After the senior brother left, Jin Yi found a hidden place with a good view near Uncle Zhao's house and waited for the rabbit.

It's just that Uncle Zhao doesn't know if he is too cautious and disguised too well, Jin Yi's eyes are sour, and he doesn't see any abnormal movements.

After returning home, Uncle Zhao locked the doors and windows, and began to light a fire to cook, and after dinner, it was dark. He didn't dare to go back to the house to sleep, so he sat on the threshold with the basket containing his little grandson, and weaved a bamboo basket in the dim sky, while chattering with his little grandson about some old interesting stories.

The baby baby was too young to understand and didn't respond. However, Jin Yi, who was hiding in the shadows, listened to it with relish, thinking that if this Uncle Zhao went to the teahouse to be a storyteller, the business should be very hot.

Time passed in the old man's chattering voice.

After nightfall, the sky was completely dark, and Jin Yi looked at the old man who lit the lantern and sat in the warm yellow candlelight, holding the swaddling clothes and gently patting them, and even had some doubts about whether the senior brother had guessed wrong.

But then he dared to open the thought like a fly.

Big brother can't go wrong.

He took a deep breath, regained his spirits, and continued to stare at Uncle Zhao, bound to find out the slightest wrong.

stared intently for a quarter of an hour, although he didn't find anything wrong with Uncle Zhao, but it really made him find out something wrong.

- The swaddling clothes that Uncle Zhao was holding in his arms were also wrapped too tightly, and he didn't even show his face.

Although Jin Yi has never taken care of the baby, he also knows that it is easy to stuff the child.

And now that I think about it, although they knew that Uncle Zhao had a little grandson when they spent the night on the first day, the little grandson had been wrapped in swaddling clothes and placed in the back basket. Although Uncle Zhao carried it on his back for a moment, in fact, they had never seen the true face of this "little grandson", nor had they heard this child cry, and he was a little weird.

There won't be a problem with this "little grandson", right?

Is it really a baby in swaddling clothes?

All the ghost stories he had heard before flooded into his mind, and Jin Yi craned his neck to try to see what was in the swaddling clothes.

At this time, he only hated that he didn't practice well on weekdays, and now he only had to get out of the shell realm. If you enter the realm of forgetting the dust, you won't be staring at your eyes and you won't be able to see clearly.

Just as he stretched out his neck and stared hard, the lantern hanging under the eaves suddenly went out.

Suddenly falling into the darkness where he couldn't see his fingers, Jin Qi was startled. After closing his eyes and getting used to the dark environment, he looked again, and found that Uncle Zhao who was sitting on the threshold was gone. Only a lone bamboo basket was left on the threshold.

The scene is becoming more and more like a strange story......

Jin Qi only hesitated for a moment, then jumped from the hiding place, sneakily touching the edge of the back basket.

He wanted to see if the swaddling thing was a human or a ghost.

Two fingers pinched the corners of the dark red cloth swaddling cloth and lifted it a little bit—

A woodcarved statue inside was revealed, tightly wrapped.

The statue is the appearance of a three- or four-year-old child, with lifelike facial features and eyes dotted with lacquer, which should be very smart and cute. But in this situation, no matter how cute the statue is, it is a little more evil for no reason.

Jin Yi had goosebumps on his arms, and he didn't dare to startle the snake, and was ready to restore the swaddling clothes and leave.

But just as he lowered his head to restore his swaddling clothes, the statue suddenly grinned at him, and called out his name in a crisp childish voice: "Jin Qi." ”

The sound entered his ears, and Jin Yi only felt that his whole person was like being hammered, and his thoughts and movements became sluggish. It's like being thrown into sticky water, obviously sanity, but no longer able to control the sluggish body.

Hit.

He wanted to take out the lightning guide charm to break the game for the first time, but his slow thoughts made his reaction slow down, and his hand stretched out, but it was like slow motion, and he couldn't touch the lightning guide charm for a long time.

At this time, there were footsteps in the house, and it should be that Uncle Zhao had come back after leaving.

After facing this strange wood carving, Jin Yi no longer dared to think about what was hidden under Uncle Zhao's kind and kind human skin.

He thought quickly about what to do, and a little bead of sweat appeared on his forehead because of nervousness.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Uncle Zhao's voice came from afar, but it was as close as in his ears: "Lingshan, grandpa brought you a rattle." ”

The warm candlelight spread over, and Uncle Zhao, who was carrying a new lantern, paused, and sighed faintly when he saw Jin Qi, who was unable to move in a strange posture.

Jin Yi: "......"

Is this the true face of being discovered, and he can't go on acting and wants to kill people?!

I'm going to finish.

His eyes widened and confronted the other party, his heart was actually panicked, and he tried to control his right hand to reach the lightning talisman on his waist.

Hurry up, hurry, it's just a little bit away!

Just when Jin Yi roared wildly in his heart, Uncle Zhao moved.

He put the lantern on the ground, walked to the back basket and picked up the wood carving inside, and patted it gently like a child: "The immortal master is not a bad person, let him go." ”

The wooden carving had a human expression on its face, and its eyes turned to Jin Qi and blinked.

The shackles on Jin Qi's body disappeared in an instant.

He held down the lightning talisman on his waist and quickly pulled away, and looked at Uncle Zhao vigilantly: "Who are you?" ”

"I am the hunter in Nanhuai Town, and my ancestors have lived here for decades." Uncle Zhao carefully wrapped the wood carving with swaddling clothes and put it in the back basket.

