The sun gradually climbed into the middle of the sky.

The villagers digging in the fields with hoes wipe the sweat mixed with dust and mud from their foreheads from time to time, the hens of the village in the open space of the village cooing and pecking at the insects in the fields, and the gray little yellow dog lazily lying on the pillar that holds it to snooze.

In the bright daylight, everything in the small mountain village still looks like normal.

But the more frequent coughing of the village chief's house, and the faint cries of the villagers who enter and leave the Li family's house from time to time, are all reminders that there is some unknown danger hidden in the village, and that the familiar home of the past has become no longer safe.

An atmosphere called fear slowly enveloped the mountain village.

In the mountain village, Lin Jin, who was dressed in a cyan moire brocade robe, calmly took a little girl who had been properly combed and wore a coarse cloth bun to walk around the village to visit.

Although the villagers all saw the two people walking through the village, they all avoided it from a distance, and those who really avoided it turned their eyes to other places and pretended not to see them.

The little girl was naturally Bai Nanxiang, she followed Lin Jin curiously all the way, watching him seem to be magical, from time to time from his sleeves that looked swaying and light and empty, and buried them in all corners of the village, and casually laid out a so-called blinding method.

Bai Nanxiang secretly studied for a long time, but she couldn't see where Lin Jin took out the pile of things.

After Lin Jin squatted down in a corner of the wall and buried an ordinary-looking piece of broken wood with a wooden stick with her own hands, she squatted beside him and asked curiously.

"Can you hide from that mountain mane?"

Lin Jin patted the non-existent dust on his hands and stood up.

"If it wants to see it, it can't hide it, I'm not trying to hide it, I can sense the formation I laid out whenever it touches it."

Bai Nanxiang also stood up, and after listening to Lin Jin's words, she understood after a little contemplation.

"What you mean is that the villagers don't understand the formation and have your blinding method as a cover, it is impossible for them to destroy this formation, and the only one who has the ability and wants to verify the authenticity of the formation is the mountain charm, and once he touches your formation, you can sense it, and you will catch it."

Lin Jin listened to Bai Nanxiang's words, did not speak, and walked calmly towards the next place.

Bai Nanxiang followed him, thought about it and asked.

"That Taoist in the village also looks quite powerful, will he come to sabotage your formation?"

Lin Jin didn't stop and replied confidently.

"He doesn't have that ability."

……

Lin Jin took Bai Nanxiang to work in different locations in the village in an orderly manner for a whole afternoon, until it was dark, he threw the wooden stick in his hand, but did not go home but walked towards the village.

Bai Nanxiang still followed him like a small tail.

Lin Jin walked a few steps and turned back to look at the little girl.

"I'm going to find the clan elder and ask him to inform the villagers to gather at the entrance of the village after the moonrise, you can go home first, and then come to the village entrance to look for me after dinner."

At this time, the sky was already a little gray, and the position where Lin Jin was standing was just backlit, and the little girl looked up at the man in front of her, who was half a body taller than herself, and responded a little uncertainly.

"Oh, good."

Lin Jin got her answer, and immediately turned around and left unhurriedly.

The little girl looked at his back and hesitated for a moment, then turned and walked in the other direction.

Leaving Lin Jin, Bai Nanxiang realized that the sky was indeed a little dark at the moment, and there was a feeling of hunger in her abdomen, and she was unexpectedly a little lonely.

But thinking that Lin Jin was going to the village to find the clan elder, with the habit of the village, the clan elder was probably in Li San's house at the moment, and she felt that her current situation would be very embarrassing if she was present.

Thinking like this, the little girl thought in hindsight, didn't Lin Jinmo also realize this before letting herself leave?

Because of this conjecture, the little girl's mood actually improved a little, and in the night after she was almost burned to death by the villagers, she was a little happy because of Lin Jin's words.

So, after a hurried dinner, she looked at a round of jade plates in the sky and showed her face, and the little girl remembered that Lin Jin had not eaten dinner, so she kicked a hot sweet potato in her arms, and then walked towards the entrance of the village with some trepidation.

By the time she reached the entrance of the village, the villagers, who had been free after dinner, had already gathered at the entrance of the village.

Seeing her coming, the villagers who were still talking stopped and cast different glances at her.

In front of everyone's eyes, the young girl ignored the gazes of others, walked towards the young man in green clothes in the crowd without any disorder, and passed by Grandma Zhang, she even piled up a sweet smile and said hello sweetly.

Grandma Zhang also squeezed out a somewhat bitter smile on her face, and watched the little girl walk to the center of the crowd.

Bai Nanxiang walked up to Lin Jin, casually took out the sweet potato that was still hot from his arms and handed it to Lin Jin, but asked in his mouth.

"Is the formation alright?"

Lin Jin looked at the sweet potato in the little girl's hand, and also took it casually, but he didn't eat it, but received it in his sleeve.

"I've eaten it, and the formation hasn't been destroyed."

After getting along for half a day, Bai Nanxiang has already gotten used to Lin Jin's way of liking to answer two unrelated things side by side.

Hearing Lin Jin say that the formation was not destroyed, she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, on the way to find Lin Jin, she had actually secretly hoped that the mountain monster would take the initiative to visit and throw herself into the net.

Fortunately, although the little girl Bai Nanxiang was disappointed, she still remembered that the mountain manhole was probably hidden among the villagers, and the expression on her face remained unchanged at all, and she still cared about Lin Jin's dinner.

"Where did you eat? What have you eaten and what are you doing with my sweet potatoes? ”

Hearing Bai Nanxiang say this, Lin Jin really lowered his head and took out the sweet potato from his sleeve again.

At this time, with a few coughing sounds, the clan elders, Taoists, and the mother and son of the Li Sanjia and the last few villagers in the village also appeared at the entrance of the village.

The villagers who had already arrived couldn't help but turn their heads to look at the clan elders.

Different from Bai Nanxiang's reaction when she appeared, this time the villagers opened their mouths one after another, and the elders of the same clan greeted each other.

Bai Nanxiang looked at the villagers' very different reactions, remembering the villagers' attitudes towards her in the past, and her heart was mixed for a while.

As she was distracted, there was a warm touch in her hand, and the little girl looked down suspiciously, realizing that she had an extra sweet potato in her hand.

She held the sweet potato and looked at the person beside her, Lin Jin had already withdrawn his hand, and looked at the clan elders with his usual upright appearance.

The patriarch also saw the two of them.

He skipped Bai Nanxiang, nodded to Lin Jin with a smile and said hello before leading the Taoist towards the two.

The Taoist walked expressionlessly with his hands behind his back, glanced at the two of them, put on a posture of fairy wind and Dao bones, and walked over without saying a word.

For some reason, after being glanced at by the person, Bai Nanxiang only felt that the cold hairs on her back stood up, and the already cold night breeze seemed to be dyed with a chill to the bone.