Don't Discriminate Against Species

"Grandpa Divine Beast, it's been raining a lot lately, so our family has gone to the town outside." The child grinned, dripping water from his wet forehead.

"Mom said, we are going to move, and I don't know when we will be back." The child seemed very distressed, and made three bows respectfully to the river, and then sat down on a pile of pebbles.

"You can smell the chicken legs and steamed buns, right? Then I'll start eating." The child took out the chicken legs and steamed buns in the enamel cup and gnawed on them, chattering nonsense, and soon the chicken legs were boneless.

This kid... is quite economical.

Fu Li looked at the child like a black-skinned monkey, eating up the offerings, turned his head to look at the cockroach, and found that the other party had a look of surprise, as if he had been used to this child's behavior for a long time. Could it be that this child often came to Worship.

"They all said that I fell into the river and didn't drown. I was lucky. But I know that you saved me." He stretched his head to look at the water, as if he could see the rescuer through the deep river. My own beast, "Grandfather of the beast, what do you like to eat, you can dream it for me, and I will bring it for you to smell."

Fu Li turned his head to look at Chong Chong, saying that he wanted to destroy the world, why would he save a child who fell into the water?

"I just don't want human corpses to make the river bottom even dirtier." Seeing Fu Li staring at him, Gong Chong was a little unhappy, "What do you think I'm doing?"

"Then let's talk about revenge." Fu Li looked around, "Human books can't record this period of history, but the mountains here, the trees here, and the demon cultivators here may still be remembered."

"Aren't you here to stop me from taking revenge?" Chongdu looked away from the child, "I'm afraid the dragon beside you is in line with the fate of the country, and he will let me take revenge."

Zhuang Qing glanced at him and Fu Li, but did not speak.

"The golden light of merit is somewhat familiar." Although the cockroach is the embodiment of the resentment of the auspicious beast, he has inherited the memory of the cockroach, so he is both a cockroach and not, "That idiot must have seen you when he was alive. "

Zhuang Qing calmly said: "Lord Chongdu is a very remarkable auspicious beast."

"Then you know, how did this amazing auspicious beast in your mouth die?" Chongdu laughed loudly, "He was sick, his body was so weak that it was difficult to transform into a human form, and in the end he had to save people who had suffered from floods. Human beings, these human beings received his favor, and served him sincerely until death. However, after his death, these human beings showed greedy faces, and they were unwilling to let go of his bones."

Looking at the fast-flowing river, Zhuang Qing's throat moved, but he couldn't say a good word for humans.

Nothing could be more ungrateful than that.

The child sitting on the pebbles stood up and waved his hands towards the river: "Master Divine Beast, see you next time." He turned around and took two steps, slipped his feet, and leaned into the river.

Before Zhuang Qing and Fu Li could react, the cricket flew out, plunged into the water, and lifted the child out of the water.Seeing the child fainted, he stretched out his hands nervously to test his breath, and after making sure he was all right, he took off all the wet clothes on him, made a big thick blanket, wrapped him up, and put him down. In a clean place, and then walked back.

Fu Li thought silently, according to this situation, the wish of the cockroach to destroy the world may not be fulfilled.

"Of all the descendants of Father Long, I am the fastest." Chongdu returned to the barrier and defended with a straight face.

"I understand." Fu Li nodded solemnly, "You were able to save that child before us because you were fast."

Earthworm: ...

Zhuang Qing: ...

The atmosphere was unspeakably awkward.

"This is for you." Fu Li glanced at the sky, took out the jade bone umbrella from the Qiankun bag, and handed it to the cricket: "I will accompany you to investigate those ungrateful human descendants back then."

Smelling the smell of a dragon on the umbrella, the cricket didn't pick it up: "A keel-made umbrella?"

"Don't worry, this kind of dragon is a degenerate dragon, not as good as your dragon father's kind of auspicious beast that can guard all directions." Fu Li stuffed the umbrella into his hand, "You are full of resentment, I'm afraid you haven't seen it yet." No matter how far you go, the sky thunder will split you up."

"That's right. Most of these dragons now have weak limbs and low cultivation. Compared with the dragons of the past, they are really far behind." Chongdu took the umbrella, "The dragon next to you is quite interesting."

