Honghuang on the tip of the tongue

On a sunny afternoon, it is rare for Rong Ze not to work in the fields, or go to the forest to pick wild fruits.

He was half lying on the straw pile warmed by the sun, holding a thick booklet in his hand and flipping through it.

The snow-colored beast with nine tails walked up to him in unhurried steps, as if curious about what he was doing, its furry head moved closer.

Scanning the pages of the book, the Nine-Tailed Beast raised its nose without showing any trace, and its smoky purple eyes showed a hint of confusion.

As a sage who knows everything in the world with a single thought, Yuan Shi never thought that there was nothing in the world that could be hidden from his own eyes.

However, ever since he met the human race in front of him, he found that there were more and more things he couldn't understand.

Just like now, he doesn't understand at all what the weird symbols covering the pages of the book represent.

Let's talk about characters, it is indeed a bit like the characters used by the human race, but it is only a little bit similar, and he can't understand the meaning of the symbols on it.

Or is this some kind of mysterious spell?

Yuan Shi's heart tightened, and his eyes were a little more scrutinized.

He couldn't help but think of what he learned last night...

Yesterday, he received a message from his apprentice, Ci Hangdao, saying that the investigation into the fur monster's corpse had come to fruition:

The bear monster was indeed in a normal mind when he died, without the slightest tendency to go berserk.

But the strange thing is that the internal condition of its body is extremely bad, as if it has been severely injured, and its internal organs are almost corroded, which is also an important factor that caused its death.

Cihangdao people sent a few photos through the popular communication tool "Lingshitong" (see Zuohua). It can be seen that there are almost no complete organs in the bear monster's stomach, and the inner wall is gray-black, which is very frightening.

The moment he saw the photo, Yuan Shi's face changed suddenly.

Cihang didn't know exactly what caused the furbolg's internal organs to corrode, it was because he was still young and hadn't experienced the turbulent years in the early prehistoric period.

But he recognized at a glance that the miserable condition inside the furbolg was exactly the appearance of being eroded by the energy of chaos.

So the black air he found on Fei Lian last time was not a mistake, it was indeed the chaotic air that had disappeared for a long time in the prehistoric world!

This realization made Yuan Shi startled and angry, and almost lost his composure in front of his apprentice, but at the last moment he held back——

The reappearance of the primordial atmosphere of chaos is definitely an earth-shattering event. If one is not careful, it is very likely to cause panic and chaos in the world.Before investigating the truth, the less people know about it, the better.

Yuan Shi carefully sorted out the whole incident.

In the beginning, he and Rong Ze went to the forest to pick wild fruits, but they encountered a crazy fur monster.Rong Ze lured the furbolg away with honey, and escaped with himself.After he found the bear monster, he found that the bear monster was dead and peaceful.

The mad beast they encountered for the second time was a dead Fei Lian. It was in its wound that he found the residual chaotic energy, but the energy was very weak. Normally, he didn't doubt it much.

But now, this photo proves that chaos does exist, and it has appeared on the berserk beast twice in a row, which can no longer be described as "coincidence".

In the end, is it that the berserk beasts will produce the energy of chaos, or... the energy of chaos will cause the spirit beasts to become berserk?

There is another detail that cannot be ignored: two times in a row, after Rong Ze came into contact with the berserk beasts, they all improved more or less.

The whole incident is full of doubts, the only thing that is certain is that Rong Ze must have played some role in it.

But is he loyal or traitor?Yuan Shi felt that he couldn't understand that mortal more and more.

"Master?" Cihang boldly reminded before Yuanshi's response.

Yuan Shi came back to his senses suddenly, only to realize that the apprentice was still waiting for his order, cleared his throat, and said in a deep voice: "Cihang, you have done a good job."

Cihang was overjoyed, you know, it's not easy to get a compliment from Yuanshi when explaining teachings.

"If you have nothing to do, you step back... wait a minute." Yuan Shi suddenly remembered something, changed his mind, and told his disciples, "You go to the fearful grandson, I remember that he is dealing with a group of berserk beasts."

Cihang understood everything at once, and said in amazement: "Could it be that Master thinks..."

