I'm just an ordinary Taoist priest

Chapter 289 Cats

The old man was crying endlessly, with tears and snot mixed together. He ran all the way to a few steps in front of Gu Yao and his party. Facing the raised lake shore, he lay down on the ground:

"My baby, my baby, how could such a thing happen to you, it's you, it's all caused by you outsiders!"

He got up suddenly, half lying on the ground, like a fierce tiger, with his waist straight, and slammed into Gu Yao with great force.

Gu Yao was a little surprised, but he instinctively raised his hand and slapped the old man's head with precision.

With a bang, like a watermelon, it shattered to the ground.

The three of Gu Yao retreated in time. Although they avoided the result of being stained with blood, they came back to their senses and looked at the old man's headless corpse, and couldn't help being silent for a while.

Gu Yao felt even more uncomfortable like a toothache. So far, he has killed ghosts and monsters countless times, but not many people have been killed. Occasionally, he kills heinous villains, or he has practiced evil methods. Master's guy.

At this moment, a weird old man was crushed to death by his hand like "touching porcelain", and his mood was still in great turmoil.

I couldn't speak for a while, I just stared blankly, like a wooden man.

In the end, he muted Amitabha Buddha, whispered a few words of comfort to Gu Yao, and made a deep pit to bury the old man's body in peace.

This absurd tragedy, the three of them were immediately interrupted from thinking, and the lake in front of them had calmed down again, and there was no more vision, and the faceless soul released disappeared without a trace, and they were suddenly at a loss.

"Let's go up and have a look first."

Gu Yao covered the soil, and his voice gradually returned to calm: "I will go back later and ask Miss Yidie if she knows the origin of this old man. Since I killed it by mistake, I will naturally take responsibility."

"Amitabha." Jing Yin chanted again, and Gu Yao jumped up the steep mud wall with the shadow Chang Le.

Coming to the top, at first glance, it is like hell.

There are countless whirlpools in the green lake, and around the whirlpools are ghost-like fish with human heads, and the blood-colored strange trees around the lake have withered. I found that the flesh inside the tree body was white and red, like a human flesh and bone, and the branches were also wretched and bent, like arms that could not be straightened.

Thinking of the old man's "my baby" before he died, Gu Yao guessed: "Are these trees changed by people? There is no one in the village, is it because the residents have turned into these trees?"

Mu Yin's eyes were still focused on the human-headed fish in the water: "Maybe, but what I'm more curious about at the moment is whether these human-headed fish will also look like that."

As she said that, she stretched out her hand and formed a pair of huge golden palms with white lines all over it. She dipped into the water, trying to scoop up a pack of hairtail's hands.

Gu Yao cheered up and stared at the water surface in case there was another accident.

The palm of the hand entered the water, and easily picked up the water and the fish, but when the dehydration came out, the green water turned into a flame, burning on the palm, and the fish in the palm turned into a puddle of black mud. Flowed between the gaps in the palms.

"This flame is a bit weird."

Jing Yin dissipated the mana transformed palm, frowned and put her white hand in front of Gu Yao's eyes: "Look."

Looking at Gu Yao, he saw streaks of black air surging on the palm of his hand, and the fair skin swelled up little by little, and slowly festered, forming wounds like sores.

"Is this the mark left by the green flame that burned your transformed palm just now?"

Jing Yin nodded expressionlessly: "Those hands were formed by me with Qi, logically speaking, they shouldn't affect my hands."

She lowered her hand, and a white flame ignited, wrapped her palm, burned away the sore bit by bit, and healed the injury.

But soon, her brows frowned again: "It's not right."

"What's wrong?" Gu Yao asked.

Jing Yin raised his hand again: "The injury cannot be healed, you see."

I saw the sores that had just been burned by the white flames reappeared with flesh and blood wriggling.

"How did this happen? Is it a curse or a sorcery?" Gu Yao asked while pinching Jing Yin's wrist and exploring Qi.

Jing Yin said: "No, I'm very sure, I don't have any abnormalities, this injury has no root or source."

He said with a sigh: "It's nothing serious, it's just a little pain, nothing to do with the body, it can be suppressed with the fire of white lotus nirvana, but the qi can't be recovered here, I just endure some pain and go out to treat it."

