Lie Huo Jiao Chou

The signal was really good. As soon as Gu Yuexi finished speaking, Xuanji heard a series of children running over in the noisy background. Yuexi spoke.

Gu Yuexi herself didn't hear anything, so Wang Ze yelled out for her.

Wang Dui is really a hero, his voice is louder than ordinary people, and he almost broke the wireless network on the aftercare plane.

Xuan Ji caught the slipped computer, and decided that the next time she watched a horror movie, she must not call this carp.

"Director Xuan, did you hear that too! This is not my auditory hallucination!"

Ping Qianru hurriedly asked, "Captain Wang, are you okay?"

Luo Cuicui listened to the yelling on the phone, her liver trembled, a leaf stood up faintly on the top of her head, like an antenna, and she tried to put on a show: "Leader, if I don't, I won't go to the scene. What, this... feudal ideology is very serious, we need to organize study and lectures, and establish a solid materialist worldview for them, and I will give the lecture..."

The quasi-history graduate student raised his glasses solemnly: "Qi Wang, the theory of ghosts and gods is a ruling tool of the ancient feudal ruling class, why do you still believe it? Right?"

This kid is really good at picking people. The latter sentence happened to be asking the retired "feudal ruling class" next to him.

The ruling class replied very sincerely: "No, gods are man-made, and ghosts are human nature—unknown things that cannot be classified into the past, and terrifying things that cannot be measured are all ghosts, even if they are not called 'ghosts'. Will call something else."

"Can you give me some face?" Xuan Ji took Lao Luo aside, and then turned to Yang Chao, "How many times have I said it, memorize your small notebook, and memorize his words, you must fail the written test——Lingyuan , why do I hear this like..."

Sheng Lingyuan frowned: "Indeed, but logically speaking, it shouldn't be."

"What the hell are you guys?" Wang Ze's calf was about to cramp, and he reverently chanted all the great gods from ancient and modern Chinese and foreign schools, and he didn't have time to finish counting.Just listening to the childish voice next to my ear, I learned: "Amitabha Buddha Supreme Lord Hallelujah..."

Wang Ze: "..."

No, what about praying to exorcise evil spirits?How come he is still immune to the other party?

"Huh?" At this time, a field worker said, "Just now my energy detector moved."

"Old Wang," Xuan Ji said, "Get out first, and don't let any living things approach the ancestral hall and the forest until we arrive."

"How far back?"

"Withdraw until you can no longer hear those voices."

Wang Ze tremblingly asked: "Why, this is the 'Earth Bound Spirit'? Are you sure, Director Xuan, is the diagnosis from the air reliable? Are you sure they won't get out of this circle?"

"What kind of ground binding spirit, that's the little boy of the Shadow Clan."

"I have seen the Shadow Clan in the literature," the graduate student interjected, "Historians think it is some kind of myth and legend, but they have not been able to find the corresponding text, so there is another saying that 'shadow' is a special code word of that era, It is used by literati for political satire, under the oppressive and tyrannical regime that does not allow freedom of speech..."

Xuan Ji's face turned cold: "Shut up."

Yang Chao finally got acquainted with the new leader a little bit. He was murdered for no reason, and he didn't understand why. He shrank back, and he didn't dare to speak again.

"The Shadow Clan is a kind of creature." Sheng Lingyuan didn't take it seriously, and said slowly, "The Shadow Clan has no clan, no parents, no rules, and no name." Because they can pass through water and rocks like shadows, That's why they got the name 'Shadow Clan', and they took human form when they reached adulthood."

"'No clan, no rules', does it mean that this race has no stable social form and is relatively backward?" Wang Ze asked on the phone, "Then what's the matter with 'no parents'? They don't reproduce sexually?"

"No parents means that the people of the Shadow Clan don't care about their children and don't care about them. The newborns are thrown there when they are born, and they grow up as they please. They live when they can grow up, and die when they don't grow up." Xuan Ji continued, "I remember them In the early years, they lived together in Nanming Valley... that is, near Chiyuan, and when they found the 'master', they would leave with the master, and they would return to the settlement to multiply after the master died."

"Director, although there is only one word difference between you and me, the word 'Master' cannot be included in the report." Luo Cuicui may be trying to show that she is useful, so she diligently picks on Xuan Ji, "Too Politically incorrect."

