"It sounds so nice, my name is..." the cat demon girl recalled Ran Mingzhu's name.
"Xiaohua, I heard the hotel owner call you that before!" Ran Mingzhu said first.
She and Yu Xiaohua's hands were held tightly together, as if they were good friends who had known each other for a long time. Because their siblings were by her side, her heart didn't seem to hurt as much as before.
That night, the cat demon girl told her that she was kidnapped from her parents by human traffickers in Miancheng. When the traffickers almost sold her to a monster, she was rescued by two teenagers brought by her younger brother. . Although they just met by chance, they gave their family so much help.
So, the two of them ran away from home secretly. In order to find the two teenagers, they first went to Dongyao. After asking where they were, they determined that one of the teenagers was probably Dongyao's young master Qianqi. But Qianqi was not in Dongyao, but came to Wangcheng to assist Demon King Fox, and the two siblings came to Yongchuan.
"Obviously it was my sister who was talking about the brother named Qianqi day and night, so I agreed to accompany her. If this continues, I'm afraid she will go crazy." The cat demon boy said with a smirk.
"Since he is assisting the Demon King Fox, maybe I can help you find him!" Ran Mingzhu said after listening to the cat demon girl's story.
"Really?!" The cat demon girl blinked her big eyes excitedly.
"After I finish handling my own affairs, I will definitely help you!" Ran Mingzhu responded with certainty, and then suddenly asked curiously, "Why don't you go to Chenji Palace to find him directly?"
"We have been there. But the controls there were very tight. Not to mention letting us in, they even refused to send a message for us. Maybe it was because our clothes were too shabby and it didn't look like we knew such a big shot." The cat demon girl revealed. A sad expression.
"Humph, there are such snobs everywhere! It's hard to find people as good as those two big brothers!" the cat demon boy said angrily.
"Anyway, since I promised, I will definitely help you! Don't worry!" Ran Mingzhu turned to him and said.
"Hurry up and finish the rest of the milk tea, and then go back and have a good sleep. If you don't drink it, you will be cold! The tea we brought from our hometown will not only make you energetic, but also help you sleep and refresh yourself. It's the role." The cat demon girl smiled gratefully at Ran Mingzhu, her face was so peaceful under the orange light.
"good!"
After Mingzhu drank the milk tea, she returned to her room. After locking the door, she was finally able to take off her heavy cloak and fell on the bed. Sure enough, as the cat girl said, she fell into a deep sleep as soon as it touched the pillow.
She had a dream. The scenes in the dream were blurry at first, but gradually became clear, as clear as if they were really happening. In the dream, it was the man in black who met him on a narrow road in a secret passage. He escaped from the secret passage in a hurry. The moonlight coated his black cloak with a layer of gray silver, and only the outline of his face was illuminated. It turns out that he is wearing a mask.
The mask was very strange. It was a clown mask that was rarely seen in the demon world. The clown's eyeliner was very heavy, and the eyelids looked down, which looked very funny. And the two lines of black tears ran down the slightly bulging cheeks and reached the cracks. On top of the big red mouth next to the ear.
The clown hesitated for a moment outside the secret passage, seeming to be thinking about something, but when the sound of the Pearl turning the mechanism at the exit came from the secret passage, he still jumped up, flew into the night, and disappeared.
Ran Mingzhu in the dream still wanted to chase his figure, but she also knew that this was just a dream after all. Her actions were therefore limited and she could not reach places she had never been before, and the entire dream ended at this moment.
When she woke up, there was a slight regret in her heart, but more of it was a kind of expectation. I didn't expect that I would be able to gain something when I went out to look for my father for the first time. This seems to indicate that the connection between her and her father is not so easy to be severed. It has been destined for a long time that the father and daughter will definitely meet again.
And the clown who was being chased by Ran Mingzhu used a secret word to summon a black demon horse after confirming that she could no longer catch up with him. After he jumped on his horse, he galloped towards the Zhengu Forest.
As soon as he entered the ancient forest, a shrill cry suddenly came from the sky. The cry was very sharp and harsh, as if it was about to cut a hole in the night sky. A huge monster appeared in the sky and appeared in the sky. The direction of the clown's head flies with him.
The monster looked like a bird but not a bird. It had a pair of huge wings, but there were no feathers on the wings. On the ugly fleshy wings, exposed bones can be seen in many places. Its entire body takes on the shape of a human, but more like a ghost. The gray skin is riddled with holes, and occasionally there are even maggots from those A head poked out of the hole.
After a while, four other identical monsters appeared one after another, and they all followed the clown in flying. When he finally tightened the rope and stopped the monster horse, the monsters began to land in his direction.
Five monsters were hovering above his head, making strange sounds, which should be their language. The language was like some kind of hypnotic spell, which would echo in the brain and knock on the listener's heart. Maybe this It's their unique way of communicating.
