Chapter 122 Chapter 122 Chang'an Monster Records are brewed by love...
The accident happened on the second day.
Duan Zhiwei did not sleep well the night before and was awakened by heavy rain and spring thunder early in the morning. He opened the window and saw that the weather in Chang'an had changed.
The sky, which should have been pale as a fish belly, was now stained with a thick ink color, and a few pale lightning bolts flashed down among the countless black clouds pressing down on the city.
She quickly closed the window again, but the rain was so heavy that her sleeves were still wet.
Yuan Shenji was still sleeping. Duan Zhiwei put on her clothes and went out. The strong wind almost blew the hairpin off her hair.
She ran to the main hall holding an umbrella and heard screams from outside. A mad camel happened to be running past the restaurant, the camel bells jingling, and the Hu people behind it were chasing it madly, holding down their hats with their hands.
"Stop just watching the fun, come and help me." Aunt Duan was sealing the windows in the main hall. The rain outside was pouring in, making the room full of water.
Another loud thunder sounded, shocking the whole family. Fortunately, Yuan Shenji was very strong and easily sealed the windows and doors of the main house, keeping the strong wind and rain out.
We definitely can't open today, Duan Zhiwei silently cooked a pot of red dates and ginger tea and shared some with everyone who were soaked.
The little wolf huddled in a corner holding the teacup. He was still worried about the missing little bone monster.
Duan Zhiwei comforted him: "The rain is really too heavy. Let's go out and look for it when it stops."
He nodded silently.
Without any customers, the vegetable and meat shops couldn't deliver any food, so Duan Zhiwei had to cook a few bowls of noodles for everyone to have as breakfast.
There was a knock on the door that had been sealed with great difficulty. Yuan Shenji went to open the door. The panda A-gun was wearing a straw raincoat and holding a bamboo basket, and he was soaking wet.
"Why is it raining so heavily?" Duan Zhiwei hurriedly handed it a hemp towel.
Ah Gun raised his paw towards her and wiped his face with the ramie. "The old fisherman said that several restaurants had ordered fish and insisted on having it delivered. But he couldn't deliver it today, so I delivered it for him."
"As expected of the Panda Hero, you are chivalrous and helpful." Pu Tao praised it so much that Ah Gun felt embarrassed and his cheeks turned red.
"Okay, okay." It scratched its head, and then thought of something, and changed its expression to a serious one: "The old fisherman said that a lot of dead fish suddenly floated on the surface of the Wei River. They all floated upside down with their stomachs turned upside down, and their eyes were red. It was scary to look at."
Another thunder struck, scaring the panda A-Gun so much that his hair stood on end.
Duan Zhiwei had a bad feeling.
On the other side, the little bone demon was bound by iron chains engraved with strange spells. The resentment and demonic power in its body surged uncontrollably, and the two stars in its eyes turned into painful crimson purple.
A whip hit its spine and it heard the sound of its bones breaking.
The dampness of the dungeon was chilly and penetrated into the bone marrow. The words of the Turkish witch were even colder: "Monsters are born lowly. Warmth and kindness do not belong to you. You were born out of resentment, and your mission is to destroy this city."
Its body began to expand rapidly, and its small frame began to grow as fast as a mountain.
The next day, the rain finally stopped, but the sky was still gloomy. Crows were circling low in the sky, emitting a rusty glow.
The entire Chang'an was in panic, but there was no response or statement in the Daming Palace about this unusual phenomenon.
Yuan Shenji had a day off today, but was called away early in the morning. Duan Zhiwei stood at the door of the restaurant, looking at the sky worriedly.
The restaurant had no business and the little bone monster was not found.
Suddenly, a yellow dust cloud exploded in the distance and rushed towards the restaurant, scaring everyone.
The fog soon stopped at the entrance of the restaurant.
A Pan cautiously made a water gesture and threw it onto the dust mist.
Soon the dust and fog dissipated, and Axue and Amo, who were hiding in the fog, were drenched in water and started coughing loudly.
"Axue and Amo? What are you doing in the city?" Duan Zhiwei was surprised.
