Li Chuan and Liu Senjun looked at each other, crying and laughing. After sending Pan Maguan back to prison, Liu Senjun couldn't help but sigh: "This strange ghost is too human-like, could it be that they pretended to be adults and deceived themselves in the end?" ”

Li Chuan was also puzzled in his heart.

The two of them flipped through the written words and read them several times, but they couldn't find any loopholes.

Liu Shenjun said: "Although Xialin Village is in the mountains, it is not isolated from the world, and the customs are very similar to other places in Xiushan County. So I don't think they're lying. ”

"Monk Guan came to Xiushan County in the eleventh year of Tianfu, and I found the record of the demon rebellion that year, it was a heart-cutting demon, specializing in eating the hearts of girls, and there were also victims in Xialin Village......"

"Heartbreaker?" Li Chuan's heart moved.

"The prototype is a koi carp, usually hiding in the water of Qiongdao Lake, and after being seen through by the masters, he fled to the southeast and was ambushed in Xialin Mountain."

That master is the crown of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Thinking of this, Li Chuan and Liu Senjun were speechless.

Li Chuan broke the silence first, and said, "I would like to ask Monk Guan a few more questions alone. ”

So the crown Mid-Autumn Festival was brought up again.

Before Li Chuan could speak, Guan Zhongqiu asked first: "Have you found a way to possess a strange ghost?" ”

"Nope." Li Chuan shook his head, and then asked him about the eleventh year of Tianfu, "You killed that fish demon in Xialin Mountain?" ”

"That's right." Guan Zhongqiu replied.

"Where did you kill it in Xialin Mountain?"

"In the stream at the edge of the village...... That's how I knew Su Niang. ”

"Is there any special behavior in the stream?" Li Chuan asked.

"Special behavior? What do you mean? ”

"I don't know, it's just that there is anything special and strange ...... that makes you feel special" Li Chuan didn't know how to describe it.

Guan Zhongqiu pondered, "If you want to say something special, it is that there is a trace of dragon qi on that koi, so it took a lot of effort......

He added, "You must have some clue to ask me this question." But I don't know what you're looking for, so I don't know how to answer. ”

After Li Chuan weighed it for a while, he said, "There are no monsters in Xialin Mountain. ”

"No demons?" The crown Mid-Autumn Festival was also a little surprised.

Li Chuan nodded, "Not one." ”

"It's just us?"

"Yes."

Guan Zhongqiu thought for a moment and said: "That fish demon went to Xia Lin Mountain, I originally thought it was going to find helpers, but there were no monsters out to help it, maybe ......"

"There was originally a demon in Xialin Mountain?" Li Chuan thought of the answer, and he asked again, "How many years has that fish demon cultivated?" Could it be a youkai from Mt. Shimobayashi? ”

"There are seven or eight hundred years...... Guan Zhongqiu thought for a while, and added, "There is no magic weapon, and the means are also very simple, except for the trace of dragon qi that can conceal the breath and control the water, there is nothing that can be done." It's likely to be a local youkai. ”

"You can ask the local youkai." A voice interjected, and Li Chuan and Liu Senjun looked up and saw that it was Jin Rong back.

Jin Rong's face was pale, and he looked very haggard, without the graceful and elegant demeanor he had on the first day of meeting.

"Brother Jin, what's wrong with you?" Li Chuan hurriedly asked.

Jin Rong waved his hand and said, "It's fine, just a little tired." ”

Tired of visiting villages? When I beat up the Lingchuan sect monk last night, I didn't see me so tired, could it be that I encountered some ghosts and monsters?

When Li Chuan was about to ask, he saw Jin Rong say to Guan Zhongqiu: "I searched in the surrounding villages, and they said that the people of Xialin Village are simple and loyal, although they rarely go down the mountain, but as neighbors, they inevitably have a lot of contact. ”

"Sometimes they go to the mountains to collect herbs and dig wild vegetables, and when they meet people from Shanglin Village, they will point them out where to look. Occasionally, when it is late and there is a heavy rain, you will be well entertained if you stay in Xialin Village. ”

The crown was silent.

Jin Rong walked up to him, "I went back to the capital last night, met the master, and finally learned about you." ”

It turned out to be a trip back and forth to the capital overnight

The crown of the autumn festival is still gloomy.

Jin Rong said, "I would like to ask Monk Guan to do one more thing before he dies. ”

"What's the matter?"

"As a crown monk, find out the secrets of the strange ghosts."

"I've been cooperating with you."

"It's not just about cooperating. You are the one who is most familiar with Xialin Village, the most familiar with the ghosts, and the one who is most likely to find out the truth. Crown Mid-Autumn Festival, would you like to? ”

Guan Zhongqiu turned his head, "I will do what you ask me to do." ”

After that, Jin Rong asked Liu to join the army to untie the shackles and anklets for the crown Mid-Autumn Festival. Liu Senjun hesitated a little, and heard Li Chuan say softly: "These can't lock him up." And he loosened all the restraints from his body.

Guan Zhongqiu stood up and asked, "What have you found now?" ”

Li Chuan told him what he had seen and heard during the investigation of Xia Lin Village yesterday, and his own speculations, and Liu Senjun also told him all the information he found that might be useful.

"Can the souls of toads and shrimps be extracted?"

"Have they been ostracized by their own kind?"

