The ghosts of the good-for-nothing miko

The lake carried the two of them passing over the west, heading towards the Demon King Mountain Range.

Generally speaking, you won't take that path, because you will encounter the miasma of the forest there.

But afterwards, Shehu explained that this was because a demon world event was held in the south that day, and all kinds of flying beasts gathered together, making it very chaotic.

The shogunate also went to implement this matter and learned that it was the reason why the Ivy Wine Party was held on those three days. Ivy Wine is a unique wine in the demon world and is raised by the hard-working land fairies.

After the white and red fruits picked in autumn are concentrated, crushed, fermented and dried, the land spirits will use stones to crush the fruits little by little and hammer them into a paste.

And the green vine is also made from the best ghost-faced vine. After the red shell and the human face pattern are peeled off the ghost-faced vine, the remaining cyan tube is most suitable for holding these fine wines.

There is a lot of natural juice in the tube, but before it is brewed, it is green and bitter, difficult to eat, and is slightly poisonous. However, after merging with the white and red fruits, this slight poison is replaced by a slightly poisonous one. Hallucinogens are not very serious, but they make monsters feel happiness and vitality.

Legend has it that monsters who drink this kind of ivy wine spend their entire lives waiting for the next time the wine will mature.

However, the opening of this kind of wine is very uncertain. It is opened by the cheese of the land fairies on the first day.

Therefore, the Ivy Wine Party sometimes only opens once in a thousand years, and sometimes it will open after two or three hundred years.

The shogunate investigated the connection between land fairies and this incident.

They were a group of little monsters who had worked hard all their lives just for a good harvest. They had no connection at all, so it could only mean that this was a sudden event.

The holding of this grand event caused all the surrounding monsters to gather in the south, and it became very reasonable to take the road to the west.

But on that day, Qiu, who had been absconding from under the boundary monument for many years, bumped into a group of people.

"owl?"

"The great demon that wiped out the entire clan?"

Xiao Hei took care of Yu Sen and wanted to climb up to the roof to have a good sleep. The stinky fox wanted such a noble crow to work overtime and accompany him all night, but there was no way.

But I overheard them talking about Ivy Wine. I was attracted for a while, and when I heard about the owl, I couldn't help but ask questions.

Bai Zexuan waved to him, and Xiao Hei smiled flatteringly:

"That...that...boss, I really didn't eavesdrop on purpose, I was just passing by, I swear!"

"Well, it doesn't matter, I definitely believe you."

These words were very sincere, but Xiao Hei always felt that Bai Zexuan's aura was particularly strong today, and he felt extremely guilty.

It's like the boss of a company asking his employees to work overtime, and then leaving first. When the employees saw that the boss was not here, he didn't leave. Wouldn't he be a fool? But when he went downstairs, he met the boss at the door. This scene...

Lin Yiyi looked at Xiaohei:

"So what kind of monster is that owl?"

Xiao Hei crossed his legs and sat under the gallery in front of the two of them, with only his upper body exposed. He rested his hands on the gallery, half-drag his head, and began to recall the story he heard.

"To talk about this matter, we have to start from the thirtieth year when I joined the shogunate. Because of my charming appearance and sharp tongue, I have always done field work in the shogunate. With these The life chronicles of the great monsters cannot be compared with eight sticks. Only those old scholars with many years of experience can understand these things."

After saying this, he paused deliberately.

"Then how did you know about this?"

When Xiao Hei saw someone praising him, his enthusiasm suddenly became much higher:

"That year, I was running a business and earning three melons and two jujubes. I was in a very negative mood every day. Moreover, at that time, a few big melons had just been exposed in the monster circle, so all the monsters were very restrained. Because of an internal According to the news, I squatted outside Jiuweihu's single-family villa for a full week, and my eyes were all dry, but in the end, I didn't get anything."

"..."

"That night, I went back to the company as usual to sort out the work report for the week, but there was really nothing. Hey, I still have to write something. If I don't know how to make ends meet every month, the KPI index will probably be a negative number. If this index The invention, hum, is really crazy, outrageous, capital, so capital!!!”

Bai Zexuan saw that this little black guy was about to start chatting about some trivial matters in life. Now he had no time to listen to him criticizing the human nature of capitalism. Moreover, he was also his boss and also a party to capital, so he interrupted him:

"Pick the key points!"

"Boss, I'm really going to get to the point right now. Don't rush, don't rush."

Xiao Hei swallowed and touched his non-existent beard:

"As a result, I met an old scholar who had the same problem as me. This person had some friendship with me. Generally speaking, old scholars never work overtime and get off work at a certain time. Most of them come and go in the morning and disappear in the afternoon. It’s very leisurely, but this guy often hangs out in the company’s office and doesn’t go home. He is from the crow tribe, the same as me. Although I only go back to the company for work reports once a month, there are many times when I come and go. It’s more or less a friendship.”

"Where exactly is the shogunate built?"

