Chapter 117: Fengdu Guest (VII)
Just when Lu Ren was about to be pushed into the blood lake by the man with double pupils, he suddenly felt the push from his neck suddenly stop.
Lu Ren took a few deep breaths after getting a chance to catch his breath, then raised his head to observe the current situation. He found that the man with double pupils, who had just been trying to push him into the blood lake, was now tilting his head and staring at him with some confusion. He saw that the man with double pupils kept pinching Lu Ren's neck, slowly moved his head closer to Lu Ren's neck, and sniffed carefully from a distance.
Like a drug-sniffing dog searching luggage at an airport.
Then, Lu Ren felt that the pressure on his neck was lessened. At the same time, the man with double pupils said in a puzzled voice, "Strange, why do you smell so complicated?"
Of course, this smell does not mean that Lu Ren has become pickled because he hasn't taken a bath for a long time. It simply means that the scent emanating from Lu Ren is a bit complicated.
It’s no wonder that the man with double pupils has such doubts. In fact, any monster with sensitive senses would shout “Good guy” when approaching Lu Ren.
He smelled like a big temple fair.
Although Lu Ren himself didn't know, he didn't have to worry about being hurt by the things in the blood lake. If one had to describe Lu Ren's state at this moment, he was simply a walking steel plate safe.
Because countless protective spells had already been cast on him.
Before, when he was at home, the mountain ghost had cast a powerful protective spell on Lu Ren while he was asleep. That was the blessing of the ancient gods, enough to resist the invasion of all evil spirits.
Not only that, the Qilin cub once secretly hid a piece of scale that had naturally fallen off his body under Lu Ren's insole. The inactivated scale was very soft, so Lu Ren had not discovered it for a long time.
Previously in the fresh food supermarket, the Dragon King also planted the mark of the Dragon Palace on Lu Ren’s forehead, so Lu Ren still exudes a faint scent of dragon.
Finally, Bian Cheng is still reliable. He left half of the Ghost King Seal in Lu Ren's body, so to be precise, Lu Ren is now the King of Hell who is in charge of the underworld. Naturally, he has a certain deterrent effect on the ghosts in the underworld.
To sum up, the aura on Lu Ren's body is too complicated, with a divine, a dragon, and a ghost. It's no wonder that the double-eyed man was confused, after all, few people can use such a variety of self-defense methods.
Like a treasure guarded by the gods.
If any evil ghost dared to attack Lu Ren, he would undoubtedly have his teeth knocked out.
But Lu Ren himself was unaware , and he was now racking his brains to think of how to get out of this situation. Then, through the shoulders of the man with double pupils, Lu Ren saw Ah Bing who was lagging behind.
Because Lu Ren lost strength after his neck was strangled, the teddy bear that A Bing was living with fell to the ground and landed on the ground behind the two of them.
The double-pupiled man didn't notice A Bing's presence, and his back was facing A Bing, which was a perfect opportunity. Taking advantage of the double-pupiled man's inattention, A Bing launched an attack. It used two slender tentacles to sneak attack the double-pupiled man's back.
This attack could have been successful if the person that A Bing attacked was not the one with double pupils.
Normally, double pupils are just two pupils based on the visual level. Although it looks cool, in actual use, the extra pupil is just for decoration, and the way of seeing things is no different from that of other humans.
But the man with double pupils in front of Lu Ren is different. His two pupils can see things independently, so his visual range is twice that of ordinary people.
When A Bing's tentacles made a subtle sound of breaking through the air, Lu Ren saw clearly that the two pupils of the double-eyed man in front of him split apart, one pupil stayed at the corner of the eye, and the other moved to the end of the eye. The pupils in the corner of the eye were staring at Lu Ren intently, as if thinking about Lu Ren's race and origin, while the pupils at the end of the eye were trying to observe the surrounding situation.
The pupil at the end of his eye caught a glimpse of A Bing's movements, so the man with double pupils responded quickly. He left Lu Ren where he was, and jumped up high into the air, thus avoiding A Bing's attack.
After failing to hit the target, A Bing did not continue to chase the man with double pupils in the air. Instead, he used his tentacles to pull Lu Ren, who was standing by the blood lake, back behind him.
After waiting for Lu Ren to return behind A Bing, A Bing posed a threatening posture towards the man with double pupils. It stretched out countless black tentacles from the teddy bear, growing towards the sky like moving branches. From a distance, it looked like a blooming anemone.
A Bing wanted to use his tall body to block the view between the man with double pupils and Lu Ren.
After landing, the man with double pupils looked at the ruins that was threatening like a bodyguard in front of Lu Ren. He was very confused by the scene before him. He murmured in confusion, "Is that... ruins?"
Does a creature like Xuhai, which has no brain, also have the will to protect something?
The double-eyed man didn't understand. It was obvious that the remains should be just like him, a byproduct of the natural division of yin and yang. They would not enter reincarnation, would not have spiritual wisdom, and would not receive the mercy of gods and Buddhas. They would only follow their endless desires and fall into the boundless sea of suffering.
What made a corpse learn to protect?
The man with double pupils thought confusedly: "Could it be because of the 'hodgepodge' behind him, the one he protected with all his heart?"
After the close confirmation just now, the man with double pupils already knew that Lu Ren was not the person he wanted to lock up in the bloody world of suffering.