"Recognizing the master is the nature of the shadow people, and the 'master' is also necessary for the shadow clan. After the shadow clan finds a suitable master, it will naturally form a personality and three views. The three views are the three views of the master. Likes and dislikes will be the same In the past, the personality and appearance also came according to the owner's preferences, whichever race the owner is, they will call themselves that race." Xuan Ji said, "The Shadow Clan who have not found a master is equal to immature development, collectively referred to as 'infancy'. '. When the shadow people were young, there was no distinction between male and female, and there was no human form. If they could not find the owner, they would keep this form forever. They would disintegrate naturally at the age of 30 or [-] after a short life."

"How long can the Shadow Clan live with a master?"

"It depends on what the master thinks," Xuan Ji said, "Sometimes a shadowman is like a thing. The master has complete control over him. If he wants to be buried, the lifespan of the shadowman will end on the day the master dies. When a person leaves a legacy to the family, the shadow person can live for a long time, sometimes until the family disintegrates."

"What the hell?" Wang Ze should have withdrawn from the ancestral hall and the woods, and the noise in the background could no longer be heard. Wang Dui heaved a sigh of relief, and a pair of heroic courage re-armed, "I don't even have my own personality, Can it be considered as a living being? I said Director Xuan, does this Shadow Clan have a nickname called 'Licking Dog'?"

"The Shadow Clan is indeed also called the Shadow Slave," Sheng Lingyuan said. "During the melee, the settlements were flattened by the Monster Clan, and the Shadowmen were displaced and fled in all directions. They became favorite pets of all tribes. , and then sell them everywhere for a living, called 'shadow dealers'. Nearly half of the wild shadow people can't find their masters and die of disintegration, so shadow dealers often feel that they are doing good deeds—to keep them from becoming extinct, and to serve them Find your destination. Shadow people are often invisible when they are young, unless they are powerful or use special spells to see, or they themselves are interested in you and let you hear it on purpose, Team Wang, it seems that you are very popular with Shadow."

Wang Ze wiped his sweat quickly: "No, thank you, we are no longer a slave society, and buying and selling people is illegal."

"The shadow people are not as miserable as you think. Some people... especially those in high positions, cannot let go of their desire for power after death, and will instruct the shadow slaves to take over their positions. Those shadow people are [-]% loyal and can inherit [-]% His will, after many years of cultivation, may be stronger than his master in terms of ability and skill, and they represent the dead, and their status is similar to that of a tablet—although everyone sees him as unlucky, no one dares to disrespect him. Because of this, and also because of the shadow man When I was young, I liked to live on the stone and wooden tablets in the cemetery, so there are rumors that they can "communicate Yin and Yang" - they can't get too far away from the things they live in before they grow up, and they won't chase them out. Don't worry, Lao Wang, They don’t bite after chasing them, and the cubs are not aggressive, so your energy detectors shouldn’t respond, right?”

Wang Ze said, "Yes, I moved just now!"

"That should be someone trying to establish contact with you."

Everyone fell silent after listening.

"Ouch," Wang Ze's hesitant voice came from the phone, "Thinking about it, I have a politically incorrect idea, and I don't know whether I should say it."

Next to him, Zhang Zhao sighed: "Compared to buying a house, getting married, and having a baby...I don't know what kind of cheating thing is born, this is the real life extension, right?"

Wang Ze: "I couldn't help being a little cautious for a while."

"Stop the meeting, don't move," Xuan Ji said, "Don't talk about your small broken commercial house, you can't afford a filmmaker if you pack and sell it."

Sheng Lingyuan explained: "The shadow slaves can't have offspring before they are in human form. After they become adults, if they have children with a foreign race, the offspring will be completely foreign races. The sons born of two shadow people who share the master will be born to recognize the master, and it is not convenient to take it out. Sell. Chiyuan fire, the shadow people lost their settlements and the place to reproduce. Later, the shadow people who want pure blood can only find blood for breeding. Generally, the masters are not willing, and they have to pay a big price. , so the movie dealers offer sky-high prices."

Shadowmen are not like other pets. Once they get a body, they are no different from humans or demons themselves.

And this race is born to suit the master's wishes, every frown and smile is in accordance with the master's ideals, they are simply perfect lovers.Besides, compared with those fellow clans who have their own ghosts to please, this kind of natural "true treatment" is of course more pure. In troubled times, people are unpredictable, only Shadow Slave will never betray, it is really "irreversible".

