chewing dragon

Chapter 310 Form Refining
Three miles outside the south gate of the small county town, a small river flows almost silently.

In the cold winter night, it can be seen that the river water is extremely shallow and flows very slowly. There is also a thin layer of floating ice near the shore, which freezes the roots of many yellow and white weeds.

A wooden wheel with only seven spokes left was lying by the river. Half of the wheel had crushed the ice floe and was stranded in the cold river water. The other half was left alone on the shore, overwhelming many weeds.

If there are literati who come here on weekdays, they may be able to get a bit of desolate wildness from the products, and even make some poems and paintings with superb artistic conception.

However, at this moment, the originally clear river water has been stained by dark red blood, and there are many long black hairs floating on the water, making it look like a dead river in the netherworld.

In the river and on the banks on both sides, hideous bat corpses can be seen everywhere. Some are as big as geese and some as small as chickens. They were all killed by arrows.

The wilderness beside the river was in a mess, full of traces of being trampled by horse hooves. The scene of fallen grass and rolled soil spread toward the county seat.

I don’t know how long it took, but when the earth-shattering sound of horse hooves had gone far away, an inconspicuous ice floe on the edge of the river suddenly shattered, and soon two little white sheep emerged from under the ice.

The two little white sheep were about the same size, about two inches taller and shorter, and they were all wet.

They looked around vigilantly for a moment to make sure that the ferocious human cavalry had gone far away, and then they boldly trudged ashore and began to nibble on the unpolluted grass.

The two little white sheep had small mouths, and they ate very gracefully. They chewed slowly and without any hurry, making almost no sound.

One of them curiously bit the wooden wheel next to him, and found that his teeth couldn't handle such old wood, so he immediately gave up trying.

"Cough cough!"

A voice that sounded like an old woman came: "So you two came here. It really makes it easier for my old woman to find you!"

After the words fell, a short and stooped old woman held a thin wooden stick, slowly pushed aside the grass, and walked towards the river bank.

Her walking posture was very weird, and she was extremely slow. It seemed that every step she took must be carefully considered, and her eyes were always on her feet. She looked cautious when raising her feet and setting them down. She had to step firmly before continuing. For fear of slipping and falling.

The old woman was not walking very fast, but she was not idle. She chanted slowly and in a low voice: "Walking on the desolate road for a long time makes me feel sad. There are no fireworks in all directions, but I can see forests and hills."

"The walls of the city are covered with hazel thorns, and the paths have nowhere to go. The marshes are filled with grass, and the rivers are flowing with reeds..."

The two little white sheep seemed oblivious to this and continued to eat grass unhurriedly.

After another moment, the old woman finally stopped slowly beside them. When she landed, she deliberately avoided the wooden wheels to avoid tripping over them.

"Oh my, you two poor little boys! I just saw how ferocious those cavalrymen were, and in a moment of impatience, they left you behind. Were you frightened?"

After saying that, the old woman grinned at the two little white sheep. Her smile was indescribably awkward, and her mouth was full of incomplete teeth.

Her teeth were all in strange shapes, some were surprisingly big, some were pitifully small, and their colors were different, white, yellow, and black, all put together in an irregular manner, which looked weird.

The next moment, the old woman used the thin wooden stick in her hand to put a little bit on the foreheads of the two little white sheep.
The two little white sheep, who were only focusing on eating and drinking, suddenly froze, and the fur on their bodies quickly fell off, turning into two bulging sheepskin felt pouches the size of fists.

The two little white sheep had no fur, leaving only two white sheep-shaped skeletons. Most of the grass paste they had just chewed flowed out from the gaps between the bones.

However, up to this point, they still did not stop eating, but instead ate faster and more roughly.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you Yangba clan are really pitiful. If you eat ten points, at least eight points will leak out. It's not much better than the legendary starving ghost."

The old woman said she was pitiful, but her smile became even brighter, and the flesh on her face became more and more distorted. Two black teeth even fell out of her mouth, and her words began to leak.

"You guys, pack your bags carefully. When these two sheepskin felt bags are empty, I won't be able to make clothes for you two poor little ones, so that you can have enough to eat every day."

As the old woman spoke, she used a thin wooden stick to open one of the felt bags.

There are so many things there, and all they contain are human teeth!

The old woman fiddled with the felt bag very casually with a thin wooden stick, as if she was picking and choosing. From time to time she would stop and take a look at the two black teeth on the ground for reference.

