The Urban Legends of Monsters: Emperor Slurry

It was still 6:00 pm but because it was very cloudy and rainy, the sky looked as if it had already fallen into the night. At this time and this weather, a figure appeared on the roof of the building.

This is an ordinary human man. On his shoulder is a strangely shaped "bird": one-clawed, blue-eyed, eagle-sized and shaped like a legendary phoenix. Its feathers are made of burning The raindrops composed of flames hit the top and were quickly vaporized, causing his body to be surrounded by a cloud of water vapor. This is "Yingmei" Zhou Ying and his fire spirit beast "Bifang" Huo'er.

Zhou Ying used the Water Avoidance Charm around her body and Huo'er didn't care about the rain. They looked up at the sky and calculated the time. Although the rain had been falling for a day and a night, it would definitely stop before the moon came out tonight, because there are more than Zhou Ying and Huo'er living in this city. Moonlight on July 15th.

A **** dog suddenly emerged from the floor and ran towards Zhou Ying quickly. Although its body was exposed on the roof, its four claws were still buried in the reinforced concrete of the building, which did not affect its running. When his speed was about to approach Zhou Ying, his forelimbs lifted and turned into a monster with long, sharp claws, and then he turned into a tall and handsome human man. It is the only friend of "Earth Wolf" Liu Dizhou Ying. Obviously, even a guy like him who is keen on eating, drinking, and having fun doesn't want to miss tonight.

Liu Di came to Zhou Ying's side before the two of them had time to speak. The pouring rain suddenly stopped. The dark clouds in the sky retreated to the west sky as quickly as they were wiped away by something. clean.

"Oh it's that zombie, her temper is really impatient, but she's the most suitable for this kind of thing." Liu Di said with a smile. Zombies are also known as the kangaroo elephant, who incarnates as Nanyu, a doctor from Lixin Municipal Hospital. This kangaroo, who has been practicing for hundreds of years, can easily make a state and county a thousand miles of red, and there is no dripping water. She can stop this. The wind and rain are indeed very suitable.

After the weather became clear, Liu Di and Zhou Ying both vaguely saw "human figures" appearing on the tops of dozens of skyscrapers scattered in the distance moonlight.

With a "pop", a white nine-tailed fox also jumped onto the roof and rolled on the spot, turning into a boy of about ten years old. He let out a breath and said, "My mother is so wordy. I used magic to make her fall asleep before slipping out. Fortunately, I didn't delay the big event." This is the nine-tailed fox Lin Rui from the country of Qingqiu. The mother in his mouth is an ordinary human woman, although the mother and son are not the same kind, but Life is very happy.

Liu Di, Zhou Ying, and Huo'er greeted him with a smile and they didn't spend time talking because the moon had already risen.

The bright moon rises above the horizon When the footsteps of human beings in the city have no time to appreciate this beautiful bright moon In the eyes of the monsters who have been waiting for a long time In the moonlight tonight, it seems that there are hundreds of billions of olives in the moonlight Tie down to the ground.

"The Emperor!"

The monsters have begun to capture and collect these things called "Emperor Slurry" and fuse them into their bodies.

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In addition to the natural monster race and human beings, animals, plants and trees must receive the essence of the moonlight and it must be the moonlight on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the year of Gengshen because the moonlight on this day contains "imperial jelly". Only when plants and animals accept it can they be reborn and get thinking before they can start to practice spells. And if the monsters eat it, a night of cultivation is equivalent to absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon for decades, so no monster will miss the opportunity once every sixty years.

A once-in-sixty-year show where the monsters spend their nights unnoticed by humans. When the sun rises, the monsters stop their "celebration" after a night of hard work.

"Huh..." Lin Rui sat on the ground and sighed, "I'm so tired."

Liu Di walked to the railing and looked at the city that had begun to operate and said with emotion: "I don't know how many creatures will become our kind tonight."

Zhou Ying nodded in agreement. He fully understood that last night was a "birth" night. He held up the fire and said loudly, "Happy birthday to the fire!"

"Happy birthday to Ying!" Huo'er rubbed his head on top of him and said with a smile, "We saw the emperor again."

"Will Huo'er have a birthday?" Lin Rui rushed over and took Huo'er into his arms. "What gift do I want for you?"

"I want a new bed, a storybook, a machine, snacks, and top-quality beef..." Huo'er said bluntly that poor Lin Rui had already started looking at his deflated wallet.

"Are you celebrating your birthday?" Liu Di asked, patting Zhou Ying's shoulder.

"Well, we've seen 'Emperor Jelly' six times, and it's three hundred years old today..."

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The deep mountains and daze are home to animals and monsters. A large group of phantoms reappeared when the morning sun shone through the gaps in the dense leaves on the water on the edge of a swamp in this primeval forest.

Shadow phantom is a kind of phantom condensed from the moisture of the swamp and the yin of the virgin forest. It has no mind and no body and drifts with the wind in the virgin forest. Every day there will be a large number of spawns and a large number of deaths will occur each day. Today, however, after the power of the sun has subsided, there is one phantom who did not die.

If there is light, the source of life of the shadows and shadows is sunlight. When the sun sinks, the shadows' short lives will come to an end, but this shadow is shrinking by the rock and watching its own kind disappear one by one, but it can't understand all of these. It only knows that the thing it is leaning against will emit the same temperature as sunlight and the same energy as sunlight, as long as it leans on it, it is like when the sun has not yet set.

