I became a saint in the world of Liao Zhai, and flirted with monster girls

The cook and the children lived in a house built on wooden pillars overlooking the river. A ladder was needed to get upstairs, but for safety reasons, the ladder was removed.

At this moment, the moon passed through the willow branches, and the whole pavilion suddenly shook violently like a kite in the wind. Two of the three wooden pillars supporting the beams had cracks like spider webs, and the carved window lattices were shaking so hard that dust fell off.

It actually looks like it's about to fall in love.

"What a beast that eats up mountains and chews rocks! What a good mouth and good teeth!"

When Zhou Kao rushed out of the door wearing straw sandals and a short shirt, he saw the monster raise its huge head and bite off one of the pillars supporting the pavilion with its mouth.

roar??!!!

The sound of the serrated teeth cutting into the wooden pillars was very much like the "crunch" of a child biting into a candy melon. The debris mixed with saliva fell like raindrops, frightening the landlady in the attic so much that she hid behind the window frame holding the crazy child, and her fingertips pinched five white marks on the wooden carvings on the window sill.

The monster was indeed covered with pitch-black scales, except for the crescent-white scales on its belly, which glowed coldly in the moonlight.

Zhou Kao's palms were sweating as he gripped the hilt of the knife, but he was not panicked - he knew that this monster crawled out of the water, so it must be afraid of fire and heat.

Before leaving the house, he had placed the tiger-patterned sword into the stove. Now the blade was simmering in the red-hot charcoal ash, and the thick hemp rope wrapped around the handle was sizzling with heat.

People who run shops and do business never turn off the stove. When the bellows are pulled, the fire in the stove will be very strong.

In addition, Zhou Kao placed kitchen knives, fire tongs, and even a bamboo pole over a foot long in the stove. The air in the bamboo joints was crackling as the flames licked it.

"what--"

The proprietress in the attic screamed in fear, and the house was shaking. She was holding her son in one hand and holding the window sill with the other, so she dared not let go.

"Don't be afraid, storekeeper! Zhou Kao from Beiguo County is here!"

Zhou Kao roared at the top of his lungs, and the sound waves caused the moss at the base of the wall to fall off.

With a loud roar, his momentum suddenly increased.

He reached out and pulled out the fire tongs from the stove. The dark red tips of the tongs were still stained with a few charcoal dusts. When he threw it out, it left a trail of orange-red light.

Boom!

"laugh--"

The scalding tongs burned a red mark on the monster's body, and a translucent blister immediately appeared under its scales. The red mark actually glowed at night, like a lamp.

The monster swung its tail in pain, and its tail, as thick as a water tank, slapped the bluestone slab, splashing water mixed with mud and sand all over Zhou Kao's face.

Zhou Kao was immediately overjoyed: "Haha, this monster is really afraid of fire! Look at my power!!"

But he grinned, picked up the half-burned bamboo pole with his left hand, and grasped the hilt of the knife with his right hand and pulled it back - the blade was three inches out of the sheath, and it reflected the dancing flames in the monster's pupils.

Zhou Kao took a stance and rushed forward to strike with a knife.

The monster was probably used to seeing the panic of mortals swinging their swords, and a hint of mockery flashed across Tongling's eyes, but he didn't notice that Zhou Kao's wrist holding the sword turned cleverly.

Empty chopping without exerting force,

"Go to hell you!"

The seemingly chopping force of the knife suddenly changed, and the bright flame at the front end of the bamboo pole stabbed directly towards the crescent-white scales under its neck.

"Go!"

The flame bamboo directly stabbed the monster. The monster was huge, but not as tall as Zhou Kao. The flame bamboo burned a round tattoo on it.

The monster screamed in pain and turned around suddenly. A strong wind blew towards him, and a thick fish tail seemed to want to whip Zhou Kao to death on the spot.

Amid the crackling sounds of bamboo joints, the monster wailed like a cub, and burn marks the size of a bowl appeared on the side of its neck.

It turned around suddenly, and the strong wind brought by its tail blew away half of the tile.

Ding! !

sizzle sizzle...

Zhou Kao raised his knife to block, but the blade collided with the scales, sparks flew, and he was knocked back. He hit his lower back on the haystack before he could stabilize himself.

However, the blood oozing from under the monster's scales was also bright red. As it spread on the blue bricks, a faint white mist rose up, and the air was filled with the sweet and fishy smell of water plants.

