At this time, Xiaobai did not look weak at all, but became violent. After I pushed him away, in an instant, he pounced again.

"Xiaobai, you're crazy!" I put one hand around my neck and stepped back in panic.

Blood with body temperature flowed from his fingers, and under the stimulation of the smell of blood, Xiaobai's expression became very excited, and his eyes exuded a green and faint light, and he threw me down like crazy.

The two of us scuffled, thinking that I could take advantage of the failure of the talisman and easily subdue Xiaobai. What I didn't expect was that his strength was even greater than before, and I was no match for him at all.

Like a bloodthirsty beast, Xiaobai opened his mouth and bit my neck. His mouth smelled of blood, and the blood almost stained his teeth red, so it was all my blood!

Although I tried my best to protect my neck, Xiaobai bit my arm again. That force clearly wanted to tear off a piece of my flesh directly.

His hands weren't idle, either, and he scratched a few scars on my body. I now finally realize that it is almost impossible to subdue Xiaobai by hand-to-hand combat.

But what's wrong with Xiaobai? Why did it suddenly turn out like this? It stands to reason that after the talisman fails, Xiaobai will enter a period of weakness, and he will have to rest in bed for a period of time before he can return to his vigorous state.

Could it be that he was too weak and caused him to be overshadowed? This is not an impossible thing, in this kind of barren mountains and mountains, it is inevitable that there will be lonely souls and wild ghosts wandering.

I gritted my teeth and pushed Xiaobai away with all my might. At this moment, I mobilized the power of the talisman in my body, used the Qi Hope Technique, and carefully observed Xiao Bai.

Strangely, I didn't notice the Yin Qi fluctuations, but vaguely saw the phantom of a monster in his body. The monster had sharp-beaked monkey gills and green hair, and looked like a monkey without a tail.

It was only a split second that my eyes hurt a little, and I had to give up observation. Looking at Xiaobai again, his face was hideous, and after being twisted, it was really similar to the monster he saw just now.

Immediately after that, I caught a glimpse of the place where Xiaobai had just sat down, and I couldn't help but feel shocked, the reason was here! Xiaobai was not taken on by the Yin Spirit, but provoked spirits such as mandrills.

Spirits are different from ghosts, and the popular explanation is that animals or plants that have become spirits in the mountains. The monster I saw just now should be a kind of mandrill.

The overlord in the mountains is never a beast such as a tiger, a leopard or a bear, the real overlord is the spirit in the mountain, and the mandrill is one of the more famous existences.

It is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that this thing looks like a monkey, but it is extremely ferocious and powerful. Mandrills are said to be faster than leopards, capable of tearing apart tigers and leopards and other beasts with their bare hands, and have a long lifespan.

It's just that this kind of monster is secretive, and few people see it, or everyone who sees this kind of spirit is dead. There are many folk rumors about mandrills eating people and even sucking the brain marrow.

I don't know where the saying "there are no tigers in the mountains, monkeys are kings" came from. If the prototype of the "monkey" in this sentence is a mandrill, it is estimated that it is not that there are no tigers in the mountains at all, but that the tigers were eaten by mandrills.

I smiled bitterly, I didn't expect our luck to be so bad that we actually met a mandrill here. And this time we took the initiative to provoke the mandrill, no wonder it will attack Xiaobai.

Mandrills are also known as "mountain gods" in some places, and mountain people will also set up temples to worship. The name of the mountain god is too cheap, and it is the product of fear, just like the dragon king, locust god and other "gods".

Because they were afraid of floods, they built temples to worship the dragon king and prayed for the wind to be even. Because they are afraid of locust plagues, they worship the locust god and pray for a good harvest.

The same is true of the mountain temples in some places, and those mountain people may have suffered from mandrills and fierce beasts, so they set up temples to worship and ask for peace of mind.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains depends on the water to draft the water, and the men in the mountains will inevitably go into the mountains to hunt and chop firewood. They are lucky enough to hope that the mandrill will be worshipped to protect them, or at least no longer harm them.

There is another legend in the mountain, those bare tree stumps in the mountain are the benches of the mountain gods. If you rashly sit on the bench of the mountain god, you will definitely invite disaster.

In some places, when mountain people enter the mountain, they will burn incense and worship when they encounter that kind of tree stump, praying for a smooth entry into the mountain and a safe return for everyone.

This legend was told to me by my grandfather, and he told me that I should never sit on that kind of tree stump. It seems that this legend does have some truth.

The place where Xiaobai was sitting just now was a tree stump the size of a basin. The stump was covered with moss, and I didn't see it for a while, so Xiaobai caused a big disaster.

After thinking everything through, I had an idea. Seeing Xiaobai pounce again, I didn't hesitate to take out an apple from my pocket and stuff it into Xiaobai's mouth.

"Click!" With a bang, the apple was directly bitten.

Fortunately, the mandrill did not appear directly, but used means to control Xiaobai, and the matter has not yet reached the point of being out of control. As long as we sincerely worship the mandrill, it will not be as knowledgeable as us.

I had already prepared some fruit and other offerings when I came, so I shouldn't blame Grandpa Mandrill for taking out some offerings first.