It will take many years for the mindless phantom to realize that what it rests on is an egg.

Bifang is a kind of "spirit" that belongs to fire. They usually live in a space called "Kunlun", and only "gods", "devils" and "immortals" who have achieved positive results can summon them for driving. I don't know why a Bifang's egg was left in the forest of the human world. Bifang's egg is hatched by spiritual power. While Shadow Phantom relies on this egg to survive, its weak spiritual power also makes Bifang's eggshell have some activities.

Death is the first thing that Shadow Phantom understands after he comes into the world, who has survived on Bifang's eggs for two days and two nights. It leaned on the egg and watched countless of its kind born in the morning and then perished after the sun set. It does not understand what "death" is, but the disappearance of tens of thousands of its kind has made it understand what "death" is. On the third morning, Bifang's egg came out with a slight sound. It first cracked a gap, then stuck out a pointed mouth, and finally the eggshell cracked, and a small moving thing stood up trembling.

Shadowmaker stared at the little thing that had just emerged from its eggshell. It's much like those things that fly around in the air but it has only one foot and its feathers are warm and shadowy. It's as comfortable against it as against an unhatched egg. Shadow Phantom leaned towards it subconsciously. At this time, countless shadow Phantoms flying over the swamp died and disappeared.

"It must be done, it must be done..." The little thing chirped and snuggled up beside the Shadow Phantom. The cubs of their race couldn't eat when they were hatched because they had to rely on the spiritual power of their parents to survive. This cub didn't With its parents by its side, the only thing it can rely on is this shadowy ghost with low spiritual power. But Shadow Phantom's spiritual power was simply not enough to sustain its life. As time passed, its voice became lower and lower, and the color of its body also turned dark red.

Shadow phantom can't understand this and doesn't know that this cub named "Bifang" is dying. It only knows that the warm place it relies on is disappearing. The sunset has sunk and so will its own life. The only way for him to continue to exist is that the cub must live—this is the first thought after the mindless phantom had survived for three days.

When Bifang and Yingmei were struggling together on the line of life and death, the moon rose. The monsters in the mountains and forests were boiling. Bifang and Yingmei didn't understand at the time that it was the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the Geng Shen year. They got sixty Lucky once a year.

"Bi, Bi, Bi Fang..." Bi Fang's nature made it understand that the things in the moonlight can continue its life, and it stretched its neck hard to catch these things. It struggled to swallow one and then another... The flames of its body began to brighten and regain the temperature that Shadow Phantom liked. Shadow Phantom watched it in confusion for a long time before realizing that it wanted these things floating in the moonlight.

"Only this Bifang can survive by himself." This is the truth vaguely understood in Yingmei's heart, so it also began to capture the "Emperor Slurry" in the moonlight. If you give these things to Bifang, you can do it yourself. The idea of ​​living it is just that.

The Shadow Phantom's ability to think makes it impossible to understand that it is a formless shadow, unable to "grab" anything at all The body then fuses and disappears. Time and again, the phantom's efforts have ended in failure. But it doesn't understand the meaning of failure at all, and it doesn't know the existence of emotions such as giving up and withdrawing. It just wants to capture the emperor's pulp and feed it to Bifang so that it can live on its own. It also won't understand what kind of changes it is making to its body as the pieces of the emperor's slush fuse into its body...

The moon gradually sank. Shadow Phantom took hold of the last of the Emperor's Slurry before it fell to the ground. Yingmei still can't understand that she has a body because of the rebirth of Emperor Liumao, it is just very happy to send the Emperor Liumao it finally caught to Bifang's mouth and happily watch it eat it...

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A rat-like monster ran along a cliff past a group of monkeys that it had just spotted. After a while, a brutal war began in the monkey group. They bit each other, scratching one and biting the neck of the other. Although the other side scratched its chest with his claws, it did not let go. The other monkey king had already been killed by several The male monkey besieged it and killed several enemies, but he was also torn to pieces. Even the little monkeys in the mother monkey's arms kicked and bit the mother, and the mother monkeys threw the little monkeys at each other, and some even threw their own little monkeys on the ground and trampled... Only alive.

Spy smugly appreciates it all.

It's a weakly combat-ready yokai with a spell that fills the minds of creatures with murderous spells. Its favorite is to start a war and then hide and watch the process. It came to that small battlefield to sniff the stumps hanging on the branches, the meat slices and the corpses on the ground. It was extremely satisfying to roll on the blood-stained grass.

A figure suddenly rushed towards its throat. It tried to avoid or was bitten in the throat. When it heard the sound of its own trachea bursting, it now bit its own neck. It turned out to be its own shadow, but it had no time to think about it. "Why?".

The black shadow stood up from the ground and turned into a human-shaped shadow. He picked up Ji Ru's corpse, and Bi Fang immediately flew down from the treetops, landed on his shoulders, and devoured it with his hands.

Shadows are fully in shape and mind and grow to the size of pigeons if they know how to count the dates they've been wandering aimlessly in this forest for over twenty years.

Shadow Phantom stroked the devoured Bifang and thought: If a sniper is not enough to fill its stomach, I don't know if it will eat these dead monkeys on the ground.

"Eating" is a difficult thing for Shadow Phantom to understand. Sunlight is enough to provide all the energy he needs and Bifang is with him. His mana grows even at night. He doesn't need to "eat" to stay alive. But Bifang needs other animals and monsters in the forest, and also needs to be observed by Shadow Phantom. Many animals are "eating" every day. Is "eating" the purpose of their existence?

