shrunk in the water and moon view, still eating away at the illusion little by little.

Today, the area controlled by the Phantom Butterfly has spread from the Water Moon View to the Xiaoshui City Wall.

It's a head-scratching situation.

Is it possible to catch the big fish of the phantom butterfly, and it is too light to use the big demon as bait?

Tigers, cows, birds.

Li Changan wrote these three words on the table with tea.

They represent the only three demons left in the fantasy world today.

The tiger is the tiger and the order of Xiaoshui County.

Cattle are iron biters, and they are inspected by the local inspection department.

Birds, ghost cars, are the head of the liquor shop.

The roles of these three are all high-powered, they live in seclusion, and they are usually heavily guarded, coupled with the protection of Phantom Butterfly in the open and in the dark, it can be said that it is difficult to find an opportunity to assassinate.

Of course, it is difficult to return, take some risks, and put some effort into it, but it may not be impossible.

However, the reason why the big demon was assassinated was originally to lure the phantom butterfly to appear, if the phantom butterfly continued to be determined not to go out of the water and moon, what is the point of assassination?

Not to mention......

"Guest, your face is ready. ”

Li Changan quietly brushed off the handwriting, raised his eyes, and it was the proprietress who came with noodles.

She is about in her early thirties,, especially charming, although it is a jingchai cloth skirt, but the waist is very thin with a belt, and it is more and more lined with a round and fruitful bottom, and she walks swaying, which has attracted a lot of attention and attracted a lot of business.

The Taoist priest's gaze inevitably sticked, but not because of her "caution", but because he saw her walking around, and something seemed to pass under her skirt.

When she reached the table, put down the bowl, and bent down, the Taoist priest saw that there was a bulge sliding back and forth under her skirt.

It's like there's a tail hidden.

What is even stranger is that the blatant or sneaky gaze cast around them is not unusual, and ignores this.

Maybe Li Changan's gaze is too straightforward.

"Guest, where are you staring?!"

The proprietress voice was soft, not so much a scolding, but more provocative.

But when the Taoist priest really met her, he saw that her eyeballs had suddenly turned into amber vertical pupils, and thin scales were growing on her eyelids and spreading to the surroundings.

There are signs of demonization!

Li Changan silently said "unlucky" in his heart.

That's the "what's more".

......

The condition of the illusion is getting worse day by day, and a strange phenomenon gradually appears, and some youkai fall into a state of "waking up but not waking up". Some parts of the body reveal their original form, such as tails, scales, etc., but when they are affected by the illusion, the people around them and themselves will turn a blind eye, but once they are exposed to external stimuli, such as a gaze that they should not see, they will quickly break free from the illusion in a short time and turn back into demons.

This means that the actions of the Taoist priest and Yu Mei must be cautious, otherwise, it will inevitably cause trouble. This is also the reason why they choose to act at night and trim during the day, just to avoid one person with many eyes.

......

"Hehe, what do you say?"

Li Changan was not in a hurry, the big horse golden knife crossed his legs, and his probe scratched his chest, looking like he was not stingy.

"Can you still grow a tail? Of course, it's to see if the lady is good at giving birth!"

After saying that, he suddenly slapped it in the face.

The proprietress couldn't dodge and was hit by the bull's-eye.

"Ahh

Go back.

The red face, watery eyes, have no vertical pupils and thin scales.

She took a sip.

"Death Phase!"

The men present suddenly set off a burst of cheers, and Li Changan stood up with the momentum, arched his hands around, and put on a triumphant appearance.

I am making a fuss.

"Murder!"

Suddenly there was a terrible howl in the street.

I saw a man with his hands covered in blood stumbling out.

He was in a terrible state, his body was shaking, the corners of his mouth and eyes were pulling at his face, and he couldn't tell whether it was fear or joy on his face.

The people around him, or asked, or comforted, but he ignored them, just pulled his throat and called repeatedly:

"Dead, dead, all dead!"

It attracted the attention of the street, and even the customers in the noodle stalls looked around, and some even threw down the half-eaten noodle bowl and hurriedly ran to join in the fun.

Li Changan didn't take a look, he sat down silently and pulled the bowl of noodles to him.

