The Urban Legends of Monsters: Shadows
With the development of human civilization, something called "metropolis" began to appear on this earth.
There are towering buildings, there are labyrinth-like roads, where even at night it is as bright as day, where various human beings live and rely on this city to survive and become the driving force behind the operation of this city. But human beings may not think about how much the natural environment will be damaged for every building they build, every viaduct they build, every other light that goes on through the night, how many other creatures lose their homes and turn their heads away. Can't see the familiar starry sky. People may never care where they will go but life is tenacious and in order to survive they will force themselves to adapt to new environments adapt to human beings adapt to such cities.
Humans may never now share the city with them not just stray dogs, feral cats, finches or insects but some clever "creatures" who use human appearance to hide among humans. For good or bad, they live in this city in order to survive, prey and evolve...
As the city gets bigger, all kinds of creatures may have...
Shinan Road is the most prosperous nightlife area in Lixin City. When it was nearly midnight, the prosperity here just started, and all kinds of people were venting under the colorful neon, enjoying life and killing time.
Xue Tong ran hard and dashed past the shops and turned from the main road to a fork in the road. As soon as you enter this dimly lit road, the hustle and bustle of the night market immediately fades away, as if you have suddenly entered another world. Xue Tong looked back and saw that the two men were still following closely. She gritted her teeth and continued to run forward.
A car parked next to Xue Tong and the door on the other side of the driver's seat opened silently.
"Miss, please get in the car."
"Taxi?" Xue Tong looked at the red Santana in surprise. Perhaps the driver took Xue Tong's shaking of his head just now as a taxi, so he drove straight to her. The two men behind her had already followed, and Xue Tong had no time to think about why the taxi did not attract business in the downtown area ahead, but drove into an unoccupied alley, leaned over and got into the car.
The two men chasing after swearing swearing at the car windows and one of them even kicked the car door.
"Where are you going, miss?"
The driver's voice was calm as if nothing had happened.
"SS University."
This driver is already commonplace for students from famous universities to enter and exit such nightlife places side to go? "Actually those two people just now..." She felt as if it was necessary to explain.
But the driver didn't listen to her at all.
Xue Tong looked at the driver sideways - this car was not equipped with the isolation net that ordinary taxis have, so he could see the other side very clearly. But there is no difference between seeing clearly or not. This driver belongs to the kind of person who looks common and has no sense of existence at all. Even if Xue Tong has met ninety-nine times, there is no guarantee that he will recognize him the hundredth time. out of him.
Sometimes there are drivers who chatter, sometimes drivers who like to listen to music, sometimes drivers who listen to the news on the radio driver.
Looking at the increasingly deserted scene outside the window, Xue Tong suddenly had a ridiculous idea: the silent driver in the taxi in the middle of the night, the lonely female passenger on the road to the suburbs...
The car suddenly stopped and Xue Tong suddenly turned to stare at the driver.
"It's here!"
"Ah" Xue Tong looked in front of the car and saw that the gate of S University was a dozen steps away.
"The fare is thirty dollars."
Xue Tong took out a few banknotes and handed them over without counting them.
She just jumped out of the car and sped away. Xue Tong looked at her watch and then looked at the big clock hanging on the school gate, which was more accurate than the sun and muttered to herself: "Ten minutes from Shinan Road to here, 30 kilometers, and also through the downtown area..."
"Have you heard that it's her."
"What? She? Someone buys her because of her looks?"
"What are you talking about?"
"It's that person...Shinan Road...pheasant..."
"It's true and false..."
“…”
I don't know if the whispering behind her was intentional or unintentional, and it entered Xue Tong's ears. She curled her lips in disdain, picked up the toiletries and walked out of the public washroom.
Although "Tong" Zhang Qian also heard those rumors, she walked up and left side by side with Xue Tong. "Do you have a class this morning?"
"There is Professor Sun's class."
"Me too, let's go together later."
Zhang Qian looked at Xue Tong: She is of average build, neither fat nor thin. Zhang Qian didn't remember her name until a year later. Zhang Qian couldn't believe that her appearance would be worth doing those things, but Xue Tong did return to her for several nights in a row, where did she go?
"Hey look, it's another one!" There was an uncontrollable excitement in the tone of the boy holding the newspaper.
Xue Tong, who was sitting next to him, took the newspaper from him. The headline of the newspaper was printed in large colorful characters "The murderer has committed consecutive crimes and the released person has become the sixth victim."
Looking at such a headline, Xue Tong felt that maybe the newspaper was as excited about it as the boy was. In this city, only news like this can touch people's numb nerves.