Gu Yao let go of his hand: "It has no roots and no source, it's like the witch-curse technique or the scorpion technique, but the witch-curse technique also needs a medium, and the sting technique needs to touch flesh and blood. If you look carefully, you can also feel it." One or two, but this time there is no clue."

"Is it because of this space?"

Gu Yao speculated, turning his gaze to Shadow Changle. Since she came in, she has been in a trance.

The assimilation with Princess Changle stopped, but for some reason, she always lost her mind from time to time.

Now my mind is wandering again.

Gu Yao said: "Princess? What do you feel?"

Ying Changle came back to his senses: "No, I just feel that this place is very friendly, and, although I can't recover Qi here, I seem to be getting used to it slowly."

"Is that so?"

Gu Yao had just planned to go back to the village to ask about the old man Yidie, but saw that Ying Changle was lost again, but this time he turned around very quickly, and he woke up as soon as he froze. It was shouting: "There are cats!"

"Cat? Where is it?"

Shadow Changle stretched out his hand and pointed to the opposite side: "Come up, a group of big cats!"

Following the direction of her finger, Gu Yao tried his best to look into the distance, but his eyes were blind. Just as he was about to ask a question, Jing Yin patted Gu Yao quietly, and said via voice transmission: "Crawled out of the water."

what?
Gu Yao was taken aback when he heard that, this cat hates water the most, unless it is to catch fish in the water, it will not get close to it casually, how could it crawl out of the water?
He looked towards the surface of the lake, but saw a whirlpool near the shore on the opposite side suddenly dissipated, and a fat cat like a pig came out of the water and looked towards the lake shore leisurely.

This big fat cat is white and brown, with a round head and short claws, and wet fur, revealing its true body shape. In the water, it doesn't shake twice, it seems to be fishing.

That is, when the big fat cat was lying there, a large group of cats climbed up from the other side.

There are about ten cats in this group, the leader is a civet cat with eyes like emeralds, its fur is smooth and oily, reflecting light like the surface of water, followed by big and small, fat and thin.

The three of Gu Yao stood like sculptures, quietly looking at the group of cats opposite.

I saw the leading civet cat standing on the railing made of entangled tree roots, looking down at the fat cat, seeming to be talking, and the group of cats that he brought were like servants, surrounded by wet The fat cat circles around.

In the time of half a cup of tea, it seemed that the group of cat servants carried the fat cat on their backs, and the group of cats worked together to jump over the railing with it on their backs, and followed the raccoon cat down the mountain.

That is to say, it was carried away, and the fat cat's tail, which had been hiding under the water, was only revealed to be seen clearly, which surprised Gu Yao even more.

The cat's tail has nine sections, thick and round, like a big snake, at the end of the tail, it is biting a mermaid, and they are being dragged out of the water together.

"The mermaid caught by this cat with its tail will not turn into black mud."

Gu Yao was shocked: "Let's go, let's follow and see where these cats come from."

The three of them hurriedly ran along the lakeside. At this time, the group of cats had already reached the halfway up the mountain. Fortunately, the three of them had excellent eyesight, so they could keep up.

Just follow behind, and don't dare to get too close, cats are sensitive animals, especially this group of cats has special problems, and they pull far away, just make sure they are in sight.

"However, from such a distance, the fat cat that emerged from the water looks like a gourd. You can see that it has a round head and a rounder belly."

Gu Yao looked at the fat cat dragging the mermaid by its tail and said.

Shadow Changle suddenly said: "I remembered what kind of cat that cat is, and why it came out of the water."

"Ah?" Gu Yao and Jing Yin looked at her.

Shadow Changle said: "I saw it in Princess Changle's memory. She was loved by His Majesty when she was a child, so she often read in His Majesty's library. Cat, told her about a hundred cats."

Shadow Changle talked about everything.

It turned out that the cat that emerged from the water was not the kind of domestic cat that ordinary people raise, but a civet cat that only eats fish, shrimp, scallops and crabs. It is called "Water Hyacinth Cat". It can catch fish, but it is also much more flexible than turtles and the like.

This cat can't live without water, its body is like a gourd, it's for drifting with the waves and for fishing, so it has nine tails, which can also be docked like a gecko. The water is floating, and if there are any fish and shrimps approaching, they can eat as soon as they can open their mouths, and don’t be in a hurry if they can’t. They rely on a pair of tails to fish for turtles.

