"This..." If the villagers were asked to chop down the Gray God themselves, they hesitated.
"Huh?" Wu Qiudao manipulated the sword light and drew a complicated trajectory in front of the villagers. Everyone felt the cold killing intent, and finally the flying sword touched Miao Zhu's neck.
Miao Zhu was so frightened that he peed his pants and cried: "I've done it! The Gray God is not a righteous god, it's just a monster! It was me who fooled everyone, but in fact it has no magical power at all! Villagers, let's go and kill him together.
That monster!"
Seeing that the Sword Immortal was so powerful now, the villagers did not dare to refute, so they could only agree: "I am willing to follow the Sword Immortal's orders!"
Wu Qiudao shouted: "Knife in hand, follow me to kill the Gray God and get rid of the monsters!"
So all the men, women, and children in Jiangyuan Town were woken up early, and hundreds of young and strong people were selected, armed with bows, arrows, knives, spears, and spades, and they followed Wu Qiudao and the four men in search of blood.
After searching for about twenty miles, the blood trail entered a huge cave. The villagers burned firewood and threw it into the cave to look at it. They saw that the space inside was not small, and it was as big as a room.
Everyone took a closer look and saw a giant rat that was taller than an ordinary person. Not counting its tail, it was more than eight feet tall from head to toe, with a waist ten inches larger. It was fat and strong, but now it had its left forelimb broken and was lying in a pool of blood, covered in gray.
The hair is extremely dirty!
Seeing so many people, the gray-haired giant rat struggled to get up from the ground, its hair exploded, and it roared "squeaking", threatening everyone not to come near.
The villagers stared at the swordsman Wu Qiudao who forced them to come here, hoping that he would fly over with his sword and chop to death the Gray God they had worshiped for many years. But Wu Qiudao said: "It would be easy for me to kill it, but if you want to atone for your sins, you can always
Do you want God to see your sincerity?"
Everyone had no choice but to listen to the command of the lame old man who had served as a soldier. He cautiously approached with a sword formation like a forest. The giant gray-haired rat struggled to break out, trying to break through, but after all, he lost too much blood and lacked strength.
Still died in the encirclement and suppression crowd.
Wu Qiudao recited a healing spell to heal Qingzhuang, who was slightly injured during the siege. Then he asked everyone to find a lot of dry firewood and piled it into a bonfire around the giant gray-haired rat. When it was almost done, he opened his mouth
One, spit out a small fire, and light the pyre.
Huge flames soared into the sky, and the fat inside the giant rat exploded into a wave of fire. A column of black smoke shot straight into the sky, blackening the sky so much that the smoke could be seen dozens of miles away.
The villagers stared blankly at the huge black smoke. When they were encircling and suppressing the giant rat, adrenaline filled their brains. They didn't have a clear feeling yet. Now even the body of the Gray God has been burned. After the burning, it is estimated that the Sword Immortal Company
The ashes will be blown away, and then the emotions will rise.
There were old people, women and children who came to watch and were secretly wiping their tears. These young men who had killed the Gray God themselves did not look good. Wu Qiudao felt a little unhappy and asked: "What? You still miss this harmful Mao God?"
Can’t do it?”
Those young men who were closer were startled. They looked at Wu Qiudao flatteringly and said, "Grandpa Sword Immortal is joking!"
"Yes, yes, how can we miss this Mao God?"
"That's right, it has harmed so many girls, it's too late to hate it!"
Wu Qiudao narrowed his eyes. These villagers were dishonest and didn't know what the secret was behind them. If they didn't investigate clearly, this trend of lustful worship of wild gods might revive again.
"Sword Immortal, don't think too much. We don't miss that beast, we're just afraid!" The old man who was frightened by the flying sword came over on crutches.
Wu Qiudao glanced at the old man coldly: "What are you afraid of?"
"Afraid of it!" The old man pointed at the civet cat squatting on the ground watching the fun.
Huh? Wu Qiudao looked at each other and the senior brother who suddenly had a big black pot dropped from the sky, suppressing laughter: "Are you afraid of it?"
The village elder said: "I'm not just afraid of it, but I'm afraid of cats like them, especially civets that are as smart as humans!"
The village elder began to explain to Wu Qiudao the ins and outs of why Jiangyuan Town was afraid of cats.
Jiangyuan Town has a very long history. It was established as a county in the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, people mistakenly believed that the Minjiang River was the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and even thought that this place was the source of the Minjiang River, so it was named Jiangyuan. However, in this dynasty, the vassal town was under chaos, and Jiangyuan Town was named Jiangyuan Town.
Yuan County was merged into Tangxing County.
Of course, these are not actually important. What is important is that twenty years ago, the cat-raising trend was booming in the Tang Dynasty. There were many cats in Jiangyuan Town. It can be said that at that time, almost every household raised at least one raccoon slave.
But there is an old couple who do not keep cats. Not only do they not keep cats, they also hate those beasts. If someone asks them why they hate cats so much, they will answer in a strange way:
"We don't hate cats, but we admire them very much! People say that chickens have five virtues, and cats also have them! Not catching mice when you see them is benevolent; letting them eat after they are snatched away is righteousness; when guests come and prepare food, go out, which is etiquette.
"Hiding things very densely and being able to steal food is wisdom; going into the stove every winter is a sign of trust."
Later, cats in the town began to disappear. When more and more missing cats were missing, people naturally discovered the strange behavior of the old couple. But they were too old and depended on each other, so no one dared
Go find two old men to settle accounts.
Until one day, a picker came to Jiangyuan Town with his black cat. The children liked the glass beads he sold, so he stayed in the town for one more day, but the next day, his cat disappeared.
Several children told him about the old couple.
A child who was then a strong man now described to Wu Qiudao: "The picker prayed to God before leaving the town, and he was talking in a dialect that he didn't know where he came from!"
"I saw the sky change color at that time, and the clouds gathered into a huge cat head and nodded to the picker! I thought he might be a witch! And he must be worshiping a cat god with great supernatural powers!
"
That night, all the cats in the town disappeared, but by the next morning, all the cats were back.
Seven days later, the townspeople of Jiangyuan Town discovered that the old couple had died, leaving only a pile of white bones, and there were obvious bite marks and scratches on the bones. They were all different and not just the same animal.
left behind.
After many days of quarreling, the townspeople believed that the cats had eaten the old couple. Since then, there has been an unwritten rule in Jiangyuan Town: Don’t kill cats!
After this unspoken rule appeared, Jiangyuan Town was peaceful for a year or two, but there were always uninformed strangers and disobedient children who would violate this rule. The rule of "don't kill cats" was broken again and again, so the group
The cat took revenge.
As time goes by, more and more people die at the claws of those evil beasts. When eight boys died in a row one year, the people of Jiangyuan Town could no longer sit idly by and do nothing. They had to take effective measures.
Measures to change this situation!
Wu Qiudao looked at the village elder and asked, "So you found that big rat?"
The village elder emphasized: "It's not that we were looking for him. We specially invited the 'Gray God' Wu Yang from Liuzhou, Lingnan Province, who is known to be efficacious! The Gray God was invited by us willingly!"
Wu Qiudao couldn't hold back his anger and asked: "Then the temple wishes you to offer a young girl as a gift every year. Do they do it willingly when they are eaten?"
The village elder felt no shame: "Since the Gray God was invited, all those cats have been driven away. We only need to sacrifice one girl every year, and all the children in the town can grow up safely! All the townspeople feel that
Willingly!"
"The Gray God was moved by our sincerity, so he invited us here!"