No matter how puzzled the Shadow Phantom is, he still has to find food for the young Bifang and gradually discover the different grass, leaves and fruits of "food" and "food". Bifang does not eat animal meat. It is very happy to eat it.

"Yeah, it's delicious!" Bifang swallowed his last mouthful and said with satisfaction, "It's a pity it's a little less." He shook his head at the monkey corpse on the ground, but he didn't want to eat this kind of thing.

Recently, Shadow Phantom is trying to hunt monsters for Bifang for food. Anyway, his mana is already good. Bifang can also help out some of the monsters. They can all catch them. They rationally don't provoke the big monsters anyway, because of the existence of Bifang, the big monsters don't come to provoke them.

The Phantom was lucky today, as the sniper caught a ring dog soon after. Bi Fang was well fed and curled up in Ying Mei's arms and fell asleep. Shadow Phantom sits on the tallest branch of the giant tree and basks in the sun. Sitting quietly in the sun is his only hobby.

"Hello."

Shadowmaker looked up and an old man greeted him from a branch in front of him, trembling slightly. Shadow Phantom never speaks to creatures other than Bifang.

"The scenery here is good" The old man sat down beside him "You have some vision."

"Landscape..." Shadow Phantom doesn't know what "landscape" means. It's just a place where you can bask in the sun without any shelter.

"You've killed a lot of monsters recently, haven't you?" The old man cut to the chase.

"Are those foods?"

"You kill them just to eat?"

"It eats."

"There is a lot of food in this forest, why eat the same kind of food!" The old man's voice became stern.

"It likes to eat."

"Kill them just because they like it!" The old man clenched his fingers secretly.

"They are also eating monkeys, birds, tigers and wolves and grass... Everyone eats and gets eaten." Shadow Phantom tried his best to express what he understood in the language he mastered.

The old man looked at the Shadow Phantom in surprise and then loosened it: "What if one day you became food yourself?"

"I can't be food without eating."

"And what about Bifang?"

"Mu Fang?"

The old man points out the recipe in his hand.

"No!" Shadow Phantom tightened his hands. "It won't work and I won't allow it." Shadow Phantom realizes vaguely that for himself, this only party is different from other creatures who can be "food".

"Hahahaha..." The old man laughed loudly. "It's the first time in my long life that I have met such an interesting phantom as you." He jumped down from the treetop and waved, "Come on, let's go."

Shadowmaker looked at him and said suddenly, "I've seen you." He remembered once seeing a lot of monsters gathered together and surrounded by them in awe was this old man.

Shadowmaker sat in the moonlight with a book full of tadpole-like writing in his hand, and the other on his lap was squared with the highest grade ink. There are many variations of human writing. Shadow Phantom doesn't know why they are so fickle, but the process of learning writing makes him feel very happy.

"What is 'human'?"

"Look at me and I'm a human!"

Shadow Phantom looked at the old man lying drunk on the bluestone by the river and then looked at a female swimsuit in a pictorial "Human..." Shadow Phantom shook his head. Then seriously start reading that ancient spellbook. When he turned to the last page of the book, the old man finally stopped his thunderous snoring and rubbed his eyes, "Get up and let's start practicing shape changing today."

"First become *human."

"Human? Which one?"

"Me! Be me first!"

The course to become *human is harder than Shadow Phantom imagined. He can quickly become "old man", "woman" or any of the people in the picture book but can't become a person out of thin air for a whole day.

"Hey why do women have beards!"

"Hand! Is that a human hand!"

"How do human ears grow upward!"

"Are you a human or a dog! Such a long tongue!"

"Idiot!"

"Stupid!"

“…”

The old man sat heavily on the ground and exhaled a breath and said, "I'm going to be so mad at you! But this time it finally looks like it."

The human man that Shadow Phantom turned into stood in front of him, although his eyes were a little too big, he looked more like a rabbit than an elephant, but overall he could accept that he was a human.

"Keep this way for ten days now and don't change. You have to learn to be a human being." Shadow Memories pulled the human clothes that he felt restrained and sat down and read a book quietly. The old man watched with interest from the side. He originally thought that it would take some effort to subdue this phantom, but he did not expect it to be so obedient. No matter what he taught, he earnestly and eagerly accepted it.

"Should have given you a name."

Shadowmaker looked up at the sound of his voice and listened intently.

"If you are Shadow Phantom, call it... uh, call it Shadow." This method of naming is so sloppy that Shadow Phantom doesn't make any comments. He just sticks his fingers on the soft soil. He wrote the word "Shadow" and looked up at the person who named him.

"Yes, that's the word. From today on you are 'Shadow'. Even if there were 110,000 phantoms, you would no longer be the same as them."

Shadow nodded thoughtfully.

"Yingyingying..." Bifang noisily flew down from the tree with the blood of the prey on the corner of its mouth - it has recently started to go out to hunt by itself. The strange thing is that this guy who was picky eaters eats the prey he catches with relish, not always one or the other. "Name Name Shadow Shadow... Shadow Shadow..." It flew around Ying Fei a few times, chirping and calling the name dozens of times, and finally landed on the rock in front of the old man, squinting and squinting, "What about me? Where's my name?"