"Go." Yuan Shi interrupted him before he finished speaking, his eyes flashed vaguely, "Pay attention to those dead beasts."

After a pause, he added: "Remember, this matter must not be disclosed."

"Disciple obeys." Cihang felt that this matter was of great importance, but he didn't dare to speculate casually, so he hurriedly accepted the order and resigned.

After hanging up the spiritual knowledge connection, Yuan Shi stood there like a stone statue, waiting for the eastern skyline to turn pale, and then he woke up as if awakened from a dream.

He looked up at the sky, his eyes seemed to penetrate the void, and fell into the empty space 33 days away.

Hopefully, he thought, things weren't so bad that a teacher was called in.

***

Rong Ze gently pulled the pages of the book away from under his furry paws, very carefully.

After all, this "Shan Hai Jing" was brought back by him from modern times. If it is damaged, there will be no substitute for it.

On a whim this morning, he sorted out all kinds of sundries in his portable space, and found this book that was stuffed in without knowing when.

He originally planned to just look at it to pass the time, but he couldn't stop after opening it.

the reason is simple--

Many of the strange beasts mentioned in "Shan Hai Jing" seemed familiar to him!

For example, this paragraph describes a creature called "ear mouse". The book says that it "shape like a mouse, but has the head of a moose". Not only that, it also "sounds like a dog and flies with its tail", Isn't this the flying long-eared mouse that comes to eat every day?

There is also this paragraph, which is about a tengu with "its shape is like a raccoon with a white head, and its sound is like a durian". The more he looks, the more he looks like that gluttonous little beast.

He even found the strange fish with one head and ten bodies that was used to make the therapeutic fish soup yesterday. It turned out that its scientific name is "cutter fish", and its effect is to treat flatulence.

It turned out that he did not travel to an alien planet, but to the world where "Shan Hai Jing" exists.

This discovery made Rong Ze extremely excited.

But then again, even knowing when and where you are, doesn't seem to be of much use.

Rong Ze gradually calmed down, only to realize that Dabai also came over at some point, the little guy seemed to be very interested in "Shan Hai Jing" and read it very carefully.

Rong Ze was amused, and while pulling away from the book, so as not to be scratched by the sharp claws, he rubbed his furry head and said with a smile: "Little guy, can you understand?"

Yuanshi, who was immersed in his thoughts, came back to his senses, watching the strange book being taken away, feeling a little regretful.

He still hasn't figured out what the symbols and patterns on it mean.He thought, maybe this book can solve the mystery of Rong Ze.

Seeing Yuan Shi's disappointed look, Rong Ze became interested again: Speaking of which, he still doesn't know what kind of spirit beast Dabai is.

It looks like a cat and has nine tails. It seems that there is no such creature in "Shan Hai Jing"?

Rong Ze carefully looked at Dabai's face, from head to toe.

Seeing Yuanshi's tail furry, he thought that this human race would not find anything, right?

if so……

Yuan Shi's pupils shrank slightly, his ears stood up, and his pointed claws protruded from the flesh pads.

Wait, maybe he wanted to go wrong?

Rong Ze thought of one thing: cats are not the only option among cats.

Although the small animal in front of me is not big, it is easily reminiscent of a cat, but maybe it just hasn't grown up yet?

A flash of inspiration flashed in Rong Ze's mind, and he quickly flipped through "Shan Hai Jing".

found it!His eyes lit up, and he carefully read the introduction to Lu Wu's beast in the book.

Sure enough.

Rong Ze suddenly realized, and looked at Yuan Shi with complicated eyes: So this is the legendary beast Lu Wu, who looks... quite delicate.

But even though the Lu Wu in front of him is different from what he imagined, Rong Ze still has great respect for Dabai.

After all, there are many rare and rare beasts recorded in "Shan Hai Jing", but there are not many that can be called "divine beasts", and Lu Wu is one of them.What's more, it is still a mythical beast living in Kunlun Mountains.

So, the land under his feet is the legendary Kunlun Mountain?

Are there really gods living here?

In the next second, Rong Ze was amused by his own thoughts, thinking that there are no gods in this world, they are all just the imagination of future generations.

