I told the human-skin ghost Su Congxue what had just happened. Her ghost face showed an uncontrollable shock.
"Little brother, you are really amazing. You actually killed the Blue-Eyed Ghost Monkey, which is even more powerful than the Ghost King. I like you more and more, little brother."
When the human-skin ghost said these words, he kept blinking at me, and the charm in his ghost pupils was revealed.
I curled my lips and said, "Don't give me that. I'm not interested in you. Humans and ghosts are different, I think you know that yourself. Besides, your exposed human skin is ugly."
The human-skin ghost Su Congxue seemed a little unhappy when he heard what I said.
I hurriedly said, "Okay, stop talking nonsense. My uncle Sun is missing, and we have to find him quickly. I guess he was kidnapped by the three-eyed red monkey during the chaos. We don't know whether he is alive or dead now."
Ignoring the human-skin ghost, I began looking for clues in the bamboo forest.
The ground was quite damp and had many traces. Soon, I found clear footprints behind some bamboos. The human-skin ghost was following me.
Following the footprints, we walked towards the bamboo forest on the right.
The deeper you go into the bamboo forest, the denser the bamboo becomes. There are even some gray bamboo shoots growing on the ground. The pointed shoots look like short, sharp stone pillars.
In addition to some footprints in the bamboo shoots, I also found some footprints that were smaller than my palm. The toes of the footprints were round and round, which should be the pads on the soles of wild animals.
The soul of the human-skin ghost shook and appeared next to the small footprints to check.
After a moment, she turned her face towards me and said, "Brother, these are the footprints of the ghost monkey. It seems that Uncle Sun was really kidnapped by the ghost monkey."
I nodded, feeling anxious. If I had known that the Wrongful Death City was so dangerous, I would not have let Sun Yaowen come. Now, not only can he not help at all, but he has also brought me so much trouble.
But people still need to be saved.
"Let's go, let's follow these trails to find someone."
We quickened our pace and shuttled through the stalagmites, and soon we came to an open space in the bamboo forest. Although it was called an open space, in fact, there were still bamboos growing on the ground.
It’s just that the bamboos were broken at the roots, leaving behind a lot of messy bamboo breaks.
And those broken bamboos were actually put to use and built into irregular frames.
There were a lot of shelves, crisscrossed with each other, and to me, they looked very simple, a bit like the buildings built by primitive humans.
The shelf is covered with thick leaves. Those leaves are not bamboo leaves, but they can be placed on the shelf to protect against wind and rain.
And some dry bamboo leaves are stuffed inside the shelf to prevent moisture and keep warm.
Damn, those three-eyed red monkeys live a pretty comfortable life.
"ah!... ... "
At this time, from the northwest, behind a row of shelves, several tragic cries were heard, accompanied by the mixed sounds of the ghost monkeys "Yiyawuya".
"Oh no, it's Uncle Sun! Hurry over."
I was anxious, and after saying something, I rushed towards the direction where the sound came from. I had already used the Seven Stars Steps on my feet to the extreme.
When I got to the side of some bamboo racks, I saw a bloody scene.
Uncle Sun was stripped of his clothes and tied to several bamboo poles. His body was covered in blood, and his hands, feet, chest, and neck were all pierced with short, cylindrical objects.
The ends of those cylindrical objects were sharpened into pointed pieces, and bright red blood was flowing out from the tips.
Below Uncle Sun, a few skinny, small three-eyed ghost monkeys were squatting there, grabbing the bamboo sticks.
The tube was catching the blood flowing from Uncle Sun's body.
The "yayahwa" sounds came from the mouths of those skinny three-eyed red monkeys.
A three-eyed red monkey's bamboo tube was filled with blood. Its face showed uncontrollable excitement. It quickly tilted one end of the bamboo tube and began to drink it with an expression of enjoyment in its eyes.
Uncle Sun’s face was pale, his body was shaking constantly, his head was lowered, and he looked very dead.
I yelled, "Assholes, how dare you hurt people!"
I picked up the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword and rushed towards those skinny monkeys.
The evil spirits on those skinny ghost monkeys were not strong, and their strength was much weaker than those mature three-eyed red monkeys they had encountered before. Judging from their body shape, they had not yet reached maturity and were only in their infancy.
Upon hearing the sound, the young three-eyed red monkey cried out "Jiji Yaya" with fear in its eyes, and began to rush towards the shelves outside at a very fast speed.
There was annoyance in my eyes and I was very angry.
The human-skin ghost Su Congxue was still afraid of the three-eyed red monkey, so he hid behind me again.
Uncle Sun may have heard my voice. He raised his head slightly and looked at me with a listless look.
"Tianyi..."
There was a little light in Uncle Sun's eyes, and I could tell that he wanted to live. But after he said my name, his head drooped and then drooped again, not knowing whether to live or die.
Before I could rush to Uncle Sun, two three-eyed red monkeys jumped out from the side and pounced on me.
I shouted angrily, "Go to hell."
I did not hold back. The Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword in my hand, inspired by the Yin De Qi and the "spirit", emitted a dazzling red light and slashed left and right.
The two three-eyed red monkeys fell down one after another.
Their bodies were split in half by my magic sword, with their heads and bodies separated.
I glanced at the shelves and didn't see any other mature three-eyed red monkeys.