After their chirping stopped, the clown nodded, raised his hand, and the monsters flew into the sky with their wings flickering hard.
He called away the demon horse, came to a towering tree, and put his palm against the trunk of the tree. Soon a pair of old green eyes appeared on the tree trunk. The eyes moved, and it took a lot of effort to see his appearance clearly, and then the big tree opened its trunk to let him pass.
This is the entrance to the Zhengu Forest Underground City. From here, you can enter the underground city by going down the slope. It could be seen that the clown was quite familiar with this place. He jogged all the way to the square where the magic soldiers trained and camped. A group of tree demons happened to be walking towards him. They stood still in front of him and waited for him to pass before continuing their training.
He entered a weapons workshop directly, passed through the ghost slaves who were working hard, and then followed the spiral staircase to a room on the upper floor of the workshop. Pushing the door open, this is the place that belongs to him, and this place is like a secret base hidden in a dungeon, with its own unique world.
The door slammed shut behind him and locked automatically.
After entering the room, there is first a place similar to a laboratory. Several rows of shelves are neatly filled with various bottles and jars, which contain strange things, including embryos of monsters, seeds and buds of plants. There are also crystals similar to gemstones, but these are soaked in liquid.
Further inside is a wider room. This room is filled with monster specimens one after another. They look like they are still alive. Even the eyes are well processed, so they are not rot.
Among the specimens are tree demons, the ghost-like and bird-like monster that was flying in the sky just now, and a monster lying on the ground that seems to be amphibious. There are also several other monsters, but None of them look as visually impactful and powerful as the first three.
The clown continued walking inside and came to the innermost semi-oval room, which should be his resting place. The building of the entire workshop is mainly made of metal, which gives the entire space a bit of a building from the old industrial era of mankind. In addition, the overly ornate furniture and decorations that are inconsistent with the dungeon are mixed together to achieve a dreamy effect that complements each other.
He closed the door tightly and took off his boots and cloak, revealing the light armor and skin hidden in the cloak. His skin had ridges like crocodile skin, and it was also green, and his long and sharp nails were also With the characteristics of a crocodile.
After the armor faded away, he finally took off the clown mask on his face, revealing a face that was almost human, except that the pupils were completely yellow and the skin on his face was also green.
He put his hands around the back of his neck, inserted his long nails into the thick and hard skin, and then pulled hard, only to hear a cracking sound, and the skin behind his neck split. He continued to tear it apart, taking off all the skin on his body like a coat, revealing his true appearance.
Ran Mingzhu guessed right, the monster dressed as a clown was indeed her father Ran Tianyou.
Then Tianyou picked up the layer of skin that had just fallen off, dragged it to the bathroom, and threw it into the green liquid that had already been filled in the bathtub. That liquid has an effect similar to "formalin", but the effect is stronger. As long as it is soaked for a while, the skin will not rot for several months.
When all the burdens on his body were lifted, he could finally lie down on the sofa, pick up the pipe on the coffee table, twist some tobacco and stuff it in, light it with a snap of his fingers, and take a deep breath. He raised his head and gently closed his eyes, intoxicated by the smoke, and quietly recalled the appearance of his wife, daughter, and sister Ran Susu.
But his thoughts automatically jumped to the person who used a spell to summon the waiter to chase him in the secret passage. That was a human being, and he could smell it even from such a long distance. After living in the demon world for a long time, and practicing demon magic with special potions, he is now no different from a demon. Even if he doesn't wear the skin and doesn't use any magic, there is nothing human about him.
But that skin is his indispensable disguise, because it symbolizes his identity in the demon world. That skin belongs to his former master, the monster merchant who specializes in creating all kinds of monsters and selling them, Feng Crocodile. .
At that time, he relied on this clue of the secret passage to pursue news about Qingyun, but he ended up falling into Feng Crocodile's trap. That guy was really well informed. Even though Tianyou had concealed his whereabouts very well, he still heard that a human had come to the demon world.
Feng Crocodile has seen a lot of monsters and created many, but he has never seen a human being. He feels that things are rare and valuable. If this human being is transformed, what kind of work of art will he get? So he set up a trap, pretending that Qingyun appeared, leading to the arrival of God, and then imprisoned him.
In the first few years, Ran Tianyou was kept in a cage by Feng Crocodile, living like a trapped animal. From time to time, he would force him to swallow strange potions that he prepared, and sometimes he would directly inject the potions into his body. , and then appreciate and observe how these potions will change his body.
However, Tianyou will never forget that whether Feng Crocodile saw him in pain, twitching, or even in a state of near-death... he always had an expression full of expectation and hope for a miracle to happen. In his world, his only goal is to create powerful monsters and then find buyers who appreciate his masterpieces.