pig auspicious

A ferocious severed claw is even more terrifying under the flickering lights. The gnarled muscles seem to be still beating, but the neat fracture has no blood, showing a lifeless gray-white.

Ao Bai shook involuntarily, but he couldn't take his eyes off that paw.

It's the dragon's claw.

Could it be that when the claw was cut off, it experienced a violent struggle, so the claw, after leaving the body, still maintained such a twisted and tangled appearance.

Jixiang had only a little courage, and before Ao Bai could speak, Hulu slowly backed away.

"Auspicious..." Ao Bai held him weakly, "Come closer."

"No." Piggy refused sternly, but still did not move his hoof. "Scary."

He just caught a glimpse of it. Jixiang has seen a dragon and knows what it is.

At this time, the Li River was quiet, the iron chain was out of the water, and the noise from the paper boat had stopped. Ji Xiang suddenly felt terrible around him.

Hulu flew very low, and there seemed to be something moving under the seemingly calm river, waiting for an opportunity to pounce on it and drag Ji Xiang and Ao Bai down.

Jixiang sat up straight, and slowly moved his hind hoof upwards.

"Get rid of this thing!" Ao Bai pulled down Jixiang's hoof, which was covering his eyes. "The flooding of the Li River is caused by this thing!"

"Then hurry up!" Ji Xiang urged him. "I feel terrible!"

Ao Bai felt terrible even without Xiao Zhu reminding him.He grew up happily under the care of his father and brother since he was a child. Where has he seen the severed limbs of the same race?And it's still in such a weird situation!

"Don't be afraid," Ao Bai wanted to speak loudly to embolden himself for his auspiciousness, but after his voice slipped out of his throat, it was trembling: "Well, I'll knock down that pillar and burn this one again. Boat……"

Before he could finish speaking, the paper boat that had been silent before suddenly swayed as if being blown by the wind, and the black shadow on the boat started to move again.

"Yi——" Jixiang's hairs stood on end.

The black figure on the boat slowly squirmed out of the paper boat!The gaps between the paper windows and paper doors were filled with dark shadows for a while, like a pot of thick oil that was kicked over and slowly flowed out.

Ao Bai was stunned, he even forgot that he was holding a stick in his hand, and the iron chain was hanging on the end of the stick.

On the contrary, Hulu seemed to have sensed the danger, and with a "hu", he jumped up three feet high with Ao Bai Jixiang. Almost at the same time, a few pairs of pale hands stretched out from the bottom of the water, barely brushing the bottom of the green gourd.

Being surrounded by Hulu, Ao Bai couldn't help pulling the iron cable up. One end of the iron cable was connected to a paper wind and rain column, which couldn't stand the pull at all, and was pulled crooked all at once.

When the column of wind and rain tilted, the shadow on the paper boat swayed against the wind, soared several times, and rushed towards the gourd floating in the air with a clearly deformed outline.

Ao Bai was so frightened that his face turned pale - but he still held on to the stick tightly, pulling the wind and rain column up from the paper boat with a violent jerk.

"Auspicious, run!" Ao Bai raised his hand, and the broken claw tied under the iron chain couldn't help shaking.

Jixiang didn't need Ao Bai's reminder, Hulu suddenly retreated when the black shadow rushed to Ao Bai's toes, avoiding the two waves of attacks from the water.

Ao Bai panted: "I don't know who made such an altar and sacrificed it in the river... If the person who found out the method found that the altar was broken, they might come over and make trouble. Let's withdraw first... Ah!"

The hands that had been stretched out from the water before actually clasped each other up to the height of two people, and grabbed the dragon claw.

Dragons are natural gods. Even if the dragon claws are separated from the body, these water ghosts cannot touch them. After a white hand grabs the dragon claws, the skin that was already swollen and swollen from soaking in the water is even more lumpy. Falling down, in the short period of time when Ao Bai was pulling with it, that hand was eaten away to only bones, and it stubbornly hooked the dragon's claws, making a creaking sound.

"Auspicious!" Ao Bai's voice changed a bit.He held on to the stick desperately, but the hand outstretched from the bottom of the water was surprisingly strong, and the black shadow spilling from the paper boat was already approaching them.

"What should I do?" Jixiang scratched his ears desperately.Unlike the Zichen Pavilion where Ao Bai Aoli lived, Qinghua took them to meditate or dig grass and plant flowers every day, without teaching them any practical skills.

"Quickly find a way—" The stick in Ao Bai's hand slid down inch by inch, and was about to let go, when there was a sharp sound of piercing the air behind them, and a feathered arrow mixed with fierce wind pierced through it with lightning speed. The hand bone hooked to the dragon's claw was also shot through the Yingluo knot Zhizhi was tied to Hulu, and firmly nailed to the tree trunk on the other side of the river.

Ao Bai took the opportunity to hook up the iron chain, Jixiang turned his head, and saw a tall figure standing on the bank of the river. He couldn't see his appearance clearly in the dark night, but he could vaguely see a body of armor reflecting silver light.

"...?" Ji Xiang tilted his head, feeling a little strange.When he didn't look back just now, he thought for a moment that it was Ao Guang who shot the arrow.But once you look carefully, although you can't see clearly because of the darkness, you can still tell that the person on the shore is also different from Ao Guang's figure.