"Instead, you are the only one here, Bifang, who doesn't have a name and won't be confused. But..." The old man saw that Bifang was really in a hurry and turned around and said, "If you want a name, let the shadow gang. Get one."

"Huo... Huo'er." Ying learned quickly in this area, the old man sighed secretly. He originally hoped that this student would be more creative than himself.

"Huo'er..." Bifang was slightly dissatisfied that he thought he deserved a louder and more remarkable name. "But forget it, since you helped me." Huo'er showed her tolerance and generosity, wiping her mouth on Ying's body and starting to sleep in the morning after breakfast.

Shadow hugged it on her lap and suddenly asked, "How about you? Your name?"

"My name is Zhou Wei because I was originally a bamboo basket weave in the Zhou Dynasty hahahaha..."

"...So that's how it is..." Shadow now understands what principle his name is based on.

"Shadow Chase!"

Fire swoops down from the air and yells at the fleeing ones after knocking down an enemy. With its cry, the shadow rushed out like a bolt of lightning and combined with the shadow of the fleeing enemy to solve the opponent neatly. He stood up and counted: "Seven of them haven't slipped through the net here."

What they're chasing is a red-eyed, white-tailed, pug-like-looking monster named Doji. These monsters can cause fires. It doesn't matter if they show up one by one, but seven or eight like this Together, they will cause a lot of trouble. In just a few days, two forests have been burned to ashes by them, and countless animals, plants and even monsters have died because of it.

"But why do we do such a thing?" Huo'er rambled while eating, "The nosy thing that he sent around all day."

The monsters have always pursued the principle of "it doesn't matter and hangs high", but recently Zhou Wei has often asked Ying and Huo'er to do something similar. "Conversely, you are also very happy to eat." Yin Paipai complained Huo'er. In his heart, he suddenly thought that when Zhou Wei took the initiative to find him and Huo'er, was it the same as these actions? Was he originally... trying to kill us?

"Is that so? Did you intend to kill us?" Ying asked Zhou Wei seriously.

Zhou Wei opened her mouth in disbelief and said, "What? You only found out now!"

I don't know why Ying felt an inexplicable emotion. He didn't know what was going on. Zhou Wei looked at him with his head down and wanted to leave. "Pu Chi" stopped him with a smile and said, "Why are you unhappy? It's not easy for you to learn to be unhappy."

"I'm not unhappy." Shadow subconsciously avoided the strangeness in his heart.

"Wow, I've learned to lie, it's too fast."

"I..."

Zhou Wei patted Paiying's shoulder and said, "It seems it's time to have a good talk with you."

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Ying sat alone by the river and quietly thought about what Zhou Wei said just now:

"You are no longer that ethereal shadowy phantom, you already have life."

"Life..."

"Although you are a monster, life is life. Whether it is a human, an animal, a plant or a monster, there should be no distinction between high and low. You live in this world, you can think, and you can have emotions. This is your life. ."

"Is that so..." Ying never thought about that.

"A life always has a purpose why does it exist and what is the purpose of existence?"

"What's the purpose?"

"You don't have to look troubled. You don't have to think about these things. When the time comes, you will naturally be bright and clear one day."

"Then can you tell me what my purpose is?"

"...how can anyone ask someone like this..."

"How can I know what you can't tell me?"

"Didn't I say you don't need to worry about this kind of thing. Before that, you should learn to use your own brain to think about things, don't keep asking others what to do, learn to express, feel your own joy, anger, sadness, and joy, and learn to like it What to hate and what to learn what is right and wrong."

"What's right and what's wrong?"

"It doesn't matter what's right and what's wrong 'yourself' thinks what's right and what's wrong is what matters. Get it? Your opinion matters."

"My own opinion..." Ying thinks that he is unconsciously picking up small stones and throwing them into the river while thinking. A dragonfly was frightened by the stone he threw, and swept away very far, and began to click on the water surface. When the shadow of a bird fell, the dragonfly hurriedly flew into the trees. flew into the sky. Before it could find a new target, a chickadee swooped down, caught it under its claws and flew towards the mountain. I watched the mountain eagle disappear, and his eyes fell on the bushes not far away. The dragonfly, which had just escaped the attack of the tit, accidentally bumped into a spider web and was struggling desperately. A huge spider has slowly crawled out.

Shadow stretched out his hand and took the dragonfly off the net. After the dragonfly flew away, he was still looking at his hand and the feeling of the dragonfly struggling between his fingers was still there.

Zhou Wei was looking at him from a distance and nodded slowly.

I don't understand why I let this dragonfly fly. Spiders can only survive by eating insects, and dragonflies themselves also eat other insects, don't they?

"Hey Ying!"

Ying turned around and Zhou Wei waved to him: "Come here, I think I can teach you some spells."

The torrential rains in the summer, which had been unable to hold water for several days, finally turned into a mudslide and rushed straight down the mountain.

"Avoid!" Ying shouted loudly. The "water avoidance method" applied to form an invisible wall blocked the rolling debris flow a little and made it slightly deviate from the original direction. The fire then flapped its wings and released it. A large number of flames shifted the direction of the mudslide and rushed up again without delay... They took turns taking turns and finally led the mudslide to the direction they wanted before it rushed down the hillside Mud water, stones, trees, grass branches ... everything rushed into the swamp with unstoppable momentum.

"Phew..." Huo'er landed on Ying's shoulder and sighed again, "I'm exhausted!"

