It's Liao Zhai, not Cthulhu

"Yeah, originally I wanted to take advantage of the light rain, but who would have thought that the rain would get heavier and heavier. Alas, I should have bought some oiled paper to cover them." The scholar said regretfully.

"I haven't prepared enough, scholar." Qin Yuelou said, "If this is the case, the handwriting inside should be blurred, and it will be useless if you bake it."

"They accompanied me all the way, and it's okay if I faint." The scholar was still baking the book.

Qin Yuelou didn't speak.

Then a strong man broke in from the back door. He carried a big knife behind his back. After entering, without saying a word, he walked straight to the fire, squatted down and started a fire.

The brawny man took out the dry food, roasted it, and started to eat it. He even gave out some food. It seemed that he was very hungry.

Qin Yuelou didn't speak, neither did Orion and the scholar.

"Do you want to eat?" The big man took out a few more pieces of dry food.

"No need, you can keep it for yourself." Qin Yuelou waved his hand.

After listening to the big man, he asked the other two people. After seeing that the scholar and Orion also refused, the big man put away the dry food and said nothing.

"It's really raining, it's getting bigger and bigger." Qin Yuelou looked out the door.

A wet tiger stepped on the muddy ground and walked into the door.

The tiger was a bit skinny, blind in one eye, limping on one hind leg, and covered with healed scars, and the fur on its body was also dull, and strands of it were gathered after being wet by the rain.

The end is the gathering of the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled.

The tiger walked into the door, found a piece of ground and lay down on its side, but it also stared straight at the four of them.

The scholar was trembling with fright, Orion bent his bow and set his arrow, while the big man held the handle of the knife behind his back.

Qin Yuelou did nothing.

"If you don't mind, you can also come and enjoy the fire." Qin Yuelou threw the wooden plank into the middle of the fire and said to the tiger.

Tiger didn't know if he understood or not, he kept staring at the four people in the temple.

Orion and the big man didn't dare to act rashly, the scholar kept trembling, and Qin Yuelou continued to add wood like a normal person.

"Aren't you afraid?" The big man asked Qin Yuelou.

"Tigers don't hurt people, so why be afraid? Although it's an old tiger, it's obviously full. It's just like us looking for a place to hide from the rain. Besides, the four of us won't be defeated by an old tiger." A weak, sick tiger, right? Back then, when I was drunk and went to Jingyanggang, I shoveled a big white-fronted tiger to death with a shovel." Qin Yuelou croaked, completely caring whether others believed it or not.

But then he noticed a monster aura, which didn't emanate from the tiger, but came from outside the door.

On a rainy day with ruined temples in the mountains and forests, the half of Luo Shan reveals her delicate face.

The tiger looked at the woman whose clothes were stuck to her skin, but got up, lowered her body, and let out a suppressed growl, but no one noticed.

The woman looked at Orion with watery eyes.

"Orion, so you're here, so it's really easy for me to find you." The woman made three steps in parallel, with a charming posture, and it seemed that she was about to pounce on Orion.

Orion was very puzzled, and two eyes of the same doubt also fell on Orion.

"Are you...?" Orion searched his memory, but he had no memory of this woman at all.

"Have you forgotten? Five days ago you were hunting in the forest and rescued a little white rabbit..." the woman said.

"What? You can still be the white rabbit who became a spirit to repay your kindness?" Qin Yuelou teased, and continued to add wood to the fire.

The woman giggled: "I think Orion is a good-looking talent, and he can be considered a hero, so..."

The words are not finished, but only half, giving people room for reverie, and the words are also ambiguous.

"But if you want to, I don't mind..."

The scholar shook his head: "Girl, please respect yourself, whether you are a demon or a human, please respect yourself."

The big man also shook his head: "I like men."

Both the Orion and the scholar approached Qinyuelou, and moved away from the big man one after another.

Qin Yuelou looked at the woman and shook his head.

"Want to eat the four of us? You have a big appetite." Qin Yuelou rested his two fingers on the scabbard,

"Little white rabbit is not an omnivorous animal. With your filthy air, you have eaten a lot of people, right? And seeing that tiger is so wary of you, how can you be rescued? So, you are not a rabbit demon at all. .”

When the woman heard this, her face remained unchanged.

"So what? You four mortals, can you still beat me?"

"When did you have the illusion that I am a mortal?"

The sword light was shining, it turned out that it was Qin Yuelou who drew his sword out of its sheath, his figure was extremely fast, and he came to the big man in an instant, and his sword blocked the animal claw swung by the woman.

