Chapter 157: Retribution of kindness and revenge
The two brothers invited Chi Yan into the house with joy, but they didn't know that they were actually the beginning of the nightmare in the whole village.
From the moment Chi Yan entered the house, they were very busy. Zhang Er hurriedly pulled out the round stool next to the old wooden table. Although there was no dust on it, he wiped it several times with his sleeves before he respectfully invited Chi Yan to sit down. Zhang Yize quickly poured a cup of tea for him and handed it to him with both hands. The simple brothers actually just kept greeting him with a smile, but didn't know what to say.
Chi Yan then sat down, took the teacup, and wanted to pretend to taste it, but he saw that the teacup was made of a earthen kiln. What's more, although the tea water was strong in color, it didn't have any fragrance at all. I don't know how many hours it had been soaked, but it hit the wooden table heavily, and his fingers hit the table back and forth, as if he was a little impatient.
The two happy brothers were immediately scared when they saw his actions like this. Zhang Yi took the lead in admitting their mistake: "Master Divine Beast, we brothers are both rough people, and we eat some simple food. We really can't come up with anything good to treat you. Please don't remember the villain's mistakes, don't be angry."
Chi Yan still repeated the movements in his hands, but his eyes were staring at them tightly. The two brothers looked at each other and fell to the ground. They were so scared that they were trembling, but they didn't know where they were wrong. They couldn't think of it and dared not ask, so they kept kneeling down.
After a long stalemate, Chi Yan finally spoke, but asked an irrelevant sentence, "Have you ever seen Qilin?"
The two of them then raised their heads, but shook their heads one after another. Qilin is a divine beast, and it is not something that ordinary people can see whenever they want. They just heard Liu Langzhong say that they identified his Qilin's identity. Not to mention Qilin's true body, they could not even see the portrait.
Chi Yan seemed to be very satisfied with their reaction. He stood up and looked around the simple stone house. The room was not big and there were many miscellaneous items. The only wide part was the wooden table in front of him and the open space in front of the bed. Such a narrow place would not be able to accommodate him if he turned back to his true body.
"Get up! What are you doing on your knees? You saved me, I am here to repay you, but I can't think of how to repay you now, or I will turn back to my true body and let you see what?"
The two of them just stood up, but were frightened by the words behind them, so their legs and feet became weak. No matter how they looked like they were coming to repay their kindness, they were more like taking revenge.
Zhang Er was already panicked and hid behind his brother and did not dare to look at him directly. Zhang Yize hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, you are already very happy to be able to come, how dare you ask for a reward?"
Chi Yan opened his hands and looked up at the dilapidated beams and turned around, showing a gentle smile on his face: "How can that be done? I am a divine beast Qilin! I will definitely make you look brand new here, and I will never have the shadow of the past."
"Really?" Zhang Er had forgotten his previous fear, and poked his head out from behind his brother, raised a big smile on his dark face, and his bright eyes narrowed into thin slits. Obviously, he took it seriously.
Zhang Yize was relatively calm. The difference between this person was so big that he was to repay his kindness, so why did he pretend to be stinking when he came? I'm afraid he had something else to do.
Chi Yan waved with a fake smile: "Come here, I'll talk to you."
Zhang Er did not doubt that he was there, so he ran over. When Zhang Yi was about to stop him, he was already a step late. He saw that the man called the divine beast suddenly opened his mouth wide, and then his brother
I was sucked in and nothing was left in the end.
He was scared and pointed at Chi Yan's hand and kept trembling. Then he was fixed in his original place as if it had been petrified. Beads of sweat as big as beans on his forehead followed the trend. He wanted to ask for help, wanted to escape, and even wanted to pick up the hoe beside the wall to fight him desperately, but he couldn't do anything.
"Did you see it? Your brother was eaten by me. I am a lucky beast. I have always done my best. I said that I will make this place look fresh and I will never leave a living. When you are eaten by me, there will be no one here. Will there be a new scene if there is no one?"
Chiyan smiled with satisfaction. He liked to see them desperate and helpless than cannibalism.
"You, you... beast,"
Zhang Yi finally reacted, but couldn't think of a bad word to express his anger and disappointment, so he picked up the hoe beside the wall and rushed towards him.
However, such an attack was just a desperate struggle for Chiyan. He grabbed the hoe from his hand, and with a light force between his palms, the entire hoe turned into powder and then floated on the ground.
Zhang Yi was petrified again, and he could only watch him open his mouth wide and suck himself into it bit by bit until he felt no more.
"What Kirin Divine Beast? I want you to know that there are no divine beasts in this world, only my Red Flame Golden Divine Beast. Haha..."
Afterwards, he visited other villagers' homes, and without exception, everyone was eaten by him, and no one else noticed all of this.
