Mantra

Chapter 148 The Instigator

Li Douniu said that after he got the Lantern King at the beginning, he lived a very majestic life for a few days.

At first, as Li Douniu thought, this cat was very spiritual and could "make money". It liked to eat a kind of highly poisonous firefly, and also liked to eat moldy food.After a long time, he would occasionally hold some copper coins, and the antiquities were sold by Li Douniu.

Although those things were not worth a lot of money, they also made Li Douniu a lot of wealth among his peers, and made him famous a few times.

But after becoming rich, Li Douniu didn't follow the right path. As he grew older, he gradually got into the bad habit of gambling and learned to whore (harmonious) prostitutes.

People are not afraid of lack of money, but they are afraid of going astray. Once they don't learn well, even how much money they have is not enough for him to squander.

Li Douniu, who has just become addicted to gambling, can still control his behavior, but as time goes by, he gambles bigger and bigger. The bigger the gamble, the more he loses. The bigger it is...

Under such a vicious circle, until one day, this kid couldn't hold on any longer.He was chased by a group of creditors and fled here and there. He was desperate, and with the help of the King of Lights, he ran into the Zhao family's ancestral grave to take refuge.

At this time, the Bright Lantern King has grown up and formed, and there is a big red bug lying on its tail all the year round, which can command all the cats in ten miles and eight villages, and can also protect itself with the poisonous bugs it likes to eat.

The most important thing is that this cat thief is so smart that he actually understands people's minds, and even Li Douniu has been with him for a long time and can communicate without barriers.

Therefore, when Li Douniu was hiding his debts in the dark tomb and sighed, the cat "suggested" Li Douniu to "prosperously make money".At first, he used the ability of "controlling cats" to make petty theft, and later he used this ability to steal passing vehicles on Laoqi Road.

From then on, Ming Deng Wang and Li Douniu began to really work together, pretending to be ghosts and stealing finances all the way around Shirengu, and this was the scene where we were robbed of our luggage by the cat demon on Laoqi Road.

At this point, Master Duantian sighed and said, "I thought I could live my life in such a carefree way, but what I didn't expect was that this god's retribution... still came."

It turned out that when Li Douniu "made a fortune" by relying on the ability of the cat monster Beacon King, he gradually felt that his body was not normal.

He has a strange disease!

I don't know if it's because Li Douniu often hangs out with cats, or if Li Douniu has been in the grave for a long time and is infected with some kind of virus. In short, since the year before last, his body has been getting thinner and thinner, and he is only sensitive to bloody people. Raw food is very interested and loves to make cat-like noises.

Later, when his family was not paying attention, he started to eat raw chickens, ducks and even mice like a wild cat.

He didn't tell anyone about this disease because of his dirty business. At first, he thought he would pass it. After all, it is common to lose a few chickens in the countryside, and no one will deliberately care about it.

But what he didn't expect at all was that with the birth of Li Douniu's own son, he found that he could no longer "endure" it!
At that time, Li Douniu was almost driven mad by his bloodthirsty desire. He stared at his son's delicate skin and tender meat all day long, and actually... wanted to eat him too.

After listening to Li Douniu's words, I gasped, and suddenly realized the horror of Li Douniu's illness, and I also knew why he "run away from home" and why he wanted to "hide his name".

As I imagined, as the "illness" progressed, Li Douniu realized desperately that he had to leave this house, otherwise if one day he completely turned into a "cat", he might really swallow the cat alive. Lost his own son.

Since he couldn't control himself, he had no choice but to leave his father, wife and children. It seemed that only in this way could Li Douniu guarantee their safety.

So, after giving his son the full moon, Li Douniu hid headlong into Zhao Huo's tomb, and used his clothes to create an illusion of being eaten by cats, making his father and daughter-in-law think that he was eaten by cats up.

But in fact, he didn't die, but lived with these cats, and was gradually assimilated and mutated by them...

Now, Li Dou Niu is as thin as a hemp stick, and his voice is more and more like a cat. Because he often shuttles between the forests, he is completely dark, and at first glance he looks 30 years older.

Because he had changed too much over the past year, when he returned to Zhaojialou again as a "Duan Tianshi", no one could connect him with Li Douniu, including his own father.

At this point, Li Douniu lamented: "I had fantasies about this disease at first, and hoped to buy antiques and rob taxis to earn some money for treatment, but now I understand that this is not a disease at all, it is God. My retribution!"

Li Douniu started beating his chest and stamping his feet as he spoke, seeming very miserable and remorseful.

But who can blame this?It can only be said that one thought becomes insanity!Looking back, he, Li Douniu, was completely to blame!

After listening to Li Douniu's words, I suddenly realized, and at the same time, I was surprised: "You can just rob, but why do you want to kill us? You messed up my old squad leader's funeral over and over again? And put a 'curse' on my brother."

Hearing what I said, Li Douniu hurriedly waved his arms and said, "I'm wronged! I didn't dare to think about killing people. This is all the idea of ​​the cat monster, the Lantern King, so I can only do as it is..."

"What does the Lantern King mean?" I said in amazement, "Didn't you raise that cat demon? But you listened to his command instead?"

"Yes!" Li Douniu said in embarrassment when he heard the words: "I don't know when, that cat demon has become more and more powerful. After I moved into this ancient tomb, this cat became more presumptuous. Occasionally I He was disobedient, and he even threatened me with water and food cuts!"

While talking, Li Douniu told us the fact that he was "coerced" by the Lantern King.

He said, ever since I cut off the tail of the Lantern King on Lao Qi Road, that guy has been planning to kill me every day.It first encouraged Li Douniu to play tricks on my old squad leader's corpse, trying to kill me by deceiving the corpse, and then used the time when I was out chasing the old squad leader's corpse to let Li Douniu smear blood on his face to "act in his true colors". I introduce the "cat array" trap.

But by chance, I didn't die, and with the help of Xian Hongye, Zhao Shuihe and the mysterious old man who kneaded the dough, I followed the clues and found the thief's den of Duan Tianshi, and took him down in one fell swoop.

It stands to reason that at this point, all the truth has been revealed, his deeds of Li Douniu and the cat demon are undoubtedly exposed, and all the crimes have been made public.Seems like it was a happy ending...

But for some reason, I felt something was wrong.

Because in this series of logical chains, I feel that I seem to have overlooked an important clue and node.

And I feel that the cat demon who can only brush Li Dou Niu as neither human nor ghost is by no means as simple as he said.

Because Li Douniu's words can't explain a core issue of the Zhaojialou incident... that is my old squad leader's suicide!

(End of this chapter)