Recap
Looking at the gold coin that had been bitten by someone, and looking at the white snake coiled on the ground, he was silent for a moment, and whispered: “Ge, do you think the chocolate is tasteless? How about I unwrap it and you can try it again?”
The white snake was still very cold, but the tip of his slender tail swung violently twice.
Chu Shici: …
It’s over, his Zhe-ge might be furious into biting him.
Zhe-ge of the fourth world, like the previous ones, has a strong ability to manage his expressions, even when he is extremely happy or upset, his expression doesn’t seem to change.
But this time, he has a tail.
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Chu Shici stared at the tail that was swaying around for a while, and decided to pretend that nothing happened.
Zhe-ge has a thin face, and if he exposes his shortcomings again, the white snake will probably throw him out directly from embarrassment.
Chu Shici tore off the wrapping paper and placed the gold coin chocolate on a stone.
He patted his stomach pretentiously, “After eating wild fruits for so long, everyday has been a sad day. The temple should be open for dinner, I’ll go grab some food.”
He intended to find an excuse to go out and give the hero time to eat the chocolate.
But before going out, Xunzhe, who had been dozing off, suddenly opened his eyes.
He stretched out his slender and pale fingers, curled around his long hair twice, and pulled out a strand of hair.
Xunzhe blew on the hair, and passed it to Chu Shici expressionlessly: “It is stained with my evil aura, no one will dare to harm you when you go out.”
Chu Shici took the hair and looked up at him in surprise, “Just a single strand of hair and a single breath is enough to prevent them from harming me again? Amazing!”
Xunzhe’s eyes were sharp, and a mocking smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Ever since he came to this world, Chu Shici has not seen him smiling like this.
He wasn’t angry either, he just stood there with a straight face, staring at him with his arms crossed.
The two stared at each other for a few minutes, Xunzhe put away his sneer, turned around and lay coiled up on the ground, pretending to sleep.
Chu Shici went out contentedly.
The system was silent just now, but now it poked its head out curiously, [What did you do just now?]
‘He always mocks me, I don’t like it. I want to let him know that I don’t like it, so that he will restrain himself in the future.’
[? Isn’t he your Zhe-ge?]
‘Yeah, but he wasn’t like this in the first few worlds. His facial expressions are not so rich, and he definitely doesn’t like to sneer at me, the original text should have influenced his personality. ‘
Chu Shici coiled up the strand of silver hair and wrap it around his wrist.
‘I don’t feel angry now, but I’m going to spend the rest of my life with him. I’m afraid that if I don’t acknowledge that now, he will think that I don’t care about these things, and he will habitually mock me when I am sad. I don’t want to quarrel because of this kind of thing in the future.’
He raised his hand and looked at the thin hair on it, his eyes became much gentler, ‘I have double standards, I don’t mind if he makes fun of others, I will support him no matter how crude the words he use, but if it’s me on the other end, I just want to hear good things from him.’
[Oh, thank you for today’s dog food, I’m full.]
Chu Shici chatted with the system while flying down the mountain.
Originally, he just planned to take a walk around, but after having this strand of hair, he became much more courageous.
It was around 5:30 in the afternoon, which happened to be dinner time at Dayangtian Ming Temple.
These days he can still eat a few mouthfuls of steamed buns, but Xunzhe only eats wild fruits every day.
Remembering that Zhe-ge has been hungry for more than five hundred years, and his taste buds are getting so bland it’s disappearing from his tongue, Chu Shici is going to steal some delicious food to take back for him.
He patted the little golden lotus and signaled it to turn off the light effect first.
While the kitchen door was open, Chu Shici sneaked in.
In his impression, monks should be vegetarians, but last time he stole a chicken leg here.
The kitchen area is very large, and in the large pot beside, buns are steaming in it, which smells very fragrant.
After his mother passed away, no one paid Chu Shici’s living expenses. No one cooks his share nor does anyone give him pocket money.
When he was a child, he would buy steamed buns worth 50 cents at the morning market, and eat half of them in the morning and half at noon. Chew it for a few more times in your mouth and the steamed buns will become very sweet and fragrant.
The meal was not ready yet so Chu Shici circled around it a few times and was almost scalded by the steam.
He couldn’t see what was boiling in the several large pots covered with black lids not far away.
Chu Shici stayed in Dayangtian Ming Temple for a while, and also observed the behavior of the monks coming in and out.
Maybe there are logical reasons behind it but most of the monks do not eat dinner.
Although they also cook meals at night, the amount is less than that at noon in the morning. It is for some monks who have worked for a day, are exhausted, or have needs.
The amount of food today is obviously much larger than usual.
Is there a dinner party in the temple tonight, and everyone wants to eat?
Chu Shici hid in a corner, squatting and waited for dinner.
