Lu Qingjiu pointed the gun at Hu Shu's head. At this moment, the distance between the two was only two meters. Even if Lu Qingjiu had never used a gun, he could easily hit Hu Shu, not to mention that Hu Shu had no desire to dodge.
"What are you expecting?" Lu Qingjiu stared at Hu Shu. "Are you expecting me to shoot?"
Faced with Lu Qingjiu's questioning, Hu Shu was already a little impatient. He spat the cigarette in his mouth onto the ground and said, "Don't disturb my fun of the game. If you don't want to play, then I declare the game over now."
Lu Qingjiu asked, "What happens after it's over?"
Hu Shu grinned, licking his lips with his scarlet tongue. "After this is over, it's time to enjoy the food."
Lu Qingjiu said, "Okay." He took a deep breath, as if he was about to pull the trigger. Hu Shu saw Lu Qingjiu's action, and a kind of crazy excitement appeared in his black eyes. Lu Qingjiu fired the gun - the bullet slanted out from the muzzle, and the huge recoil made Lu Qingjiu take a step back. However, after the gunshot, Hu Shu was still standing opposite Lu Qingjiu. There was no scar on his body, but there was a bullet hole under his feet that was still smoking.
"What the hell are you doing—" Hu Shu was not expecting this and immediately yelled in anger, "I told you to shoot me, where the hell were you shooting at?"
Lu Qingjiu said, "I'm sorry, I've never fired a gun before, my hand just slipped." No way, he had deliberately shot at Hu Shu's feet. The fierce man who wanted him to shoot obviously had bad intentions. Although he didn't know why he did this, Lu Qingjiu still grasped a key factor - he seemed to be seeking death.
Hu Shu looked at Lu Qingjiu viciously.
"Then... let's do it again?" Lu Qingjiu felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by him and could only make an awkward suggestion.
"I don't have time to do this with you again. Okay, since you don't want to play, forget it." Hu Shu sneered, "Go to hell!" After he said this, he rushed towards Lu Qingjiu. He didn't know when a shiny dagger appeared in his hand, and he stabbed Lu Qingjiu without any hesitation.
Lu Qingjiu reacted very quickly, turning around and trying to climb onto the pickup truck, but Hu Shu was already behind him, grabbing his arm and pulling him away from the pickup truck.
Lu Qingjiu's strength was completely not on the same level as Hu Shu's. She was at a disadvantage almost the first time they met, and was pinned to the ground by Hu Shu, who strangled her neck.
Hu Shu looked at Lu Qingjiu with malice, and kept exerting force on his hands: "The game is over."
Lu Qingjiu's mouth opened in agony, and he could only struggle to free himself from Hu Shu's grasp. His hand fumbled around on the ground nearby, and then he felt something cold... the dagger Hu Shu had casually tossed aside. Had he thrown the dagger away? Normally, a brain deprived of oxygen wouldn't be able to think, but at this moment, Lu Qingjiu's mind was remarkably clear. He grabbed the dagger and stabbed Hu Shu's arm with it.
Hu Shu screamed in pain, but he didn't loosen his grip. Instead, he became even more excited. He chuckled in Lu Qingjiu's ear, his voice a different person, deep and sinister: "Did you find out? Choose, today either you die... or I die..."
Lu Qingjiu said with difficulty: "You liar, it was clearly Hu Shu who died..."
Hu Shu laughed heartily upon hearing this. He said, "So what?"
Lu Qingjiu stabbed Hu Shu's arm again, hoping that Hu Shu would let him go out of pain, but Hu Shu, whose body was controlled by the evil spirit, was obviously not affected by this small injury at all, and the strength in his hand did not relax at all.
Black spots began to appear before Lu Qingjiu's eyes, and his consciousness gradually blurred. He did have one choice at this moment, which was to kill the person in front of him, but he didn't want to do that. His last bit of reason told him that Hu Shu might not be dead, but if he stabbed him, Hu Shu would really be dead...
At this critical moment, the small truck behind them honked twice and turned around and crashed directly into Lu Qingjiu and Hu Shu.
