It seems like...... Something very remarkable was heard.

The bent knees began to tremble, and the breath that was held could not be held back could not be exhaled, and a distinct gasping sound was made.

The sound was so clear that it was unusually harsh on the mountain road, which was so quiet that there was no other voice.

The two men stopped talking at once, especially the old man, who stopped his sad smile and turned their heads in unison in the direction from which the gasping sound came.

To be ...... Did you find out?

The old man restrained his smile and nodded at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man who received the instructions stood up, at first walking, then gradually increasing his pace, and finally rushed to the edge of the woods.

Vigilant, he reached into his bosom and fumbled for it, pulling out a wood knife.

The handle of the blade was wrapped with a strip of cloth, and the middle-aged man approached the edge of the tree while dismantling it, and the moment the strip of cloth completely fell to the ground, the middle-aged man's hand also touched the trunk of the tree.

The sound seemed to be coming from the tree.

If there is nothing under the tree...... That's on the tree.

The middle-aged man looked up sharply.

The leaves rustle in the winds on the treetops, and there is nothing on the bare branches except for a few residual leaves.

The middle-aged man, who had not found his target, turned his head and shook his head at the old man, who narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

"Didn't you?" He said, "If you go around a lot, you might be hiding." ”

The middle-aged man nodded yes, and he walked around the edge of the woods a few more times as he said, and even slashed a few times at the low branches with a firewood knife.

A lot of branches were cut down, but the figure was still nowhere to be seen.

After two searches to no avail, the middle-aged man had to return the same way, and the old man took one last look into the shadows of the trees and led the middle-aged man to continue to walk up.

After they had walked out for a while, at the top of the canopy of the tallest tree beyond the sight of the ground, there was a flash of movement, and Bai Su fell to the ground with a high sky.

The experience was like bungee jumping, so the young man immediately let go of his neck and covered his mouth, hugging the nearest tree trunk.

It's nice to feel your feet on the ground.

It is difficult for Gao Tianyi to describe the experience he just had, he really felt like he had made a jumping machine.

Unlike the process of the jumping machine rising slowly, the Baisu brand jumping machine rising is also achieved overnight, only the sound of the wind is heard, and the color in front of you has changed from green to gray blue.

The green is the shade of the trees, and the gray and blue is the sky.

In the blink of an eye, the young man was lifted up to breathe in the fresh air above.

Gao Tianyi didn't expect that there was such a tall and dense tree in this forest.

So then the middle-aged man did not succeed in looking for talents at the low branches, who would have thought that people would climb to the top of the tree in an instant?

After the young man calmed down his sudden rise and fall, he finally stuffed the heart hanging in his throat back into his chest, and was about to ask Bai Su how he did it just now, but as soon as he turned his head, he found that he had lost the figure of the black-haired young man.

Gao Tianyi: ...... What about people?

The human boy hurriedly turned his head to look for it, and saw people on the mountain road that was a little uphill.

"Bai-brother, what are you going to do?"

"Hmm......" Bai Su's black eyes turned back from the front without blinking, "Why don't you follow and have a look?" They were supposed to go to the ancestral hall. ”

"Ah...... Of course I want to see it, but ......" Gao Tianyi was asked and scratched his hair, "It's better to Brother Xia, let's go back first." ”

The first few fierce hexagrams made the underage Taoist very concerned, and now that he was dragged by the people in the two villages for a while, Gao Tianyi was even more anxious to rush back.

Humanity has made a choice.

Between getting closer to the truth and going back, humanity has chosen to favor the side of its companions.

"Okay." Bai Su's black eyes blinked, and he turned around, "Then let's go." ”

Although the monsters are very interested in what will happen above, the human side is asking to act together.

Bai Su thought that he came down in a hurry or didn't care, his original intention was to come down to see the human boy who suddenly ran away from him, and it was an accident to meet someone in the village.

After all, he wasn't always observant.

Speaking of which...... They followed the human boy down for a while, and for fear of running into people again, they did not walk on the paved road, but stepped closer to the woods.

Bai Su still remembered one thing.

He hadn't planned to leave directly, so neither the offerings placed on the offering table nor the tablets he picked up and put down were too neatly placed.