At this moment, a crane chirped high in the sky above its head, a long and exciting sound that spread to all directions.

The wooden wheel that was originally lying quietly beside it suddenly changed. The only seven remaining spokes on it jumped up and turned into young men of seventeen or eighteen years old in the wind.

These young men were all thin-waisted, broad-shouldered, tall and long-armed. They were dressed in green leather armor and held big sticks with gold hoops. As soon as they appeared, they swung the sticks and beat the old woman hard without any explanation.

The two muttons that no one cared about were unable to avoid them, and they were trampled into two pieces of bones in the first step.

bang bang bang!Bang bang bang!

Seven golden hoops were formed in a circle, and they hit his head and face like hailstones, making a dull sound.

The old woman was trapped in a tight siege, with no way to escape or hide. The thin wooden stick in her hand didn't even block it, and she was smashed into several pieces by Fu Da.

However, its clothes are soft and crisp, and its skin and flesh are loose and loose, just like the weeds by the river. If it is touched, the clothes and skin will be torn apart, revealing the same weird-shaped and different-colored skeletons in the body.

However, the strange thing is that no matter how shocking the crack is on the old woman's body, it will always heal quickly the next moment, and then it will burst again after being beaten by the teenagers with car spokes, and then quickly repaired as before, and so on.

As a result, there were endless sounds of banging, crackling of clothes and flesh, crackling of bones, and broken bones of different colors and sizes scattered all over the floor.

After a long while, the blinded old woman finally came to her senses, raised her head, opened her crooked mouth, and let out a shrill, piercing howl.

"Stop hitting..."

Before it could finish howling, the most conspicuous strange mouth received a sharp blow, and the strange teeth in its mouth immediately shot out in all directions like a goddess scattering flowers.

"There are hidden weapons!"

The big radiated monster screamed, and a big white tooth was already embedded in his forehead.

He quickly protected his head and face with a golden hoop and a big stick, and at the same time withdrew.

The other six teenagers with car spokes were also howling like ghosts and running away one after another.

The old woman finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the skeleton inside her body made a clicking sound, and she barely recovered her figure, but she was obviously shorter than before.

It looked down and saw that there was a thick layer of bones and debris under its feet, even two poor sheep daggers were buried underneath, making it impossible to tell them apart.The old woman knew immediately that she had been beaten for a long time and her vitality had been severely damaged.

It did not try to escape, but rolled and pounced on the spot, digging out the two fist-sized sheepskin felt sacs from the pile of broken bones.

Immediately, another felt bag was opened, and it contained not teeth, but human fingers and toes.

The old woman turned over with great effort and turned to her back. During this process, several bones in her body suddenly broke, and broken bones as sharp as spears stabbed out from various parts of her body.

If an ordinary person suffered such a serious injury, he would either die of pain or die from broken bones piercing his organs. However, the old woman seemed unaware.

It lay on the pile of broken bones as if there was no one around, raised two felt bags and fell them down.

A large number of teeth, fingers and toes fell like raindrops, and they were all dumped into the old woman's strange mouth that she struggled to open.

The seven young men with car spokes gathered around again. Seeing this, they couldn't help but wink at each other: "This old guy looks quite evil!"

"Yes, yes, it is really durable. It can't be killed no matter how hard you hit it!"

"No, no, it's obviously broken in one hit, how can it be considered durable?"

Not long after, the two fist-sized sheepskin felt bags were devoured by the old woman.

It let out a long breath, and most of its previous weakness was gone. Its body had lengthened visibly to the naked eye, and even the teeth in its mouth had been replaced, but it was still weird and extremely ugly.

The old woman lay on the ground unable to get up, threw away the two sheepskin felt bags, raised her eyes to look at the seven heads in a circle above her head, and spoke feebly: "I have no grievances with you in the past, and now I have no grievances. Why? To do this indiscriminately?"

The leader of the spoke boys asked curiously: "Who are you?"

There was a look of shame on the old woman's face. No matter who is the knife and I am the fish, she finally replied weakly: "I was originally a piece of human skin in the forbidden water, and I got the corpse aura floating from the north. Transformation, suddenly one day it transformed into spirituality."

Fu Da nodded as if he understood, and then asked: "You are a skin spirit, why do you eat other people's teeth and fingers?"

"This... I have some congenital deficiencies in my old body. Although I can barely take shape, I can't condense it into substance. The bones can't be formed into bones and the tendons can't be formed into tendons. I always look less like a human being. I need to absorb the energy of human muscles and bones to take shape. Only then will the body be perfect.”

