The Charm of Shadow

With the development of human civilization, something called "metropolis" began to appear on this earth.

The buildings there are towering, there are maze-like roads, where they are as bright as day even at night, and there are all kinds of human beings living there. Relying on this city, they have become the driving force for the operation of this city. However, human beings may not think that every time they build a building, every time they build a viaduct, and every time they light up all night, how many natural environments will be damaged, and how many other creatures will lose their homes, so that they can no longer see the familiar starry sky when they suppress their heads. People may never care about where they will go, but life is very tenacious. In order to survive, they will force themselves to adapt to new environments, human beings, and such cities.

Humans may never find that it is not only wild dogs, wild cats, birds or insects that are sharing this city with them, but also some "living things" that cleverly use human appearance to hide among human beings. They live in this city either in good faith or out of malice. Survival, for predation, for evolution...

When the city is big, there may be any kind of creature...

Shinan Road is the most prosperous nightlife area in Lixin City. Near midnight, the prosperity here has just begun. People are venting, enjoying life and killing time under colorful neon.

Xue Tong ran hard, rushed through a shop, and turned from the main road to a fork road. As soon as he entered the dimly lit road, the noise of the night market behind him suddenly disappeared, as if he had suddenly entered another world. Xue Tong looked back, and the two men still followed closely. She gritted her teeth and continued to run forward.

A car parked next to Xue Tong, and the door on the other side of the driver's seat opened silently.

"Miss, please get in the car."

"Taxi?" Xue Tong looked at the red Santana in surprise. Probably the driver took Xue Tong's gesture of shaking his hair with his hand just now as a taxi, so he drove straight to her side. The two men behind him had followed. Xue Tong had no time to think about why the taxi drove into the deserted alley without soliciting business in the downtown in front of him and leaned into the car.

The two men who caught up cursed with rude words and chased the car window, and one of them even kicked the door.

"Where is Miss going?"

The driver's voice was calm as if nothing had happened.

"S, S University."

For students from famous universities to enter and exit this kind of nightlife place, the driver is already common. Xue Tong thought that a woman like himself ran out of that place, followed by two men. People who see it will think of that, right? In fact, those two people just now..." She felt as if it was necessary to explain.

But the driver didn't listen to her at all.

Xue Tong looked sideways at the driver - the car was not equipped with an isolation network that ordinary taxis would have, so the other party could see it very clearly. However, it is no different from not seeing clearly. This driver is the kind of person who is ordinary in appearance and has no sense of existence at all. Even if he sees him 99 times, Xue Tong is not guaranteed to recognize him for the 100th time.

Sometimes you will meet chattering drivers, sometimes you will meet drivers who like to listen to music, and sometimes you will meet drivers who listen to the news on the radio. Of course, there are also drivers who drive in silence without listening to music or talking.

Looking at the increasingly deserted scenery outside the window, Xue Tong suddenly had a ridiculous idea: on the taxi in the middle of the night, the silent driver, the lonely female passenger, the road to the suburbs...

The car suddenly stopped, and Xue Tong suddenly turned his head and stared at the driver.

"It's here!"

"Ah," Xue Tong looked in front of the car, and the gate of S University was more than ten steps away.

"The fare is 30 yuan."

Xue Tong pulled out a few bills and handed them over without counting them.

As soon as she jumped out of the car, the car went away. Xue Tong looked at his watch, then looked at the clock hanging on the school gate that was more accurate than the sun, and muttered to himself, "Ten minutes, 30 kilometers from Shinan Road to here, and through the downtown..."

"Have you heard? That's her."

"What? She? Does anyone buy it based on her appearance?

"What are you talking about?"

"That's the man... Shinan Road... Pheasant..."

"Ha ha, true or false..."

“......”

I don't know whether the whisper behind it came into Xue Tong's ears intentionally or unintentionally. She curled her lips disdainfully, picked up the toiletries and walked out of the public washroom.

"Putong," although Zhang Qian also heard those rumors, she still walked up and left side by side with Xue Tong. "Do you have a class this morning?"

"Yes, Professor Sun's class."

"Me too. Let's go together later."

Zhang Qian looked at Xue Tong: medium figure, not fat or thin, plain-looking, ordinary dressed. Zhang Qian didn't remember her name until a year after she was in the same class. Zhang Qian can't believe that her appearance is worth doing those things, but Xue Tong did come back several days in a row. Where did she go?

"Hey, look, another one!" There was a kind of uncontrollable excitement in the tone of the boy holding the newspaper.

Xue Tong, sitting next to him, took the newspaper from his hand and printed "The murderer has committed crimes continuously, and the released person after serving his sentence has become the sixth victim."

Looking at such a title, Xue Tong felt that maybe this newspaper, like that boy, was excited about this. In this city, only such news can touch people's numb nerves.

