Monster Apartment

Si Yiming didn't mind if Canglong saw those traces on Gu Bai's body.

Gu Bai himself didn't have this awareness—or maybe he didn't realize that Canglong saw it at all.

Just like a male wild beast will patrol the territory and show his strength, Si Yiming also has the nature to show off his partner and show his ownership.

They crawled out of the pool, but Canglong himself walked back very consciously first.

Si Yiming's ostentatious face was simply invisible, didn't he just find a partner, let's see what he will do.

Si Yiming felt that Canglong was really on the right track. After carefully wiping Gu Bai's body and hair, he messed with himself casually, changed his clothes, turned his head and walked towards the beach.

They quickly caught up with Canglong. Si Yiming saw Canglong's love for the Tenglong in the Dragon Blood Jade. After thinking about it, he decided to make Canglong happy for a few more hours.

——For now, don't tell Canglong that even if he has a substitute, he won't be able to take a break to make up for it.

The Nian Beast was newly born in recent years... It cannot be regarded as an auspicious beast or a fierce beast.

During the few days of Chinese New Year, Nian beasts will appear to destroy the villages where human beings live, devouring human beings and even massacring villages.

But the Nian beast is a very timid beast, just like knocking on a wooden clapper can scare away the tengu, firecrackers and loud and rapid noises can scare away the Nian beast.

The villages that have successfully expelled the Nian beast will have a bumper harvest in the coming year.

No one can say whether the good harvest comes from the function of the Nian Beast itself, so it is also hard to say whether the Nian Beast should be classified as an auspicious beast or a fierce beast.

And in fact, there is no record of Nian Beast in the classics handed down since ancient times. It is a beast that suddenly appeared recently and was not born from heaven and earth.

This point, all the spirits born from heaven and earth are aware of it.

The birth of Nian Beast is more due to human beings.

And because the human spirit is limited, the Nian beast can only appear when the year is approaching the end of the year.

In the final analysis, this is an incarnation created by the imagination of human beings, and it symbolizes destruction and harvest at the same time.

Usually, no one can find where it hides—maybe it just disappeared at ordinary times.

"Anyway, the Nian beast is so weak that it doesn't even change its human form. Over the years, as human beings' belief in the mystic has gradually faded, it has degenerated from being able to eat people to being able to steal it."

Gu Bai pursed his lips: "It eats people?"

"Eat, many monsters and ferocious beasts used to eat people." Si Yiming paused, thinking that Gu Lang used to be such a character, worried that Gu Bai would feel sad if he realized this, so he quickly explained, "Nian beast It was created by humans, and what it does follows the imagination of humans.”

Gu Bai was silent for a while, and finally decided to try to accept this nature.

From another perspective, it is easy to understand. In the past, when rulers wanted to regulate the people, or when human beings wanted to regulate themselves to maintain morality, they would always support religion.

Most religions will tell people that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded with evil, and the fear of evil will be used to achieve the purpose of making people regulate themselves.

After all, what humans are most afraid of is death and pain, so it is completely understandable to create a Nian beast that brings death and pain, and can be easily driven away and bring a good harvest.

"The Nian Beast has become weaker and weaker over the years, maybe in a few hundred years, it will never appear again."

Si Yiming didn't mean anything else when he said this. He has lived for so many years, and he has long been accustomed to the disappearance of things.

"Actually, we haven't beaten it for many years. It's getting weaker and weaker. It used to be able to talk, but now it can't even talk, it just hums." Canglong interjected.

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Bai saw a small, strange beast on the beach next to their barbecue grill. It was burying its head in the oyster barrel, and it looked like it was eating happily. , the tail wagged happily.

It is covered with its own red scale armor, with a dragon's head, a lion's body and a ponytail, and a horn on the top of its head, which shone with an unkind cold light sharply.

It looks a bit scary, but its size is actually a little smaller.

Not even as good as an adult Samoyed.

Gu Bai was taken aback: "It's so small..."

Si Yiming said: "As the year approaches, the time will get bigger and bigger."

Gu Bai thought about the size of the two dragons just now, and asked, "How big can it be?"

"Hmm..." Si Yiming thought for a while, but he didn't think he could say it well, "It's getting smaller and smaller over the years."

"Because humans no longer believe in its existence?" Gu Bai asked.

Si Yiming nodded.

Gu Bai stopped talking.

He watched Nian Beast feasting, flicking the ponytail behind him, looking like an ordinary pet dog—although it looked a little strange.

Si Yiming strode up, grabbed the horns on the top of Nian Beast's head, and picked up the whole beast.

Nian Beast let out a cry, bared its teeth and was about to demonstrate, when it saw Si Yiming's face, it whimpered cowardly, and stopped struggling.

In the past, when the believers enshrined a lot of things to pray for him to help drive away the powerful Nian Beast, Nian Beast was often beaten by them.

Although they had friendship before, the more times they were beaten, the psychological shadow area of ​​Nian Beast became extremely wide.

Si Yiming carried the little Nian beast, came back to Gu Bai, and asked him, "Do you want to pet it?"

Gu Bai looked at the listless Nian Beast, thought for a while, and shook his head.

His sense of Nian Beast is a bit complicated now, and it is even more complicated when he sees Mr. Si kneading and flattening the little guy with familiar movements while Nian Beast doesn't dare to make a sound.

"If you let Gu Bai touch it, you won't be afraid of pricking his hand?" Cang Long said after a pause, "Oh, you seem to feel the same way."

