Ji Yu and Mu Yan returned to Bayi's house and waited for Lu An and Li Yang in the hall. waited until Ji Yu was dozing off, but he still didn't see them come back.

"Kara!"

The door was pulled open, and Li Yang and Lu An walked in. After changing their shoes, they just lay on the couch and didn't want to move.

I was so tired that I didn't feel it when I went, and how far I walked when I came back. Obviously, it was only a little more than an hour away, but they walked for more than four hours. It took four times as long, and the leg was about to break. If they don't come back, they're going to despair.

Mu Yan waited for them to rest for a while, and then asked, "Did you find anything over there?" ”

“… We found the yokai's lair. Li Yang was silent for a while before speaking. This time, they really almost couldn't come back, if it weren't for Lu An's spiritual power to explore the way in the end. They will really be trapped there, so that the heavens will not work, and the earth will not be satisfied. However, he also thoroughly saw the huge amount of Lu An's spiritual power, and Lu An had never used all his strength before. Therefore, today is the first time that Lu An has exhausted his spiritual power. It can be seen how terrifying that trapped array is.

Therefore, Lu An fell asleep as soon as he lay on the sofa, and his spiritual power was exhausted. Although sleeping is not the fastest way to recover spiritual power, it is the best way to restore spiritual energy. Because sleeping not only restores spiritual power, but is also the best way to restore mental energy.

"The monster's lair? Where was it found? Mu Yan asked.

Li Yang told them everything they had discovered, including the place they couldn't enter.

"This... Let's check back tomorrow. After listening to this, Mu Yan said.

"What about me?" Ji Yu asked with shiny eyes.

“… You," Mu Yan said after being silent for a while. "You're going to stay here."

"Why?" Ji Yu's eyes widened and asked. "I'm going with you, too."

Mu Yan frowned, not knowing what to say. Li Yang glanced at Lu An, who was sleeping, and said, "I didn't take you there because you have more important tasks." Before we come back, take care of Luan. ”

"Huh?" Ji Yu was a little puzzled, Lu An didn't seem to need someone to take care of him.

"You have to take care of him, you can't make him sick." Li Yang said. "His spiritual power has been exhausted, and the slightest wind will make him cold. So, you're going to stay and take care of him. This is a long and arduous task, and you need to complete it well. Alright, you go back first. ”

"Hmm." Ji Yu thought about it, nodded, and went back to the room to sleep. Halfway through, he turned around and said, "Then you have to come back early." ”

Li Yang and Mu Yan nodded, and he went back to sleep with confidence.

They talked for a while before going back to rest.

Before this, Li Yang casually asked: "What about Bayi?" Why don't you see him? ”

"I don't know, I haven't seen him for a day today, and I can't ask him about something." Mu Yan shook his head and said.

"Oh, then he must be in trouble." Li Yang didn't care, and replied casually.

"Then I'll go and rest first." Mu Yan said.

"Hmm." Li Yang answered, and suddenly saw Lu An on the sofa and reacted. "Hey, Mu Yan, wait......"

But Mu Yan had already gone back, and Li Yang looked at Lu An who was sleeping on the sofa. With a headache, he pressed his forehead and picked him up and went back to his room.

Putting him on the bed, Li Yang looked at his sleeping face, a little distracted. Lu An is very handsome, with a little indifferent eyebrows in the thick ink like a distant mountain, and his eyes are closed, and there is no coldness that cannot be hidden when he opens them. Yingting's nose and ruddy lips are a little pale because he is tired. The soft lines are forced by him to feel cold and hard.

As long as everyone in the circle knows, Lu An is a legend. is only seventeen years old, but his spiritual power is terrifying. He rarely makes a move, and every time he does, he is sure to solve the problem. When he appeared in front of people, he was always cold and not gregarious at all.

Li Yang looked at him intently, stretched out his hand to touch his face, but stopped halfway. His eyes were dark and dark, and he finally lowered his hand. Put the quilt on Lu'an, close the door and leave.

Listening to Li Yang's footsteps in the distance, Lu An's eyelids moved. The clenched hands relaxed, and then fell into a deep sleep.

He was so tired. When he returned, he was trapped, and he exhausted his spiritual power to find his way back. Although he was sleeping just now, he woke up when Li Yang touched him. In order not to let Li Yang find out that he had woken up, he let Li Yang carry him back to the room. Li Yang wanted to touch him just now, but his nervous hands were clenched tightly. Although Li Yang finally gave up, he did not let his guard down. It wasn't until Li Yang left completely that he completely relaxed and fell into a complete sleep.

Li Yang closed the door, leaned against the window, and looked at the starry sky.

When did he start paying attention to Luan? It seems that it was when Luan first appeared. Before Lu An appeared, he was the first person of the new generation in this circle. However, Lu An appeared. Lu An's appearance took away the light that originally belonged to him.

So he began to pay attention to Lu An, and paid attention to Lu An's every shot. However, the more he looked at it, the more desperate he became. Lu An made a move, crisply and neatly, without a trace of procrastination. After a long time, he no longer despaired, but became more and more interested in Luan. But it was never approachable.

Li Yang smiled self-deprecatingly and came back to his senses. I didn't think about it, I lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

The next day, Li Yang and Mu Yan went to the place where Li Yang and the others went last time to investigate again. By the way, I also explored the ones I didn't go to last time, but I didn't get anything.

