Chen Anran was puzzled, resisted his curiosity, stepped forward and stopped to watch.

When I stepped forward and saw the creature carved by this statue, it was a little strange, and I couldn't tell what kind of creature it was for a while.

The head is large and long, with a bony protrusion on each side of the nasal bone, with longitudinally arranged ridge-like protrusions in between, with a groove in between, covered with green skin, and bright red between the ridges. Males have about 6 main grooves on each side, and their red parts extend around the nasal bone and snout, a brightly colored special pattern that resembles a ghost.

The main thing is, it has only one one-legged?

One-legged? Could it be... Mandrill?

Yes, yes, it's definitely mandrills! Chen Anran suddenly realized.

Mandrill, in mythology and legend, is a one-legged ghost in the mountains. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Scroll of the Sea": "There are Gan giants in the south, with long arms on the human face, hair on the black body, and heels on their heels.

One of the manuscripts of "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" also has a record of mandrills:

Sun Taibai once said that his great-grandfather used to study at Liugou Temple in Nanshan, and returned home in the autumn season, and returned to the temple ten days later. When he opened the door of his room, he saw that the table was full of dust and the windows were covered with cobwebs, so he ordered his servants to clean them up. In the evening, I feel refreshed and can rest. So he swept the bed, spread out the futon, and closed the door to sleep.

At this time, the moonlight filled the window, and he lay on the bed for a long time, tossing and turning, not asleep, and felt that everything was silent. Suddenly, he heard the wind whistling, and the mountain gate was blown by the wind, and Sun Gong thought that maybe the monk had not closed the door properly. While he was pondering, the sound of the wind gradually approached the house, and in an instant, the door was blown open. He was even more suspicious, and imagined what was going on, when the wind had entered the house, accompanied by the sound of sonorous boots, gradually approaching the bedroom door. That's when he was scared. Suddenly the door opened, and he hurried to see that a great ghost had bowed in, standing in front of the bed, his head almost touching the beam, his face was the color of an old melon, his eyes were shining, and he looked around the room. It is as open as a basin and has sparse teeth, more than three inches long. Wow, wow, wow, wow, w

Sun Gong was very frightened, thinking that in this small house close by, he would definitely not be able to escape, so it was better to fight with it. So he secretly drew the saber under the pillow, and slashed at the big ghost, slashing it in the stomach, making a sound like chopping stones. The demon was furious and stretched out his big claws to grab him. Sun Gong shrank slightly, was grabbed by the quilt by the ghost, and walked away angrily. Sun Gong fell to the ground with the quilt and screamed on the ground. The family members came with torches, and when they saw that the door was still closed, they had to push open the window and come in, as before. When they saw Sun Gong's appearance, everyone was surprised. Carrying him to the bed, he told him the story of the matter. After checking together, I saw that the quilt was caught in the crack of the bedroom door. When I opened the door and checked it with a torch, I saw claw marks, as big as a dustpan, and the door panel was pierced by five fingers. In the morning, Sun Gong didn't dare to stay here anymore, so he picked up the bookcase and went home. Later, when I asked the monks in the temple, they said that nothing unusual had happened.

Of course, there are also rumors that mandrills are aggressive, cunning and wise, and some mandrills have even cultivated a century-old path by chance, and will occupy a mountain and call themselves mountain gods.

No way? Why is there a statue of a mandrill here? Chen Anran stood in front of the statue, and suddenly found that the eyes of this mandrill were quite interesting, they were not carved out of one body with the statue, and the eyes seemed to be able to rotate as if they were added from behind.

After looking at it for a while, Chen Anran didn't see a reason, turned around and was about to go to the other three rooms to have a look, but who knew that as soon as he turned around, he felt as if someone was looking at him?

Hey? Chen Anran immediately turned his head to look at the statue, but the statue was not abnormal, it was the same as before, and his eyes were staring blankly ahead.

Hmm~ Is it my delusion?

Chen Anran shook his head, turned around and walked out. As soon as he took two steps, the feeling of being stared at came again, Chen Anran frowned and immediately turned his head to look over.

Huh? I still haven't found anything, is it really that I am all soldiers, how can I be on a par with a statue?

Even so, when he turned around again this time, Chen Anran deliberately kept his eyes on it, and it seemed that he had turned his head slightly, but in fact, the corner of his eye was still staring at the mandrill statue.

is like this, but Chen Anran still didn't find anything wrong, it seems that he really thinks too much.

At this moment, the corner of Chen Anran's eyes suddenly saw the mandrill's eyes move!

That's right! The mandrill statue's eyes moved!

Although Chen Anran turned around very quickly, he still didn't catch the evidence of the mandrill's eyes, but he was very sure that he did see the mandrill's eyes move.

"Uh......" Chen Anran didn't know what to think, so he subconsciously asked: "Did you just glance at me?" ”

"Nope." The mandrill actually replied.

