When the devil

There was a damp, decaying, musty smell in the dense forest field, and under the town of enchantment, there was still a demonic nature that could not be dissipated in it.

Mo Chi chased Xia Zhou to the valley, the bloody smell that he cared about finally poured into his nostrils, and then, the further he went in, the more intense it became, the surrounding was filled with fog, the ground was very humid, and the dead branches and leaves were stuck in the In the mud, the mud was thick and purple, and he followed behind without saying a word. The place where his boots stepped was a little sunken, which was disgusting.

And Xia Zhou seemed to have noticed this a long time ago. Although he was walking in front, he carried black smoke and dust every step of the way. The mud couldn't touch him, and the grass also withered with his steps. It seemed to be exuding demon power, but Mochi noticed Not even the slightest bit, I just sighed in my heart, Zhu Wu is really a fastidious monster, who would mind getting his boots dirty with mud.

Mochi asked him: "Xia Maomao, you have activated your demon power, aren't you afraid of disturbing the barrier outside?"

Xia Zhou didn't take it to heart at all: "Small problems, don't get in the way."

Passing through the mountain road pressed by the bushes, there is a meadow further ahead. The distant sunlight shines through the forest, dyeing the mist with a faint light, which is a little lighter in this open space.

Mochi thought he had seen the light, and finally heaved a sigh of relief, but when he looked forward, he fell into a daze again.

There were some bloody lumps scattered all over the grass, and the steel wires were mottled in the mist like spider webs, stained with blood, turning into a thin red film.

The blood hanging on it couldn't coagulate, and fell down drop by drop. Mochi looked a little nauseous, covered his mouth and turned his face to the side.

Xia Zhou looked at those steel wires, and was about to take a detour, but Mochi said, "It's Shen Feihuan, it must be him, and he's killing innocent people indiscriminately again."

"I guess he didn't want to be disturbed by others, so he laid out these steel wires, hit them with 'swish' twice, and they can be cut into pieces of meat." Xia Zhou reached out and touched the murder weapon as thin as spider silk. It can hurt people if you touch it, Xia Zhou's fingertips were covered with black smoke, and he passed over it soundlessly, the smoke and dust scattered, but the steel wires interspersed in the forest were vibrating.

It seemed to be warning his master that an intruder was coming.

Xia Zhou got excited and repeatedly tossed and turned on the steel wire for a while. His slender fingers were cut into black smoke time and time again, and then quickly recovered when they hung down. Repeated several times, the terrifying silk wires lying in front of his eyes were like strings , was trembling non-stop by him.

The sun is fragmented, flickering in twists and turns, and the sound of swarms of insects flapping wings lingers in my ears.

"What are you doing...?" Mochi asked, covering his chest.

Xia Zhou smiled, and with a wave of his hand, the mottled steel wires were all entangled in black smoke, and were quickly swallowed up. He just looked at his masterpiece like this, and said, "Say hello."

Mo Chi said: "Hi, what are you saying?"

Xia Zhou took two steps forward, glanced at the surrounding grass, the height of the grass here was just above the calf, and the corpses were piled up in it, so it was difficult to find it. Taking a cursory look, most of the people lying inside were wearing plain clothes, not too old-fashioned. The newly promoted disciples in the courtyard who went hunting, the wounds are clean and neat, and there are no other signs of fighting...

"He put the steel wire on purpose, and he hid in it to do bad things. If someone broke into this place, he would be aware of it."

Mochi clapped his hands: "So it's like—" Before he could speak, he stopped abruptly, and noticed that there was an extra figure behind him.

Xia Zhou stopped his hands and turned slightly away.

Shen Feihuan was not far away.

"Don't blame me." He glanced at the wreckage on the ground: "It's very dark here. I guess they came sneaking here to recruit big monsters, but suddenly a bear popped out of the forest, and they couldn't beat it. They ran around with their heads in their arms, bumping into the steel wire one after another, and I couldn't stop them from rushing to die... It's so pitiful."

After saying this sentence, he heard the sound of Mochi drawing his bow, and the sharp arrow pointed at him without leaning to one side or trembling.

"Shen Feihuan, you don't want to turn the truth upside down. What does today's demon hunting conference have to do with you? Why are you here?"

Shen Feihuan answered honestly: "The monster hunting conference is full of harmless monsters, isn't it interesting? I came here with a big gift for the sake of excitement."

