Cannibalism

"Help, help!!"

When Xie Sheng followed Li Ting's call for help and rowed the boat to the waters near him, everyone saw a man in purple squatting on the boat not far away, hurriedly scooping up water.

His boat was flooded and he was scooping it out by the spoonful.

His lower body turned into tree roots and branches, probably because it is easy to float on the water, even if the boat sinks, he will not drown.

There is also a colorful flower umbrella standing upside down on the boat. The ribs of the umbrella are all soaked in the water and shake with the swing of the boat.

Run Yuan, who retched for a while, covered his mouth and nose, and opened his eyes wide when he saw Li Ting.He pointed to the front and exclaimed, "Ah! Look!"

Li Ting's hull sank slowly, and more and more stagnant water poured into the boat from the outside. What's more, there were more than a dozen babies lying on the river surface stuck to the hull.Their eyes kept staring at Li Tick for a moment, and they were all laughing loudly, the "giggle" laughter one after another, which made people's hair stand on end.

The baby didn't reach out to touch Li Tiny, but just surrounded him.

They knew he would come down with them eventually.

"Help!" Li Tick's throat trembled, his breathing became more and more rapid, "I just became a monster... I don't want to die here. Come help me!!"

He scooped up a spoonful of water again, then lowered his head, and saw a floating baby in the boat, clinging to his side.He raised his leg in disgust and wanted to kick it out, but the baby's arm was stuck to his tree root somehow, and he couldn't get rid of it no matter how he shook it.

It turned out that it floated into the boat along the current, and its legs were still flapping happily on the water.

He grabbed the baby's arm with his hand, trying to pull it off his body, but as soon as his hand touched the baby, the other's arm stuck to him.

After shaking it a few times, I couldn't break free at all.

"Giggle."

The baby laughed, it opened its bloody mouth, closed its eyes, opened them again, its eyelashes fluttered, and a pair of pupils covering the entire eye sockets looked at him, black and bright.

"You, you don't follow me, you get out of my boat quickly. It's not, I killed you, killed you. You go to your parents..."

Li Ting fell and sat on the boat.

The boat was shaken by his actions, and more and more babies poured in from outside.Sweat dripped down his forehead, and he closed his eyes resignedly, thinking that he was about to die on this small broken boat.

Unexpectedly, his body suddenly lightened, and he seemed to be grabbed by someone in the air.Li Ting opened his eyes and found himself suspended in the air, bound tightly by a claw.The boat occupied by the ghost babies was directly below him, and the baby stuck to the root of his tree was pulled out by another claw and thrown into the water.

With a "plop", the ghost baby fell into the river in response, splashing the water several feet away, sank under the water, and then came up again, continuing to stare at him with a pair of bright and huge pupils.

The claws quickly closed and threw him onto the planks of another ship.

"Huh, huh, I'm finally saved—" Li Tick was so frightened that he was sweating profusely, and his whole body was exhausted.He wiped his face with his sleeve, wiping off the last layer of makeup.The layer of rouge and gouache on Li Ting's face has basically been washed off by sweat, revealing a light wheat-colored face with thick eyebrows and big eyes, which looks a little more heroic.

He put away the roots of his lower body, collapsed onto the boat and gasped heavily, before he had time to see what his savior looked like.The boat below has already drifted rapidly.

"You can't stay here." Xie Sheng shook the oars, "Otherwise the ghost babies around will gather more and more."

Li Ting turned his head sideways and saw that the boat carrying his umbrella was occupied by babies and finally sank to the bottom of the water.

He sat up, and the first thing that caught his eye was a huge iron-eating beast, and then he saw Xie Sheng standing at the stern and Ren Toshiro sitting on the side of the boat. So it was you! Are you also coming to Doll Island to help me find Chun Fei?"

"Chunfei?" Tobishiren thought for a while and asked, "Is that your friend who disappeared?"

