Mythology Returns! Starting with Folklore and Strange Tales

Chapter 125 Me, the little mouse, I love watching the excitement!

Now that it has relinquished its divine status and severed ties with the cat-tiger, its abilities have greatly diminished; it can now only be considered a somewhat mystical spirit cat.

"The old Taoist priest will explain its origins; its fate is up to you!"

Cat and Tiger God...

Hearing the silence behind him, and looking at the large cat in front of him, whose identity had been revealed but whose eyes were still wide and watery, Zhang Wei hesitated for a moment before reaching out and giving the cat's head a good rub: "From now on, you'll be called Afu!"

He had also considered getting a pet.

However, for some reason, when I was a child, both of our dogs contracted canine distemper and parvovirus within six months of each other.

Back then, there weren't pet hospitals everywhere. You could only try to save someone by buying some human medication from a familiar clinic or doctor, but the results... the former lasted for more than a month, while the latter died in less than a week.

Zhang Wei, who was still young, was heartbroken for a long time because of this.

Because of the trauma he experienced before, even if he liked pets in the future, he would only look at them online and never dared to have the idea of ​​keeping one in real life.

Until recently, the arrival of the fragments of the Sky-Waving Cloak caused Zhang Wei to have inappropriate thoughts again.

With the right breed chosen beforehand, the help of a magic weapon, and Zhang Wei's ability to cure various diseases, surely we can't let the dog die now?

However, before Zhang Wei could even find a spirit dog that he had his eye on, a spirit cat came to him on its own initiative.

With his prospective master's explanation, he felt much less resentful.

They were all just trying to find a way to survive.

Although the cat and tiger did not ask for his opinion beforehand, they still gave him the right to choose.

Since that's the case, let's try it out first.

If it suits your taste, it will become a spirit pet and companion. If not, you can part ways amicably. Moreover, you can receive a rather profound evaluation from your prospective master. This Hajimi is probably quite rare. It is a rare creature that you won't know where the next temple is if you miss this one.

Zhang Wei grabbed Afu, pulled him into his arms, and then turned and left the Ba La Temple.

They followed the official road and found the starving people slowly making their way forward.

People stared in surprise at the new black fur ball in his arms, curious, but no one dared to ask because of the oppressive atmosphere.

After walking a little further, the sun was high in the sky.

The hungry people, who had been walking for half a day, needed to stop and relieve their fatigue. Moreover, walking under the scorching sun was too much for their bodies to handle.

However, after traveling for half a day and a night, the faint outline of Heshun City could be seen at the end of the official road.

But this Heshun City is worse than not seeing it at all.

A layer of transparent air currents, created by the drought, stretched between Zhang Wei and Heshun City. Through the blurred vision, they could see large and small groups of starving people stretching from several hundred meters in front of them all the way to the city wall.

The crowd leaned helplessly against tree trunks, clods of earth, or simply lay on the ground.

Rats and wild dogs roamed among people of all sizes, probing each starving person lying on the ground.

They eat the dead on the spot and don't care if the living are driven away; sooner or later, these people will still be their prey.

Further afield, one could see people dressed in fine clothes walking among the starving people, carrying baskets filled with steamed buns and cornbread. Each time they bowed, a young boy or girl would emerge from the crowd, and the person in charge would casually toss a few steamed buns from the basket, just like treating stray dogs, for the young people's relatives to scramble for them on the ground.

Further away at the city gate, a group of people of extreme sizes had gathered, surrounding a place that looked like a market stall, and it was unclear what they were doing inside.

Having seen the normal perspective, Zhang Wei habitually turned on his "divine eye."

All that could be seen was pitch black.

He felt as if he had fallen into hell, where eerie creatures roamed freely under the pitch-black sky, and demons were everywhere.

The demons and monsters that were nowhere to be seen along the way are now everywhere.

The starving souls opened their mouths wide, scavenging for food; plague monsters spread the miasma with their bags; mountain monsters blended into the earth's color, slowly approaching the starving people; little monsters frightened children and the elderly; and all sorts of strange and wonderful creatures were mixed in with them.

Zhang Wei took a deep breath.

He turned and told the starving people what he had seen, advising them to bypass Heshun while also leaving a bottle of fasting pills as a gift to accompany them on their journey.

Regardless of how reluctant the starving people were to leave, they strode forward directly toward the city ahead.

As soon as he passed the first group of starving people, he attracted countless eyes.

Alone and alone, with fair and delicate skin, the demons in front of the pot licked their lips, rats poked their heads out from the corpse, and a pack of dogs whimpered as if they were discussing something.

"ha!"

Like a ball of yarn, the golden tiger, huddled in Zhang Wei's arms, suddenly raised its head, its dark eyes scanning the ignorant rats, and a threatening growl came from its mouth full of sharp teeth.

An invisible wave of sound swept across like a whirlwind.

The rat's eyes were filled with the terror of seeing its natural enemy.

During the brief standoff, a large number of carrion rats quickly scurried back into their food, lowering their heads and ignoring the commotion around them, but the wild dogs were not having any of that.

At that moment, more than a dozen stray dogs, their mouths drooling, came running towards Zhang Wei, barking all the way.

Zhang Wei had originally intended to use Blood Fiend to deal with the wild dogs that were already transforming into corpse-digging hounds, but seeing the golden tiger in his arms suddenly stomp its front paws on his sleeve, its eyes filled with seriousness as it turned its head, he abandoned the idea and released its embrace...

The ball of fur landed and instantly transformed into a black shadow, rushing to the wild dog's side in a flash.

"Rip~"

A flash of cold light appeared, and the baring, charging wild dog fell to the ground. At the same time, a large dog head flew two or three meters high with a spray of blood before crashing to the ground.

The stray dogs following behind didn't even have time to react.

They only saw a shadow flash by before their companion suddenly collapsed. Before they could even process what had happened, the shadow had already darted in front of them.

"Snap! Snap!"

As they dodged and weaved, dog heads rolled off the ground, dark red blood flowing freely.

In just a few seconds, the wild dogs that had been baring their teeth at Zhang Wei were all lying on the ground, no longer able to bar their teeth at him. But this was not the end; it was only the beginning.

A dark figure darted swiftly through the crowd of starving people outside the city, the gust of wind it stirred up causing the hems of their clothes and the branches and pebbles on the ground to tumble about.

One after another, the stray dogs were suddenly decapitated.

Even as they watched their companions dwindle, the wild dogs, whimpering and howling, could not escape the clutches of the shadowy figure and were all swept away to their doom.

The terror was spreading.

More and more stray dogs are turning and running away with their tails between their legs.

As the target receded into the distance, the Golden Tiger, which had been indiscriminately slaughtering its way through the area, stopped and let out a disdainful snort. Just as it was about to turn back to its embrace, it met the eyes of a curious corpse rat that had come out to peek out.