Liu Xing took a deep breath and said, "Did you feel it just now, something seems to be staring at us in this bamboo forest?" ”

Ishikawa Ling nodded, and said with some surprise: "What, it turns out that I am not the only one who has this feeling, just now when I was looking at the depths of the bamboo forest, I suddenly felt that I was being targeted by something, and that feeling was also very strange, I felt like a rabbit being targeted by a tiger." ”

At this time, after chatting with Wanzhongshan for a while, Zhang Jingxu said: "I have the same feeling as you with Wanzhongshan, which means that there is indeed something peeping at us in the depths of this bamboo forest, but I am not sure if it is some kind of beast or a mythical creature, but it may have taken us as prey by now, but in terms of the density of this bamboo forest, the thing in the depths of the bamboo forest will come out for a while." ”

Of course, Zhang Jingxu's last sentence can't be taken seriously.

Because Liu Xing could be sure that the existence of the group peeping at him in the depths of the bamboo forest should be some kind of mythical creature, and for the mythical creature, it must be easy to leave this bamboo forest.

Therefore, Liu Xing estimated that the mythical creatures in the depths of this bamboo forest should be trapped in the bamboo forest for some reason, but the specific situation is only to find a way to ask the locals of Panlong Town.

"Let's go back the same way first, so as not to have an accident, after all, there is an old saying in Huaxia that says well, doesn't a gentleman stand under a dangerous wall?" Liu Xing said seriously.

So, Liu Xing and the others returned the same way and came to the broken bridge.

At this time, Liu Xing saw a young man in a windbreaker, leaning over the fence, as if overlooking the scenery on the other side of the Panlong River.

I have to say that this young man attracted the attention of Liu Xing and others.

Liu Xing gave Zhang Jingxu a look, and Zhang Jingxu understood, and took Wanzhongshan to talk to the young man.

At this time, Liu Xing saw the true face of this young man, and in one sentence to describe it, it is Xiao Xianrou, the kind that can be pushed out as a traffic star as long as it is packaged casually.

However, it was precisely because of this that Liu Xing felt that this young man was a little strange, because he was very incompatible with the overall atmosphere of Panlong Town.

It's like in a science fiction movie, a group of soldiers armed with laser guns are exchanging fire with each other, and suddenly a white-clothed Taoist priest who came from the sword appeared, and dropped a few yellow talismans and killed those soldiers...

After a while, Zhang Jingxu came back and said, "This young man's name is Xiao Mochen, and he is a native of Panlong Town. ”

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, and asked with some curiosity: "Oh, this Xiao Mochen turned out to be a local, I thought at first that he was a foreigner who was forced to stay in Panlong Town like us, after all, his painting style is different from others, and his name is also a little special." ”

Zhang Jingxu nodded with a smile and continued: "That's right, I thought so at first, but Xiao Mochen mentioned that he and Hu Cang were good friends who grew up together, and he also told us a legend about that bamboo forest, do you want to hear it?" ”

"Mr. Zhang Jingxu, please don't sell it, hurry up and talk about it." Ishikawa Ling said helplessly.

Zhang Jingxu smiled again and said: "Legend has it that a long time ago, when Panlong Town was still located on the other side of the river, the area where the bamboo forest was located was still a field, and suddenly a monk came to Panlong Town, and then spent some money to buy the land, and asked someone to build a temple, called Hualai Temple, and finally on the day of the completion of Hualai Temple, the monk planted some bamboo around Hualai Temple. ”

"This monk is also very strange, except for every ten days and half a month will come to Panlong Town to buy some food and vegetables, he will stay in Hualai Temple all day and do not come out, and never accept believers to enter Hualai Temple to worship the Buddha, so the people in Panlong Town gradually feel that this monk may have a problem, but after all, the monk is the Hualai Temple built by himself, and he did not make trouble in Panlong Town, so there is nothing to say."