There is no need for people to observe carefully, as long as you stand in the ancestral hall and glance at it slightly, you can catch a glimpse of a few crooked tablets.

Clear-eyed people know that this is the ancestral hall that has been visited by outsiders.

Bai Su thought of this, so he told Gao Tianyi.

The young man, who was carefully walking the mountain road to prevent himself from tripping, was so distracted that he almost crashed into a tree.

"What did you say?" The human boy raised his voice, then plunged down.

He was afraid that people would hear it, so he half-covered his mouth, turned his voice forward, lowered his voice and asked again: "Brother Bai, didn't you put the tablet back in its place?" ”

Bai Su nodded, adding that it was more than that.

"What else?"

"I also touched two pieces of fruit on the stage."

“……？”

When a human puts a question mark, he doesn't think he has a problem, he thinks someone else has a problem.

"What did you touch and eat?"

"Offerings, I remember that kind of good-looking offerings can be taken back and eaten?"

“…… Yes...... but not now!

Gao Tianyi almost wanted to grab Bai Su and shake it frantically to ask, if they were treating them harshly-well, it was a bit bad to come here to eat on a mission, because there was a problem with the food in the village, it could only be solved with fast food...... But that's definitely not the reason why Bai Su took the offerings to eat!

"Aren't you afraid of those things eating and getting into trouble?!"

"Huh? Isn't it okay if I eat the fish in this village? ”

The black-haired youth licked his lips as if he was reminiscing about the taste of the offerings, without any reflection.

Bai Su made a point of view, he heard from netizens that the food offered would be better, so he tried it a little in the ancestral hall, and he didn't eat any difference.

Gao Tianyi: "What difference can there be...... There is no difference in the food offered in our Taoist temple! ”

The human boy even wanted to say that he knew that Bai Su wanted to try, so he would take people to their Taoist temple to eat enough.

But it's too late to say anything now, so I can only leave quickly, lest I go up and find out that the ancestral hall has changed greatly, and the contact person will arrest them.

I'm not afraid of being caught, but if the villagers are unreasonable and have contradictions, the subsequent actions will be full of difficulties.

Like being kicked out of the place where he lived, being hostile to the villagers or something, Gao Tianyi can cite several common plots

"Let's go back quickly." The young man sighed and said, "I don't know why, but I always have a bad premonition." ”

The two didn't stop on the rest of the road, and Bai Su even touched the other party's back collar when the human boy felt that the speed was too slow.

This time, he was dodged by Gao Tianyi, who had a premonition.

The young man sneered and took two quick steps forward, politely refusing to say no.

There was nothing going on in the village, and it was peaceful.

When they went back, most of the villagers were doing their own business, and there were many more people than in the morning, and the young and middle-aged men could also be seen in the village, probably after finishing their work on the mountain, they all came down from the mountain.

When they had walked a little way, almost past the center of the village and continued to their quarters, the village was in a commotion.

Specifically, some villagers walked out of their houses and exchanged views with suspicion at the people nearby.

Bai Su noticed that the eyes of some villagers were also looking at them, and looked back as usual, and pressed back the inquiring gaze of the human boy next to him.

His hand pressed on the top of Gao Tianyi's head, and the palm of his hand controlled the direction of the young man's face.

"Don't look." Bai Su said, "It seems that the village has already found it. ”

What was found? He was found fiddling with tablets and stealing offerings.

It's just that this discovery is too shocking to find the object of suspicion who made this move for a while, and it seems possible to all those who are not present to prove it.

Bai Su could still hear the villagers whispering that anyone who did such a disrespectful act would be cursed.

The black-haired young man tilted his head, the smile on his face unchanged.

"What's going on?" Bai Su asked the nearby villagers "curiously".

The villager who had a face but would not have a name was vague, and waved his hand to drive Bai Su, who was behaving normally, away along with Gao Tianyi.

When he was away from this nameless villager, Bai Su also heard him whispering to others such things as "found", "really", and "it turned out to be ......".

The human boy had been pressed against his head, and when he was far enough away, he suddenly looked up.

Gao Tianyi asked, "What were they talking about just now?" ”

Bai Suzheng felt strange: "I'm saying 'found'...... But aren't we here? ”

There were no villagers behind them, except for some attention that attracted attention at the beginning, and the villagers quickly looked away.