"Oooh! Ok thank you. At first, Chen Anran didn't feel that anything was wrong, it was normal to have questions and answers, turned his head and walked out towards the courtyard.

"Done? That's not right! "I walked to the middle of the courtyard and realized, how could this special statue answer the question?

! Problematic!

When Chen Anran reacted, it was too late, and he immediately condensed his true qi on his right fist and turned around and hit out.

"That's right!"

At this time, the mandrill also ran out, jumped into Chen Anran's arms and kicked it.

"It's a pity that there are no prizes!"

"it!" only felt a pain in his chest, Chen Anran's punch was empty, and he was hit hard by a mandrill in the chest, and the whole person retreated backwards.

I can't see that this mandrill is quite naughty, it seems to be a chatter, which is not the same as what is recorded in the book.

But it's also right to think about it, no matter what kind of book it is, most of them are recorded in one-sided or hearsay, and it is generally not easy to get along with mandrills for a period of time before recording.

Chen Anran coughed dryly twice, but he didn't expect that this thing only had one foot and had a lot of strength, and he kicked Chen Anran with a lot of meat, and he almost didn't fall to the ground and fainted.

"How daring! They actually attacked me. Chen Anran was a little angry, patted his chest and ran the true qi in the dantian, directly exposing the strength of the peak of the big clouds.

It turned out that Chen Anran didn't want to do this, after all, he didn't know the true strength of this mandrill, and the safest way was to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, and then kill the other party after finding out his true strength.

However, this kick of the mandrill completely angered Chen Anran, and at this moment, he did not plan to make a mistake with it, but wanted to take it down directly.

Shanmandrill is not stupid, after kicking Chen Anran, he has been stunned and waiting for others to fight back, and when he looked at it again, Shanmandrill jumped back on the stone seat and pretended to be a statue.

Hey? Dressed as a statue again and motionless?

Hehe! I won't be fooled by you again this time.

However, Chen Anran didn't take the risk to attack, who knows what kind of plane this mandrill is doing? If he attacked rashly, he might be deflated again, so he slowly walked four or five meters in front of the statue and observed it carefully.

Even if his body didn't move, Chen Anran's right hand condensed his true qi and was ready to go to war at any time.

"What? It's all like this, and it's still pretending, get down! Chen Anran saw that the other party was quite patient, so he had to pick up a small pebble from the ground and throw it over.

Funnily enough, the mandrill just shrunk its neck and dodged, and didn't make any extra moves.

Chen Anran thought he should move now, right? Who knew that after a minute, the mandrill still didn't move, his left eye looked ahead, and his right eye stared at Chen Anran from time to time.

Yo! I didn't expect that the eyes of this mandrill can still be used in a division of labor?

I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, this mandrill really impressed Chen Anran?

At present, the mandrill is not as fierce as in the record, but it gives Chen Anran the feeling of a child.

"You like shrinking, don't you?" Chen Anran smiled slightly. "I'll see how you shrunk the past."

Seeing that the mandrill still didn't move, Chen Anran immediately picked up eight small stones from the ground, grabbed the stones with ten fingers and threw them all towards the mandrill.

Although it is just a simple pebble, with the blessing of Chen Anran's true qi, it is still possible, at least it is enough to seriously injure the mandrill.

Unexpectedly, despite facing the attack of eight stones at the same time, the mandrill still had no intention of moving, but just stuck out its tongue at Chen Anran, and then moved quickly to let it dodge.

No way! This is so unscientific, isn't it, it's outrageous, can this be avoided?

"Hey, hey, hey~Fun~" The mandrill laughed heartily, and this time it finally moved, and the one-legged trembled and jumped out.

"Fun?" Chen Anran also laughed a little, he was still angry, but he was really amused by the mandrill. "I don't think you have any ill intentions, so why bother with it?"

It's really not that Chen Anran is afraid of it, but I think this mandrill is still funny, if it is not malicious, then you will not fight to the death.

Isn't it beautiful that Chen Anran still likes the funny character of the mandrill, and it just so happens that there is a pistachio chat to relieve boredom here.

Besides, this mandrill is an old resident here at a glance, not to mention the environment on the shady side, at least it knows the things in this temple clearly, right?

"Oh?" Sure enough, after hearing Chen Anran's proposal, Shan Xiao also showed a puzzled expression. "How can you be sure that I have no ill will towards you?"

"What? Do you think you can beat me? Chen Anran smiled disdainfully, if it really comes to the point of life and death, then it will only be cruel.

"That's for sure, how do you know that you can't beat you in the game?" Shan Xiao rubbed his hands in anticipation, as if he was looking forward to a fight with Chen Anran.

"Hmph, I don't know what is dead or alive, I don't eat and drink when I toast!" Originally, Chen Anran thought that Shanxiao had a talent for comedy, and he wanted to make a friend, but now Chen Anran worked hard thoroughly, and the golden light flashed in his hand and took the lead.