Hu Shu hadn't expected the pickup truck to be a demon, and seemed startled, but he quickly calmed down. Instead of getting angry, he actually smiled at the pickup truck crashing towards him. He released his grip on Lu Qingjiu's neck and coldly said, "Interesting." Then, he stood up and opened his arms toward the pickup truck. "Come on, I want to see if you can run me over and kill me."
The light of the small truck flashed, and it let out a long "beep", followed by the unique buzzing sound of stepping on the accelerator. Before Lu Qingjiu could stop it, he saw it rushing towards Hu Shu.
"No——" Lu Qingjiu shouted.
Just when Lu Qingjiu thought the pickup truck was going to hit Hu Shu to death, an ice-blue flower blossomed in front of it. Hu Shu's face changed drastically when he saw the flower, but before he could react, he was wrapped up by the ice-blue flower.
"Fuck--" Not knowing what this flower was, Hu Shu, who was wrapped in it, screamed in fear and anger.
After the pickup truck wrapped up Hu Shu, a string of black smoke rose from the car. After the smoke dissipated, the White Moon Fox actually appeared in the car.
He looked slightly different from usual. His face was particularly pale, but his lips were frighteningly red. He left the carriage, walked in front of Lu Qingjiu, and stretched out his hand to him: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." Lu Qingjiu held his hand. He noticed that there seemed to be a red mark next to Bai Yuehu's lips. "What's on your mouth?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Yuehu wiped it lightly with his thumb and licked his lips: "Nothing."
Lu Qingjiu: "..." He seemed to faintly smell a scent of blood, and considering Bai Yuehu's satisfied expression, Lu Qingjiu guessed that he might have just had a big meal.
At this time, Hu Shu was still wrapped in the blue flower. Lu Qingjiu walked in and took a look, only to find that the flower should be part of the body of the small truck, a blue fleshy flower.
"Let him out." Bai Yuehu licked the blood off his lips.
The pickup truck finally let go of Hu Shu. Hu Shu fell to the ground, but he seemed to have lost consciousness, his eyes were closed, and there were wounds on his hands caused by Lu Qingjiu.
"Is he okay?" Lu Qingjiu asked nervously.
"It's okay." Bai Yuehu said, "I won't die."
Lu Qingjiu asked, “Where is that evil spirit?”
The White Moon Fox replied, "I ate it. Some of its divine consciousness remains. It may take some time to clean it up, but it won't become a big deal."
Lu Qingjiu was about to help Hu Shu up, but Bai Yuehu stopped him and said, "Don't help him. He just has a minor skin injury on his hand. He will wake up soon. If you are worried, call 120."
Lu Qingjiu nodded: "Okay." He took out his cell phone, called 120, and reported the location.
There was some strange mucus on Hu Shu's body, which looked like it was left by the pickup truck. Lu Qingjiu said, "I didn't realize that our pickup truck was so powerful."
Bai Yuehu's expression was a little strange when he heard this. He said, "Hmm... is that impressive?"
Lu Qingjiu said: "If it weren't for it, I might have died."
"It can't die." Bai Yuehu said calmly, "It is a god after all. It can't kill people with its own hands. If it does, its body will be stained with blood, and its divine power will be greatly reduced."
"By the way, what kind of god is it?" Lu Qingjiu finally remembered the key point.
"Have you heard of Shebisi?" asked Bai Yuehu.
Lu Qingjiu exclaimed in astonishment, "It's actually Shebishi?!" Ever since the incident with the manta ray, Lu Qingjiu had been reviewing the Classic of Mountains and Seas, becoming familiar with all the spirits and monsters. The Classic of Mountains and Seas records not only spirits and monsters, but also various gods. Shebishi is one such god. Legend has it that he was also a celestial god, but was killed for various reasons, but his soul remained, and he continued to exist in the form of a corpse. This mythical beast has a human body and a face, with two green snakes dangling from its ears. However, for some reason, his presence seems very low. At least before carefully reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Lu Qingjiu had never heard of this god's name.