Mo Chi asked sharply, "What kind of gift?"

Shen Fei laughed but did not answer.

"Shen Feihuan." Xia Zhou called him.

"It's me." Shen Feihuan turned his face, "Governor Xia, look forward to it for a long time."

Xia Zhou looked him in the eyes seriously for a while, and walked over with strides. Shen Feihuan was still able to keep still at first, but when Xia Zhou came in front of him, he still took two steps back in a daze.

"Governor Xia, I obediently came to see you. Naturally, I am willing to have a heart-to-heart talk with you. Don't be so fierce, you look scary." Shen Feihuan put away her smile, showing a look of fear.

Xia Zhou said: "You are a smart person, you know you can't hide it, and you will always be liked if you are obedient. I am curious about some things, so I just do it lightly."

Shen Feihuan took another step back cautiously.

"The last time I heard Bai Lie tell it, I found it strange that your story seemed to be missing something very important." Xia Zhou spoke slowly, his eyes seemed to be filled with fog, and his sense of oppression seemed to be inherent in him. Not to mention Shen Feihuan, even the Mochi beside him felt cold sweat.

There was only a moment when the killing intent surfaced, Shen Feihuan had no time to escape, the long thorns gathered by the black smoke had already risen from the ground, pierced through his calf, protruded from his thigh, his whole body was shocked, and then passed through his abdomen, arms, On his shoulder, the blood instantly stained his clothes red, but the black thorn did not recede, it just penetrated into his body, pinning him in place.

"..."

Mochi stared dumbfounded, unknowingly loosened the strength of his bow.

Shen Feihuan vomited a mouthful of blood, he didn't die, he knelt on the ground, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his hair was stained, but in an instant, a few black thorns fell from the sky, passing through his throat and chest, the speed was too fast and the strength It was too big, and blood was spilled on the grass, sticky.

Xia Zhou killed him like he crushed an ant.

Mo Chi's eyes widened, he couldn't help but think of that night on the Liuli Mountain, Xia Zhou used the black spear that rose from the ground to assassinate Cang Lin.

What made him shudder the most was that from the beginning to the end, Xia Zhou didn't have any demon power leaking from him, he was so relaxed and casual, his eyes were unfocused, killing people was like playing.

But Xia Zhou obviously didn't have enough fun, he retreated the two deadly black thorns on Shen Feihuan's body, watched the dead body fall to the ground with cold eyes, and then a few tiny thorns emerged from the ground like flowers, piercing Shen Feihuan hands.

Mochi couldn't stand it anymore, and muttered: "Everyone is dead, don't, don't..."

Xia Zhou knelt down and touched Shen Feihuan's neck. He had pierced his throat with a black thorn just now, but now he felt it was intact.

"Can't you die?" Xia Zhou said with a smile, "Are you a human or a ghost?"

"..." Shen Feihuan's shoulders trembled, there were still many black thorns on his body that had not been pulled out, and he was dizzy with pain even when he moved, and he was speechless.

Mochi couldn't read anymore.

Xia Zhou said slowly, "Would you like to try again? How many times can you survive?"

"...Don't." Finally, Shen Feihuan struggled to squeeze out a word, his charming peach eyes were filled with moisture, and he burst into tears in the blink of an eye, looking very pitiful: "You said you would be gentle...you lied people……"

Xia Zhou snorted softly, and suddenly reached out to Mochi next to him: "Lend me the knife."

Mochi was nervous: "What are you doing?"

The hand in front of him withdrew again: "It doesn't matter if you don't borrow it, just tear his clothes off."

"what?"

Mochi looked at him for a while, then obediently went to sit next to Shen Feihuan and squatted down. His clothes were already torn from the attack just now. Mochi made a cut, and he carefully avoided touching Shen Feihuan's slender back. The looming black engraving was exposed to the air.

"This is the seal of Taotie." Xia Zhou took a glance: "Are you a sacrifice of Taotie?"

Taotie and Wuwu are both one of the four fierce beasts. In Xia Zhou's impression, Taotie has an almost perverted obsession with food. As long as it is tangible, it can rarely escape his bloody maw.

Shen Feihuan secretly spat out a mouthful of blood, raised his head with difficulty and said, "I——I'm going to kill him."

Mochi's expression was solemn: "Gaotie... is Taotie in the world?"

But neither Xia Zhou nor Shen Feihuan answered his question.