After a while, two monks who were in charge of the food came in, carrying a large rooster in their hands.
The chicken is a live chicken, being held by the wings by the monks, and is struggling non-stop.
The monk pressed the chicken on the wooden chair, took out an iron basin and put it underneath the rooster. Another monk grabbed the chicken’s head and stretched its neck out.
Chu Shici understood that is the intent to kill the chicken.
When he was working in a restaurant, he helped kill live chickens before.
Judging from his professional chicken killing methods, these two monks are really bad at this, they are beginners at first glance.
The monk’s movements were very jerky, and he was slapped in the face several times by the chicken. After finally restraining the chicken, one of them picked up a kitchen knife and prepared to cut off the chicken’s neck and let it bleed.
Just then, the chicken made a sound.
It wasn’t clucking or a squawk, Chu Shici heard it talking clearly.
Although it was vague, sharp and thin, and mixed with rooster squawking from time to time, it was obviously a human language.
The rooster struggled desperately, and a man’s panicked voice came out of its pointed mouth, “Who are you! Where is this? What are you doing with me! Don’t kill me! Help, help, I want to call the police! Help!!!”
In the next second, the chicken’s neck was cut with a deep wound by the kitchen knife, and the chicken’s blood splattered everywhere.
The rooster struggled even harder, and the monk missed it. The rooster started flying all over the room in pain and fear.
In the end, the neck was cut, the rooster didn’t struggle for a long time, and fell down weakly, its body began to twitch.
It crawled like a human, flailing its chicken wings on the ground indiscriminately, trying to crawl out of the kitchen door.
Finally, one meter away from the entrance, he completely died.
Chu Shici, who was hiding behind the rice bucket, was stunned.
The system is also very confused, it scratches its head, [Fuck, I’m hallucinating? The chicken was talking just now?]
Chu Shici also heard the chicken calling for help.
He grabbed the lotus petals and looked out.
The monk with a kitchen knife leaned over to pick up the dead chicken, and his companion began to prepare boiling water to scald off the chicken feathers.
He doesn’t know if it’s a problem with the light, but for a moment Chu Shici saw the water in its eyes, which seemed to be tears.
This thought fades away quickly as the monks fumble with the chicken to get on with dinner.
The system was still muttering, [Fuck, the chicken spoke, and it was calling for help.]
Chu Shici touched the little lotus and thought, “It’s a man, it sounds like he doesn’t know why he is here.’
[It’s so fucking scary, do you think this chicken was a human?]
Chu Shici is also uncertain.
Is there really any way in this world to turn humans into chickens?
Thinking of this, he suddenly froze.
Could it be that the chicken leg he stole last time was also made of this kind of chicken?
A chill hit his heart, and Chu Shici wiped his hands vigorously. Fortunately, he was scared away by the ghost before he had time to eat it.
Taking advantage of the monks busy with the food to notice him, Chu Shici sneaked into the cabinet and looked down from a height.
The dinner was very rich. In addition to steamed buns, vegetarian buns, and vegetable soup, there was also a whole steamed pig’s head, a freshly killed chicken, and a braised fish.
The cooking monk took out a small jar from his pocket, poured the ashes into a bowl, mixed with some water, and stirred it with chicken blood to make it sticky.
They then use chopsticks to dip it into the red viscous liquid, and add a small red dot on the steamed buns.
Chu Shici had seen that little jar before. A monk had dug a hole in the woods to bury things before. After going through the process, they will take out a jar and pour the ashes from the jar into the pit.
Sometimes it is purely ashes, and sometimes it is mixed with some slag.
After seeing the ghost in red last night, the old monk deliberately took out a jar and poured some ashes to appease the ghost temporarily.
Chu Shici look left and right, no matter how he look at the jar, it is exactly the same as the one he saw before.
He is very curious about what the ash inside was, what was its use, and why the monks of Dayangtian Ming Temple use it everywhere.
After placing the red dots, the monks pushed the carts and transported all the food out.
As they were going out, Chu Shici slipped down to steal dinner.
Originally, he wanted to steal a chicken leg, but seeing the scene just now, he felt his back was hairy, and he was afraid to eat chicken.
He tugged at the ears of the steamed pig’s head, trying to grab some meat to take back.
The system poked its head out and said quietly: [What if it spoke human words before it was killed, what will you do then?]
Chu Shici’s hands paused, and then he looked at this huge pig’s head, feeling uncomfortable all over.
Finally, he took a vegetarian bun and a boiled egg, put them on the lotus platform before flying back.
He is only the size of a palm, and the steamed bun is just enough for him to eat for a day tomorrow. The eggs are for Xunzhe, who hasn’t eaten anything good for more than five hundred years.
On the way back, Chu Shici became more and more curious as he pondered over it.
The sudden increase in appetite, the talking chicken, and the red dots with unknown meanings are all weird.