Axue sat on Amo's head, holding Amo's ears tightly with her two paws, and she stammered:
"No...Oh no, something terrible has happened!"
In the morning at the foot of Mount Zhongnan, the sky was dark and the wind was blowing hard. Axue was almost blown away by the wind. Amo jumped up on tiptoe and caught it.
A beast roared in the distance, and Amo trembled: "Is it a tiger?"
Many trees in the forest were uprooted. Ah Xue said, "Fool, what kind of tiger can uproot trees?"
The heavy footsteps were getting closer and closer, and a huge monster as tall as the wall of the Daming Palace came over.
It was a huge bone monster with blood flowing from its deep eye sockets.
"Bone...bone monster?" Duan Zhiwei was shocked. Before she could react, the little wolf had already run out of the city.
"Wait for me!" She untied the knee brace around her waist and quickly chased after him.
There were already quite a few civilians crowded inside Chunming Gate, all of whom had left the city for some business, and were all driven back by the Jinwu Guards guarding the city.
When Duan Zhiwei ran to Chunming Gate breathlessly, Xiaolang was being stopped from leaving the city by a tall Jinwu Guard. A group of Yimin black-robed men surrounded him, holding high in their hands the pass documents personally written by the saint, making the Jinwu Guard very embarrassed.
Duan Zhiwei quickly pulled Xiaolang over. The Jinwu Guards all knew her and politely saluted her: "Madam."
"What happened?"
The Jinwu Guards looked at each other and said, "We are defending the city as ordered."
Yuan Shenji was in the tent of the Monster Catching Bureau at the moment. Hearing the roar of monsters in the distance, he couldn't help but feel a little frightened.
"Don't worry." Dugu spoke confidently and calmly: "The barrier was set up a year ago. It can't get out."
The Golden Bell Formation of the Monster Catching Bureau formed a huge light net at the foot of Mount Zhongnan. The Bone Monster struggled desperately in it, but could not break free.
Chang'an had long discovered the evil ambitions of the Turks. Ever since they refined millions of hatreds into bone monsters in the Yinshan Mountains in Liangzhou, Chang'an had roughly known their plans.
Then let's take you into a trap.
"The Turks have been planning this for a long time." Dugu turned to look at Yuan Shenji while forming the formation: "Do you remember the woman who pretended to be Madam Duan in Shangyuan last year?"
Yuan Shenji's heart moved.
"Turkic." Dugu said.
"It seems that their influence is really deep and profound." Yuan Shenji smiled bitterly.
"Yes, she bribed your stepmother with a huge sum of money and impersonated Madam Duan. She wasn't in love with you, but just wanted to steal the Chang'an City patrol map of the Jinwu Guards. Who knew you didn't fall for it? Later, your Zuo Zhonglang General fell for it and happily took the beauty as his concubine. That's why he was immediately transferred by the Saint."
Yuan Shenji shook his head: "You really know everything." He paused for a moment: "What are you going to do next?"
"This monster will soon dissipate. Tell the people in the restaurant that there is no need to pity a monster that grew up in resentment." Dugu went to get the silver sword on the tent: "The Turkic escapee is up to you."
"It's not a bad monster."
The little wolf stretched out his arms and stood in front of the sword with a resolute face. Dugu's silver hair was blown by the evil wind. He vaguely remembered that a hundred years ago, someone had protected him in this way, standing in front of him and saying that he was not a bad monster.
Dugu shook the thought from his mind: "Kid, I'll say it one last time, get out of the way."
The little wolf refused to give in.
The bone monster in the distance had a soul-calming lamp nailed to each of its bones, and the ghost fire in its eye sockets was blood red. Its body was covered with green-brown mucus, which dripped down and happened to fall on the tree.
The green trees immediately turned yellow, withered and disappeared.
But the corrosive mucus avoided its fingertips, where a small mask was hanging with a red rope.
It was at the Lantern Festival. The little bone monster was disappointed because there was no mask that it could wear. Duan Zhiwei asked the master to make a suitable size for it on the spot. It was very happy and refused to take it off even when it came back to sleep.
