"Cat?" Li Xianyu reacted a little too loudly and looked at Grandma Grandma: "My grandma, have you heard the cat meow?"
Grandma nodded silently.
Hearing a cat meowing in the wilderness in the middle of the night is definitely not a pleasant thing, but rather a bit irritating.
According to folklore, cats are yin and are extremely yin creatures. They can walk between the yin world and the yin world, so they are born with a yin evil spirit. If it passes over the head of a dead person, it will cause corpse transformation.
"If an ordinary person were on the mountain, they would be frightened and sick when they heard this sound." Li Xianyu muttered, holding a flashlight and walking towards the outside of the temple.
The wind started blowing outside the temple, blowing the fallen leaves and rustling the branches, and the whole mountain seemed to come alive.
The cat's meow is hidden in the sound of the wind, sometimes far and sometimes near, like crying and complaining.
"Wild cat?" Li Xianyu looked a little hesitant, "This evil spirit can't be a cat fairy, right?"
The wind was sudden and a bit demonic, and the meowing of cats was mixed in the wind, which reminded Li Xianyu of the TV series. Whenever a monster appears, there will be a gust of wind.
In the vampire world, he has never seen the aliens who appeared with the vision, but if it was a coincidence, it would be too much. The moment the cat meows, the evil wind comes.
Next to Li Xianyu, Grandma's expression was quite solemn.
She took a step forward, squinted her eyes, and looked into the darkness of the tree shadows: "Mountain God?"
The cat's meow disappeared, and along with the subtle sound of branches tapping leaves, the light of Li Xianyu's flashlight illuminated two shining gems.
It was a tawny cat with tiger-like markings, a strong and slender body, and a very elegant cat walk.
In terms of breed, this is a Chinese pastoral cat, and in terms of momentum, it is a mountain tiger.
"Cat Fairy?!" Li Xianyu turned around and pointed at the statue in the temple: "You can't be the Cat Fairy enshrined in the temple, right?"
"Humph, it's just an ignorant belief of human beings." The Chinese Garden Cat said disdainfully: "I am who I am..."
"They are fireworks of different colors." Li Xianyu said.
"Human, don't interrupt suddenly." The Chinese Garden Cat was very unhappy.
"Ha," Li Xianyu sneered: "The average lifespan of a cat is 15 years. Even if you are a blood descendant, you can only live for sixty years at most. But this temple was built in 1891, more than a hundred years ago. Where is the wild cat from, pretending to be a sage of the same race, bluffing."
In this world, there are no thousand-year-old monsters except for the extremely talented aliens like the Jiao Salamander. On the contrary, the lifespan of aliens is far shorter than that of human blood descendants.
"Ignorant humans." The Chinese Garden Cat snorted and raised its head at a 45-degree angle, extremely proud.
"It is the mountain god." Grandma said.
"How could that happen?" Li Xianyu looked at her in surprise.
"Have you not been to the Northeast? You should know that the former Yellow Immortal and Gray Immortal Mang Immortal were cannibals for human incense."
"So what?"
"Before the advent of qi training, there was a practice method that has been passed down in the blood world since ancient times, which is to swallow the power of wishes." Grandma talked eloquently: "The power of wishes is also called spiritual power. It is the spiritual power produced by thousands of people. They will be collected and absorbed by the "gods", and they will change from quantitative to qualitative changes. So in ancient times, whether people or monsters, they all wanted to become gods and ancestors."
"This method of wishing to become a god has limited improvement in combat power, and is far inferior to the later Qi training. But it has a characteristic. Every god who eats incense can be immortal. Theoretically, as long as the incense continues, they will It will last forever.”
"These "gods" eat incense and protect a place's peace, but their existence has been a threat to the courts of all dynasties. In order to prevent the number of "gods" from increasing, the court denounced all unrecognized temples as temples to evil gods. "
"In modern times, more and more people do not respect gods or Buddha, and the rest worship illusory gods."
The Chinese garden cat's blue eyes stared at grandma, "Humph, the little girl has seen a lot."
It was obviously a cat, but Li Xianyu saw aloofness and arrogance in its eyes.
Grandma also snorted arrogantly: "Little girl? I'm older than you."
"I am a great demon before the founding of the People's Republic of China." The Chinese pastoral cat refused to accept it.
"I'm from the late Qing Dynasty."
"..."
The Chinese Garden Cat was startled, tilted his head, and looked at her in surprise.
Li Xianyu coughed and interrupted two old antiques who were quite old but looked quite childish.
"Since you are the mountain god, you should know that this town is plagued by rats again. We came after a rat spirit. Did you see it?" Li Xianyu asked it.
The Chinese garden cat looked at the sky at a 45-degree angle: "Why should I tell you."
This cat has such a bad personality.
Li Xianyu said: "Isn't it your cat's job to catch mice?"
"Young man, I can give you a chance." The Chinese Pastoral Cat said, "I am a very kind cat": "Recently, the rat plague has been rampant down the mountain, and the people are living in dire straits. Go back and tell the ignorant people down the mountain, and let them repair the temple. , I promise to offer incense and worship every year, and I will show my kindness and help them get rid of the rat infestation."
"The people are in dire straits?" Li Xianyu waved his hands repeatedly: "It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. Let them come to worship you. It's better for me to find the rat spirit myself."
The cat fairy was furious: "This is your only chance. Besides me, who can save the people under the mountain?"
"We do it ourselves."
"Hmph, you have to be able to find it too."