Six homicides and dismemberment cases occurred in Lixin City in just ten days. Although it was said to be killing and dismembering the body, only a very small part of the body of the deceased was found: only a head. At first, a cleaning worker found a human head in the garbage dump, then the second and the third. Until today, six victims have been found. The common feature of this series of cases is that the deceased are all male and the time of death is after midnight, the cause of death is cutting off the head with a sharp weapon. Two of the deceased's blood had not yet coagulated when they were found in the early hours of the morning. However, the deceased included company employees, college students, street gangsters, and other identities. No matter their age, occupation, or appearance, they had no common ground in the case. There is also a major doubt that is difficult to explain...
"Six dead people can fit into several sacks even if they are chopped up, right? But the police have sifted through the city like a sieve and couldn't find the minced meat. He even threw the heads around. The body was discovered and hidden?" The students used the gap before class to discuss the case.
“Could it be a triad organization that sells human organs?” said one student.
The other person shook his head and said, "I think the murderer's continuous crime must be a psychopath, maybe he has a hobby of collecting corpses, and he displays the corpses in his own home and faces them every day..."
"Ah..." His description made a girl scream. Everyone burst into laughter together.
Xue Tong looked down at the newspaper and muttered to herself: "The corpse... was eaten..." The photos of the victims published in the newspaper became more and more familiar. "This is not one of the two men who chased me last night. "Is it?" Xue Tong thought of the 30-kilometer journey that only took ten minutes by the silent driver of the taxi that took him back...
"That driver... what does he look like? Why can't he remember?" The professor had already given a lecture and the classroom finally quieted down. Xue Tong held her chin and looked out the window thinking, "I'll go to the city again tonight. South Road."
Xue Tong slipped a few times on Shinan Road and stared at the taxis passing by: "I remember the number of the car, it seems to be um, that's right..." She muttered and suddenly held the lamppost next to her. He laughed loudly, "'Try me to move' hahahaha, how can there be such a number! Hahaha I'm dying of laughter! I'll try it out...haha!" He didn't care about the people around him and regarded himself as a neurotic Xue Tong She laughed so hard that she didn't laugh happily for a long time, "I'll try it if it's interesting, so I'll try it!" She slightly fascinated her eyes.
A taxi is approaching slowly. "!" Xue Tong quickly waved for a car.
"Please get in the car." Still the driver with no emotion in his voice.
"Where is Miss?"
“Chengxin Chicken Farm in the Eastern Suburbs.”
On the street of Shinan Road, a girl in a long dress stood where Xue Tong stood just now, looking at the taxi that drove away with a confused expression. The thoughtful innocence on her beautiful face attracted many men. Finally, two young men approached her. The girl originally wanted to keep up with Xue Tong and the taxi who looked at the man in front of her and finally changed her mind.
Chengxin Chicken Farm is located at the intersection of the city and the countryside, surrounded by corn fields that are about to be harvested night sky.
"Stop right here."
There was still a long way to go before Xue Tong asked the driver to stop the car.
The driver didn't say anything. Not only did he stop the car, but all the headlights turned off and turned to look at Xue Tong.
The two looked at Xue Tong in the dark and asked, "Aren't you human?"
Xue Tong grabbed the driver's neck: "It's all because of you, I haven't eaten for half a month! Even if you're not human, I don't have to pick it now!" As she said that, she bit the driver. on the throat.
"Even if you want to eat me, I don't have any flesh and blood for you to eat." The driver's voice was still calm. "It turned out to be a 'earth wolf'* (1). It's all because you, a guy who only knows how to eat, exists. So it caused me so much trouble."
Xue Tong felt that her teeth didn't feel like her teeth were torn, nor did hot blood flow into her mouth. She pulled the driver's head hard and rolled from her neck to the ground. Without waiting for Xue Tong to stretch out her hand to roll on the ground, the head and body disappeared together. "Bah, I ate something weird!" Xue Tong opened the car door and walked out while spitting.
Now she is no longer that young female college student, but a fiery red eye with claws and claws on the ground—earth wolf.
A hand suddenly stretched out from the shadow of the car and grabbed its ankle. The wolf was thrown off guard and landed heavily in the field. The earth wolf climbed up from the corn that was overwhelmed by himself and looked at the opponent emerging from the shadows: it was no longer the young driver, but a human-shaped shadow, only a pair of blue-white eyes turned and stared at the earth wolf. .
"It turns out that it's just a low-level shadow ghost. This kind of ghost can't be eaten at all." The earth wolf waved his claws. Now I have to let your practice be ruined."
Shadow Phantom bowed his head to avoid the wolf's claws and disappeared into the darkness. The wolf watched the shadows everywhere vigilantly and wondered where this shadowy phantom, which could dissolve in the shadows, would go next. Appear.
Shadow Phantom jumped out of the shadow of the earth wolf. The wolf nimbly jumped to the top of the taxi. Shadow Phantom wanted to chase but felt that he couldn't move his body. He lowered his head and saw one of his own feet. It was stuck in the ground and could not be pulled out.
