[Journey to the West] I will send you to the west for my teacher!

Although there are so many monsters, ghosts and sprites in Journey to the West that Long Xiaobai can't count them one by one, but for the "water ghosts", which are highly popular among the public and have been passed down from generation to generation, Long Xiaobai can still spot them at a glance.

In Chinese legends for thousands of years, water ghosts refer to those unjust souls formed by accidental death or suicide in the water. This kind of soul itself cannot be reincarnated. It can only pull a living person to die underwater and become his scapegoat. , I can enter reincarnation again.

Therefore, when Long Xiaobai was young, ghosts like water ghosts were actively active in every outdoor swimming place, and became a sharp weapon used by adults to intimidate children and prevent them from running around in the water.

Like something like "Seven people die in this reservoir every year, and six people drowned just this year, and the seventh scapegoat hasn't been found yet, so don't go there." Dead, fish it up and look, oops! There are finger prints on the limbs, they must have been dragged by water ghosts to take the place of the dead ghost..." There are so many things, as small as being bound by water plants, and as big as being scratched by stones, they are all water anyway. Ghost pot.

Therefore, under the overall atmosphere of alarmism, water ghosts have become the nightmare of every child who yearned for wild swimming in childhood.

It wasn't until Long Xiaobai grew up that he realized that the legend of the water ghost was purely superstitious.Why do seven people die every year, and they are not gourd babies, who know they will die, but still give them away one by one?If I send too much, can I continue to count the points in the next year?As for the fingerprints on the limbs, it was later confirmed that most of them were bruises caused by drowning, or suffocation caused by being entangled in aquatic plants.

Although I understand the truth, this is not a modern society after all. This is Journey to the West, the first full-length novel of gods and demons in ancient China. Even if Long Xiaobai wants to be a materialistic young woman who is close to science, but when she sees herself When there were five finger prints on the ankle, the childhood nightmare was still splashing uncontrollably at the bottom of the memory.

She trembled and supported Xuanzang's arm: "Master...is he a water ghost?"

"Very similar," Xuanzang said solemnly, "but not, I didn't feel his aura just now."

Long Xiaobai: "I looked underwater just now, but I didn't see anything. Is it possible that the water ghost is still transparent?"

Xuanzang shook his head, remained silent for a long time, and then reminded in a deep voice: "The color of the fingerprints is black, you should be careful recently, this thing may be entangled with you."

"Hold on..." Long Xiaobai tightened his hands, feeling as if he had been lowered by witchcraft, and trembled even more, "Master, you are scaring me, aren't you?"

Xuanzang didn't answer, the answer was obvious, it wasn't a joke.

For a while, the surroundings fell into silence.If it's a pure demon, Long Xiaobai is not so afraid. First, the other party is definitely not coming for him, but for Tang Seng's flesh!Second, all monsters have evil aura to be found, so she should not be too passive, but the current situation is obviously not the case, she doesn't even know what kind of thing is entangled with her, it is not a monster or a ghost, it is a monster in the water. Things, it can't be SpongeBob SquarePants Pai Daxing or the like!This is not the underwater world!

Long Xiaobai looked at Xuanzang, and asked for help pitifully: "Then what should I do now?"

Xuanzang looked at her ankle with complicated eyes, with a regretful expression.

Sun Wukong shook his head with painful eyes: "If you are really entangled... the fastest way should be to remove this mark."

"Brother, do you mean to ask my junior sister to cut off this foot?" Zhu Bajie interjected.

Monk Sha sighed and persuaded: "If this is the case, there is no other way, little junior sister, life-saving is the most important thing!"

Long Xiaobai trembled when he heard the words, cut off his feet?Then she would no longer be Tieguai Li, she imagined how she would be limping and following Xuanzang in the future...

"Thank you." Long Xiaobai looked at the friends seriously, "I refuse."

Then he turned to Xuanzang, wanting to cry: "Master..."

Xuanzang looked at her quietly, and suddenly frowned: "Actually, there are other ways."

Long Xiaobai raised his head suddenly: "What?"

Xuanzang still stared at her ankles, and said leisurely, "Keep away from water sources."

Monkey King, Zhu Bajie, Monk Sha: "..."

I knew it.

Long Xiaobai raised his brows and eyes, glanced at several people one by one, and kept smiling: "Brothers, who told me to cut off my feet just now?"

"Uh……"

"what……"

"Oh……"

The three senior brothers looked at the sky, the ground and the air, but they didn't pay attention to the little junior sister who was almost disabled.

At this moment, Long Xiaobai wanted to get rid of all three senior brothers who were trying to cut off their feet just now, leaving no one behind.

******

Staying away from water sources is easier said than done.

In the next few days, Long Xiaobai would avoid water as long as it was as big as rivers, lakes and seas, or as small as mountain puddles.

Even so, the marks on the ankles did not fade.

Xuanzang explained: "Because this thing has been following you..."

What are you doing with me?Long Xiaobaijiu, we have no feelings!Let's break up and find another home, okay?

Across the creek more than ten feet away, Long Xiaobai shouted tremblingly: "Hey! I don't know what it is, listen to the young lady's advice, I can swim, it's not so easy to drown! Instead of following me, How about finding new landlubbers as prey? Whether it’s a human or a ghost, you must know how to adapt, the vast rivers and rivers have a lot to do, why hang on a crooked neck tree?!”

