Taoist and dog

What puzzled Lu Qinghe were the people in the city.

Chongji said that they were affected by the evil spirit, but he had never seen anything like this before. Infection with the evil spirit can lead to infirmity and death. What is going on with them?

"Because they didn't get infected by accident, but the demon did it on purpose."

"That's it..." Monsters have various abilities, and not everyone even Lu Qinghe knows it well. If these people are not infected with monster aura, but the power of the monster itself, then it makes sense, but this This situation is too rare. It is normal for demons to compete and fight with each other. To them, humans are nothing more than food. How could demons spend so much time to infect them with their demonic energy.

"You haven't stayed in the city for too long, have you?" Chongji asked.

"No, I arrived in the afternoon, so I went in and walked around." I didn't want to go in at first, but unfortunately the place at the mouth of the river is too small, so I went straight to the door.

"After a while, you'll know why." Chongji came two days earlier than Lu Qinghe, and he stayed longer than Lu Qinghe, so he basically figured out the situation, "That demon is stockpiling food for himself."

Lu Qinghe was taken aback.

"Everyone in the city is its food."

"so……"

"So that evil spirit, to it, is like a condiment, changing the human body before eating it." Just like some poisonous snakes, they first poison their prey to death, then use the venom to soften the prey, and finally eat , this monster is probably very picky about food, so he didn't eat it directly like others, but also carefully selected and cooked, "When I first entered the city, I also thought it was a plague. Later, I met someone who was fine. .”

"People who are okay?" Lu Qinghe looked at Xiao Rong, who opened his mouth in surprise, Chongji and they should be the same group of people they met, "A family of three? There is also a little girl?"

"No," Chongji said, "There are quite a few people in the city who are safe, and you should be talking about a few of them, but they are not safe."

What Lu Qinghe encountered was what Chongji had experienced.

He didn't find any clues in the city, thinking it was just an epidemic. At this time, Chongji met a person who was fine.

The man said that it was dangerous outside, so he led Chongji to the house. He made a lot of mystifying remarks, taking advantage of Chongji's unpreparedness, just like the little girl, suddenly pounced on him to scare her.

Chongji escaped lightly. Unlike Lu Qinghe and the others, Chongji only encountered one person, and there was no large-scale pursuit.

After Chongji ran away, he didn't leave immediately, he hid, and then he found that there were many people who were safe near the north gate.

The strange thing is that these people hide at home all day long, do not go out, and avoid communicating with others. Logically speaking, they are survivors, and they live so close, they should be in a state of sympathy. Later, Chongji discovered that they hid The reason is that these people will attack each other, and the attack method is 晈.

"They want to avoid attacks while attacking others, so they all live in the same range, and the rest is left to fate."

"Why do you want to kill people? What they are infected with is monster aura, not corpse aura."

"It starts with the diseases they suffer from."

Chongji also wondered why they murdered people, he found a corpse and inspected it carefully, and finally found the evil spirit attached to the corpse.

——The exorcism spell is like throwing ink into the water. In an instant, the corpse is wrapped in black air. When the black air dissipates, the corpse quickly rots and becomes what it should be.

So Chongji asked people who had the disease to try it, and the results verified his guess. The evil spirit condensed into insect-like things and covered them all over their bodies, so they felt itchy and scratched desperately. After they self-harmed and died, the evil spirit turned back It will become a kind of protection, protecting their bodies from decay, and their blood is as fresh as a living person. Chongji doesn't know the specific changes.

Chongji had tried to save people, but no matter if they were serious or newly ill, as long as the evil spirit was dispelled, they would die on the spot, so he couldn't save them.

Chongji set his sights on the living people in the city.

Some of them are what Lu Qinghe and the others saw. The people who were thin enough to become skeletons. Chongji inspected them. They have no demonic aura, not only no demonic aura, but not much vitality left. So gathering in twos and threes in front of the fire, at most, can add more firewood to the fire.

The other part is what they meet, those who kill people.

Chongji thought that they were not infected, but he was wrong.

When an exorcism spell is applied, there will be all the reactions that should be expected. Similarly, as long as the evil spirit leaves the body, these people will also die immediately

So that man didn't lie to Lu Qinghe about this, and they would die if they left this city.Once the demonic energy is separated from the demon itself, it will eat back the bodies of these people.

If you want to save them, unless you get rid of the monsters in the city, otherwise, none of these people will be spared, it's just a matter of time.

Finally, he discovered the reason for their biting.

They are saving themselves.

The evil spirit adhered to the skin but could not go deep until those people scratched away the flesh and the evil spirit penetrated into the blood, completely eroding the body, and then

Then they became the demon's food.

Therefore, as long as there is a place for those evil spirits to go, it doesn't have to be your own body.

"Are they biting people to make the evil spirit disappear?"

