17. Daoyou (2)
About an hour later, Huang Chang's ears finally quieted down.
It's not that the necroshal has a conscience and has stopped rambling, it's that it's talking too much and overusing it, and as a result, the jaw shell has fallen off - this guy is now busy trying to put his mandible back in. After working for a long time, he couldn't get the essentials, and he made gestures to ask Huang Chang to help him, but the latter finally made his ears a little quieter, so that he wouldn't bother himself.
However, after more than an hour of "communication", Huang Chang can be regarded as having a rough understanding of its origin. Although this corpse demon has maintained the sanity of a human being, it is impossible to talk about scheming cities and the like, it is just like a child who has not spoken to anyone for too long, and he can't wait to pour out everything as a topic, which saves Huang Chang from bothering to inquire.
The name of this corpse demon is Wu Lingzi - it was a Taoist priest when he was alive, but he never really entered the Tao, and he was just an ordinary mortal until he died. It can be regarded as the end of his life, and he was honestly buried by the descendants of the Taoist temple...... It looks like everything is normal.
Until one day, Wu Lingzi suddenly woke up from his long sleep, and found that the Taoist temple had long been dilapidated, and the cemetery had been stolen and excavated, his coffin had been opened, and his body was half hidden in the mud.
So Wu Lingzi re-entered the world in a daze, and he was still quite confused when he first woke up, but the threat from the sun's rays and the horror of passers-by soon made it realize that he was no longer a living person. It wandered through the mountains and forests for a while, and was lucky enough to survive the initial and most dangerous period. Then, as it slowly regained its senses and was able to use a human way of thinking to avoid danger and avoid danger, life was much simpler in the future.
It's nothing more than three words: hide, escape, pretend.
- Hide when you see someone, flee when you are discovered, and pretend to be dead if you can't escape. And this Wu Lingzi has been able to survive until now, there is a so-called "biggest secret", and before Huang Chang asked, he said it triumphantly, that is, not to hurt people!
"Hehe, Yao Daoyou, you are the only fellow like me, who does not have the stench of sucking human essence and blood on your body, it seems that you have not killed anyone, this is not easy. You must keep it - although the blood of the living is good, it is the most likely to attract danger, and once it attracts those demon hunters and monks to chase and kill, it will be a big trouble. ”
Hearing the other party actually take the initiative to say such a thing, Huang Chang was surprised again - every corpse demon is born with hatred and jealousy for life and living creatures, and it is the innate instinct of corpse demons to kill the living and absorb their essence and anger.
Including Huang Chang himself, when he was possessed by Yao Xiu, if he saw a living person, he would also have a strong desire to rush up and kill the other party, absorb the blood essence of the other party, and obtain the vitality energy from it - in fact, this is also the natural way for the corpse demon to become stronger, which can be said to be the talent of every corpse demon.
"Senior Brother Yao" was able to control this desire because his inner soul came from a living person after all, and it was relatively easy to suppress the desire purely from the body, just like a person could suppress his hunger.
And this authentic corpse demon can actually suppress the desire in his heart and has never killed anyone, which is really not easy, but it controls its natural desires like this, and the consequence is that its strength has not improved much, and it has always been a low-level zombie of the lowest level. Although he has sanity, he is not even the most basic white-haired zombie, just an ordinary walking corpse.
However, Wu Lingzi didn't seem to have an urgent desire to improve his strength, he just wandered around year after year, wandering around. Perhaps it was precisely because of this tranquility and laziness that it failed to truly become an immortal cultivator during his lifetime. But after death, he actually became a living corpse that was one in ten thousand, and still maintained his memory and wisdom during his lifetime.
The situation that is common for ordinary ghoul ghosts to gradually forget everything and gradually be controlled by the killing instinct does not happen to it, which is also considered "immortality" in a sense. Many wealthy families have gone to great lengths to exhaust their wealth and set up witch arrays to build mausoleums, isn't this just for this?
turned out to be an old Taoist priest who had never arranged anything and got this opportunity - the will of God, no one can say.
............
Wu Lingzi didn't know how many years he had been wandering in this world, anyway, he was looking for a place to hide during the day and wandering around at night. His favorite places to visit are the graveyards around the world, where they search for corpses and replace the damaged and rotting parts of their bodies with "parts" removed from those corpses.
Today, Wu Lingzi's body is basically not "original". Huang Chang didn't know what the principle was that could make a corpse demon replace most of his body, but he could still keep his original sanity unchanged, but he could at least be sure of one thing: it was basically impossible for this Wu Lingzi to improve his own strength in the future. The growth of the corpse demon is still based on refining the body, and the body has become a spare part that can be discarded at any time.
And Wu Lingzi seems to have adapted to this state of low strength and no one can beat it. Anyway, he was covered in rotten flesh and bones, and he had nothing to covet - those demon hunters and monks chased and killed demons, mainly to obtain cultivation resources. And Wu Lingzi's rotten stench is even the smell of wild beasts, and unless someone discovers that it is a living corpse with wisdom, then there may be monks who study the way of ghouls who are interested in it.
However, Wu Lingzi has always been very cautious in this regard, it only reveals its true appearance in front of the "same kind", and when it hides during the day or encounters humans at night, it lies directly on the ground, and has no breath. The corpses were dressed in perfect form—people came closer and said, "Oh, there's a rotting corpse here, it's disgusting!" And most of them just pinched their noses and walked away. Occasionally, a well-wisher would bury it, so I had to dig slowly and drill out......
When he heard this, Huang Chang couldn't help but want to ask it, haven't you ever met a "kind" person who helps you cremate or even exceed? Although this world pays attention to being in the ground, if you encounter those experienced demon hunters who often fight with corpse demons, most of their methods of disposing of nameless corpses are to burn them. And if you meet those great monks of Buddhism and Zen Buddhism, who help you recite a transcendent scripture on a whim, it will be even more fun.
Unfortunately, his body was unable to speak, and the few communications he had had were done by writing on the ground, informing each other of their names and answering simple "yes" or "no" questions. Too complicated conversations can't be achieved...... But think about it, if this kind of thing really happens, it is impossible for this Wulingzi Daoist to sit here and be verbose.
So I can only say that it was really lucky.