Five days later, the villagers had questions, and they were discussing that they had not seen the Zhang brothers for several days. When they went out to work, they would pass through the village road, and every time they would go to the Wang couple's house to tease their four-year-old daughter Yan'er.
Although this girl can't speak, she is well-behaved and cute. When she smiles like the rising sun, she always gives people an infinitely beautiful feeling.
There are relatively dense houses next to the main road, with about 17 or 18 families, and the Wang family is located at the center. His family is relatively grand. Although it has stone walls and mud tiles, the wooden doors are painted with vermilion paint by Yan'er's father, and a flower bed is planted in the courtyard, which is simple but elegant.
"In fact, it's not just the two brothers of the Zhang family who haven't seen each other for a long time. Yesterday I went to Li's house and asked him to help my grandmother make a recliner. After knocking on the door for a long time, no one responded to me. I went again this morning, but no one responded to me. I was afraid that something would happen to him alone, so I kicked the door and went in. Who knew that after searching for a while, I didn't see anyone. It's really strange. Where do you think he can go?"
The person who spoke was named Xu Qing, who was a young man in his early twenties. Because his parents died early, only his grandmother was dependent on him at home. His grandmother was over 80 years old and suffered from coughing diseases all year round. Fortunately, she was still in good health and she had no problem walking on the roadside with crutches on weekdays.
"You said that, I went to Lao Li's house two days ago and didn't see anyone. You guys, what's going on?"
"I went to the Lin family yesterday and didn't see anyone, so?"
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For a moment, several villagers who gathered to chat told them all about the rebate they had eaten in the past few days. They didn't know if they didn't say it. Only after this did they realize that most of the villagers in the village had disappeared for no reason.
Where did they go without knowing this? Is life and death?
The huge mystery deeply troubled the villagers' hearts. The village, which was originally laughing and laughing, suddenly became a little depressed.
I am afraid that the next person who disappears will be myself?
At night, Xu Qing, like before, prepared the bed for her grandmother, washed her feet personally, and returned to her room after she fell asleep, and then began to rummage through the cabinets and found a dagger, and then got up and went out with a smile.
The villagers were timid and fearful, and everyone was in danger. During the day, he told them his thoughts. He said, "Although I can't think of where all the missing people have gone, one thing is certain. All this happened after the arrival of the divine beast Qilin. Why not let us confront him now and see if it is related to him?"
Unexpectedly, no one agreed. They all said that they could not offend the divine beasts. Not only did they not want to go with them, but they also refused to let him go, so he was stopped.
As the saying goes, a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, Xu Qing is young and energetic, and he has never seen the divine beast Qilin before. Let’s not talk about whether the person in Liu’s house is, even if it is a divine beast that brings ominousness to this place, what should I keep for him?
So he hid the dagger in his arms and sneaked towards Liu Langzhong's house. But before he could walk far, he heard footsteps. For fear of being discovered, he hurriedly jumped into the rice fields on the roadside, and then quietly looked at the actions of the people coming.
Only then did he realize that the person who came was not a villager, but a divine beast Qilin that everyone called. What did he do here so late? Could it be that the disappearance of the villagers was his cause?
Although he was full of doubts, he was still very calm. Following him, he might find the missing villagers, so he followed him quietly.
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In the past five days, the remote villagers were eaten, and now only the families gathered on the roadside were left. Chi Yan chose to take action at night. After all, there were still dozens of people who had not eaten. If they were discovered, they would definitely flee everywhere.
Although with his strength, it is impossible for a person to escape alive, the energy he can save cannot be wasted. He still chose to take action from the farthest family. This time he did not knock on the door, but directly turned into a red gold beam and crawled into the crack of the door.
Xu Qing was a little panicked. It turned out that no matter what his purpose was, he was simply hitting a stone with an egg, and he was overestimating his ability.
Although he was afraid, he was still curious about what this divine beast was going to do. Driven by curiosity, he began to slowly approach, hid by the half-open window, and quietly stared at the movements in the room.
At this time, Chi Yan had already eaten the male owner of the house, and his wife was sitting by the bed holding a five-month-old baby, sobbing constantly. The child was sleeping soundly and grinning from time to time.
As the footsteps got closer, the woman finally stopped crying. She hurriedly wiped away her tears, knelt on the ground with a thud, and then kept kowtowing: "I beg you, as long as you don't eat my child, I promise you whatever you want, please let my child go, please..."
Chi Yan smiled, very despicable. He squatted down and pinched the woman's chin and looked at her carefully. Although the woman was already a mother, she was still radiant. Two lines of clear tears were vaguely hanging on her fair face. A red mark had already been knocked on her forehead. Her big eyes kept blinking because of fear, and even her red lips were trembling slightly. What a beauty I still missed.
"Beauty, are you saying I don't eat him? Is it okay to do anything?"
Chapter completed!