"You think I'm called 'Earth Wolf' and the earth with a white cry can catch everything even if you are just a shadow!" The earth wolf said with a wave of both hands, mud and stones shot out from the ground like arrows at the Shadow Phantom attack. Shadow Phantom's body disappeared again before being hit. Then from those small shadows of dirt and rocks, it emerged little by little and then coalesced together. It did not dare to fall to the ground and float in mid-air facing the ground wolf.
"Wait a minute" Earth Wolf thought of something. "Shadow doesn't need to eat, right? Don't you eat those who only have heads left?"
"...Aren't you eating them?"
“…”
Earth Wolf sat down on the roof of the car and spread out his hands, "What? It turned out to be the wrong person and I wasted half the night's effort."
Shadow Phantom fell down and asked suspiciously: "You really didn't do it?"
The earth wolf sat cross-legged on the roof of the car and said, "What's the benefit of lying to you? Besides, am I like that kind of picky eater? I have to leave my head for humans to see when I eat."
The Shadow Phantom fell to the ground and slowly returned to its human form: "So you're looking for that guy too?"
Speaking of "that guy", the earth wolf is full of anger: "Of course you know how much trouble it has caused me? Originally, Shinan Road is such a good foraging place that there are so many people to choose from. After all, the policemen who have been fooled by it like this are all rushing there. I have absolutely no way to eat. It will go to my place without authorization and eat people. What if the guy doesn't teach him a lesson!" It stopped and asked "You're looking for it too? Why? You don't always do it for the food..."
Shadowmaker said: "Because it caused me a lot of trouble: there was a taxi driver among the people it ate, the one I hired to drive me during the day, and I usually only come out at night. Now he's dead human. The police investigated everyone around him and found that the driver had embezzled a large amount of my fare plus I usually drive out at night and there is no such thing as an 'alibi', which made me a suspect. Neither of us It's annoying to like to be noticed by humans and it's going to be messing up my life if it doesn't stop messing around."
"Then we have the same purpose." Earth Wolf jumped off the roof of the car. "Would you like to cooperate with me? Teach that guy who doesn't understand the rules a lesson." "My name is Xue Tong now."
Yingmei reached out and shook her hand and said, "Zhou Ying."
"Zhou Ying! Hahahaha..." Xue Tong laughed loudly, "You are a phantom named Zhou Ying - there are shadows all around?! Your car number is to move me to try... Hahahaha I can't think of you The guy has such a sense of humor!"
Zhou Ying looked at her with a typical human expression when they saw neurosis.
Seeing that Zhou Ying didn't agree with her at all, Xue Tong laughed for a while and felt bored and waved her hand to leave her. After walking a few steps, Zhou Ying suddenly called: "Wait a minute."
Xue Tong hugged her arms and turned around
"You haven't given me the fare yet."
"What?"
"Thank you for the fare of forty yuan."
Xue Tong stared at him with wide eyes: "You...are you not so stingy?"
"I'm no longer counting 'back empty'."
Xue Tong reluctantly took out her wallet and muttered: "It's fine to drive a taxi like that. You really can't make money with it? We want to get money from human society in many ways, right!"
"Humans work to earn money. My job is to drive a taxi."
"You're not human."
"That's why I have to learn to be human."
Xue Tong frowned and said, "We live longer than humans and are stronger than humans. Why should we learn to be humans?" While shoving a hundred-yuan bill into his hand, he waved his hand and said, "Don't look for it!"
Zhou Ying still found fifty-five yuan to give to her and said, "A low-level ghost like me must become a human first if she wants to achieve real results. There is no other way."
"What?"
"There is no other way."
"The previous sentence!"
"Be human first."
"Ahead!"
Zhou Ying asked: "What are you trying to say?"
"You said you wanted to 'get it right'? Did I hear it right?"
"Yes."
"'Achieving a positive result'! Hahahaha!" Xue Tong burst into laughter, almost rolling on the ground, lying on the front cover of the car, slapping the front of the car with his hands and laughing, "I haven't heard of it for hundreds of years. Now there are still people who want to 'get it right'! Oh my God, you are so funny! Hahahaha...I can't do it! You are just...just...hahaha..."
Zhou Ying frowned distressedly as she watched her hit the front of the car: "Isn't the purpose of our monsters' survival is to successfully cultivate and achieve positive results?"
"Hey, hey, hey, don't be there for 'we', 'us', ah, you're the only one who thinks like that now, but you're the only one, me, or the other guys, but I've never heard of anyone who thinks like that!" Xue Tong managed to hold back the laughter and wipe away the tears that came out of the laughter and stood up, "It may have been like this in the past: when I remember when I was young, the people around me were still busy absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, picking up supplements, and cultivating in order to achieve success one day. Zhengguo, but that is already the old imperial calendar hundreds of years ago. Now human civilization is getting more and more prosperous and big cities are everywhere. Our life is getting easier and easier. Who needs to cultivate Zhengguo?