Zhuang Qing asked blankly: "Should I thank you for your compliment?"

"If you juniors understand these manners, it's okay to thank you." The earthworm stepped out of the thick fog, stepped on the muddy road, looked back at the child lying next to him, and slapped him with a flick of his sleeve. Security barrier.

I heard that in the human world, child trafficking is popular now.

The people here live by the river, but because the local area is relatively poor, most of the young and middle-aged people go out to work, leaving the old and weak women and children to do farming at home.Because the government has urgently demolished the people, the whole village is deserted, and the green brick houses and two-story small buildings are sparsely built around it, which looks very dilapidated.

In the memory of Chongdu, there are many people in this village. The old people weave cloth and weave fishing nets, the women grow crops, and the men go fishing on the river to exchange money. The most wonderful gift of nature to them is the river that has submerged him for 500 years. river.

The most dilapidated place in the village is the dilapidated village temple, which can no longer be seen from its original appearance. I don't know when it was built, and I don't know how many times it has been renovated.When Fu Li and the others came to the village temple, they found that the stone steps in front of the village temple had been weathered a lot, the blue tiles that sheltered from the rain had fallen off, a few pieces of rotten wood were lying here and there, and weeds were overgrown.

After wiping away the weeds in the temple with his hand, Fu Li saw a stone statue inside the house. He didn't know what kind of stone it was carved from, but he could barely tell that the stone statue was a lizard-like animal.

It seems to be... the real body of the cockroach?

Are cockroaches so ugly?

"The three boys in front, it's dangerous there, don't stay here." A middle-aged man with his trousers on was standing not far away and waving at them. "Are you from out of town? I don't know there's going to be a flood here, why don't you leave?"

Zhuang Qing walked up to the middle-aged man and took out his ID: "Hi, I'm from Kyoto, I'm here to check things."

"Are you here to investigate the stone statue?" The middle-aged man glanced at the certificate and immediately understood Zhuang Qing's intentions, "I am the village director here, and I came back for a while because I left an important document in the village committee. Come on. If you want to know anything, I can answer you, but it’s dangerous here, let’s talk as we walk.”

Zhuang Qing looked at the cockroach, and the cockroach nodded.

"Thank you." Zhuang Qing thanked the village director.

"You are being polite, you are also doing things for our common people." The village director turned his head to look at Fu Li and Chongdu who were following up, and grinned: "You choose staff in big cities, you still have to look at their looks."

Zhuang Qing was stunned for a moment before she understood what the village director meant: "No, it's just a coincidence."

"Then the water and soil in your big cities support people." The village director sighed, "It's not like our place, where generations of poverty, it's really not easy to find a few watery ones."

"Director, what is enshrined in that ruined temple?" Fu Li took the opportunity to ask.

"I don't know too well. When I was young, the ruined temple looked like this. It is said that when feudal superstitions were abolished, some children were ignorant and wanted to demolish the ruined temple. Who would have known that when they came back, they would have a high fever and almost I even lost my life." The village director looked back at the ruined temple, "Since then, no one has touched this place again. The village witch said that there is a god in this temple. If anyone offends He will get his reward."

The village director realized that he had talked too much, so he quickly changed his mouth and said: "Of course, as a grassroots cadre, I definitely don't believe in such feudal superstition. But the opinions of the masses should be listened to. Anyway, there are few people in the village and the land is wide. I kept it, and it's okay."

Fu Li: ...

Village director, your political consciousness is very high.

"How can you be sure that what you enshrine is a god?" Gongdu sneered, "Maybe it's not?"

"I don't know about that." The village director was taken aback, "It's all words handed down by the older generation, who knows if it's true or not." What's wrong with this young man, neither rain nor sun, What kind of umbrella do you use?

The earthworm kept a straight face and said nothing.

"But we do have a legend here, which has something to do with the god in the temple." The village host rubbed his hands, "I'll tell you if you're interested." The children in the village were tired of hearing these legends, and it was hard work The village director was very excited to find outsiders and brag about it a few more times.

Seeing him eager to try, Zhuang Qing nodded: "Let's talk."