"Hmm." Bai Yuehu said, "A fallen phoenix is no better than a chicken. That must be referring to him."
Lu Qingjiu smiled bitterly.
As the times progress, people's beliefs are becoming increasingly weak, not to mention minor gods like Shebisi. Apart from written records, he seems to have no other believers. Bai Yuehu said that forgotten gods are even worse than monsters.
"Did you eat him?" Lu Qingjiu asked.
"God is immortal." Bai Yuehu said, "I only ate a part of his faith. As long as he is patient enough and continues to accumulate strength, he will always find a carrier of power again." He smiled when he said this, "But you don't have to worry. It's not that easy to continue to find faith." Especially for a forgotten god.
Lu Qingjiu nodded.
When the ambulance came to take Hu Shu away, Hu Shu had already woken up. After waking up, he looked at Lu Qingjiu with a blank look, as if he didn't understand what had happened before.
Lu Qingjiu said to him, "Go to the hospital first and get the wound on your hand bandaged. We can talk about it later."
Hu Shu said, "Okay... I don't remember anything. By the way, who pierced the wound?"
Lu Qingjiu replied calmly: "Non-human."
Hu Shu: "Oh."
After sending Hu Shu to the ambulance, Lu Qingjiu and Bai Yuehu drove the pickup truck towards home. In the truck, Bai Yuehu knocked on the steering wheel and said in a cold voice: "Don't use that to wrap Lu Qingjiu."
The pickup truck honked, and for some reason Lu Qingjiu heard a hint of sadness in it.
Lu Qingjiu had already guessed the van's true form, but what exactly was this purple flower? Did it have a unique skill? Originally, Lu Qingjiu hadn't given it much thought, but after hearing Bai Yuehu's advice, a strange feeling welled up in his heart. So, he surreptitiously took out his phone, opened the search bar, and typed in two words: slug.
After the page refreshed, Lu Qingjiu clicked on the image search bar. Then, he realized that curiosity really shouldn't be allowed to get too far. On the page, he saw two slugs entwined, with an ice-blue fleshy flower blooming beneath them. The caption beneath the image read: "Mating Slugs"—so, he now fully understood what that ice-blue flower was.
Lu Qingjiu silently put down his phone and wanted to cover his face. No wonder Bai Yuehu told him not to touch Hu Shu. He thought Bai Yuehu was afraid that Hu Shu would be hurt again. Now think about it... maybe she didn't want him to touch the delicate mucus on Hu Shu's body.
Lu Qingjiu put down his phone and put his hands back on the steering wheel.
After a whole day of tossing and turning, Lu Qingjiu was a little tired, especially since the wound caused by Hu Shu's pinching was now swollen, and the bruises on his neck were particularly conspicuous.
Yin Xun came to Lu Qingjiu's house and was shocked to see the marks on his neck: "Qingjiu, what's wrong with your neck?"
Lu Qingjiu said vaguely: "Something unexpected happened?"
"Accident? What kind of accident could leave such a wound?" Yin Xun's eyes swept over Lu Qingjiu, then fell on Bai Yuehu behind him, "Could it be that he hit you?"
Bai Yuehu glanced at Yin Xun, who shrank back under his gaze: "I was just kidding... But if he really hits you, you must tell him!"
Lu Qingjiu said: "Tell it out and then what?"
Yin Xun said: "Isn't it better to say this now? Come on, I saw that you guys didn't come back, so I made some porridge. Come and try it."
Lu Qingjiu: “…” You are such a coward.
However, no one wanted to eat the porridge cooked by Yin Xun, so Lu Qingjiu went to make noodles again. After Yin Xun finished eating, he went home, and Lu Qingjiu sat in the yard with Bai Yuehu.
Bai Yuehu sat back in his favorite chair, and Lu Qingjiu helped him rock it.
As he was shaking, his cell phone rang. Lu Qingjiu picked it up and saw that it was Hu Shu. It seemed that he had recovered from his wounds in the hospital.
"Hey, Lu Qingjiu, are you okay?" Hu Shu's tone was a little nervous.
