C649 Humans Are Afraid of Ghosts
C649 Humans Are Afraid of Ghosts
The monster with the stone on its body called itself "Yanshan." It originally lived in the distant mountains and only moved here recently. It was about 24 years old, and it was said that in their race, it was the age of a youth.
"I was going to mate with a female and raise her offspring..."
Yanshan lowered his head as he thought of those sad thoughts.
"Who knew those terrifying creatures would appear in the mountains..."
"Is that so..."
Du Kang secretly sighed.
He originally thought that the so-called "booking" was unreliable again. He did not expect that the intelligent creature he saved was actually a local.
This time, he really blamed Nyarlathotep wrongly. The other party had indeed given him a booking.
However, in scenic areas or places like hunting grounds, it was very normal to have local natives living there. Although these local people would sometimes use methods such as slaughtering people to obtain profits, this monster called "Yanshan" in front of him also seemed to be an honest person, and did not seem like those profiteers.
Furthermore, Du Kang really needed a local to help him familiarize himself with this hunting ground.
After all...
"Those terrifying creatures you mentioned, what exactly is going on?"
Du Kang became even more puzzled.
"Did they chase you all the way from your hometown to kill you? Do you guys have a grudge?"
"I don't know either..."
Yanshan looked confused.
"They didn't chase me all the way here. They wanted to kill me in my hometown, but I have never provoked these terrifying creatures. Where did the hatred come from?"
"This..."
Du Kang fell into silence.
Although he was not as sensitive to lies as Nyarlathotep, Yanshan did not look like he was lying. In other words...
Haunted. Definitely haunted.
Attacking the living without any reason, this was clearly a characteristic of the ghosts in horror movies. Du Kang remembered this very clearly. He had seen many things like Chu Renmei, jia coconut, chastity, lin Zhengying in the past.
Although he had been frightened by these things to the point that he didn't dare to walk through the night, it at least gave him a concrete impression of ghosts and the like.
The dead had malicious intentions towards the living, without any reason.
And it was a malicious intent that the living couldn't resist.
"Yanshan, those terrifying monsters that you mentioned... what other reactions do they have?"
Du Kang decided to further confirm what the enemy was.
"Do you know what they look like, or how they move?"
"I don't know much either..."
Yanshan recalled the information about the terrifying creatures, and his face inevitably showed panic.
"No one knows where those terrifying monsters came from. They seem to have appeared out of thin air... They are not big. In terms of individual strength, they are actually very weak, almost dying from a single touch. However, they will wear down the last bit of the opponent's stamina by continuing to fight... Sometimes, they will appear alone, and sometimes, they will appear in groups. As long as they passed by, whether it was grass or stones, broken bones, small beasts, beehive webs, and so on, they would sweep them away. Nothing will be left behind... Ah, that's right. "
Yanshan seemed to have thought of something disgusting.
" They won't even let go of their feces. "
"Uh... the meat is almost ready. Let's change the topic."
Glancing at the simple barbeque rack made of tree branches, Du Kang scratched his head awkwardly.
Although he knew that Yanshan did not mean to do it, he successfully dispelled Du Kang's appetite by saying something about feces before eating.
However... plundering everything?
Du Kang vaguely thought of a possibility.
Plundering everything wherever he went - this was a characteristic that only hungry ghosts would have. When Du Kang and Anubis, who had opened the Hell, were chatting, they had even specially used this kind of special undead as an example.
If one had to use that thing to describe a hungry ghost... then there would only be locusts.
Furthermore, it was an upgraded version of locusts.
At least there were some things that the locusts did not eat. But the hungry ghost would not let go of anything. They would rob everything in their line of sight to satisfy their greed, never to be satisfied.
Furthermore, hungry ghosts were usually very small - this was very consistent with Yanshan's description.
"Alright, solving the case."
Du Kang had a solemn expression.
"I know what those things are. This place is in trouble."
"It is indeed a disaster."
Yanshan deeply agreed.
"The existence of those terrifying creatures is a disaster... Sigh."
Exhaling, Yanshan lowered his head even more.
That's right. So what if he knew that it was a disaster?
What could he do?
In order to avoid those terrifying creatures, he had already escaped from the familiar mountainous region all the way to the unfamiliar woodland. However, there were also those terrifying creatures in the woodland, and they had even almost taken his life.
Do you still want to continue fleeing?
Where else could he escape to?
Perhaps he had nowhere to run from the moment those terrifying creatures appeared.
"But your luck is pretty good. Coincidentally, I have something on me to deal with those things"
As he spoke, Du Kang took out a small gem from the crack in his carapace.
"I got this from a friend. He said that as long as you carry this thing on you, you can hit those so-called 'terror'. There is nothing to be afraid of. There is no need to decline. I still have a lot of these things."
... "Really?"
Yanshan hesitated for a moment when he saw the shining stone in front of him.
It was just a small thing like this. Could it really allow him to attack those terrifying creatures?
He knew how nimble those terrifying creatures were. Although his thin body would die if he touched it, he would never be able to touch those terrifying creatures that were jumping up and down. That was also the reason why he was beaten to the brink of death.
As long as he could hit them...
Those things were not scary.
"Of course it's true."
Du Kang handed the gem over.
"You'll know when you have time to try it. You'll be able to sleep well after bringing this thing with you."
"Oh... Alright, thank you."
Yanshan, who never knew what gratitude was, said in a shaky voice. He then tried his best to stuff the gem into the scales under the membrane wings.
He did not dare to carelessly swallow such a precious thing into his stomach.
"Alright, it's settled now."
Seeing Yanshan's actions, Du Kang nodded.
The gem was given to him by Anubis. It was said that it was used by the judges of Hell to restrain evil creatures. Du Kang had never seen a mummy wearing a dog-head mask take a gem, but seeing that they were friends, Du Kang believed Anubis's words.
He had not tested the effects Anubis had mentioned, but after he brought these gemstones with him, he felt a lot more at ease when he slept.
"With this, you don't have to worry about those monsters anymore."
Du Kang turned around and took the two large skewers of beast meat off the simple grill. He handed a skewer to Yanshan.
"Come, let's eat first. Don't eat raw meat all the time. Eating cooked meat is more important."
"This... is cooked?"
Smelling the fragrance of the roast meat, Yanshan, who had been hungry for a long time, couldn't wait to take a bite.
"Thank you! This is indeed better than raw food!"
Feeling the delicacy of the food, Yanshan bit down on the beast meat.
"Friend, don't talk about it, this taste... En? "
Yanshan was stunned for a moment.
"Why is it a little... weird?"
"Strange?"
Du Kang was confused by Yanshan's reaction.
"What's strange? I didn't put the ingredients in the wrong place..."
As he spoke, Du Kang lowered his head and sniffed his own skewer.
"There's no problem with this ingredient, it's completely normal... Wait a minute?"
Du Kang also noticed that something was not right.
"Why is it so... smelly?"
Du Kang was sure that the meat didn't stink at all, let alone after being roasted. There wasn't any problem during the process of processing. What exactly had gone wrong?
"Impossible..."
Du Kang carefully examined the meat skewer in front of him.
"There's no reason for it to be like this... Gan!"
Du Kang's prawn face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
In his line of sight, a sticky thing was stuck on the back of the skewer.
It was a pile of feces.