More than an hour later, Mu Ziyun and the others found an alley and sat down in a row against the wall. Everyone was wet, whether it was sweat or lake water, and they were all in a state of embarrassment. Even the majestic Zhuan Wangxu felt as if he had been beaten by frost. The dead eggplant was kept submissive by the rising and falling water.
No one had the energy to speak and did not want to move forward. The girls were cuddling, while the men were leaning and sitting lazily. After a while, there was movement around them.
If the thing hadn't moved, Mu Ziyun would have thought it was a dirty black iron bucket with a lid. But I didn't expect it to be a smaller creature, and the so-called iron bucket lid is like the bamboo hat that humans wear when it rains. Its entire appearance is hidden in the special bucket-like clothes, with only one green-yellow eye exposed in the darkness. .
Fang Tianmu's starry eyes had clearly seen what it was early on, but he didn't think it was any threat, so he leaned against the wall tiredly and closed his eyes, not wanting to pay attention to it. I never thought that the creature spoke, and what it said was actually human language. Such a small creature spoke with a vicissitudes of voice, like the voice of a thirty-seven or eighteen-year-old human man, but it seemed like there were hairs stuck in its throat. Things are always a little hoarse, making people feel itchy when listening to them.
What this creature said was: "You can't control the choice of fate. Whatever you choose, it should be the best."
Everyone was shocked. Huzi looked at this guy with dumbfounded eyes and wondered: "Are you a human?" He then tilted his head and whispered to everyone: "Are the humans in this world like this?"
Ling Ding had a small wooden stick in his hand that he had picked up to explore the way. He gently poked the creature's clothes, and after a few ringing sounds, Ling Ding said, "If you didn't speak, I thought you were a bucket. "
"There are many things in the new world that you can't imagine." The creature replied.
Lingdang retorted: "The world I came to has too many things that you can't see. What about you, a villain? Or a villain... who are you?"
"Jie Jie Jie..." the creature smiled, "I am just a resident of this magical city."
"It's just going up and down now." Zingdang said angrily: "What's so magical about it?"
The creature didn't seem to have any concerns about strangers. It seemed to have opened up a chat box and talked about a lot of trivial things that were related to humans but were of no use. It seemed that it was deliberately trying to get close to everyone. This may also be the temperament of the residents of Shuiying City. Bell interrupted it and quickly asked it to tell the key point. Apart from the water floating on the ground, what else is magical. The creature returned to the theme and said another name for Shuiying City - "Ten Thousand Roads City". The reason why it is called this name does not mean that there are thousands of intricate roads in this city, nor does it only mean that there are people from all over the world here. It is this small city that circulates in all directions, countless "stories" on the road, strange stories, myths and legends, monsters, monsters, absurd and fantastic stories, big and small, that people can't listen to for a year. Bring heavy samples.
Each of the residents here can blurt out hundreds of interesting stories, and the creatures who come out of the realm gate and are guided here by the "fairy" will definitely leave behind a few strange stories that they have experienced or known. Almost They are all incorporated into the blood of "Ten Thousand Roads City", and are known and spread by subsequent living beings. After staying here for a long time, it may not be strange to encounter real gods descending to earth and demons appearing in the world one day.
"Speaking of which," the creature changed the topic and continued, "Speaking of humans, I do know a story about humans that has been spread recently."
"Oh, tell me quickly." Everyone became interested and listened attentively.
After the creature pretended for a while, it began to murmur: "The protagonist of this story is said to be a human, but it also ends with a cat. It can be simply understood as - cats eat humans."
"Cats can also eat people?" Lingdang said excitedly, "That person is probably a baby."
The creature coughed twice and said with great dissatisfaction: "In Shuiying City, you cannot interrupt. This is a rule, especially when telling stories."
"Okay, okay." Lingdang stuck out her tongue, crossed her legs smartly, and leaned her back against Muziyun's side, "You can speak, I won't speak anymore."
The creature reluctantly cleared its throat and said, "I heard that human interests change drastically every thirty years. Things that seemed absurd thirty years ago may become fashionable thirty years later. The trend of human beings in that place was to eat. The faster and more they ate, the more popular and respected they were. The protagonist of the story was as fat as a piglet in a pen when he was born. He could suck up the food in one bite. Other babies take seven or eight mouthfuls of milk to suck in. At the age of five or six, they are as strong as a tree stump. Roll to the top of the mountain.”
