Chapeter 6 The Towers

 There were many section eight apartments in the Castle Towers. They sprung up across the city skyline like Bamboo shoots and were connected by enclosed footbridges. An elderly person could spend their entire life without ever going outside if they so chose, because within these towers were shops and grocery stroes and all the necesities of life. But most people did go outside. But to do so was a danger. Wild demon creatures may devour you. Dragons, Nians, Centipedes, the rats that were under the city and half the size of a man. It's not that these creatures were evil, but they did ocassionally eat people. It was safer to travel out doors with Nian Armor. The creatures would think you were one of their own and leave you alone. Those skilled in the Nian Dance and with the right armor could even do battle with the creatures and use the armor to fly, to travel...and to attack other humans in war or raids. So you see it was confusing and chaotic outside. but at the same time, for most people it was worth the risk and it was suspected that people were really the ones to blame but no one could prove it.

Ch 5: Guan Yu v. Choi Yang

 When Mommy and Enkidu returned home, Baba told the story of te big rat eating the small mouse. 

Mommy: You just watched?

Baba: What do you want me to do? The problem solved itself.

Later that nigh while Enkidu was sleeping he suddenly had to go to the bathroom. When he got up he was stopped. It was the rat Centipede, Choi Yang. He was huge now, a true monster. 

Enkidu: I am a human you can't eat me, I'm not a mouse.

CY: My original goal was to eat you from the inside, but you through me away into the flower pot. 

Enkidu gasped. It was the bamboo shoot centipede. He ran, evading the Centipede and bumped into the altar. The Plum Blossom girl appeared and handed Enkidua a sword. It was a sword on a stick with a green dragon chsing the moon. He chopped the centipede into many pieces but it kept coming back together and reforming, until finally Enkidu grabbed the rat by the ears and chopped it head off. Looking at the bamboo chute strings , Enkidu kicked them and stepped on them and pulled it away from the centipedes body. Then he quickly put the head into a plastic bag with and put it on the altar to the Plum Blossom girl. He then left the Green dragon sword by the altar as well and went to the bathroom washed his hands and then went back to bed. 

Ch- 4 Rat v. Mouse

 One night the centipede rat became strong enough to crawl out of the flower pot. Cheung bo Jai, Baba, was watching The Condor Heroes on VHS when the Centipede Rat crawled out onto the floor. At first he came out in Centipede form and came across a mouse looking for food to bring back from the kitchen to his mouse hole. 

Choi Yang: Stop right there, where are you going to get food.

Mouse: I only have a few grains of rice, to bring back to my family that's it. There is some in the kitchen but thi is all I can carry. 

Choin Yang: I can get that later, but right now I will eat you first so that we don't compete over food resources. 

Choi Yang stabbed the mouse with his centipede pincers and began eating him. Cheung Bo Jai paused the VHS video because he had copies of them and could always watch later, but this show was live and could only be seen once. Choin Yang swallowed the mouse whole and there was not even any blood spilled on the floor. The Centipede Rat found a rat hole and out of site began eating all the rats and mice living in the walls, indeed the family of the rat that was the soul of the Bamboo Centipede. Though that was his past soul and his appearance and so he was allowed into the rat Clan, those rats not realizing that he was nowa different creature altogether and not there to bring them food, but to kill them and eat them for food. 

Cheung bo Jai, Baba, passed out and began dreaming after watching the Rat kill the mouse and only awoke when the door lock clicked and Mommy and Enkidu returned home from work at the Sea To Sea Market.