In just over ten days, six murders and shattered bodies occurred in Lixin City. Although it was a murderous body, in fact, only a small part of the body of the deceased was found: a head. At first, a cleaning worker found a human head in the garbage dump, and then the second and third. So far, six victims have been found. The common feature of this series of cases is that the dead were all male, and the time of death was after midnight, and the cause of death was cut off by a sharp weapon. When the head of the two dead was found in the early morning, the blood had not yet solidified. However, among the deceased, there are various identities such as company employees, college students, street gangsters, etc. They have nothing in common in terms of age, occupation or appearance. There is another major doubt in the case that is difficult to explain, that is...

"Six dead people, even if they are chopped, they can still hold several sacks, right? But the police turned the city like a sieve, and couldn't even find the minced meat. He even lost his head. Is he afraid that the body will be found and hidden? The students used the gap before class to comment on the case.

"Could it be done by the underworld organization that sells human organs?" A student said.

Another man shook his head and said, "I think the murderer must be a psychopath. Maybe he has the habit of collecting corpses, displaying the bodies in his own home and facing them every day..."

"Ah..." His description made a girl scream. Everyone laughed together.

Xue Tong looked down at the newspaper and muttered to himself, "The body... was eaten..." The photo of the victim published in the newspaper became more and more familiar. "Isn't this one of the two men who chased me last night?" Xue Tong somehow thought of the taxi that sent him back, the silent driver, the 30-kilometer journey that took only ten minutes...

"That driver...what does he look like? Why can't I remember?" The professor was already lecturing, and the classroom finally calmed down. Xue Tong looked out of the window and thought, "Let's go to Shinan Road again in the evening."

Xue Tong strolled around Shinan Road several times, staring at the passing taxis: "I remember that the car number seems to be 00544, um, yes, it's 00544..." As she muttered, she suddenly held the lamppost next to her and laughed, "00544, 'I'll try it', hahaha, How can there be such a number! Hahaha, it's so funny! Move me to try...haha!" Regardless of the people around him treating herself as a psychopath, Xue Tong smiled back and forth. She smiled happily for a long time, "Try it. It's interesting. I'll try it!" Her eyes were slightly dazzled.

A taxi came slowly. 00544!" Xue Tong quickly waved his hand to the car.

"Please get in the car." It's still the driver who has no emotion in his voice.

"Where is Miss?"

"Chenxin Chicken Farm in the eastern suburbs."

On the street of Shinan Road, a girl in a long dress stood where Xue Tong had just stood, looking at the taxi that drove away with a confused expression. The thoughtful innocence on her beautiful face attracted many men, and finally two young men came forward to talk to her. The girl originally wanted to follow Xue Tong and the taxi and look at the man in front of her, but finally changed her mind.

Chengxin Chicken Farm is located at the intersection of cities and villages, surrounded by corn fields that are about to be harvested. The car is driving on a path without street lights. From the window, you can only see more than one person high corn fields and the dark night sky on both sides.

"Stop, that's it."

Xue Tong stopped the driver from the destination.

The driver didn't say anything. He not only stopped the car, but also turned off all the lights on his head and looked back at Xue Tong.

The two looked at each other in the dark. Xue Tong asked, "You are not human, are you?"

Xue Tong grabbed the driver's neck: "It's all because of you. I haven't eaten for half a month!" Even if you are not human, I have nothing to choose now!" With that, he bit the driver's throat.

"Even if you want to eat me, I have no flesh and blood for you to eat." The driver's voice was still so calm, "It turned out to be a 'wolf'*(1). It's all because you, a guy who only knows how to eat, have caused me so much trouble.

Xue Tong found that her teeth did not feel torn, and there was no hot blood flowing into her mouth. She pulled hard and the driver's head rolled down from her neck to the ground. Before Xue Tong stretched out his hand again, the head and body rolling on the ground disappeared together. Bah, ah, I ate something strange!" Xue Tong spit and pulled the door out of the car.

Now she is no longer the young female college student, but a wolf with long hair, sharp claws and fiery red eyes.

A hand suddenly stretched out from the shadow of the car and grabbed its ankles. The ground wolf was caught off guard and thrown out and fell heavily in the field. The wolf got up from the corn that was overwhelmed by himself and looked at the opponent emerging from the shadow: it was no longer the young driver, but a humanoid shadow, with only a pair of blue and white eyes turning to stare at the wolf.

"It turns out that it is only an inferior shadow, ba, ba, this kind of evil spirit can't be eaten at all." The wolf waved his claws and said, "It's really not easy for the lowest thing like you to cultivate a human shape, but now I have to destroy your practice."