The target of the beast's claw was the big man with the knife on his back, he probably wanted to strike first and kill the big man.

"Flowers will bloom again, and people will never be young again, you tigress, do you understand?"

The sword flower flipped over, and cut off a piece of flesh from the woman's tiger claw. She shook the sword lightly, and the flesh fell into the fire, and the splashed blood also made a "chichi" sound and was dried.

The woman let out a tiger roar, her clothes burst open, revealing yellow fur with black patterns appearing on it, but Qin Yuelou's fast sword was faster than the woman's revealing the prototype.

With the intention of having fun, Qin Yuelou shaved off most of the hair on the woman's body, especially the hair on the top of the woman's tiger head, which looked like the Mediterranean Sea.

The tigress became angry from embarrassment, roaring in the mountains and forests, startling the birds and beasts to run away, the old, weak, sick and disabled tiger seemed to be unable to bear it, but it also stared at the power of the tigress.

This power overwhelmed the three people except Qin Yuelou to the ground.

Three figures popped out from the tiger skin,

This is the ghost, and that's how it came to be the ghost of the tiger. The ghost wants to possess the other three people.

But Qin Yuelou's green light was shining on the blade, like water waves like waves, swaying leisurely on the blade,

A sword glowed brightly, followed by a clear and crisp sword sound.

The blade slashed across the tigress' neck without hindrance, and then stopped the ghost,

Then the sword glow slowly dissipated, this is the art of slaying monsters, even the gods and Buddhas can be slashed.

The tigress wanted to make a move again, but who would have thought that the big head fell off her neck just like that.

The headless half-human half-tiger body was uncontrollable and fell to the ground.

Only the tiger's eyes were full of ferocity, but the other end rolled a few times and landed in front of the old, weak, sick and disabled tiger.

The tiger looked at the tiger's head, but it didn't feel sad about the death of its kind. It just put its paws on the tiger's head and let out a roar, as if it was very happy.

Qin Yuelou looked at the tiger's body.

"What kind of tigress are you pretending to be with a male tiger? Really, it's not like this if you just want to fish, right?" Qin Yuelou was a little speechless, sheathed the sword, and the corpse of the demon tiger was also put into the warehouse.

It's just a little demon, who knows a little bit of illusion and transformation, but in fact it's just self-taught. If he really has some Taoism, he won't be disturbed by Orion to hunt.

Seeing that the rain was getting lighter, Qin Yuelou also walked out of the ruined temple, ready to go back to the inn.

But he felt something following behind him.

When he looked back, the tiger was lying on the ground, as if trying to kneel down.

He has long seen that this tiger has spirituality, and it is quite deep. What is even more rare is that this tiger has never hurt a single person.

Listening with six ears, Qin Yuelou could hear what the tiger was thinking.

"I don't accept apprentices, and I can't teach you anything, so you should return to the mountains as soon as possible." Qin Yuelou waved his hand, grabbed the sword and left the ruined temple.

But the tiger still followed Qin Yuelou relentlessly.

Qin Yuelou listened to it with six ears.

"You can have this, you lead the way."

After hearing this, the tiger motioned Qin Yuelou to ride on its back.

"Come on, you're old, weak, sick and disabled." After patting the tiger's head, Qin Yuelou and the tiger disappeared into the rain.

The remaining three had mixed reactions.

"It turns out that the person who 'repays kindness' is not necessarily the one you saved, and it may also be the one who 'revenged' you who broke something good." Orion muttered to himself.

The big man with the knife picked up the tiger's head and said after a long silence, "No, I'm going to learn from my teacher."

Throwing down the tiger's head, the big man chased it out, Orion thought about it, and chased it out too.

The scholar was still roasting the book, thought for a while, put the book back in the basket, and ran out with Orion.

Only the tiger's head was left in the ruined temple, and it still maintained that fierce gaze.

Chapter Four

Shouhu led Qin Yuelou down the mountain, and one person and one tiger just stood outside a village.

Qin Yuelou looked at the tiger, squatted down, concentrated his magic power on his fingertips, and then used his finger as a pen on the tiger's forehead to write the coherent word "imperial order". , symbols and tails are all available.

This is a talisman learned from the "Mountain" book, borrowing the law from the sky and the earth, and using the power of the sky and the earth to hide the tiger's figure.