For example, if you eat a person before, no matter how clean you are, the disappearance of that person will cause panic and discussion in the village and town where he lives The disappearance of a hundred people does not raise suspicion that we can eat as much as we want as long as our hands and feet are clean. It used to take a lot of lies to get in the crowd, because people around you would always ask about your origin, past, etc. Now it's different. Just hand over a few legal forms and you're an upright human being. . As long as you're standing there in human form, nobody cares what's under the human skin.
What are you doing to achieve success? Not to make yourself stronger and have a better life. Among the human beings today, there are very few occupations such as spiritual practitioners, and there are almost no people who can subdue us, and I myself feel that once I eat a sacrificial sacrifice, I can enjoy all the entertainment and comfortable life of human beings to the fullest. It's already very good - most of the other guys have the same idea as me and think that this life is very good, why bother to practice hard for thousands of years to get any positive results? What if it becomes a positive result? What if you become a god, a demon, or a fairy? Must be better than now? Our time is not infinite and we should have fun in time. Out of the 10,000 people who can achieve positive results, there is not necessarily one who advises you not to ask for it. You don't like to eat people. Next time you introduce yourself to play other interesting things, don't waste your energy on that . "
After Xue Tong finished speaking, he waved to him and disappeared in the land.
Zhou Ying watched her disappear for the first time and began to think about why she wanted to "get it right".
It was originally a low-level phantom phantom. The phantom phantom is already the lowest among the monsters and has no intelligence or mana. The phantom is even more low-level and low-level. They don't even have a form, just a shadow. There is no purpose to wander or condense in space, or to wander without the ability to think. Zhou Ying's ability to have his own ideas and cultivate into a "demon" is an anomaly that is close to a miracle.
It took two hundred years to become a "demon" and another hundred years to become "Zhou Ying". Zhou Ying came to this city to learn how to be a "human" because he instinctively knew that in order for a "demon" to succeed, he must first learn to "be a human".
Why do you want to be successful?
This was originally Zhou Ying's only purpose, but since other demons don't do it, why did he do it? What would a demon do if he didn't practice Zhengguo? eat human? enjoy? Why all this?
Zhou Ying tapped her head with her hands.
He knows that he can't do anything, although he finally has his own body and mind, but now it has not only not learned how to be a human, but also has not learned how to be a monster.
"I still haven't found it!" Xue Tong sighed weakly and leaned against Zhou Ying's car.
The two of them have been cooperating to find the monster that cannibalize people continuously for two days. Victims have been found every day for the past two days, but Zhou Ying and Xue Tong have not found any clues.
Xue Tong groaned and said, "I used to eat one person every other day, but now I eat one a day and leave a head every time. If it goes on like this, I will definitely starve to death."
Zhou Ying remembered something and asked seriously: "If you don't eat people and other things, can you eat enough? Will you starve to death?"
"Human food is delicious, I can eat anything I eat. I was joking with you when I said that if I don't eat it, people will starve to death. It's just that people are delicious and I just want to eat it for a while to satisfy my cravings. Why are you asking this? ?"
“How often do you usually eat people?”
"It depends on your mood, when you don't eat a lot for a few years, when you don't eat less, eat one every ten days - see if you can meet someone who wants to eat. Are you not a vegetarian? Why are you asking this?"
"Are other cannibals the same as you?"
"I didn't say that everyone is similar! What do you want to ask? Want to learn to eat people? I'll teach you!"
Zhou Ying stared at her and asked, "Then why does 'it' have to be eaten every day?"
"Yeah, why didn't I expect it to eat people so often and not be so hungry? Could it be..." She and Zhou Ying looked at each other and said in unison, "It eats humans as its staple food!"
"How many monsters take people as their staple food?"
"Nothing like that, unless he's deliberately acting recklessly." Xue Tong punched the roof of the car with his hand: "It's crazy! If people go on like this, no matter how stupid they are, they will notice that something is wrong, and it will eat it again. Such arrogance will attract human beings with spiritual power or fairy and spirit who like to meddle in their own affairs; the fairies in this city will suffer with it!"
"But we know it's in this area, and it still comes out to eat people every day, but we can't find it. Why do you say that?"
"Because...because its level is higher than ours...it is not a demon, it may be a spirit, a spirit, it is stronger than us, so it can hide its demon energy in front of us. Maybe it is watching We look for it every day and find it interesting." As he spoke, Xue Tong couldn't help but fight a cold war.
Zhou Ying also turned pale: "So are you still looking for it?"