The shadow phantom lowered his head to avoid the claw of the wolf and suddenly disappeared in the darkness. The wolf looked at the shadows everywhere with caution. He didn't know where the shadow phantom that could dissolve in the shadow would appear next.

The shadow jumped out of the shadow of the wolf. The ground wolf jumped quickly and jumped to the top of the taxi. The shadow wanted to chase, but found that he could not move his body. He lowered his head and saw that one of his feet was trapped on the ground and could not be pulled out.

"You think my name is 'Earth Wolf' is for nothing. The earth can catch everything, even if you are just a shadow!" The wolf said and waved his hands, and the soil and stones shot out of the ground like arrows and attacked the ghost of the shadow. The shadow's body disappeared again before being hit. Then it appears little by little from the small shadows of dirt and stones, and then condenses together. It dares not fall to the ground again and floats in mid-air against the wolf.

"Wait a minute," the wolf remembered something, "The shadow doesn't need to eat, does it? Don't you eat those who only have their heads left?"

"...Didn't you eat them?"

“......”

The wolf suddenly sat on the roof of the car, spread out his hands and said, "What? It turned out that I found the wrong person and wasted half a night's effort.

The shadow fell down and asked suspiciously, "Is it true that you didn't do it?"

The wolf sat cross-legged on the roof of the car and said, "What's the benefit of cheating you? Besides, am I like that picky guy? You have to leave a head for human beings to eat.

The shadow fell to the ground and slowly recovered into a human appearance: "So you are also looking for that guy?"

Speaking of "that guy", the wolf was angry: "Of course, do you know how much trouble it has caused me? Originally, Shinan Road was such a good foraging place. There were so many people to eat that I couldn't choose. When it did this, human police and so on rushed there, and I couldn't eat at all. It doesn't matter if it runs into my territory without permission to eat people, but it even ignores the rules and makes things full of wind and storms. What do you think such a guy can do without a lesson!" It stopped and asked, "Are you looking for it too?" Why? You won't always do it for food..."

Phantom said, "Because it caused me a lot of trouble: there was a taxi driver in the people it ate, who hired me to drive for me during the day. I usually only come out at night. Now that he is dead, the human police investigated everyone around him and found that the driver had embezzled a large amount of my fare. In addition, I usually drove out at night and there was nothing called an alibi, so they listed me as a suspect. We don't like to be noticed by human beings. Such things are very annoying. If it doesn't stop messing around, my life will be disrupted.

"Then we have the same purpose," the wolf jumped off the roof of the car. "Would you like to cooperate with me? Teach that guy who doesn't know the rules a lesson. With that, he returned to Xue Tong and stretched out his hand to the shadow, "My name is Xue Tong now."

The shadow charm reached out and shook her and said, "Zhou Ying."

"Zhou Ying! Hahaha..." Xue Tong laughed, "You are a phantom, and your name is Zhou Ying - surrounded by shadows?! Your car number is moving. I'll try it... Hahaha, I didn't expect you to have such a sense of humor!"

Zhou Ying looked at her, revealing the typical expression of human beings when they saw neuropathy.

Seeing that Zhou Ying did not agree with her at all, Xue Tong smiled for a while and felt bored. She waved her hand and was ready to leave. After a few steps, Zhou Ying suddenly shouted, "Wait a minute."

Xue Tong turned around with her arms in her arms and said, "You haven't paid me the fare yet."

"What?"

"The fare is 40 yuan, thank you."

Xue Tong stared at him with wide eyes: "You... are not so stingy, are you?"

"I don't count it as 'back' anymore."

Xue Tong reluctantly took out his wallet and muttered, "Just drive a taxi. Can you really make money with it? There are many ways we want to get money from human society, right?"

"Human beings make money through work, and my job is to drive a taxi."

"You are not a human."

"That's why you have to learn to be a human being."

Xue Tong frowned and said, "We live longer and stronger than human beings. Why should we learn to be human beings?" While stuffing a hundred yuan bill into his hand, he waved his hand and said, "Don't look for it!"

Zhou Ying still found 55 yuan to give it to her and said, "If a low-level charm like me wants to achieve positive results, he must first become a human. There is no other way."

"What?"

"There is no other way."

"The previous sentence!"

"Become a human first."

"Ahead!"

Zhou Ying asked, "What on earth are you trying to say?"

"You just said you wanted to 'get a positive result'? Did I hear it wrong?"

"Yes."

"You have to achieve the right result! Hahahaha!" Xue Tong laughed so loudly that he almost rolled on the ground. He simply lay on the front cover of the car, patted the front of the car with his hand and laughed, "I haven't heard it for hundreds of years, and now there are still people who want to 'be successful'!" Oh, my God, you are so funny! Hahahaha... I can't do it! You are simply... simply...haha..."