Shadow was tired watching the menacing mudslide plunge into the swamp, but was thankful that he and Fire could stop it from rushing into the vegetated forest below the mountain.

There were faint laughter and whispers from the nearby bushes, and the voice and shadow knew that there were many monsters living in the woods that were supposed to be washed away by the mudslide. When Ying and Huo'er started to block the mudslide, they were probably there watching the fun while preparing to escape after Ying failed, but none of them came out to help Ying and Huo'er who were actually protecting their homeland for them. There was another emotion in Ying's heart now that he knew it was called "angry".

"Damn guy!" Huo'er exclaimed indignantly, "Hiding there to watch jokes together! Just when you're tired and hungry, just grab one for dinner!" The monsters who were disturbed by Huo'er fled in all directions, and Huo'er chased after him regardless of the situation. Ying didn't care about who Huo'er would catch up with and who would eat who. He slowly walked back around the mudslide-ravaged hillside. For some reason, he didn't feel angry anymore.

"Is it right or wrong to want to kill a monster?"

The teacup that Zhou Wei was about to raise to her mouth was put back after hearing Ying's question: "Why do you want to do this?"

"There's no reason why it's not for eating or self-defense, but I just want to do it for a moment." Ying sat down across from Zhou Wei with his hands on his knees, and he could see that he was really confused.

"Is it because he angered you?" Zhou Wei said, "The intention to kill is not necessarily to eat for self-defense, but also for many other reasons - he made you angry and this is one of the reasons. "

"So is this right?"

"You have to ask yourself whether it's right or wrong. Everyone's answer may be different for each monster. My answer may not be the same as your answer or even Huo'er's answer. Do you understand?"

"...I don't understand." Ying knew that he couldn't get the answer to this question from Zhou Wei, turned around and walked out of Zhou Wei's wooden house. He habitually came to the river and tucked his knees to stare at the river. Zhou Wei started to teach him spells and other "worlds" a hundred years ago, about gods, demons, immortals, delicate monsters and human beings, but he no longer told Ying what to do, right or wrong... Commands or answers were piled up one after another in Shadow's mind and more and more were accumulated over time.

"Shadow" Huo'er flew back slowly because she was too full to speak, "What happened to you recently? You look troubled?"

Ying holds it in her arms, this willful and arbitrary will also care about others, which makes Ying a little moved "I'm fine, but I'm in a mood and can't understand why."

"I'm in the mood..." Huo'er muttered, "Eat and sleep, all the troubles are gone." He curled up and folded his wings and began to implement his own ideas.

Shadow stretched her legs to make Huo'er sleep more comfortable. "If only I could be like Huo'er, I wouldn't have any troubles." But why do I have such and such troubles? Zhou Hao seemed to have no worries, and Huo'er lived a carefree life. The other monsters and animal shadows didn't see that they had so many things that they couldn't figure out. Is it because he is a shadow phantom whose intelligence is lower than other types, so he can't figure out so many things? Shadow stretched out his limbs and stood up. If it was because of the type, then there would be no point in worrying about it.

Ying and Huo'er walked back along the path stepped by the goat. They had just returned from delivering a letter for Zhou Wei from a distance. Huo'er habitually complained about Zhou Wei's nagging about her dispatch.

"Hi!"

"Hi! Did you hear me! Come and help!"

Shadow turned around and saw a monster standing on the cliff waving at him "Come and help!"

"Lunch!" Huo'er cheered, ready to pounce on the monster.

"Huo'er wait a moment." Ying quickly held it down. "He's here to help us."

"Why should we help it!"

"Isn't there anything to lose if I look at it in the past?" Shadow flew to the cliff with this thought.

Huo'er complained dissatisfiedly: "Yingzhen's lunch that was too self-willed flew away again! But I'll go to see him with magnanimity!" He also flew over.

Standing on the cliff to say hello is a ghost figure incarnated as a human wearing a long skirt, unable to tell what it is The guy who admired this monster, based on his experience, dared to take the initiative to say hello to Bi Fang had never appeared again except Zhou Wei.

"Come and do me a favor" the monster couldn't help but grab the shadow and leave "Come on! I can't save them myself!"

Shadow didn't know what it was going to do and had to follow it. After walking all the way to a clearing, the shadow did not see anything in need of rescue.

"Why are you still here! Help me save them!" said the monster angrily.

"What? Who to save?" Yingdong looked around.

"Where are you looking? Here under your feet!"

Shadow lowered his head and saw a bush next to a wild goat that had been chewed by a herd of wild goats. "Save...them?"

"Plants are also part of this forest, aren't you? Haven't you been helping everyone protect this place! Are plants not under your protection? I worship you as a hero in vain!" The monster was unhappy It is said that "among all things in the universe, only plants can survive only with sunlight, water, soil, and air, and also provide other life nutrients, how can they look down on them!"

"I can live without water, air, or soil, and I don't need to eat other creatures." Shadow said seriously.

"What's wrong with eating other creatures!" Huo'er said dissatisfiedly, standing on Shadow's shoulder.

The monster couldn't help laughing after hearing Ying's words, then turned its head sideways and said seriously: "Well, what you said is more advanced than plants."

Shadow's face blushed slightly. He knew that the other party was not praising him but mocking him. After all, Shadow Phantom is the lowest kind of monsters. "What do you want me to do?" He just wanted to finish quickly and get out early.

