Da Zaojun

Chapter 51 Blood Puppet Scarecrow (asking for monthly votes)

"There is a group of little demons there." Song Wuji could see the names.

[Stone shell mantis]

A dung beetle disguised as a stone?
Lu Han injected literary energy into his eyes, and indeed saw a faint demonic aura.

The five elements of the stone mantis belong to earth, so the evil spirit is also earthy and stone-colored.

"This seems to be a wild demon similar to the bush demon, born from the essence of the sun and moon, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. It is not as ferocious as those rat demons and ghost minions."

The pictures of Bai Ze monsters have been added, and the categories of monsters and ghosts are constantly increasing.

It not only records the various big demons that cause demon disasters, but also records the commonly seen small demons and how to deal with them.

The demons are also classified into different categories, including demons in secret realms and wild demons that can be found everywhere, such as bush demons, which are consistent with the plant spirits in folk legends that gain spiritual power from the moonlight.

Some people even want to start training little demons, believing that the danger posed by little demons is limited and they can be raised like cats and dogs, becoming a kind of production tool.

For example, someone discovered that by throwing a piece of rotten meat to a bush demon in advance, the demon would not attack while it was focused on digesting the rotten meat. This allowed them to harvest the young shoots of the bush demon and make tea. However, in Taichang County, demons are currently strictly prohibited from entering the city.

As of now, the supplementary Bai Ze Ze monster map does not include this type of little monster.

"It's a good time to try out the Six Arts of a Gentleman. I've already mastered the 'Song of the Heart-Confusing'. The score says that a mountain stream meets a kindred spirit. The 'Song of the Heart-Confusing' may even be able to tame a demon for my own use."

After saying that, he started to play the flute while approaching the stone mantis.

"Woo~Hoo~Woo~"

When Song Wuji heard the music, he felt it was discontinuous and barely formed a tune. Although he himself did not have a refined aesthetic taste for classical music, he still found it hoarse and unpleasant to listen to.

Moreover, this thing seemed to be attacking indiscriminately, without any discrimination between friend and foe. No wonder Chen Xiu said that it was easy to injure civilians by mistake and even kill a few chickens at home.

Fortunately, Song Wuji's divine attribute had reached 4 points, so he only felt his eyelids twitching slightly, but was not confused.

But those stone mantises had been awakened by the confusing song, and they were all very irritable.

The stone mantis looks like a mutated watermelon worm, or to be more precise, a woodlice. When it curls up, it is a stone ball. When it stretches out, it is a flatworm, each one is the size of a washbasin.

But they were furious, as if they were in a bad mood after waking up. Instead of attacking Lu Han, they attacked each other.

The way of attack is also unique. The body rolls into a ball and then crashes into the opponent.

When the stone shells collided with each other, there was a loud noise, and both stone shell mantises were dizzy and scattered.

Song Wuji listened to the crisp sound and thought to himself, "Although this thing looks like a bug, the meat after peeling it should be like lobster or crab, and these shells seem to be good materials."

He immediately pounced on a mantis like a hungry tiger and pinned it down.

The stone mantis turned into a ball. Song Wuji, with 4 points of spirit and energy, couldn't crush it in one blow. He then tried throwing a few copper coin darts. With his immense strength, the copper coin darts were quite powerful, but they couldn't penetrate the stone mantis. They only left a white mark, as if the stone mantis were a true stone lifeform.

Lu Han's flute stopped playing. "This stone worm is quite powerful, but fortunately its intelligence is not very high. The lower the intelligence of the worm, the better I can control it. The more intelligent the worm, the less effective it is. It can only disrupt it."

Song Wuji thought to himself: Even someone as intelligent as me feels annoyed just listening to this.

"If I can control a group of rats like the rat demon, I can also control these melon bugs with some power."

You are a Confucian scholar, why don't you think about using literary energy to write swords and knives, but start thinking about taming beasts? But the flute seems to be more suitable for cobras!

"We can pay attention to what these stone shell insects like to eat." Song Wuji said: "Let's go to the charity cemetery first. It's eight miles away, and we don't have any physical skills or light skills to travel quickly. It will take us two hours to walk back and forth."

The two men left leisurely, and the stone mantis that was left behind was confused. No, they woke us up, beat us up and left. Is this reasonable?
The farther you get from Taichang County, the greater the chance of encountering a little demon.

I don’t know how Huang Sandian escaped these monsters after he turned into a dog, or if the monsters really only attack humans and not dogs. Are they racially discriminatory?

Song Wuji encountered the "Blood Puppet Scarecrow" that gave people the uncanny valley effect. It was holding a pole and jumping around in the weeds, looking quite imposing.

He follows everyone he sees, asking, "Do I look like a human to you? Do I look like a human to you?"

It's even more bizarre than the yellow-skinned man asking for a title.

Song Wuji was afraid that he was some magic demon, so he didn't dare to go up and fight him. Fortunately, there was a group of bird demons behind him who had a grudge against the scarecrow demon. They rushed up to peck at this thing, and Song Wuji and Lu Han probably had to take action.

As Lu Han hurried along, he observed the surroundings: "It seems as if countless pairs of eyes are watching us in this wilderness. The farther away from Taichang County we are, the more lush the weeds grow."

"Even the roots of plants and trees have encroached on the official road, but so far no real demons have appeared on it. This shows that there should still be some imperial laws on the official road. I remember there was a post station before Baliting, right between Taichang County and Jianxin County. I wonder what the situation is now."

"You'll know once you go there." Song Wuji was also observing the situation in the wilderness. Every village and town he passed by gave people a gloomy and terrifying feeling, as if something was about to run out of it.

The appearance of demons caused most of the villages to be massacred, or directly imprisoned and raised by demons.

With the strength of Song Wuji and Lu Han, they actually have no ability to directly deal with this kind of demon entrenched in an area, especially when they don't know the demon's whereabouts or what magic powers it has. Acting rashly is basically tantamount to seeking death.

Fortunately, the sun got brighter as they walked, and nothing sinister suddenly appeared, so Song Wuji and Lu Han finally arrived at the gate of the charity cemetery.

Before, Song Wuji was accompanied by Cat Detective. When they saw Huang Sandian go in, although it was at night, they just followed him from a distance.

Although it was daytime, as soon as I approached the charity cemetery, I felt a chill. A cool breeze blew out from the charity cemetery.

"There won't be any zombies." Song Wuji was not afraid of ghosts, as those things were naturally restrained by the stove fire, but the same might not be true for zombies.

"Don't be afraid."

After saying that, Lu Han handed Song Wuji a piece of calligraphy with an elegant style. On it was written "A gentleman does not speak of strange things, supernatural powers, or chaos." Holding the calligraphy, he felt blessed with a sense of righteousness, but Song Wuji felt that it was not as useful as lighting a torch.

(End of this chapter)