Cannibalism

The hangover caused Xie Sheng to have a splitting headache. He sat up and raised his hand to touch his forehead. As soon as he touched his forehead, he gasped with a "hiss"——

What I touched was a big swollen bag.

Half of the so-called "splitting headache" was caused by being beaten by piranhas.

Combined with the realistic dream and the teeth marks on the young man's face, Xie Sheng regretted that he should have bitten the other party's face as a peach in his sleep.The boy woke up in pain and subconsciously punched him a few times.

Tobishiren's hair bun has been untied, and a waterfall of black hair hangs down to the ground.He covered his face and said angrily, "You want to eat me?"

Man-eating flowers have always eaten others. I haven't heard of anyone who is so fat that he dares to talk to piranhas.Xie Sheng was probably the first in the world.

Yuanshiren's anger was not only because Xie Sheng bit him, but also because as a piranha, he was coveted and treated as food, which was simply embarrassing.

Xie Sheng quickly explained: "I didn't intend to bite you, just now I dreamed that I was eating peaches, how could I know it was you..."

Hearing such an excuse, of course the young man would not easily believe it, he still stared at Xie Sheng with furious eyes, his hands clenched into fists, as if planning to beat him up again.

So Xie Sheng found another way to show his miserable side: "Yesterday you were drunk, I put you on the bed, and I scrupulously hit the floor, but you rolled off the bed in the middle of the night. If you don't believe me, go back to bed See, there must be traces of you sleeping there."

Tobishiren stood up, searched the bed, and sure enough, he found a bitter oak wood hairpin that he used to tie his hair next to the pillow.

"Hey, look at you, you obviously don't understand that you need to wear clothes to transform into a human form, but you still know that you need to tie your hair at this age, thanks to this hairpin as evidence, otherwise I wouldn't be able to wash it off even if I jumped into the Yellow River." Thank you Sheng Yue said more and more like how much he had been wronged. He hugged the pillow and sighed, "I gave you the bed at night. I didn't have a quilt to cover my body. I was even colder after drinking. I really wanted to eat something to warm my body. Yesterday After you picked peaches, you thought about it every day, so I had this dream of eating peaches at night."

Xie Sheng's words were not nonsense, he specifically euphemistically mentioned in his words the good deeds he did for Yuanshiren yesterday, in order to make the other party feel relieved.

As expected, as soon as Xie Sheng finished speaking, Yuan Shiren put away his fierce eyes and put on an embarrassed expression: "Sorry, I was wrong. I shouldn't doubt you casually, and I shouldn't roll off the bed. disturb your sleep."

Xie Sheng waved his hand: "It's okay, it's my fault for biting you. Both of them are wrong, so it's clear."

Tobishi Jin agreed with this, completely unaware that he had been stupefied by this cunning tiger.

Xie Sheng saw that the teeth marks on the young man's face were still there, even though his skin was as thick as a city wall, he felt a little embarrassed.He leaned forward, stretched out a finger and tapped the edge of the tooth mark: "Does it still hurt now?"

"It's okay, it hurt a little bit when I bit it, but now there is no obvious pain." Yuan Shiren moved away Xie Sheng's hard fingers, turned around and used magic to tie up his hair, and tidied up his clothes.

Xie Sheng said behind him, "I have to leave Yuanshou Village today."

Tobiro Jin nodded.

Xie Sheng was the first friend he met in his life, and now he felt a little sad in his heart.

Xie Sheng said: "Aren, I will come to you some other day, don't forget that you still owe me half of the sun and moon radiance of the God Realm."

Yuan Shiren turned his head, and suddenly found that Xie Sheng was holding a blue robe in his hand.Xie Sheng said to him: "Don't always wear the same one, or you will be laughed at by the villagers. You can also take this one, and you can change it."

"Thank you." Tobishi Jin took it with both hands, and then took all kinds of food picked and bought yesterday.He kept up with Xie Sheng: "It's time for me to return to the God Realm."

The two walked out of the inn together.The waiter and the shopkeeper said goodbye to them warmly.

However, the boy forgot to hide the teeth marks on his face.This imprint of being bitten by dreaming of eating peaches may have completely changed in the eyes of others.

