Chapter 21 Cats and Dogs in Danger: Small Animals Also Have Homes…
Chen Wei didn’t know that Duan Zhou didn’t like furry creatures before, so he always followed him. Now he found out that this swordsman beside him really hated furry spirit beasts, and he was a little confused for a moment.
His furry ears and tail prove that he is a furry spirit beast.
"It just happened to hit the spot he doesn't like." Chen Wei sighed helplessly in his heart. Other things could be compensated by hard work, but this species was born with this habit. If it really didn't work, I'm afraid the only way left was to shave the hair.
But… he really couldn’t believe what he would look like after shaving, almost no hair would look good after shaving.
"Are you still thinking about those wolves?" After returning to the house, Duan Zhou glanced at Chen Wei who was forcing a smile. He frowned slightly and said, "Don't you find anything wrong? The ones causing the trouble are wolves, and the ones catching wolves here are also wolves. They look like they are in the same group, right?"
"I know, so I'm waiting." Shen Wei shook his head and said, "Do I look like I can be easily deceived?"
Duan Zhou, who was pretending to be a human swordsman to deceive Chen Wei, paused for a moment. His eyes sank slightly, and he said nothing.
For a moment, he felt a trace of guilt that he was unwilling to admit.
"Brother Duan, don't worry about it for now. Making money is the most important thing." Chen Wei sat on the chair. He smiled helplessly and said, "The sect conference is getting closer and closer. Even if we fly on swords, it will take several days to get there. We can't delay any longer."
He had originally planned to travel and enjoy the scenery along the way, but now it seems that this travel plan will have to be put on hold for the time being.
"The city lord arranged us together with these people, I'm afraid he also wants us to cooperate with each other." Duan Zhou pushed open the window, and the wind from outside blew in, bringing a hint of chill. Chen Wei sneezed and shook his head subconsciously, and Duan Zhou immediately closed the window.
"The city lord may not know that these are wolves. It can be seen that they are hiding very well and rarely speak." Chen Wei couldn't help laughing when he thought of these wolves, and said, "Because they will be exposed if they speak."
"There are five wolves in total. If the spirit beast that caused the damage is their accomplice, there are probably six wolves." Duan Zhou said, "It was a gang crime."
In fact, Chen Wei felt that things shouldn’t be that complicated. These furry creatures couldn’t even keep a word to themselves, so what could they accomplish?
"What are you thinking about? Are you trying to find an excuse for them?" Duan Zhou narrowed his eyes and looked at Chen Wei with some suspicion.
Shen Wei shook his head quickly and said with a smile: "No, no, that's not the case!"
Although Duan Zhou didn't really believe what Chen Wei said, he didn't continue to dwell on the issue. Instead, he lifted the quilt and asked, "Which room do you live in?"
"Which room? Why aren't we living in the same room?" Chen Wei was stunned for a moment, a look of shock appeared on his face. It was obvious that he had never considered that Duan Zhou was planning to sleep in separate rooms.
"Didn't they say they prepared two guest rooms?" Duan Zhou was a little confused. When he was about to stand up, Chen Wei quickly pressed down his shoulder. The spirit beast flattered Duan Zhou and poured him a cup of tea. He smiled and said, "Although two rooms are prepared, it's not good for us to trouble the host so much. Besides, there are spirit beasts all around. What if those spirit beasts are accomplices and have bad intentions? It's better for us to live together so that we can take care of each other."
Shen Wei gave a lot of reasons, and every sentence was very sincere and very convincing.
Duan Zhou glanced at him sideways, then glanced at the bed, snorted and laughed, and said with a slight smile on his lips: "You still want to sleep with me? Didn't you say you dreamed about your enemy?"
Chen Wei didn't understand how long ago this happened, how could this person still remember it, and was there any necessary connection between these two events?
But he certainly wouldn't say that. Instead, he coaxed Duan Zhou with high emotional intelligence and said sincerely, "So that was a nightmare."
"You dreamed of sleeping with it, is it a nightmare? Don't you care about it very much?" Duan Zhou's lips curled up even more. He raised his fingers, gently stroked the cup, and said slowly: "How can you still have a nightmare?"
"It..." Chen Wei thought for a moment, lowered his voice, and tried to whisper this matter to Duan Zhou, saying: "It is related to whether I can..."
