This is an ancient city in the morning light. It seems ordinary and ordinary, but there are a few traces of unusual in the ordinary.
Maybe it's the air. There is a fishy smell in the early morning cooking smoke.
Maybe it was the sound. Although the morning market on the streets was lively, there was not a single human voice.
There is a very big old willow tree in the city. There are two people walking under the willow tree. The clothes on their bodies are obviously Tang Dynasty style, but the faces of these two people are - they each gave birth to a huge goose head.
Therefore, it is difficult to say whether these are two people with goose heads or two big white geese with human bodies.
In other words, these two are not people at all, nor geese, but demons.
It's a goose.
One of the goose demons stood far away from the other goose demon, and the expression was not very good-looking - although it was difficult to distinguish likes and dislikes from the facial expressions of the goose.
The other goose was leaning on the old willow tree to vomit, almost spitting out its bile.
"Spit up mua?" the goose demon said impatiently to the goose demon who was vomiting, probably in goose language, which translates to: Have you finished vomiting
The vomited goose demon took a break, and put his hand on his forehead, to be precise, the big goose bag on top of his head: "Gah, the bastards are in hell! Gah..."
"..." The other goose monster was silent, and looked calmly at other "people" in human clothes and animal heads on the street.
"Fafa, miscellaneous..." The goose monster wiped its mouth and came over after spitting.
"Bia is called Wa!" The goose monster was a little annoyed.
"Fa Fa." The goose demon felt that he had tried his best to articulate clearly, and it was clearly called 'Fang Fei', and it became like this when it came out of the goose's mouth.
"Bia's name is Wa!" The goose demon called Fang Fei corrected the other party again, and couldn't stand the tone of his name pronounced in goose language.
The conversation between the two goose monsters sounds really strenuous, but fortunately, they can hear each other clearly. In order to tell the story clearly, just ignore their goose words and just assume that they speak standard human Mandarin.
That's right, these two people with goose heads are Fang Fei and Wei Dong.
"Di-" a voice sounded.
"Fang Fei, do you think we can hear the sound of the time signal? Look at all the cats, dogs, and cows on the street. They don't seem to respond to the sound." It's been three hours.
"Maybe, only our ears can hear it." Although Fang Fei had a weird and absurd goose head, her expression was still cool.
Wei Dong suddenly laughed twice: "Ear, do you know where your ear is?"
Fang Fei glared at Wei Dong, but she really didn't know where the goose's ears were.
"Mother, I want to eat burnt ears!" A four or five-year-old child suddenly shouted on the street. The child had a pig's head.
The "mother pig" beside him said, "Little glutton, if you see people eating ears, you want to eat them too!"
I saw a stall selling cooked food on the street, steaming hearts, livers and lungs in the pot, and a lot of soft and fragrant ears.
These small ears are often sold in bunches of five or six and are very popular.
Wei Dong saw those ears, one couldn't control it and almost spit it out.
Fang Fei pulled Wei Dong away from the cooked food stall with an expressionless face. The various human organs cooked in the cauldron also made her uncomfortable.
"Although I haven't experienced it myself, I have also heard you talk about the painting in "Animal World"," Fang Fei looked at Wei Dong's goose face after vomiting, "Are you overreacting?"
Wei Dong wiped the corner of the big goose's mouth: "It seems that you haven't watched "Journey to the West", right?"
"Of course I've seen it." Fang Fei felt that there was no need to ask this question. Is there any Chinese child who hasn't watched the summer classic TV series "Journey to the West"
"I'm talking about the book "Journey to the West"," Wei Dong said.
Fang Fei rarely reads novels, and has watched the TV series "Journey to the West" many times, but never thought to read this book.
Fang Fei: "Isn't the country we came from the Lion Camel Country? There is a Lion Camel Ridge outside the Lion Camel Country. These places are the territory of the three monsters," Fang Fei continued in a low voice, "It is The three brothers, Lion, White Elephant and Dapeng."
Fang Fei still remembers the image of the blue-faced lion king in the TV series. Although it doesn't look good, it's not too scary to watch.
Wei Dong didn't explain more, just said: "Probably there is no courage for Ke Er and Boss Mu, so I'll just be a coward."
Wei Dong is reluctant to say more about things that have nothing to do with clues, so as not to create unnecessary psychological burden on Fang Fei.
Wei Dong is all too familiar with the lion and camel country described in Journey to the West.
Because this is the most terrifying country in the entire "Journey to the West", and it is also the most memorable story for readers.
Weidong admits that it's easy to make people want to relive those creepy and even physically and mentally terrifying stories. This is how I do it. I occasionally pick up "Journey to the West", and once I turn to the place about "Lion and Camel", I can always read it with "relish"...
Therefore, when two people first came to this world, although it was late at night, the overwhelming fishy smell made every hair of the hairs wake up. When he saw the vague scene, he knew that he and Fang Fei had come to a veritable hell.
At this time, the two of them have not yet grown sluggish goose heads, and the two of them are still Fang Fei and Wei Dong.
