What's wrong with being a salted fish?

"Master, how long will you take care of Mr. Li?"

keep?

Why use this word?

Li Hongrui was surprised when his disciple asked Master Yao: Shouldn't I study with Master Yao? Why do you say Master Yao supports me?

"It's almost a month. It's less than a month. Do you remember that his food is indispensable?"

Master Yao touched his beard and instructed his disciples.

Eat?

Is there something wrong with what I'm eating?

Li Hongrui's mind was now filled with doubts. He didn't understand what Master Yao and his disciples said.

Reason told him that he should leave. He might not be able to bear what happened next, but his body was frozen in place and unable to move.

What they said next made Li Hongrui feel horrified.

"Master, can you reward your disciple with some of Mr. Li's meat when the time comes?"

This disciple seemed to be very popular with Master Yao, and he was not scolded by Master Yao for being coquettish with Master Yao. On the contrary, Master Yao's tone was filled with affection.

"Of course, I will miss you as a master." Master Yao smiled and rubbed his disciple's head.

Li Hongrui felt as if his head had been hit with a blow, and his head was confused: Are they talking about him? Do you mean you want to eat yourself?

why?

why? ?

why! ! !

Li Hongrui didn't dare to continue listening. All he could think about now was that he wanted to escape from here.

He can't stay here any longer! He must leave immediately!

Li Hongrui understood that it was a mistake to come to Master Yao this time. He originally wanted to find someone to ask for help, but he did not expect that he would send himself into a tiger's den.

He doesn't want to die! He can't die!

Li Hongrui suppressed his fear and pretended that he was just out for a walk. After walking around in the neighborhood, he pretended to be calm and returned to the house arranged for him by Master Yao.

Then Li Hongrui immediately packed some things, put them into his clothes, and walked towards the gate of the Taoist temple pretending to be very casual.

Li Hongrui looked at the Taoist temple door that was within easy reach. Just as he was about to reach out, he heard a faint voice coming from behind him.

"Master Li, where are you going?"

Li Hongrui was frightened, turned around stiffly, and saw a child holding a white lantern.

This boy was dressed completely differently from the sweeping boy he saw yesterday. He was wearing a white robe, his hair tied back with a red hairband, and he was holding a lantern made of white paper with a message on it that Li Hongrui could not understand. of runes.

He doesn't look like a child, he looks like a traveler staying here.

He was wearing white clothes and looked like he was attending a funeral, but he stared at Li Hongrui expressionlessly, and Li Hongrui felt that his scalp was numb.

This child had a pair of eyes as dark as ink and kept staring at Li Hongrui, causing Li Hongrui's heart to urge his body to leave quickly.

"I didn't want to go anywhere, I, I just came out for a walk..." Li Hongrui didn't dare to look into the child's eyes, lowering his head and stammered.

"Oh." The boy in white didn't seem to care what Li Hongrui said, and nodded casually when he got the answer.

He turned around with the lantern and said in a gloomy tone: "Master Li, it's better not to run around if you are fine. There has been something unclean on this mountain recently."

Li Hongrui tried to escape but was caught, so he dared not act rashly, so he could only follow Xiaotong back.

The more he looked at the lantern carried by the child, the more strange he felt: Why was he carrying a lantern in broad daylight?

Just when Li Hongrui wanted to take a closer look, the kid in front turned around and said, "Master Li seems to be very interested in my lantern?"

"Ah, no, I just took a look." Li Hongrui shook his head in denial.

The child raised the lantern in front of Li Hongrui's eyes, and then Li Hongrui discovered that the lantern was still burning with wax.

Still lighting a fire in broad daylight?

Li Hongrui was startled and took a step back, which made the child giggle: "Master Li, don't be afraid. This lantern was given to me by the master, but it can save my life."

Save your life? He thinks these people are very safe in this Taoist temple!

Li Hongrui's eyes were strange. There were only a few normal people in their Taoist temple. Why didn't he notice it at the time?

Li Hongrui now only feels that the surprise of rebirth blinded his eyes, preventing him from discovering the weirdness of this Taoist temple.

Just when Li Hongrui was about to say a few more words, the boy turned around and stopped talking to Li Hongrui.

The boy took Li Hongrui back to his house. Li Hongrui didn't want to stay with him any longer. Just as he was about to go in, he heard the boy calling him again.

"Master Li, remember, this lantern can save your life."

Li Hongrui turned around and saw the child disappearing around the corner.