"It is said that a long time ago, there were many days of heavy rain in the sky, and the villages near us flooded suddenly. At that time, unlike now, the country would try its best to save you if something happened. At that time, the sky was high and the emperor was far away, and the local people The county magistrate's corpse is a vegetarian meal, so he doesn't care about the life and death of the people. After several villages were flooded, the people cried out every day, but they didn't know that a dragon suddenly descended from the sky, rescued all the people on the top of the mountain, and gave them a lot of food. Maybe it was the dragon who rescued them. There were too many people, exhausted his physical strength, and died of illness not long after, the nearby villagers built this temple in memory of him." The village director said, "The old man said that as long as our descendants worship every day, the dragon will live Come here, back to the sea."

The earthworm sneered.

The village director thought he was laughing at the ignorance of this kind of thinking, and said a little embarrassedly: "It's just a legend, so it can't be true. Over the years, except for some old people and children, no one has paid homage to it."

"Human beings are not all like this, they are forgetful and fickle." Chongdu looked at a mountain in the distance, which was the place where "he" placed those humans after he rescued them.

"Ah?" The village director looked at Chong Viper in confusion, the people in the city are really interesting now, they despise the whole human being.

Fu Li glared at Chongbu, and said via voice transmission: "Master Chongbu, scare this ghost away later, and we won't be able to ask any more valuable things."

The earthworm snorted, but did not speak.

The four of them climbed onto the road, and the village director saw a motorcycle overturned in front of him, and ran over nervously: "Someone had a car accident!"

Zhuang Qing and Fu Li stood still, looking at the village director with pity.

The village director ran to the motorcycle, feeling a little strange in his heart. Isn't this his motorcycle? Who knocked his motorcycle like this?

However, when he saw the person lying on the ground covered in blood, he froze.

Isn't that... himself?

He stared blankly at the corpse, then turned to look at Fu Li and the others, as if looking for some answer.He opened his mouth wide, and it took a long time before he dared to speak: "I, I'm dead?"

He had no wife and no children, and his death was not too painful, so it was not a big deal.What he went back this time was the subsistence allowance materials of the local people. People who are not living well are just waiting for the money to buy rice for cooking. He died, and this matter may have to be delayed again.

Also, this road should be repaired. When it rains, it is muddy and slippery, which is prone to traffic accidents. He is an obvious example.

"Yes, you are dead." Chongdu said unceremoniously, "Are you stupid, you don't even know whether you are dead or alive?"

"Hey." The village director was not angry at being ridiculed like this, and scratched his head a few times and laughed.Those who do grassroots work are sometimes pointed at by the people and scolded by the people, and sometimes they have to talk about civility and establish a new style when they encounter sloppy ones.So after working in this position for a few years, my temper gradually improved.

"Then what should I do now?" The village director was a little worried, "Where should I go when someone dies?"

"There will be a messenger to take you to the underworld." Fu Li took out his mobile phone and called the police. In order not to arouse the suspicion of the police, he even called the emergency number of the medical staff.

"Oh." The village director sat cross-legged by the road, "Then you guys go away quickly, I'll wait for the errands here. I'm not afraid of the flood, you can't help being drowned."

"Who told you that we are humans now?" Gongdu sneered, "How can humans see ghosts?"

The village director jumped up from the ground in fright: "Then who are you?"

"I'm……"

Fu Li stretched out his hand to cover the cockroach's mouth: "He is joking with you, the three of us have learned a little magic from an expert, that's why we can see you."

"So you are masters." The village director looked at Zhuang Qing suspiciously, "The ID you showed me just now is fake, what do you want to do in our village, steal the statue?"

Zhuang Qing frowned: "Why steal a stone, take it back and use it as a stool?"

Village Director: "..."

That is true.

Earthworm glared at Zhuang Qing, Zhuang Qing was unmoved, lowered his head and took out a handkerchief, took Fu Li's hand and wiped it: "You are covered with mud."

"Ah?" Fu Li smiled and said, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Zhuang Qing glanced at the cockroach, and said to Fu Li, "It is almost impossible to retrieve things from the trees more than 1000 years ago, because there are no trees here that have lived for so many years, and these mountains are also very old. Ordinary, without forming a mountain spirit."