Xia Zhou took it as if he had heard a joke, and reached out to pat Shen Feihuan's face: "Coincidentally, I want to kill him too." After speaking, he stood up and scattered all the black thorns on Shen Feihuan's body.

Shen Feihuan gasped on the ground, the wound on his body healed quickly, he sat up slowly, pulled his clothes and looked down at the muddy body.

"...????" The little apprentice seemed to have seen a ghost, his eyes widened in fright.

Xia Zhou fiddled with his hands and asked lazily, "What method did you use to keep yourself from dying?"

Shen Feihuan shook his head in agony: "Have you ever heard of a monster called 'Lossless'?"

Xia Zhou said: "I've heard, that thing is rare, you can live forever if you eat it, have you eaten it?"

Shen Feihuan nodded.

Xia Zhou raised his eyebrows: "You really know how to eat, let me explain in detail?"

Shen Feihuan sighed, and sat cross-legged on the same spot: "My hometown is drought every year, there is no harvest, and many people starve to death. Taotie throws the leftovers and scraps to them, and they take it as a favor. After a long time, Taotie will He became a god and descended to earth, and then he..." After speaking halfway, Shen Feihuan noticed that Mochi next to him was listening to his speech carefully, and he was very absorbed in listening.

The eyes of the two met, Shen Feihuan raised the corner of his mouth and gave him a smile, and Mochi came to his senses after a while: "Where is your hometown?"

Shen Feihuan said: "A certain poor village is adjacent." After speaking, he raised his finger, and rustling sounds came from around, and after a while, another person was wrapped tightly by the steel wire and dragged to the grass.

This time the steel wire paused a little more than before, it didn't kill anyone, it was just entangled, but the man was so frightened that he screamed: "Help, help, don't kill me, don't!"

Mochi took a closer look, and it was Guo Jianchao who was caught by Shen Feihuan!

"Xia, Pavilion Master Xia! Pavilion Master Xia!" Guo Jianchao fixed his eyes on Xiazhou, was entangled and lay on the ground, and slowly moved towards Xiazhou.

"Then one day, Taotie stopped giving food to everyone." Shen Feihuan dragged Guo Jianchao back, and continued to tell the story in a flat tone: "The reason is that he doesn't like the sacrifices offered by the villagers. He said he wanted young, beautiful ones. Girls, the village really gave away girls, and after the girls finished eating, they said they wanted boys, and they were greedy."

Mochi frowned: "Can Taotie really benefit them?"

Shen Feihuan said: "Yes, of course he can. He is very powerful, he got food from somewhere, made it rain in the arid world, and even threw gold, silver and jewels."

Guo Jianchao raised his head and looked around, and suddenly saw a dead head in the grass, which made him scream in horror, and his soul flew out of his wits.

"Why did I pick you?" Xia Zhou took Guo Jianchao as air: "You have the mark of gluttony on your body, I can't smell your smell, are you delicious?"

Shen Feihuan smiled wryly: "My mother saw that I was starving to death, so she went to Taotie to beg for food. Taotie gave her a piece of meat as a gift, and she couldn't wait to go home and cook it for me. .”

"Ha." Xia Zhou smiled rashly: "Innocent is a good thing for Taotie, take a bite today, and wait for him to grow new flesh before he can bite again."

"Eating without damage is such a good thing for Taotie." Shen Feihuan's eyes dimmed a little when he said this. What made him feel so painful that his naturally well-behaved face also became gloomy.

His change happened to be seen by Guo Jianchao, and the cowardly young master of the Guo family burst into tears in fright.

Shen Feihuan said: "Later, Taotie was killed by Bai Lie, and his body was taken into the Taili Courtyard after his death. I guess he must have been refined into a demon pill, and the person who took this demon pill was most likely Yu Wanfeng. .”

Mochi had heard too many shocking things, but Shen Feihuan's words still made him jump up in fright: "What..."

Xia Zhou saw Yu Wanfeng for the first time today, and he sensed the extremely strong monster power from him. Taotie is one of the four fierce beasts just like Wuwu. Because Xia Zhou failed to swallow the curse, the monster power in his body has not reached its peak, so , in his current state, it is actually difficult to feel the demonic power of Taotie.

Shen Feihuan looked up at Xia Zhou, suddenly smiled, and said, "It seems that I guessed it right... What should I do?"