Long Xu and the old man chatted about this village, and had a general understanding of this village, this place is located in Selangor, adjacent to Qizhou in the north, and Mengzhou in the west, the traffic is blocked, and generally does not interact with the outside world, usually fishing for a living, self-sufficient, a small village is only a dozen families, it was when the mainland was fighting, and fled to come, because it has not been in contact with the outside world for a long time, and over time it has formed the current appearance, unless there is any special reason, the people in the village will not leave the village, and there is no other reason, it is adjacent to Qizhou in the north, and goes north, bypassing an unknown hill in the north about thirty miles of mountain roads, another town called Huazhen, north of Qizhou, is a forest, about fifty miles away, there is a place called Fuzhen, but there are often wild beasts in the forest, it is said that there is also a monster level thunder saber-toothed tiger exists, not far from the southeast can go to Shou Town in Selangor, but you need to cross the Qingjiang River, there is a huge python in the river, the people in the village do not even dare to run far in the boat, let alone cross the river, therefore, the people in the village have become closed.

The old man took a few puffs of dry tobacco and continued, "If it weren't for your arrival, the big snake wouldn't have died, and our village might be about to end. ”

Long Xu sat in front of the door with the old man, Long Xing squatted on Long Xu's shoulder, grimacing at the little girl, the little girl looked at Long Xing curiously, Long Xu handed Long Xing to the little girl, and the little girl approached Long Xu timidly. Then he hugged the dragon star. Immediately ran away again. Long Xu smiled. He said, "The little girl is very cute. ”

"Hehe" the old man said happily, "Of course, I am young and have never seen the world, not to mention that in the village, I have no chance to see the outside world at all, and I don't know what is bad, but this is also worrying, and the children in the village are like this." Originally, I couldn't go out, but now I can go out, a bunch of children, I don't understand anything, will I be deceived if I go out!"

"People's hearts are sinister!It's better to be careful!" Long Xu said disapprerovingly, "Actually, it's good not to go out, otherwise when you see how bad the world is, how disappointed it will be." ”

The old man knocked on his cigarette stick and said, "Then you can't wait for death in the village! ”

"Village chief, we're coming!" At this moment, more than a dozen middle-aged men walked into the courtyard, and the old man stood up and said, "It's good to come." And where the serpent is placed, whoever of you will cut it wherever he wants. After cutting, I hurried home and burned and eaten, and I wanted to catch a big fish tomorrow. ”

"Hey, hey, hey" The guy laughed a few times, and then went to cut the snake meat, and after a while, a big python was cut into only a skeleton, and then they said goodbye to the old man and went back.

"A bunch of bastard boys!" the old man scolded, "I know how to eat, and I don't know how to come and thank my benefactor." ”

Long Xu hurriedly said, "Old man, you lifted me, I really didn't kill that snake, maybe someone else killed it." "That's it!"

"There's no need to pursue it. The old man said, "It is because of your coming, and then the serpent died, and you are our benefactor." I caught a red carp yesterday, and I have already made Alan burn it, you have a good meal today, you must have hurt your body after soaking in the water for so long. ”

Long Xu thanked him, "Thank you old man." ”

In the evening, Long Xu finished eating and wanted to go out for a walk, Long Xing also followed Long Xu, Long Xing played with the little girl for an afternoon, to be precise, he was played all afternoon, and now Long Xing's tail is tied to a flower, so now Long Xing said that he would not follow the little girl anymore.

Long Xu walked out of the village, only to see the appearance of this village, a village, a total of only a dozen households, a dozen dilapidated stone houses, each yard is supported by an open net, fishing nets during the day and drying at night. In this small mountain village, the most important thing for every family should be fishing nets. Long Xu didn't walk around the village much, but walked straight towards the river according to the old man's description.

In front of a small pit, Long Xu stood on top of the pit, looked at the river in front of him and asked, "Do you have any impression?"

"Squeak" Long Xing shook his head.

"Whew," Long Xu took a long breath and said, "I can't remember anything either." According to the size of the python I saw today, it should be regarded as an ordinary spirit beast level, which was a piece of cake for me, but if I didn't have consciousness at that time, it would be impossible, and it was only because I became the way I was in the barbarian again, otherwise the python wouldn't just be torn like that. So, it certainly wasn't me who killed it. It's someone else. ”

"Squeak" Long Xing shook his head, and then shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he didn't know either.

Long Xu jumped into the pit, stirred the grass, found no clues, sat for a while, and then left to go back. Not long after Long Xu left, in a bush by the river in the distance, a triangular head dived into the water.

