The devil is me

The man in the bucket seemed to sense that someone was approaching, and his tongueless mouth made an indistinct sound, as if his throat was covered with blood.The wounds of his severed limbs were still festering, bloody and bloody, and there were abscesses on his chest and back.This place is simply a paradise for flies and insects. Sure enough, there are sporadic white and fat maggots climbing on the wall of the barrel, and transparent mucus is left behind when they squirm.

Although Xi Buwen sympathized in his heart, he couldn't control the strong spasm in his stomach. He closed his eyes and held his breath for a moment, and when he opened his eyes again, he met Wu Nian's concerned gaze.Wu Nian hastily avoided Xi Buwen's gaze, and said calmly, "Concentrate on holding your breath, and harmonize your breath."

Xi Buwen nodded, and then said slowly, "Is this... a human pig?"

Wu Nian looked around at the windows with shabby grilles and the rags hanging to dry, and replied, "It looks like a kind family, what kind of misfortune happened to the family?"

"You Buddhists like to think about things for the better. If you have family members to take care of you, can you still have these pus and blood sores? It's too careless."

Just as he was talking, a lame woman suddenly came out from the house, her eyes met, both of them jumped, and Xi Buwen raised his sword reflexively, only to find that the woman was so frightened that she fell limply to the ground .Wu Nian turned around and glanced at Xi Buwen, hurriedly stepped forward to help the old woman up, and said slowly: "Madam, don't be afraid... we are passing by to rest..."

Xi Buwen also hurriedly put away his sword, bowed his hands and saluted: "Just now I knocked on the door outside and shouted, but no one responded, so I ventured in and frightened my wife. I deserve death. If you bother me, I hope Haihan."

The old woman finally stood up tremblingly, looked at Wu Nian and Xi Buwen for a moment, then suddenly hugged Wu Nian's arms and knelt down again, crying with tears all over her face: "Is it the master of Enjue Temple? I beg you Save us!"

The old woman didn't know Taoism, she only knew the appearance of a Buddhist monk, so when she saw Wu Nian, it was like seeing a life-saving straw.Wu Nian didn't understand why, so he had to tell him frankly: "The poor monk is the seat of Jialan Temple, this is the son of Xi's Taoist sect, we pass by here, if there is anyone who can help, we will naturally help."

Only then did the old woman wipe away her tears, and led the two into the house, serving tea and food courteously.The cups and cups are made of rough pottery, with a layer of oil stains hanging on the wall, and the tea cakes are as hard as a rock, and it hurts your throat when you eat them. Xi Buwen was used to rich clothes and fine food since he was a child. Look no idea.I saw that he did not change his face, thanked him very calmly for taking it, drank and tasted one by one, and praised with a very sincere smile: "Madam is a good crafter, I really trouble you."

Wu Nian smiled, Xi Buwen was stunned, as if the tea cake was so delicious, he completely forgot to dislike it and just put it in his mouth, just after he took a bite, he choked and burst into tears.Wu Nian patted Xi Buwen on the back while sending the water over, and said apologetically, "Young Master Xi is very hungry, he's in a hurry."

The old woman was a little at a loss, she clenched her hands tightly, and said embarrassingly: "I know that the young master is not used to my crude tea and food, but this village really can't produce anything decent..." As he spoke, he wiped away tears again.

Wu Nian couldn't help asking: "We also want to ask for advice. The land in this village is fertile, why are the cottages empty and uninhabited?" Xi Buwen finally stopped coughing, and raised his head to listen to the woman.