"Yes," the demon poison will not kill them immediately, there is a period of time from infection to onset, and this period is their last struggle.It doesn't have to be used, but this is the most direct method. Once the evil spirit senses the blood, it will immediately penetrate. Those bodies that have been eroded are useless, so they target the people who are still alive. Those people are much more terrifying than those in the city. They do everything they can to survive. They are trying to figure out how to find each other every day, so that they can bite him so that they can survive. .”

"Where did you say that?"

"Those people in the city who are skinny to the bone, they are the result of killing people." Although the evil spirit attached to the body has not penetrated into the body, it has already begun to suck their vitality. When the evil spirit is drawn by the blood and penetrates into the body of another person, It also takes away their anger, they will quickly age and lose weight, and finally become like that, "They survived, but... just live like that."

The evil spirit will not infect them anymore, because they no longer have any qualities of a living person, they are as dry as wood, and can only wait to die.It's not that the people in the city don't know it, but they would rather live like that, with a glimmer of hope, than die by self-torture.

So this cognition turned the people in the city from humans into demons.

Just to survive.

Xiao Rong was silent, he knew the identity of the shadow by the window.

In fact, the little girl is not guarding against the so-called cannibals, but these guys who are watching, let them walk along the wall, and don't let them speak loudly.

But it was still found.

"Will we really be able to save them by destroying that demon?" Lu Qinghe's question was more like a sigh.

Chongji clasped his hands together and silently recited Amitabha.

Just like the man's plea, they all knew that the city was ruined and these people couldn't survive, so they wanted Lu Qinghe to save the little girl and just take her away.

But, that's impossible.

As long as Lu Qinghe and Xiao Rong entered the city, they would be infected with those diseases. They couldn't take the little girl away, so the only thing they could do was to let them donate blood.

This is another kind of salvation for the little girl.

Xiao Rong was thinking, what if Lu Qinghe had a calm identity at that time?

They will not be infected, they can come and go freely, they are here to eliminate demons.

But at that time, no one knew that there was a demon in the city, and for them who were tortured, even if Lu Qinghe said it, no one would believe it...

"You said, that demon is hiding in the well in the city..." Lu Qinghe asked Chongji, "Tell me the exact location."

Chongji looked over, "The demon is not difficult to get rid of, it's just that the bottom of the well is connected to the river trough, once it runs away, there will be another river trough soon, and the other is..."

"Is that the corpses?"

"Correct."

Lu Qinghe could imagine the scene of Chongji being disturbed by the corpse, but he couldn't.

"Understood, I will enter the city tomorrow, just to be on the safe side," Lu Qinghe looked at Chongji, "A small injury can kill you, you go to Hekou tomorrow and wait, in case I accidentally let it run away Yes, you just kill it."

Before he got into the trough, Chongji had a chance, if he missed, as Chongji said, there would be a second or more river troughs

Chongji did not respond.

Lu Qinghe twitched his lips playfully, "It's just a little demon, I'm really not as useless as you."

Chongji no longer speaks.

After finishing what should be said, Lu Qinghe moved the futon to the place Xiao Rong sorted out, closed his eyes and rested his mind.

The short piece of wax burned out, and the sky turned fish-bellied white. Xiao Rong didn't sleep much that night. As soon as he closed his eyes, he could see the appearance of densely packed insects crawling on people, and they didn't leave the mouth of the river. , I guess he couldn't sleep well.

Yizhuang is a place where people pretend to be dead, and Xiao Rong is even more uncomfortable here. He was afraid that some unjust dead ghost would escape, so he ran out at dawn.

As soon as the door opened, the other two people in the room opened their eyes.

"Daoist Lu." Chongji looked at the inconspicuous beam of light on the ground and said, "Demon, I still have to get rid of it."

"Oh," the monster Chongji was not referring to the one at the mouth of the river, but Xiao Rong who was sitting at the door. Lu Qinghe closed his eyes expressionlessly, "You can try it."

"You are a cultivator..." Chongji hesitated.

"so what?"

Chong Ji silent.

Lu Qinghe knew that Monk Chongji couldn't rub the sand in his eyes. If he hadn't seen the collar yesterday, he would have done it directly. The reason why Chongji hesitated was...

Daoist Lu sighed in his heart, his reputation, Monk Chongji had confirmed their relationship and reminded him of his identity.Monk Chongji hoped that he, Lu Qinghe, would return to the shore.

However, there is no shore at all!

In fact, Lu Qinghe didn't care much about what others thought of him, he just wondered how they would think that he and a monster...or a man...he was a cultivator!

Even if he is not doing his job properly, he is still a Taoist priest!

It's fine for Xu Chengrong to think so, after all, Mr. Xu is not a good person, but Monk Chongji...why are you so foreign

Ah!

Why do you know everything? !