"Are the offspring of the Alien Butterfly a Stranger?"

“……”

A series of questions confused Li Chuan and Jin Rong.

Li Chuan said: "I haven't had time to study it yet, and if you have offspring, you can't have offspring right now, right?" ”

"Find Senior Brother Wen, he has a way." After Guan Zhongqiu finished speaking, he added, "Don't believe in Senior Brother Wen too much, he is a good person, but what he wants to do, no one can think about it before the results come out." ”

Without waiting for Li Chuan and Jin Rong to respond, he commanded again resolutely, "At that time, the place where I was dying was in a cave west of Xialin Village, there is a path to pass, and I should go there to investigate." ”

He called Li Chuan's name again, "The heir of the "Tattoo Sutra", can you borrow the power of the mountains and forests!" ”

Li Chuan shook his head.

Guan Zhongqiu took a step back, "Then if you break the soul of the strange ghost, can you sew it up again?" ”

Li Chuan continued to shake his head.

Guanqiu hated that iron could not become steel, "You caught these strange ghosts and came back, so you didn't do anything, just raised them?" ”

“……”

After Li Chuan, Jin Rong, and Liu joined the army, they all realized their aimlessness and passivity after being educated by the Mid-Autumn Festival.

After working diligently all afternoon, by the time time dinner was eaten, all eyes were blank and out of breath.

They originally invited Guan Zhongqiu to eat together, but Guan Zhongqiu refused and insisted on returning to prison to stay.

So I had to buy food and send it in.

Liu Shenjun drank a glass of wine, and his heart palpitated, "I didn't expect that Monk Guan would have such a temperament, no wonder he could do it, in order to let the Taoist monk cultivate immortals, it is really terrible to draw his soul and reshape his body." ”

"It's terrible," Gong Er echoed, "I thought that only evil cultivators could do it." ”

Li Chuan asked the second and second fathers to come to eat together. At the beginning, he was worried that Liu was timid to join the army, so he didn't bring the second demon, but in the past few days, he knew that he was a bold and good character, so he introduced the second demon to him.

Liu Senjun is really open-minded, and he chatted with the second and third sides of the public at first sight.

Li Chuan also drank a glass of wine to suppress his shock, and then he asked Jin Rong, "You went back to the capital last night?" ”

"Yes, the name of the Mid-Autumn Festival, I have always felt familiar to me, Senior Brother Wen mentioned it again, if I don't understand, I feel uneasy."

Jin Rong put down his chopsticks, "The master said, the demon suppression was not smooth at the beginning, the big demons on several mountains seemed to have made an appointment, supporting each other, our people were tired of running around, and the formation was interspersed into a mess. ”

"No wonder Daoist Wen would say that." Liu Senjun sighed.

"At that time, he only had a name, and he ...... In recent years, I haven't mentioned the Great Demon Suppression, so the number of people who know him is gradually decreasing," Jin Rong sighed, "Recently, there has been a lot of chaos in the palace, it will be a few months earlier, or a few months later, it is estimated that the verdict will not come down so quickly, and I will come to run sooner or later." ”

Jin Rong said vaguely, Li Chuan knew that he was referring to Prince Su's business.

Jin Rong said, "It's good to be like this now, so that the calamity can be completely uprooted." ”

"Is there a magic weapon that can communicate instantly?" Li Chuan thought of going somewhere else, "It's too hard to go back and forth for the sake of a word." ”

At the beginning of Xuanshui Mountain, if Qingyun could contact Qin Tianjian, it would not be so difficult.

"Yes, yes, it's relatively rare," Jin Rong replied, "The big sects have a deep heritage, it is estimated that they can find a few pieces, Qin Tianjian relies on the imperial court, there is no shortage of secular things, and there are many magic weapons of heaven and earth treasures and even heavenly products, but this kind of rare and useless is indeed lacking a lot." ”

Li Chuan understood. Compared with the sect that has been inherited for tens of thousands of years, the foundation of Qin Tianjian is too shallow.

Liu Shenjun continued his previous words and asked Jin Rong, "Although the strange ghosts think they are human and don't know it, if they actually still know and mislead us on key clues, how can we prevent it?" ”

Jin Rong replied: "I also told the master about this concern, and the master said that even if it is a strange ghost, it is better to have action than no action." ”

Li Chuan and Liu Senjun both said yes.

After another two days, Wen Guying came back, and he saw that the three people and the two demons were ordered by the crown Mid-Autumn Festival to turn around, and he was speechless for a while.

Gong Er still showed off and said: "My third brother and I beat the monsters in Xiushan County from bottom to top, and beat them to obedience, now ask what to say." ”

"Although they are all little demons, and there are people who can't speak human words, but there is nothing they don't know about Xiushan County, they say, Xialin Mountain, there were monsters a long time ago, but then they all left, they felt that there must be a big demon there, so they didn't dare to go there."

Pan San added, "That day we were in Xialin Mountain, and we often felt uncomfortable, but I don't know why. ”

For the next two days, it rained, so they postponed their ascent to the mountain, and with the blessing of the old spell, they studied the breeding of the ghost butterfly, the process was very disgusting, and the conclusion was very clear - the offspring of the ghost butterfly are ordinary butterflies, and the ghost does not have the ability to reproduce.

On the third day, when Li Chuan woke up, his eyes were full of golden sunlight.

(End of chapter)