Before he could even utter the word "stay alive", thunder began to roll outside. Shen Wei immediately shut his mouth. He coughed twice and said, "I care more about you."
Duan Zhou had a hint of smile in his eyes, but he refused to show it on his face. He drank the warm tea in his hand and said, "Then let's sleep in the same room. Sect Master Shen is right. It will be safer this way."
Shen Wei heaved a sigh of relief.
Several wolves outside poked their heads out of their rooms and looked in unison at the sky where thunderclouds were rolling.
"Will we be struck by lightning for what we did?" asked one of them.
"Not really." Another one said, "Just a little chop?"
The happy life of the past few days almost made Chen Wei forget about this matter. After being reminded by Tianlei, he carefully calculated that it was less than a year away from the extermination of the sect. If he waited until the sect conference was over, there would only be ten months left.
"Ten months." Shen Wei murmured in a low voice.
"What do you mean by ten months?" Duan Zhou raised his eyelids and looked at him. Seeing that Chen Wei's mood had suddenly become much lower, he thought that it was the matter of the spirit beast that made Chen Wei a little distressed, so he said, "Don't worry, this spirit beast is no match for you."
"Okay." Shen Wei forced a smile.
"I said I won't let anyone hurt you in this month, and naturally I won't let other spirit beasts hurt you, don't worry." Duan Zhou couldn't bear to see Chen Wei looking so worried. This beast always made people feel distressed. It looked honest, gentle and sincere. Duan Zhou subconsciously slowed down his tone and said, "Don't always think about that enemy. Since they are enemies, it proves that the other party doesn't want to be good to you at all, and even wants to hurt you. In this case, don't show mercy to it. If you are so soft-hearted, you will only get hurt."
Duan Zhou was not a talkative dragon, but this time he couldn't help but say a few more words. He couldn't tell why, maybe it was just because he couldn't stand it.
As to whether he couldn't stand Chen Wei or the so-called "snake", Duan Zhou himself didn't want to think about it.
Listening to Duan Zhou's words, Chen Wei subconsciously raised his head slightly and looked at him. The candlelight flickered slightly, shining on Shen Wei's handsome face. He had fair skin and a pair of eyes that seemed to be able to speak. Even if he just looked at others quietly like this, it gave people an inexplicable touch.
——It makes people want to take him home.
"Want some bread?" Chen Wei suddenly asked, "I have some bread in my package. You have to eat three meals a day. If you skip one meal, you'll be starving."
Such a sudden remark broke the good atmosphere. Duan Zhou stood aside with a stern face and watched him take out the damn pancake from the bag. It had no taste and was choking. Duan Zhou was glad that he was in human form. If he was in dragon form, his neck would be two miles long.
"Is there nothing else in your package except the pancake?" Duan Zhou asked curiously.
The money must be gone, stolen completely by that cruel toad. Now Duan Zhou and Shen Wei's wallets are cleaner than their faces. Any thief would cry if he touched one of them.
"Yes." Chen Wei opened the package and took out the things from it, saying, "This is the pancake, this is the poison given by Qing Si, this is the knife given by Bai Xiao, and this is the magic trick given by Wu Man. There are three in total. If I encounter difficulties, open one and it will solve the current problem."
"..." Duan Zhou looked at the three small bags mixed in with the pile of things and asked, "Open them now?"
"It's not a particularly difficult time yet." Chen Wei shook his head and said, "I think I should keep it for a rainy day."
In fact, Duan Zhou felt that if these three magic bags were opened too early, they might be of no help at all. But when he thought of Wu Man's accurate divination skills, Duan Zhou thought about it and decided to keep the three magic bags.
He doesn't believe in divination, but if it's too accurate, he will believe it.
"Everything Zhuque gave me was stolen?" Duan Zhou flipped through the package casually and asked, "Nothing is left?"
"There's nothing left. That toad's stealing is like ransacking a house." Shen Wei said helplessly.
Finally, Duan Zhou took out a basin from the pile of things and asked, "What are you using this for? Why did you bring a basin with you when you went out?"
"Rice bowl." Shen Wei said, "You don't understand."
Duan Zhou didn't understand. He had never seen any spiritual beast carrying a food bowl when going out. In the final analysis, it was probably just a habit of Chen Wei's beast. However, this habit was really weird, which made Duan Zhou couldn't help but look at the food bowl several more times. It was just an ordinary iron bowl, and he couldn't see anything precious about it.
