The years I was in the human world

"Knock, knock, knock—" Someone knocked on the door. Lu Zhouxue held Xiao Fengzhuo, who had turned into a cat, in her arms and went to open the door. It was already getting dark. The waiter of the inn brought up the food on a tray. With a stiff face, he said with a smile: "Sir, this is the meal for tonight."

"Put it there." Lu Zhouxue moved aside slightly to let the waiter come in and put the tray on the table, while she looked at him silently.

"The movements are very stiff, but there is blood, so he is not dead." Xiao Fengzhuo transmitted the message into the secret passage. The man and the cat looked at the waiter with round eyes. When the latter turned around, he was stared at by four eyes, but he did not feel scared. Instead, he asked with a stiff smile: "Sir, do you have anything else to tell me?"

Lu Zhouxue slowly stretched out her hand towards him and grabbed the waiter's ear. When she opened her palm, she found a small flying insect wrapped in a strangely patterned talisman paper. Lu Zhouxue stared at the waiter motionlessly and said slowly, "There is a flying insect."

"Maybe it flew in from the window." The waiter tried to smooth things over. The Taoist in white in front of him spoke in a sinister voice and his movements were very strange. The two of them stood together, and it was unclear who looked more like a ghost.

"Maybe." Lu Zhouxue nodded, let the waiter go, and slammed the door behind him. Xiao Fengzhuo turned over in Lu Zhouxue's arms, hooked his claws in Lu Zhouxue's hair and said, "You actually scared him away."

Lu Zhouxue moved his fingers and finally couldn't help but rubbed the cat's head. It was fluffy. He sat down at the table and looked at the food brought by the waiter in silence for a while. He turned around and took out the talisman paper in his hand. The body of the small fly he had just crushed was still wrapped inside. He unfolded the talisman paper and took a look. Xiao Fengzhuo exclaimed, "Big fly!"

"Yeah." Lu Zhouxue nodded, "It didn't fly in from the window." Instead, it flew around the waiter.

"So he is not a living person either." Xiao Fengzhuo jumped onto the table and scratched the talisman paper with his cat claws. The paper ball rolled off the table with the dead fly. The moment it hit the ground, the talisman paper spontaneously combusted and burned to ashes along with the insect.

"What should we do with these?" Xiao Feng sniffed the food brought by the waiter, then swung his tail in disgust and buried his head in Lu Zhouxue's sleeve, until the indescribable smell in his nose was replaced by the slightly bitter tea scent from the other's sleeve.

Lu Zhouxue lifted the cat from her sleeve by the scruff of his neck and put it in front of her eyes. She looked straight into the cat's eyes and said, "Don't get into my sleeves."

Xiao Fengzhuo blinked his eyes and said obediently, "Okay." I'll dare to do it again next time.

Lu Zhouxue held the cat back into his arms with satisfaction, then turned to look at the food on the table. He raised his hand and cast a spell. A faint blue flame burned over, and the delicious-looking food returned to its original appearance.

The gorgeously colored braised pork was actually a pile of rotten, maggoty meat, the sweet and delicious ice cream cheese was actually a dish of fishy brains, and the steamed sea bass garnished with green onions was a toad that had been gutted. Even the originally fresh and clean ingredients were actually a pile of dead shellfish.

"Wow." Xiao Fengzhuo sighed exaggeratedly while nestling in Lu Zhouxue's arms, "This meal is enough to make people lose all feelings and love."

"Are you hungry?" Lu Zhouxue asked him softly, took out a fruit from her sleeve and stuffed it into his hand for him to chew. She raised her hand to destroy the pile of "corpses" on the table, but Xiao Fengzhuo came up with some weird idea and hooked his sleeve with his claws to stop him. With a wave of his cat's claws, the pile of horrible things on the table were put into his storage ring.

"Why are you hiding this thing?" Lu Zhouxue asked curiously while sitting at the table, rubbing the cat's head with his fingers.

"The mountain man has his own ingenious plan." Xiao Fengzhuo said, but he turned his head away from Lu Zhouxue's hands. The next moment, the cat in his arms suddenly turned into an adult man standing in front of him. Lu Zhouxue was held in his arms. Xiao Fengzhuo smiled and said, "Mianmian, do you like to touch my head so much?"

Lu Zhouxue moved the fingers in his sleeves without saying anything. He didn't want to refuse the soft touch of the cat's head, but the man in front of him was indeed an adult man, perhaps even older than Lin Xiyang. He was also embarrassed to ask him to continue touching the other's head openly, as it would be unkind.

However, all his thoughts were obvious to Xiao Fengzhuo, who smiled even more deeply, blinked his eyes, and two cat ears popped out of his hair. He lowered his head towards Lu Zhouxue and said with a smile, "If you want to touch it, go ahead. I'm not forbidding you."

Lu Zhouxue looked at him again and again, struggling between inner and outer feelings, but in the end he couldn't help himself and reached out his hand to the top of Xiao Fengzhuo's head, grabbed the pair of ears that looked very soft and pinched them. His fingers were very cold and felt like jade when he grabbed them. Xiao Fengzhuo trembled very slightly, and then with a "bang", he turned back into a kitten and nestled softly in Lu Zhouxue's arms.