It's like...... They found the prisoner who had entered the ancestral hall and was stirring around, but it was not them.

Gao Tianyi was also surprised, he was sure that only they entered the ancestral hall, and when they entered, they did not observe the traces left by their predecessors in a short period of time.

Weird, can't it be someone ...... after them?

Gao Tianyi thought of this possibility without a clue.

Should...... Not really, right? When they came down the mountain, they didn't see any other villagers except the old and middle-aged man.

Continuing to walk back with doubts, when he was about to walk to the place where he lived, Bai Su smelled some unusual smells.

The human boy was still walking forward unconsciously, and the black-haired youth could slow down and pick up a few leaves on the side of the road.

- It's the smell of food.

The black eyes instantly tightened, and the fingers twisting the leaves shrank into the palm, and from the cracked mouth like a crack in the palm, a few leaves were easily destroyed, leaving not even a little residue.

Bai Su was a little regretful.

He didn't seem to be going out with Gao Tianyi in the afternoon.

Feel...... Staying in the house will lead to interesting things.

But it's too late to regret at this time, and time can't be turned back.

Bai Su had no choice but to fall behind, picking and eating the traces left by the black mud along the way, like a scavenger, the road he walked was clean, and there was nothing left except the sticky and wet mud.

Black mud and mud are not very eye-catching when mixed together, and if you don't have a special sense, it's easy to ignore the past.

But where they lived, the marks on the wall were a little eye-catching, deep and shallow, like some large object scraping against them.

It is not said to be a foreign object, but at least it is assumed to be a large, heavy, angular object.

"What is this?" Gao Tianyi asked, but no one answered him.

As the trail deepened, they returned to the door of the place where they lived.

The preconceived notion is the door that was extremely badly damaged.

If the door before they left was a dark brownish red, when they came back, there were some potholes that were difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and if you reached out and touched them, you would definitely feel it.

"What is this...... Gao Tianyi asked again, and hurriedly went up to knock on the door, and after a while, someone inside came out to answer the door.

The inch-headed officer, who had opened the door a crack, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the person coming, and then he looked behind the two men a few times before letting them in.

As soon as the door of the courtyard facing outward was closed, a question fell on his face.

"What did you just encounter?"

As soon as these words came out, the young man seemed to realize something, and he dug into his pocket and pulled out a mobile phone with several missed calls.

It's quite a déjà vu scene, and it looks like they've missed each other's contact.

Gao Tianyi raised his hand and said, "I also want to ask Brother Xia this question...... What did you encounter before? ”

"We saw strange traces along the way." The young man pointed out the door, "Black, muddy...... It's like there's ...... Trickled over. ”

Xia Chengyin didn't know this, they were in the house all the time, and they didn't go out even after everyone left.

Xia Chengyin pinched his eyebrows, and said with a headache: "It will be difficult to explain it to you for a while...... But it did happen that something happened. ”

The two people outside were still talking, and Bai Su had already abandoned them and entered the house first.

Without being reminded, the monster sniffed and found the room where the person was.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Qi Zhuyue lying flat on the bed, and Tang Nuo, who moved a stool next to her and sat there and guarded there.

"What's wrong with her?" Bai Su walked over and waved his hand in front of Qi Zhuyue's eyes, "Hurt your eyes?" ”

The woman with her eyes closed lay peacefully, not responding to any change in light and shadow above the viewing angle.

It doesn't seem that there is something wrong with the eyes, so what is this point in time and this state...... Hit?

Donno bowed his head helplessly.

"Wen Rongxuan came to the door earlier, we thought he was here to look for books."

In fact, that's what they thought when they were attacked, so they let Qi Zhuyue stay with Tang Nuo, so that people would cover Tang Nuo whenever something was wrong.

Unexpectedly, Wen Rongxuan's goal is not books.

From the beginning, the book was their misjudgment.

Afterwards, Xia Chengyin and Tang Nuo combined, and they found that from the moment Wen Rongxuan peeked through the crack in the door, all he read was the name of "Wen Tao", and he didn't mention the lost book.

It was the same when Wen Rongxuan was driven away by the villagers, and he looked into the house.

He was looking at "Wen Tao".

(End of chapter)