Zhou Ying looked at her hitting the head of the car and frowned sadly: "Isn't the purpose of our monsters to survive successfully practicing and achieving positive results?"

"Hey, hey, hey, don't be there. You're the only psychopath with that idea now. I'm fine with other guys, but I've never heard anyone have such an idea!" Xue Tong finally couldn't help laughing and stood up with tears of laughter. "Maybe it was like this in the past: when I remember that when I was a child, the people around me were still busy absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, picking and practicing, in order to achieve positive results one day, but it was already an old imperial calendar hundreds of years ago. Nowadays, human civilization is becoming more and more developed, and there are such prosperous big cities everywhere. Our lives are becoming easier and easier. Who needs to repair the right results?

For example, if he ate a person in the past, no matter how clean it was, the disappearance of that person would cause panic and discussion in the village and town where he lived. Now it is different. In such a big city, one person is missing and ten people are missing. Even if a hundred people are missing, it will not arouse suspicion. We only If your hands and feet are clean, you can eat to your heart's content. In the past, it took a lot of lies to sneak into the crowd, because people around you always ask about your origin, past and so on. Now it's different. As long as you hand over a few forms with legal effect, you are a dignified human being. As long as you stand there like a human, no one will care about what is wrapped under human skin.

What is the positive result of

? It's not to make myself stronger and have a better life. Nowadays, there are few professions such as spiritualists, and there are few people who can subdue us, and I think it's good to occasionally eat a tooth sacrifice and enjoy all the entertainment and comfortable life invented by human beings at ordinary times - most of the other guys are the same as me. I have similar ideas. I think this kind of life is very good. Why do I have to work hard for thousands of years and get any positive results? What about the fruit of cultivation? What about becoming a god, a demon or a fairy? Must be better than now? Our time is not unlimited. We should have fun in time. There is not necessarily one of the 10,000 that can achieve positive results. I advise you not to ask for trouble. You don't like to eat people. Next time you introduce them to play with other interesting things, and don't waste your energy on that kind of thing.

After saying that, Xue Tong waved to him and left in the land.

Zhou Ying watched her disappear and began to think about why she "get a positive result" for the first time.

It was originally a lowest-level shadow phantom. The evil spirit is already the lowest among monsters. There is no intelligence and mana. The shadow phantom is even low-level in the low-level. They don't even have a shape, just a shadow. There is no purposeless drifting in space, or condensing, or drifting, without even the ability to think. Zhou Ying can have her own ideas, and practicing into a "demon" is already a strange number similar to a miracle.

It took 200 years to become a "demon", and then another 100 years to become a "Zhou Ying". Zhou Ying came to this city to learn how to be a "human", because he instinctively knew that the "demon" must first learn to "be a man" to achieve positive results.

Why do you want to achieve positive results?

This was originally the only purpose Zhou Ying knew, but since other demons don't do this, why should they do this? What should a demon do if he doesn't practice the fruit? Cannibal? Enjoy? Why all this?

Zhou Ying knocked on the head with his hand.

He knows that he can't do anything. Although he finally has his own body and thoughts, he has not only learned to be a man, but also how to be a demon.

"I still can't find it!" Xue Tong sighed and leaned weakly against Zhou Ying's car.

The two of them have cooperated to find the continuous man-eating monster for two days. There will be victims every day these two days, but Zhou Ying and Xue Tong have not found any clues.

Xue Tong moaned and said, "Originally, I ate one person every other day, but now I eat one a day, and every time I leave a head. If it goes on like this, I will definitely starve to death."

Zhou Ying remembered something and asked seriously, "If you don't eat other things, can you be full?" Will you starve to death?"

"Human food is delicious, and I can eat everything. I just said that if you don't eat people, you will starve to death. It's just that people are delicious. I just want to eat to relieve my cravings for a period of time. Why are you asking this?

"How often do you usually eat people?"

"It depends on your mood. If you don't eat it for a few years, and eat it for more than ten days - see if you meet someone who wants to eat it. Aren't you a vegetarian? Why do you ask this?"

"Are other man-eating monsters the same as you?"

"I didn't say that everyone is almost the same! What on earth do you want to ask? Want to learn to eat people? I'll teach you!"

Zhou Ying stared at her and asked, "Then why does 'it' eat every day?"

"Yes, why didn't I expect that it would eat people so frequently that it wouldn't be so hungry? Could it be..." She and Zhou Ying looked at each other and said with one voice, "It eats human beings as staple food!"

"How many monsters take people as staple food?"

"Generally, there is no such thing, unless he is deliberately arbitrary." Xue Tong punched the roof of the car with his hand: "It's crazy! In this way, no matter how stupid human beings are, they will notice something wrong. It eats so arrogantly that in case a handful of spiritual humans or meddlesome immortals and spirits are attracted; the goblins in this city will suffer with it!"