In the village, Bayi's house, Ji Yu guarded Lu An, who was still sleeping. He looked at the book in his hand boredly and tossed it aside. He propped his head up with his left hand and stared at Lu An in a daze. After a while, he came to his senses. He stared at Lu An for a while, and he seemed to have made some decision. Wrapped Lu An tightly, and all the places that might enter the wind, Ji Yu carefully checked them. After the inspection, he glanced at Lu An again, turned around and went out.

Ji Yu wandered around the village aimlessly. Without Mu Yan by his side, he felt that time had passed so long. After walking around like this, Ji Yu felt that it was still boring except that the altar that had not yet been built in the center of the village was interesting, so he decided to find someone to ask about the sacrifice.

The first thing that comes to mind is Bayi, but Bayi hasn't been there since yesterday. Ji Yu was a little strange, it can be seen that Li Yang didn't think it, so he didn't bother to bring it up.

Ji Yu searched around for someone who seemed to know something, probably because tomorrow was the day of the sacrifice. All the people were helping to build the altar in the middle of the village, and there was no one on the main road.

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a scrawny old man hobbling down the road. Seeing that Ji Yu was frightened, he hurriedly ran over to support him and said, "Grandpa, where are you going?" I'll help you go. ”

The old man looked at Ji Yu, and said after a while: "I'm going to the east of the village." ”

The east end of the village is the end of the village, and the west end of the village is the head of the village. It sounds like a straight line, but it actually takes several circles to get there. And there is only one family living in the east end of the village, and it is the priest who presides over the sacrifice tomorrow.

"Oh." Ji Yu responded, as if unintentionally, "What is the old man doing in the east of the village?" ”

"That's my home." The old man said.

"Ah," Ji Yu was surprised. "Grandpa, your family lives so far away."

The old man just smiled and didn't answer. Ji Yu didn't continue to ask, and when he was halfway there, Ji Yu suddenly asked, "Old man, do you know the origin of tomorrow's sacrifice?" ”

"I'll tell you, okay?" The old man smiled slightly and sold a pass.

"Okay." Ji Yu pursed his mouth and said.

Along the way, Ji Yu was not idle. pestered the old man to ask questions, and the old man also answered them one by one. I also knew that the old man's surname was Moming Mountain, and he was a person who wandered here in the early years. But even if the matter of the sacrifice is about to say anything, I will tell him later, Ji Yu has no choice but to wait.

Ji Yu helped the old man walk slowly, but he also arrived at the east end of the village before noon.

Not far from them, I saw an old-fashioned wooden house. Here, Ji Yu unexpectedly met Bayi, who had not seen anyone for two days, and only after explaining did he know that Bayi was the next priest. I also knew that Old Man Mo was the priest of this term, and tomorrow's sacrifice would be presided over by him, and it would be his last sacrifice.

In the past two days, Bayi has been preparing the things to be used for the sacrifice and the process of the sacrifice. Ji Yu nodded suddenly: "Oh, no wonder I haven't seen anyone for the past two days." ”

Bayi greeted them: "What a coincidence, it's just time for lunch." ”

"Xiao Ji, let's have lunch together." Old Man Mo also knew Ji Yu's name and shouted. "I'll tell you what you want to know."

"Really?" Ji Yu's eyes lit up instantly.

"Of course." Old Man Mo said funny.

Ji Yu immediately sat down and looked at Old Man Mo with a begging expression.

Old Man Mo looked at Ji Yu helplessly, smiled and shook his head. Then Zhengse said: "Do you really want to know?" ”

"Hmm." Ji Yu replied with a firm look in his eyes, and then asked suspiciously. "Can't you tell anyone if you know?"

"Not really." Old Man Mo laughed.

He turned his head to look at the mountain outside the window, a little distracted, and only spoke after a while: "This was not a village before, but a lake, a lake surrounded by mountains on all sides. ”

Old Man Mo looked at Ji Yu listening carefully, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and continued: "Then one day, the lake dried up, and the ancestors of this village discovered here. When they saw that the land was fertile, they settled here. There are no beasts and no bandits. They lived happily and comfortably, and so on for more than ten years.

And a dozen years later, a girl appeared here. She was exiled here, and the kind villagers accepted the girl. And she is not a daughter, and she blends well with the villagers. And so it went for a few months, and one night. The girl suddenly told the villagers where she was staying that the flood was coming, and told them to hurry up and tell the other villagers to take refuge in the surrounding mountains. The villager didn't believe it, so the girl took them to the middle of the village to see it. The very center of the village is the lowest point of the village. When they reached the middle of the village, they saw that the water was bubbling up. They were so frightened that they ran back to tell the other villagers to leave, but most of them didn't believe them. The few people followed them away in disbelief and walked halfway up the mountain. The water erupted, gushing out of the ground like a fountain. It destroyed the village with lightning speed and quickly spread to the mountains. The villagers who did not listen to them did not have time to flee and were completely submerged by the water. And the villagers who believed them watched in horror, but could not do anything. Then the girl shouted, 'Quick, let's go up, the water will continue to rise.' ’

The girl's cry woke up the villagers. They continued to run upward, knowing that they were close to the top of the hill before they dared to stop. And the water will stop at a centimeter from their feet.

The girl looked at the calm water and bowed her head in silence for those who had perished at the bottom of the water, and the other villagers joined her in their silence. After a while, the girl looked up and said, 'Let's go, there is a cave not far away, and we will spend the night.' ’

The Classic of Mountains and Seas? Mountain Sutra? The Nanshan Jing says: "The British water comes out, and the south flow is injected into the Ze of the wings." Among them, there are many red squids, its shape is like a fish and a human face, its sound is like a mandarin duck, and it is not scabies when eaten. ”