The villagers looked at the corpse of the black bear whose head had been blown away, with different expressions. Some were scared, while others were confused...
There are still people who are angry and pay a lot of money to hire someone to kill a bear. After the money is given, the bear comes back. Isn’t it in vain?
If I hadn't met a magical figure today, something might have happened!
At this time, the bearded man on the side, having recovered some of his injuries, came over and said:
"It is said that some blind bears will turn into monsters if they eat too many people. This blind bear is probably like this. The swordsman you hired must not have killed it."
"I think I have been traveling around the world for many years and have good martial arts skills. In my eyes, an ordinary blind bear is... just... that's all!"
"But this bear is special. My knife has no focus at all and cannot hurt it. Only an expert like the Taoist Master can kill it..."
While the bearded man was flattering Zhang Zhiwei, he secretly went to see Zhang Zhiwei. Seeing that Zhang Zhiwei didn't react at all, he was a little disappointed. This was almost embarrassing.
After hearing what the bearded man said, the old man in the village was surprised and said, "Could it be that the blind bear has become a spirit?"
"Of course it is possible. It is said that when a country is about to fall, there must be monsters. Before the country is about to fall, monsters will cause chaos. The previous dynasty has been dead for many years. Aren't these monsters everywhere?"
The bearded man is indeed a traveler. He has listened to all kinds of nonsense rumors and said with a serious face:
"It's not just bears, there are monsters around here too."
The villager quickly said: "Please tell me quickly so that we can avoid it in the future to avoid encountering him."
The bearded man said: "I heard that there is a monster on the river over Huangcun. The monster has the shape of a human. It is more than ten feet tall. It is covered with scales. It is hard to be hurt by swords. It can tear tigers and leopards apart and chase galloping horses."
"It is also cruel by nature. It likes to catch passers-by passing by the river to eat. Once caught by it, if it is unlucky and it is hungry, it will eat it on the spot.
"As for how to eat it, it is said that you twist the head off, then open your mouth and suck hard from the neck, sucking away all the internal organs and blood, just like eating snail meat."
The group of people were frightened when they heard this, and one of the villagers asked:
"Then if I wasn't hungry, would I be able to escape?"
He expected that if this matter was spread, then there must be a lucky person who escaped.
"What a beautiful idea!" The bearded man asked the villagers: "When you go hunting, will you let go of the extra prey you find?"
The villager subconsciously said: "No, I will take it back and make it into dried meat!"
"That's right! It's the same thing with monsters. If you encounter it when it's not hungry, you'll be strung up by it and taken back as a food reserve." The bearded man said.
A villager asked: "What's the trick?"
The bearded man smiled and said: "If you want to ask this, hey, have you ever seen how fishermen collect live fish?
Just take straw or twigs, tie a knot through the gills of the fish, and lift it up, and the noisy fish will be submissive.
Moreover, the fish will not die. If you take it home and put it in the water tank, the fish will still be alive and kicking. If people skewer fish, then monsters will skewer people! "
"Damn it, this is too cruel!"
After listening to this, the group couldn't help but touch their cheeks. They felt their teeth were sore. If they had to walk through here...it hurt just thinking about it.
In front of the fire, the group of people listened with great interest to the strange stories that the bearded man had heard from somewhere.
Even Zhang Zhiwei, who was meditating, listened with interest.
However, he couldn't decide whether these words were just hearsay and random talk by the bearded man, or whether they were true.
After telling a few strange stories and getting acquainted with each other, the bearded man said:
"Dear fellow villagers, it's not easy for us to travel around the world. Previously, my brother was killed by a bear to protect everyone. He has a seventy-year-old mother and a child who is waiting to be fed..."
"As the eldest brother, I can't just ignore it. How about this? Let me take the bear's body away as compensation for my brother!"
The bearded man smiled and said kindly.
In his mind, he was thinking that if it weren't for the two Taoist priests, with his temper, he wouldn't have talked nonsense with these mud-legged people and just robbed it.
"this......"
The people in the village looked at the bear corpse eagerly.
They want it too!
This bear carcass is conservatively estimated to be several thousand kilograms, and it is all meat. If you take it back, you won't be able to finish it all in a winter.
Moreover, the fur can still be sold, and the money exchanged for it may allow him to live a good life for several years. How can he just give it away to others?
The old man among the villagers looked at the bearded group, then at Zhang Zhiwei, and said:
"Master, it's useless for you to tell us. This bear was killed by the Taoist Priest. In my opinion, it's up to the Taoist Priest to deal with it!"
He felt that he had been close to Zhang Jingqing and Zhang Zhiwei for so long, and the bear's body had to be returned to the village no matter what.
Hearing this, the bearded man also looked at Zhang Zhiwei. According to his opinion, such an expert would not care about such a corpse.
Zhang Zhiwei looked at Zhang Jingqing and followed the master out without thinking too much.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Jingqing sighed and said: "This bear has eaten too many people, and the evil spirit has entered its body. If it eats, it will die suddenly on the spot!"
This is true, this is just a ghost bear, how can it be eaten?
"What?"
"People who ate too much!"
"Dead suddenly on the spot!"
...
Everyone was shocked and stared at the bear corpse with complex expressions, including fear, regret, and greed...
"Can't you really eat it? There is so much meat, bears eat people..."
Several young men in the village looked unwilling, muttering something like bears eating people, why can't people eat bears?
One of them also wanted to say that in these troubled times, if people can eat people, why can't they eat bears that have eaten people?
But before he could say anything, he was grabbed by the old man next to him.
"Taoist priest, don't worry, we will never eat it, we will never eat it!"
After all, the old man had more experience, and he did not doubt the truth of Zhang Jingqing's words.
Because there is no need. If Zhang Jingqing wanted this bear, he could just ask. No one present would dare to say no.
He said it was poisonous and would kill you immediately if you ate it, so 80% of it was really poisonous.
At this time, the bearded man with a gloomy expression on the side rolled his eyes, folded his hands and said:
"Thank you, Master, for reminding me and saving my life. Don't worry, Master. I will dispose of this bear carcass early tomorrow morning and never let it harm anyone again."
He was thinking in his mind whether the bear carcass was poisonous or not, and what did it have to do with him? He just didn't want to eat it.
When the time comes, take it to the butcher shop and exchange it for cash. As for who dies from eating it, what does it have to do with me?
Zhang Zhiwei knew what he was thinking just by looking at him. He looked at his master and wanted to know how he would deal with it.