"Yes, that's it!" Li Ting quickly got up and grabbed Yuan Shiren's sleeve, "The last time I came home from Tianyan Mountain, I suddenly found a few petals on its flowerpot that didn't belong to it. So I took these petals and asked a few seniors who had been demons for many years. A senior peacock told me that these are the petals of Manjusawa, and they are also full of resentment. Manjusawa grew up in the ghost world, but ordinary ghosts The whole world will purify grievances, and the only one in the world that is not under the jurisdiction of Wawa Island next to Dianchi Lake. Therefore, I guess, Chun Fei's disappearance has something to do with this Wawa Island."

Li Ting took out a pouch from his bosom, and took out a strand of petals.Xie Nan took a look, nodded and said: "The slight resentment on the petals is emitted from the meridians, and it is not accidentally contaminated. Your peacock friend said it well."

"I came here, but I couldn't get in. I was blocked by the black air outside. In the middle of the night, a woman suddenly appeared in front of me and said that she would take me into Doll Island. I had no other choice, so I just followed I lost her. But after she brought me to the river, she disappeared... Then a lot of ghost children appeared on the river, and the boat entered the water. Thanks to you, otherwise, otherwise I would be drowned in the water .”

Li Tick wiped the sweat from his temples with lingering fear.

Yong Chuan thought about it, and felt that something was wrong: "The world is far and wide, what can a little tree that has not become a demon come to Wawa Island."

Xie Sheng, who was rowing, said: "Your friend has not yet become a demon, so he should only be able to maintain the shape of a crape myrtle tree. I remember you said that it was captured by someone. Do you still have any memory of it being captured by someone?"

"Actually, this is purely my guess." Li Ting thumped the hull of the boat, frowned, and licked the red lip fat that had lost half of his lips, "We are both crape myrtle trees, if we can't become monsters, It can only live in one place forever, unable to move, unless it is poached away. But these days I thought about it, and I thought it might have cultivated spiritual consciousness, and ran away without notifying me. I am with it For more than two hundred years, we have survived droughts and floods together, and absorbed the glory of the sun and the moon together. I don’t want to speculate on this possibility, so I deceive myself and tell myself: it must have been captured.”

Yuan Shiren comforted: "Don't be so discouraged. I heard them say that flowers, plants, birds, and animals are the most sincere, kind, and sympathetic when they are about to cultivate their spiritual consciousness, so there shouldn't be much difference between monsters who have just cultivated their spiritual consciousness. .I think he must remember your care for him, and he won't leave without authorization."

Run Shen's face was serious, he walked up to Li Tick, bit his lip thoughtfully, and said, "I think your friend must not be a demon yet."

"How to say?" Li Ting looked up at the little Taoist priest carrying the sword box, his eyes full of expectation, "Do you have any clues?"

"I am a cultivator, so I know some bad things about cultivators. Master once told me that human beings have mortal eyes, their lives are thinner than paper, but their hearts are higher than the sky. In order to achieve their goals, people often do a lot of evil things that harm the nature and reason." For example, treasures that can increase cultivation are often buried behind mountains of swords and seas of fire, but the bodies of practitioners cannot withstand these experiences, so they thought of a crooked idea: grab a body of near-spiritual consciousness, attach it to them, use The infinite potential in their bodies passes through dangerous places, so that treasures can be easily obtained. Wawa Island is such a dangerous place, and the cold spring water in the island is a wonderful thing that many Taoists dream of. "

"Heh, what kind of infinite potential is this?" Run Yuan was extremely disdainful of the behavior of this kind of evil Taoist priest, and curled his lips contemptuously, "It is easier to be possessed if you are close to the spiritual consciousness. The human form, plus the body that is not their own, can do whatever they want, as long as they get the spring water. Brother Li, my junior brother and I both think that your friend should be here because of being possessed."

Xie Sheng at the stern said: "If this is the case, then this Taoist priest should have come to Wawa Island alone at the very beginning. After observing around outside, he felt that it was too dangerous and did not go deep. He accidentally got some manjusawa petals on his body. I caught your friend by mistake, so I went back to Doll Island to fetch spring water."

Hearing this, Li Ting suddenly tore off the floral dress hem on his body.His thin lips were tightly closed, his eyes were about to split open, his brows were outlined with arched brows, and his expression was fierce and serious, not at all like the boy dancing with a flower umbrella when we first met.

"Fuck, what the hell!" Li Ting clenched his fists angrily when he thought of his friend's bruised appearance, and he said viciously, "I will let the person who captured Chun Fei die without a burial!"

