Chapter 57 (1/2)

Urban Tales of Demons and Spirits

Vol 1 Book of Thunder - Chapter 57 wangliang

Translator: Linc

Editor: Draygan

First Published on Chaleuria

Chapter 57 wangliang

But Wen Jiubo fell silent, clearly not wanting to tell me

I was slightly angry, glaring at hi?”

Wen Jiubo frowned, looking towards me ”How do you know?”

”I had a drearandfather He said a lot of strange things toon his back” I said, a word at a time ”Wen Jiubo, as that?”

Wen Jiubo and I looked at each other for a ht smile

”That's right, I alot your special power Looks like I can't hide it from you even if I wanted to”

I crossed my arms ”At least you've still aware of that”

Wen Jiubo s about how to clear things up

”Have you heard about wangliang?”

”wangliang? Like in Chi?” I asked dubiously

”Exactly right, that wangliang” Wen Jiubo said firmly ”That's this demon's name”

”But… isn't that na the same type of demon?”

”In terms of de it” Wen Jiubo said confidently ”Firstly, this four-word phrase first appeared in《Co, Year Fifteen》, 'Do not cross the path of the Chi' But in the Commentary of Zuo, it never said howNot long afterward, 《The Records of the Grand Historian: Annals of the Five E' In the record, it stated 'wangliang has the facial features of a human, the body of a beast with four limbs, a crafty deceiver' This very clearly states that Chi are only two different deinal phrase as four individual types of demons”

I nodded, only understanding half of it

”Within the first dictionary in Chinese history, 《Cloud Chapter》, there's a separate explanation for Chi It is said thatFrom then onwards, Chimei became synonyliang were described as de, ”And then afterward, in the Qing Dynasty, Toriya demons In his illustrated scroll 《De all as the same type of demon, with the for of ear andon the livers of corpses”

As I listened, I felt evenabout? Can't you explain in clearer terms?”

Wen Jiubo looked ate student”

”You're so annoying!”

”Si is a sort of demon that consumes dead people's corpses as food In the countryside, there's oftenup and bodies vanish Most of the ti Under nor's temperaments are rather mild and they're not many in number They consume human or animal corpses as food and are considered rather harhtfully ”Usually, they rarely attack a live hu, but there's an exception to every rule If there was a particular human that looked very delicious, then no matter what, even if they were still alive they would be chosen very early on by a wangliang”

I sed ”Then ould happen… if you get chosen?”