"That's right!"

Nodding slightly, hearing him say this, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in my heart, and then asked, "That's right!" What the hell was that thing that was attached to Wu's head just now? ”

"Also, wasn't that thing's previous target always a little plug? How could it suddenly be transferred to Wu's head again? ”

"Alas! It's hard to put into words! ”

With a long sigh, Brother Zhou's eyes were obviously a little self-reproachful, and then he smiled bitterly: "This matter, in fact, I am also blamed for being too careless to underestimate the enemy!" ”

"In the beginning, I only thought of it as an ordinary 'road ghost', so I didn't take it to heart! Unprepared, this directly forced it out of the body of the plug, full of thought that it could be successfully overtaken by it! ”

"But I didn't expect that this TM is not an ordinary ghost at all, but a mandrill with a deep path!"

"What!"

"Mountain...... Mandrill? ”

At first hearing the word "mandrill", my face couldn't help but become very ugly, because I am no stranger to this creature! Several times, I have seen descriptions of "mandrills" in old books.

The "mandrill" in Brother Zhou's mouth obviously does not refer to the kind of wild monkeys that grow in Africa, but the legendary man-eating one-legged ghost!

Ge Hong in the Jin Dynasty once described it in his book "Hug Puzi": "The mountain spirit is shaped like a child, with one foot backwards, and the night is happy to be a prisoner, and the name is Xiao." ”

In addition, Ji Xiaolan's "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Scroll of the Sea" also have similar descriptions.

Legend has it that mandrills can run faster than leopards, and can even tear jackals, tigers and leopards with their bare hands, and they are the absolute overlords of the mountains, and they have a very long lifespan, and have been regarded as monsters since ancient times!

Even though I've never seen a mandrill, I don't really doubt it at all. Due to the particularity of the "life grid", I am almost used to seeing all kinds of strange lights, not to mention the mandrill, even if it is the "mountain god", I am convinced of it.

"Don't worry!"

Perhaps sensing the terror that flashed in my eyes, Brother Zhou couldn't help but grin and comforted me: "This mandrill is a bit special, and its strength is not very strong, and it has been seriously injured by me using secret methods!" If we can plan it well, it won't be difficult to deal with! ”

"Oh?"

Hearing him say this, my eyes suddenly lit up, and I couldn't help but quickly ask, "It seems that Brother Feizhou has already thought of a countermeasure?" ”

"That's nature!"

Brother Zhou patted his chest with a conceited face, and said with a smug smile: "Anyway, I used to be a dragon and tiger...... Ahem...... In short, you're just waiting to see! It's just a mandrill, and I really didn't take it seriously! ”

While speaking, Brother Zhou's face seemed to be very emotional, but in fact, how could he hide it from me?

With my eyesight, I could almost immediately perceive the gloom in his eyes, and he seemed to have mentioned the word "dragon and tiger" just now, could it be ...... Is he referring to the ancestral court of Taoism - Longhu Mountain?

Could it be that he is actually a Taoist priest of Longhu Mountain?

It seems that he is really a person with a lot of stories, and this can't help but make me extremely interested in his identity all of a sudden!

But since he didn't want to mention it, and even a little "secretive", I naturally didn't want to ask too much. As he just said, everyone has their own secrets, and as long as he has no ill will towards me, why should I bother to get to the bottom of it?

So I could only pretend that I didn't find anything, pretend to be stupid, and continue to play with him haha.

Brother Zhou is actually a very talkative person, bored left and right, he also told me some of his own experience, and by the way, popularized the knowledge of "Taoism" for me!

Naturally, I listened with relish, and many of the questions that I had been unable to figure out before suddenly opened my mouth, until the mother of the plug made the meal, cleaned up the table and called us to eat, and I was still a little unsatisfied.

At the dinner table, I expected Brother Zhou to continue to explain to me, but I didn't expect that he would be reincarnated as a starving ghost! Like the wind and clouds, a vigorous nonsense eating Haisai, where do you still have the heart to explain anything to me?

Plug and his mother didn't serve it, and in the end I almost watched him eat a whole braised chicken, except for me who grabbed a chicken leg for the little bolt, and he ate almost all of the rest!

"Hiccup!"

About half an hour later, Brother Zhou burped contentedly, looked at me, and then wiped his mouth a little embarrassed, and said a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I'm so hungry, I haven't eaten for several days!" So ......"

"It's okay, just feel free, I'm not hungry at all!"

I really wasn't hungry at all, because I was still thinking about the "mandrill" in my head, and if it weren't for Brother Zhou's confidence, I would have gone home to find my master by now.

After being full of wine and food, Brother Zhou took out a pen and paper from the cloth bag he carried, sprinkled it, wrote more than a dozen things on it, and then handed it to me: "You are a local, right?" See if you can help me get that? ”

"I'll see!"

I subconsciously took a look and found that it was all written with cinnabar, red nitrate, black dog blood, chicken blood and the like, so I quickly asked, "Are you going to draw talismans?" ”

"See?"