The shop assistant leaned against the cabinet with a rag, shook his head and sighed in the direction the two of them left: "Shopkeeper, I can't tell, Xie Xiashi is as good as Long Yang, no wonder he brought a handsome young man to stay here , Seeing that the bed affair last night was very intense, and biting his face like that, I felt ashamed in my eyes."

The shopkeeper was extremely shocked: "Originally, I wanted to ask someone to ask if Xie Daxia is married, if not, so that I can marry my daughter. Yesterday when Beibei heard that Xie Daxia came to stay, she was as excited as a headless chicken. I almost rushed straight into the house."

The waiter in the shop smiled: "The shopkeeper might as well marry my daughter to me, I like women."

"Fuck, Beibei won't marry you if she marries anyone." The shopkeeper glared at him and reminded him, "This matter is known to everyone in the village, so don't let the third person know. We respect and love you." Daxia Xie, don't gossip behind his back."

The waiter in the shop agreed: "Yes, I also have the same intention, don't worry shopkeeper, I promise to keep my mouth shut and never tell others."

Therefore, on this day, this sentence was the most spoken word in Yuanshou Village - "Heaven knows, Earth knows, you know and I know, don't tell others, Daxia Xie is as good as Long Yang."

Within two days, "Xie Daxia is as good as Longyang" has become a tacit fact of the whole village.

Nowadays, there is always a lazy yellow cat lying on the high ground at the entrance of the inn. If you observe carefully, you will find that there is a circle of hair missing on its face, as if it was bitten by someone.

Xie Sheng hurried back to Tianyan Mountain, it happened to be his turn to copy the scriptures to pray for Eleventh Sister, and it took three full days to copy the scriptures.After he came out of the Sutra Pavilion, he slept for another day and night because of fatigue.

After waking up, there were only two days left before his eleventh sister's wedding.Taking advantage of the fact that he has nothing to do for the time being, he plans to go to the back mountain to practice the ground escape technique and improve his cultivation.At this moment, the tenth brother Xie Nan rushed into his room recklessly and shouted: "Xie Sheng, it's finished, there are iron-eating beasts on the mountain next door, and they have stolen the rations of several families. He came to Tianyan Mountain to ask us for help, hoping we can catch this thief."

Xie Sheng snorted: "A mere lazy iron-eating beast dares to come to Tianyan Mountain to be presumptuous, and it was chosen before Eleventh Sister's big wedding. I'm afraid it looks down on our Xie clan."

The tenth brother Xie Nan clenched his fist and said angrily, "Ah Sheng, let's go down the mountain together and catch the iron-eating beast for them."

The two left as they said, and flew to the foot of the mountain, where they saw the mountain people who were waiting for news.

"Two warriors of the Tiger Clan! You've come, follow us to Mount Kongwang."

Xie Nan and Xie Sheng came down to the foot of Kongwang Mountain surrounded by the crowd.

Kongwang Mountain is less than a hundred feet high, and there are many acacia trees with luxuriant branches and leaves. The acacia trees have produced some thin and tender new pods, and the flesh is not yet ripe.Xie Sheng picked one and sniffed it, and said, "Sure enough, it smells like an iron-eating beast."

Xie Nan asked him, "What did you notice?"

"The iron-eating beast grows in the bamboo forests of Sichuan and Shu. It needs to eat for several hours a day. It is a lazy beast. There is no bamboo shoots they like in the East China Sea. Naturally, he has to find some food instead. When he comes to Kongwang Mountain, he must try the long The acacia at the foot of the mountain." Xie Sheng chewed half of the acacia in his mouth, frowned slightly, "Unfortunately, the acacia is not ripe yet, so he has to go up the mountain to find another way."

Xie Nan rolled his eyes and suddenly understood: "So, he turned his attention to the residents on the mountain and stole their food?"

"I guess that's the case." Xie Sheng threw the remaining half of the acacia aside, "Also, his destination must be near here, otherwise he wouldn't have gone from the land of Sichuan to the East China Sea."

A mountain dweller said, "The tiger warriors are saying that the iron-eating beasts are still hiding on our mountain? Didn't they go down the mountain?"

Xie Sheng sniffed the smell in the air against the wind, and was sure that the Iron Eater was on Kongwang Mountain: "That's right."