"Maybe we have become its food before we find it." Xue Tong sighed and said, "What do you think?"
Zhou Ying said: "Didn't I say it earlier? Even if you want to eat me, I don't have any flesh and blood to eat. And I still have a 'talisman' to rely on. It's like living with peace of mind. I'm going to find it! How about you?"
"I can't live in this city with peace of mind if I don't find it! Let's find it!" She shrugged. "If you can't beat it, you will escape to another city and live in another city. Don't think about it for now! Anyway, I also You can't be alone." She opened the car door and sat next to Zhou Ying. "Send me back to school first. I'm so tired today that I want to go by myself - I'll pay you for the car."
Zhou Ying looked at her moving car and said, "I don't charge you for free today."
"Hey Zhou Ying, what's the 'talisman' you're talking about? Show me?"
"Not now."
"Don't be stingy and don't keep the 'talisman' around? Show me."
"Don't get in the way of my driving."
"Where? I'll find it myself..."
"Xue Tong..."
“…”
Red Santana drove past a pair of eyes that kept staring at it full of mockery.
"How about this?"
"Too fat! Eating will make you fat."
"What about that?"
"Too thin and toothless."
"The one who is not fat or thin?"
"Too ugly to eat."
"...you've been picking for three hours and no one on the street can eat?"
"How can you eat something that doesn't look delicious once you eat it!"
Zhou Ying and Xue Tong sat in the car and picked up on the passing crowd.
They figured that since "that guy" was eating people in such a brazen way, it must have seen this place as its own sphere of influence. If there are other monsters hunting here, this arrogant guy will definitely not be able to bear it. So they decided to let Xue Tong go out and eat someone here to see if he could provoke that guy and make it come to them. However, Xue Tong insisted on eating food with all the colors, flavors and tastes. After choosing for half a night, she still failed to choose a target.
There was a commotion from the street. Zhou Ying drove the car forward a little and saw a group of drunken men tearing and beating a woman. After a while, the woman's shirt was torn off by them, and she was curled up on the ground and crying. . One of the men grabbed her head and forcibly kissed her on the mouth before a slap knocked her down, grabbed her handbag and hummed a lewd tune and the group walked forward. Pedestrians and watchers on both sides made way for them.
The woman sat in the road crying but no one came to help her up.
This street in this city is so cold and cruel. Not only the human beings living here have become accustomed to all this, but even the monsters in this city have long been accustomed to it.
"I want to eat him." Xue Tong pointed at the man.
"Is it delicious when he's drunk?" Zhou Ying commented.
"How about I just like booze? No way?"
A flash of clarity flashed in Zhou Ying's eyes, and the moving car quietly followed the group of men.
In the pitch-dark corn field, the wolf looked around before throwing his prey on the ground and made sure there was no third party around. Then he bit the prey's throat with confidence and began to taste slowly.
A dark cloud floated over to cover the waning moon, which was not bright before.
A shadow jumped out of the field and threw itself on the Earth Wolf. The Earth Wolf was ready to roll to the side without waiting for the opponent's teeth to bite.
"You finally showed up." The Earth Wolf licked the light wound on the back of his hand and stared at the other person. "The unruly guy has caused so much trouble to others without even a single apology."
The one who attacked the wolf was a human girl. "She" just put away her sharp-edged claws and used her tongue to **** up a drop of the wolf's blood on her fingertips. Landing on the ground wolf with a charming and somewhat dreamy look. Nothing was said.
The earth wolf stood up and said solemnly: "If you want to live in this city, I have no objection, but please pay attention in the future: don't become an overly beautiful human being. Don't be too picky when eating, at least eat the rest of the food. Find a way to deal with it. Even if we want to live in a human city there are some rules to follow, the most important thing to follow is to try not to attract human attention at any time."
"Is it easier to attract 'food' by being beautiful." "Girl" said in a soft voice, "And I don't want to live in a human city at all. For me, this is just a warehouse for storing food. I don't care if humans notice me, do you care about the idea of 'food'? Earth wolf."
The wolf looked grimly at "her" and said, "For me this city is not just a place with a lot of food. This is my home. I like its comfort and the enjoyment and entertainment provided by human civilization. Yours As has affected my life. If you insist on doing this then I can only ask you to leave the city."
"The food here is delicious and I don't plan to leave now." "Girl" said coquettishly: "Of course I will leave one day but definitely not now."
"It's now that you have to leave - but you can choose to leave alive or leave as a corpse."
"Hehehe, wolf, you are just a demon, but you should have thought about the consequences of talking big in front of me, who is higher than you?"
"If you don't listen to good advice, then die!"