Brother Zhou nodded subconsciously, and said with a wry smile: "No way!" I'm injured now, and I don't have much strength to show up, as for you, ......"

Speaking of this, Brother Zhou couldn't help but shake his head, and then said: "So if we want to defeat the mandrill, it is estimated that we can only use the talisman seal, and unfortunately, some of the talisman materials on my body have basically been used up!" ”

"Okay!"

Nodding slightly, I took a closer look at the things on the list, frowned slightly, and then said: "Black dog blood, chicken blood and other living creatures, it's not difficult to solve, it's just that this cinnabar, red nitrate ......"

Speaking of which, I couldn't help but suddenly think of Master's "Hundred Treasure Bags", Master usually has the habit of drawing talismans, and it seems that there is a lot of stock in it, I hope it can come in handy!

So he said, "Okay! I'll figure it out, but I might have to go home! When do you want it? ”

"The sooner the better, of course!"

As soon as he heard that I really had a way to find these things, Brother Zhou suddenly turned overjoyed, and hurriedly urged me: "Without further ado, why don't you set off now!" It's definitely best to deal with mandrills during the day, but once it's night, I'm afraid it's not so easy! ”

"Good!"

Time was pressing, so I didn't think much of it, so I put away the list, and hurried out of here and headed straight home.

Strangely, when I returned home full of joy, I found that Master was not at home!

At first, I naively thought that he should have just gone into the mountains to hunt, but then I found out that the shotgun was actually hanging in his room. Then I found that even some of the clothes and daily necessities he used to wear on weekdays had disappeared.

"That's not right!"

It was only then that I finally felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly opened his pillow, and sure enough, I found the "Five Techniques Essence" underneath, as well as a thick envelope!

My heart sank suddenly, and I hurriedly opened the envelope, and found that it contained a thick pile of bills! It's about 20,000 yuan, which should be the tuition and living expenses that Master left me for college.

In addition, there is also a handwritten letter from the Master.

Basically speaking, I'm an adult now, and everything else is up to me. He has a very important thing to do now, so I must not look for him, and when he should appear, he will naturally come to me.

Then he told me that I must have a good understanding of this "Essence of the Five Techniques", saying that all the confusion in my heart, whether it is about the little fox or my life experience, you can find the answer in this "Essence of the Five Techniques".

Not only that, but at the end of the letter, he specifically instructed me that the matter about the "Essence of the Five Techniques" must be kept secret from others, and must not be known to others, otherwise it will bring my life to danger! He told me to memorize it as soon as I could, and then I burned it straight away!

Master is gone?

After reading the letter left by the Master, I couldn't help but stay where I was, and I couldn't calm down for a long time, and I felt like I had been abandoned!

For 18 years, Master and I have been dependent on each other, and no matter what kind of problems I encountered, Master has sheltered me from the wind and rain. Now, Master has suddenly disappeared from my world, how do you tell me to get used to it?

I even fantasized that when I went to college in the city, I would be able to work on my own to earn money, and then rent a small house in the city and take my master to live there, so that I could repay him for his kindness.

But now?

I don't even know where Master has gone now, and if we can see each other again?

At this moment, I almost felt like the sky was going to fall!

I subconsciously took out my mobile phone and frantically dialed Master's number, but no matter how many times I called, it was always a cold voice prompt of "the other party has turned off".

Master is really gone, he doesn't want me anymore!

No wonder he insisted that he asked me to go to school to get some admission letter yesterday, and now it seems that Master obviously wanted to deliberately separate me. I'm afraid that as soon as I left with my front foot, he had already packed up his things with his back foot and left here directly.

Thinking of this, my intestines are almost remorseful! If I had known this, I should have come back as soon as I didn't catch the bus yesterday, and maybe I would have seen my master "for the last time".

"Hoo ......"

It took me a long time to wake up from my depression and remind myself that this was not the time to be sad. Human life is at stake, Brother Zhou is still waiting for my talisman materials!

Silently put away the tuition fees and the book "The Essence of the Five Techniques" that Master left me, and I quickly opened Master's cabinet!

Thankfully, perhaps because he was in such a hurry, Master didn't take his "treasure bag" with him, and when I opened it, I easily found cinnabar, saltpeter, and other items on the list.

Not only that, but there are even a lot of rune paper that has been drawn, as well as a set of talisman making tools, such as talisman pens and the like.

When I think of the difficulty of the "mandrill", where do I dare to be polite to my master?

It doesn't matter if it's useful or not, in addition to the things listed by Brother Zhou on the list, I also grabbed a handful of rune paper that Master had already drawn, and stuffed it into my pocket, just in case.

With all that done, my eyes quickly swept back in the direction of the shotgun. With gritted teeth, I took off my shotgun, brought plenty of bullets and gunpowder, locked the door, and hurried back to the bolt's house.