The mountain wind howled, and the firelight illuminated the small courtyard.

Chongsheng pushed the door out, only to see Daoist Wang and hundreds of villagers surrounding the courtyard, looking for something.

"Dao Chief? This is? Chongsheng stepped forward and asked.

"Fellow Daoist, the Drought Demon came out to harm people again tonight, it should be hiding here, have you seen it?" Daoist Wang said and tossed in the small courtyard.

"Daoist, are you mistaken? I was in the hut and didn't hear anything. ”

"There's no mistake, look!" As he spoke, Daoist Wang shone the torch on the ground, and a trail of blood extended from a distance, and it broke off in the courtyard.

"Is this the blood of the Dryfish?" Chongsheng asked with a puzzled expression.

"That's right! This drought demon has plagued the village for several years. I was drinking at Baochang's house tonight, when I suddenly heard a neighing in the backyard stable, and it was too late to chase it out, and two good horses were bitten to death by a drought. Daoist Wang said as he searched the entire courtyard.

The small courtyard surrounded by a bamboo fence is not large, with an empty dog kennel on the left and a large pile of straw on the right, with some vegetables planted in the middle.

"That beast has already killed a dozen of my horses, and I must kill it today." Li Baochang said angrily surrounded by four or five family members.

"That's right! Can't let it run anymore. The villagers raised their torches and shouted.

"Is this drought a man or a beast?" Chongsheng listened to everyone's words and thought about it.

The things of the drought are legends, and there is no trace of them. Why does it seem to appear often in the mouths of the villagers of Zeyu Village?

"It's a demon!" After Wang Daoist finished speaking, he took the long sword and walked to the straw pile.

Chongsheng sensed that the atmosphere was not right, and glanced sideways at the woman, who was looking at the straw pile extremely nervously.

Is there really something hidden in a straw pile?

"Brute, you come out for me." As he spoke, Daoist Wang stabbed his long sword into the straw pile, and then pulled it out, but there was nothing abnormal in the straw, and the woman let out a sigh of relief.

Wang Daoist was not reconciled, and stabbed several swords in a row, but there was still no movement in the grass.

"Weird, did you let that beast run away again?" Daoist Wang turned around and said suspiciously.

"Dao Chief, your sword!" The crowd shouted in horror.

Daoist Wang looked down and saw that the long sword had been stained red with blood.

"Okay, it's hiding here! Bring me a torch and burn it for me! Daoist Wang took a few steps back, grabbed a torch and threw it into the straw pile.

When the villagers in the front row heard this, they threw their torches at the straw pile, and the straw ignited, and the firelight instantly lit up the small courtyard as if it were day.

"Dao Chief, if you set fire like this, I'm afraid this house will also burn." Chongsheng watched the fire get bigger and bigger, and said with the anger in his heart.

"Fellow Daoist, it is my generation's rule to eliminate demons and defend the Dao, as long as there is nothing to worry about in addition to this drought, what is the matter with a grass house." Daoist Wang smiled and waved his hand, and then said, "You guys go to the river to fetch water, control the fire, and don't let the fire spread to other houses." ”

Before the words fell, there was already a spark on the woman's grass roof, and more than a dozen strong men were obviously carrying buckets, but they watched the fire burn the grass hut and did not go to the rescue.

"Mother, our home! My rabbit. The boy saw that his house was on fire, and anxiously pulled the woman to put out the fire, but the woman held him tightly in her arms and wept silently.

Looking at this bullying scene, Chongsheng was furious. But at the thought that the woman would be driven out of the village tomorrow, it was better to give the woman a sum of money to settle down than to save the humble cottage.

So he quietly watched the changes.

Such a dehumanized village will not wait.

A group of numb people watched the raging fire, but until the fire weakened, there was still no movement in the straw pile.

"Burned?" Wang Daoist actually has some ability, with a wave of the long sword, the sword qi broke through the fire, and there was a black mass of flesh with blood in the black ash.

The Taoist priest used his sword to pick open the meat ball, round eyes, steaming brains, this meat ball was actually a horse head.