Yuan Shi saw that Rong Ze did not go any further, so he quietly put away his sharp claws.

There are too many mysteries hidden in the human race in front of him, at least until he figured out the reason, he is unwilling to easily conflict with this person.

At dinner time, the beasts gathered as usual.

Rong Ze took a special look around and found that most of these strange beasts can be found in the "Shan Hai Jing", and most of them have one thing in common——

"It looks delicious..." Yuan Shi heard Rong Ze talking to himself.

He was startled for a moment, then following Rong Ze's gaze, he saw that it was a lively and lovely black beast that looked like a white rabbit.

Next, Yuan Shi heard that Rong Ze commented on those strange beasts in this way:

"This is only edible."

"This meat is sweet and sour and delicious."

"This can only treat skin diseases if you eat it."

Yuan Shi: "?!"

He began to doubt whether his decision to pretend to be Lu Wu was correct...

Rong Ze didn't notice Yuan Shi's indescribable expression at all, he reviewed the "Shan Hai Jing" in front of the strange beasts, and finally shook his head.

Although according to the "Shan Hai Jing" records, all these strange beasts in front of us are edible, and some of them are delicious.But after getting along for this period of time, he has long regarded these spirit beasts as friends, and of course it is impossible to really taste what they are like.

In fact, even if Rong Ze really wanted to do something, he would probably get nothing.

What he didn't know was that the strange beasts in front of him were all spiritual beasts that stepped into the door of practice with half their legs and opened their minds.The reason why they dared to appear in front of Rong Ze was because they realized that this human race would not harm them.Otherwise, no matter how exquisite Rong Ze's cooking skills are, it would be difficult to attract the attention of spirit beasts.

Occasionally, they would bring fresh ingredients to Rongze, which were ordinary wild beasts, and they were also their prey.Even without Rong Ze, these animals in the middle and lower stages of the food chain cannot escape the sharp claws of the spirit beasts.

For these spirit beasts, the change brought about by the appearance of Rong Ze is to change their previous eating style of raw meat and blood, and make them fall in love with the delicacy of cooking.

Rong Ze's biggest advantage is that he can take it easy and go with the situation, put aside unrealistic fantasies, and start to concentrate on preparing dinner.

The main dish for dinner is twice-cooked pork. This is a classic Sichuan-style home-cooked dish. It is not difficult to make, but it will test the chef's skills to make it delicious.

Rong Ze picked two bright red fresh hind legs, added ginger slices, cooking wine and other seasonings to the water to draw out the aroma, waited for the water to boil, put in the pork belly and blanched until cooked, filtered the blood, cut into thin and translucent pieces sliced ​​meat.

Heat up an iron pan, stir-fry the meat slices until they are curly and transparent, and add various seasonings, of course, Pixian Douban, which is known as the "soul of Sichuan cuisine", cannot be missing.

Fortunately, Rong Ze once learned how to make authentic bean paste from a Sichuan chef, so that he would not run out of food after traveling.

Green onions, garlic sprouts, bright red peppers, and sliced ​​meat served with thick oily red sauce will whet your appetite.

Even Yuan Shi, who was full of doubts, temporarily let go of his thoughts and took a sip when faced with this delicious dish.

The golden-red and oily sliced ​​meat is tender in the mouth, the fat meat melts in the mouth, fat but not greasy, and the spicy taste sweeps the mouth, from the tip of the tongue to the throat.

Painful, but fast.

Even Yuan Shi, who was not very used to the spicy taste, ate the rice cooked in a wooden barrel while shedding tears, and ate it to a full stomach.

After dinner, the night breeze was blowing, Yuan Shi squatted on a branch to enjoy the wind, his eyes closely followed the busy figure under the tree.

For a moment, he suddenly felt that it might be good to just be a carefree beast.

But in the next second, the furbolg whose internal organs were corroded by the energy of chaos and Fei Lian, who was dying horribly, appeared in front of his eyes, and his eyes turned deep.

The development of the whole thing became more and more weird, and he shouldn't spend time with this human race like this.

Maybe, he should use some means to make the other party reveal his true face.