"But we clearly know that it is in this area, and it still comes out to eat people every day, but we can't find it. Why do you think that's why?"

"Because...because its level is higher than us...it is not a demon, it may be an essence, a spirit, it is stronger than us, so it can hide its demon spirit in front of us. Maybe it's watching us looking for it every day and thinking it's interesting. With that, Xue Tong couldn't help fighting a cold war.

Zhou Ying also turned pale: "So do you still need to look for it?"

"Maybe we will become its food without waiting to find it." Xue Tong sighed and said, "What do you think?"

Zhou Ying said, "Didn't I tell you earlier that even if you want to eat me, I have no flesh and blood to eat. And I also have an 'amulet' to rely on. I think... If I don't find it, it's like feeling safe to live in this city. I still have to look for it! What about you?"

"Yes, you can't live in this city without finding it! Let's find it!" She shrugged her shoulders and said, "At worst, if you can't beat it, you can escape to another city. Don't think so much now! Anyway, I can't let you fight alone." She pulled the door and sat next to Zhou Ying. "Send me back to school first. I'm so tired that I want to leave by myself today - I'll pay you for the car."

Zhou Ying looked at her, started the car and said, "I won't charge you today. I'll give you for free."

"Hey, Zhou Ying, what are you talking about? Show me?"

"I'm not here now."

"Don't be stingy, don't put the 'amulet' by your side? Show me."

"Don't hinder me from driving."

Where is it? I'll find it myself..."

"Xue Tong..."

“......”

Red Santana drove by, with a pair of eyes staring at it, full of mocking eyes.

"How about this?"

"Too fat! If you eat it, you will gain weight.

"What about that?"

"Too thin, toothy."

"Isn't that fat or thin?"

"It's too ugly to eat."

"...You have chosen for three hours. Isn't there anyone on the street who can eat?"

"It's rare to eat it once. How can you eat something that doesn't look delicious!"

Zhou Ying and Xue Tong sat in the car and picked up the passing crowd.

They think that since "that guy" eats people in such an arrogant way, he must regard this place as its own sphere of influence. If other monsters are also hunting here, this arrogant guy will definitely not be able to stand it. So they decided to let Xue Tong come out to eat a person here to see if he could provoke the guy and make him take the initiative to come to them. However, Xue Tong insisted on eating with full color, fragrance and taste, and chose a picky half night but still didn't choose a good goal.

A noise came from the street. Zhou Ying drove the car a little further and saw a group of drunk men tearing and beating a woman. After a while, the woman's coat was torn off by them and curled up on the ground and crying. One of the men grabbed her hair, forcibly kissed her on the mouth, then knocked her down with a slap, grabbed her handbag, hummed a curly tune, and the group walked forward. Pedestrians and spectators on both sides made way for them.

The woman sat on the road and cried, but no one went to help her up.

In this city, this street is like this, indifferent, cruel and law of the jungle. Not only are the human beings living here used to all this, but even the monsters in this city have long been used to it.

"I want to eat him." Xue Tong pointed to the man.

"He is drunk. Is it delicious?" Zhou Ying commented.

"I just like wine chocolate, how about it? No way?"

A flash of light flashed in Zhou Ying's eyes, and he started the car to quietly follow the group of men.

In the dark corn field, the wolf threw his prey on the ground and looked around before making sure that there was no third party around him. Then he safely bit off his prey's throat and began to taste it slowly.

A dark cloud floated over, covering the originally bright remnant moon tightly.

A dark shadow jumped out of the field and jumped on the wolf. The wolf was ready to roll aside without waiting for the other party's teeth to bite him.

"You finally appeared." The wolf licked the minor injury on the back of his hand and stared at the other party and said, "The unruly guy has caused so much trouble to others without even an apology."

It was a human girl who attacked the ground wolf. "She" just put away her claws as long as a sharp blade and sucked away a drop of blood from the ground wolf on her fingertips with her tongue. The wolf landed on the ground with a charming and dreamy look. Didn't say anything.

The wolf stood up and said solemnly, "I don't object if you want to live in this city, but please pay attention in the future: don't become an overly beautiful human, don't be too picky when eating, at least find a way to get rid of the rest. Even if we want to live in a human city, there are some rules to follow. The most important thing is to try not to attract human attention at any time.

"Is it easier to attract 'food' when you become beautiful?" "Girl" said in a soft voice, "And I don't want to live in a human city at all. For me, this is just a warehouse for food. Will human beings notice me? I don't care. Do you care about the idea of 'food'? Land wolf.