As the voice of the earth wolf landed, the "corpse" that was lying at the feet of the "girl" suddenly jumped up, hugged her from behind and inserted his hands into her shoulders. The "girl" twisted her neck with all her might and the wolf only bit her shoulder. With a sharp howl from the girl, the "corpse" behind her rushed over and pushed the earth wolf away. It suddenly turned into countless fragments scattered around the "girl".
The earth wolf looked at the appearance of the "girl" at this time: its body still resembled a human but with a long mane on its back, feet like horse hooves and tiger claws. Ten fingers are like ten curved and sharp scythes, shining coldly in the faint starlight. Its sharp claws can easily cut through even rocks. The humans who have been eaten by it for days are cut by these sharp claws. skull. Its head has a dragon's head with sharp teeth protruding from its lips, and its egg-sized eyes emit a blue light.
"Youya!* (2)" Earth Wolf took a deep breath. "It seems we are in big trouble! Zhou Ying, are you all right?"
The "corpse" that was torn to pieces by the sharp claws of the scorpion has turned into countless black shadows, as if squirming with great difficulty, and finally kneaded together to form a human figure and sat up - if it weren't for him just now Those whose reactions were cut to pieces in time would become wolves without regeneration. "I'm fine and you're fine, right?"
"It's going to be 'important' soon. It's a crocodile!" Earth Wolf stared nervously at the enemy and sweat began to seep out of his skin. "We may be a little too self-aware!"
Originally a deity, he was murdered by his colleagues 2 Negami and his courtiers, and his resentful corpse was turned into a monster with dragon and tiger claws. This monster "You" has completely lost its brutal and tyrannical temperament as a god, lived by cannibalism, and gradually formed a population of monsters. Although this kind of monster is a kind of spirit, they were originally transformed from the corpse of the gods, and the mana of the gods remains in their bodies more or less, so the power of this type of monsters is strong in spirits, demons, ghosts, and monsters. It can also be said to be one of the best.
The scorpion in front of me didn't pay any attention to opponents like Earth Wolf and Shadow Phantom.
The earth wolf raised his hands and the ground cracked into a big mouth. All the dirt and rocks turned into weapons and shot him. He didn't even move and danced his hands. These things were shattered by him in the shadow of these things. Li Yingmei held a long sword condensed from a shadow in his hand, and suddenly flashed out and stabbed the chest. With a "giggling" smile, Yoongi faced its knife and held out the Shadow Phantom's shadow knife on its chest, not even piercing its skin. With its sharp claws, the Shadow Phantom flew out and fell into the field.
This claw used a strong mana to knelt on the ground, and the gap on her shoulder was unable to recover for a while.
The earth wolf raised a large rock and pressed its head down to the ground. Taking advantage of the chance that it raised its head and smashing the stone, the earth wolf sneaked into the ground and went directly under the opponent. The following suddenly fell into the ground and could not move. The wolf's sharp claws protruded from the ground and inserted five fingers into its thighs. The scorpion hummed because of the pain and kicked it out of the ground with a forceful lift. A large pit suddenly appeared. Not only was a large amount of dirt kicked out by it, the wolf was also thrown out of the ground. It covered its left paw and scratched it. It rolled over and over on the ground to get up, but its left hand was broken by the kick just now.
"Is it really going to die at its hands today?" It was the first time that the earth wolf had such a desperate thought after living for hundreds of years.
"You are a very brave earth wolf." The voice of the scorpion is very innocent and cute like a human child. "I will break the habit of only eating people for you - although you don't look delicious at all." Said and walked towards the earth wolf.
After walking for a few steps, Xiao Qian suddenly felt that she couldn't move. After a closer look, I found that the shadow of the dense corn around it had somehow become an entity, trapping its actions like a cage. "Shadow!" It said the name through gritted teeth. Because its own shadow was suddenly jumping up and waving its claws at it.
Although the shadow cannot have the same power as the entity, it is indestructible and indestructible. After fighting with his shadow, he had to deal with the earth wolf that came up again. His mood began to grow impatient and roared, and his body suddenly swelled. Countless water arrows were shot out of his mouth. its feet.
The earth wolf was shot through the abdomen by a water arrow, and the blood flowed to the ground.
Manipulating the shadow of a creature is more energy-consuming than anything else to the Shadow Phantom, let alone the shadow of a powerful spirit like the scorpion, which has exhausted its energy and is pierced by water arrows and even himself. The image of the man was getting fainter and he could almost see what was behind him.
Hyung was no longer the calm and restless look it used to be. Its body was covered with blood-stained ears that were scratched by wolves. It looked at the two opponents and didn't know whether it was because of excitement or anger, and the voice trembled: "You guys can actually push me to such a point that you are such a lowly guy!" He raised his foot and stepped on the shadow charm.
"Ah!" The Earth Wolf screamed and watched helplessly as the Shadow Phantom drifted under its feet, barely condensed, then fluttered and condensed again. The regeneration of Shadow Phantom is getting weaker and weaker than the body that has been condensed with great effort.