In the milky white soup made of mutton bones, there are finely chopped shallots and fresh green vegetable leaves floating, and the noodles at the bottom are strong and distinct.

Li Changan took out the gourd he was carrying and poured some water into it, and the black spots turned into wisps of black gas in the bowl and slowly steamed.

When it dissipates and the Taoist priest drops his chopsticks.

Another group of patrolling officers finally arrived belatedly.

They are clearly familiar with the work of "washing the floor".

While pulling the man to the scene of the murder, he dispersed the crowd that had gathered.

People are also obedient, obediently dispersed, not a little nostalgic, people return to joy, those who sell are still selling, and those who hang out are still loitering.

The short scene just now, as if a breeze was blowing through the stagnant water, and that little ripple subsided in the blink of an eye.

Even the diners who watched the excitement return just brought back their bowls and continued to eat noodles, not saying a word about everything just now, as if it had never happened.

It was a peaceful and peaceful place.

Li Changan also sucked the last mouthful of noodle soup, leaving a few coppers.

Got up and joined the jubilant crowd.

............

The moon is dark and the wind is high.

In the southern corner of the city, a shabby house.

Qiu Er groped for the night, only to push the door open in a daze, and was poured by the oncoming cold wind, shivered, opened his sleepy eyes, and his foot stepped out on the threshold abruptly.

It was pitch black outside the door.

All that was left was a vague outline, and they were superimposed on top of each other to form all sorts of strange shapes, which looked very strange.

Especially those wisterias, the branches and leaves have been decayed in the past few days, leaving behind knotted vines, as thick as long snakes and as thin as earthworms, coiling and hanging down from the walls and eaves, swaying slightly in the wind as if hissing.

The courtyard, which was familiar in the past, actually made people's hearts cold tonight.

There is a reason for this fear.

"The night of Xiaoshui is restless" is an outdated old saying, in fact, the night of Xiaoshui is terrifying.

Every day news comes out that someone died silently on the couch, or that a family was wiped out overnight.

Regardless of men and women, whether high or low, it seems that death is staring at everyone in Xiaoshui all the time.

On the contrary, shrewd people have discovered that the magnates in the city have disappeared lately, and the mansions have become heavily guarded, and the number of people patrolling at night has increased several times.

If the big people are like this, how can they teach the small people not to be worried and frightened?

Qiu Er swallowed his saliva and had the heart to retract into the room, but the surging urge urged him.

As a last resort.

He stepped out the door.

He didn't dare to look at the dark yard much, but buried his eyes and jumped to his toilet on tiptoe.

Pass by the next wing.

I saw a hazy light shining through the window paper, apparently lighting a candle.

This is his brother and sister-in-law's bedroom.

"It's the middle of the night!"

He muttered something in his heart dissatisfied, and was about to leave, when a cold, thin woman's low sobs entered his ears.

He was puzzled at first, and then blushed.

"Phew, it's the middle of the night!"

Then he stole a hole in the window paper and pouted his cheeks to look at it.

Just one eye.

The blood is cold.

............

The elder brother lay on the bed, his eyes closed as if he were asleep, but the bright red on the futon told the truth wordlessly—he was dead.

The sister-in-law sat at the table with a woman in her clothes.

The woman turned her back to him, and her face could not be seen clearly, but she saw a bright red skirt and a plain white short dress, and she was holding her sister-in-law with one hand and a knife in the other, and she was carefully peeling off her sister-in-law's face by candlelight.

My sister-in-law is probably still alive, and every inch of the tip of the knife goes down, there is a thin snort in her nose, and Qiu Er's urinary intent is also a little surging.

What's worse is that maybe it's because of the heaviness of my breath for a moment.

The woman turned her face abruptly.

The hideous grimace glowed in the darkness.

Suddenly.

Qiu Er's bladder and larynx were lost at the same time.

Warm urine rushed into his trousers, and a sharp howl rushed into the night sky.

......

Urine soaked into the pant legs.

Bring a shameful warmth in this cold night.

Qiu Er didn't care about any of this.

He regretted it extremely at the moment, regretted why he didn't hold it for a while, and regretted why he had to look at it more.

In this way, maybe only my brother and sister-in-law will die?