Chu Shici sat on the little lotus and turned to look at the temple.
Dayangtian Ming Temple at night is even more silent than usual, not even the cry of a woman appeared, it is all a little strangely quiet.
Chu Shici endured and endured, but decided to go and have a look.
He wrapped the buns and eggs, hid them behind a stone, thinking to come and fetch them later. In case of any accidents, these things will delay his escape.
Chu Shici first went to look at the place where the monks eat. Usually, the monks eat here, but today, it is empty.
He turned around several times, but couldn’t find anyone around.
Isn’t it just having a meal? Why are they hiding?
Chu Shici walked around the entire Dayangtian Ming Temple, but he didn’t see a single bald head.
Just as he was feeling out of place, he suddenly remembered a place.
Behind the temple there is an inaccessible small house, which enshrines a solid gold statue, and he was imprisoned inside for a week before.
When Chu Shici came closer to the house, he realized that the wooden door was locked from the inside.
The house has no windows, and the sound insulation is also very good, so he can’t spy on the situation inside the house. It can only be judged from the light shining through the crack of the door that there are indeed people inside.
He stomped his feet, knowing that he should have been more courageous just now, and directly followed the two monks who delivered the food.
It may be that the hair given by Xunzhe has played a role, or it may be that something has changed in Dayangtian Ming Temple tonight.
He had been wandering outside for so long, but the red-clothed ghost who had been pestering him for the past two days hadn’t appeared.
Chu Shici squatted behind a big tree near the house for half the night, and didn’t even see a trace of a ghost.
Just when he was so tired that he was about to fall asleep, the door opened, and monks came out one by one.
Chu Shici roughly counted, there were more than 30 monks in the temple, and they were all crowded in this room just now.
The monks kept silent and walked out with their heads bowed.
Dozens of people lined up quietly without saying a word, and the picture looked inexplicably disturbing.
Chu Shici took a rough look into the room, and found that the furnishings in the room were the same as before, so he couldn’t deduce anything special that could have occurred in the room.
Seeing that the monks were about to leave, he hurriedly sit on the lotus and follow them secretly.
This group of monks did not go to the meditation hall for self-study, nor did they go to the Buddhist hall to chant scriptures, but just went straight to the monastery.
While walking halfway, the old monk, whom he had seen once in the woods, suddenly raised his head to the sky and let out a mournful cry.
“Buddha ah, why don’t you open your eyes and see—”
The other monks turned to look at him with an indescribable chill in their eyes.
After the old monk shouted, a tear fell from the end of his eyes. He stared blankly at the sky, his fingers trembling unceasingly, and even the mala beads rattled.
A second later, he lowered his head again, and the monk beside him also looked back down.
They walked towards the monastery in silence, and the team regained order, as if the episode just now had never happened.
Chu Shici asked the system blankly, ‘Ge, do you understand what just happened?’
The system drank a cup of black tea, [Tsk, I don’t understand.]
The monks fell asleep after they entered the monastery, and Chu Shici sat outside on a lotus flower and doubted life.
He worked hard all night, and only gained new questions.
Strange things popped up one after another, and Chu Shici’s mind was full of question marks.
What even is what is even going on?
He dug out the hidden vegetarian buns and eggs, and picked another wild fruit. Full of questions and no answers, he flew back to the cave on a lotus flower.
When he first entered the cave, he saw a white shadow lying with his body peeping between the crack of the door and looking out behind the door that sealed the snake yao.
When Chu Shici approached the door, the shadow disappeared with a whoosh.
He sneaked in through the crack of the door, and Xunzhe still maintained his half human form, curled up in a circle in the corner, sleeping with his tail as his pillow.
Isn’t the white shadow that he saw through the cracks of the door just now Xunzhe?
Just as he was feeling strange, he turned his head and saw the tip of the white snake’s tail swaying slightly.
Chu Shici: …
Look, Zhe-ge is nervous, is he the kind of person who casually reveals others’ shortcomings?
Chu Shici ate some buns, crawled into Xunzhe’s hands, and hugged his pale fingers.
Looking at Xunzhe’s handsome but not angry face, he rubbed the man’s fingertips affectionately: “Ge, were you waiting for me to go home at the door just now? I’m so happy, I’ll steal chocolates for you tomorrow too!”
Xunzhe didn’t respond, but his tail, which had been swaying irritably, finally stopped.
Immediately afterwards, Chu Shici heard the notification sound in the background, [add 1 point to the vitality value, and the current vitality value is 8.]
The system sauntered over and giggled strangely: [I stole chocolate to raise you, so romantic.]
The hands of the small wood carvings are small and short, which looks very cute. Chu Shici ignored the system and played with his own hands.
Zhe-ge was trapped in the cave and couldn’t get out, and his body is too small to go out to meet people.
