Looking at this scene, I frowned slightly.
"It seems that although Grandma Xiong is still alive after her head is chopped off, her overall strength has been greatly weakened. Your wind blade can easily cut off its body. Its hardness is equivalent to that of the most ordinary wood. After all, it’s not that easy for your wind blade to cut through rocks.”
Madoka was unhappy.
"What do you mean? Boy Wu, you look down on me! Let me tell you, I used to be the demon king. My wind blade can easily cut through steel."
"Okay, okay, I got it, I got it."
I waved my hand with an "I really believe it" expression.
Close to Grandma Xiong in the pile of bones, only half of her body was left, but she was still moving!
I don’t know what kind of evil method was used to create this ghost thing.
Although Xiong Jiapo doesn't know how to attack with spells, this super defense, huge strength, and tenacious vitality... is definitely a very powerful puppet.
I backhanded the knife and stabbed half of its body into the heart again. Only then was he completely dead and motionless.
call……
I breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from my forehead.
Although Xiao Yuan and I are already very strong now, after the two of us joined forces, the "brute force" Xiong Jiapo hardly formed any strong resistance to us. He was pressed and beaten all the way.
But its defense is so strong, it’s very tiring to fight!
I knelt down and fiddled with Grandma Xiong's remains. Then looking at the broken position of the neck, I discovered a somewhat horrifying truth...
Madoka also looked over and took a look, then screamed strangely.
"Holy crap! This thing is really evil. Is there a human body nested inside the bear's body?"
That's right!
Looking inside the bear's neck, one can see that there are human-like spine bones juxtaposed with the bear's.
In other words, the so-called "Xiong Family Po", a man-eating monster that was popular among the people in ancient Sichuan and Chongqing, used some evil method to put the human body into the body of the bear, so that the person and the bear merged into one, and became an evil spirit. The puppet monster!
As for why this is done, and the people who choose to merge into the bear body are all old ladies...that is unknown.
I also shook my head.
Since ancient times, evil practices have been banned repeatedly. As long as the Xuanmen world of spiritual practice still exists, evil practices will always exist.
Just like wherever the sun shines, there are shadows.
These are two sides of the same coin.
"Look at this cave."
I stood up and walked around the cave with Madoka, observing every detail.
I found that the place itself was nothing unusual. It was just a cave dug by someone inside a small hill. There is only one stone platform in the center, which is not simple.
The stone platform felt a bit cold to the touch, and there were strange rune marks carved on the surface - obviously some incantations for casting evil spells.
Grandma Xiong usually sleeps on the stone platform, which may be able to replenish part of its consumption and repair some injuries.
That's why the one we killed just now hurried back to the cave and wanted to lie down on the stone platform to rest and recuperate.
I held my chin, thoughtfully.
Madoka asked me what I was thinking about?
I said thoughtfully.
"I always feel that there are still a lot of mysteries. If Grandma Xiong is a puppet artificially created by evil cultivators... then what about the owner of this cave? Is Grandma Xiong alone here?"
"Also, if the legend about Xiong Jiapo in Sichuan and Chongqing has been circulating since ancient times - let's assume it has been passed down for hundreds of years. Then it is obviously impossible to be this Xiong Jiapo, and it cannot be the only one. .”
"There should be many such puppet monsters throughout Sichuan and Chongqing! The question is, who created these Xiongjiapo monsters? What is the purpose of their creation? Is the creator an evil cultivator, or a group of evil cultivators?"
Xiao Yuan spread her wings and said somewhat speechlessly.
"Boy Wu, your little brain likes to wonder about these things all day long. This matter has nothing to do with us. Besides, no matter what the evil cultivators who created Xiong Jiapo wanted to do, they have been around for a few years. For hundreds of years, it has become a folklore story in Sichuan and Chongqing. It doesn’t seem to have caused much large-scale harm, right?”
"Perhaps, many years ago, a powerful evil cultivator wanted to try to create some kind of more powerful puppet on a whim. After many attempts, these Xiong family monsters are just by-products of experiments. They were discarded casually and ran around in the mountains and plains. , it will spread gradually. If you kill one, there will be one less, and gradually, they will all die out."
Makes sense!
I nodded, thinking that what Madoka was talking about was also a possibility.
Let's do this for now.
At least, we have eliminated the bear that harmed Taojiagou! I avenged those two poor children and also completed the village chief's commission...
I walked out and told Tao Feng and other villagers that they could come in.
After all, the task has been completed. If it is convenient, let the "customer" see the result in person.
They all followed me carefully into the cave with excitement, curiosity, and apprehension.
As a result, when they saw human bones and animal bones all over the ground, some of the timid ones turned pale with fright, but they managed to hold on without any weakness in their legs - after all, they were all vigorous young adults, and they still had basic courage.
Some brave ones squatted down to see Mrs. Xiong up close. Some looked at the head, some looked at the legs, some looked at the body... they were all amazed.
There was a young man with an angry expression on his face, and he beat Xiong's mother-in-law's body hard with the hoe in his hand.
While beating, I cursed, and while I cursed, I cried.
Tao Feng came close to me and explained in a low voice that one of the two children eaten by the Xiong family a few days ago was his nephew, and they had always had a relatively good relationship...
"No wonder. Alas, it's understandable if something like this happened."
Looking at that man's hysterical appearance, I felt very sympathetic.
Finally, the villagers decided to take Grandma Xiong's body, which had been divided into three parts, back to the village so that everyone could take a look and grieve.
Of course I won't stop it.
After Xiong's mother-in-law's body was moved back to Taojiagou Village, even though it was already late at night, everyone in the village was woken up by them.
All the villagers came to watch and see this legendary scary monster that likes to eat children!
Some elderly people said excitedly that this was indeed the real "Xiong Family Grandma"!
He also said that when he was a child, it was still the old society before liberation. When he went up the mountain to cut firewood for the landlord, he saw...
That time I was lucky enough to escape by hiding in a tree without making any noise!
After I came back, I had nightmares for many years.
I didn't expect to see this terrifying Grandma Xiong again when she was old decades later - but she was killed by the master.