Moreover, Chen Wei did not have to use this rice bowl when eating, and he did not understand the meaning of the other party carrying this bowl with him.
Chen Wei is full of so many secrets and strangeness that Duan Zhou feels like he is an unfathomable mystery.
"The beasts of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect all said that your original form was a divine beast." Duan Zhou said, "You really can't reveal even a little bit?"
"If you come as a guest, I will tell you." Chen Wei said with a smile: "Don't even mention telling you, it's not a bad idea to just transform yourself and show you."
Duan Zhou stared at Chen Wei for a long while before saying something meaningless: "Okay, remember what I said today."
The more he looked at Chen Wei, the more he found Chen Wei interesting. It should be said that the entire Wanshou Sect was very interesting. It was rumored that the Wanshou Sect was so wary of outsiders, but they actually picked up a seriously injured him casually. Duan Zhou sometimes couldn't help but think that if he hadn't been struck by lightning, if he had been seriously injured and transformed into a human form and went to the Wanshou Sect, he should be at Qinglong Peak now. He didn't know what the situation would be like then.
But Chen Wei seems to be a good clan leader.
"This thunder is really random." Duan Zhou turned his head and looked outside through the door. Chen Wei thought Duan Zhou was talking about the thunder just now, and immediately nodded in agreement: "Yes, fortunately there was a warning before the thunder."
Otherwise, all these furry creatures would be chopped to pieces.
The thunder from the sky is still a good thunder.
But Duan Zhou probably doesn’t think so.
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It was very quiet all around at night, and the moonlight fell on the yard. Chen Wei tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. He originally wanted to sleep on the floor, but Duan Zhou made him sleep on the bed.
Duan Zhou himself slept on the floor.
"Brother Duan." Chen Wei pulled the edge of the bed, then stood up and said, "How about we sleep on the bed together? I see there are two quilts here."
"No need." Duan Zhou glanced at it casually. He thought that this spirit beast was indeed a little scheming, but this scheming did not make him feel disgusted. Instead, he felt it was a little interesting.
Although he had never been in love, he knew that things that were too easy to get would not be cherished. Duan Zhou had read many storybooks when he traveled around the world, and most of them were like this.
Soon, his face darkened and he secretly warned himself not to be lured into a trap.
"Sect Master Shen." Duan Zhou suddenly asked, "When you were in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, did you live alone or with other beasts?"
The only thing that answered him was the sound of the wind outside. Chen Wei was really tired, and his sleep and rest schedule was very normal. He fell asleep as soon as he got into bed, so he didn't notice that a dark light flashed across the eyes of the so-called human swordsman beside him. He stood up and walked in front of Chen Wei, half squatting down and looking at the spirit beast in front of him that was hiding its true form.
"This is the first time I let another spirit beast sleep on my bed." Duan Zhou covered him with the quilt and whispered, "You'd better throw that garbage snake out of your dream."
Duan Zhou, who transformed from a snake into a dragon, wanted to show himself in front of Shen Wei, but after thinking it over, he decided that Shen Wei liked his identity as a human swordsman the most, so he might as well become a swordsman first, and when that "enemy" came to him in the future, he would transform into his true form and suppress the opponent directly.
This will surely allow Shen Wei to clearly recognize who is the "big boss among snakes" and who is more powerful.
At this moment in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, Xuanwu Peak was particularly lively tonight. Because they had suddenly become rich, they simply held a banquet. Qingsi came limping with his injured leg wrapped. Some of these animals were hanging on the trees, and some were wrapped in furry fur and chewing food in the cold wind, their eyes barely open due to the wind.
The one who was least affected was Chi Luan, with flames wrapped all over her body. She casually spread her wings and stood on Wu Man's tortoise shell. She squinted her eyes and said, "Is your tortoise shell so fragile that it can be broken by it?"
"Try roasting your shell over fire every day for divination." Wu Man replied unhappily, "Don't stand on my back if you dare."
Chi Luan spread its wings, snorted and laughed, but refused to leave.
"I did some divination today, and it's not suitable for the Sect Master to travel tomorrow." Wu Man said, "It's easy to get into trouble with love affairs."
"With the appearance of the Sect Master, it is normal for the Red Luan star to move." Chi Luan closed his eyes and said, "At worst, he can marry a Sect Master's wife."
