I Was Once a Legend

Cui Zuojing immediately rolled on the spot, but the sharp ax did not strike as expected.

The arrowhead of the crossbow shot out from its chest, and blood dripped from the arrowhead along the blood groove.

The sharp ax was out of hand, and it looked down at the arrow that pierced it from the back in disbelief. There were several muffled muffled sounds in its chest, which dissipated into a black mist.

Cui Zuojing got up from the ground, and a man with blond hair and gray eyes was standing opposite him, holding his bow and crossbow flat, with a calm expression on his face.

Domingo and Cui Zuojing looked at each other, pulled out another crossbow arrow from his waist, wound it, turned sideways, raised his hand, aimed, and pulled the trigger.

The arrow made of metal seemed to carry a stream of light, and with the sound of "whoosh", it accurately pierced through the other man who had just jumped onto the upper pipe and was about to throw down Captain Cha and bite off his neck. The head of a cat and dog.

The monster died on the spot.

Dong Zheng, who was raising his hand to poke it away with a stick, was dumbfounded.

Domingo slowly withdrew his hand, his gray eyes were like the sky at the end of the polar night.He is tall, standing upright, like a tall and straight cedar in the snow and ice of Northern Europe, even if the sky falls, it will not damage his cold and lonely aura.

Nothing like a Spaniard.

Dong Zheng frowned.

He stood beside Cui Zuojing, couldn't hold back, and whispered to the boy: "I could have killed it right away."

Cui Zuojing waved his hand. Dong Zheng didn't have ability bonuses, and he didn't have a suitable weapon. It's pretty good to be able to do this: "Are you injured?"

Dong Zheng showed Cui Zuojing a scratch that oozes blood on the back of his right hand: "I was only scratched once."

Cui Zuojing sighed: "Idiot."

Domingo hung the crossbow arrows on his waist, came over and squatted down next to the cat-headed dog, fiddled with the exceptionally lush hair on the monster's neck a few times, and said: "This is a legendary monster from Scandinavia. , the Latin name is Gulon, which means gluttony.

"They are greedy by nature. When they find food, they will devour it until they can't swallow it. At that time, they will get stuck in the narrow tree branches, squeeze their abdomen desperately, let all the food in the abdomen turn into feces, and then continue to eat , until the prey is only a pair of bones.

"When hunting, they are used to hiding on high tree branches, and suddenly jump down to attack." ※

Cui Zuojing also remembered when he heard it, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket, cut off one of Gulon's front paws and put it in Dong Zheng's pocket: "Placing the claws of this thing on the head can cure dizziness and tinnitus, It should work for you."

Dong Zheng accepted it silently. He stared at Domingo and put a hand on Cui Zuojing's shoulder.

As if announcing something.

Domingo didn't feel very good to Dong Zheng, to be precise, it was a strong sense of crisis.

He is more knowledgeable than him, better at playing than him, and at the critical moment, he even saved Cui Zuojing.

"Thank you very much for saving me." Cui Zuojing said, "But why are you here? Aren't you in a group with Dong Linhai?"

Domingo said succinctly: "I got lost on the road."

nonsense.Cui Zuojing rolled his eyes in his heart, the central garden is on the deck, if you get lost, can you lose it all the way to the engine room?

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that Domingo was lying, but since the person involved didn't want to say more, it wouldn't be good to chase after him and tear him apart, after all, he had just rescued him.

"Well, I can't see that you are still a road idiot." Cui Zuojing smiled, no matter how many times he was thinking behind his back, how much bad water was in his stomach, when Cui Zuojing smiled, he was like a simple boy , harmless to humans and animals, it is easy for people to relax their vigilance.

"What was it that sneaked up on me just now? You are so knowledgeable, you should know it too."

"Iblis, Iblis, was created from the smokeless flame. Because he didn't want to bow down to the human being made of black mud, he refused to kneel to the human ancestor Adam, and accepted the sentence of being expelled to hell before the final judgment. For revenge , They vowed to do everything possible to lead all human beings off the right path.”※

It was only at this time that the three crew members regained their strength. They never expected that the guests who volunteered to join the search would be so powerful, turning them from protectors into protected ones.

"Smugglers are these things? Shouldn't they all be monsters in myths and legends? How could they really exist?"

Cui Zuojing shrugged, but he couldn't explain to the crew that this was not the real world, so he could only remain silent.

At this time, the other teams who received the signal from the search leader also rushed over. Seeing the two monsters on the ground, everyone couldn't help but exclaimed.

Gulon, who was knocked unconscious by Cui Zuojing, was still alive. The crew used ropes to firmly tie the corpses of Gulon and his companions to long sticks, just like people carried pigs in ancient times, and carried these two ferocious monsters to report.

Cui Zuojing originally planned to leave, but judging from the lack of food on board, there were only three stowaways, exactly two Gulons and one Ibrils.

But Domingo turned his head and looked in a certain direction, frowning slightly.

This success made Cui Zuojing stop.

Seeing this, Dong Zheng also looked in that direction, and suddenly there was a trace of abnormal fluctuation in the program core that had been calm after entering the box.

It was a totally chaotic, disorderly fluctuation.

"What's wrong?" Cui Zuojing asked in a low voice.