"Please also ask the knights to help us catch the iron-eating beast!" A mountain man kowtowed and knelt down in front of Xie Nan and Xie Sheng, weeping bitterly, "The iron-eating beast has robbed all of my family's surplus food, but my family still has more food." Two old people and four children were waiting to eat, woo woo...there wasn't much rations, and he robbed them all."

Seeing that he was crying pitifully, Xie Sheng looked at Xie Nan.

Xie Nan asked his younger brother: "Can you find the specific location of the iron-eating beast by yourself?"

Xie Sheng replied without thinking, "Of course."

Xie Nan asked again: "Then can you catch him back alone?"

"Brother, go quickly." Knowing that his tenth brother was going back to Tianyan Mountain to get food for the villagers, Xie Sheng raised his arms and waved to him, "If you can't even catch a mere iron-eating beast, I might as well not be a Tiger."

"If you can't catch it, don't come back to see me."

Xie Nan smiled, and then called the group of mountain people to go back with him to get food: "Mountain people follow quickly, I will take you to the Tianyanshan granary."

Tigers only love meat and don't eat grains, but they will hoard some grains and vegetables on the mountain for the poor.

After Xie Nan left, Xie Sheng jumped to the branch of an acacia tree and looked around.

In the misty clouds and mist, he vaguely saw several small dark caves in the woods to the south.

"Go over there and have a look."

Xie Sheng flew over and didn't notice any signs of birds and beasts in the small caves. Instead, he saw the paw prints of two iron-eating beasts between the two bushes next to them.

He broke off a branch, squatted down, and pounded the paw prints solidified in the mud.

It was a footprint left not long ago, and the iron-eating beast must have just walked away.

Xie Sheng observed carefully.Judging by the size of the paw print, it doesn't look like a large iron-eating beast weighing more than 250 jin, but the paw print is extremely deep. Could it be that this iron-eating beast carried more than a hundred catties of grain on its body?

In Xie Sheng's impression, iron-eating beasts are lazy by nature, and they obviously have a pair of fierce teeth like their tiger clan, but they want to be lazy and eat bamboo.It is hard to imagine that this iron eater is willing to carry such a heavy object.

The iron-eating beast probably knew that someone was following it, and then wiped off its footprints. Xie Sheng could no longer follow the footprints to find it.However, this was not a problem for him, a thousand-year-old demon. Xie Sheng showed his tiger body, sniffed the paw prints left by the iron-eating beast, and immediately ran towards the direction where the similar smell wafted in the air.

The iron-eating beast moved slowly, unable to match Xie Sheng's speed at all, but within half a stick of incense, Xie Sheng saw a black and white figure appearing out of the grass four or five feet away.

Xie Sheng slowed down his pace and stared at the back of the iron-eating beast. He bowed his body, and the sound of the tiger's claws moving was overwhelmed by the wind and grass around him.

He bowed on all fours, ready to jump at any time-this is the movement of the tiger before attacking.Xie Sheng flicked his tail, and was about to pounce on it with all his teeth and claws, when he saw an old man with a bowed back walking beside the iron-eating beast.

The slow-moving figure of the iron-eating beast stopped immediately, allowing the old man to sit on him.

Xie Sheng tilted his ears to the sides.This scene reminded him that many days ago, he also walked in the mountains with a piranha on his back.

He regained his human form and flew towards the iron-eating beast—the look of the eye-catching white-fronted tiger was too easy to scare the old man, so he had to use his human form to show up.

Xie Sheng stood in front of the iron-eating beast and shouted: "Bold thief, where are you going to escape?"

The iron-eating beast was so frightened that it fell backwards. Fortunately, Xie Sheng was prepared and reached out to support the old man.

Xie Sheng grabbed his round black arm and asked him, "Why do you steal food from the mountain people?"

The other hand of the iron-eating beast stretched out its sharp nails, trying to grab Xie Sheng's face, but Xie Sheng reacted faster than him, even if the spell immobilized his hands.

Seeing this, the old man quickly stood in front of the iron-eating beast, and said anxiously: "Hey, A Chai, what are you going to do? Why are you sticking out your nails to this strange man? You will scratch him, you know?"