Dugu hardened his heart. He gave up the method of killing the monster with the silver sword and just closed his eyes and began to chant the spell.
The golden bells in the sky began to ring wildly. The eyes of the bone monster were filled with pain and despair. It roared, and more monsters in Zhongnan Mountain rushed towards Chang'an City.
The city of Chang'an had long been shrouded in the barrier set up by the Monster Catching Bureau. The monsters could not get through and could only roar inside the formation.
Dugu said: "The evildoer has come at the right time, let's die together."
The golden bells rang even more crazily, and a bloody ghost car bird in the barrier suddenly turned into a puff of purple smoke, followed by a tiger demon, a rat demon...
Seeing that he couldn't stop him, the little wolf had no choice but to dive into the golden bell formation. Dugu was shocked and only had time to put a protective shield on him: "Kid, what are you crazy about? Come back quickly!"
Half an hour later, the palace guards came in with the Holy Saint's oral instructions and said to Dugu in embarrassment, "The Holy Saint has said that we should postpone the extermination of the monster for a few hours?"
"Why?" Dugu couldn't believe it.
The people of Yimin State were unable to stop the little wolf, so they had to go to the palace to ask the saint for help. The tiny country was not to be feared, but it happened to be on the route that Chang'an had to take for trade with the Western Regions.
Besides, they only asked for a few hours' delay.
After the Yimin envoy went to the palace, he hurried over again and put a vajra inlaid with countless rare treasures into the little wolf's hand: "This is our country's secret treasure. It can be used to set up a purification formation to weaken the power of the monster."
The little wolf took it solemnly and bowed to the envoy.
"Wait, we are here too!" The panda A-Gun came over wearing his cloak, holding a thick green bamboo pole in his hand: "We are here to help you."
A group of monsters followed behind, including the fox brother and sister from Mount Zhongnan, the peerless flower monster, the white mushroom shopkeeper and Xiao Pingguo, the painting monster Zhenzhen, and a group of frogs that followed the abbot of Nanyan Temple...
All the monsters rushed into the magic circle.
The panda warrior took the lead, his round belly shaking as he ran and jumped. A ferocious tiger demon ran towards him.
"Hey! Monster, watch out for the stick!" Ah Gun raised a bamboo pole as thick as a bowl and smashed it over, but his claws slipped and the pole flew out instantly, circling the tiger monster several times, and then poked into the mud with a "click".
Ah Gun rolled on the ground like a ball, his belly facing upwards with black and white fur exposed, his four paws kicking in the air: "Someone come save me!"
Madam Hu silently flicked her sleeves to stun the tiger, and then helped it up. Ah Gun thanked her, panting.
The little wolf ran to the bone monster with the vajra in his hand, drew a circle around it, and then looked up at it anxiously: "Agu, wake up."
The purification array did have some effect. The bone monster stopped roaring and just stared at him blankly in the circle.
The Turkic group hiding in the forest was soon captured by the Jinwu Guards led by Yuan Shenji. The leading Turkic witch took out a bone flute and blew it when they were unprepared.
The bone demon that had calmed down began to twist like a snake again, and the sound of hundreds of ghosts wailing could be heard from its chest.
It refused to hurt the little wolf and just thrust its trembling finger bones into the ground.
Duan Zhiwei cooked a bowl of moon soup, which was the little bone demon's favorite, in the restaurant and put it in the food cart. The blue cloth covering the food cart was steamed wet by the heat.
Pu Tao wanted to help her push the cart, but she pulled him away: "It's dangerous there, you are not allowed to come!"
Some water lines appeared faintly on A Pan's face again. She protected Duan Zhiwei and walked forward. A bleeding ghost car bird rushed towards her, but was washed far away by A Pan's water magic.
Pu Tao bypassed Aunt Duan's guard and sneaked over to help them push the food cart forward.
"Pu Tao, be obedient and go back quickly."
Another fish monster jumped out of the stream, and pounced towards us ferociously with red eyes.
A Pan was struggling with the ghost bird and had no time to protect her. A golden light appeared and scared the fish back into the water.