"Help me lift them up will you use the Earth Cover Charm?"

"Yes."

"You protect their roots with an earth-covering spell while I regenerate them."

"Good."

As soon as the monster reached out, the broken shrub stood out from the soil and protected the roots of the plant while it carefully repaired the foliage with magic. For the first time, Shadow discovered that it took more mana to flourish plants than to heal animals or whatever.

When all the bushes were brought back to life, the moon had quietly revealed its face. Huo'er was probably hungry and didn't know where to fly to find food. Yingpai claps the dirt on his hands and prepares to leave.

"Please wait."

Shadow looked back "What else?"

"Can you stay with me for a while?"

“?…”

"Just stay with me until tomorrow morning."

"I'm going to find Fire."

"What if I'm dying? Would you like to spend my last time with me?"

"Dead..."

"I'm dying! My life is only tomorrow morning!"

“…”

"I'm a yellow thorn, isn't it the beginning of autumn tomorrow?"

Shadow knows the peculiar characteristics of this plant monster. Their body will give birth to a monster every spring, but on the day of the beginning of autumn, the monster will die, but the yellow thorn tree itself will not die, and a new monster will be born in the spring. . This is a strange, infertile, short-lived but immortal monster.

"I saw yellow thorn for the first time" Ying looked at it "I thought it was just something written in the book."

It sat down and patted the rock beside it, motioned shadows, and sat down and said, "Is it novel to see yellow thorns that are happy to die?"

"It's not, but it doesn't matter that you'll be alive next spring anyway."

"Next spring..." Huang Ji pointed at the swamp under the mountain with a wry smile on his lips and asked, "There will be new shadows every day. Is that you?"

"Of course it wasn't me."

"That's not me either."

It took a few seconds for the shadow to realize: "The yellow thorns born each year are different, which means that you can only live for three seasons."

"We can only keep the knowledge of the previous generation but not the memories and emotions. We can only live so long and tomorrow is my deadline." It said it lazily.

Shadow sat down next to it, although I don't know why it wants to accompany it by itself, but there is no loss in accompanying it.

"Why?" Huang Ji looked at Ying directly and repeated these three words "Why?"

Looks at it incredulously.

"Why you survived!"

"Me?"

Don't turn your head to look at him and say, "Actually, we have a way to survive."

"What can I do?" Shadow wondered if he could help it?

Huang Ji turned around and stared at him and said word by word: "The Emperor!"

"Emperor Slurry..." Shadow understands that this kind of thing is unpredictable.

"Once in 60 years...that means every 60 years we only have one chance to survive! And you got such a chance! Why?"

"Because that day happened to be the day of 'Emperor's Slurry'." Ying couldn't understand why it was so excited - it has nothing to do with it being able to survive, isn't it?

Yellow thorn stretched out his hand and caught Ying's neck. Countless rhizomes stretched out from the soil and plunged into Ying's body, shouting: "Why! Why can you live and I have to die! Why!"

Shadow turned into a shadow and easily escaped from its attack. He stretched out his hand and sent a flash of fire, and the yellow thorn popped out more than ten steps and fell to the ground. The monster incarnated by the plant is most afraid of Hokage. He has not practiced in vain to deal with this little monster for hundreds of years.

Yellow thorn was knocked down by Shadow's spell and couldn't get up for a while. Shadow's life was easy at this time, but he hesitated and thought that it would only survive until tomorrow morning. Did you go back?

Huang Ji sat up and got up, crying and shouting to Ying's back: "Please don't go, please accompany me until tomorrow morning? Anyway, I can only live until then and I can't waste you a lot. Time, you can't do it, can you!"

"You tried to kill me just now." Shadow reminded him of his actions.

Huang Thorn just lowered his head and cried and didn't say anything else. When Shadow stepped away again, it begged, "Really?"

Shadow walks back and sits beside it.

Huang Ji held Ying's hand and said, "I'm so afraid of death that I'm going crazy! Please believe me, I really admire you for doing so much for this mountain forest for so many years, but at that moment I ... as if I hate everything that can live, I wish everyone died..."

"Is that so?" Shadow couldn't understand this feeling.

"Have you ever been particularly afraid of one thing? What would you do if you felt afraid?"

Shadow shook her head: "I don't know what fear is."

"It's so good..." Huangthorn looked at the moon in the sky "I've been so scared that I forgot to live well so now I'm even more scared. I'll run out in a few hours and soon..." It As he spoke, his body shook and shrank into a ball, "It's better to die now, but you don't have to be afraid all the time!"

"Forget it as if nothing will happen tomorrow."

"Can't forget, can't forget!" Huang Thorn shook his head.

"Do you want to be so afraid until dawn?"

"Let me fall asleep until dawn and pretend nothing will happen to me. Hurry up and fall asleep." It leaned on Ying's shoulder and closed its eyes and said, "Go to sleep, go to sleep quickly. ."

Shadow reached out and pressed it on its forehead, and it immediately fell into a deep sleep and smiled faintly in its sleep - the shadow was not using a spell to make it sleepy, but an illusion so that it could see the life it wanted. Shadow looked at the stars in the sky and calculated the time, wondering if the time before dawn would be enough to make it a sweet dream.

Shadow has let it rely on him. For the first time, he knew that life can have so much fear about death. Before this, he had never thought about death, so did the monsters he once killed also do the same when they died Fear? I will die too. At that time, I will understand what "fear" is.