What did he mean when he said this to me?

Perhaps the news that Li Hongrui wanted to leave spread in the Taoist temple. When Li Hongrui stepped out of the room the next day, he felt eyes from all directions.

Is this spying on me? Are you afraid that I will run away?

Li Hongrui was clearly under the sun, but he felt extremely cold.

Didn’t Master Yao say that my destiny is defective? Then why did you eat me? Will eating me do him any good?

Thinking of this, Li Hongrui felt like he was talking nonsense. If it was not good for Master Yao, why would he eat him?

Li Hongrui didn't dare to go out, for fear that his next behavior would directly ruin his life, so he only dared to stay in his room.

In the next few days, Li Hongrui was spinning around the room like a headless fly, not knowing what to do.

He also knew that there might be something wrong with his daily meals, but he had nothing else to eat, so he struggled with it every day, but finally ate it all.

It's not poisonous at all, but I don't know what the problem is.

Master Yao has not come to see him in the past few days. Li Hongrui also estimated that his every move might be under Master Yao's surveillance and did not dare to act rashly.

Li Hongrui understood that he was like a fish on the chopping board and couldn't escape, but it goes without saying that he couldn't beat Master Yao in terms of martial arts. What should he do?

Li Hongrui was so anxious that a lot of his hair fell out and several of his fingernails were bitten bald.

But he really couldn't calm down, so he thought about going out for a walk.

As a result, from a distance, Li Hongrui saw the boy in white who had called him a few days ago.

He was still holding a white lantern and didn't know where he was going along the road.

Li Hongrui stopped a passing child wearing a black robe and asked him, "Who is that child wearing white clothes and holding a lantern?"

The boy in black was obviously stunned. He thought for a while and replied with a smile: "Young master Li, you are joking. There are no children in white in our temple, let alone carrying lanterns."

Li Hongrui didn't believe it and felt that he was lying to him, but before he could say another word, the boy in black shook his head and left.

No? how could be? Even though I had talked to him, he still took me back to my room!

Li Hongrui did not believe in evil and asked people everywhere about the boy in white, but everyone shook their heads and told him that there was no such person in the temple.

Finally, Li Hongrui had the courage to go to Master Yao, but Master Yao just touched his beard and said that he had never had the disciple Li Hongrui mentioned.

Everyone said they had never seen this little boy in white. Li Hongrui felt dizzy when he walked out of Master Yao's house. Could it be that he had seen it wrong? But I clearly had a conversation with him. Could it be that I was hallucinating?

Just when Li Hongrui was wondering if he was hallucinating because he ate the meal arranged by Master Yao, the boy in white appeared not far from him again.

He bowed to Li Hongrui and walked forward along the road holding the white lantern.

"Wait!" Li Hongrui shouted, and then chased the white figure.

The children nearby who were responsible for monitoring Li Hongrui were confused when they saw this scene: Who is Mr. Li talking to?

"Huh! Can you...wait for me!" Li Hongrui bent over and held his knees, gasping for air. How could this guy walk so fast?

When Li Hongrui straightened up, he found that he didn't know where he was in the Taoist temple, and there seemed to be no one watching him around.

where is this?

Li Hongrui looked at the house not far away and wondered. He seemed to have never been here before wandering around in the Taoist temple.

The boy in white was also missing. Li Hongrui seemed to be the only one here.

Looking at the house in front of him, Li Hongrui boldly opened the door and walked in.

The room was filled with books. Li Hongrui stepped forward to look through them and found that they seemed to be Master Yao's exercises.

Li Hongrui was ecstatic. With these books, did he still need to be afraid of Master Yao? He began to study these boring skills assiduously.

After returning to the house, he was still worried that he would not be able to find this place the next day. As a result, every day when he went out, he would find a child in white waiting for him not far away.

After a few days like this, Li Hongrui discovered to his chagrin that without the guidance of his master, he could neither get the hang of these exercises nor learn them.

Li Hongrui angrily threw the book in his hand against the wall, and threw it onto a bookshelf, causing a large volume of books to fall down.

Li Hongrui randomly picked up a blue book without a name, and was surprised to find that what was recorded in it was how to quickly obtain other people's skills.

Li Hongrui couldn't wait to flip through the entire book and found that there was only one method recorded in it, which was very simple and crude.

Just eat each other.

It says real eating.

When eating the other party, you only need to recite the words recorded in the book silently in your mind. After eating the other party cleanly, you can gain part of the other party's skill.