"Boss, I can't say anything about this. Even if you are generous with your basic professionalism, if I say it out, my life will be ruined. You can't bear to leave such a smart subordinate like me. Moreover, That place is spread all over the place, and even if I tell you, you can’t get in.”

Bai Zexuan thought about it. Jiang Chen was so thoughtful. I am afraid that the shogunate is indeed everywhere as Xiao Hei said, but with the methods of the half-demon, people who are not from the shogunate may not be able to find a way out even if they forcefully break in.

He said that he was just curious and asked, which made Xiao Hei breathe a sigh of relief.

"That man was very afraid of his wife, and often found various excuses to stay late at the shogunate. That day, there were only two of us left in the shogunate. I was sighing at the blank report sheet, which had no content at all. I can’t make it up. My brother loves to tell stories. He chased me and wanted to tell me some monster chronicles. On weekdays, when we are fishing, we just talk. But that day, the report in my hand was related to my next move. A month’s worth of food…”

"So the pedant told you the story about the owl, and you got some information from him."

Xiao Hei suddenly raised his bright black eyes and gestured with his thumb.

"As expected of the boss, I knew it right away."

If he didn't want to confirm whether Xiao Hei's story about the owl was different from what was recorded in the shogunate and the demon genealogy, Bai Zexuan would not tolerate such nagging from this talkative man.

"So, boss, what the old scholar told me was a lot of information about the nine-tailed fox. Do you want to know that that month, relying on this news, I got a performance reward all of a sudden, so I also remember the story that night. Extremely profound.”

"You can save the gossip for later, but hurry up and tell the story first."

Lin Yiyi blinked at Xiao Hei and asked him to share this gossip with him later.

According to Xiao Hei's narrative, the owl is also a pitiful monster.

This kind of monster is strange in appearance. It looks like an owl, but it has one head and three bodies.

During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, this kind of monsters had a long and prosperous race. Humans at that time believed that they were a symbol of might and victory, so they would carve them on various utensils and worship them as totems.

What's more, they will open temples and enter temples to worship such monsters. Although humans and monsters are divided into two realms, if monsters can accept the worship of humans, they will also increase their spiritual power and opportunities. Therefore, this kind of Since that time, living things have become very close to humans.

Later, as it gradually developed, people became more deified in the legend of the owl, believing that it was the guide and guardian of the soul, and that its divine power would better bring the deceased relatives to reincarnation.

Therefore, until the Han Dynasty, people often painted owls on murals or coffins to seek shelter during funerals.

From temples to coffins, the difference is that people are forgetful, so soon, the number of temples became less and less, because the totems on the coffins were mostly more ferocious existences, and if they were enshrined in temples, they would appear Not suitable anymore.

It was also at this time that Ou moved from the demon world to the human world because of people's goodwill, but he didn't expect that humans had changed so much that a monster could understand it.

People caught it, took out its brain, and mixed it with wine. Drinking it made people forgetful and they would slowly become lost.

As for who was the first to do this, no one knows.

I only know that according to legend, Empress Zhang of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty often used this method in order to usurp the throne.

The truth of the story cannot be verified, but because of this, the owl has become a tool that can be used by people to do evil. After the sacredness is gone, even the qualification to carve a coffin is taken away.

People began to hate the owl, feeling that its appearance was too ugly and its screams were extremely unpleasant, and it gradually became the incarnation of an unknown omen.

This kind of mentality also led to the monster hunters who existed during that period. As long as they encountered an owl, they would definitely kill them, kill them and use their blood to practice swordsmanship. They would even dig out their brains and use them as medicine. Their methods were cruel.

How could the bird bear such a breath, and an endless conflict broke out with the human race.

In fact, if they were willing to return to the demon world at this time, the tragedy of genocide would not happen later.

However, most of the owl clan are stubborn. They cannot tolerate their companions and relatives being brutally murdered like this, and they cannot let go of this obsession in their hearts. They want the human race to change their views on them and worship this kind of monster again.

So in the end, only the leader of the Ou Clan was left.

It originally had its own name, but monsters rarely reveal their names. When all members of the clan were wiped out, the clan leader took the owl as his own name and began to take revenge crazily, hunting humans, whether they were monster hunters or ordinary people, as long as they were Anyone it encounters will be killed and their essence will be sucked cleanly.

At that time, everyone mostly sympathized with it, but it was just sympathy. There were countless people who died because of the owl, which directly alarmed the Lord of Hell and killed him personally. The shogunate mobilized the owl's movements, and together with the master at that time, Put it under the boundary monument.

Because although it committed a great evil, there was only one owl left in the clan, and the Demon King begged to prevent it from being dispersed. He only hoped that after a thousand years of reflection, it could resolve its resentment and return to the demon world.

"I heard that its purification is coming to an end soon. As long as it dissipates its grievances and returns to its original life, it can naturally let go of its grievances. But for some reason, it escaped from the boundary monument at that time."

After Xiao Hei finished telling his story, Bai Zexuan nodded. This was no different from what he knew. It seemed that the shogunate had no reservations about this matter.