In my sleep, I seemed to feel a warm current flowing slowly through me, and I thought I had a dream that I would never wake up, but when the sun rose the next day, I woke up.

Looking at my white hands, I pinched my face hard, and I didn't come back to my senses for a long time.

However, I did wake up, and not only was I not poisoned, but I was filled with an indescribable energy.

Xiao Changsheng lay on my back, as if he was asleep, I didn't dare to wake him up, I gently picked him up and put him on the straw shop on the side.

Then, I stood up and stretched my muscles and bones casually, just a few flicks at random, and there was a crackling sound on my wrist, and even the whole person was full of energy.

Could it be that the poison of this withered hand is actually a great tonic, which can wash the essence and cut the marrow for others, and fight poison with poison?

With that in mind, I lowered my head and looked over to the place where I had fought last night.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, when you look at it, it completely scares me.

Last night, because of the light, I didn't get a thorough look at the strange hand, I only felt that he looked like a tree, and I didn't analyze anything special except that it felt weird.

Now that I saw the withered hand, with a burning gap in the fracture, and the hands covered with fluff, and the skin like the dead roots of an old tree, I finally remembered the origin of this thing.

If nothing else, is this a hand? Well, this is nonsense, the point is, this is the hand of a mandrill.

The mandrill, also called the mountain child, is a tree in the mountains, rivers and wild forests, and the six animals are entangled in the resentment after death, entangled and transformed into a monster, such as a tree, like an ape, with only one eye. This strange hand, whose skin is wrinkled like the roots of an old tree, and has actually grown roots, is obviously one of the mandrill's arms.

The reason why I made this conclusion was not only because of the book records, but also because I had heard a story about Siu Tam Mountain in these days in Macau.

It is said that this Xiaotan Mountain, before the Ming Dynasty, was one of the famous mountains in Haojing (another name for present-day Macau). In addition to being rich in wild medicinal herbs, there are more streams and ponds in the mountains, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the resources are abundant, because Macao is originally an island, so the rivers and streams on the mountains are also connected to the sea, and in the rivers and ponds, there are occasionally fish and shrimp in the sea flowing into it.

Therefore, the villagers often carry cages up the mountain and place them in the river pond to catch fish, shrimp and crabs that flow in from the sea.

At the foot of this small pond mountain, there is a villager named Chen Ji, who is one of the villagers who often take a cage up the mountain to catch fish and shrimp.

One day, Chen Ji, as usual, went up to the river pond of Xiaotan Mountain to check his harvest results. When he picked up the cage and looked at it, Chen Ji was stunned. I saw that the cage that was placed in the river pond last night had broken a big hole, and there were no fish and shrimp in the cage, only an arm-long log inside.

You should know that an arm's length of wood is also about the size of a bowl in width. If the cage is broken, it is impossible to break such a big hole. Obviously, this was done by someone else.

Immediately, Chen Ji threw the cage angrily, cursed loudly, threw the wood, repaired the cage again, and put it back into the river.

However, what Chen Ji didn't expect was that when he came to check the results the next day, he found that the fish and shrimp in the cage were like yesterday, and only a long log remained.

After a few days, the situation still did not improve, and the wood still appeared in Chen Ji's cage on time every day.

Chen Ji was also suspicious, thinking that this wood was a little weird. Suspicious, he didn't take out the wood and throw it away this time. Instead, he directly sealed the cage, put it on the flat pole, and prepared to take it home as firewood to burn.

When Chen Ji carried the cage and walked about half a mile down the mountain, he suddenly heard a strange movement in the cage behind him, and the puzzled Chen Ji looked back, and his scalp was numb in an instant, and he was so shocked that even his eyes almost fell out.

I don't know when it began, the wood in the cage had turned into a monster, this monster had skin like tree bark, like an ape, and only one eye on its face, although it was a human face, but it had the body of a monkey in clothes.

It said to Chen Ji: "I am the mountain god in the mountains, just because I am greedy for shrimp and crabs in the sea, every day when you release the cage, I get into your cage, I hope you will forgive me this time." Please let me go, and I will repay you well in the future. ”

When Chen Ji saw that this monster could speak, he couldn't resonate half-loudly, but he saw that this monster was trapped in a cage and couldn't move, and his confidence came, so he scolded this monster

"It's not been a day or two since you got into my cage to steal shrimp and crabs, do you know, I'm just an ordinary person under the mountain, and I'm looking at the seafood in this cage for some rice money to feed my family."