"Yes, at that time it was normal for people to divorce for shadow people. If there were shadow people, they kept them privately. Who would give you a breeding? Later, a pure blood shadow person was hard to find," Xuan Ji said, suddenly remembered something, He glanced at Sheng Lingyuan expressionlessly, "It's not shabby to pay tribute, is it?"

Sheng Lingyuan: "..."

As a human emperor, of course he has received this special tribute—when King Gaoshan surrendered, the first "tribute" he offered was not Weiyun, but a shapeless shadow figure.

The little shadow man lived in a huge clam, and King Weiyu wanted to show off his wealth, so he filled the clam with various colored pearls the size of a fist, and when he lifted the cover, he almost blinded people.Amidst the radiance, a slender shadow swam out of it, circled around the Emperor like a cloud for a few times, then landed in front of him, knelt down reverently at his feet, and then, the whole body erupted with flame-colored light, the shadow Stretching in it, it almost formed a human body.

Sheng Lingyuan coughed dryly, and changed the subject bluntly: "Shadow dealers hold the rare resource of shadow people in their hands, and it is easy to become powerful, and when they are looking for blood for breeding, they have to pay not only gold and silver, but also have to find a way Satisfying the strange demands of those film masters, this in turn forced them to expand their minions, and over time, they all became figures who dominate one side. After the melee is over, the world will be unified, of course these 'uncrowned kings' cannot be tolerated, and they were later... ...Well... being eliminated by those in power at the time, of course the Shadowman Clan has no way to reproduce. They are only loyal to their masters by nature, they have no affection for their parents of the same clan, and they don't know how to form groups. I thought they should have been extinct long ago."

"That's right," Xuan Ji smirked, "It's a pity."

Just as Sheng Lingyuan was about to say something, the pilot reminded them that they had arrived above Qingping Town and were about to land. Before he could speak, Xuan Ji pulled the seat belt and buckled Sheng Lingyuan on the seat: "Pay attention to flying safety."

After speaking, he snatched an energy bar from Ping Qianru and ran to sit in the front row.

"That's right," Yang Chao said—the vicious leader left, and the graduate student dared to speak out again. The researcher pushed his glasses and asked Sheng Lingyuan in a low voice, "There must be a Shadow Clan in the history of the human race, right? Who? The Imperial Palace Is there any?"

"There is none in the palace," Sheng Lingyuan said simply, "It is inconvenient for the emperor to let people see what he likes and dislikes."

Back then, before the shadowman that King Weiyu paid tribute had time to fully form, the Renhuang present and Dan Li shot at the same time. Danli cast eight spells in succession to seal the shadowman. The stone bricks on the ground were smashed into three pieces at the same time, and he was furious. If he hadn't stopped him from the left and right, he would have almost chopped down the envoys from the Gaoshan people together.

King Weiyu didn't expect his flattery to be slapped on the horse's leg, so he hurriedly made amends. Later, he found out from someone that the Emperor loved swords, so he sent Tianer Weiyun here again.

"Oh, yes!" Yang Chao suddenly realized, and wrote it down in a small notebook, "The emperor's mind tricks, gods and ghosts don't speak, is this the truth?"

Sheng Lingyuan smiled but did not answer, imitating Xuan Ji and saying, "You will be deducted points for writing this in the exam."

Although he hasn't figured out what the exam is yet.

The special plane "buzzed" and landed near the weird town.

Seeing Sheng Lingyuan not moving, Yang Chao thought that he would not be able to unfasten his seat belt, so he meddlesomely taught him: "Just lift the iron buckle of the seat belt and it will spring off."

Sheng Lingyuan nodded at him, but still didn't move.

Yang Chao didn't wink at the two hundred and five, thinking he didn't understand: "The one right here..."

"Fang's what!" Luo Cuicui dragged the graduate student away, "Let's go, I'm going to prepare a lecture with my uncle... you sit down, sit down."

Sheng Lingyuan sat steadily until everyone got off the plane. Xuan Ji saw that he seemed to be unwilling to leave when no one was waiting on him, so she had to come over, bent down to unbuckle his seat belt, and sighed: "Move, Your Majesty, We have solved the haunted ancestral hall, and we have to rush back to the headquarters before dark, so don't waste your time here."

Sheng Lingyuan squeezed his wrist.

Xuan Ji raised her eyebrows: "What are you doing?"

"You locked me here," Sheng Lingyuan said with a half-smile, "If you don't come to unlock me, I won't go anywhere."