Chapter 47 Returning Home (XIV)
Guixu preserves the last trace of chaos between heaven and earth. It is located under the Nine Netherworlds, without a sky, and hanging high above is the endless Wangchuan River, so for billions of years, all souls and spirits here are silent. Only the remains are the monsters born from chaos in Guixu over billions of years. They have no souls and no hearts, but because they have been trapped in the infinite land for a long time, they have a particularly strong curiosity about everything.
Xuhai's curiosity is not about right or wrong. They can dissect a human alive just to study the body structure of creatures in the human world; they can also break the wings of a flying bird just to see how a bird without wings can crawl to survive. But at the same time, Xuhai is surprisingly friendly to creatures other than experimental subjects. They will not refuse butterflies that land on them, and will even shield fragile wild flowers on the road from the storm on a whim.
Born in chaos, be true to your heart.
The essence of the ruins is a ball of black fog. Because it is fog, its shape is not fixed, so each ruin can freely choose its favorite mimicry. Some of them look like a wolf, some like a snake... all kinds of strange shapes.
In short, there are no two identical ruins in the world.
Xuhai A Bing chose octopus mimicry, which is composed of a main body and tentacles, but he obviously did not study the octopus thoroughly enough. There is a brain in each tentacle of the octopus, but A Bing forgot to install brains in its tentacles, which caused the tentacles to often do some unfavorable things that implicated the main body.
But A Bing never blamed the tentacles, because A Bing loved its tentacles.
It was an ordinary day, and A Bing was wandering around Guixu. It had been grounded for a long time because it had fought through Beiming and Guixu in order to take a shortcut from the ghost market to Guixu last time. Although the Kun in Beiming helped to clean up the mess afterwards, the Two Realms Department complained to the Nine Nether Realms Department. After receiving the complaint, the Nine Nether Realms Department went directly to Guixu to scold it and asked it to choose between writing an apology letter and being grounded for 500 years.
A Bing is illiterate, so he chooses to be confined to his room.
The experience of being confined in Guixu was not very good. Guixu was really a barren land, and A Bing's daily activities were just strolling around. One day, while strolling around, he saw a ray of light shining down from above his head.
As mentioned before, above Guixu is the endless Wangchuan River, so there is no light here. The light that A Bing saw did not belong to Guixu - someone opened the passage between Guixu and the outside world.
The existence of passages is a historical legacy of Guixu. When Guixu was first formed, it was still in chaos and had not yet been enlightened. It is like a three-year-old child building a house. It is normal to have missing pieces in the east and west. Therefore, if you are not careful, you will leave many passages to various worlds. However, these passages have no safety guarantees and it is easy to leave and never return.
Ah Bing was a little excited when he saw someone opening the passage. It was like when you were grounded by your parents and your neighbor broke through the wall of your room. Isn't this just blowing the horn of freedom in your ears?
A Bing planned to send his tentacles into the channel to find out the news first. If it was safe, he would set off immediately.
The tentacles went out.
The tentacles successfully reached the human world.
The tentacle saw a delicious human.
Tentacle thought this delicious human looked familiar.
But due to the lack of a brain stem in the tentacle, it could not remember where it had seen this human.
Even though it used up all its strength and tried to recall, it still couldn't remember who Lu Ren was, so the tentacles began to play badly: "Never mind, if I just catch him and use him as reserve food, the main body should be very happy."
History always repeats itself with surprising similarities.
After being played with by the tentacles again, Lu Ren felt like he had lost all desire to live.
Just now, the passage between the human world and Guixu was opened, and then the tentacles of the ruins emerged from the passage. The tentacles found him, hesitated for a moment, and then tied him up.
At this moment, Lu Ren was tied up tightly and unable to move. The background behind him was the spirit gathering array barrier that was gradually disappearing.
In addition to gathering spirits, the spirit gathering array barrier can also block the communication between people inside and outside the boundary. This shielding does not only refer to mobile phone signals. It also means that if one person stands inside the boundary and the other stands outside the boundary, they will not be able to see each other and thus cannot communicate. This is really a good barrier that is essential for home travel, murder and arson.
Coincidentally, the reclining Buddha stone wall where Lu Ren was trapped was at the edge of the barrier. As the barrier gradually disappeared, three human heads slowly appeared on the stone wall. Of course, it was only human heads at first, and as the barrier receded, the arms, bodies and limbs gradually appeared.
Just like that, the people outside the barrier slowly appeared in front of Lu Ren. The three people were standing on the stone wall, looking down at Lu Ren who was still struggling after being tied up by the ruins, and they all frowned at the same time.
When Lu Ren saw the faces of the three people clearly, he stopped struggling instantly, because they were Si Yuan, Lu Qingzhou and Ying Long. They were the three killers of the Foreign Household Investigation Bureau. With them around, how could Lu Ren be bullied by Xu Hai right under his nose?
But immersed in the joy of successful hunting, the brainless Xu Hai had not yet realized the seriousness of the matter. It only felt that its prey was no longer struggling.
"Great! The stored food can no longer struggle." The tentacle thought happily.
Then the tentacle heard a cold male voice coming from above it. The voice seemed to be talking to the food reserve it had just captured: "Are you okay?"
Tentacle couldn't help but think: "Why does this voice sound so familiar?"
Before the tentacle could figure out who the owner of the voice was, a pitch-black sword with green flames suddenly fell and the tentacle was cut off again.
The tentacle felt the pain of a broken wrist once again, and finally remembered who the owner of the voice was: it was the person who !
Tentacle: "Woo woo woo woo, but the master is not around, I can't beat him, woo woo woo woo."
The severed tentacle was wriggling to return to the stone wall, and it wanted to escape back to the ruins through the cracks in the stone wall. It tried its best to hide its presence, moving slowly bit by bit, and it was just a little bit away from the stone wall. But before the tentacle succeeded, its body was suddenly stepped on by someone.
How could the tentacle have never been wronged like this? The tentacle wanted to resist! The tentacle thought angrily: "I want to see who is bullying me again!"
The tentacle trembled and looked up at the person who stepped on it. It was surprised to find that the owner of the foot was actually a Yinglong. Then it thought sadly: "Oh no, I can't beat it."
So its thought changed from "I want revenge" to "I can bear this injustice."
The tentacle immediately began to play dead on the spot.
Si Yuan glanced coldly at the tentacles lying limp on the ground and the exhausted Buddha head not far away, and quickly determined where they came from: "Guixu, Yuanjue." He came to the conclusion, "It seems that Jiuyou and Shanjian City are indeed incompetent."
In short, the tentacles and the Buddha head were arrested on the spot.
At the same time, Guixu.
Xuhai has no sense of pain, so A Bing doesn't know that his tentacles have been cut off. He still stands in front of the crack waiting for the tentacles to return home.
The strong wind from Guixu blew past his face, and A Bing couldn't help but sneeze.
"The tentacles are so slow." A Bing complained a little angrily.
Afterwards, Lu Ren curiously asked Yinglong, Si Yuan and Lu Qingzhou why they appeared in Fengxu Village together.
Yinglong: "Yangguan's demon-locking chain triggered the alarm device, which means he has the intention to harm humans, so our captain sent me to capture him and bring him back."
Lu Qingzhou: "Someone reported that there was an unusual gathering of strange people in this village. They suspected that there was an evil spirit at work, so they sent me here for a routine investigation."
Si Yuan: "Every five hundred years, I will inspect the connection between the human world and other worlds."
None of them came for Lu Ren, but they did save Lu Ren, whose life was hanging by a thread. Perhaps, this is the same goal achieved by different paths.