After scolding the monster with a big grin, Chen Ji looked at the pitiful appearance of the monster, but his heart softened, and as soon as he was kind, he was ready to open the cage and release the monster

However, when Chen Ji's hand was halfway outstretched, the monster's words made Chen Ji wake up suddenly, and even broke out in a cold sweat.

Because, while this monster begged for mercy, he actually asked Chen Ji what his name was, and not once or twice.

Although the monster said in a flattering tone that he must repay Chen Ji in the future, this question made Chen Ji's heart tense involuntarily, and he stretched out a strong sense of vigilance.

Because, only the monsters in the mountains, the ghosts will blindly ask for the names of others. As long as they know their names, they can follow them to other people's homes and cause harm to them.

As a result, Chen Ji's heart had to be shocked, and while he was shocked, Chen Ji thought about it carefully and felt that something was wrong. If it is a mountain god, how can he get into my cage every day, steal my hard-earned fruits, and do such a nasty thing.

In an instant, Chen Ji had insight into the identity of this monster. This monster is definitely not a mountain god, but a mandrill spirit formed by the resentment of the spirit tree and ape in the mountain.

Thinking of this, Chen Ji shouted angrily, pointed to the monster in the cage and said: "You mandrill spirit, I can't bear to see you pitiful in vain, and I want to let you go, but you are so sinister that you ask my name, and you want to harm me after I release you."

After scolding, Chen Ji ignored the wailing of the mandrill spirit, burned a fire, and threw it at the cage used for shrimp fishing.

Although the mandrill spirit was burned to death by the fire, one hand remained. Chen Ji saw that after the mandrill spirit was burned to death, he still left a strange hand, thinking that this strange hand must not be a good thing, so he brought straw and made a fire, preparing to burn the remaining arm.

However, the strange thing is that the fire can ignite straw and dead branches, but when it touches the dead hand, the fierce fire is extinguished in an instant. After trying a few more times, Chen Ji saw that there was really no way to burn it, so he dug a big hole and buried the arm.

Chen Ji didn't know that the mandrill essence was originally a tree spirit, and the resentment of the six animals in the mountain that was entangled after their death was ruined by Chen Ji at this time, and they were already resentful and resentful. The remaining arm happened to gather the lifelong resentment of the mandrill, and it was not something that could be burned by fire.

Soon after this incident, people who went up the mountain often saw the shadow of a strange hand. , There are many fast catches, villagers and tourists, were mutilated to death by this strange hand, so that Xiaotan Mountain has become a forbidden mountain that no one cares about for a long time in the future. And in this forbidden mountain, there is a legend of mandrill spirits and strange hands.

Now, seeing the appearance of this strange hand, there are obvious traces of being burned by the fire at the gap, and there are fluff and tree roots on the back of the hand, which is obviously the strange hand left after the mandrill spirit was burned to death.

However, fortunately, I carried Uncle Qingsong's Huaguang Dharma Seal with me. This mandrill spirit is formed by the resentment of the mountain tree spirits and the six animal creatures. Among the five elements, wood. And Emperor Huaguang is the most domineering fire spirit among all the gods.

Therefore, the attributes of this Huaguang Law Seal are inherently compatible with this mandrill spirit. Even if the spirituality of the Dharma Seal cannot be compared to that of the mandrill spirit, this innate restraint is still unmatched by the mandrill spirit's remnant hand.

After putting away the seal, I looked at my watch, and it was already more than one o'clock in the afternoon. And Xiao Changsheng was still asleep on the straw bed.

Perhaps, he should be sent down the mountain, or if it is after dark, everyone will not be able to go down the mountain, and they will have to wait until tomorrow morning.

Besides, I'm here to find Huang Jing again, and it's inconvenient to bring a child with me.

Thinking of this, I walked up to Xiao Changsheng's side and gave it a gentle push.

"Little Changsheng, wake up, it's time for uncle to send you down the mountain."