"This guy was chosen to be a warrior and represent the village in any eating competition. As an adult, he heard that he could eat two sheep in one meal. The turning point of the story lies in human interest, that is, It can only last for thirty years, and eating suddenly becomes the most normal thing. No one will eat stupidly and desperately. They are more willing to enjoy the delicious food carefully. As soon as human beings reach their prime, they lose their value. Moreover, in his prime, he was as heavy as a cow, and his calves were as thick as tree trunks. The former respected warrior turned into a monster. He had a son who turned out to be as long as a stick, and his waist was not as big as his father's wrists. Thick, Jie Jie Jie Jie..."
"The son can't support her, and he doesn't like her. No one wants to take care of him. If he can't do anything, he can only starve to death. There is nothing else in that small place, but there are so many cats... Jie Jie Jie... There are more stray cats than people. This guy found a way to make money and have enough to eat. He performs juggling on the street. Look at him sitting on a bloated chair that can be used as a bed for others. Go up and move your arms, and a few cat heads will come out of the five or six joints of flesh. You can spend some money to guess where the next cat is hiding, and suddenly it will appear. It has become another human interest.”
"However, they will never guess where the last cat is. It has been skinned, eviscerated, boiled, and hidden in the guy's mouth. You see him swallowing the saliva, that's it. The game is over, it’s time to wrap things up. He has never kept a cat. There are so many cats on the street that his son will catch them for him. After the show, he will eat them, and when they are used again, he will catch new ones. Come on, they relied on this method to support themselves and really made a lot of money.
But in another thirty years, people will be tired again, and that guy will be old. He will stay in an empty home, sitting on that chair, next to the cat's cage. Only humans with less bad taste will be willing to look at it. His performance, later, when he got old and was too lazy to move, he cleaned the fur on the cat and then he could eat it. It was as easy as eating a melon and fruit. The cats on the street were probably eaten by him within a few feet. , the ones in the cage were all bought, and he didn’t eat anything else.
One day, he had a quarrel with his son, and his son slammed the door and walked out, but forgot to close the cat cage. It was only two days later that I decided to come back and take a look. Guess what I saw, jiejiejiejie... They had never been in the habit of feeding cats. They hadn’t fed them for decades. Those cats were so hungry that they crawled out of their cages. Looking for food everywhere, I finally set my sights on the pile of meat. The guy had enough leftover cat bones to pile up a mountain. In the end, he had to give back the meat he had eaten. Those cats scratched the guy's belly bit by bit with the tips of their sharp claws the size of human nails. It took a long time for the flesh to rupture and bleed. As long as there was a hole, these cats would desperately stick their heads inside, arrogantly... ..When the son came back, he saw his father sitting back on the chair, his face was very calm, but his eyes were wide open. There were nine cat tails stuck in his round belly. As for those cats, after they got in, they were all over the place. biting, but was accidentally crushed to death by the collapsed internal organs. The son got closer to look at his father's eyes, only to find a cat's head revealed in his left eye. It turned out that a cat had crawled When I got there, I was suffocated to death.
His son felt extremely guilty, but he still pushed his father out of the door. Relying on this appearance, he earned the last sum of money, Jie Jie Jie... and later ran away. I heard that he kept a cat. I have been like a stick for ten years, but after raising a cat, I gained weight and became stubborn..."
The creature stopped talking, probably because it had finished speaking. Ling Ding felt goosebumps all over her body when she heard it, and asked tentatively: "Are you done talking?"
"Hmm," the creature said in an air of wonder, "Guess why his son gained weight after he raised a cat?"
Lingdang shuddered, crossed her arms, shook her head and said, "I don't like this story, so you might as well not tell it. I feel uncomfortable now. I don't want to hear anything anymore. Stop telling it."
"Me too..." Kite looked embarrassed.
Huzi asked seriously, "Why? His son also ate cats? Is that what he meant?"
The creature kept laughing in a low voice, but did not reply, and finally said: "It's just a little story, but creatures like cats are used to being treated as pets by humans, but they can really eat people, Jie Jie Jie..."
Fang Tianmu, who had kept his eyes closed, cast his gaze over, very coldly and with murderous intent. This made the creature wrapped in iron bucket-like clothes very fearful. Fang Tianmu only stared at it and squinted. , said coldly: "Hide your tail."
The creature trembled suddenly, and immediately turned around to look down, only to find that there was nothing strange about the "iron bucket". It turned out to be Fang Tianmu who deceived him, but the creature looked at Fang Tianmu warily, and then smiled bitterly: "It's just a story to relieve your boredom. You can go over there. Most of the places there are covered with water below, so it's easier to walk. I'll say goodbye."
After saying that, he left. He walked very strangely, moving left and right, up and down, as if he was lame. Fang Tianmu was not deceiving him. His starry eyes penetrated the iron Bucket, you can clearly see the swaying cat tail hidden in it.