After the old man said this, the iron-eating beast tilted its head to the right, and its furry body sat back, completely motionless.

Xie Sheng was puzzled: Looking at the current situation, doesn't it mean that the old man doesn't know that this iron-eating beast has already cultivated to become a spirit?

Seeing that the iron-eating beast was obeyed by discipline, the old man turned around and said to Xie Sheng: "Young man, I am really sorry, the ferocity of the iron-eating beast in my family has not been cured, and it is almost about to accidentally hurt you, but please rest assured , he is essentially a well-behaved white bear who doesn't hurt anyone."

"It's okay, he didn't hurt me." Xie Sheng nodded to the old man to show respect, "Excuse me, how long have you kept this iron-eating beast?"

The old man stroked his beard and replied, "It won't be long, maybe ten or twenty years."

Twenty years may not be a big deal to this octogenarian, but most of the iron-eating beasts who have not cultivated spiritual consciousness have lived a long life to the age of 20, how could they have the strength to carry an adult again.

Xie Sheng asked again: "Where did you come from and where are you going?"

The old man smiled, stroked the sparse beard on his chin, and replied: "We came from the Southwest Shu area, and we want to look up to the mountains and see the East China Sea to meet the gods."

Xie Sheng said: "Southwest Shu is thousands of miles away from here, and it will take at least half a year's journey to reach Kongwang Mountain by horse-drawn carriage."

Moreover, there are no gods in the East China Sea at all, it is just a legend in the world.

But Xie Sheng didn't say these words, he didn't want to disturb the old man's interest in asking immortals.

"We used it for about ten days...? Um... or five days?" The wrinkled skin on the old man's face lost his smile. He rubbed his forehead and shook his head in wonder, "Eh? Why don't I remember."

"Then what do you feed this iron-eating beast on the way to Kongwang Mountain?"

"Of course I eat bamboo." The old man touched his shoulder, "It's just here... Hey, my baggage is gone."

No matter how big the burden is, it can't solve the food intake of the iron-eating beast for a day.Xie Sheng saw that he was quite old and had a great memory, so he didn't ask any further questions.He took a step forward, helped the old man onto the iron-eating beast's back, and released the restraints that were holding the iron-eating beast's front paws.

"Hurry up and go up the mountain." Xie Sheng waved to the old man, "It will be dark in a few minutes later."

After hearing what he said, the iron-eating beast opened its eyes wide in surprise.

He carried the old man on his back and walked quickly up the mountain, for fear that the tiger spirit would kill him again.

midnight.

Inside the Tibetan Dragon Cave in Kongwang Mountain.

The little bug squeaked outside the cave without stopping for a moment, and the iron-eating beast lay down beside the old man, closing its eyes and sleeping lightly, still not forgetting to listen to the movement outside the cave with one ear up.

At this moment, he heard a rustling sound coming from outside.

The iron-eater immediately opened his eyes.

——He smelled the tiger spirit during the day.

Seeing that the old man was still awake, the iron-eating beast turned into a human and walked out of the cave.

Xie Sheng saw a man as tall and strong as him come out, and said with a smile: "Do you have to thank me for not poking you out during the day?"

The iron-eating beast monster snorted, and said reluctantly, "Thank you."

His human form is no longer simple and honest, his tone is cold, his expression is contemptuous, and he looks like a stranger.

Xie Sheng asked him: "You brought the old man from afar, you are a guest to us, but as a guest, why do you want to steal the grain from Kongwang Mountain?"

"I'm hungry." The iron-eating beast demon glanced into the cave, "He's hungry too."

Xie Sheng stared at him and continued to wait for his next words.

The Iron-eating Beast Demon continued: "He once saved my life in the Orion's trap, and I stayed by his side to repay him. Seeing that his life span is over, I want to fulfill a wish for him."

This is the reason why many ghosts stay with humans, and Xie Sheng has long been familiar with them.

He asked: "His wish is to come to the East China Sea to worship the gods?"

The man began to tell the life of the old man: "He lived in Suzhou before he moved to Sichuan. When he was a child, he followed his parents to Kongwang Mountain. That day he climbed to the top of the mountain and looked towards the East China Sea. I saw a fairy in the fairy mountain. Now he is old and dim, and he can remember less and less things, but this incident has always been vivid in his memory and has never been forgotten. In order to fulfill his long-cherished wish to see the fairy again, I will recite it to him Come here and wait for the mirage to descend."