But before Ji Xiang could take a closer look, the man on the bank pulled out a second arrow and pointed at the paper boat in the middle of the river.

Hulu took the opportunity to rush up quickly and turned to the woods on the other side of the river.

Ao Bai took the time to glance at the person who was holding the bow on the other side, and found that the tail of the opponent's feather arrow was actually dyed with blue flames.

The black shadow floating from the paper boat immediately shifted its target, and when the second arrow hit the paper boat, it swarmed up and wrapped the arrow body, and then screamed in unison.The arrow moved forward indomitably, the blue flame dyed the paper boat all over in a blink of an eye, and the river boiled endlessly like a boiling pot.

Ye Xiao sneered in the forest, Hulu flipped flexibly, avoided a few wind knives, and stopped steadily.

Ao Bai didn't care about the strange helper on the opposite bank, and stared at the strange beast emerging from the ground with a pair of cat eyes without blinking.

The whole body of the monster was black and hairless, but it had a chicken head with a ferocious face attached to the body of a panther. Its limbs were muscular, and its long sharp claws reflected cold light.

Such a thing was lying in the woods at this time, and it was rare for Hulu to notice its sneak attack.

Jixiang hugged Hulu tightly, and stared at the monster together: "What is that?!"

"I don't know." Ao Bai was startled and frightened all night, exhausted physically and mentally: "Didn't I say that if you destroy that paper boat, there will be troubles... it's right in front of you."

Jixiang suddenly looked towards the other side of the river, but Hulu had already entered the woods, his sight was blocked, and the archer was naturally invisible.

It was approaching dawn at this time, and Jixiang looked around carefully, and found that the degree of denseness was comparable to that of the valley of Zhaoyao Mountain.

The monster was obviously aiming at Ao Bai, its eyes fixed on the dragon's claw, and never moved away.

"Does the evildoer still want to cause trouble!" Ao Bai shouted, raised his palm preemptively, and a water dragon roared and rolled towards the monster.

It's a pity that all kinds of weeds and trees are overgrown in the woods. The water dragon was partially relieved by the overgrown branches halfway, and the monster was extremely agile. Before the water dragon came, it jumped under Hulu and grabbed the dragon's claw Pull hard.

The monster was so powerful that even Hulu was forced to half-turn over—Jixiang had been holding on to the gourd's mouth, but Ao Bai rolled down after being turned over like this.

"Aobai!" Ji Xiang widened his eyes and stretched out his hoof to fish.

However, the hooves were too short, and he didn't even have time to touch Ao Bai's clothes, so Ao Bai fell to the feet of the monster guarding below.

At first, he didn't feel much when he saw it in mid-air, but when he got close, Ao Bai realized that the monster was unbelievably tall, standing taller than him - so close, he could even smell the monster's stench .

Jixiang was overwhelmed by the sight, and hurriedly gestured a seal, and subconsciously recited the most familiar formulas that he used the most and remembered most.

The monster with the head of a chicken and the body of a leopard was just about to pounce forward, but suddenly tripped, one of its sharp claws deviated from the direction, and drew three deep marks on the ground beside Ao Bai.

Ao Bai saw that two brown tree roots were arching up quickly on the land full of fallen leaves, blocking the monster impartially.

Jixiang sat on Hulu and shook non-stop, raised his hooves high, and more old tree roots protruded from the ground, forming a circle around Ao Bai.

Jixiang still only knows how to play with mud, and usually follows Qinghua to use this method to check whether the roots of various sacred trees are healthy, but just now he saved Ao Bai's life.

But this method can only be used once, the monster is extremely flexible, easily dodging the protruding tree roots, and rushed towards Ao Bai again.

Ao Bai's eyes stared at the oncoming monster in fear, his mind went blank for a moment, and his pupils suddenly turned into vertical lines.

Jixiang lowered his snoring, but only had time to see countless tree roots being cut off and thrown into the air.

The black monster seemed to stagnate for a moment, and then opened its mouth to let out a yell. Jixiang was rolled in mid-air by the purple smoke from the monster's air. When Hulu caught him, he wanted to rush down. But it was quiet.

There is no Aobai, no monsters, not even iron chains and dragon claws.

It was the first time for Ji Xiangyuan's eyes to be so full of fear. At this moment, there was no sound in the woods, but Little Pig felt that there were countless ghosts hiding densely in the shadows of the swaying trees, watching him, trying to devour him just like Ao Bai. into the dark.

"...Ao Bai...?"

……

Ao Guang who was sitting behind the desk slowly opened his eyes.

"Come in." He said in a deep voice.

The door of the study room was pushed open silently, Zhizhi and a little boy with a stack of letters came in with their heads down, quickly replaced the cold tea on the table, and put the stack of posts and letters on the table to set them up.

Ao Guang's desk is very big, besides pen, ink, paper and inkstone and some seal paperweights, there is also a mirror.

Zhizhi felt strange, but she didn't dare to glance casually, and was about to back out, but Ao Guang stopped her.

"Let's make up another one." Ao Guang said. "When Jixiang comes back, I'll make it up for him."

Zhizhi looked at it and was stunned.

When Hulu arrived at Jixiang's hand on the first day, Ao Guang put the five-colored necklace knot on Jixiang's little gourd with her own hands on the table, and it was already scattered into a ball.