"There seems to be something." Dong Zheng replied, "Go and see."

Taking advantage of the confusion of the crew studying Gulon, Cui Zuojing and Dong Zheng sneaked away together. Dong Zheng could only vaguely perceive the general orientation, and the layout of the power cabin was very complicated. He took Cui Zuojing around, Finally gradually approaching the source of the fluctuation.

Domingo followed in silence, without asking or saying a word.

They found a small box in a very secret space that was almost completely surrounded by pipes. The box was about the size of a palm and closed on all sides. Dong Zheng looked at it carefully several times, but he couldn't find where to open it.

The chaotic energy fluctuations came from the box.

On the small piece of ground where the box was placed, there was a black hexagram.

Dong Zheng: "Solomon's seal?"

The Seal of Solomon, also known as the six-pointed star and the Star of David, is placed on the national flag of Israel as a symbol of Jewish culture.

It is rumored that King Solomon had a magic ring engraved with a six-pointed star that drives the power of the ring, and Asmodeus, the king of the devils, was sealed inside, so Solomon could "make the princes with the emperor" and let other devils work for him.

"Is it the one who sealed the box?" Cui Zuojing flicked the box, he could only find out that there was something inside, but he couldn't judge the specific situation.

Judging from the two monsters that appeared just now, Twilight Island has something to do with occultism and ghosts. Unfortunately, Cui Zuojing doesn't know much about these things.

If Fu Zhe was there, with his breadth of knowledge, it would definitely be much smoother.

But... Domingo seems to know a lot?Even Ibris, an image from Islam, can speak clearly and logically.

Cui Zuojing was a little puzzled. If Dong Zheng could feel the seal of the six-pointed star because his ability belonged to the spiritual field, he was the brain and developer, so why should Domingo?

He discovered it even earlier than Dong Zheng. If it wasn't for him, he and Dong Zheng wouldn't have noticed it.

He turned his head to look at Domingo, the man was standing behind them, the silver-white crossbow arrow was hanging on his waist, with complicated patterns, smooth structure and tension, and a cold silver light.

When Cui Zuojing saw it, he immediately saw that it was an excellent weapon, so good that it made his heart itch.

The corners of Domingo's lips twitched, as if he wanted to smile at him, but he was quickly suppressed, and said, "You can deal with it as you like, and leave me alone."

This sentence just touched Cui Zuojing's heart. He was afraid that Domingo would compete with him and Dong Zheng for the ownership of the box. After all, this must be an important customs clearance item.

"Then we won't be polite." Cui Zuojing was overjoyed by the absence of unnecessary disputes, put the box away, and said, "Thank you, brother."

Domingo: "It's okay."

Dong Zheng: ……………………

He was getting more and more uncomfortable.

The three were about to leave the power cabin, and this time it was Domingo who walked in the front. Cui Zuojing looked at his back thoughtfully.

Had he seen this man somewhere?Always feel... a little familiar?

Domingo took them the shortest way, and Cui Zuojing didn't know how he was so familiar with the structure of the power cabin.

They were walking on the plank road, stepping on iron plates and making a clacking sound. Cui Zuojing glanced down, and suddenly his eyes froze.

"What's that?" He grabbed Dong Zheng's cuff and asked, pointing to a row of pipes below.

Dong Zheng followed his fingers to look over, and saw that the white bones were scattered on the pipe in a mess, and the hollow structure of the rib obviously belonged to a person.

"Anyone else was eaten?" Dong Zheng murmured.

Indeed, nearly 50 hours have passed since the food was strictly controlled. The previous crew members were only eaten partly, which was probably not enough for the three monsters.

And given Gulon's hunting style, it does look like they ate.

Domingo seemed to have thought of something, frowned, and there was a rare expression on his face other than a deadpan expression.

Dong Zheng: "Let's go, tell the captain first, if this person has been missing for long enough, it is impossible for no one to find out."

They went to the deck, where all the search parties were assembled, and there were two Gulons under the captain's feet, the knocked out one was awake and howling.

Both the crew and the program staff hid behind in fear, only the pilgrims remained indifferent.

The captain asked the program group to borrow a microphone, and said loudly: "Gentlemen and ladies, as you can see, the stowaways who have killed our two compatriots these days and caused everyone to panic are these two monsters. Now they I have been caught, and nothing dangerous will happen again, please rest assured."

"Please come here, I want everyone to be a witness. From today on, there will be no more creatures that come on board without permission to disturb us."

Four strong sailors stepped forward, lifted the two Gulons, and threw them into the sea under everyone's gaze.

The wide sea instantly swallowed these two monsters, and the splashing water quickly calmed down.

People cheered and applauded. Cui Zuojing and Dong Zheng stood at the back of the crowd and applauded symbolically a few times.

Domingo didn't know where he went. This man was like a ghost, and his trace was a mystery.

Cui Zuojing looked around but didn't see him, so he gave up.

It doesn't have much to do with him anyway.

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Note: The explanation of the monsters marked with ※ comes from "Amazing and Strange: A History of Monsters in Outer Worlds" by Liu Xing.

Most of the monsters in this volume come from myths and religious legends in various places. If this book is quoted again later, it will be directly marked ※ and will not be repeated.