"Our Zhaozhuang village is also a lively village. Although it is not rich, it is enough for the family to eat and wear. But some years ago, for some reason, the young and middle-aged people who went to the northwest slope to cut firewood often got lost, and when they were found again, they were gone. He lost his hands, feet, ears, tongue and nose, and was thrown into the woods dripping with blood. It was said that it was a monster, and someone in the village who could write sent a post to Enjue Temple, but there was no response for some reason. We don’t know It's all right to go to the northwest slope, but I didn't expect that the monster had nothing to eat and came to the village to kill people. My leg was injured when I ran for my life. My poor son was killed by this monster in order to protect me! Other villagers I ran away and moved, and my sixty-year-old woman couldn’t move my missing son. I thought he was running out of time, so I could only stay in Zhaozhuang and wait to die. I am too old and I don’t have the strength to scrub I have no choice but to keep my son in the bucket, and push it out to bask in the sun when the sun is good." The woman's eyes were wet again as she said this, and she couldn't help crying like rain, and she kept wiping her face with the dirty black apron tied around her waist. , "If the two Taoist priests can save my son, I will be a cow or a horse in the next life to repay the grace of Taoism!"

Only then did Xi Buwen know the reason for the pig in the bucket, and the lack of care was also caused by the old woman's physical strength. Wu Nian's guess was right, but he was malicious and laughed at the Buddha for cultivating his heart, which is really ashamed .His face turned white and red, but Wu Nian didn't know what was going on in his mind, and just looked at him with questioning eyes.

Xi Buwen was in a trance for a moment, feeling both ashamed and sympathetic, and sighed: "There is no way to repair the body in the world. I can only leave some pills to reduce his pain. It is really...Yaoshiwangyi..."

Seeing that the old woman was about to faint from crying again, Wu Nian hurriedly supported her and said, "My condolences. I don't know what that monster looks like? Although the two of us are not good at medical skills, I hope to get rid of the demon and subdue the demon, so that your mother and son can take care of you with peace of mind." .”

The woman's eyes were wide open, and the muscles on her face twitched slightly, as if recalling something extremely terrifying: "It was a very clear night, although there were stars and lights, but I was so scared that I didn't see it clearly, I only vaguely remembered it. It is twice as tall as a normal person, with hands and feet that looks like a giant, but its body seems to be bent. Sometimes it walks on two feet, sometimes it uses both hands and feet... Just throwing itself into the yard like this, no amount of fence can stop it , when it saw people, it jumped on the ground and bit, the ground was covered with blood and human stumps and facial features..."

"Are they acting alone or in groups?" Xi Buwen asked.

"It's not as many as in groups, but it's not the only one." The woman thought about it carefully, then stretched out two fingers and gestured, "It seems to be two."

"No wonder Enjue Temple doesn't want to come." Xi Buwen already had the answer in his heart, and quietly glanced at Wu Nian.

Wu Nian pursed her lips and did not speak, she suddenly stood up and bowed to the woman after a long while, "I will remove Mo Wei Dao tonight, madam, please rest assured."

"Are you crazy?!" Xi Buwen stood up and shouted, looking at him in disbelief.

"Enjue Temple doesn't care, how can I sit idly by in Jialan Temple?" Wu Nian picked up the Buddhist pestle and was about to go out, Xi Buwen grabbed his wrist: "This is a ghoul!! Wu Nian, please be sober. It’s not that I don’t want to be chivalrous, but neither of us can fight the ghost girl, and the ghoul is ten thousand times more brutal than the ghost girl, and the male and female live together, if you want to kill, you have to kill two, ask yourself, can you ever fight?!”

"Some things in this world have to be done by someone." Wu Nian gritted his teeth, "Regardless of success or failure, I am worthy of my heart."

Xi Buwen was in a hurry, let go of the hand that was holding his wrist and said angrily: "You pedantic monks! One is like this, and the other two are still like this! Don't want your own life for the lives of others! I'm really convinced! Go, go! Go and take this life now, and you can take mine too!" He slammed his fist hard on the wall as he spoke, causing the wall to slam down.

The woman was so frightened that she shrank aside and dared not speak.Wu Nian raised her head and stared at him deeply, wondering: "What one or two? What do you mean?"

Xi Buwen is like a furry fox, let him choke back before saying: "What do you mean? It doesn't mean anything!" He was angry for a while, and seemed to have returned to his senses, and said angrily, "What I mean is You go and take me with you!"