"Bastard! Don't touch it!" The Earth Wolf swooped on him and used his last strength to restrain the arms and drag it away from Yingmei: "Zhou Ying, run away!"
"Wolf..."
"Flee!"
The sharp claws of the scorpion were inserted into the shoulders of the earth wolf, but it still did not let go and hugged each other tightly.
"The fire is now!" Shadow Phantom shouted and threw something at the immobile 貐 "Hurry up!"
The earth wolf looked at the little thing flying towards them with a little sparkle "It's just a lit match." Just thinking about this, the little flaming flame of the match slammed out. A mass of bright light made the earth wolf not dare to look directly and closed its eyes. It smelled the smell of burning flesh in its nose.
Shadow Phantom rushes over to hug the wolf and pull it away from the scorpion.
Earth Wolf looked at the sky in disbelief and asked, "That's... what?"
"My 'talisman'."
"Oh my God, that's...that's a Bifang*(3)!"
There is an eagle-sized "bird" flying in the air. It looks like a fetish "phoenix" but has only one claw and its body and every feather is made of burning flames The flames on it were now burning so violently that it not only illuminated everything around it, but also made it look golden.
A spirit beast that must fire.
Spirit is the most special kind of division among gods, demons, immortals, spirits, spirits, demons, ghosts, monsters, sprites, charms, sprites and sprites. Their mana is innate and does not need to be acquired through practice, but they also cannot be upgraded to achieve positive results. This kind of magical power is second only to gods, demons, and immortals. Generally, they live in a place called "Kunlun". Only gods, demons, and immortals can summon them and make them serve themselves. I don't know why there is a Bifang next to the Shadow Phantom, and it also obeys the orders of the Shadow Phantom, which is much lower than the Spirit.
Compared with other spirit beasts: Yinglong, Dafeng, Feilian, Youguang, etc., Bifang with fire attributes has a greater deterrent effect on low-level monsters because "fire" has been used to drive away monsters since ancient times. The fear in Jifang's heart was even harder to hide when he saw Bifang for the first time. But it can see that this Bifang is still a cub, and the adult Bifang should be the size of a phoenix and that a single blow from an adult Bifang may be enough to cook a scorpion and now the scorpion is still flying into the air Arbitrary grabbing attempts to knock down Bifang.
"Huo'er watch out for his water arrows!"
Bifang's unexpected blow blinded him, but after that, he swiped his claws around and attacked Bifang with spells, so he couldn't get close to it. After flying around the opponent a few times, Bifang was a little anxious and tried to rush up a few times, but he was knocked off a few feathers. Once the feathers were separated from its body, they turned into flames and scorched a few pieces of grass.
Shadow Phantom knows the young Bifang isn't strong enough to fight the scorpion and jumps in to help.
Blind eyes, pain, and anger, the sharp claws are more and more incoherent, and most of its attacks are resolved by Bi Fang, and finally it is entangled by the shadow ghost. The wolf pounces on it and bites its throat. .
The yawn wobbled, fell to the ground, and twitched a few times and finally stopped moving.
Earth Wolf and Shadow Phantom looked at each other and fell to the ground together, unable to move.
Bi Fang fell from the air on Shadow Phantom's shoulder and tucked his head into its arms like a spoiled brat. The wolves hurriedly crawled away from them and pointed at Bifang and said, "Hey, don't let that thing come near me!"
Yingmei stroked Bifang's feathers and gave it a white look: "What are you afraid of, Huo'er or a child? But it saved us!"
"That's it!" Bifang also stuck his head out from under it, smacking his lips and saying "ungrateful!"
The earth wolf splits its mouth anyway, and it doesn't dare to approach a Bifang regardless of whether it is a child or not. It walked over to the dead body and kicked it and said, "Did you ask that Bifang to burn it? So that humans don't make a fuss."
"Aren't you hungry? Just eat clean." Shadow Phantom felt that setting a fire would be too provocative.
The earth wolf turned his head and looked at it at once: "Our male earth wolf does not eat females! We do not eat females that are not of the same kind!"
"Ah!" Yingmei's eyes widened, "But isn't Xue Tong a woman?"
"'Xue Tong'? That's what it looks like for the convenience of prey! Look at my real body." Earth Wolf looked up and down at himself, "Why do I look like a female? Shouldn't it be... Yingmei you? Can't tell the difference between males and females?"
“Human men and women are very good at distinguishing between men and women.”
"Only know humans? That's really inseparable!"
"We Phantom have no gender!" Phantom said angrily.
