guile fairy

Chapter 5 Spider
  Due to the remoteness of the place, Fu Zhaozhao and the others took a bus, an ox cart, and finally walked. They arrived when the sun was high in the sky.

Zhang Quanren looked miserable, as if his energy and energy had been drained out.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, saw the ruined stone tablet, and said, "It should be here."

The stone tablet was engraved with Shengfeng Village, but the upper part of the word Sheng was cut off, just like a person without his head.

Fu Zhaozhao looked at it carefully and finally shook his head, "It's not here, but it's almost there."

After saying that, she walked towards the dilapidated village.

Maybe it was too remote. Although the sun was at its strongest at noon, when I walked into the village, I always felt a cold wind blowing towards people's necks from time to time.

Fu Zhaozhao walked around the village and finally stopped at a place similar to an ancestral hall.

"We will settle down here today." Fu Zhaozhao said.

Zhang Quan looked at the wall of the ancestral hall, which was smeared with a lot of red liquid, with some trepidation, and suddenly thought of something, "Could this be the place where the spider monster was originally locked up?"

Fu Zhaozhao nodded, "If you see the cage, it's no surprise that it's here."

Zhang Quan's otaku-like face instantly turned pale, so they had sent themselves to the spider monster's lair.

No matter how much he didn't want to go in, Fu Zhaozhao still walked in on his own, found a fairly spacious place inside, packed up and got ready to sleep.

Zhang Quan opened his mouth and was about to say something when he was interrupted by the impatient Fu Zhaozhao.

She held up her little fleshy face and gave him a dissatisfied look, "Go to bed early, it will only appear at night. If you really can't sleep, go for a walk outside and miss your homeland."

Fu Zhaozhao's last sentence seemed a bit subtle.

Zhang Quan felt embarrassed when he heard this, "I don't have any hometown here." As he said that, he found a corner against the wall and sat down.

Fu Zhaozhao snorted softly, and didn't care too much about him, just closed his eyes and rested his mind.

Probably because the surrounding environment was too quiet, Zhang Quan, who was originally tense, gradually relaxed and fell asleep unconsciously, as if he had entered a very strange dream.

"Drag him in. The Taoist priest said that the most critical step in raising a happy child is to eat spiders containing the flesh and blood of relatives. As long as this step is successful, the village will have good weather and good harvests every year."

The speaker's voice was a little old, and he coughed from time to time as he spoke, as if he was extremely weak.

Then there was the cry of a child, as if he was suffering from some pain.

Zhang Quan tried his best to open his eyes, but saw a cage in front of him that was slightly smaller than the one in the ancestral hall.

Inside the cage was a little boy huddled in the corner. The little boy's body was covered with spiders, some big and some small, but they were all biting each other's flesh crazily, as if they had encountered a rare delicacy.

The little boy's cries gradually became fainter, as if he would die next moment.

At this time, a middle-aged man next to him was obviously very happy, "Thanks to the Taoist priest, we were able to find so many spiders. Ordinary spiders don't bite people, which would make us worry to death."

People around him were echoing and praising the Taoist priest.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Quan felt his eyes shift to a thin man next to him.

The man was wearing a yellow monk's robe. He was a little thin, with a look of indifference on his face. Only his eyes fell on the little boy in the cage. His eyes looked a little greedy and a little excited at the moment, as if he was waiting for something.

The little boy's crying gradually stopped, and his body stopped shaking, as if he was really dead.

But Zhang Quan wanted to speak to stop all this, but found that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make a sound.

At the next moment, the little boy in the cage raised his head slightly, and the corners of his eyes seemed to be cracked. Some black eyeball-like things moved, and he said vaguely, "You will all die. Everyone in the cage will die." Everyone here will die." The little boy said, his eyes finally fixed in the direction of Zhang Quan, as if he had already seen him, and those words were also addressed to him.

Zhang Quan was startled, and the next moment he screamed and was awakened from his dream.

Fu Zhaozhao: "Hey, you finally woke up?"

Fu Zhaozhao in front of him was holding instant noodles that he didn't know where he came from, slurping and eating them.

Zhang Quan touched his belly and asked sheepishly, "Xiao Zhao, do you have more instant noodles?"

It turned out that before they knew it, they had slept all afternoon, and the sun was beginning to set. Apart from a piece of bread at noon, their stomachs, which had never eaten anything, began to rebel.

Fu Zhaozhao threw a bucket to him and said, "Go and boil the water yourself."

Zhang Quan thanked him repeatedly.

After Fu Zhaozhao had a full meal, he asked, "Did you dream about something just now?"

Zhang Quan nodded, and then told everything he saw in his dream.

Fu Zhaozhao thought for a while and asked: "Does the Taoist priest look like he is forty or fifty years old, with a beard hanging on and his body looking a little thin?"

Zhang Quan was shocked, "How do you know?!"

Fu Zhaozhao snorted twice and did not tell him how he knew. He just said vaguely, "I didn't expect it would be him again this time. What do they want to do?"

After the two of them packed their things casually, it was completely dark.

Fu Zhaozhao stretched, looked at the time, and then asked Zhang Quan, "Would you like to go for a walk?"

Zhang Quan nodded repeatedly and followed.

Everything on the road was smooth and uneventful, not what he had imagined.

Zhang Quan: "Let's check the terrain first. Can we deal with the spider monster then?"

Fu Zhaozhao: "Who said that?"

Zhang Quan was surprised: "Then why are we walking around the village?"

Fu Zhaozhao swayed his tiny arms, and the bells jingled one after another.

"Your family didn't tell you that if you take a walk after dinner, you will live to be one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine."

Zhang Quan shook his head and said in a subtle tone: "I have only heard of living to ninety-nine..."

Fu Zhaozhao glanced at him with disgust, "That's because you can only live this long."

Zhang Quan keenly caught her phrase "you", savored it carefully, thought about it, and finally came to a conclusion.

Fu Zhaozhao doesn't seem to be human either.

Zhang Quan was shocked at first when he thought of this, and then he felt calm again.

After all, no other child could be so calm and composed in this kind of environment.

Zhang Quan sometimes even felt that Fu Zhaozhao was not a child, but a person much older than him.

(End of this chapter)