It seems that those mature three-eyed red monkeys were killed by me before.
In other words, it is very likely that these two three-eyed red monkeys bewitched Uncle Sun and brought him to their lair.
The young three-eyed red monkeys had little attack power, so they were left in the nest by the mature three-eyed red monkeys.
Without any hesitation, I walked up to Uncle Sun and pulled off the small cylindrical object on his body.
At the same time, I used the sealing method of acupoint tapping to seal the acupoints on Uncle Sun's body to prevent the blood from flowing out again.
I counted and found that Uncle Sun had seven or eight bleeding wounds on his body. If he hadn't been so tenacious, he would have died by now.
I used my magic sword to cut the ropes that bound Uncle Sun, and slowly laid Uncle Sun flat on the ground.
Afterwards, I took out the "Blood-Sufficient Pill" from the cloth bag.
This "Blood-Replenishing Pill" was found in the cloth bag of Master Liu Deshui. It has a certain effect in replenishing the blood and qi in the human body.
I gently pried open Uncle Sun's mouth and stuffed the blood-replenishing pill into his mouth.
I just felt Uncle Sun's pulse and found that his pulse was beating very slowly, and the vitality in his body was rapidly draining away. If I hadn't arrived in time, he would have died in a short while.
After all, Uncle Sun followed me here, and as a ghost-catching Taoist priest, I have to protect him.
Besides, there is the issue of my girlfriend Xiaoli, so I should take better care of Uncle Sun.
Thinking of this, looking at Uncle Sun who was injured like this, I was so angry.
"Miss Su, please help me take care of Uncle Sun. I'm going to deal with the remaining three-eyed red monkeys."
The human-skin ghost is eager for me to kill all the three-eyed red monkeys hiding everywhere as soon as possible.
She nodded and said, "Okay, okay, little brother, you go, and I'll take care of Uncle Sun. I can temporarily use my ghost energy to stabilize him.
The heartbeat of the heart."
I didn't say anything else. With a sullen face, I picked up the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword and rushed towards the side of the shelves.
Soon, I found five or six young three-eyed red monkeys in a nest.
"Hmph, let's see where you can escape to."
I snorted coldly and prepared to use my magic sword to kill these three-eyed red monkeys.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a voice came from a distance: "Master, stop! Master, stop, don't kill them."
I frowned and looked in the direction of the voice.
Then I saw a ball of black gas flying over from a distance.
In front of the shelf next to me, black gas was hovering and slowly transformed into the soul of a ghost.
Damn it! A demon wants to interfere with my business? Ridiculous!
"You evil ghost, you know I'm a ghost-catching Taoist priest, yet you still dare to interfere in this matter. Don't tell me, you want to be reduced to ashes."
I said in a cold voice, the magic sword in my hand had turned red.
The evil ghost was a little old man, not tall, and timid. He had a small mustache and small eyes on his round face.
The evil old man bowed to me and said, "No, no, no, Taoist priest, you are worrying too much. I have no intention of becoming your enemy. I just hope you can let these young three-eyed red monkeys go."
"All the mature three-eyed red monkeys were killed by the Taoist priest. They were causing trouble, and being killed was also their karma. But these young three-eyed red monkeys are not capable of harming you, Taoist priest."
I was very dissatisfied when I heard this, and squinted my eyes at this nosy evil ghost.
I said solemnly, "Yes, these young three-eyed red monkeys never harmed me. But my companions were almost killed by them. Isn't this cause and effect?"
The evil old man didn't seem to be afraid of me. He said calmly, "Master, you are right. But you are a person in the mortal world and you must know one thing: competition among all things is fierce, and only the fittest survive. Those mature three-eyed red monkeys wanted to devour your flesh and blood, but they were killed by you. That's nothing."
"But these weak three-eyed red monkeys don't have much independent consciousness. They only know how to eat and drink. They want to survive, so they eat human flesh and drink human blood. I'm afraid there's nothing wrong with that."
"As far as I know, even in the mortal world, a long, long time ago, when humans did not rule the world, humans were actually being slaughtered just like other creatures. This is actually the law of survival for all things, and there is no right or wrong."
This evil old man talked for a long time and actually gave me some profound truths.
I felt annoyed when I heard what he said.
I tilted my head and glared at him, pointing my magic sword at him, and said angrily, "Don't tell me that. These three-eyed red monkeys want to harm people, so they need to pay the price. This is the result of their failure to harm people."
After hearing what I said, the evil old man looked helpless, sighed, and stopped trying to persuade me.
But I found that this evil old man was not afraid of me. This made me feel very strange.
The evil old ghost controlled his soul and flew to the side, but his ghost eyes were still staring at me.
Those young three-eyed red monkeys hiding under the shelves made "yayah" sounds and kept calling out, as if they were begging me to let them go.
I hesitated, and the words of the evil old man appeared in my mind again.
Yes, even if this is the City of the Dead, what is the difference between humans and ghosts, humans and ghost beasts? They all have their own souls.
Whether here or in the world of the living, it is a world where the strong prey on the weak. Even though the world has its own laws and rules, the relationship between humans and other races has never changed.
For the countless animals in the world, humans are the strong ones because they can manipulate technology and use it for their own benefit.
But can the strong deprive the weak of their right to survive
(to be continued)
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