Crash!The creek turned and splashed, expressing its rejection with excited torrents.

There are three thousand drowning people, and I will only take you as a substitute for the dead ghost.

Monkey King narrowed his eyes: "Hey, this thing is quite specific."

Long Xiaobai dodged the splashing water droplets: "He is so obvious, have you seen what it is?"

Zhu Bajie shook his head with his fingers in his hands: "I didn't see it, this thing is not in the Three Realms."

Xuanzang murmured, "It's very weird. Unless he shows up automatically, we won't be able to see him through."

Monk Sha: "But Master is right, little junior sister, as long as you don't get close to the water source, you'll be fine!"

Cut~ Long Xiaobai rolled his eyes from the distance, isn't it because he is not close to the water source!It doesn't matter, let's see who can spend more than the other!

But Long Xiaobai forgot that staying away from water sources can be equated with staying away from cleanliness to some extent.

Facts have proved that when keeping clean and saving one's life become paradoxical, human beings will not hesitate to challenge their physical limits, even Internet celebrities with idol burdens are no exception.

In the past, Long Xiaobai could be regarded as the most hygienic person in the sutra learning team. Now he is fighting a protracted battle with Wumingshi, and his performance is shocking. He has fully displayed the strength of a sloppy king seed player. Take a few sips from the water bag when you go to bed, but you really don't want to go near the water source at all.

Not only do I stop washing my clothes, but I also stop taking care of my hair. I just need to wipe my face with a damp cloth every day.

But with such a change, it wasn't Long Xiaobai himself who couldn't stand it first.

Sun Wukong sniffed: "Idiot, have you smelled it? I always feel that the smell on us has become stronger recently!"

Zhu Bajie: "Eldest brother, you are too tactful, it stinks! Only now do I know how sweet my former junior sister is..."

Monk Sha: "There is a girl in the team. It's different. It used to be able to purify the odor, but it's a pity that the purification function is invalid now."

Xuanzang: "Not only does it fail, but it also makes things worse."

Long Xiaobai couldn't bear it anymore: "I haven't thought you guys are stinky yet, but you think I'm dirty? Why are your faces so big!"

Xuanzang: "Xiaobai, don't say that. In the past, there were three people who stink, but now there are four people who stink. The quantity is different, and the taste is very different. A change in quantity leads to a change in quality."

Long Xiaobai muttered: "Master..."

Xuanzang sighed: "To tell you the truth, when I rode a horse recently, I could rub mud under my legs."

Long Xiao blushed, speechless.

It is indeed a bit too dirty to be able to rub out mud pellets.

"Then what can I do?" Long Xiaobai asked, looking at her ankle from the corner of her eye, even though she turned into a horse, the fingerprints on it were still clearly visible.

If this water ghost knew that what he had been chasing for a long time was not a dead ghost, but a dead horse, and he didn't know whether Hades could replace him and let him go to reincarnation. If he couldn't, it would be ridiculous.

Xuanzang looked at her: "Let Wukong go to the front to see if there is any place to live, get a bucket of water, and clean up in the room by yourself."

Long Xiaobai understood what he meant, that thing can only do evil in running water, as long as the water she uses leaves the original water area, that thing can't harm her.

Soon, Monkey King who went to explore the road brought back good news, there is a Buddhist temple ahead!

According to the ancient unwritten rules, all the temples are post houses for Buddhist practitioners. If you go to lodge, the other party not only cannot refuse, but also provides simple accommodation and food, which is also a way to accumulate merit.

The master and the disciples entered the Buddhist temple. When the abbot of the monastery heard that Xuanzang was from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, he didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly asked the young monks to prepare a few houses for them to use.

After all, it was a temple, and Long Xiaobai couldn't go in dressed as a woman. He could only turn into a horse and be taken to the backyard by the monks, and then return to his human form at night, playing by ear.

Long Xiaobai was full of horse grass in the backyard, and in the middle of the night, he saw Monk Sha looking for him.

Monk Sha quietly led her to a secluded room and said, "Junior Junior Sister, the water inside has been filled for you, go in by yourself."

Long Xiaobai nodded, and carried his clothes into the room.

There was only one candle lit in the room, and there was a bucket-shaped wooden basin in the middle, which was filled with a large basin of clear water. Long Xiaobai hid happily behind the half-drawn screen, and transformed back into a human form.

He was lowering his head and arranging his frizzy hair, when the candle behind the screen flickered suddenly, and the candle light beeped and exploded.

Long Xiaobai subconsciously glanced in the direction of the lamp.

However, just this one glance made her see something very remarkable. In the dim candlelight, something was slowly rising from the bathtub, and a black shadow projected on the screen gradually expanded. Long Xiao Bai didn't know what it was, but just looking at the gradually deforming black shadow on the screen like this was enough to tear her heart apart in despair.

It was agreed that if she left the source of living water, this thing wouldn't harm her? !

Long Xiaobai grabbed her hair and widened her eyes, forgetting to scream.

The black shadow on the screen gradually took shape.

There is a person standing in the tub.