"Don't worry about this." Grandma said.
Feeling that her words were half-hearted, the grandma took her great-grandson's hand and strode away.
Li Xianyu finally looked back and saw mottled tree shadows, dilapidated temples, and the Cat Fairy standing silently. Looking at the once glorious temple, there was a trace of desolation and loneliness in the back.
The two of them walked halfway up the mountain when Grandma suddenly stopped and stretched out her hand: "Give me that rat tail."
Grandma cut off a section of the rat's tail in the water, and Li Xianyu put it in his wallet. The tail can be used as an important evidence, and it is better not to throw it in the field, otherwise it will be on the news tomorrow.
"There is a Taoist method in Maoshan. You can use someone's birth date, hair, nails and other items as a medium to control the target's words and deeds. It can also be used to find people and corpses." Grandma said.
She picked up a branch, drew talismans in the soil, pulled her great-grandson, and kissed his neck.
Li Xianyu was stunned. The next moment, he felt severe pain in his neck. His carotid artery was bitten by his grandmother. He sucked a big mouthful of blood and sprayed it on the rat tail and the talisman. After doing all this, his grandmother flicked out a Firelight.
The talisman and rat tail burst into flames.
Li Xianyu pressed the wound on his neck aggrievedly and said to himself, I knew it was not going to be such a good thing.
After a few minutes, the flames gradually extinguished, the rat tail turned into ashes, and a bloody light rose from the ashes, floating faintly into the dense forest.
The two of them followed the blood light through the forest and the stream. After a cup of tea, the blood light stopped in front of an extremely hidden cave covered by branches and leaves.
"It's inside." Grandma waved her hand, and the blood disappeared.
An old man in a family is like a treasure. This is so true. Grandma is experienced and proficient in various postures, which is really a big help.
The cave is two meters wide and three meters high. There are no traces of artificial digging, and it is not a natural creation. It should have been dug out by rat spirits. There is a putrid and damp smell in the air, which is very unpleasant.
Li Xianyu shined his flashlight and saw a pair of scarlet pupils. It was a giant rat the size of a buffalo, with multiple wounds on its shiny body and half of its tail broken off.
After realizing that its territory had been invaded, it straightened up and bared its teeth at the two men, looking ferocious.
"Beat it." Grandma said crisply.
The grandfather and grandson rushed forward together.
The space in the cave is not large, which greatly restricts the rat spirit's space for movement. After Grandma avoided the rat spirit's menacing bites, she kicked the rat spirit's huge body into all directions with a high kick.
The grandfather and grandson rushed towards it and began to brutally torture it, and the rat spirit's shrill screams came from the cave.
The rat spirit is not very strong, and Li Xianyu estimates that it is about the same level as him. If he really wants to fight alone, he only needs to avoid its sharp teeth, and Li Xianyu can win surely. What's more, my grandma took it upon herself to do it.
After fighting for a long time, the rat spirit screamed, his eyes full of pleading and fear, his two short paws clasped together, and he kept praying and begging for mercy.
"Grandma, please stop for a moment. If you hit me again, you will die." Li Xianyu shouted to stop.
Grandma looked at him blankly, quite surprised by his kindness. The purpose of their trip was not only to increase Li Xianyu's knowledge, but the most important thing was to increase the strength of his great-grandson by devouring the essence, blood, and energy of ordinary powerful blood descendants.
"This guy is following the path of boiling blood. His animal nature overwhelms his intelligence. If he keeps it, it will be a disaster. He might start eating people when his brain gets twitched one day." Grandma warned.
"Maybe I'm paranoid, but I always feel that something is a little strange. Let's torture it first."
"Can you understand what the mouse is saying?"
"I don't understand, but there are people, no, there are rats who can understand." Li Xianyu took out his cell phone and dialed the head of the Hui family again.
He briefly told the story about the rat spirit, "It destroyed the ships along the way and caused a lot of losses, but I still haven't figured out its purpose of doing this. I'll give it a chance now. If it can If you give a reasonable explanation, I will let it go and allow it to join the Northeast Gray Family."
When the head of the Hui family heard that the rat spirit had the strength of a mid-level employee, he immediately became interested in recruiting him. He patted his chest and promised: "Look, even a rat with boiling blood will not kill people for no reason. Our Hui family The most innocent and kind, occasionally coming out to eat food that humans have forgotten for a long time, which is different from the white, yellow and voluptuous products of Liuhu."
"Stop talking nonsense." Li Xianyu turned on the speakerphone and put the phone to the mouse spirit's ear.
In order to prevent it from suddenly turning around and chewing off her great-grandson's hand, my grandmother stepped on its head with her feet.
The head of the Hui family: "Why are you so fat, little brother?"
Rat spirit: "???"
The head of the Hui family: "Zhizhi!"
The rat spirit was stunned and became excited: "Zhizhizhi!"
The head of the Hui family: "Zhizhi, Zhizhi!"
Rat Spirit: "Zhizhizhi,zhizhi."
The head of the Hui family: "Zhizhizhi, Zhizhi."
After the two rats chirped again, the head of the Hui family said: "Well... Mr. Li, there seems to be a misunderstanding."
The first half of this chapter was written in the middle of the night. As I was writing this, there happened to be a sharp cat meowing from the corridor outside the window, like a crying child... It scared me so much that I Living alone, not even a warm Naoko, I was so scared that I immediately rolled on the bed and curled up under the quilt to sleep.
(End of chapter)