Changsheng River, a small fishing village

Zhu Qin followed Da Mao to his home at the very edge of the small fishing village, with a fence made of tree branches only half a person high, and dried fish drying in the yard.

Zhu Qin walked into the house, and Da Mao shouted his father and mother inside and outside the house, but no one answered. Xiaohua's anxious tears flowed downward, and Da Mao also drooped his head.

"Don't be discouraged, maybe your parents are on their way home. Zhu Qin comforted them, his sleeves had already made the bed, and Zhu Qin coaxed them to sleep first.

The night in the small fishing village is not only quiet, but even deadly. After Da Mao and Xiao Hua fell asleep, Zhu Qin looked around in the courtyard, whether it was near or far houses, they were lit up, but there was no trace of life.

"Princess, don't you rest soon?" Sleeve came out to tell Zhuqin that the room had been tidied up, but happened to see a figure standing outside the fence not far from Zhuqin, "Ah!"

The screams of the sleeves pierced the night, but no one around came out to check, Zhu Qin hurriedly covered the sleeves's mouth, she pointed to the figure standing in the dark, frightened.

Zhu Qin subconsciously glanced at the warning ball, there was no change, and like her intuition, this figure didn't want to hurt herself.

"You go in and let Gohashi protect the children. Zhu Qin whispered in Sleeve's ear, and the movement of Sleeve did not attract the slightest attention of the figure, and she ran into the house.

In a courtyard, outside a courtyard, the two looked at each other for a long time and neither spoke, because standing in the shadows, Zhu Qin only vaguely saw the outline, like a woman, and the silver bracelet in her hand reflected the faint light.

It's not a thing to always stand like this, and Zhuqin asked tentatively, "Can you hear me?"

The other party nodded, and Zhuqin continued to ask, "Are you from this village?"

The other party nodded again, and Zhu Qin wondered if she could only nod, and thought of a strange question: "Are you Lin Xu?"

This time the other party shook her head, it seemed that she just couldn't answer, there was no problem with thinking and hearing, Zhu Qin firmly asked the doubts in her heart: "Has this village been attacked by spirit monsters?"

The other party nodded violently, as if he was the victim, Zhu Qin remembered the fierce beast tied with the Qingyan rope in the square, Lin Xu checked that it had no spiritual power? Could it be that it was hidden? "Is the spirit monster the one in the square?"

Before the other party could answer, a roar came, and the whole village seemed to be about to turn over, and when Zhu Qin was distracted and turned back, there was no figure in the shadows, and Sleeve and Wuqiao ran out with a child in their arms.

"Don't move, I'll take a look. Zhu Qin rushed to the village square alone, and Lin Xu and the others were already here.

"What's going on. Zhuqin squeezed into the crowd, feeling a little strange, I didn't see anyone along the way just now, why did so many people gather at once?

Lin Xu saw that it was Zhuqin and let her stand beside her, "I don't know, we also heard the roar and rushed here." ”

It turned out that there was only a pool of blood left in the place where the beast was bound, how could this be? The Qingyan rope could even bind the elm god with spiritual power, how could a small beast escape?

Lao Yu ran over sweating profusely, panting and said, "That beast has run into the dense forest, I'm afraid it will harm the villagers in the future." Seeing the worry on his face, Bai Zifang couldn't figure out how the beast escaped, so he asked him about the specific situation.

"I was afraid that something would happen, so I wanted to send a few villagers to take turns to watch over me, but as soon as I arrived here, I saw a humanoid figure helping the beast untie its rope, and before we could stop it, they fled into the dense forest, and wounded the villagers who were with me. The old cowering description seems to have been quite frightened just now.

"If you can't untie the Qingyan rope without spiritual power, what does that person look like?"

Lao Yu thought for a while, and the two short eyebrows seemed to wrinkle, "I didn't see it clearly, it was too dark, so I saw a silver bracelet." ”

Could it be that person, impossible, she could not have spoken to herself almost at the same time as she had let go of the beast.

Lin Xu saw that Zhuqin's face was full of suspicion, and asked her in a low voice, "Is there anything wrong?"

Zhu Qin shook her head, things that she couldn't be sure of herself were okay for the time being, "What are we going to do next?" Everyone looked at Bai Zifang, thinking that he might have some ideas.

In fact, Bai Zifang's heart was also beating a drum, he always felt that there were many doubts, not as simple as it seemed on the surface, just when he hesitated, the village elder Yu suddenly led the villagers to kneel on the ground and pleaded, "No matter what, please ask a few heroes to kill that beast, otherwise our village will not be able to live." ”

In the face of the crying of the villagers, Bai Zifang was not easy to shirk, and Jin Daiyi was even more arrogant and promised to kill the beast with his own hands.

After a night's rest, as soon as dawn Bai Zifang and others were ready to enter the dense forest to search for the figure of the beast, Zhuqin was not worried about the two children, let Wuqiao and Sleeve stay to protect, Yue Ya'er also said that she wanted to stay, anyway, catching beasts is not her job well, but fortunately, everyone is more comfortable without Yue Ya'er around.

Five people stood in a row, with a slight distance in the middle, and searched in the dense forest, but did not find a trace for half a day.

The more this happened, the more worried Bai Zifang became, and told everyone: "Everyone be careful, the beast may be that person's mount, and the person who can untie my Qingyan rope and have a mount is not ordinary, maybe it is the spirit monster that Da Mao saw." But Zhu Qin didn't think so: "I always feel weird." ”

"Tell me about it. Bai Zifang beckoned Zhifang and they gathered together, and everyone sat together.

Zhu Qin first told the figure he saw that night, and then said his feelings about the village, and Jin Daiyi quickly agreed: "I also think that those villagers are lifeless, even if they are frightened by the beast, they will not be so unsmiling." “

But Bai Zifang was more concerned about the person he saw that night, and asked, "Can you tell if she has spiritual power?"

Zhuqin just stood face to face with her, and didn't even hear her say a word, but she was also sure that the other party had no ill will towards her, even if the sleeve screamed, she didn't think to stop it, "I think that person seems to know that even if the sleeve screams, it won't attract more villagers." “

Zhi Fang suddenly realized: "This means that that person is a spirit monster!" He firmly believed that there was no problem with his analysis and told the others, "It must be that he thought he had killed all the villagers, so there was no one in the village!"

"That's not right. "Even Jin Daiyi can hear a loophole in this explanation," the village chief said that they had only been attacked by fierce beasts, and had not seen any spirit monsters, and that there were only a few people in the village. “

Everyone seemed to be caught in a dead loop again, and at this moment, there was a sound in the grass behind Lin Xu, as if something was moving, and everyone immediately raised their vigilance and besieged the grass with an outflanking momentum.