Unfortunately, all regrets have been to no avail.

The ghost-faced man approached step by step.

He could see the bright red skirt of the other party, see the cold reflection of the blade in her hand, and seem to hear the sound of blood dripping down.

Subsequently.

He saw the ghost-faced man wave his hand.

Immediate time.

A scream erupted in the night.

"Are you going to die?"

He thought so.

However.

"Ding. ”

In the light of the fire, the thing hit a long knife and flew to the ground, which turned out to be half a pair of scissors.

Hey?

Where did the fire come from? and where did the long knife come from?

He looked back stunned.

I don't know when, a team of officials appeared behind me.

Fang Cai, it was the head of the team who drew a knife to save his life.

The Jedi couldn't help but be overjoyed.

He turned his head and grabbed the trouser leg of the team leader, and cried:

"Sir, save ......"

The words froze for a moment.

His eyes changed from joy to astonishment, and then to fear.

Just because Qiu Er saw that the squad leader who saved him suddenly began to swell, arms grew under his armpits, fangs grew from the corners of his mouth, and in an instant, he turned into a hideous demon.

The four-armed demon waved his hand, and the monsters under it that had also turned into their original forms dispersed on their own, faintly surrounding the ghost-faced man in the middle.

But it didn't rush to fight, but took out a horn

The sharp and piercing trumpet sounded, like the howl of a wolf pack, and one after another strange-shaped demons followed the call and jumped into the courtyard one after another, surrounding the ghost-faced man.

on this.

The Ghostface just raised his sword.

Immediately.

Qiu Er only felt a chill on his waist, and then saw the red light that spread over the sky.

............

When Qiu Er woke up again.

The ghost-faced man was gone, only the house was burning in the fire, and the courtyard had become a pool of blood.

As for the officials...... Oh, probably a few piles of corpses on the ground!

He was at a loss for what to do, staring blankly at all this, and muttered:

"Youkai!

It's all youkai!

Ghost-faced people are youkai!

Catch fast monsters!"

He looked down at himself, the upper half of his body was at the base of the wall on this side, and the bottom half was in the corner of the wall on the other side, and in the middle was a bucket-thick, brown, swollen strip of flesh with faint links.

It's like a person who was cut in half, and then a big earthworm was indirectly planted in the middle.

"Hahaha. ”

He grinned, smiled so sincerely, so heartily, that he wept with joy.

"Turns out I'm a youkai too!"

But soon.

That little joy was swallowed up by a surging hunger.

His hungry red eyes wandered around, and finally landed on the corpse on the ground, and then, without hesitation, pounced on it.

He was like a wild dog that was hungry, crawling among the flesh, biting and chewing.

A team of "fast catchers" approached silently.

It wasn't until he was surrounded that he realized it and suddenly raised his head.

In a short period of time.

The facial features on his face had faded, except for a huge mouth full of sharp teeth that let out a chaotic roar at the officials.

Subsequently.

was sprinkled with dust in front of him.

Strange to say, he also returned to peace under this dust.

A hoarse voice rang out.

"What's going on here?"

"It's a witch!"

He opened his mouth, his voice full of horror, as if he had changed back to the timid young man, and told the deepest and most frightening scene in his memory.

"The witch skinned her sister-in-law. ”

The voice asked, "Why did she skin your sister-in-law?" ”

He just repeated in a hurry: "The demon girl peeled the skin of her sister-in-law, and the demon girl peeled the skin of her sister-in-law......"

The voice had to change the question:

"Who is your sister-in-law?"

Qiu Er's words paused abruptly for a while, and then he spoke almost dreamily.

He said:

"My sister-in-law is a female worker in the Tanuki Building. ”

............

Everything was uneventful.

Following.

Sunset and moonrise.

The Dionysian sacrifice came as scheduled.

Regardless of men, women and children, rich or poor, people have thrown away all the fears and worries of the past, and participated in this grand and destined celebration in this moonlit night.

It is those powerful people, such as county orders, inspections, and leaders...... also left their heavily guarded mansion, and like countless reincarnations in the past, they went to the largest and most gorgeous painting boat at the Dionysian Festival, and went to the feast presided over by the three ladies of the Tanuki Building.