"Can you listen to the main point? Bad love." Wu Man said slowly, "It will cause you to lose money."
Upon hearing the key words, Chi Luan suddenly opened his eyes and looked down at Wu Man.
Wu Man slowly raised his head and said slowly: "Don't worry, I have expected this and have prepared a magic trick. As long as the sect master opens the magic trick as I said, I have prepared three along the way."
"Wu Man." Qing Si, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up. He asked, "Three? Did you write down the order in which to use the magic bag?"
Wu Man fell silent, obviously he didn't have any, but he thought deeply for a moment and struggled, "Before I had time to write, the Sect Master took them all away."
"Didn't I tell you that you should do things faster? If you are too slow, then don't do it in broad daylight, and get up in the middle of the night to do it. I don't believe you can be any slower." Qing Si took a deep breath, stared at Wu Man for a long time, and said, "Tell me about the little black snake again."
Wu Man shook his head and was about to say that he had already divined today and it might not be accurate to divine again. However, he didn't expect the impatient Chi Luan to start directly and use Wu Man's tortoise shell for divination. The tortoise shell was roasted in the flames for two rounds, and words appeared on it. Wu Man crawled over and took a look, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
"What's wrong?" Qing Si asked hurriedly when he saw this.
"Love tribulation." Wu Man said slowly: "The divination results show that this snake has already had the beginnings of love."
Qingsi:?
Wu Man began to suspect that there was something wrong with his tortoise shell. Why was he always prone to love disasters due to divinations recently?
However, Shen Wei, who was thousands of miles away, naturally didn't know about this. He was awakened by a loud noise, including the howling of wolves outside. Shen Wei immediately got up and turned around to see Duan Zhou standing at the window listening to the noise outside. When he found that Shen Wei had gotten up, he whispered, "That destructive spirit beast is here again."
Chen Wei's expression changed slightly. He picked up the sword beside him and followed Duan Zhou.
"Catch the evil beast!" Someone outside held a torch and shouted loudly: "Masters, the evil beast is coming again!"
"Let's go out too." Shen Wei said.
The others had already come out. They all glanced at Chen Wei, and then ran directly towards the warehouse which was only separated by a wall. Chen Wei followed closely behind. Duan Zhou's eyes fell on the houses of these beasts, and he did not find anything unusual.
The warehouse was badly damaged last night, and it was damaged again before it was repaired today. All the wood fell to the ground. Chen Wei had just climbed over the wall when a furry spirit beast opened its bloody mouth and rushed towards him. Shen Wei subconsciously dodged backwards, but before he could do anything, Duan Zhou behind him grabbed Shen Wei's waist with one hand and kicked the spirit beast out with the other.
The spirit beast cried out in pain and smashed a tree in half. Then it got up and rushed towards the door that had been knocked open yesterday.
Chen Wei realized that it wanted to escape, so he went up to stop it, but was stopped by several other cultivators who had just arrived in the form of spirit beasts. It seemed that they were all trying to stop the spirit beast from escaping, but in fact they were clearly trying to stop Chen Wei. However, they had no bad intentions and were just blocking it.
Chen Wei's sword was not even unsheathed, and he watched helplessly as the spirit beast smashed through another door and ran away. Then Duan Zhou came over and said, "Go chase that spirit beast, and I'll take care of these."
With Duan Zhou's joining, these spirit beasts were obviously a little afraid. Out of animal instinct, they could feel that Chen Wei did not want to hurt them, but Duan Zhou was different. That kick directly kicked a beast away, aiming to take the beast's life. They immediately stopped and dared not to move forward.
Seeing Chen Wei chasing the spirit beast and disappearing before his eyes, Duan Zhou leaned against the door with his arms folded, looked at the remaining five "cultivators", and said: "Daoyou, I have a few questions that are a bit confusing, I wonder if you can help me solve them?"
The corners of his lips were lowered, his tone was slightly cold, and there was a hint of inhuman coldness in his eyes.
Following their animal instincts, these "monks" knelt down and said very straightforwardly, "Yes, yes, absolutely!"
Broken Boat: ...
This group of spirit beasts were really sensible, more sensible than any other spirit beasts Duan Zhou had ever seen.
After destroying the warehouse, this wolf-like beast headed straight for the grove behind. Shen Wei immediately followed it, running all the way. It was obviously in a panic, crashing into many trees along the way, falling down and getting up again, which made Shen Wei feel a little painful.