"What should I do?"

Hearing the sound of bells in the distance, Zhuang Qing said: "The most clear about the life and death of the local people is the ghosts of the underworld."

"Daoist Fu Li, Minister Zhuang, why are you here?" Li Xu was also a little surprised when he saw Fu Li and Zhuang Qing.

"We have something to ask Mr. Yin. I wonder if Mr. Yin can explain." Fu Li bowed to Li Xu.Li Xu hurriedly avoided the ceremony, and said with a smile, "Please tell me."

"I wonder if the Underworld can find out the records of the lives and deaths of the people here 500 years ago?" Fu Li turned and glanced at Chong Viper, "This matter is very important to us, please help me, Mr. Yin."

"One thousand and five hundred years ago?" Li Xu thought for a while, took out his mobile phone and said to the village director sitting next to him, "Wait a minute."

"You can do whatever you want, you can do whatever you want." The village director watched the excitement with relish. This was a bad luck, and he had never seen it in his whole life.

Call the birth and death book work system, search 500 years ago by time, and then enter the location, the birth date, life trajectory and cause of death of the local people jumped out.

A person's life, in the book of life and death, is only a few short ten days.

"One thousand and five hundred years ago, probably in 500 A.D., almost all the villagers here were killed by bandits, and the number of dead was more than two hundred." Lixu said, "According to the original trajectory, they shouldn't have died, but the local people, It seems that a forbidden technique was used to change the fate. In other words, it was condemned by heaven."

"God's punishment..." Fu Li was surprised, "So many people, all of them have been punished by God?"

"That's right." Li Xu pulled out the records of the scourge incident that year, sighed and shook his head, and said, "When these ghosts went to the underworld, they said that they were blessed by the dragon, but the dragon died because of them. I don't know where they heard about it. The crooked art of the evil sect says that as long as the bones of the dragon are buried in water, and then a temple is built for it, and incense is offered every year, the dragon will come back to life one day."

"They... want to save Shenlong?" Fu Li suddenly turned his head to look at Chongzhu, but Chongzhu lowered his head, he couldn't see the expression on the other side's face clearly.

"If there really is a dragon here, how could the dragon be exhausted to save a few people? It can only be said that this dragon is about to die." Li Xu put away his phone, "The dragon that is doomed to die, but these people are trying to bring it back to life, This is against the way of heaven, and will naturally be punished by heaven."

"Maybe these people are lying. They just want to keep the dragon's bones and suppress the river to avoid floods?" Fu Li said, "In this way, will there be punishment from heaven?"

"Dead bones, even if they are used as waste, can there be any punishment from heaven?" Li Xu shook his head and said, "Why is Daoist Fu Li interested in the events of the past? Could it be related to the impending flood?"

"Are there going to be floods here?"

"According to the records in the book of life and death, there should have been a flood here long ago, and many people would die." Lixu sighed, "I stayed here for a day, and only one unlucky ghost who threw himself to death on a motorcycle .”

He took out his mobile phone to look at the office system again, and snorted: "In modern society, changes are fast, and the records in the life and death books have also been changed. There will be no more floods here, so I should get off work." Putting his body in a chain, Li Xu felt refreshed after his workload was reduced, "I'll take him home and I'll be off work, everyone. Goodbye."

"Farewell." Looking at his cheerful back, Fu Li didn't know what to say for a moment.

The earthworm looked at the mountain in the distance, tiptoed, and flew up.Seeing this, Fu Li and Zhuang Qing followed.

Because of the policy of returning farmland to forests implemented a few years ago, the vegetation is lush and there is almost no road up the mountain. Naturally, there are not many human traces left.

There was a stone cave on the mountainside, and the cricket stood at the entrance of the cave and did not go in.

Fu Li took out three huge luminous pearls from the Qiankun bag, and shared one with Chongdu and Zhuang Qing, and the entrance of the cave suddenly became bright.

Walking into the cave, Fu Li saw the simple and almost abstract stone carvings on the wall.

Long rivers, flooded humans, and mythical beasts that descended from the sky.

This is a letter of thanks that spans millennia.

The people here expect Shenlong to wake up again, return to the sea, and return to the blue sky.

But in the most stupid way.