Li Hongrui was overjoyed, this was a technique tailor-made for him!

He began to study hard again the words recorded in the book.

During this period, he also thought about whether it was because of this skill that Master Yao wanted to eat him, but he had no skill, so what was it that made Master Yao worth so much effort.

What he doesn't know is that what Master Yao hopes to get is the world's luck in him. If he can successfully win over Lin Yuhe, Master Yao can get two great lucks through his body.

Strangely enough, Li Hongrui found that after he memorized the passage in the book, he never saw the boy in white again, nor did he go to that place again.

Afterwards, Li Hongrui began to think about how to plunder Master Yao's skills.

He felt that since Master Yao had thoughts about him, Master Yao was solely responsible for being eaten by him.

Or they could resolve it peacefully, with Master Yao teaching him other techniques, and then they would never interact with each other until death.

Before Li Hongrui could decide, he heard Master Yao's voice again when he went out. This time he was arranging for his disciples, saying that the feast in the temple was about to begin.

Li Hongrui subconsciously felt that he might not be the main dish at this feast!

Since Master Yao doesn't give me any chance, don't blame me for being rude!

Li Hongrui decided to strike first.

He knocked out the kid who was watching over him in the middle of the night, and then got outside Master Yao's door in the dark.

When Li Hongrui was about to step into Master Yao's room, someone tapped him on the shoulder.

Li Hongrui was so frightened that he almost screamed, but a cold hand covered his mouth.

"Master Li, don't shout so loudly, it will be bad if you disturb others."

Hearing the sound, Li Hongrui slowly turned around and found the boy in white.

After showing a scary smile to Li Hongrui, he put the white lantern into Li Hongrui's hand: "I told you, it can save your life."

Before Li Hongrui could calm down and froze in place, the boy in white had quietly left.

Li Hongrui squeezed the white paper lantern in his hand, swallowed, took out the knife he had brought from the room from his clothes, and pushed open the door of Master Yao's room.

Master Yao was sleeping soundly in bed, and the creak of Li Hongrui's door did not wake him up.

Li Hongrui slowly approached Master Yao's bed and showed a strange expression: "You didn't expect that I would eat you in the end!"

He recited the exercises in the book silently in his mind, and as he read to the end, a rumble of thunder suddenly sounded outside the house.

The huge thunder woke Master Yao from his sleep.

He opened his eyes in confusion, and found Li Hongrui with wide eyes and a ghostly smile, holding up a knife and stabbing him hard.

"!"

Master Yao grabbed Li Hongrui's arm tightly and wanted to pull out the knife that was pierced into his heart, but he didn't expect that Li Hongrui seemed to have divine help at this moment. He was so powerful that he couldn't shake him at all.

Master Yao's eyes bulged as he looked at the white lantern in Li Hongrui's hand and the huge figure slowly emerging from him, trembling: "It's... it's you!"

Li Hongrui thought that Master Yao was calling him, so he used more force with his hands: "You guy, you have been thinking about me from the beginning! I didn't expect that you would die in my hands in the end!"

When Master Yao died, Li Hongrui was mentally prepared and bit his arm hard.

The warm blood in Master Yao's body immediately splashed all over his face.

Li Hongrui thought that it would be difficult to tear off the flesh with his own teeth, but he did not expect that Master Yao's body was like tofu to him, breaking into pieces at the first touch.

He also didn't realize that he now looked like a beast, swallowing Master Yao's body one after another, and then Li Hongrui felt a strange power pouring into his body.

When Li Hongrui came back to his senses, he was covered in blood, and in front of him was Master Yao who had been eaten by him and was mutilated in all directions.

Li Hongrui tried his body's new strength and couldn't help but throw his head back and laugh. Who can stop him now?

After eating Master Yao, Li Hongrui was covered in blood and his eyes were dull for some reason. He was about to leave the Taoist temple with a white lantern.

Strangely, the child on the road didn't seem to see Li Hongrui and let him open the door of the Taoist temple.

As the door of the Taoist temple opened, many wild beasts from the mountains poured in. They did not seem to see Li Hongrui. They only stared at the other people in the temple and pounced on them. Then, a shrill scream came from behind Li Hongrui.

Li Hongrui didn't turn his head, and still walked down the mountain with eyes blank.

......

Lin Zhuo woke up from his dream, looked at the dark room, and realized that it was still early.

He shook his ears and lay back on Zhao Jingming's chest.

It seemed like I had a nightmare.