During this period of time, apart from eating and drinking with the monks, other times he was picking up leftovers from the pilgrims or things that fell on the ground.
The Coke fed to the Lotus platform was leftovers from others. The gold coins and chocolates given to Xunzhe were lost by children playing around.
Chu Shici felt that picking up leftovers was not only unstable, but also easy to be caught.
But his hardware is limited and he has no other way.
After staying up for most of the night, Chu Shici thought about it for a while, and his eyelids became heavier and heavier.
He picked a comfortable position in Xunzhe’s hands and fell into a deep sleep.
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He is really tired tonight, Chu Shici didn’t choose a past to dream back to, but just wanted to have a good night’s sleep.
He plans to tell Zhe-ge about the weird behavior of the monks tomorrow morning.
While drowsy, he was awakened by a commotion.
Chu Shici struggled to open his eyes.
Xunzhe, who was originally laying in a coiled up position and it is not known when he had propped up his upper body.
His snow-white tail twitched violently, his body straightened, and he kept making a particularly rapid hissing sound towards the door.
Chu Shi suddenly became awake and alert.
He asked the system who was watching the excitement, ‘Who is Zhe-ge going to fight with?’
The system shook his head, [I don’t know, he suddenly exploded while sleeping.]
Chu Shici looked around, and there was no difference between the cave at nighttime and daytime, but the little lotus and the little Buddhalight seemed to be aware of the abnormality, and they both began to emit a faint golden light.
Xunzhe was obviously competing with something, with one hand supporting the little monk, and the other hand hanging by his side, his nails became longer and longer.
Tiny scales appeared on his face and fangs protruded from his mouth, these were the signs before the snake yao attacks.
Chu Shici didn’t dare to interrupt, and both he and the system could only watch on blankly and nervously.
The weird confrontation lasted for five or six minutes. The golden light on the petals of the little lotus disappeared, and Xunzhe’s tense body gradually relaxed.
During this period, Chu Shici didn’t even see a ghost.
When the white snake’s tail calmed down, he raised his head and asked Xunzhe, “Ge, what happened just now?”
Xunzhe found a new place to re-coil and put the little monk on his tail, saying in the same indifferent tone as before, “Lady Dayangtian stood outside the door to watch me just now.”
Chu Shici’s scalp was numb, and he repeated in surprise, “Lady Dayangtian?”
Xunzhe hummed lightly.
“What did she come to see you for?”
“She comes over every once in a while, and I don’t know what she wants.”
“Is she a deity or an evil spirit?”
“She was originally a yaoguai, but because of helping the eminent monk seal the thousand-year-old snake yao and accumulating enough merit, Lady Dayangtian was named an earth immortal. I don’t know what her original form is.”
Chu Shici didn’t quite understand, “Did you guys fight when she sealed you?”
Xunzhe took a deep breath and seemed to be in an even worse mood.
“At that time, I was mainly fighting with the monk and had no energy to take care of her. Originally, the monks planned to beat me back into a little snake and turn me into a beast without intelligence. Lady Dayangtian proposed to seal me up and ask me to stay in this mountain. For atonement she said.”
Perhaps recalling the bad past, Xunzhe’s golden eyes dimmed.
“She dug the cave, and the monks carved the scriptures. They locked me here for five hundred years.”
“Then why did you kill more than 800 villagers?”
Xunzhe didn’t answer, but a hint of puzzlement flashed in his eyes.
Chu Shici asked tentatively, “You don’t remember?”
Xunzhe lowered his eyes: “I remember, I just… don’t know where I was wrong.”
“A woman asked me for help, saying that the villagers captured them and ruined them. I killed the villagers and rescued them. But when the monks wanted to capture me, no one spoke up for me.”
Chu Shici’s frown deepened.
If what Xunzhe said is true, then the woman is very strange.
Xunzhe used ‘them’, which meant it was a den of thieves, and he saved more than one person.
No matter how unlucky Zhe-ge is, he shouldn’t have met a bunch of white-eyed wolves in one go.
Chu Shici asked tentatively, “Did they not say anything at all?”
Xunzhe crossed his arms, pursed his lips and said softly, “Yes, they called me a man-eating monster in front of the monks, and then threw stones at me.”
He turned away, Chu Shici could only look at his ears.
“I explained to the monks but the monks believed them, but not me.”
Although he hasn’t figured out what’s going on, this incident is weird from beginning to end.
It’s very possible that Zhe-ge was tricked.
Xunzhe was silent, and his expression was very indifferent. But Chu Shici knew that he is very sad.
He touched the snow-white scales under his body, “Ge, I don’t think you did anything wrong. You have been wronged for more than five hundred years.”
Xunzhe didn’t say a word, but his breathing stopped slightly.
He turned his head and glanced at the little monk, his vitality value secretly increased a little bit.
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