"Me? I'm fine." Lu Qingjiu said, "How about you?"
"I'm fine." Hu Shu replied.
Lu Qingjiu asked, "You told me before that a body was found next to the police station. Is that true?"
"Corpse? That's not true." Hu Shu was bewildered. "Why do you say that?"
Lu Qingjiu heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this, because the evil spirit said on the phone that there was a body next to the police station. At that time, Lu Qingjiu thought it was Hu Shu's. Now it seems that since Bai Yuehu didn't say anything and Hu Shu also said he didn't know about it, then this matter must be false, and no new victim has appeared.
After being possessed by Shebishi, Shebishi will manipulate the possessed person to attack others. Once the possessed person is killed, Shebishi's goal seems to be achieved, and the attacker seems to be implicated...
Fortunately, Lu Qingjiu noticed something was wrong at the time and did not kill Hu Shu directly.
Otherwise, even if Bai Yuehu arrived in time, Lu Qingjiu would probably not be able to forgive himself.
"This case should be closed." Lu Qingjiu explained to him, "The evil spirit seems to have been dealt with."
"Ah?" Hu Shu was stunned. "Really?"
"Really." Lu Qingjiu glanced at Bai Yuehu when he said this.
His vixen was in a very good mood tonight, with a satisfied look in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows. She looked a bit charming.
Although he is a male vixen, he is also very good-looking, Lu Qingjiu thought secretly in his heart, of course he didn't dare to say it out loud, he just smiled and told Hu Shu not to worry.
Hu Shu was confused, but when Lu Qingjiu didn't give a detailed answer, he had to give up. He sighed with some fear in his tone: "If it really ends like this, it would be great." Although he didn't understand what happened from beginning to end, he was just called out by his boss, and then lost consciousness. When he regained consciousness, he was lying in a hospital ward.
Although his memory was hazy, he vaguely felt as if he had seen something extremely terrifying, so he deliberately forgot that part of the memory. Because of this, he did not ask Lu Qingjiu in detail what had happened. At this moment, the desire to survive and curiosity prevailed.
Knowing too much is not a good thing, especially when it comes to things about another world.
Lu Qingjiu was relieved that Hu Shu did not pursue the truth relentlessly. He did not know how to explain it to Hu Shu. He could not let Bai Yuehu reveal her identity.
Besides, since Shebi's corpse had been eaten by the White Moon Fox, the matter had come to an end.
Lu Qingjiu thought, he was too lazy to delve into it.
After this incident, Lu Qingjiu spent several days recovering from the injury, and the bruise on his neck gradually disappeared. During this time, Bai Yuehu gave Lu Qingjiu a plaster that was said to heal the wound after a while. Lu Qingjiu accepted it but didn't use it because he couldn't explain to Yin Xun how the wound on his neck healed in the blink of an eye... and the wound didn't have any particularly serious impact, it just looked a little subtle when it was almost healed.
"Hey, Qingjiu, you have a girlfriend?" The first person to tease him was Xiaohua. This piglet has been acting naughty since he revealed that he could speak human language. He will be quiet when Yin Xun is around, but he is usually as noisy as a sparrow.
"You talk too much. With all the men in this room, where would I get a girlfriend?" Lu Qingjiu asked.
"My sister, my sister is so beautiful." Xiaohua pulled out Xiaohei, who was sitting in the back happily chewing corn cobs.
Lu Qingjiu: “…”
Xiaohua said: "She is really beautiful! Right, Xiaohei?"
Xiao Hei raised his head in confusion and made a piggy sound: "Hum?"
When Xiao Hua heard the pig's squeal, she threw a pig's hoof and went over: "I told you not to play with the little white pig next door, but you refused to listen. Why are you imitating the pig's squeal? We are auspicious animals. Even though we look like pigs, we are still auspicious animals——"
Xiao Hei started crying after being scolded: "Wow, brother, you are so mean."
Seeing this, Lu Qingjiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He ignored the two little black pigs and continued to do his own thing.