"In this way, ten years have passed, and the monk has been living a simple life in Hualai Temple, only occasionally a Taoist priest will enter Hualai Temple early in the morning, stay in it for half a day and then leave Panlong Town in a hurry, and this Taoist priest still came by himself in a boat, so this aroused the interest of a group of bear children in Panlong Town."

"What kind of creature is the bear child, I don't need to say more, they are not afraid of the earth, always like to do things everywhere, although their parents again and again, repeatedly warned them not to go to the Hualai Temple to play, but in one afternoon, the idle bear children on a whim, decided to go to the Hualai Temple to play, so, this group of bear children secretly entered the Hualai Temple."

As a result, not long after the group of bear children entered Hualai Temple, there was a strange roar in Hualai Temple, and then there was the cry of the bear children, because there was no bridge at that time, and the family members of the bear children who heard these sounds could only take a detour through a low bridge behind Hu Cang's house, so when the family members of the bear children came to Hualai Temple, they only saw the blood on the ground, and the mutilated bodies of the bear children... Or rather, a piece of meat. ”

"The angry family members of the bear children naturally regarded the monk as the culprit, but the families of those bear children did not find the monk after searching all over Hualai Temple, and at this time, the family members of the bear children who calmed down a little also found that something was wrong with the situation, after all, although they were delayed on the road for some time, but from the time the bear children called for help to the time they arrived at Hualai Temple, it took about ten minutes in total."

"According to the bear children found now, it is basically certain that these bear children have been divided, but the method of dividing the corpses is very rough, as if they were torn apart with their bare hands, and tooth marks that do not look like humans were found on some of the corpses, so the families of the bear children realized that something was wrong, so they immediately chose to leave Hualai Temple, returned to Panlong Town and notified the mayor, and then the mayor asked everyone to bring weapons back to Hualai Temple, and searched Hualai Temple."

"As a result, a basement was found in Hualai Temple, and a torn body was found in the basement, and this body was found to be the monk's, and then in the basement another box was found, this box was only the size of a rice cooker, but the box was painted with strange patterns, so the well-informed mayor felt that this box was most likely used to seal some kind of monster."

"So, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, the mayor took everyone out of Hualai Temple and returned to Panlong Town, and arranged for people to ask for help from nearby villages and towns, but the people sent out came back early in the morning of the second day, but that person has been disemboweled, and all the internal organs are gone, and it is obvious that he was killed by the monster that was released from the box, and it can also be inferred from here that the monster has wisdom."

"Since there was no way to call for help, the mayor ordered all the residents of Panlong Town to stay closed, and organized a group of strong men to patrol in Panlong Town, but that night a bachelor who lived alone was attacked by monsters, and when the patrol team arrived that heard the movement, the bachelor had been killed, and was also disemboweled, and lost his internal organs."

"Just when the residents of Panlong Town were panicking, the Taoist priest who often went to find the monk came to Panlong Town, because when he went to find the monk, he found that something was wrong with the situation in Hualai Temple, after seeing the monk's body, he hurried to Panlong Town, after learning the ins and outs of the matter, the Taoist priest told the mayor that the box was indeed sealed with a certain monster, and the monk was to build Hualai Temple in Panlong Town to live in seclusion in order to purify the monster."

"Originally, things were going quite smoothly, theoretically in two more years, the monster could be completely purified, but because the group of bear children opened the box and fell short, the monster that was released was sealed for so many years, and it was almost over-purified, the monster's temper can be imagined, so the monk and the bear children were killed by that monster."

"But because that monster has been sealed for so many years, and now it has just gotten out of trouble, its strength is not as good as before, so it can only fight guerrilla warfare with the residents of Panlong Town, but if you can't seal that monster again as soon as possible, when this monster completely recovers its strength, it will destroy the entire Panlong Town, because that monster killed a town overnight before it was sealed."

