Weirdness

"Hee hee hee, tell me, do I look more like a human or a god?"

The thing in the woods shook the branches incessantly, its voice growing more shrill.

"You look like a human! You look like a human! Grandpa Monster, we're just a family of unfortunates, just trying to make a living!"

Terrified, Lu Zhuangyuan didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly prostrated himself on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly towards the woods.

As he kowtowed, he suddenly stopped, because at the edge of the woods, he saw a pair of small feet in embroidered shoes standing there like two awls.

A chill ran down his spine as he slowly raised his head in astonishment, only to see a Small Feet Woman in a brand-new floral cotton-padded jacket standing there alone.

Her large face was very white, but her mouth was extremely small, and her eyes were like black beads embedded in her face, never blinking.

Her entire white face was hidden in the darkness, like a small balloon floating in mid-air.

"Hee hee, do you think I look like a human?" The Small Feet Woman covered her mouth and giggled, taking small steps towards the bonfire.

When he saw the way this woman walked, her body twisting as if it had no bones, the last glimmer of hope in Lu Zhuangyuan's heart was completely extinguished. He had encountered the real deal!

"Xi Wazi!! Xi Wazi! Stop sleeping! Quickly pee Boy Urine!!" Lu Zhuangyuan's terrified, crying voice woke the others.

A lit piece of firewood was shakily picked up by the terrified Lu Zhuangyuan, and thrown forcefully.

However, this attack had no effect. The firewood passed directly through the woman's body.

Just as the Small Feet Woman was about to approach the fire, her body suddenly froze, and her large head abruptly twisted towards the woods to the east.

Branches rustled, and Li Huowang and the others walked out from within, holding several glowing fluorite stones in their hands.

"Hmm?" Bai Lingmiao, who had taken off her cloth strip, noticed something. "Senior Brother Li, look, this woman is really strange! She doesn't have the back of her head; both sides are faces!"

With a clang, the Longsword was drawn. Li Huowang looked warily at the extremely strange Small Feet Woman in the distance. "What are you?"

"Hee hee, I'm a human, don't I look like one?" After the extremely thin voice sounded, the Small Feet Woman began to twist her slender body like a centipede, starting to move closer to her target.

Li Huowang naturally wouldn't sit still and wait for death. Without hesitation, he reached into his left hand, and a deflated Dao bell appeared in his hand.

"Ring ring ring ring~" The piercing sound of the bell rang out, and everyone present, including Li Huowang himself, covered their heads in pain.

Li Huowang didn't stop, continuing to shake it vigorously, because he saw that within his field of vision, everything was twisting and shaking violently, including the Small Feet Woman.

As it shook, her brand-new floral cotton-padded jacket began to crack, and some black gas was constantly seeping out from within.

This copper bell was effective against this woman!

Suddenly, the Small Feet Woman screamed, and her gradually collapsing body flailed wildly as she retreated into the woods. Before long, she disappeared from Li Huowang's sight.

The ringing gradually stopped. Li Huowang looked down in surprise at the Dao bell in his hand. "Although I didn't summon Lord You, I really didn't expect you to have this kind of use."

He didn't know if it was because it had been flattened, or if there was another reason. Although Li Huowang had obtained Danyangzi's Dao bell, every time he shook the bell, the surrounding lines shook chaotically, and didn't condense into Lord You like before.

The more he saw of this world, the more confused he became. What was all this mess?

"Immortal, Immortal! Thank you for your help! I really didn't recognize Mount Tai! Come, come, come over and warm yourself by the fire."

The grateful and tearful Lu Zhuangyuan cupped his hands and welcomed him, very enthusiastically pulling Li Huowang towards the bonfire.

Compared to that thing just now, these monsters following behind this Daoist priest were undoubtedly much more amiable. After all, with the Daoist priest suppressing them, these things were at most just scary. That thing just now could really take lives.

"Hey! This damned beast! If it hadn't suddenly gone mad and run away, how could this old man have neglected such an esteemed person as yourself?" Lu Zhuangyuan took out his pipe and pretended to knock it against the saddle.

After knocking it a few times, he turned around and shouted, "Hey, Juanhua, hurry, hurry, hurry and get the baked buns and water! Get a big white flour bun! And three no! Five salted duck eggs!!"

Lu Zhuangyuan's sudden enthusiasm made Li Huowang feel a little uncomfortable. "Old man, there's no need to trouble yourself. May I trouble you with a few questions?"

"Ask! Ask anything! Little Daoist priest, you just saved the lives of our entire family! Hehe, ask whatever you want!" Lu Zhuangyuan patted his chest and readily agreed.

Seeming to feel that he wasn't enthusiastic enough, he stuck the pipe mouthpiece into his armpit and sucked on it a few times, then relit it and held it out to Li Huowang with flattering hands.

"Uh... thank you, old man, I don't smoke. Do you know what we just encountered? What's it called?" Li Huowang pushed aside the well-worn dry tobacco pipe.

He currently knew nothing about this world. If he wanted to survive safely, he had to learn as much as possible.

Lu Zhuangyuan was obviously dumbfounded by the question. "What? How would I know? Daoist priest, wasn't that thing asking for a boon driven away by you? You don't know?"

Looking at his puzzled eyes, Li Huowang realized that he had asked the wrong question. In this regard, this old man might not know as much as he did.

"I heard you say something about using boy urine. Can boy urine harm that thing from just now?"

"Yes, yes, yes!! Definitely! Those things are afraid of filth! I heard that wiping snot on them also works, but the most effective thing is boy urine. That stuff has the most yang energy and is also filth."

"Really? Have you used it before, old man?"

The Lu Zhuangyuan, who had been so decisive just now, smiled sheepishly when Li Huowang asked him this, his eyes darting around. "Maybe it's useful. The old people in the village all say so. Since everyone says so, it must be right."

Li Huowang sighed helplessly. Why was everything passed down from ancestors? Were the people here so backward in passing on experience?

"Alright, old man, then I'll ask what you know. Do you encounter things like this often?"

"No, how can you encounter such strange things every day? If something like that really happened every night, I would have sold my family property and taken my son back to farm the land." Lu Zhuangyuan put the dry tobacco pipe in his mouth and puffed away.

"I've been out here for so many years, and I've only encountered it four times."

"So that's how it is." Li Huowang looked at the dark forest around him and gained a new understanding of this world.

Having been with Danyangzi for so long, he thought that Black Tai Suis were everywhere outside, but now it seemed that this was not the case at all.

Ordinary people had heard of these things, but they were very far away.