Fang Fei didn't have so many concerns. Seeing the scene in the dark, she only said one sentence: "It's a bit soft to step on here."
He also said: "There is a mountain over there, which is made of skeletons."
Wei Dong didn't speak, he resisted the urge to vomit, and Fang Fei and Fang Fei took advantage of the "trees and rocks" to hide in Tibet all the way like thieves.
Regarding the world of "Lion Tuoling", Wei Dong remembers that there is a song in "Journey to the West" to describe:
Skeleton like a mountain,
Bones are like a forest.
made of human hair into felt,
Human flesh rotted into dust.
The sinews of the people are entangled in the tree,
Dry coke shines like silver.
It's a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood,
Really bad smell.
It is precisely because of this understanding that Wei Dong knows every scene here like the back of his hand, what he is stepping on, what is hanging on the tree, and what is piled on the mountain - and at this moment, Fang Fei and himself are those monsters. natural prey.
The two of them walked for a while in secret like this. When the sky was dawn, they saw an old white-haired woman sitting under a tree and weeping.
This old woman may be a human being, or it may be a man-eating monster.
But when you meet the first NPC in the painting, why can't you come up and talk to it
So the two went up to chat with the old woman, and the answer was that all the people in the old woman's village were eaten up by the monsters on the mountain.
Wei Dong saw that the old woman was too thin and weak, so he took out dry food from his backpack and distributed it to her.
The old woman thanked the two of them and said, "Since you have come to this place, you have no chance to go out."
"Then how can I get out?" - Wei Dong of course knows that if he finds the "fragment", he can go out safely, but how can he find the fragments in the world in front of him? Find it from the human skin under your feet? From the human tendons tangled in the tree? Or from the skeletons piled up on the mountain
"The road to the east and west of the mountain is blocked by those cannibalizing monsters," the old woman pointed to the mountain road in Xiaoxiao. "The only way to go is the lion and camel country in the middle."
"Lion camel country?" Fang Fei only understood where the two had gone.
But in Weidong's cognition, the Lionel Country is more terrifying than the Lionel Mountain.
The people in this country were eaten up by the monsters, and the monsters put on human clothes and swaggered into the country to become their subjects.
Wei Dong just thought of this, the old woman actually sang:
There are many monsters and monsters, and the four gates are all wolf spirits.
The colorful tiger is in charge of the capital, and the white-faced hero is the general soldier.
The horned deer cites the text, and the clever fox is in charge.
A thousand-foot python encircles the city, and a ten-thousand-zhang snake occupies the distance.
Downstairs, the wolf called for orders, and the leopard in front of the stage made the human voice.
Waving the flag and beating drums are all monsters, and the patrols are full of mountain spirits.
The cunning rabbit opens the door for business, and the wild boar carries the burden to make a living.
In the past, it was originally the kingdom of the Celestial Dynasty, but now it has been transformed into the city of tigers and wolves.
Fang Fei was stunned: "Is there no one here?"
The old woman sighed and shook her head: "If you want to go out from here, you have to ask the king of this country to put a golden seal on you, so that you can swagger out of the lion and camel country."
This is simply an impossible task. The scene in the lion and camel country shocked Sun Wukong. Because he couldn't fight the monsters in the lion and camel country, Sun Wukong had to ask the Tathagata, and the four masters and apprentices were able to get through this. close.
What Monkey King can't do, let Wei Dong and Fang Fei do it
After eating the dry food, the old woman gained some strength, and said: "I moved the gods because of my good deeds, and the gods taught me how to hide my eyes, so I was able to save my life. I also collected some magic tools for practice along the way, If you believe me, just pick two things out of my pocket and go into the city in disguise and make plans."
There is no other way for the two of them. If they walk into the city in the image of a human, I am afraid that they will be fed by monsters before they reach the gate of the city.
So the old woman opened her pocket and let the two choose.
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"Why did we choose two goose feathers at the time?" Weidong couldn't help but feel depressed. He only felt that other animals seemed to be stronger than geese. In addition, geese couldn't speak clearly, so they could eat something. Not even teeth.
Fang Fei was also a little regretful: "At that time, only the two goose feathers were clean, and the others were dirty and smelly."
"Okay, gah."
"But the various monsters in this place don't kill each other." Fang Fei thought it was strange.
"Don't you see that in "Journey to the West", the monsters never eat monsters, they all eat people." Wei Dong walked forward with his goose head held on his shoulders, "It's the same in "Animal World", Whatever the animal, their food and pets are all people."
Fang Fei looked at her and Wei Dong's clothes: "It seems that we are two commoners in this country, and we have no chance to sneak into the court, nor can we meet the king of this country."
"What's the matter with the monsters?" Wei Dong comforted Fang Fei, but he looked at the crowd on the street, thinking about how to get to know one or two monsters with "heads and faces". Got a chance to meet the king.
Perhaps it was out of an animal instinct. In a season that was obviously warm like spring, the two of them shivered in unison, only to feel a cold light shot from not far away.