Chapter 39: Demon [Red Carp]

The devil that Guo Xiaoding talked about was completely different from the devil that Chu Zhongxing understood.

Although Chu Zhongxing had never seen the demon that Guo Xiaoding described, he felt a little physically uncomfortable just by listening to what Guo Xiaoding said.

No wonder humans, animals, and monsters can coexist peacefully, but demons cannot.

How can people coexist peacefully with a demon that has a hideous appearance, carries all kinds of diseases, and even defiles the land?

"Demons are indeed a scourge."

After knowing what a demon is, Chu Zhongxing sighed. He was silent for a few seconds, then looked at Guo Xiaoding and knocked on the table: "Old Guo, do you think the red carp in Juting Oasis is a demon?"

"It shouldn't be possible. The demon was born in the forbidden land of the North Sea, which is tens of thousands of miles away from the northern border. Under normal circumstances, a demon contaminated by ominous things can't go so far."

"But it's strange that Juting actually has red carp from Yingshui."

Guo Xiaoding stood up and waved to Chu Zhongxing:
"Let's go and investigate together!"

Northern Xinjiang is mostly desert and water resources are scarce.

In this environment, even if there are fish in northern Xinjiang, they are desert fish that can adapt to the dryness, not red carp.

It is indeed a bit strange to see red carp appear in Juting Oasis.

Guo Xiaoding was a man of action. He immediately gathered 10 soldiers and took Chu Zhongxing with him from Yancheng and headed straight for Juting.

The remaining soldiers in Yancheng closed the city gates to guard against possible enemies.

The 12 war horses galloped wildly in the desert. After about half an hour of galloping, the group arrived at Juting.

The oasis appeared in the desert, giving people a refreshing feeling. Guo Xiaoding was the pioneer. After arriving at Juting, they first discovered the war horses standing on the edge of the oasis and eating grass.

"This is the warhorse that He Ao rode."

Chu Zhongxing said, Guo Xiaoding nodded slightly, he rode his horse to the river polluted by barbarians in his courtyard, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

A black shadow of a mysterious bird slowly emerged behind Guo Xiaoding, and then Guo Xiaoding dismounted and walked towards the river. After he reached the edge of the river, several black shadows suddenly appeared in the river, constantly approaching Guo Xiaoding.

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It was as if the cries of mandarin ducks echoed throughout the courtyard. The next second, a black shadow suddenly emerged from the water. This black shadow had a human face and a fish body, and it opened its bloody mouth and was about to bite Guo Xiaoding's only remaining eye.

"It's really a red carp!"

Guo Xiaoding grabbed the attacking red carp with one hand, and a hint of surprise appeared on his old face. Yingshui is thousands of miles away from the northern border. How could a red carp appear in Juting?

Weird.

The red carp caught by Guo Xiaoding with one hand kept roaring and struggling, its human features distorted. Chu Zhongxing seemed to see an expression of hatred on this hideous face.

"If you look at this thing too much, you'll have nightmares!"

It was the first time that Chu Zhongxing saw a monster in this world. Just as he was about to go forward to observe it, the red carp suddenly opened its bloody mouth and spat out an icy spike.

The ice spike was very thick and the tip was extremely sharp. The soldier standing next to Chu Zhongxing stretched out a hand and easily took the ice spike.

"Be careful, the red carp has the ability to control water."

The soldier kindly reminded Chu Zhongxing, but the next second, his face suddenly changed: "No, this red carp is not a demon, it's a devil!"

The soldier quickly threw away the ice spike, and his right hand that had received the ice spike began to fester and bleed.

"magic?"

Guo Xiaoding's face also changed suddenly. He grabbed the red carp and threw it into the river. Then he bent his bow and drew his arrow, using his magical power of shooting an arrow through a willow leaf from a hundred steps away to kill the red carp that was flying into the river.

The blood stained the river water. In this large area of ​​red blood, there was a trace of corrupt black-green color rolling and boiling in the river water. "How could there be demons in the northern border?"

"The red carp from Yingshui and the demon from Beihai actually appeared in the northern border?"

The Yingshui River is in the south of the Imperial Shang Dynasty, and the Beihai Sea is in the east of the Imperial Shang Dynasty. Now the red carp polluted by the Beihai Sea has appeared in the north of the Imperial Shang Dynasty.

"General, something is wrong. It is very wrong."

The soldier who helped Chu Zhongxing block the ice spikes looked at his festering and bleeding palms with a solemn expression: "This is the ability of the devil, but not the power of the devil."

"Wherever the demon goes, the environment deteriorates and no grass grows. If it is damaged by the demon, it will not be rotten to this extent."

The soldier stretched out his palm in front of Guo Xiaoding. Chu Zhongxing took a glance and found that the palm of the soldier was a little purple, which looked like a wound infection.

"I didn't sense the breath of the devil from the red carp either."

Guo Xiaoding stared at the carcass of the red carp floating in the river. Most of the blood around the carp was bright red, and only a small part was a rotten black-green color, constantly rolling and boiling in the river.

Corrupted black-green blood is one of the characteristics of the devil. This blood will pollute the land. Only when farmers and doctors work together to purify it can the land be used to grow crops again.

"It is indeed a demon, but a demon I have never seen before."

“There is only a tiny bit of corrupted black-green blood in his body, and he doesn’t look rotten at all, nor does he carry any disease.

It's completely different from the demons I know."

Guo Xiaoding felt that there was something wrong with his understanding. Chu Zhongxing, who had survived the disaster, asked in a deep voice: "General Guo, is this demon in its dormant stage and its power has not been fully exerted?"

“No, after a demon in its latent stage dies, it will immediately fester and rot, and its blood will almost entirely be a corrupted black-green color.

But this demon is obviously not like that. This demon gives me a feeling of...”

"Gives me a very strange feeling."

Guo Xiaoding was a little bit at a loss to describe this feeling, so Chu Zhongxing said, "Is it like the feeling of a baby, or the feeling of not having grown up yet?"

"It has demonic characteristics, but the toxicity is not strong enough"

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Before Chu Zhongxing could finish his words, another red carp jumped out of the river and attacked Guo Xiaoding. This time, Guo Xiaoding still chose to catch it with one hand, and then carefully observed the red carp in his hand.

It was indeed just as Chu Zhongxing said, the red carp gave Guo Xiaoding a feeling of not having grown up.

This situation was beyond Guo Xiaoding's cognition. Chu Zhongxing observed the red carp from a distance for a long time. He seemed to have thought of something and asked Guo Xiaoding: "General Guo, is there a possibility?"

"What's possible?"

"Someone extracted some of the abilities of the demons, and then artificially created controllable but relatively weak demons."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Guo Xiaoding refuted without thinking: "After the people, beasts, and monsters were infected by the ominousness of the North Sea, their bodies decayed and rotted, and they became unconscious. The only thing left was to eat and move instinctively."

"A Grand Master who has reached the realm of pacifying the world can only suppress the demons when he goes to the North Sea. How can anyone refine the demon's abilities and artificially create a controllable demon?"

"If the devil can be controlled, it's not a devil!"

“I think practice makes perfect.”

"Whether it's controllable or not, won't we know if we try it?"

(End of this chapter)