The wolf looked at "her" coldly and said, "For me, this city is not just a place with a lot of food. This is my home. I like its comfort and the enjoyment and entertainment provided by human civilization. Your actions have affected my life. If you insist on going on this, then I can only ask you to leave the city.

"The food here is delicious, and I'm not going to leave now." The girl said coquettishly, "Of course I will leave one day, but definitely not now."

"It's now, you have to leave - but you can choose to leave alive or become a corpse before leaving."

"Ha ha, land wolf, you are just a demon, but you talk big in front of me who is higher than you. What are the consequences? You should have thought about it?"

"Since you don't listen, then die!"

As the wolf's words fell to the ground, the "corpse" lying at the feet of the "girl" suddenly jumped up and hugged her from behind, put his hands into her shoulders. The wolf took the opportunity to jump up and swallowed her throat. The girl twisted her neck, and the wolf only bit her shoulder. With a sharp howl from the girl, the "body" behind her suddenly rushed over and pushed away the ground wolf. Two harsh white light flew by like lightning, and the "body" between the ground wolf and the "girl" suddenly turned into countless fragments and scattered around the "girl".

The wolf looked at the "girl" at this time: its body was still like a human, but it had a long mane on its back, its feet were like horseshoes, and its hands were like tiger claws. Ten fingers are like ten curved and sharp sickles, shining cold under the faint starlight. Their claws can even easily cut the rock. The human beings eaten by it for days have been cut off their heads by these sharp claws. Its head has a dragon head, its sharp teeth protrude outside its lips, and its egg-large eyes emit a cyan light.

*(2)" The wolf took a deep breath, "It seems that we are in big trouble! Zhou Ying, are you all right?"

The "corpses" torn into pieces by the sharp claws have turned into countless black shadows. They seem to be wriggling with great effort, and finally kneaded together and form a human figure to sit up - if he hadn't reacted in time, the ground wolf that had been cut into pieces without the ability to regenerate. I'm fine, don't you?"

"It will be 'immediat' soon. It's a fool!" The wolf stared nervously at the enemy, and sweat began to ooze out of the skin. "We may be a little too overwhelmed!"

He was originally a god. He was murdered by his colleagues and his ministers, and the resentful body turned into a monster with dragon heads and tiger claws. This monster completely lost its temperament as a god, was brutal and tyrannical, cannibalism for a living, and gradually formed a group of monsters. Although this kind of monster is a kind of spirit, they were originally made from the corpses of gods, and the god's mana more or less remains in their bodies, so the power of this kind can be said to be one of the best among the spirits, demons, ghosts and monsters.

The opponent in front of him, such as the wolf and the shadow, didn't pay attention to the other party at all.

The wolf raised his hands, and the ground cracked a big mouth. All the soil and rocks turned into weapons and shot at the wolf. The wolf did not even move. When he danced his hands, these things were cut to pieces by him. In the shadow of these things, the shadow ghost held a long knife condensed into a shadow and suddenly flashed out. The knife stabbed in the chest. He giggled and raised his knife on his chest. The shadow knife of the shadow phantom didn't even pierce its skin. As soon as he raised his claws, the shadow phantom flew out and fell into the field.

The claw used a strong mana, and the shadow knelt on the ground, and the gap in the shoulder could not be recovered for a moment.

The wolf raised a big stone and pressed his head down. He took the opportunity of raising his head to smash the stone to sneak into the ground, came to the bottom of his opponent, pulled his ankle and pulled it to the ground hard. His calf suddenly sank into the ground and could not move. The wolf's claws poked out of the ground, and five sharp fingers inserted into its thigh together. He hummed because of the pain and kicked it out. A big pit suddenly appeared on the ground. Not only was a large amount of soil kicked out by it, but the wolf was also thrown out of the ground. It covered its scratched left paw and rolled on the ground before getting up, but its left hand had just been kicked off. .

"Are you really going to die in its hands today?" After living for hundreds of years, the wolf had such a desperate idea for the first time.

"You are a very brave wolf," the voice is like a human child, very naive and cute. "I will break the habit of eating only people for you - although you don't look delicious at all." With that, he walked towards the wolf.

After taking a few steps, he suddenly found that he could not move. After a closer look, he found that the shadow of the dense corn around him somehow turned into a substance and trapped its action like a cage. Shadow spirit!" It gritted its teeth and pronounced the name. Because its own shadow was jumping up and its claws rushed towards it.

Although the shadow cannot have the same power as the entity, it cannot be broken or killed. In addition to fighting with his shadow, he had to deal with the ground wolf who rushed up again. He began to be impatient and roared, and his body suddenly swelled. Countless water arrows shot out of its mouth. The wolf and the shadow phantom were hit together and fell at its feet.

The wolf was shot through the abdomen by a water arrow, bleeding and stopped to the ground.

