Cannibalism

The piranha boy stood by the lake and looked down at the reflection of the rippling night. After hesitating for a while, he turned his head and said, "Today, I saw the records of the priests in the village at the entrance of the enchantment. Your name is written on it, it is... ...Xie Sheng?"

Only then did Xie Sheng remember that he hadn't mentioned his name to the other party. He nodded, "Just call me Xie Sheng. My relatives and friends all call me that, don't worry about those silly names."

The boy immediately shouted obediently: "Xie Sheng."

His voice was clear and pure, and at the end he unconsciously raised a small half-tone, as if he was very happy in his heart.Smelling the scent emanating from the boy's clothes, Xie Sheng couldn't help but get closer to this piranha.He subconsciously moved closer, but when he thought of his purpose of going up the mountain, he had to feel annoyed again, and his good mood disappeared in a flash.

Xie Sheng said solemnly: "Yuan Shouhua, I have to ask you a few more questions right now, and you must answer truthfully."

"Huh?" Seeing that the other party suddenly put on a serious and advanced look, the young man asked curiously, "What's the question?"

"Have you ever eaten humans? Or, have you ever eaten flowers, plants, birds and beasts that have been cultivated to have spiritual consciousness?"

The young man didn't quite understand this question: "Before you kept talking about divine consciousness and the realm of divine consciousness. I don't know what is divine consciousness?"

"You call yourself the god of Yuanshou Mountain, why don't you even know what the consciousness is. That's all... no wonder you haven't heard of the name of our Tianyan Mountain Tiger Clan." Xie Sheng pulled Yuanshouhua and sat by the tree for a while. on a boulder, intending to give him a good explanation. "Let me tell you. Flowers, plants, birds, and beasts have cultivated to possess divine consciousness, which is the same as 'cultivating human form'. As a very lucky race, the human race has possessed divine consciousness since ancient times, and there is no need for special training, but their lifespan is longer. Short, a hundred years is considered a long time. Except for those few in the legend, if the human race wants to prolong their lifespan, they must cultivate to become immortals.

Yuan Shouhua lowered her head and pondered for a moment, half-knowing and half-understanding: "So, the world of spiritual consciousness you are talking about is a collective name for people, demons, and immortals? Does it mean that you have spiritual consciousness as long as you have the same thoughts as humans?"

Xie Sheng shook his head: "It can be said that, but the scope is far more than that. In addition to humans, monsters and immortals, there are also gods, demons and ghosts. The above seven types of living beings coexist in the world, and they have become completely one today."

The teenager blinked his eyelashes: "It's all the same?"

Xie Sheng replied proudly: "I believe that there is no description that is more suitable for the world of spiritual consciousness than 'uniqueness'. Every year, human beings, gods, spirits, and ghosts each recommend an envoy to Tianyan Mountain to establish laws for regulating the order of heaven. The goal is to keep peace in the world forever. Nowadays, the dross stereotypes of 'non-my race, their hearts must be different' have long since ceased to exist."

The young man felt familiar with the "Tianyan Mountain". In retrospect, Xie Sheng always called himself "Tiger Clan of Tianyan Mountain".It seems that this mountain is far more famous than Yuanshou Mountain, no wonder Xie Sheng always thinks he is ignorant.

Xie Sheng took advantage of Yuanshouhua boy sitting across from him to meditate, and secretly looked at his face.Against the background of the moonlight, the bridge of the boy's nose looked even taller, and the two curved eyebrows should have made people feel pleasant, but the raised eyebrows at the back were shimmering, giving people a strange sense of alienation.

But immediately the boy raised his eyes, and he was surprised when he saw Xie Sheng's magnified face: "You, what are you doing so close to me?"

Xie Sheng cleared his throat, and became serious again: "Now that you understand what spiritual consciousness is, you can always answer my last question."

The young man frowned and rubbed his lips with the nail of his index finger: "Actually, I can't answer either. I have eaten some birds and beasts, but they were already dead at that time, and only their corpses remained. I have no way of knowing whether they have cultivated into adults."

"Are they human sacrifices?"

"It's not a human sacrifice. I fell into a long sleep many years ago. After waking up, I was weak and needed food. I maintained my original shape and found the first food in the enchantment. It was a yellow cat that had just died. I I want to open my mouth directly to eat the yellow cat... But I suddenly found that, as a piranha, it has lost its mouth for swallowing and digesting food. I can only wrap the stems and leaves around it and slowly absorb The nourishment on it."

"What do you mean?" Xie Sheng rolled his eyes half a circle, "You can't eat people now?"

A white mist swished out of the boy's body, and he transformed back into the appearance of a piranha: "Look, I don't have a mouthful in my current appearance."

When Xie Sheng first met Yuanshouhua, he saw his real body with a spying spell, but he did not see the flower mouth he used to eat people. At that time, Xie Sheng only thought that the real body of the other party had different forms, but who knew the truth? very different.

A green plant that was thicker and wider than the surrounding vegetation stood in front of Xie Sheng, with irregular barbs growing on its stems and leaves.Several thorns sprang out from the stem, each with a scarlet mark.When the wind blows for a while, the stems and leaves will sway, but the barbs growing on the thorns stand firm in the wind.

It does look scary, but it always feels like something is missing.

If there are no flowers, there will be no fruits. Since there are no fruits, there is no need to grow into such a vicious appearance.Otherwise, what are the barbs and thorns for protection?

Xie Sheng stepped forward, wanting to reach out to touch him, but Iris took a step back, put all the barbs in the leaves, and spread the robe Xie Shengbian gave him on the top of the branches and leaves. Shouting: "Don't touch me, I'll be stabbed."