Lu Zhouxue was still scratching her ears, and the person in front of her turned back into a cat: "Why did you turn back?"

"You came here alone, and renting two rooms will inevitably attract attention. We have to sleep together tonight, and it's more convenient to sleep in a cat body." Xiao Fengzhuo buried his face in Lu Zhouxue's chest and listed the reasons to Lu Zhouxue in a well-reasoned manner. However, his tone sounded like he was trying to cover up something.

But Lu Zhouxue didn't think much about it. He rubbed the cat's head twice and placed the cat on the bedside. He set up a barrier around the room and planted talismans on the door. Then he performed a cleansing spell on himself, took off his outer robe and lay down.

Xiao Fengzhuo sat at the head of the bed and watched Lu Zhouxue take off his clothes. His skin was very white, like a handful of snow falling on the branches in the dead of winter. His body shape was very beautiful, and even with his underwear blocking the view, it was enough to make people imagine how captivating that waist must be.

But Xiao Fengzhuo frowned at this beautiful body. The hair was abnormally white, like the sequelae of cold air entering the body; the wrist bones were almost protruding, covered with only a thin layer of skin; the legs were long and slender, making people suspect that they could be broken with a kick. In general, this was not a healthy body. It was beautiful, but it carried a sense of short-lived sadness.

"Are you not feeling well?" Xiao Fengzhuo asked softly.

Lu Zhouxue was lying on the bed. Hearing this, he looked up at the worried little cat. He blinked his beautiful eyes and reached out to hold the little cat in his arms. He didn't want to say much, but just said perfunctorily: "It's a minor problem. It's nothing serious."

As someone who never meddles in other people's business, Lu Zhouxue did not ask any further questions as usual. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Good night."

Soon he began to breathe lightly. It seemed that the fight with the disciples of the Seventh Gate today had exhausted him, as he fell asleep so quickly.

After a while, Xiao Fengzhuo appeared beside the bed. He looked down at the person who was sleeping soundly with the kitten in his arms. A conflicted look appeared in his eyes. In the end, he couldn't help but release a trace of spiritual power to explore Lu Zhouxue's body.

After a while, Xiao Fengzhuo withdrew his spiritual power with a heavy heart. He looked at the person curled up in a small ball on the bed, like some kind of restless little animal, and sighed softly, "You haven't figured it out yet, and you always want to meddle in other people's business."

Lu Zhouxue seemed to have dreamed of something. She mumbled softly and held the black cat tighter.

"What did you dream about?" Xiao Fengzhuo murmured to himself, stretched out his hand and tapped his forehead, his expression softened, and whispered, "Have a good dream."

Xiao Fengzhuo's plan was doomed to fail. In the middle of the night, just after the third watch gong rang, the door was knocked "bang bang bang".

Lu Zhouxue woke up instantly, and there was no sleepiness in his eyes. He didn't look like someone who had just woken up at all. The black cat climbed onto his shoulder, and the two of them tiptoed to the door. Xiao Fengzhuo noticed the ashes on the ground and whispered, "The spell spontaneously combusted."

The spontaneous combustion of the talisman meant that the thing knocking on the door was not a human, and that it had tried to break in directly before. It had triggered the talisman when it pushed the door, but was unable to enter due to the barrier.

"Who's outside?" Lu Zhouxue put on his outer robe and walked barefoot to the door. The knocking sound at the door stopped, and was replaced by a very subtle sound, like something flowing on the ground.

Bright red blood oozed out from the crack of the wooden door of the inn, and it seemed as if it had life and was following Lu Zhouxue's footsteps. He took a few steps back, and at this moment the window behind him was blown open with a "bang". Lu Zhouxue subconsciously looked back, and saw a winding old branch extending diagonally to the windowsill. Looking down from the window, a dark shadow emerged from the roots of the tree below, and was climbing up along the trunk little by little.

At the same time, the blood seeping in from the door almost flowed across the floor of the entire room. The strong smell of blood was pungent and was about to flow to Lu Zhouxue's feet. He simply climbed onto the bed with his boots in his hand, put on his shoes and socks at random, and threw down a few fire talismans. The moment they touched the blood, violent flames broke out. The blood screamed as if it had life and quickly retreated to the door.

"It's alive." Lu Zhouxue said in a deep voice. What kind of magic could make a sticky pool of blood alive? Rongcheng outside the ghost cave was like this, and the situation inside the ghost cave was probably even worse.

"Shall we go out and take a look?" Xiao Fengzhuo asked. Suddenly he felt something scratching his back. He turned around and saw that the dark shadow that was originally at the roots of the tree had climbed up to the window along the branches and was stretching out a skinny, dark hand to scratch his back.

Xiao Fengzhuo: "..."

Lu Zhouxue naturally also felt something strange behind him. When he turned around and saw the black shadow, he quickly dodged to the side. He glanced at the blackened fingers stretched out by the black shadow and frowned: "He has corpse poison on his hands. Are you okay?"