"The teeth are part of the bones, and the claws are part of the muscles. I eat these two things to replenish the energy of the muscles and bones."

The teenagers in the car spokes looked at each other with novelty in their eyes. Even though they themselves were also weirdos, they felt that they had gained knowledge and broadened their horizons.

"Although this human skin spirit is ugly, he knows a lot."

"Yeah, yeah, it was reciting poetry just now!"

Wei Da thought for a while, then suddenly cleared his throat, his expression became solemn and his tone became serious, as if he was deliberately imitating someone: "Let me ask you, how did you get the contents of these two bags? Do you know? According to the "Da Qi Law", what are the sins of killing and wounding people, opening coffins and destroying corpses?"

""Da Qi Lu"?"

The old woman was stunned. She obviously didn't expect to hear this word here and now, but she obviously knew what "Da Qi Lu" was.

As a result, the look it looked at the young man such as Hu Da became strange, and its tone of voice subconsciously became more serious: "Don't accuse me of injustice. I didn't kill anyone, nor did I dig a grave or open a coffin. A bag of human teeth and a bag of human claws were all obtained by me in exchange for my own skin. Isn’t this illegal?”

As soon as these words came out, the seven spokes youths looked at each other again: "This kind of situation...hasn't the adults ever taught you?"

The next moment, there was a loud whistling sound in the night sky, and a strong wind blew violently from top to bottom.

Everyone's eyes dimmed as there was an extra person beside them. He was wearing a black robe with a silver belt, a white fur coat with red stripes, a long sword on his back, an iron shield on his back, and a gold medal and a bronze tiger hanging on his waist.

The seven young men who were the guards of the Jiahub Team immediately lined up like geese's wings, making way for the road while bowing and saluting: "See you, Lord Captain!"

Qi Jingzhi smiled and nodded: "You brothers are getting better and better at setting up ambush."

As he spoke, he walked up to the old woman: "Where and from whom did you get these two bags of human bones?"

"Captain?"

At this time, the old woman still didn't understand that she had fallen into a trap. The other party was clearly in the same group as the previous vicious army.

It had no luck in its heart and quickly struggled to sit up, with an ugly smile on its face: "If I tell you, can you forgive me, a stinky person like me?"

Qi Jingzhi grinned: "Let's talk about it."

The old woman's smile became more and more forced, but she did not dare not answer: "There is an abandoned camp to the north of the Forbidden Water. There is a market in the camp, and all the business is on corpses. The human bones of the old man were in that market. Replaced."

"Is it all a business on corpses?"

Qi Jingzhi chewed on this sentence for a while, and his expression became a little cold: "Apart from you who trade skin for bones, what other business is there in corpses in the market?"

"That's too much. There are businesses that sell whole corpses, but most of them are sold in pieces."

"Among them, the sale of heads is the most common. Some spirits like to change their heads and faces when they have nothing to do. Hair, facial features, etc. can also be sold individually."

"There are also the trunk and limbs, bones and blood fascia, internal organs and the like. The old body is not yet fully formed, and the muscles and bones are uncomfortable. I only care about human teeth and claws, and I don't pay much attention to other things."

Qi Jingzhi's eyes flashed when he heard this: "These blood-eyed bats on the ground that steal people's hair, and those murderers who are running around, killing people and wiping their faces, they have people's hair and skin, are they all going to be sold in that market? "

The old woman shook her head when she heard this: "I don't know much about this old man. Maybe it is for sale, maybe it is useful to myself."

"After all, I have a skin problem, my hair is born, and I have all the five senses, especially my face. I can rub it as much as I want. I don't need to buy someone else's, so I don't know any sellers..."

It paused and suddenly thought of something: "In that market, hair is probably worthless, but the dough business is extremely prosperous. The top-quality goods are often priced but not available. There is even a new shop that specializes in this." pawnshop."

"Some spirits will give their skin to that shop if they don't have enough money, and they can often negotiate a high price..."

Qi Jingzhi was just angry at first about the market where the corpse business was described by the old woman, but the more he heard about it, the more bizarre and absurd he found it, especially the pawn shop that could pawn his face, which was even more unbelievable.

"Is the corpse energy of the Dragon Corpse in Lengshan actually so poisonous? The barbaric land north of the Forbidden Water and south of Lengshan doesn't sound like the human world!"

(End of this chapter)