Seeing this, Li Baochang fainted angrily: "My horse! ”

"The dartfish is really hiding in this courtyard!" Daoist Wang was furious and grabbed the woman's hair: "You demon woman, say, where did you hide the drought?" ”

"Let go of my mother." The boy clung to Daoist Wang's arm and cried, Daoist Wang didn't even look at it, he flew up and kicked the boy to the side, and the boy who fell to the ground struggled to get up, but couldn't get up.

"Let her go!" Ku Rong couldn't bear it any longer, and stretched out his hand to pinch the Taoist priest's neck and lifted him high, and the Taoist priest gasped with difficulty and let go of the hand that was pulling the woman's hair.

"Let him go, Kurong." After Chongsheng finished speaking, Ku Rong let go of his hand, and the Taoist priest covered his neck and coughed vigorously.

"Dao Chief, looking at your sanctimoniousness, why do you repeatedly bully weak women and children?" Chongsheng asked with a dark face.

"Fellow Daoist, you wronged me, I didn't bully women and children, this woman is really a demon woman, and she is in the same group as that drought, I don't believe you asked her yourself." After the Taoist priest tasted the power of Ku Rong's men, he was no longer arrogant and domineering, but instead called out for grievances.

"Is that the case?" Chongsheng looked back and asked, and the woman shook her head vigorously with sobs. The woman's repeated abnormal behavior made it impossible for Chongsheng to distinguish who was right and who was wrong. Although the woman is the weaker party, if she really harbors evil spirits and harms the villagers, it is also an unforgivable sin. However, when Chongsheng thought of the hateful face of the villagers, he still believed that the woman was innocent.

"Don't be afraid, if there is a grievance, just speak out, I will make the decision for you." Chongsheng softened his tone and whispered to the woman.

"That drought and this demon woman are in the same group, if the Taoist chief doesn't believe it, as long as he kills this demon woman today, the drought will definitely come out to take revenge!" Li Baochang listened to the words of the Taoist priest and mistakenly thought that Chongsheng was also a cultivator, and said indignantly.

"Shut up!" Chongsheng glared at Li Baochang fiercely.

"Dao Chief, do you want to protect the demon and let the demon continue to poison our village?" A white-haired elder among the villagers walked out tremblingly on crutches, staring at Chongsheng's eyes and saying solemnly.

"That's right! This dartfish killed the only sheep in my family last year, and that was the money I paid for my father's medical treatment. A sturdy man also stepped forward.

"At the beginning of the year, I saw with my own eyes that this drought fish ate the second girl of the widow's family by the river."

More and more villagers stood up and surrounded Chongsheng.

In front of everyone's eyes, Chongsheng took a few steps back, he hoped that the woman herself would be able to tell her grievances, but the woman did not say a word in the face of the accusation, only wept.

Are you really wrong?

"I'll show you with my own hands, Daoist." Li Baochang snatched the knife from the family, trotted a few steps, and slashed at the woman.

Chongsheng was about to stop it, when suddenly a wolf howl sounded, and a long-haired monster flew out of the kennel, knocking Li Baochang to the ground with lightning speed.

"Monster!" Seeing this, Ku Rong's two knives flashed, and the blade slashed towards the monster, and the monster disappeared out of thin air in the moment the blade came, leaving only the frightened Li Baochang on the ground.

"On it!" Kurong shouted loudly, and the fish jumped up, slashing into the air with two swords, and the monster fell from the air in response.

The moment it landed, the monster kicked the ground on all fours, regardless of the pain of its injuries, and flew through the crowd like a ghost, and the villagers scattered in terror.

In order to avoid accidentally injuring innocent people, Ku Rong put away his twin knives, ran light work, flashed and moved in the crowd, and chased the monster.

The hairy monster had hair standing up all over its body, its hooves were windy, agile as a leopard, like lightning under the moon, and there was only a phantom where its body flashed, and the withered glory swooped into the air one after another.

Ku Rong was a little annoyed, he was not as good as Chongsheng before, and now he can't keep up with this monster, is it because he has slackened his cultivation?

In a fit of rage, the tip of the silver dragon spear flew out from Kurong's back, turning into a silver dragon, and the zipline rolled up the monster's escape route.