The three people's eyes were also dazzled by the golden light and they relaxed for a while.
When I opened my eyes again, I saw a complete bronze mirror shining brightly, standing on the food cart brilliantly.
"It's a bronze mirror!" Everyone was surprised.
"Hehe, I'm back." It put its hands on its waist, looking very proud. The whole mirror looked brand new, but it was still as talkative as ever: "After I was broken into pieces, I felt that this soul was floating in the air. Then my master came to pick me up and said that my merits were fulfilled. I went to a very beautiful garden with him. There were many people in it. I chatted with many people every day..."
It babble excitedly until a distant roar interrupts it.
"I will protect you through there." Bronze Mirror said firmly.
The bone monster began to go crazy, a black dust cloud surged over, and its huge claw pounced on Duan Zhiwei and his group who were pushing the food cart.
But suddenly it was hanging three inches above their heads.
It wasn’t the Golden Bell Formation of the Monster Catching Bureau that worked, nor was it the purification circle drawn by Little Wolf.
It smelled a familiar sweet scent.
The food cart had been broken into several pieces, but several people were still guarding the jar of moon soup mixed with the sweet fragrance of osmanthus honey inside.
While it was distracted, the little wolf snatched the moon soup from Duan Zhiwei's hand and climbed up by stepping on the bone monster's roots.
He was thrown heavily to the ground by the bone monster, but fortunately, the panda A-Gun came running over and cushioned him with his round belly.
He climbed up again, and fell down again. This time, Duan Zhiwei and a few others caught him.
"Don't worry, we will catch you." Duan Zhiwei said gently.
He was thrown down again, and this time it was A Pan's water technique that gently wrapped him up.
The little wolf climbed up while crying: "We agreed to go to Qujiang to enjoy the flowers together during the Shangsi Festival. Madam Duan also said that she would teach you how to make peach blossom cake. You should wake up soon, Agu."
The low hum in the bone demon's throat weakened.
The curse left by the Turks was still beating in its demon core, and thousands of voices were shouting in its ears, "Kill them."
However, in the bone monster's chaotic consciousness, the lights of Chang'an and the smiling faces of the people began to appear, and it felt that the intense pain was subsiding.
Those warm memories that were destroyed by the spell were pieced together again:
Sitting with everyone to eat mushroom noodles, admiring cherry blossoms at Qinglong Temple, it danced with the Jinhua cat on the dining table.
A specially made mask was put on its face.
"Agu is so beautiful." Everyone said with a smile.
The little bone demon was wearing a flowered apron specially cut for it by Aunt Duan, and was pouring osmanthus honey into the pot at the stove with great effort. When it tasted the sweet and smooth moon-filled soup, it smiled with happiness.
The little wolf said that mooncakes are a sweet food that humans use to express longing and reunion. That's why it likes it so much.
The moon soup mixed with tears finally flowed down the bone monster's mouth and into its monster core.
When the last soul-soothing nail cracked, the bone monster's body shrank with a roar, and the light around it turned into flying star rain.
The charred little bone monster curled up in the pile of dirt, the wound on its back still bleeding. The little wolf squatted down, wiped the blood off its body, and then carefully picked it up.
Everyone came over and handed over ointments and warming cloths.
"Hurry up and apply some medicine to it. Even monsters will feel pain." Duan Zhiwei said.
The little bone demon spoke weakly, with a tearful voice: "I'm sorry..."
"It's not your fault." Everyone said quickly.
It lay in the little wolf's arms and slowly turned its head to look at the food cart.
"Would you like another bowl?" Duan Zhiwei asked with concern.
"This is moon soup..." It spoke slowly and everyone looked at it nervously.
"You mistook salt for sugar...it's too salty..." After saying that, it closed its eyes and fell asleep.
The dark clouds over Chang'an began to dissipate, and the first ray of morning light kissed the peak of Zhongnan Mountain through the black fog. Grass and trees grew everywhere, and thousands of golden fragments floated in Qujiang Lake.
Duan Zhiwei patted Little Wolf on the shoulder:
"Come on, let's go home."
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