"Fortunately, the monk left a back hand when building Hualai Temple, so the Taoist priest used his body as bait, returned to Hualai Temple to attract the monster to come, when the monster was ready to attack the Taoist, the Taoist priest started the monk's back hand, that is, the bamboo planted around the Hualai Temple, and then I saw that the bamboo instantly grew wildly, and the entire Hualai Temple was surrounded by bamboo, and this cage composed of bamboo trapped the monster in it, unable to move."

"As for the Taoist priest, he was naturally trapped and died in Hualai Temple, of course, it is also possible that he was killed by that monster, but before the Taoist priest used his body as bait, he told the mayor that after he trapped the monster, he would relocate Panlong Town to the side of Hualai Temple, and suppress the monster through popularity, so that the monster would not get out of trouble again, so Panlong Town moved here from the other side, and next to the bamboo forest."

After listening to this story (in reality, there is an abandoned temple next to the author's hometown, because the two monks who originally lived there were killed overnight, and it looked like they were bitten to death by a wild beast, so after being passed around, they became the two monks killed by a monster, and by the way, there were several dead people out of nothing, as well as a zombie version), Liu Xing couldn't help but look back at the bamboo forest again.

If it was in the real world, Liu Xing would definitely laugh and dismiss when he heard such a story, but in this Cthulhu Run game world, Liu Xing could be sure that there was indeed some kind of mythical creature in that bamboo forest.

After all, the legends you hear in the Cthulhu Run game are true nine times out of ten.

At this time, Zhang Jingxu continued: "But I don't know why, when Wan Chongshan mentioned the black dragon, Xiao Mochen's face changed obviously, but he still denied the existence of the black dragon, and now he has said goodbye to us and invited us to go to the teahouse he opened in the afternoon." ”

As soon as Zhang Jingxu's words fell, Xiao Mochen nodded to Liu Xing and the others, and then turned around and left.

Liu Xing sighed and said seriously: "In this way, we were targeted by that monster just now, but I didn't expect that monster to be trapped in the bamboo forest for so many years, and now it is still alive." ”

Zhang Jingxu smiled helplessly, and said: "Of course, Liu Xing, you have to know that most mythical creatures are basically immortal existences, so it is reasonable that the monster in the depths of the bamboo forest is still alive, okay, let's go back to Hu Cang's house first and call Li Dian out to tell me what happened just now." ”

Liu Xing nodded, and everyone returned to Hu Cang's house together.

At this time, Hu Cang and Li Dian were sitting and chatting.

When Li Dian saw Liu Xing and the others, he opened his mouth to say something, which made Zhang Jingxu and Wan Chongshan both stagnant, and took out their mobile phones with a shocked face.

Liu Xing and Ishikawa Ling were puzzled and were now in place, waiting for Zhang Jingxu's translation.

The language barrier is really troublesome.

Liu Xing has now made up his mind that he must buy a "textbook" in the mall after finishing this mod.

There is a special type of prop in the mall, which is affectionately called a "textbook" by players, such as the animal taming notebook that Liu Xing once saw in Ishikawa Lingbao, which belongs to the "textbook".

To put it simply, a "textbook" is a book that allows players to learn or improve their skill values, but it requires players to spend a certain amount of time in the mod to read and comprehend it first, but "textbooks" will limit the number of times players can buy, for example, players in the Shogoth area can only buy three "textbooks".

At this time, Zhang Jingxu looked at Liu Xing with a solemn face, and said, "Meteor, Ishikawa Ling, now take a look at what time your mobile phone displays!" ”

Liu Xing frowned, and hurriedly took out his mobile phone to take a look, and found that the time displayed on the mobile phone turned out to be eleven o'clock!

The current Liu Xing and Ishikawa Ling are also the same as Zhang Jingxu and Wan Chongshan just now, with shocked faces.

Liu Xing still remembers that the time when his group left Hu Cang's house was half past eight, and although he didn't take out his mobile phone to determine the time in the middle, according to Liu Xing's own feelings, his group stayed outside for about half an hour at most.

So, where did those two hours go?