Seeing that there was no escape, the black-haired monster jumped up, stretched out its front paws to grab the tip of the silver dragon spear, and the moment the half-foot-long claw tip met the silver dragon spear, blood gushed out, the tip of the claw shattered to the ground, and the tip of the silver dragon spear also rested its might, and quietly inserted it on the ground.

The monsters suffered heavy blows one after another, howling miserably, spilling blood all over the ground, and fleeing frantically.

That's more than twice as fast as before. Dozens of daring villagers surrounded the human wall with torches to drive away the monsters.

Seeing that Kurong couldn't catch up with the monster's figure, Chongsheng locked on to the monster's phantom at the moment and threw out the folding fan in his arms.

The folding fan came head-on, and the monster was trying to turn back to dodge, but Chongsheng's figure was already behind it, and the monster couldn't escape, and was trampled under Chongsheng's feet. The monster struggled with all its might, but could not escape from Chongsheng's feet, and the long cry of sorrow was like that of a sick wolf, and that sound was like that of a baby.

"Daoyou's mana is boundless, and he finally caught the drought!" Daoist Wang put away his long sword and said to Chongsheng with a smile on his face.

"Yes! Oh, yes! Dao Chief, you have finally subdued this beast! Li Baochang pushed everyone away, patted the soil and smiled at Chongsheng.

"Since Daoyou has subdued the Drought Fish, please also ask Daoyou to get rid of this demon! The merit is immeasurable. ”

Chongsheng originally wanted to kill this monster, but when he heard the monster's unusually sad wail, he somehow suddenly felt compassion in his heart.

Ku Rong thought that Chongsheng was hindering his identity and didn't want to get blood, so he pulled out a short dagger and wanted to get rid of this monster for Chongsheng.

"Spare him! He's not a drum, he's not a brute, he's a man! The woman, who had been crying, suddenly cried out loudly.

"People?" Chongsheng was shocked, controlled the monster's back and turned the long-haired monster head-on.

Sure enough, it was a human face, rough and couldn't be rougher, the wolf-like shining eyes stared at Chongsheng deadly, and the two excessively long tiger teeth stretched out their lips, which were full of dirty blood.

"Please let him go, he's still a child!" The woman fell to her knees crying.

"I'll just say how come there is a monster in the village again, and it's really that evil seed!" Li Baochang said and took a sip disdainfully.

"You say it's a kid?" Chongsheng carefully looked at the monster, the monster was about a teenager's body, and his whole body was covered with calluses and scars. The deformity of the forelimbs is unusually strong, the hind limbs are short and bent, the body is wrapped in a few rags, the long hair wraps the whole body, almost to the ground, the nails of the hands and feet are unusually thick and long, and the knife wound is bleeding at the moment.

"He's my nephew. I hurt him. The woman fell on her knees and wept bitterly.

"Fellow Daoist, don't listen to the nonsense of the demon woman, kill this drought!" Daoist Wang said anxiously to Chongsheng.

"Shut up! Woman, if it was your nephew, why did she become like this? Chongsheng loudly scolded Wang Daoist, and Wang Daoist tilted his head and didn't dare to squeak again.

"My husband's cousin was born with a lunar eclipse and the village has always treated her as a monster. Later, my cousin became pregnant unmarried, and she gave birth to the child without saying who the biological father of the child was. Ten years ago, when the child was less than two years old, there was a drought in the village, and Daoist Wang and Baochang Li said that my husband's cousin was a white-haired monster and a female fish, and that the drought could only be eliminated by eating her meat. After the people of the village had eaten the cousin, they looked for the boy everywhere to eat him. I, a weak woman, had no choice but to throw the child into the back mountain. ”

When the woman said this, the child suddenly cried out, "Ahh Chongsheng hurriedly stopped the bleeding for the child.

"I thought the child had died in the back mountain, but it wasn't until a few years ago that my husband went up the mountain to collect firewood and found that there was an extra hairy child in the wolves, and I knew that he was not dead and mixed with the wolves. My husband tried to approach him, but he didn't speak, as if he still recognized my husband. Since then, my wife and I have often gone to the mountains to see him, and the wolves never bite us, and every time we see the baby, the wolves take him away. The woman wept silently.