The so-called talisman method does not necessarily have to use talisman paper. Looking at the essence through the phenomenon, the talisman method uses talisman paper as the carrier, so only one carrier is needed to carry the content of the talisman. Be it trees or people, everything in this world can be a carrier of talismans.

The power of heaven and earth is very great, in other words, people are still too small.

Qin Yuelou patted the tiger's head, and then continued to follow the tiger. The tiger led Qin Yuelou to a small house on the edge of the village.

There is an old smell in the small room, mixed with the smell of all the sundries in the old house, just like the old time.

"Is it this one?" Qin Yuelou asked Tiger.

Tiger nodded, then Qin Yuelou walked in and knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" An old voice came from inside the house. Although he was old, his voice was strangely loud.

"A passer-by wants to ask for a bowl of water." Qin Yuelou said, "I wonder if the old man can help me?"

"Ah? What?" The old man in the house raised his voice again, "Speak up, I can't hear you."

"Ask for a bowl of water! Mister! Could you please help me?!"

"No! My leg is broken! I can't get out of bed! Can you find another home?!"

Qin Yuelou glanced down at the tiger, but then pushed the door open.

"Broken leg? Does the old man need any help?!" Qin Yuelou just entered the door and asked the old man.

The old man had a cloth strip wrapped around one leg and fixed it with a wooden board as a splint. There were also a set of tools in the house, which looked like a herbal picker.

Looking at Qin Yuelou, the old man panicked at first, but after seeing Qin Yuelou's attire, he didn't think Qin Yuelou looked like a bad guy anymore.

Because although Qin Yuelou sometimes has a bad face, but when he is not, he still has the painting style of an upright young hero.

"There's nothing to help, no need." Although the old man let go of most of his precautions, he was not completely relieved of Qin Yuelou.

Qin Yuelou looked at the old man's broken leg: "Old man, did you accidentally fall down?"

"Damn, I'm old and I don't have any children, so I have to support myself. A few days ago, I was digging medicine in the woods. Who knew I fell, so I didn't fall to my death. It's weird to talk about that day. ,

A tiger actually saved me. That tiger was also lame on one hind leg. At first I thought it was going to eat me, but I didn’t expect it to take my clothes in its mouth and put me at the entrance of the village. What a surprise. "

As soon as the old man spoke, the chatterbox couldn't be closed, and he said it to Qin Yuelou. It seemed that this matter was indeed very strange to him.

"Mister, is there a possibility that you rescued that tiger before?" Qin Yuelou tried to persuade.

Seeing that the apprenticeship failed, the tiger didn't stalk him, but he also asked Qin Yuelou to do him a small favor, but his posture was low enough,

And this little favor is to hope that Qin Yuelou can come and treat this old man who collects herbs.

However, this old man collecting herbs may have forgotten that he once rescued a little tiger cub.

"Rescue? If you want to talk about rescue, I don't know if it is a rescue. It was about 20 years ago. When I was collecting herbs, I heard something screaming, and then I went to see it. At a glance, it was a hunter's trap in the village, which caught a little tiger's hind leg.

In fact, I didn't think about it at the time. I just heard the little tiger's voice and felt very uncomfortable, so I went to break the clip off and gave the little tiger some medicine. After I was done, I went home by myself. . "The old man recalled.

The average lifespan of a tiger is about 25 to 15 years, and the average lifespan of a tiger is about 20 years, which means that this wild tiger is already [-] years old. .

This is really... old, weak, sick and disabled.

"Then you haven't thought about bringing that little tiger home for a while?" Qin Yuelou asked the old man.

"Bring it home? Young man, you think too much. It's a little tiger, not a kitten. If it's a kitten, I'll bring it back, but it's a little tiger. If I bring that cub back, Then its mother will definitely come to trouble me." The old man laughed,

"Besides, don't those who live outside have to resign themselves to their fate? I saved it out of compassion, but I'm not sure that it will survive. After all, it's lame, injured, even if it's grown up. Tigers may not survive, so how can the little tiger survive?"

As the old man spoke, Qin Yuelou was also amazed, and looked at the tiger resting on the ground next to him.

The tiger was wounded all over, blind and lame, and very thin. It looked like he was getting thinner due to being old and unable to catch prey, but what surprised Qin Yuelou even more was that the tiger still remembered the herb picker and wanted to repay the favor.

"Have you ever thought about the possibility that the lame tiger who saved you is the little tiger you saved 20 years ago?" Qin Yuelou asked the old man.