For the shadow, the shadow of manipulating creatures is inherently more energy-consuming than others, not to mention the shadow of powerful monsters like the shadow, which has exhausted its energy and has been penetrated by water arrows. Even his own image is getting weaker and weaker, and he can almost see what is behind him.

The dragonfly is no longer the original restless appearance. Its body is full of blood marks scratched by the wolf, and its ears are torn open by the shadow charm, and the blood drips on the ground. It looked at the two opponents, and his voice trembled a little, not knowing whether it was excitement or anger: "You guys, how can you force me to this point, you low-class guys!" With that, he raised his foot and stepped on the shadow.

"Ah!" The wolf screamed and watched the shadow drift at its feet, barely condensing, then another foot, floating again, and barely condensing again. The regeneration of the shadow is more and more difficult, and the body becomes lighter and lighter after the condensation.

"Bastard! Don't touch it!" The wolf suddenly rushed up, strangled his arms with his last strength, and dragged it away from the shadow: "Zhou Ying, run away quickly!"

"Land Wolf..."

"Escape!"

The sharp claws inserted into the back of the wolf's shoulder, but it still did not let go and hugged the other party.

"Fire, it's now!" The shadow spirit shouted and threw something at the immovable, "Let's do it!"

The wolf looked at the little thing and flew towards them with a little firelight. "It's just a lit match." Just thinking so, a bright light suddenly emerged from the small burning flame of the match, which made the wolf close his eyes directly, and smelled the burning smell of flesh in its nose.

The shadow phantom rushed over and hugged the wolf and pulled it away from his side.

The wolf looked at the air in disbelief and asked, "That's...what?"

"My ' amulet'."

"Oh, my God, that's... that's a must-have*(3)!"

There is an eagle-sized "bird" flying in the air. It looks like a god "phoenix", but it has only one foot claw, and its body, every feather is formed by a burning flame. At this time, the flame on its body burns so fiercely, which not only illuminates everything around it, but also makes it It looks golden.

Bifang, the spirit beast of fire.

Spirit is the most special one in the division of gods, demons, immortals, spirits, spirits, demons, ghosts, ghosts, charms, demons and demons. Their mana is innate and does not need to be obtained through practice, but they can't upgrade and achieve positive results. This kind of mana is second only to gods, demons and immortals. Spirits generally live in a place called "Kunlun". Only gods, demons and immortals can summon them and control them to serve themselves. I don't know why there is a must-have around the shadow phantom, and it will also obey the orders of the shadow phantom with many lower levels.

Compared with other spirit beasts: Yinglong, Dafeng, Feilian, Youguang, etc., the must-haven with the attribute of fire has a greater deterrent effect on low-level monsters, because "fire" has had the effect of exorcising demons since ancient times. The earth wolves and others have seen Bifang for the first time, their inner fear is better than when they see the evil spirits. It's hard to hide. However, it can see that this must-haven is still a cub. The grown-up must-have should be the size of a phoenix, and the blow of an adult must-have may be enough to cook a dragonfly, and now the beast is still catching it in the air in an attempt to knock down.

"Fire, be careful of his water arrows!"

Bide's unexpected blow blinded his eyes, but after that, he scratched his claws and attacked everywhere with spells, so he couldn't get close to it anymore. After flying around the other party for a few laps, he was a little anxious. He tried to rush up several times, but was knocked down a few feathers. As soon as these feathers separated from its body, they turned into flames and burned a few pieces of grass.

The shadow phantom knows that this young must-have is not enough to fight against the evil, and he goes to help.

The eyes were blind, painful and angry, and the swing of sharp claws became more and more unruly. Most of its attacks were resolved by Bifang. Finally, it was entangled by the shadow, and the ground wolf rushed up and bit off its throat.

He staggered and jumped to the ground, his limbs twitched a few times, and finally did not move.

The wolf and the shadow charm looked at each other and fell to the ground together, unable to move again.

Bifang fell on the shadow's shoulder from the air and stuffed his head into its arms coquettishly. The wolf hurriedly climbed away from them and pointed to Bifang and said, "Hey, don't let that thing get close to me!"

The shadow charm stroked Bifang's feather and glanced at it white: "Fire is still a child, what are you afraid of? But it saved us!"

"That's it!" Bifang also stretched out his head from its hands and swung his lips and said, "ungrateful!"

The wolf cracked its mouth. Anyway, it dares not approach a square, whether it is a child or not. It went to the body and kicked it and said, "Did you tell the square to burn it?" Inscapable of human beings finding a big fuss.

"Aren't you hungry? Just eat clean." The shadow phantom felt that it was too provoking to make a big fire.

The wolf suddenly turned around and looked at it: "We male wolves don't eat females! Females of the same kind don't eat either!"