"In the past few years, this child has grown up, and often secretly comes down the mountain to see us and brings us some meat. One time he was seen by the villagers, who said he was a drought and chased him and beat him, and then he began to attack the cattle in the village. ”

"You talk nonsense! This beast not only attacks livestock, but also eats people. I watched him eat the second girl of the widow's house by the river. ”

"I'm not talking nonsense, the second girl of Widow Wang's family was eaten by him after she drowned, and this child has never taken the initiative to attack the villagers. If you want to talk about cannibalism, haven't you eaten it? The woman asked rhetorically, and the villagers who spoke were speechless.

"It's you! You have made this child a wolf, and the wolf has raised him, and you are not even as good as beasts! The woman scolded the onlookers.

"Heavens! Is this the world? Chongsheng was extremely sad and indignant, looking up to the sky and roaring.

A thunderbolt streaked through the sky, and torrential rain poured down.

"Fellow Daoist, even if it is a human, this monster is no longer my race, hurry up and kill him to avoid future troubles!" Daoist Wang said to Chongsheng.

Chongsheng's whole body trembled, and he clenched his fists.

"Dao Chief, do you want to shelter this monster? Come on! Whoever kills this monster will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver. Li Baochang shouted in the rainstorm, and the villagers instantly became energetic and raised the knives and sticks in their hands.

The villagers walked cautiously towards Chongsheng, staring at the wolf child lying on the ground, with a light in their eyes, that kind of greedy eyes, Chongsheng had seen before.

"It hurts, it hurts. Why, what? Why, what? The rain was pouring down, and the wolf child lying on his back looked at the night sky with empty eyes, and spat out a few incoherent words in his mouth.

To whom did he ask? Maybe it's asking the sky.

What is asked? Maybe it's asking why this suffering started, maybe it's asking why his fellow villagers and elders want to kill him, and it is not known why he is prosperous.

Chongsheng looked around at the villagers who were approaching step by step and sneered.

"Go, kid! Do what you want! Chongsheng lowered his head, whispered to the wolf child, and unlocked the wolf child's acupoint.

Another thunderclap fell.

The wolf child jumped up from the ground violently, howled loudly and pounced on Li Baochang, and in a blink of an eye, his fangs bit off Li Baochang's fat throat, and Li Baochang fell to the ground before he could call for help.

Wang Daoist was frightened and pulled out his long sword and slashed at the wolf child, the wolf child dodged flexibly, stepped on Wang Daoist's left arm, jumped up with strength, opened his mouth and bit Wang Daoist's neck, Wang Daoist struggled a few times, and lost his breath.

"Ahh Ahh Blood stained the child's face, and the child stepped on the corpse of the Taoist priest and howled vigorously.

It was the anger of the Heavenly Dao, the anger of the purgatory world.

The villagers had long since fled, and the torrential rain had extinguished the burning grass huts, and dozens of bright green lights suddenly flashed in the dark night.

"They're coming to pick him up!" Chongsheng smiled flatly.

After seeing the green light, the wolf child fell to the ground with his hands on the ground, kicked the ground with his hind feet, and ran wildly towards the green light.

The wolves in the rainy night quietly greeted them. The wolf led by about one person was more than one person tall, with white hair all over his body, and the child rode on the white wolf, looking at Chongsheng with an expressionless face, and the wolves surrounded Chongsheng and ran quickly.

Kurong wanted to draw his sword, but Chongsheng shook his head: "Dog God! ”

In Middle-earth lore, the dog god is a psychic mountain spirit who is the king of all wolves.

"Ahh The child barked at Chongsheng several times in succession, the wolves quickly retreated, and the white wolf carried the child around several times, suddenly jumped up and disappeared into the night.

"Maybe the white wolf is the father of the child." The woman fell into the mud of the rain and muttered to herself.

Chongsheng nodded meaningfully, took out an ingot of one hundred taels of silver from his arms and handed it to the woman: "Tomorrow, you will take your son to find another place to live." Does this wolf child have a name? ”

"Yes. His mother called him the Grey Dog. ”