Wu Nian sighed: "What are you going to do? You are too young..."

"Wu Nian!" Xi Buwen pointed at Wu Nian's nose and narrowed his eyes, "If you don't let me go, if you have any troubles, I will tell the world what nonsense you said when you were possessed by the ghost mother Let the world laugh at you, laugh at your Garan Temple!"

"You!" Wu Nian was in a hurry, the veins on his forehead were bulging but he was helpless, because he really didn't know what he did after being possessed, so he could only say with a flick of his sleeve, "As you wish."

Only then did Xi Buwen feel relieved, and sat down angrily like a puffer fish, and ate the tea cake in big mouthfuls, choking as he ate it, as if he was going to fill himself up.After eating and drinking enough, the tired two took a short rest for a few hours.He also applied some wound medicine to the person in the barrel, cleaned him up briefly and left a bottle of pain-relieving pills, and did not leave the old woman's house until sunset, and headed for the northwest slope.

The northwest slope is a small hill located in the northwest of Zhaozhuang. The altitude is not high, and there are only a few sparse forests growing there.There is no water system, no ring mountains, only this one sits facing south and is always in the shade. A knowledgeable monk can tell at a glance that this mountain is not dangerous, but the feng shui is terrible.Such a mountain is the easiest to gather the resentment of heaven and earth and give birth to some evil things.

Xi Buwen shuddered as he walked, folded his arms and said, "Look, look, look! You want to come to such a place!"

Wu Nian said with a straight face: "If you don't want to come, you go back, and I didn't want you to come at all."

Xi Buwen shook his head like a rattle: "Should I go back? Where? To throw myself into the snare of the Xue family? If you want me to admit the crime of murder, it would be better for me to die at the hands of the ghoul."

After hearing this, Wu Nian felt ominous, felt a little confused, and frowned involuntarily.

"Monk, do you care about me?" Xi Buwen ran up to Wu Nian with a smile, and walked backwards to talk to Wu Nian.

Wu Nian looked at Xi Buwen's unscrupulous appearance, and said angrily, "Be careful that you fall in a while."

Sure enough, before Xi Buwen took two steps, he tripped over a tree root on the ground. The frightened Xi Buwen subconsciously pulled the people around him, but Wu Nian who stretched out his hand to protect him pulled him upright.Xi Buwen didn't know why his mind was muddled, and suddenly thought that if he really confessed here today, it would be a pity that he didn't get enough of this beautiful monk, so he pulled Wu Nian to the ground with a dark force in his hand, and the two of them together Qi fell to the ground and rolled in one place.

Xi Buwen turned over on Wu Nian's body, pretending to be angry and said, "Monk! You are taking advantage of me!"

Wu Nian was uncommonly at a loss, those slender and white fingers were resting on Xi Buwen's slender waist, but at this moment they were hastily removed and placed on the ground, those who were so stiff thought they were caught by something. nailed it.

"You fell down, I...I pulled you, why is it still my fault?"

Xi Buwen saw that Wu Nian was so panicked that he even stumbled over his words, his neck was flushed, his lips were also bright red, and a pair of dark eyes gleamed endlessly, he was extremely delicate.Xi Buwen was still hesitating whether to let this stupid monk break his precepts, when suddenly he saw a few masked men in black flashing out of the forest in the distance.

His face turned serious, a carp straightened up, pulled Wu Nian up and said, "Who are those people?"

Although Wu Nian had countless reprimands in his heart, he didn't bother to say it at this moment. He raised his eyes and said hesitantly: "Looking at the body shape of the magic weapon, it looks like you are a Taoist cultivator. Are you also here for night hunting?"

Xi doesn't know whether it's an enemy or a friend. When the sun sets, it's the time when the backlight is on, and the other party is wearing black clothes and masking his face, so he can't see his family background.While he was hesitating, he saw these people directly attacking the two of them!