"Then you always thought I was a female? Hahahaha I'm a female! Hahahaha! No way!" The Earth Wolf laughed wildly, frowning in pain because he touched the wound, and wanted to laugh again. The expression is very funny. It finally stopped laughing and waved his hand and said, "But it's okay to think that I will teach you. I will also teach you how to live comfortably and enjoy the things of human beings. Do you know how to surf the Internet? I found out recently. An online game I can teach you we can team up to fight and shoot 'boom'..."
"Thank you, but I still need to practice, I'm afraid I can't be distracted from learning those."
"Cultivation? You haven't given up your plan to become a true fruit!"
"I seriously thought about it this time. Before, I never thought about why I cultivated so hard, but since everyone is different: you like the human life, and you like to live a comfortable life. In order to protect this kind of life, you are even willing to fight with the scorpion. This kind of opponent fighting; you just want to eat people as much as you want without worrying about any rules. And I don't like either of your lives."
"I'm not like you, you have everything from the moment you were born: mind, body, mana... So you can choose what life you want to live, and I am a lowly creature born from the yin of the swamp. The Shadow Phantom that came out originally had no body, no mind, and nothing. If I didn't cultivate and evolve, it would have disappeared without a trace. Now, although I can choose the day I want, I still feel very curious to know about one like me. To what extent the Shadow Phantom can do. I don't know if I have made it clear? I don't have to cultivate to be a true fruit, but I just want to know what I can become after working hard as a Shadow Phantom? How far can I go?"
"You will become a true fruit!" Earth Wolf said, "Because you are so hardworking, persistent and because my smart Earth Wolf won't compete with you, of course you have a chance!"
Shadowmaker laughed and asked, "Really?"
"There is progress and progress!" The Earth Wolf shouted loudly, "You are laughing now! It is the first time I see you laughing more and more like a human being after I have known you for so long! Great progress!"
Shadow's smile froze on her face for a moment, not knowing what to make of her face.
"But not yet! I'll teach you how to laugh." The earth wolf said, putting one foot on the corpse and pointing at the corpse, and said loudly, "How dare you dare to oppose me, such a **** of your own strength. Now you know how amazing it is! I am the number one earth wolf in the world, hahaha! Hahaha..." He laughed wildly.
Shadowmaker pursed her lips as she watched it and finally couldn't help laughing.
"Hahaha..."
"Hahaha..."
A young man on the street caught the attention of most of the women passing by. This slender and handsome man knows his outstanding appearance and smiles like no one else. A taxi stopped on the street without waiting for him to wave, and the young man got into the car.
"Where are you going, sir?"
"The **** hotel has a date with a 'female'!" said the young man, scratching his head towards the car's mirror.
Zhou Ying rolled his eyes at him: "Didn't you say that you should try not to attract their attention to your appearance among humans?"
"That means that when I eat to hunt prey, my current purpose is not to eat wrong, but also to 'eat' and not to eat my stomach!"
Zhou Ying shook her head and smiled lightly.
"By the way, you have to remember "Liu Di" in my current name."
"Liu Di?"
"You can call it 'Zhou Ying', why can't I call it 'Reservation Land'?"
"Whatever you want."
Liu Di took a deep breath and wrinkled his nose and asked, "What does your car smell like? It smells so bad?"
"I just pulled a weasel their taste right?"
"Weasel?"
"Well, I took them to KFC."
"Weasel goes to KFC! Haha..." Liu Di sighed as he looked at the bustling street outside the car window and said, "When the city is big, there will be all kinds of creatures..."
(End of "The Charm of Shadows")
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Note:
1. Earth Wolf: "Corpse": There is a dog in the ground called the Earth Wolf~IndoMTL.com~ The Earth Wolf is a monster that lives in the soil just like a fish lives in water. If you cultivate like a monster to a certain point, you can have a human-like appearance.
2, 錰貐: "Shan Hai Jing·Hai Nei Bei Jing": 2 negative ministers are called Wei Wei and 2 negative kill 鮮貐.
"Shan Hai Jing·Hai Nei Xi Jing": The dragon is drowning in the drowning... Its sound is like a baby cannibalizing.
In ancient mythology, there was only one scorpion, and it was killed by Hou Yi in the story of Hou Yi shooting the sun because he harmed the world. In the story of "Urban Monster Story", it was written as a species. This is the author's novel. Please do not pursue the idea of more.
3. Bifang: "Fayuan Zhulin · Houzeyuan": The essence of fire is called Bifang, which is like a bird...
"The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Three Threads of the West": There are birds whose shape is like a crane, red and green, and white beaks say that they must be chirped.
Bifang is a kind of fire spirit. According to legend, the Yellow Emperor was riding in a treasure cart drawn by six dragons on Mount Xitai to join the world's ghosts and gods. Since this Bifang is qualified to drive for the Yellow Emperor and can drive six dragons, it can be seen that it is a powerful spiritual beast.