But this time, Zhou Kao felt stable.

This monster's strength is just average.

"You idiot, you do have some skills, but not much!!! You're a weak, dirty bastard!"

Zhou Kao spat out the sand in his mouth, caught a glimpse of the red-hot iron skewers in the kitchen, rolled over on the ground, went into the kitchen, touched a fire stick from the stove, picked up one and threw it at the monster.

The iron skewer flew past its tail fin, leaving long, thin burn marks on its scales.

The goblin roared and turned to rush towards the river bank, its fat body dragging a deep groove in the mud.

Zhou Kao picked up a fire poker and chased it to the shore. In the moonlight, he saw that the monster was actually a black fish about ten feet long. Its back was raised like a small hill, and the edge of its tail fin was covered with serrated barbs.

"Don't leave, you coward!!"

Zhou Kao became anxious when he saw this, and used the fire stick in his hand as a spear, just like Runtu stabbing a wild boar, and threw it with all his strength.

The fire stick pierced the night sky with a sharp whistle, and the red flame at the front fell to the ground like a meteor.

"Puff" it pierced into the tail fin of the black fish.

The fire stick hit the monster's fat tail and burned it again.

With a stumble, the monster fell to the ground. Zhou Kao rushed forward with a knife in both hands and chopped Huashan with all his strength!

Aim at the red light in the darkness and strike directly with a knife.

puff! !

The tiger-patterned sword was of great use at that time.

Unfortunately, the tail was not cut off because the mullet was too fat.

Immediately, scarlet blood overflowed from the water, dyeing the lake red.

The monster felt pain and fled from the shore frantically, rushing into the depths of the river.

The monster fell into the water, and the splashing water soaked Zhou Kao's clothes. But when it turned around, the blood oozing from the wound on its fat tail dyed the river water dark red, and the fishy smell made the reeds on the shore tremble.

Zhou Kao threw two red-hot iron sticks at the black fish again, but saw the monster swung its tail and stirred up a whirlpool. Unfortunately, the black fish had already escaped far away and did not cause any harm to the black fish monster. In a blink of an eye, it sank into the inky water.

In the end, he could only watch the monster escape into the deep pool.

"How dare you, Zhu Zi!"

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. How could Zhou Kao just watch this monster run away like that?

Zhou Kao pounded the rocks on the shore and gritted his teeth when he suddenly heard Yu Niang's faint voice: "Don't worry, sir. Pick up this pearl of wisdom and rinse it in the water by the pond. You will surely be able to... lure that ugly monster out."

Yu Niang's voice came to my ears, and she seemed to be speaking with great effort.

Looking down, I saw a pearl as big as a pigeon egg rolling to my feet. The pearl was radiating warm moonlight, and I could vaguely see golden spots swimming inside.

Zhou Kao grinned, picked up the pearls and put them into his sleeves, then shouted towards the attic, "Everyone, keep an eye on the door! I, Zhou, will go ahead and find that monster!"

The starlight sprinkled on the river like broken silver. Zhou Kao untied the rope of the fishing boat on the shore, held the knife in one hand and pushed the pole away from the shore.

In the waves plowed by the stern, the pearl suddenly emitted a fluorescent blue light, which climbed up the blade along his fingertips and gathered into tiny light scales on the tiger-patterned handle.

Under the bright starlight, the boat sailed away quickly.

Only a shout was left.

A thunderous sound of water came from the deep pool in the distance, and he stepped on the board to steady himself.

Chapter 22 Shadows by the Lake

Zhou Kao's boat shot like an arrow in the night and soon arrived at the outskirts of the village.

As soon as you enter the village, you will see the lake in front of the village shimmering in the moonlight. The lake surface is as calm as a mirror, reflecting the stars in the sky.

However, the scene by the lake was chilling - densely packed white spirit-calling flags were inserted on the shore, fluttering in the night wind, as if countless pale hands were waving.

The offerings were piled up in a mess around the altar, and the ashes of unburned paper money were blown up by the wind, flying in the sky like black butterflies.

Just as those people said, many people really died in this quiet lake.

He walked on the wet mud on the shore and approached the lake. Suddenly, he felt a cold wind blowing across his neck, and the biting chill climbed up his spine to the back of his neck.

As the soul-calling flag swung, the tiger-patterned sword suddenly felt hot in his palm, and a warm current rushed from his heart to his eyes.