When the first ray of sunlight hit the shadow, the yellow thorn leaning against him disappeared. There grew a tree with green branches and green leaves, with bright red orchid-like lovely fruits and small yellow flowers. Shadow knew that a monster would be born again in the spring, but it was no longer the one he knew. The shadow patted the tree trunk and stood up. In my heart, I began to wonder where Huo'er went that night? Did you worry about not going back to Zhou Wei?

"Shadow." Zhou Wei jumped down from a tree.

Ying's eyes widened, "Oh!" He jumped out just thinking of him, and he couldn't react for a while.

"It's a yellow thorn." Zhou Wei looked at the tree. "I thought you finally learned to date a woman, but it turned out to be a yellow thorn." His voice was full of disappointment.

"Women?"

"It's" Zhou Wei patted Ying's shoulder with a weird look on his face, "Don't pretend to be stupid, I saw you sit with 'her' for a whole night with my own eyes - didn't you do anything else?"

"You watched us all night?" Shadow frowned. "But is it a woman? The picture book you showed me looks like a woman..." As he spoke, he drew a few phantoms in the air with his fingers: three-dot "Aren't women supposed to be like this?"

"This...hahahahahaha..." Zhou Wei grabbed her head and smiled awkwardly.

Looking at him incomprehensibly, he had no idea what he was laughing at.

"Zhou Wei" suddenly asked "What is death? Are you going to die? Are you afraid?"

"Death is... rest."

"Break?"

"Dead doesn't mean I don't exist. On the contrary, as long as you live seriously, there is nothing that can make me not exist. Of course I will die, but I'm not afraid." You'll understand." After saying that, he stepped forward.

Shadow's inexplicable added unease as he watched him think about what he said.

One morning, Ying and Huo'er were woken up by Zhou Wei early in the morning. When they came to Zhou Wei's wooden house, Zhou Wei sat cross-legged on the grass in front of the wooden house with a serious face.

Huo'er yawned: "What did the stinky old man ask us to do early in the morning?"

Zhou Wei lowered her eyes and asked, "Do you remember how long we have been together?"

Ying thought for a while and replied: "No one will be patient to memorize this for more than two hundred years."

"I have taught you everything I can teach you for two hundred years. You have a natural chance, and you will definitely be able to pass me in the future."

"Why do you say that?"

"Do you remember you once asked me if I was afraid of death? What is death?"

"That was decades ago, why are you bringing it up now!"

"Because you'll be able to see it for yourself right away - I'm dying."

"Liar..." Ying shook his head incredulously "I don't believe you won't die!"

Even Huo'er, who had been dozing all the time, heard something wrong and shouted loudly: "Aren't you an immortal who has lived for thousands of years! Why are you talking about dying now! Are you trying to trick us into doing something for you?"

"It must be so!" Ying said, "What do you want us to do, Zhou Wei?"

"You have done a lot for this mountain forest over the years. After I leave, it is up to you whether you want to do this kind of thing or not." Zhou Wei looked up at the mountains, rivers and forests in the sky until the shadow and harmony in front of her. Huo'er "It has lived for thousands of years and it is worthy of me and I am also worthy of it. It has to be thrown away now."

"Zhou Wei!" Ying grabbed his hand "Don't lie to me! You won't die!"

"Am I lying to you?" Zhou Wei asked with a smile, "I have taught you for so many years that you can't even tell the difference?"

Ying let go of his hands and knelt down on the ground. He knew that Zhou Wei did not lie this time.

"If there are gatherings, there will be dispersal, and there will be life and death..." Zhou Wei said lightly, "I'm just the day has come."

Inexplicably, he said: "Why? You should have been more alive and dead with your Taoism!"

Zhou Wei said: "To live with the heavens and the earth is just an end of life. I just fled to the mountains to avoid the war. Now my era has long disappeared. It turned into white bones and turned into dust, and I can still watch the vicissitudes of life for so many years. I am very satisfied. What people fear most is lack of greed!"

Ying didn't speak, but saw the water drop drop by drop on Zhou Wei's hand. Shadow touched his face and felt that the "water drop" actually fell from his face. He looked at his wet palm and didn't know it was What's wrong.

"You're crying..." Zhou Wei's loving face patted the film. "What's the point of a silly child to cry to wipe the tears - but it's good that you finally learned to 'cry'."

Ying obediently wiped her face with tears but couldn't stop her tears: "I...I..."

"Forget it, just cry if you want to cry. In this world, you always have to learn to 'cry' before you can learn to 'laugh'. It's just that I don't have the chance to see your 'laugh' anymore..."

"Laugh? What am I going to do now..."

"What a silly child!" Zhou Wei said with a smile, "Don't worry, one day you can learn something, you can always find a reason to laugh. It's a pity... it's a pity... I can't wait..."

"Zhou Wei? Zhou Wei?" Ying saw Zhou Wei's expression suddenly solidified and quickly called his name, but Zhou Wei's body temperature slowly dissipated. "Zhou Wei! Zhou Wei!" Ying shouted loudly shaking his body.

"He's dead." Huo'er approached Zhou Wei to see this conclusion.

Ying gave up the action of shaking Zhou Wei and tears fell in large drops.

"It's really dead. It's a pity that I might as well eat him." Huo'er said.

