Fast Travel: A Record of Unusual Creatures

Beijing, XC District, inside Huaxiang Restaurant Tea House.

"Have you heard? Zuosi Cheng of Dali Temple, Xu Yun, the third-class guard, Zhang Shidu of Hanlin Academy, and others were all cursed by the cat demon last night and turned into mice.

And they are mice as big as humans. If they hadn't been able to write, no one would have known about it. "

"Isn't that true? I also heard that there was a sixth-grade Lan Ling chief in the Ministry of Internal Affairs who turned into a mouse last night and was beaten to death before he could even write or anything. He was reported as a reward.

By the time he found out, it would have been too late to save him. "

"It feels like there is no connection between these people. Also, how do you know it was the cat demon who did it? Didn't they turn into mice? Didn't they turn into cats?"

"Why are there no contacts? As far as I know, they have all been clamoring or are preparing to catch the cat for meritorious service!"

"Zhang Shidu from the Hanlin Academy specially sent his servants to buy thirty kilograms of rat poison from nearby pharmacies yesterday, and emptied out the rat poison from several pharmacies.

The purpose of registration is to use these drugs to poison wild cats. "

"It's so rare to poison a cat with rat poison!"

"The key is that there is no cat medicine for sale. You can't buy arsenic poison. Besides, if he dares to buy it, the drug store dares not sell it. Who dares to sell thirty or forty kilograms of arsenic."

"No wonder the cat demon wants revenge. They all killed the cat demon's kin. How can the cat demon not take revenge? But I still don't understand why the cat demon wants to turn them into mice. I can't prepare to keep them to eat. "

"Hey, it's hard to say. Maybe the cat demon doesn't eat people, so it's more convenient to turn people into mice?"

"Haha, how can there be such a statement!"

"I have heard of the art of animal creation before, which can turn people into sheep, donkeys and other livestock. Some of them are used to facilitate the trafficking of women and children, and some are simply sold to butchers as real sheep or real donkeys.

I didn’t expect monsters to know this kind of magic! "

"Have those people who turned into mice asked Dao Lusi or other Taoist masters for help? I remember that the animal-making technique can be solved, and it is not very difficult. I heard that it can be solved by drinking some water. ?"

"It's not that easy. The third-class guard Xu Yun lives near my house. His family may have heard similar legends. They fed him a lot of water, and his belly almost burst. He still looked like a mouse. I visited several Taoist temples, but no one had any idea.

I heard that they are all with Dao Lu Division now.

If that can't be solved, I'm afraid it's hanging. "

"I don't know where they got the courage to get involved in this kind of thing involving monsters. I really think that monsters don't hold grudges, or don't bother to do anything to us mortals. The Queen Mother has been tricked, and the entire Daolu Department has not been able to do anything about it.

You are simply asking for death! "

"What does that cat monster want to do, or does it have any grudge against the Queen Mother and the others? Although it seems to have done a lot of evil, it is different from the monsters in some stories that kill innocent people indiscriminately. It seems to be very targeted.

Inexplicably, there is a sense of chivalry and revenge! "

"I know this. It is said that a dozen servants in Duke Chengen's mansion were skinned a few days ago. The symptoms of Duke Chengen and others now are also skin peeling off and body ulcers. If you think about it again, most of them The civet cat was replaced by the prince a few months ago. I heard that the civet cat was skinned.

In order to experiment with what kind of medicine can make civet cats silent and skin them alive, it is estimated that the Cheng'en Palace has captured stray cats for experiments. How can they not take revenge? "

"Yes, yes, I heard some time ago that there was a curse from a cat demon in the palace, saying that a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye should be used. Isn't this right!"

"How can a cat's life be compared to a human life!"

"For those powerful people, what is the difference between the lives of ordinary people like us and the lives of cats? No, there is still a difference. If cats lose their lives, there will be cat monsters to avenge them. Our lives will be lost. If we dare to do this With this thought, I’m afraid the whole family’s lives may not be saved!”

"Speak carefully, speak carefully!"

"If those cats don't have the backing of monsters, their lives will naturally be far inferior to human lives. But with the backing of monsters, it will be different. The value of human life is also related to power and status, and power and status are actually not Strength? Before we can completely prove that the cat demon has been destroyed, we still have to be nice to the cat.

Those guys who like to eat dragon and tiger pot.

I don’t know why I wasn’t liquidated by the cat demon. "

"My raccoon slave is quite cute, but now I not only hope that the cat demon will be exterminated, but also worry about the cat demon being exterminated, because if the cat demon is exterminated, I am afraid there will be many people who support the extermination of all cats. future trouble."

"How is it possible? After cats are exterminated, can we still expect dogs to catch rats? So far, the total number of people who have died at the hands of the cat demon is less than twenty. But once the number of rats increases and causes the plague, nine out of ten houses will be empty. These are not exaggerated descriptions. In the last years of the previous dynasty, if the plague had not caused millions of deaths in several counties and states near the capital, the imperial court would not have collapsed so quickly."

"Who knows?"

……

At the same time, dozens of one-meter-tall rats that were still alive after drinking the transformation potion last night and were not killed were all staying in the main hall of the Daolu Department in fear. Taoist inspection.

"Strange, there is a special energy in their bodies that has never been seen before, which changes their life origin. However, this special energy does not seem to permanently change their life origin until the energy is exhausted.

It should be able to recover. "

"But if we leave it alone, it will probably take about ten years for the energy to be exhausted. If we let them be rats for ten years, I'm afraid it will be difficult for them to accept it."

"Use mana to kill them?"

"It's possible, but that special energy has been integrated with their life source. If it is forcibly consumed, that part of the life source will also be consumed together. Therefore, the price for allowing them to quickly return to their original state is, It's ten years of life.

And it’s still the kind that’s ten years older.

It is estimated that the body will be like a serious illness, and it will take a long time to rest to slowly regain energy.

I don't know if they can accept it. "

"Why don't we take it slow? Their lives are not in danger for the time being anyway. If we can capture the cat demon alive and force the cat demon to help them solve this strange spell, won't they lose ten years of life?"

"You can let them choose!"

"Alright..."

Although the system of transformation potions is different from that of cultivating immortals, they are all on the cultivation side after all, so after careful inspection, the Taoist priests still found a reluctant solution, but the price was a bit high.

But it does solve the problem!

Then, of course, they asked those who had taken the transformation potion and turned into big mice, but they all chose to wait and were willing to wait until they caught the cat demon.

There is no way, after all, the average life span of humans these days is relatively short, and none of these big rats present are younger than thirty, and many are even over 40. For them, they may have already died. If you live a good life for decades, if you lose ten years of life, you will still have a serious illness and your vitality will be damaged.

No matter how you listen to it, it seems that after you recover as an adult, whether you can survive this winter is a question. Anyway, you have already turned into a mouse. It doesn't make much difference whether you recover one day earlier or one day later. People will laugh at you just the same.

So it’s better to wait a little!