The previous case had a result very quickly. Lu Qingjiu saw the local news report when he was watching the news.
It was said that the murderer chose to commit suicide after killing someone to escape his crime, and naturally did not mention any unnatural factors.
Hu Shu was soon discharged from the hospital and reported to Lu Qingjiu that he was safe, but there was a hint of hesitation in his tone when he reported that the people above seemed to have noticed the case.
"The people above?" Lu Qingjiu asked.
"Well... I'm here to handle some special cases." Hu Shu said, "I haven't given out your information yet, but I don't know if they will find you."
Lu Qingjiu thought about it and thanked Hu Shu.
Hu Shu said, "You are so polite. If it weren't for you, I would have died."
Lu Qingjiu wanted to laugh when he heard this. After all, Shebi Shi had forced him to kill Hu Shu. He just didn't know why Shebi Shi chose him. It might have something to do with Bai Yuehu.
After this incident, there was a long period of calm and the weather became hotter and hotter.
The watermelons planted by Bai Yuehu in the field were ripe. Lu Qingjiu went to pick up the biggest one and brought it back. He originally wanted to chill it in the well water, but when he thought of the female ghost in the well water, he finally chose to use the refrigerator.
Watermelon and hot pot are a perfect match. Lu Qingjiu thought that everyone hadn't had a big meal for a long time, so he went to the town to buy a lot of ingredients for hot pot, and then boiled a large pot of bone soup as the soup base, thinking that everyone would have a good meal in the evening.
Hot pot is different from other dishes. If you don’t have enough, you can add more to it. Bai Yuehu usually likes it very much.
Lu Qingjiu prepared the hot pot base, then set up an induction cooker on the table, and the three of them gathered around the hot pot to eat. Although it was hot that day, the room was air-conditioned, so it wasn't too unbearable.
Yin Xun was sweating profusely while eating. His favorite dish was the braised beef specially made by Lu Qingjiu. The beef was braised before being put into the pot, and then boiled in the hot pot bottom. It was not only tasty, but also had a spicy taste.
"It's so delicious." Yin Xun almost cried while eating.
Bai Yuehu was sitting next to Lu Qingjiu. He was not afraid of the heat and kept using his chopsticks. The most amazing thing was that although it was very hot, there was not a drop of sweat on his face or forehead, except that his lips became slightly redder.
Lu Qingjiu’s favorite is the potatoes in the hot pot. They are cooked until they are round and soft, and very tasty.
The three of them ate all night, and finally took out the chilled watermelon and cut it up to share. It must be said that since Bai Yuehu came to their house, there has been no leftovers, and almost everything can be finished in one meal.
After Lu Qingjiu had eaten his fill, he collapsed. Bai Yuehu and Yin Xun were responsible for washing the dishes. After a while, Lu Qingjiu still felt very full, so he stood up and walked around the yard a few times. However, as he was walking, he heard a faint chirping sound near the yard.
The sound was not that of a rooster, but rather that of a wild animal's cub. Following the sound, Lu Qingjiu pushed open the door to the yard and walked to a nearby path. He saw something twisting in the grass.
Lu Qingjiu bent down and pried at the grass, but when he got a clear look at what was in it, he paused for a moment. Deep in the grass lay a small white fox. The little fox was no bigger than a palm, covered in a layer of white fur. Its eyes were a beautiful blue, making it look quite adorable. But just as Lu Qingjiu leaned over, the shivering little fox, huddled in the grass, was startled by the sight of a stranger. It screamed a few times and tried to flee in another direction, but it hadn't noticed a stone hidden in the grass beside it. In its haste, it bumped into it and knocked itself unconscious.
When Lu Qingjiu saw this scene, an incredible idea popped up in his mind, and he shouted in horror: "Bai Yuehu, come and take a look quickly!!! Is it your son who came to find you!!!" - Otherwise, where did this fox cub come from!
The author has something to say: Lu Qingjiu: Is this your son?
Bai Yuehu observed for a moment: It's too small and not meaty enough.
Lu Qingjiu: ???
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