To say that this tail is also miraculous, no matter what kind of fish, turtle, shrimp and crab it is, as long as it touches it, it will never let go.

Because this cat is lazy and timid, once it senses danger, it will dive directly into the water to escape, which is extremely rare.

"If you have to go ashore, you will usually find a mount. Just like now, this water hyacinth cat has short limbs. It is the most dangerous time on land."

Gu Yao couldn't help sighing: "There are such strange cats, it's really a long life, and a long time to learn."

The three of them followed the group of cats, but came to a cave again.

This cave is on this side of the lake, just south and north of the cave where Gu Yao and the others came in.

"Go in, let's calm down."

Gu Yao exhorted, held his breath, and approached lightly.

As soon as he walked to the entrance of the cave, he heard meowing and chewing sounds inside. Gu Yao looked around and saw that the light in the cave was dim, and countless cats were standing everywhere, with dozens of pairs of cat eyes. sparkling with light.

A woman with disheveled hair and ragged clothes was sitting on the ground at the end of the cave, grabbing the mermaid with one hand and biting it, making a crackling sound, crushing the flesh and thorns and the fish bones into pieces, and swallowing it with the other hand. The other hand was stroking the water hyacinth cat.

The three of Gu Yao probed in and felt that the scene inside was particularly gloomy. This woman actually ate such strange-looking fish raw, and those cats stood everywhere, like sculptures, motionless. It's hard to believe that this is a live cat without the glowing eyes.

"Is this woman from the village?"

Gu Yao was thinking about whether to show up to see her.

But before he could make a decision, Shadow Chang Le let out an exclamation: "It's Immortal Shutao!"

She couldn't hold back, and when the sound came out, the cats inside suddenly turned their heads, and all of them looked over at once. The woman also stopped eating fish and looked at the door.

Gu Yao sighed, and walked to the cave door: "Junior Kunyang, I have met the senior, but I don't know what the identity of the senior is?"

Click
What answered him was the sound of fish bones breaking again, and the woman stared at him intently, and continued eating.

Shadow Changle knew that he had made a mistake, stood behind him, and said in a low voice: "Gu Yao, she is the one I told you before, the former official of His Majesty's library, Shutao Xianguan."

"She has disappeared for ten years. Princess Changle always thought she was on a parade in the world, but she didn't expect to be here."

Shutao Xianguan
Gu Yao thought about the name in his mind, and said loudly: "Dare to ask senior, but is it Shutao Xianguan?"

The woman stopped eating, stared at them quietly for a while, and said in a hoarse voice: "Aren't you a catechumen?"

"No."

"Hehe, is he dead? He actually let outsiders like you come in." The woman laughed dryly, and then said, "I used to be a scholar, but I'm not anymore. You call me Shutao."

"I've seen Senior Shutao, why is Senior here?"

"It turns out he's a fool who doesn't know anything." The woman sneered, "In that case, it's useless for me to say more. You go away and come back at this time tomorrow. At that time, you must know everything. By then I will tell you everything." I can tell you how to endure it a few more times."

"senior?"

Gu Yao wanted to ask something else, but the woman had already lowered her head and ignored her. She just ate the fish slowly, while the cats around her all raised their tails and arched their backs, making sharp screams one after another.

"Farewell."

Gu Yao saluted and left with the two of them.

After walking a little further, Gu Yao said to Jingyin: "Master, what do you think of that Shutao just now?"

Jing Yin clenched her fists and put her sleeves in her fists: "Weird, her aura is like a human and a ghost, and there is also a hint of monster."

"She just said to let me go again tomorrow, and said to stay up a few more times. What does this several times mean?"

"I don't understand, maybe I can ask Yidie when I go back."

Gu Yao let out a long breath: "Forget it, it's useless to think too much, you'll know tomorrow."

The outline of the village reappeared in front of his eyes, and Gu Yao's mood sank again.

Who was the old man who crashed and died on his palm?Could it be the villagers of this village?

With many doubts, Gu Yao just approached the village when he was blocked by a yellow dog the size of a lamb.

"Wang Wang Wang!"

The yellow dog stood at the entrance of the village, bared its teeth, and scratched the ground with its hind paws, warning the three of them.

(End of this chapter)