The man with double pupils had no intention of being an enemy of Lu Ren and Xu Hai. It was all a misunderstanding just now.
Since no evil ghost escaped, there was no need for the man with the pair of pupils to feel anxious anymore.
He did not continue to attack, but calmly walked back behind the rock, took the clothes he had placed there, and put them on as if no one was around.
The sudden halftime break made Lu Ren a little uncomfortable, but he didn’t need to know what the other party was thinking tomorrow. He just needed to take this opportunity to slip away.
So Lu Ren took two steps forward and picked up the teddy bear that was still on the ground. A Bing also cooperated and shrank back into the teddy bear, turning into his harmless self again.
The reduced size of A Bing made it easier for Lu Ren to hold him in his hands. He liked the feeling of being held by Lu Ren, so whenever he was held by Lu Ren, he would reflexively find the most favorable position for being held by Lu Ren. He was like a tamed house cat, very docile.
After learning the lesson from the head-on confrontation with Bian Cheng that resulted in the injury of A Bing, Lu Ren had no intention of continuing to fight with the man with double pupils after escaping. He focused on figuring out how to escape.
Among the Thirty-Six Strategies, running away is the best one.
Seeing that the man with double pupils was only concerned with putting on his clothes and not paying attention to his direction, Lu Ren quickly held A Bing in his arms, facing the man with double pupils, and retreated while being alert. This was to prevent a sudden attack when he was running away with his back to the man with double pupils.
On the other side, the man with double pupils had already finished dressing.
His attire was strange. A ghost swimming in the blood lake in the underworld was wearing the clothes of a Western priest, with a cross hanging respectfully on his chest. He even bent down to pick up a book on a rock by the lake and held it respectfully in his hands. The book had a brown sheepskin cover and looked a little old. It was not difficult to infer that it was a Bible. The man with double pupils even buttoned up all the buttons meticulously. From the clothes, he looked like a qualified clergyman.
Good fellow, a hard-core missionary, has come to China's underworld to expand his business.
After being dressed, the man with double pupils raised his head and looked at Lu Ren who was running away backwards. He saw him take a step forward with ease, and then disappeared from Lu Ren's sight.
Lu Ren was retreating, and was caught off guard by the sudden disappearance of the man with double pupils. Lu Ren, who was retreating, did not have time to retract his right leg. When the center moved with his right foot, and then he took another step back, Lu Ren felt his back hit an iron wall. Then, a hand reached out from behind and put his shoulder.
Feeling the pressure on his shoulders, Lu Ren froze in place. He turned his head slowly and stiffly, and saw the man with double pupils who was behind him.
The long black hair of the man with double pupils matched the black priest's robe, and he looked noble and abstinent. But the eyes with two pupils were looking down at him at this moment. As the man with double pupils' sight moved downward, his two pupils moved separately in his eye sockets, and the inhuman characteristics were particularly obvious, which made people feel chilling.
Extreme contradictions mixed in the same person make this person look weird and strange.
The terrified Lu Ren wanted to quickly break free from the shackles of the man with double pupils, but the hands of the man with double pupils on his shoulders seemed to be firmly welded there, and no matter how Lu Ren struggled, those hands did not move at all.
Just when Lu Ren was about to "close the door and release Ah Bing", the man with double pupils behind him suddenly spoke. There was no murderous intent in his tone, only endless doubts: "You are not a fierce ghost in the bloody world, how come you are here?"
"Of course I am not. I am an innocent person who was kidnapped here."
It seemed like the double-eyed man had heard this word for the first time. He repeated Lu Ren's words like a babbling child: "Kidnapped?"
Lu Ren didn't realize something was wrong. He thought it was an old ghost who was not familiar with modern vocabulary, so he explained: "Kidnapping refers to the process of restricting someone's personal freedom by violent means."
After hearing this, the man with double pupils had a new question: "Freedom? What is freedom?"
So Lu Ren began to explain the definition of freedom to him again, but the strange thing was that every time Lu Ren explained a word, the man with double pupils would again question the new words he used in his explanation. This process repeated itself over and over again, as if the hundred thousand whys would never end.
Gradually, Lu Ren realized that something was wrong. This man with double pupils was like a baby who was learning to speak. He hardly knew a few words and seemed to have regarded Lu Ren as his Chinese teacher and was absorbing knowledge from him continuously.
Having discovered the suspicious points, Lu Ren then plucked up the courage to take the initiative: "I have said so much, it should be my turn to ask questions, right?"
The person behind him did not raise any objections, and seemed to agree with Lu Ren's proposal. This made Lu Ren realize that the person behind him was not unable to communicate, so he silently breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Who are you? Where is this place?"
The double-pupiled person behind him paused and replied, "My name is Chongtong, and this is the Blood Basin Realm of Suffering."
As Lu Ren expected, the person behind him really answered his question obediently. Lu Ren felt that there was a chance, so he asked, "Can you let me go first? I can't run away."
Lu Ren was just trying it out, but he didn't expect the person behind him to actually let go of the hand that was holding his shoulder.
Lu Ren finally gained his freedom. He thanked him, then turned around and faced Chongtong, asking again, "What is the Blood Basin Bitter Realm?"
Chongtong said calmly: "It's my home."