"It seems that you also know that the so-called Eastern Sea Fairy Mountain is a mirage, and there are no gods at all."

It cannot be said that there are no gods.In fact, the mirage is the reflection of the God Realm thousands of miles away, forming a beautiful phantom that is so far away.The gods that people see do exist, but they are far away and elusive.

"Don't take me for a fool, I am also a monster who understands reason and humanity." The iron-eating beast demon sneered: "I have never stolen food from the mountain people. Those women and children saw that my animal body is round and cute, and they took food one after another. Come to feed me. But I eat too much food. By the time they realized it, their own granary had already been fed. When the man in charge came back, he saw the empty granary and was furious. He believed that I had stolen all the food and formed a Hunting team, hunt and ambush me everywhere."

Xie Sheng saw that his demeanor didn't look like a lie, but recalling the situation when the mountain people followed Xie Nan back to Tianyan Mountain to fetch food, he didn't know who was telling the truth.

"I'll send you up the mountain tomorrow, so you don't need to worry about the villagers' ambush." ​​Xie Sheng suggested, "If what you're telling the truth is, then leave as soon as you see the mirage. They've already got new food, and they won't come back I will try my best to chase you."

The Iron-eating Beast Demon looked at him suspiciously, as if wondering why Xie Sheng was so talkative.

Xie Sheng shrugged his shoulders: "Handling matters is always nothing more than jurisprudence and human feelings. You have different opinions, so I can't use the law to solve this matter for the time being. Then only human feelings are left, as long as you go down the mountain immediately after watching the mirage. , don’t stop here with empty sleeves, why should I not believe you?”

"Okay, I promise you." The Iron-eating Beast Demon clasped his fists at him, "May I ask what you call a knight?"

"Just call me Xie Sheng. How about you?"

"Yong Chuan."

"Iron-eater Beast Yong Chuan, see you tomorrow morning."

On the second day, Kong looked at the top of the mountain.

Xie Sheng disappeared for the iron-eating beast and the old man. In the eyes of others, only Xie Sheng was seen on this mountain road.

A few drops of drizzle fell this morning, and the weather was a little hot and humid.Xie Sheng didn't know whether mirages were prone to appear in such weather. The old man sat leisurely on the back of the iron-eating beast, looking at the sea in the distance, with a peaceful expression.

The sea was shrouded in clouds and mist, and the gulls flew and turned against the waves and waves, and their cries were empty and distant.

An hour passed, and the Eastern Sea Immortal still hadn't appeared.

Two hours later, Shitiesou seemed a little impatient.

Xie Sheng sensed the restlessness in his heart.

Xie Sheng stood behind one bear and one person, hoping in his heart that a miracle would descend from the sky.

Three hours later, the sea wind picked up and the waves slammed against the rocks below the cliff.The old man coughed twice from time to time, and his bones were obviously about to fail.

Seeing that he was coughing unbearably, Xie Sheng suggested, "Why don't we wait until tomorrow—"

At the same time, a brilliant light flashed from the thick clouds, illuminating the white mist in front of him, and there was a stream of purple smoke steaming above the sea, and the clouds curled up.

"Look! It's a fairy!" The old man exclaimed in surprise, "Ahem...it's the fairy I saw when I was young!"

Xie Sheng heard the reputation, and saw a huge and dense eucalyptus tree growing on the surface of the East China Sea.

Standing on the top of the tree on one foot, the deity is wearing a blue robe that matches the color of the sea.

The ripples of the sea water are like golden fish scales, which make the god's beautiful eyebrows and eyes more dazzling, and Xie Sheng can't help but be fascinated.

The old man knelt down to worship, muttering in his mouth: "God, I thought I would never see you again."

Yuan Shiren clearly stood on the tree and looked at Chenyou Lake in the distance, but Xie Sheng thought that the other party was looking at him.He stretched out his hand out of nowhere—

The clouds closed again, all the bright sunlight disappeared, and the reflected Yuanshou God Realm also disappeared.