Xie Sheng stopped walking, and Yuanshouhua also changed back to her youthful appearance at the same time.Xie Sheng asked: "After you found out that your flower mouth is missing, what happened?"

The young man straightened his messy clothes and sighed: "It takes too long to entangle food to absorb nutrients. The shortest is more than ten days, and the longest is three to five months. The God Realm has a telepathy with me. After the flower mouth disappears, the God Realm The terrain in the center gradually became lower, and spring water flowed from the bottom, forming Chenyou Lake. According to the agreement with the villagers, I must eat human animals once a year, but after that long sleep, I only need to throw the human animals into the lake That's right, the human animal is submerged in Chenyou Lake and condensed into the sun and moon essence of the God Realm, and I will absorb nutrients through the God Realm, so that I don't have to swallow the human animal myself."

Xie Sheng grasped the point: "That means you ate people before you died, right?"

The boy opened his eyes and thought for a moment, then replied: "It should be so, but I don't remember it anymore."

Xie Sheng saw that his bewildered expression didn't seem like a lie, so he took out a blue booklet.On the cover of the booklet are written the seven characters "Concise Laws of the Divine Consciousness Realm".

"If your long sleep was before the formation of the spiritual world, then the crime of cannibalism is not subject to the law. Since you don't remember what happened before your long sleep, I will help you find out what kind of punishment you will receive for your current behavior Hmm... Throwing it into the lake to absorb nutrients, obviously it seems to eat people but it doesn't eat people..." The blue booklet floated in front of the two, turned the pages by itself, and finally stopped at one page, Xie Sheng gathered Going forward, reading ten lines at a glance, said, "It says, God Realm is the place where evil spirits and ghosts are dispelled. The gods in God Realm have the right to be nourished by the essence of the sun and moon in God Realm, so you are innocent."

Xie Sheng put away the simple rules, walked half a circle around the piranha boy, looked at the clothes on the other side, and then glanced down at the bare|naked feet.

He asked suspiciously: "Are you really the mountain god of Yuanshou Mountain? I have never seen a man-eating flower demon as a mountain god, nor have I seen a deity without clothes."

The boy didn't speak, but looked at the sky with his eyes, put on a look of "believe it or not", turned his back and walked away.

Xie Sheng was afraid that the iris flower would pop out of the barrier again, so he hurriedly followed: "Hey, don't be angry, I believe it, I believe it, isn't it okay? Our Xie Tiger Clan is only responsible for hunting down evildoers who are doing evil, you The matter of cannibalism before long sleep is not within our jurisdiction. I, I will not investigate you any more."

The young man continued to walk forward with bare feet, faster and faster, and he shouted: "Hero of the Tiger Clan, don't let us go far away."

Xie Sheng chased after him: "I think you are very boring in this place, why don't you and I go out for a stroll, what do you think? Now that the sacrificial day is over, you should have time to go out, right?"

The young man stopped when he heard this, and Xie Sheng knew that he was moved, so he said: "Iris flower and man-eating flower are not suitable names, and besides, they will be recognized by the villagers in the village. I will give you a new name." Let’s name it—you are a piranha, I’ll take a homonym, and I’ll call you Yuanshiren.”

The boy glanced at him: "Is the kite a human?"

"Tanshiren." Xie Sheng took his hand and wrote stroke by stroke in his palm, "It's these two words, what do you think?"

The young man didn't like to get close to people, so he pulled his hand out, lowered his head and hesitated: "I want to go out, but I'm afraid, I'm afraid they will laugh at me..."

"They just joked that you don't wear clothes. Everyone in the world of spiritual consciousness pays great attention to dress etiquette. Only beasts don't wear clothes." Xie Sheng conjured up a pair of cloth boots as he spoke, "Surren, quickly put these on your feet. Come on, everyone outside is dressed like this. You don’t have to be afraid, in fact, your human form is majestic and full of vigor, and all the birds and beasts on the mountain are in awe of you.”

"Really?" The boy's eyes lit up.

"Of course, if you don't believe me, I will change back into a tiger in a while, and I will let you go around the mountain alone in human form."

The young man grabbed his sleeve, with stars shining in his eyes: "Then let's go quickly."

As soon as the picture in front of them changed, the two arrived at the hillside of Yuanshou Mountain.Xie Sheng turned back into a white-fronted tiger with eye-catching eyes as promised. He tilted his neck and shook his head, squatted down and said to the young man, "Come on, sit on me."

Iris climbed up and hugged the tiger's neck.

Xie Sheng took two steps forward, and the irises swayed back and forth with his tiger body.

At this moment, there was a "crash", and all the birds and butterflies standing on the treetops flew up. The crisp birdsong accompanied by mottled colors quickly gathered and disappeared in this mountain field.

One person and one tiger were walking on the mountain road, and wherever they went, birds and beasts would scatter, whether it was turtledoves, sika deer or squirrels, when they saw them, they all ran away in desperation.

Xie Sheng pretended to sigh: "Look, Aren, right now you are the only one in human form, how much they respect you."

The young man has obviously acquiesced in the new name Xie Sheng gave him.

It was the first time he saw such a lively scene, and Xie Sheng's words made him more confident. He stroked the back of the tiger with bright hair, and stretched out his hands to curl Xie Sheng's mane.

Xie Sheng enjoyed it very much, and a comfortable purring sound came out of his throat.

Yuan Shiren raised his eyebrows, his cheeks were stained red with unprecedented excitement, he smiled with eyebrows crooked, and pointed forward: "Go to the village quickly, I want to experience the life in the village."

The author has something to say:

This chapter is mainly about worldview.

Because the seniors have already written a lot about the world view of "people who are not of my race have different hearts", so I want to change the plot mode, I hope everyone will like it qwq