The kitten looked back at his back which had been eroded by the corpse poison and had several bald spots, and fell silent.

"Mianmian, get out of the way. I'm going to kill him." The furious Xiao Fengzhuo immediately transformed into a human form, broke the black shadow's hands, grabbed the man by the collar and threw him out of the window to the floor of the room. The black shadow was stepped on by Xiao Fengzhuo and slowly showed a hideous smile at him. Xiao Fengzhuo lowered his eyes and looked at him, thinking of the bald spot on his back, and slowly showed a sinister smile.

"..." Lu Zhouxue pursed his lips, inexplicably feeling that Xiao Fengzhuo was a little scary now. He whispered, "Do you have to smile like this?"

"Did you get scared?" Xiao Fengzhuo turned around and gave him a soothing smile, looking obedient, sweet and normal. Lu Zhouxue had just relaxed when she saw him turn around and continue to look sinisterly at the black shadow on the ground, holding a plate of brain icy cheese in his hand that he had just put into his storage ring.

Xiao Fengzhuo pinched the black shadow's mouth open with one hand, and with the other hand he stuffed the plate of brain ice cream into the black shadow's mouth, along with the plate and brains.

Lu Zhouxue: “…” So you kept those cruel things for this purpose.

Not long after the black shadow drank the plate of ice yogurt from Xiao Fengzhuo, it turned into a pool of blood and ran away at a speed that made Xiao Fengzhuo wonder if he had gone too far.

The black shadow's entire body was filled with corpse poison, but the poison on his hands was particularly deadly. Xiao Fengzhuo had just pinched the black shadow's jaw with his left hand, and his hand became obviously ulcerated. Without the epidermis, the bloody tender flesh on his fingertips exposed to the air looked particularly shocking.

"Mianmian, it hurts--" After Xiao Fengzhuo dealt with the black shadow, he turned around and cried and acted coquettishly to Lu Zhouxue.

The performance was exaggerated, but Lu Zhouxue didn't notice it. She patted his head with pity and hurriedly rummaged in her sleeves, and found a box of bone-growing ointment that was used to treat injuries at Mount Buzhou. It was originally an elixir used by gods to repair broken bones, so it was no problem for it to heal the minor corrosive injuries on Xiao Fengzhuo's hands. After applying it for only a few moments, not only was the corpse aura completely removed, but flesh also grew on the festering wounds, making them look as if they were intact.

Xiao Fengzhuo rubbed his fingers that had recovered in the blink of an eye, and said meaningfully: "Mianmian is not only an exquisite person, but also the ointment she uses is exquisite."

"Take it and use it." Lu Zhouxue gave the remaining ointment to Xiao Fengzhuo. This thing was rare for cultivators, and there was plenty of it in his spiritual sea, so there was no need for him to be stingy.

Xiao Fengzhuo put away the ointment and turned into a kitten again, sitting on Lu Zhouxue's shoulder. Because there was a bald spot on his back, he even deliberately used a trick to deceive the eyes, so that at least his appearance would not look so ugly.

"Do you want to go out and take a look?" he asked Lu Zhouxue.

"Yeah." Lu Zhouxue responded, not forgetting his current disguise as a demon. He put on his cloak again and walked out the door.

Lu Zhouxue's room was on the second floor. Logically, at the middle of the night, both the guests and the servants in the store should have rested. However, when Lu Zhouxue stepped out of the door, the lights were still on outside. The lobby downstairs was bustling with guests drinking and having tea. It was even more lively than at dusk, and there were servants busy coming and going around.

"It seems abnormal that the night shift workers don't go to bed at three o'clock in the morning. These people don't want to be sick." Xiao Fengzhuo said as he sat on Lu Zhouxue's shoulder. The latter didn't say anything, but just tightened the brim of his hat. His skin looked even paler under the light, and he looked even more eerie than the people coming and going in the lobby.

Lu Zhouxue went down to the lobby and found an empty seat to sit down. The waiter came over quickly and asked, "What would you like to eat, sir?"

Lu Zhouxue's eyes fell on a sticky, shapeless shadow at his feet. She tapped the table with her fingertips, raised her eyes and asked, "It's so lively here, why don't we see anyone in the daytime?"

Lu Zhouxue's question immediately made the waiter suspicious. He looked at Lu Zhouxue with a stiff face. The latter looked back calmly. The black cat on his shoulder cried miserably, jumped off him and landed on the table. It walked a few steps towards the waiter, staring at the waiter with a pair of cat eyes sinisterly.

"Azhuo, come back." Seeing the waiter taking several steps back in fear, Lu Zhouxue spoke. He and Xiao Fengzhuo echoed each other. Even if the waiter still had doubts, he had to dispel them under the threat of the black cat.

After all, righteous monks are very arrogant and claim to be upright. No matter how righteous they are, they would never dare to associate with a ghost cat, because the evil spirit of a cat cannot be faked.

Thinking of this, the waiter felt relieved and put on a stiff smile again and said to Lu Zhouxue: "Sir, you are new here, so you may not know. This is the custom in our Rong City. Going out during the day will attract evil spirits, and most of them are active at night."