After Xiaobai bit the apple, he didn't spit it out casually, but chewed a few bites and swallowed it in his stomach. I quickly took out incense, candles, offerings, and other things and placed them in front of the stump.

"Don't blame the mountain god, it's us juniors who are ignorant, and we still hope that the mountain god has a lot, don't worry about us." I muttered a few words softly.

About ten seconds later, the little white monster screamed and suddenly fell to the ground. When he observed it with the Hope Qi Technique, there was no longer the phantom of the mandrill on his body.

I breathed a sigh of relief, hurried to Xiaobai's side, made a cup of talisman water, and forcibly poured it. His breath gradually stabilized, and there should be no more major problems except for weakness.

After reflecting on what I had just done, I became much more cautious. In this kind of wilderness, you can't be careless at all, and the more unfamiliar the environment, the more you should be careful.

Looking up, the dense foliage obscured the sky, and the jungle was still pitch black. I'm a little melancholy, what should I do next? Guarding Xiaobai in place, waiting for dawn?

"Woohoo......" The roar of a wild beast came from afar.

I felt a pang in my heart, didn't I say that there were no more beasts in the mountains in recent years? This roar is definitely not something that a small animal can make.

A moment later, the roar was heard again. I'm not calm, stay where I am, what if I get discovered by the beast?

If it's just me, it's okay to say, even if I can't beat me, I'm confident that I can run away. But now Xiaobai is still lying aside, he has no combat effectiveness, and now he is no different from a vegetative person.

After a slight hesitation, I took a deep breath and picked Xiaobai on my back. Whether I can get out or not, at least I'll have to stay away from that terrible roar.

I carried Xiaobai in the opposite direction, even if there is a fierce beast chasing after me, we can delay some time if we start to act now.

But just after walking a few meters, my feet suddenly stepped on the air, and the whole person was in a state of weightlessness, and rolled down the steep hill with Xiaobai.

Thousands of alpacas roared past me in my heart, what are you doing? I just looked at the surroundings and didn't notice such a steep hill here.

I was smashed, and my eyes were full of stars. When I was rolling down, I grabbed Xiaobai's arm tightly, but in the end, the two of us crashed into a tree.

My arm was almost broken, and I had to let go of Xiaobai in pain. When I finally stopped, I didn't know where I had rolled.

"Shhh...... It hurts me! "I folded my arms and lay on the ground for a while before I recovered.

After sitting up, I looked around first, but I didn't find Xiaobai's figure. Then I quickly checked my backpack, and fortunately the urn in the bag was not damaged.

Xiaobai lost it, and so did the other backpack full of things. I stood up and shook my flashlight around to make sure Xiaobai wasn't near me.

"Xiaobai, where are you?" I shouted.

"Xiaobai, where are you ......" I was startled by the echo.

Along with the echoes, there are a few other animal calls that sound even more eerie. When the mountain wind hit, I felt a chill and shivered involuntarily.

I gave up the idea of calling Xiaobai, Xiaobai was too weak to wake up now. Even if he had woken up, he probably didn't have much strength, and it was difficult to respond to me.

I turned on my flashlight and looked around, and looked along the traces I rolled down, but there was no trace of Xiaobai. I was in a hurry, and I couldn't help but speed up the pace of searching, occasionally controlling my voice and shouting a few times.

Xiaobai is now a piece of fat meat that has no ability to resist, not to mention a fierce beast, even some small animals can treat him as food, I must find him quickly.

A few minutes later, I searched all the places in the vicinity for a radius of more than 100 meters. In desperation, I walked farther away, and the light of the flashlight flickered, and I faintly saw a figure in the tree in the distance.

My heart moved, could it be that Xiaobai was stuck in a tree when he rolled down? That's too difficult, isn't it?

Confused, I walked towards the tree, and even if there was only the slightest possibility, I couldn't let it go so easily.

After getting closer, I took a careful look at it with a flashlight, and it was not Xiaobai at all. It was a shabby garment that hung from a tree branch, to be exact.

But I didn't notice that there was a broken stone monument under the tree. Carefully identify, you can see that the three big characters "Shanghe Village" are written on it in traditional Chinese.

Finally arrived at Shanghe Village? I can't believe it, after so long of searching, I ended up falling and I arrived? Could it be that the worship of mandrills just now is really useful?

It was a coincidence, and I had just finished worshipping the mandrill when I heard the cry of the beast. Stimulated by the screams, I left with Xiaobai, but unexpectedly rolled down the hillside.

Immediately after Xiaobai disappeared again, in order to find Xiaobai, I actually found Shanghe Village. I froze in place, frowning as I thought about what had just happened.

If it's really the mandrill that is helping us, then isn't it time to find Xiaobai's traces? It won't be because I found Shanghe Village, let me lose Xiaobai, right?

"Ahh As soon as I thought of this, I actually heard Xiaobai's screams.

Suddenly I looked up and followed the sound, and I saw a light coming on a few hundred meters away. It wasn't a flashlight that emitted the light, but a brightly lit house.

This book was first published in Reading Book Worm