"Why do you always chase me?" When a sword directly blocked its way, the spirit beast stopped running. It was obviously very scared, with its tail tucked between its hind legs. It looked at Chen Wei who was walking towards it with trepidation and said with a stiff face, "I...I..."
"Why do you want to destroy the City Lord's Mansion?" Chen Wei said, "You must have a reason, right?"
"That's not the City Lord's Mansion." Upon hearing this, the spirit beast immediately became stubborn, gritting its teeth and saying, "That's my home, it's our home!"
Chen Wei was slightly stunned when he heard this. He subconsciously turned his head slightly and his eyes fell on the spirit beast.
To be honest, this spirit beast does look like a wolf, but it is much smaller than a wolf. There is a hint of stubbornness in its eyes. It is obvious that it is very unwilling to accept that Shen Wei stopped it. Even when facing the power of a spirit beast of Shen Wei's level, it is eager to try.
"Your home?" Chen Wei put away his sword and asked, "What do you mean?"
Before he could finish his words, the spirit beast in front of him raised its head and barked. Shen Wei immediately realized that something was wrong. He stepped back suddenly, but saw a wild beast rushing out from behind him. He originally thought it was some jungle beast, but when he just drew his sword and the sword light passed by, he saw that the thing in front of him was just an ordinary puppy.
Chen Wei's face changed slightly, he retracted the sword again, held the sword in his backhand and dodged backwards. The puppy limped on one leg and kept barking at Chen Wei. Soon more and more cats and dogs swarmed around, all of them looking very embarrassed. They stared at Chen Wei with vigilance in their eyes.
"That's not the City Lord's Mansion, that's our home." The destructive spirit beast gritted its teeth and said, "We just wanted a place to shelter from the wind and rain, but he forcibly demolished it and turned it into his own warehouse. Moreover, he also... also..."
"Still deceiving them." Duan Zhou's voice sounded. He had actually come here a long time ago, but he just wanted to see how strong Chen Wei was now. Now he simply showed up, holding five wolf-like spirit beasts in his hands and threw them out.
"The city lord's mansion was not originally this big. Later, the resting place of these cats and dogs was forcibly expanded into its own warehouse. The cabin was bought by these spirit beasts with the money they earned from doing hard labor at the dock, so that the spirit beasts without homes in the city could have a place to shelter from the wind and rain." Duan Zhou had already found out everything in such a short time. He said, "However, spirit beasts do not have human identities. Except for the territory of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, no one will take them in or recognize them. So even if they bought this land, the city lord could easily seize it with other reasons."
As soon as these words came out, not to mention the group of spirit beasts, even Shen Wei immediately became angry.
"So they just want to do some damage, so that the city lord doesn't want the warehouse and return the land to them." When Duan Zhou mentioned the city lord, there was a trace of undisguised disgust in his eyes. He raised his chin slightly and said, "But humans are greedy. How could they give them what they have already got?"
"What do you mean?" Shen Wei felt that there was something wrong with the meaning of these words.
Duan Zhou's eyes were gentle and his tone was calm, but his words made the beast feel creepy. He said, "So, I thought about it carefully. We could guess that this was a group of spirit beasts right when we arrived. How could he, as the city lord, not know that? And didn't you notice that in this courtyard, or in other words, in other words, in the courtyard where the list was revealed, except for the cultivators who were transformed from spirit beasts, the other cultivators were not here."
"So what you mean is..." An answer popped up in Chen Wei's mind, but this answer was indeed a bit cruel.
"It's what you think." Duan Zhou said slowly, "You want to seize a small wooden house, not to mention a bunch of spirit beasts' demon cores? These are worth a thousand gold coins."
So it is not the case that these spirit beasts are pretending to be human monks in the City Lord’s Mansion to get free food and drink.
It was obvious that the city lord deliberately did not solve this problem, thus attracting more spirit beasts to join the game, so that he could catch them all in one fell swoop and obtain countless demon pills.
Chen Wei finally understood why the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect was called "Ten Thousand Beasts Capital" before, because this is the only place in this cultivation world that accepts furries, the only place that recognizes them and protects them.
Chen Wei couldn't help but stand in awe of the original body. How powerful must the spirit beast be to be able to create the Ten Thousand Beasts Capital?
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