Hitoshi Toshiro remembered that Xie Sheng told him later that after flowers and plants become spirits, they will not be able to distinguish their gender for a period of time. After staying in the human world for a long time, they will be able to get rid of the gender other than the human form.It seems that Li Ting has almost passed the transition.

"The near-spiritual body has not yet become a monster. Even if you kill it, it is not illegal. This is the edge of the law of the spiritual world." Xie Sheng squinted his eyes on the water, "But you, if you kill someone, you will He was hunted down by the Heavenly Soldiers who accepted the murder case."

Yong Chuan put on a smile and said, "The laws you Tianyan Mountain participated in formulating are really contradictory."

Hearing this, Li Xie said, "Hmph, so what, I will cut him into pieces."

He lowered his head angrily, clenched his fingers together, and stopped talking.

"Look, the shore is ahead!"

After a period of sailing, they were already close to the shore.The river on the bank was also dead silent, not even a single wave could break out.

After everyone got ashore, the ghost babies stuck around the hull retreated.

The sky on the island was even darker, and the surroundings were completely pitch black. There was no sound of wind, nor the chirping of birds and insects. In short, everything was terribly silent.

Everyone lit the lamps at hand one after another.

There are large and small stone monuments standing on the shore.They glanced at the stone tablets and found that some of the stone tablets only had names such as "Tomb of Googly", "Tomb of Xiaodan", and "Tomb of Chuchu" written on them, and the engraved characters were ugly. Very, at a glance, you can tell that it is not a scholar's style of writing.

Xie Sheng stopped at one place, illuminating the large tombstone in front of him with firelight.He looked at ten lines at a glance, and then called out: "Come quickly, there is an epitaph here, and the reason why these babies were abandoned was written on it."

It is written on the tombstone that these mothers were originally girls of the Luochi tribe. Unlike the women in the Central Plains, the women of the Luochi tribe are strong and resolute in nature, tenacious and unyielding.But because of the decline of the Luochi clan, many girls were trafficked here by their father and brother and forced to marry local people.In order to prevent them from escaping, their husbands tattooed on their faces. They could not escape and refused to submit, so they often committed suicide.The woman who did not die finally gave birth to a baby.

The Luochi woman was already a mother, but she still couldn't accept this fact, so she left her child on this island and let it fend for itself.

Over time, this place has become a ghost doll island full of yin.

Everyone crowded in front of the stele and finished reading, sighing.

"Alas, these children..." Li Ting sighed.

Yong Chuan walked out of the crowd and sat beside another tombstone, not saying a word.

Tobishiren said to the silent Xie Sheng: "I pity them, but I also pity the dead children."

Run Yuan embedded his nails in the palm of his hand: "Even so, a mother can't kill her own child!"

Run Shen said, "Maybe they don't think they are mothers."

Neither Xie Nan nor Xie Sheng made any comments.Xie Nan just shook his head and said, "Let's go to the island to fetch spring water."

I don't know how many dangerous things there are on the island, so traveling is the most important thing.

There are some shade-loving trees growing on the island, and everyone sighed for a while, then walked to the grass ahead.

"Woooo. My child...you died so badly."

"Ah! My child! . . . "

Unexpectedly, at this time, a woman's cry suddenly came from the grass in front of her.Xie Sheng glanced at Xie Nan, then turned his head and gestured to them to stop.

The grass was moving.

Holding the lamp, he stepped forward quickly, pushed aside the bushes, and looked inside, only to find that there was nothing inside.

"Woooo...my child, you died a terrible death."

This voice suddenly appeared behind Xie Sheng.

Xie Sheng was startled, and hurriedly looked back.

I saw Li Ting wrapped in a cloud of turbid black air, walked to the river, and dragged out a ghost baby from it.He sat on the ground slowly, touched its face, then put the ghost baby in his arms, showing a strange smile.

Li Ting shook his body back and forth as if no one was around, and patted the ghost baby's side, as if coaxing it to sleep.

His face was numb, his eyes were blank, and he said vaguely: "My child... you should go to sleep. Mother is here."

"Mother is here..."