After a while, Long Xu returned to the old man's home. At this time, the old man's home had another pile of cooked meat. The old man was still smoking at the door, and when he saw Long Xu coming back, he said, "I thought those boys were ignorant, but I didn't expect them to have their ideas, no, I brought the best part of the hunt they just hunted." ”

"Ah" Long Xu was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly ran over and said, "Didn't you say that I am not a hero, uncle, you won't help me stop it." ”

"It's also a part of everyone's heart! And usually everyone will share some of their own things with each other, so it's nothing!" said the old man.

"So?" Long Xu nodded in realization, and then sat down next to the old man and asked, "Uncle, do you have any legends about that big snake or anything here?"

"The legend of the serpent?" said the old man, taking a puff of dry cigarette, "there is another legend, but it has now been proved to be false." ”

"Oh," Long Xu asked suspiciously, "Why?"

The old man explained, " Legend has it that the people in our village were sent here by a person who cultivated to a very high level, he said that this place is surrounded by mountains on both sides, and the exit is intercepted by the Qingjiang River, which is a good place for natural refuge, but there is one point, that is, it is a good and a disadvantage, that is, the divine soldier formed one day in the Qingjiang River, the divine soldier is long, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, so it gives birth to spirituality, turns into a spiritual fetus, and the spiritual fetus meets the water, so it becomes a python, because it encounters fish predation when it becomes a python, so it becomes a murderer, so the thing that crosses the river must be attacked, if you want to dodge, you can only approach after waiting for the anger, that is, at noon。 That's why the village will only approach the river at noon. ”

After listening to this, Long Xu asked, "Then why do you say that this legend has been confirmed?"

The old man took another puff of dry smoke and then said indifferently, "The person who saved us said that although this spiritual creature is fierce, it is a spiritual creature after all, and when it meets the person it should meet, it will naturally become a ready-made prototype, but today you also saw that this python has been eaten, and I haven't seen it become a spiritual creature, so it is very likely to be fake." ”

Long Xu nodded, then arched his hand to the old man and said, "Thank you, old man! It's not early, let's rest quickly!" After speaking, he got up and walked out.

"Alas!," the old man asked, "benefactor, what are you going to do?"

Long Xu stopped, turned around and said with a smile, "I, I'm used to cultivating, I sleep on a tree every day, if I don't sleep now, I'm a little unused to it, so I'll go find a tree!"

"Oh!" the old man nodded and said, "You cultivators, it's really strange, you obviously have a good place to not sleep, but you have to find yourself to suffer, it's really incomprehensible!"

"Hehe" Long Xu smiled, and then continued to walk out, in fact, Long Xu didn't want to sleep in the bed, but Long Xu saw the situation in the old man's house today, and there was no extra bed for him to rest. However, there is another reason, that is, the legend that the old man said, it is very likely to be true, and the reason why this python has not turned into a spiritual object, there is only one reason, this python is not that spiritual thing, the real spiritual thing is still in the river, and this python is just one of the many pythons, that spiritual creature is a fierce beast, I don't know if it will take revenge, it's okay if you don't take revenge, if you take revenge, then something will happen to the people in this village, so tonight Long Xu will be regarded as the guardian of the village.

Long Xu is now lurking on a big tree far away from the entrance of the village, Long Xu has reduced the temperature of his body to a minimum, and he can almost merge with the big tree, standing on the tree, he can see the entrance of the village in the back, and he can see the river in front of him, which can be said to be an excellent place. Long Xu observed the river through the gap between the leaves, Long Xing knew what Long Xu meant, and also lay on Long Xu's head motionless, what Long Xu didn't expect was that Long Xing would actually control the temperature of his body, if it wasn't for Long Xu knowing that Long Xing did it on purpose, he would have thought that Long Xing was dead now.

Long Xu and Long Xing have been standing on the big tree, and slowly the village began to quiet down, and the animals also slowly quieted down, and the fireflies by the river could be vaguely seen flying slowly, and Long Xu could even hear the sound of the river flowing. In this way, Long Xu observed the river motionlessly, nothing happened in the middle of the night, Long Xu had already heard Long Xing's regular and gentle breathing, and Long Xing should have fallen asleep. But the temperature of Long Xing's body did not rise, and Long Xu had to sigh at the magic of Long Xing.

Slowly, the night passed, nothing happened, nothing appeared, and the rooster crow in the village...... (To be continued.) )