Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 46 The Inner Temple
Mandrill!

This blue-faced, long-toothed, burly monkey turned out to be a mandrill!
I was shocked when I heard the words of these two monkey waiters. I have heard about mandrills before. It is said that this kind of thing is also called mountain ghost in some places. They like to eat people the most. They come out at night, often looting farmhouses, and eating children. In the folklore of Bashu and other places, there are often records of setting off firecrackers during the Spring Festival to drive away mandrills.

I glanced at the mandrill next to me, and sure enough, I found that he was similar to the mandrill recorded in the book, but his body was stronger. After all, monkeys as tall as a person are still very rare.

"Well, who are here now?" Mandrill nodded to the two waiters, and he asked the waiter who was following him while carrying me inside.

A monkey waiter with darker hair took a cautious look at me, and then said to the mandrill: "The water girl of the Minjiang River, the corpse king, the Youyou ghost, and Zhang Zongbing from Jiangjunling have all come, but just now the king seems to be with Zhang Zongbing. The soldier made a fuss."

Hearing what the waiter said, the mandrill grinned, and said disdainfully: "Hmph, Zongbing Zhang, it's just a group of remnants and defeated generals. By the way, the green gnat from Qinglongtan didn't come?"

The monkey waiter's face changed, he took a careful look at the mandrill, and then said, "No, it is said that the little monkey who was going to deliver the message was eaten by it."

I felt the mandrill grabbing my hand tightly, he sneered, and said, "Shame on me, I'll peel the skin of that mandrill sooner or later."

The monkey waiter was on the sidelines, looking cowardly.

The mandrill seemed to be a little impatient, he waved to the waiter and said, "Okay, go down, I will go see the king myself."

The monkey waiter suddenly seemed to be pardoned, nodded and bowed to the mandrill, and retreated with a relaxed expression, as if he was relieved.

Mandrill ignored it, he carried me and walked into the hall.

I took the time to look around, and found that this is an extremely wide hall with hundreds of tables. These tables are like the dining tables in ancient TV dramas. On both sides of the table, there are several monkeys sitting opposite each other. Or toast each other with wine glasses, or tear meat from the table and put it in their own mouths to chew.

I guessed and calculated, there are thousands of monkeys sitting in this hall alone, most of them are the most common Tibetan macaques, and there are also other species such as big green monkeys and macaques. Every gesture is completely no different from the human society outside the mountain, and it is completely different from those of the same kind who beg for food from tourists on Qingcheng Mountain.

This is simply a kingdom of monkeys. I never thought that one day I would accidentally break into a country made up of monkeys. This is simply unimaginable, and it is almost like a fairy tale.

The mandrill strode inside, and wherever he passed, all the monkeys stood up tremblingly, stood up and bowed to it.

I murmured in my heart: "It seems that this mandrill has quite a high status here. So many monkeys seem to be quite afraid of him. He is indeed a mountain ghost in folklore."

The mandrill grabbed me through an inner door and entered the inner hall of the temple. The scene inside and outside the inner door are completely two extremes.

The inner hall is a smaller hall, but it is decorated with resplendent gold and jade. The ceiling of the main hall is inlaid with gems and agates of various colors, and the surroundings are carved out of pure gold. I felt that my eyes were almost blinded by the light from these treasures.

This is probably the most extravagant scene I have ever seen in my life. If the palace hall in the TV series is compared with the decoration of the palace in front of me, it can only be described as shabby.

I saw several tables on both sides of the main hall, and behind the tables sat monkeys in fine clothes, or other kinds of spirits. The lustrous exotic fruits look much more upscale than those on the hundreds of tables in the outer hall.

As soon as they saw the mandrill carrying me in, they immediately put down the wine glasses and food in their hands, and looked at me in surprise, as if it was a very strange thing for me to appear here, and I felt a little uncomfortable being seen by them. His gaze, as if watching a rare animal, made me blush.