"Ah!" The shadow charm widened his eyes, "But isn't Xue Tong a woman?"

"Xue Tong'? That's what it looks like for the convenience of predation! Look at my real body, and the wolf looked up and down at himself, "Where do I look like a female? Shouldn't...Phantom, you can't tell the difference between male and female, can you?"

"Human men and women are easy to distinguish."

"Do you only know human beings? That's really inseparable!"

"We have no gender in the first place!" The shadow said angrily.

"So you always thought I was a female? Hahahaha, I'm a female! Hahahaha! I can't!" The wolf laughed presumptuously, frowning painfully because it touched the wound, and wanted to laugh. The expression on its face was very funny. It finally stopped laughing and waved, "But it doesn't matter. I thought I would teach you. I will also teach you how to live a comfortable life and enjoy the things invented by human beings. Can you surf the Internet? I recently found an online game. I can teach you. Let's team up to fight together and shoot 'bang'..."

"Thank you, but I still have to practice. I'm afraid I can't distract myself from learning those."

"Creation? You haven't given up your plan to achieve success yet!"

"I have seriously thought about it this time. I have never thought about why I practiced desperately before, but since everyone is different: you like human life and live a comfortable life. In order to protect such a life, you don't even hesitate to fight against such an opponent; you want to eat people to your heart's content, any rules. Don't worry. And I don't like either of your lives.

"I'm different from you. As soon as you are born, you have everything: thought, body, mana... So you can choose what you want to live, and I am the lowest-level shadow from the yin qi of the swamp. Originally, there was no body, no thinking, nothing. I don't practice. If it has changed, it has long dissipated without a trace. Although I can choose the day I want now, I feel very much to know how much a shadow like me can do. I don't know if I have explained it? I don't have to achieve success, but I just want to know what I, a shadow phantom, can become after working hard? Where can we go?"

"You will achieve positive results!" The wolf said, "Because you are so hardworking and persistent, and because of me, the smart wolf will not compete with you. Of course you have a chance!"

The shadow smiled and asked, "Really?"

"There is progress, there is progress!" The wolf shouted, "You're laughing now!" I've known you for so long. It's the first time I've seen you smile. You look more and more like a human! Great progress!"

The shadow smile froze on his face and didn't know what expression to make for a moment.

"But not yet! Let me teach you how to laugh. The wolf said and stepped on one foot on the corpse, pointed to the body and shouted, "You unself-reliant guy, how dare you against me! Now you know it's awesome! I'm the number one wolf in the world, hahaha! Hahaha..." he laughed wildly.

The shadow phantom looked at it, first squeezed his lips, and finally couldn't help laughing.

"Hahaha..."

A young man on the street attracted the attention of most of the women passing by. The slender and handsome man knew his outstanding appearance. He smiled as if no one else. A taxi stopped on the street without waiting for him to wave. The young man got into the car.

"Where are you going, sir?"

"XX Hotel, I have a date with 'female'!" The young man scratched his head at the reflector on the car.

Zhou Ying glanced at him: "Didn't you say that living in human beings should try not to attract their attention?"

"That means when I eat prey, my purpose now is not to eat, no, it's also to 'eat' and not to eat until my stomach!"

Zhou Ying shook his head and smiled faintly.

"Bear by the way, I have to remember 'Liu Di' in my name now."

"Liu Di?"

"You can all call it 'Zhou Ying'. Why can't I call it 'retention'?"

"Whatever you want."

Liu Di took a deep breath and wrinkled his nose and asked, "What's the smell in your car?" Does it smell bad?"

"I just pulled a weasel, do they smell?"

"Weasel?"

"Well, take them to KFC."

"The weasel goes to KFC! Haha..." Liu Di looked at the bustling street outside the car window and sighed, "The city is big, and there are really all creatures..."

(The End of Shadow Charm)

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2. The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Haineibeijing: The negative minister is in danger, and the other is responsible for killing.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Western Sutra in the Sea: The dragon's head is drowning... Its sound is like a baby, and it is a cannibal.

In ancient mythology, there was only one, and because it harmed the world, it was killed by Houyi in the story of Houyi shooting the sun, and it was written as a population in the story of Urban Demons. This is the author's idea in the novel. Please do not pursue it more.

3. Bifang: Fayuan Zhulin. Hou Zeyuan: The essence of fire is called Bifang, which looks like a bird...

The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Western Three Silks: There is a bird, which is like a crane, red and green and white beak. It is said to be square, and its song calls itself.

Bifang is a kind of fire elf. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor met the ghosts and gods of the world in Xitai Mountain. He sat in six dragon-pulled treasure cars and drove for him. Since this must be qualified to drive for the Yellow Emperor and can control six dragons, it can be seen that it is a powerful spirit beast.