"The son and daughter-in-law are gone, leaving the old man and the little grandson to rely on each other. We haven't harmed anyone, we don't want to embarrass the immortal master, and please don't embarrass us. ”

He put the basket on his back, lifted the lantern on the ground, and walked around the golden lion and out of the courtyard.

Jin Yi looked at the old man's staggering back, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Old Linzi, what is the matter with the missing people in the town?" Is it related to you? ”

Uncle Zhao paused, turned his head and said, "Our Orion ancestors have believed in a sentence for generations. Every tree on the mountain is a soul. Don't touch what doesn't belong to you, take it, and sooner or later you have to return it. ”

After saying that, he walked into the darkness without looking back.

Jin Yi looked at his back, hesitated again and again, but still didn't catch up, stayed where he was, and waited for his senior brother to come back.

*

When Mu Congyun came over, he saw Jin Qi sitting on the roof of the Zhao family and sighed.

And Uncle Zhao's house is blind in the dark, and the building is empty.

"What about people?"

Mu Congyun didn't expect that before a night had passed, people had already lost it.

Seeing him come back, Jin Yi cheered up and told him what had happened before. He frowned and couldn't understand: "What does Uncle Zhao mean?" What did the townspeople take that shouldn't have been taken? ”

"But Senior Brother Fang Ming, how long have they only been in the town, it doesn't make sense?"

Mu Congyun also has a lot of doubts that he hasn't fully figured out.

Since you can't figure it out, it's better to go to the old forest again, maybe you can find the answer.

handed the scabbard to Jin Yi and grabbed it, and the two of them took advantage of the night to go to the old forest.

Most of the eclipse mist was absorbed by the dragon clan who didn't know its origin, and the only remaining eclipse mist was almost purified by the Ten Directions Great Array after this period of time.

Without the gray mist, it is rare for the night to be clear in the old forest.

It's just that a large part of the previously dense trees have fallen, and the ground is also full of deep pits left by the uprooting of trees.

Jin Yi volunteered to open the way ahead.

Although his cultivation was a little worse, his strength was not small, and he bent down to pick up a fallen tree and was about to move to the side, but his arm was suddenly grabbed, and a faint voice came: "Help, help......"

Jin Qi reflexively wanted to throw the tree away, but he felt that the voice was a little familiar, and said uncertainly: "Senior Brother Xu? ”

"It's me, it's me! Is it Senior Brother Kim? ”

The grip of his hand grew a little stronger, and it was visibly agitated.

However, Jin Yi looked at the hand that grew out of thin air from the trunk of the tree and was silent for a moment, and then began to draw his sword: "Senior brother, you wait, I will split it and save you!" ”

He was about to lift his sword to split the tree, but Mu Congyun pressed his shoulder with a scabbard.

"I'll come."

He remembered that when he split the strange trees earlier, it was not flesh and blood that was revealed, but new strange branches. Although the mutation has stopped now, the tree and the person that have grown together are not separated, and if this sword is not cut correctly, the person is likely to be gone.

"Gas." Mu Congyun admonished.

Beitian only kills demons, not kills. Mu Congyun swung his sword and slashed, and the trunk of the tree was neatly broken into two from top to bottom, revealing a person with twisted movements in the middle.

Xu Yao, who escaped death, was stunned, and after reacting, he was ecstatic, and after he got up from the ground, he wanted to pounce and hug his life-saving benefactor to show his gratitude-

The upper half of his body was leaned over, but after Shang Mu looked at him coldly from Yun, he suddenly came to his senses, and hugged Jin Qi on the side with a twist.

"I almost thought I was going to die here, woo woo woo......" he cried and laughed, rubbing Jin Yi's snot and tears.

Xu Yao is an outer disciple of Tianji Palace, and his cultivation is three small realms worse than Jin Qi. This time, the ten-party enchantment was turbulent, and there were frequent changes on the borders of Zhongzhou and Dongzhou. The disciples of the Nine Palaces of Xuanlin, all those who cultivated above the Xiaocheng of the Mortal Shell Realm were sent everywhere to deal with the mutations.

A disciple like Xu Yao, who was not enough to cultivate in the middle of the Mortal Shell Realm, should have stayed in the door. But this time, Mu Congyun was temporarily sent to Nanhuai Town to support, and the manpower was really insufficient, so even an outer disciple like Xu Yao, who was not cultivated enough, also came over to make up the number.

Mu Congyun looked at the two teenagers hugging each other, and his slightly frowning brows also relaxed.

Thankfully, it's not too late.

He practiced in the Bright Moon Tibetan Heron retreat all the year round, and had never stepped out of the Xuanling Mountain Gate before this.

Shizun knows his temperament and never forces him.

Only this time, after the successive accidents in Nanhuai Town, Shizun came to him uncharacteristically and asked him to bring people together with Jin Yi to support Nanhuai Town.

He remembered that before going down to the Xuanling, the master had asked him, "Do you know what a person is?" ”

He asked himself that he had no wisdom, so he could only answer truthfully: "Master and I are human beings." ”

Shizun shook his head: "I am, but you are not." ”

If it weren't for Mu Congyun's understanding of Shizun's character, I'm afraid he would have thought that Shizun was scolding him.

He doesn't understand.

Shizun just sighed: "You can feel the pain, which means that you are still alive." But you are only human if you can feel the pain of others. ”

He said, "From the clouds, you have to learn to come out." Take a look at the world of things. ”