I glanced at the food on their table, and swallowed uncontrollably. Although I am still a prisoner of this monkey country, I can't control the physiological reaction when I'm hungry. I was already hungry and gurgling, looking at the tempting food in front of me, the longing in my heart was so tortured that I wanted to go crazy.

The mandrill grabbed me and strode forward, and after walking a few steps, it threw me on the ground. The moment I was thrown to the ground, I felt that all the bones in my body were broken, and the heart-pounding pain kept coming from all over my body. .

"My lord, I caught a human cub and gave it to the king as blood food. Hehe, I don't know how this little cub came in through the misty fog outside."

The mandrill cupped its hands towards the king sitting high in the center of the hall, and said in a rough voice, treating me like an animal that was slaughtered at will, and I was so angry that my heart burst into flames.

Enduring the pain in my body, I raised my head and scanned the surroundings. Except for some monkeys who were also wearing fancy clothes or armor, I noticed four figures in particular. They were sitting behind the high tables on both sides, right in the middle The king seems to have a very respected status.

On my right, behind two long tables, sat a pale, expressionless middle-aged man and a wet woman with long hair hanging down.

The middle-aged man's face was as white as frost and snow, and it was even whiter than the face of ordinary women. He had sword eyebrows and star eyes, and a handsome face. , I don't know how many girls will become the dream lover.It's just that there is a gray mist floating around his body. I used the method of contemplation of qi that my master gave me, and looked from a distance, and found that this person was filled with a strong corpse aura, which is a unique characteristic of corpses. A breath, with a smell of decay.

And sitting behind the table next to the middle-aged man is a woman who is wet all over. She seems to have endless water drops, which are continuously falling on the ground along her loose long hair.The hair on her forehead hangs down, covering half of her cheeks, and she looks hazy from a distance. I can't see her face clearly, but I just have a vague feeling that this should be a woman with a good face.

On my left, there are also two identical tables, but the food on the table is different from other people's. The food and wine glasses are filled with black gas, which looks a bit eerie, and seems to be specially prepared for The things prepared by ghostly things make people stay away.

Sitting on the first table is a translucent ghost. This is the image of an old man. He looks benevolent, with gray hair, a white beard on his chin, and a faint smile on his old face. , This appearance should make people feel good immediately after seeing it, but the strange thing is that the old man's body is actually translucent, and there is still a ghostly aura around his side, which makes people look a little scary. Not a living person, but a wandering ghost.

Sitting behind the table next to the old man was a man in armor. His whole body was covered with metal armor and he even wore a helmet on his head. It's just that his body is also surrounded by dense fog, and his face cannot be seen clearly. This should be Zhang Zongbing, the yin soldier who rescued me outside the palace gate.

The moment I saw the Lord General of the Yin Bing, I felt a surge of excitement in my heart. I always felt that he should save me. After all, the reaction he made outside the palace gate did not seem to have any intention of harming me. His attitude of asking his subordinates to kill Tibetan macaques at that time, I think his status here should also be very high, at least he will not be afraid of the king of the monkey country, as long as he is willing to save me, maybe my life today will be the same. saved.

I got up from the ground and walked towards the general of the Yin soldiers, but the result was that the mandrill saw that I dared to be presumptuous in this hall, his face changed, and the tail behind him directly hit my thigh, and I fell down immediately. I fell on the ground and ate shit.The mountain elves and wild monsters around burst into laughter and pointed at me.

I raised my head with a blushing face, and looked at the seat where the general of the Yin soldiers was sitting. He was still shrouded in a cloud of mist, and I couldn't see any expression on his face.He lifted a glass of ghostly steaming wine from the table, and slowly passed it to his mouth, looking calm and at ease, as if he didn't care about what happened in front of him at all.

Just when I was in despair, a majestic voice came from the high platform in the middle of the hall: "A living person?"

When I heard this, I raised my head and looked over the high platform, and was stunned for a moment...

(End of this chapter)