Shadow raised his head angrily and scolded: "Huo'er!" What he saw was the burning tears rolling down from Huo'er's eyes, igniting the grass under his feet. "But if it doesn't look delicious, I wouldn't eat this kind of thing!" Huo'er complained, spreading out her wings and flying away. The grass and trees it flew all the way were a little green smoke rising...

Zhou Wei loved this mountain forest the most during his lifetime, so Ying and Huo'er cremated him and threw his ashes on the mountain. In a blink of an eye, several days have passed, but Ying has been sitting by the river. In the evening, Huo'er flew in a hurry to see that he was still sitting there and called out: "Ying, why are you still sitting here! Today is something" The day of the emperor! All the monsters are waiting for the moon to come out! Let's go to the top of the mountain to grab a good spot!" Huo'er flapped his wings and went to the top of the mountain to find an unobstructed place. It's really late. It seems that it is determined to grab the place that it is optimistic about.

"Shadow! Let's go!"

"Go on your own."

"What's wrong with you?" Huo'er didn't understand what happened to Ying, who was always urging her to cultivate, but she wanted to give up the once-in-a-60-year opportunity.

"I don't know what's wrong with me, but I feel like I've lost something in my heart."

"Is it because of Zhou Wei?" Huo'er said wisely.

"Huo'er, what do you say we are going to do in the future? Originally it was Zhou Wei who told us what to do every day, what should we do now?"

"Without that guy, we are better free to eat, sleep and do whatever we want!" Huo'er didn't have any troubles in this regard.

"Is it..."

"You've been like this for several days and you're going to continue like this..." Huo'er stopped on his shoulder. "Forget it, I won't be here to accompany you."

Shadow strokes the feathers on fire. After Zhou Wei died, this Bifang was the only object that made him feel different from other creatures. But is it a Bifang that will return to "Kunlun" one day? What if there are gods, demons, and immortals summoning it to do so?

"What will Huo'er do if you are summoned?"

"I'm not going! I don't like being told!"

"But if it's a god, a demon, a fairy..."

"Eat them!" said Huo'er, who was almost asleep, dazedly.

Fire can't eat them! Shadow clearly knew that once something like that happened, there was nothing he and Huo'er could do except accept it. Thinking of the possibility of such a thing happening in the future, Shadow involuntarily hugged Huo'er tightly. "Why do you die and why can't you refuse what you don't want?" Ying murmured, "I don't want to die and I don't want Huo'er to become someone else's spirit beast!"

As soon as the fire was lit, it was woken up by Shadow Shake. It asked sleepily, "What's wrong?"

"I'm going to the human city."

"What?" Huo'er's eyes widened.

"I want to be successful, so I have to learn to be a man first!"

"People? I haven't eaten this kind of thing..." Huo'er said thoughtfully.

Ying has made up her mind to look into the distance and say, "I'm afraid that one day I will die, and I don't want Huo'er to become someone else's spirit beast... Huo'er, do you want to go with me or stay here... "

"I'm going! I'm going!" Huo'er cried before he could finish his sentence. "I've been wanting to taste human beings for a long time!"

The film was originally worried that Huo'er was unwilling to leave the forest where he was used to living and where he could do whatever he wanted. He was relieved to hear that.

That morning, the monsters in the forest were celebrating because the domineering Bifang and his accomplice, Yingmei, had already left the mountains.

Shadow sat on the roadside of the first human town she found, looking at the content to be filled in on the ID card in her hand: "name, gender". Name? Ying frowned and Zhou Wei didn't tell him what his surname should be. Finally, he stretched out his finger and flicked the blank ID card, and the following content appeared on it: Name: Zhou Ying; Gender: Male...

After another few decades, Zhou Ying, who lived as a farmer in a small human town, left his small town and came to the prosperous metropolis at the request of Huo'er clamoring to live in the largest city... …

"I don't have as many twists and turns as you guys." After Zhou Ying finished telling his story, seeing Liu Di and Lin Rui listening intently, he said, "I've lived this simple for hundreds of years."

"Easy? It's not easy to stand here with just a shadow!" Lin Rui said, looking at the sun, "Oops, I'm going to be late for school. Let's talk next time! I'll think about your birthday present, Huoer. Bye bye!" He waved and disappeared.

Zhou Ying looked at the rising sun and took a deep breath and narrowed his eyes.

Liu Di put his shoulders on him: "What do you want for your birthday? I'll give you a gift."

Zhou Ying shook his head and showed him a bright smile: "I'm about to start my morning practice, do you want to come with me?"

"I'm still practicing? I've been practicing all night!"

"Huo'er is gone~IndoMTL.com~ Liu Di followed up reluctantly and asked, "I really don't want anything? Now you can cry, laugh, anger, sadness, and joy... Let me introduce a woman to you. I don't know the benefits of a woman, but it's not a real 'man'! "

"It's a beauty! How about it? Want it?"

"Hey, don't go... I'm serious..."

Liu Di chased Zhou Ying and ran into the staircase.

A cat who accidentally swallowed a strange thing that fell from the sky last night felt a little strange today, squatting in a corner, washing its face with its front paws, and listening to their conversation. At this time, the owner's call came, and the cat couldn't help but blurt out: "I'm here! What are you eating today?" The human voice came out of the mouth and it was startled, but its owner didn't hear it. Take it into my arms: "Bad Mimi has worried me all night! Come home for dinner."

The cat was lying comfortably in the owner's arms and suddenly understood something: "That thing is called 'Emperor's jelly'..."