Among these divine beasts, apart from the white tiger, there are basically few that are easy to touch.

In the past, Spirit Snake always liked to catch Baihu for a bite. Basically, whenever they saw Mrs. Spirit Snake, their first reaction was to kick Baihu out.

Canglong smiled and came up with a bad idea: "Why don't you catch the white tiger and let Gu Bai pet it."

Si Yiming threw the Nian beast out with his backhand, making Canglong's face smudged.

These two old friends who have been friends for many years started pinching again. After pinching, the two of them were going to go to the sea to catch seafood again. Before leaving, Mr. Si stuffed the Nian beast into Gu Bai's arms and told him: "You beat it up." , good luck next year."

Zodiac:"……"

Gu Bai: "..."

Gu Bai couldn't laugh or cry.

He can probably understand the principle of this, just like humans will have a good harvest in the second year after driving away the Nian beast. It is not incomprehensible that the beasts said that beating the Nian beast will bring good luck next year.

But Gu Bai felt that he was always lucky if he didn't fight Nian Beast.

As long as he can remember, his luck has always been good. In the past twenty years, most of the people he met were very gentle people.

It was extremely lucky to be able to live in Kyushu Shanhaiyuan and meet so many new monster friends.

There is absolutely no need for Gu Bai to beat the Nian beast for good luck.

He's not the type to beat someone up just for good luck.

Gu Bai lowered his head and looked at the Nian Beast carefully. After noting the characteristics, he looked away very satisfied.

This is very valuable material, and it is not a loss to be able to observe it closely and write it down.

Nian Beast froze in Gu Bai's arms, as if facing a formidable enemy.

Gu Bai's aura is very gentle and light, and the existence of Tianbushi is equivalent to the peaceful and peaceful world today. His aura is completely blended in the world, without the slightest abruptness or aggression.

But now he is full of bravery--and he is still showing his teeth and claws, which is a demonstration, full of deterrent smell.

Nian Beast's senses towards this group of divine beasts and fierce beasts are rather complicated.

Because they don't care about this bit of good luck. In fact, they didn't hit him hard a few times. When they hit him hard, they beat him a few times during the years when his strength was at its peak. Helping humans drive him out of the village.

In the early years, these beasts were not as busy as they are now. When they are in a better mood, they will take him to play, drink, eat meat and so on when the new year is approaching.

But when he followed his instinct and ran to the human village, the beasts who had been drinking and eating meat with him the day before immediately turned their backs and beat him up harder than anyone else.

Later, when the beasts got busy and he gradually became weaker, they gradually became alienated.

Nian Beast felt something in his heart, knowing that a large part of the reason was that he was gradually fading.

The divine beasts who had gone through thousands of partings wisely chose to distance themselves before he disappeared.

But Nian Beast is also very clear that the beasts are not the same as those fierce beasts, and they will not kill him.

So even if it smelled the breath of the two divine beasts here, the hungry Nian beast dared to run down and steal food.

Nian Beast is quite unfamiliar with Gu Bai, but Pixiu and Canglong have a very good attitude towards Gu Bai, making Nian Beast not know what to do for a while.

—Who would want to be beaten!

Nian Beast thought aggrievedly, he is so weak now that he can only go to the human kitchen to steal food, why should he be beaten.

Gu Bai sensed Nian Beast's uneasiness, he let go of his hand slightly, and put Nian Beast on the beach in front of him.

"I have no intention of beating you up." After Gu Bai finished speaking, he lifted his foot to avoid the Nian beast, and ran to clean up the barbecue grill on the beach.

There were still a dozen or so oysters left in the barrel, and the Nian beast hadn't finished eating.

Gu Bai reckoned that the two divine beasts would definitely not eat the oysters that Nian Beast had touched.

He thought for a while, then turned to look at Nian Beast, who was on the verge of escaping, and asked, "Shall I roast the rest for you?"

Hearing this, Nian Beast quickly gave up on the temptation, moved its tail to Gu Bai's feet, and let out an "Aww".

When Si Yiming and Canglong came back with a few buckets of seafood and a cook named Yutu, what they saw was the Nian Beast rolling around Gu Bai's feet without dignity, wagging its tail begging for food.

And Gu Bai was roasting the last two oysters, and lowered his head to feed them to Nian Beast.

Canglong looked at Nian Beast in shock: "It was a beast that everyone turned heads when they heard about it, this... this is too embarrassing."

Si Yiming squinted at the Nian Beast that was rubbing against Gu Bai's feet, and snorted coldly.

Gu Bai's five senses have improved by leaps and bounds recently, and he has already caught the movement of their return.

He raised his head, smiled and waved his hands: "Mr. Si, you are back!"

Nian Beast's rolling motion froze immediately.

Gu Bai looked down at the fiery red Nian Beast that had froze, and suddenly realized something.

The appearance of the Nian Beast proves that the end of the year is approaching.

That means it may have been more than a month since he left after New Year's Day.

"Mr. Si, what's the date?" Gu Bai asked.

Si Yiming replied, "The day after tomorrow is Valentine's Day."

Gu Bai's expression changed, he touched his cell phone in his pocket which had been out of battery and turned off for more than a month, feeling that something was wrong.

The old father who has never lost news of his good boy for more than a week is afraid that he will explode.

The author has something to say: Canglong: Shame!

Si Yiming: Shame!

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