Zhou Kao rubbed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he saw rows of wet figures standing in the lake. Their faces were pale, their clothes were dripping with dirty water, and they were looking at the shore with empty eyes.

There were little children, middle-aged men, and white-haired old women, all of whom were clearly villagers who had died in the lake in recent years.

He suddenly remembered the proprietress's crying complaints. Those relatives who were devoured by the monster were now the wronged souls at the bottom of the lake, unable to be reborn.

"Is it a water ghost after death?" Zhou Kao muttered to himself, his fingertips clenching the handle of the knife.

Um? ? ! ! !

This is my own eyes!! ....

Oh, these are all trivial matters. The most important thing right now is to kill the evil monster.

Zhou Kao didn't think about these things. What he wanted most now was to kill that daring bastard.

When he reached the edge of the pond, he didn't even wait to rinse the bead in the water to lure the monster out.

While he was pondering, he suddenly heard a childish cry floating from the lake: "Kill the monster, kill the monster, kill the evil monster!"

Following the sound, I saw two small figures standing in the middle of the lake - a young man with two buns on the left, and a little girl holding his clothes on the right.

The young boy was wearing a tattered blue shirt, the fabric had been swollen by the lake water, revealing his bony collarbone; the little girl had her round eyes open, her face was covered with waterweed, and half a broken lotus leaf was wrapped around the hem of her skirt.

The two of them held a bamboo pole as thin as a knuckle in their small hands and slapped the water surface with all their might.

The boy's expression was serious, his pale cheeks taking on a sickly pallor from the exertion;

The little girl bit her lower lip, her eyes were round and cute.

However, at this moment, there was only a trace of anger on their little faces. They kept slapping the water surface with their bamboo poles, as if they wanted to kill the water monster under the water with the small bamboo poles in their hands.

Every time the bamboo pole hit the water, it would splash tiny drops of water, wetting her arms that looked like lotus root nodes.

The lake echoed with their childish scolding, scaring away the night birds nesting in the reeds.

"They are the son and daughter of the lady boss."

Zhou Kao was shocked and suddenly remembered what the proprietress said - the reason why the boy went crazy was because he once went to the lake with a bamboo pole to fight monsters.

The village chief chased (brought) him back halfway

It is now obvious that the boy did not go back completely.

It was like he had a soul-loss disorder, and because of his obsession, a part of his three souls and seven spirits stayed here to accompany his sister;

The little girl had already gone before her brother and was eaten by a fish.

Now, the souls of the brother and sister depend on each other, trapped in this pool of water, repeating the futile "battle" year after year.

He looked at the two children's feet that were still immersed in the lake water, their ankles wrapped in dark green algae, and their skin a strange bluish-purple color.

The sound still echoed on the lake. They waved the bamboo poles, which were only as thick as a finger, and slapped the water with all their strength. Several times they almost fell into the lake because of excessive force.

They don't know that the bamboo poles in their hands can never penetrate the monster's scales;

They also didn't know that they had already turned into water ghosts and could no longer set foot on the familiar land or get ashore.

Only the lake breeze lifted the corners of their clothes and carried their cries of "beat the monster" to the unfathomable bottom of the pool.

A huge black fish lay curled up motionless in a rock cave at the bottom of the lake, its scaly body mostly buried in the dark blue mud, with only half of its hideous head exposed.

The sharp teeth in its mouth were like a mountain of knives, and bubbles were emitted from its gills as they opened and closed, and foul-smelling sewage dripped from between its teeth.

It doesn't look like a snakehead fish at all, but more like a crocodile.

There was a wound deep enough to see the bone on the fat and huge fish tail. The scales were curled up like broken tiles, and the tail was almost broken. Dark red blood mixed with pus seeped into the mud, making the monster look even more listless.

Suddenly, strange ripples appeared on the surface of the lake. That was the alluring scent emitted by Zhizhu when it entered the water, like honey and wine, which went straight into the black fish's demonic consciousness and tempted him.

“Crash——”

He couldn't help it.

Suddenly, its huge body swung, and the nearby lake water rolled up undercurrents. It immediately left the nest and swam towards the lake surface.

The mud surged, and the black fish suddenly swung its tail, stirring up an undercurrent that swirled like a whirlpool. Broken human bones could be vaguely seen in the mud, and the bones that had been deposited at the bottom of the lake for many years rolled along with them.

The skull's empty eye sockets faced the water.

The bones were rolling and shaking, and there were all kinds of tattered clothes nearby.