When we came out of the cellar, the old man asked first, "Do you really know the miracle doctor who just came?"

The sailors and I were silent, only He Xuanya said in a hurry: "Recognize, know." "It's very unassuming to hear.

The old man asked curiously, "You say she is a mage, but how can she say that she is a doctor?" ”

He Xuanya said: "Old man, you don't know, just now we deliberately wanted to make that person ugly, but I didn't expect that your village was not really demonized, but people were suffering from hysteria. This time she said it very neatly, and it seems that she should have thought of a statement.

The old man was even more strange, and raised his voice a little and said, "What do you say?"

He Xuanya said: "That person just now is indeed a doctor, but he usually likes to be nosy and wants to save face. So we deliberately said that she was a mage, and asked you to beg him to subdue the demon and see how she came to the stage. ”

The old man said, "Why are you doing this?"

I hurriedly said: "Didn't I tell you before, that person has a grudge against our family's elders, although we know that she is a good person, but the family has always instilled hatred for her, so we don't like her when we see her now, and always think about how to play tricks on her." ”

The old man was a little unhappy, and said with a serious face: "I'm going to say a few words to you, and you should be kind to others when you are young." The miracle doctor just now has helped our village so much, she is a great good person, although she is a little unhappy with your grandparents, but as a young person, you should not treat others unjustly with family prejudices. Although we met for the first time, we relied on living a few years longer than you, and I hope you will not be surprised when we say these unpleasant words. ”

He Xuanya and I hurriedly nodded and agreed: "The old man is right, we can't be so willful in the future." ”

When the sailor heard this, he nodded and said, "Yes, yes, yes." ”

The old man suddenly seemed to remember something, and asked, "Hey, no, the miracle doctor just now said that she is Langzhong of You Fang, and she has no fixed place, how did you know her, and why did your grandparents have a grudge against her?" ”

At this time, the roosters in the village began to crow one after another.

He Xuanya stood up and said: "It's already a rooster crow, we should also say goodbye and hurry, many things can't be explained clearly in one sentence or two, wait for the next time we pass by Guibaodi, and then tell you in detail." ”

The old man hurriedly said, "Oh, you should rest for a while." Our roosters crow early, and it's only one or two o'clock, and it's still very dark outside, so let's take a nap before we go, or we'll squint during the day. ”

As he spoke, the old man took out a blanket from the only small box in the house, spread it on the ground beside the cellar, and said to me and the sailors, "Let's lie down by this wall for a while, and let this girl go to bed." ”

He Xuanya was about to excuse herself, I said, "Sister Xiaoya, just listen to the arrangement of the old man, let's sleep for a while, and we will have to hurry tomorrow morning." ”

He Xuanya then walked to the side of the bed and closed her clothes and lay down. The sailors and I sat crooked on the blanket with the old man and slept.

After sleeping for a while, I opened my eyes and saw some light outside the window, and got up and shouted: "Sister Xiaoya, sailor, it's time to get up, it's dawn to go." ”

He Xuanya and the sailors also got up.

The old man stood up and said, "Since you are in a hurry to leave, I will not keep you, but a few of them are still young, and if you want to enter the mountain, you have to be careful everywhere." ”

I said, "How do you know we're going into the mountains?"

The old man said, "I don't think you are ordinary teenagers, and since you refuse to reveal your identity, I won't ask." But a few people come to the village late at night to stay, it should not come out of the mountains, the mountain road, before sunset must find a good place to stay overnight, will not be in the middle of the night three watch still rush, so I guess you must be going into the mountain. ”

I said, "The old man is right, we are going into the mountains." I don't know what the old man is called, next time we will visit. ”

The old man said: "Our Zhuangzi, all surnamed Shang, I am the eighth among the brothers, when I was young, people called me Shang Lao Ba, now that I am old, everyone will politely call me Shang Ba Ye." ”

I asked, "What is this village called?"

The old man said, "It's called Shangjiazhuang." ”

I said, "Eighth Master Shang, then we will leave first." ”

With that, the three of us went out the door and walked towards the outside of the village.

By this time, the sky had begun to lighten, and the village was no longer silent, and the sound of people talking and pots and bowls colliding could be heard from every house. The dying village was resurrected with the light of day.

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As soon as she walked out of the village, He Xuanya said, "Where did you say Master went at night?"

I said, "She's done dealing with the affairs of this village, and she's definitely going back." ”

He Xuanya said: "I don't think she will go back." Listening to last night's movements, there are not a few demon immersion bodies that came, and the master should have only eliminated one, and the rest ran away. How could she have allowed the Demon Immersion Body to run away like that, I think her old man must have been tracking those monsters. ”

The sailor asked with a puzzled face: "What are you talking about? Isn't the monster that the old man said an illusion of the people in the village, why does Grandma still have to track it down? What is the demon immersion body you just talked about?"

He Xuanya and I laughed.

The sailor said: "You don't bring this, since the three of us came out together, according to Sister Xiaoya, we are a group, what secrets do you want to share together." ”

He Xuanya looked at the sailor, suppressed her laughter and said, "The body of the demon immersion is the monster that Shang Baye said, it is not an illusion, it is a real thing. Master's words last night were all in order not to cause chaos in the world, deliberately deceiving Shang Baye, and also indirectly deceiving the people of Shangjiazhuang. If the news of the appearance of monsters in this area spreads, it will shake the foundation of Xianshi's original understanding of the world, and the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

The sailor asked again: "Although Grandma Tai destroyed one monster, many of them ran away, what should I do if these monsters come back in the future?" ”

He Xuanya said: "So I said that Master will not go back, and he will definitely go to track those monsters." ”

The sailor said worriedly: "I hope that before dark tonight, Grandma Tai can destroy all those monsters, otherwise Shangjiazhuang will not be peaceful again." ”

He Xuanya said, "It doesn't matter. ”

The sailor asked, "Why?"

He Xuanya said: "Those monsters will come again at most, and they will definitely not come a second time, and even if they come, they won't hurt the villagers." ”

The sailor said, "I still don't understand." ”

He Xuanya said: "Didn't Master give Shang Baye a box, and that box contained a magic weapon to cure monsters. ”

The sailor said, "Since the monster is not an illusion, can the yellow note in the box still be used?"

He Xuanya said, "Do you really think that it is a yellow paper that has been soaked in medicinal wine to cure diseases? It is a Dharma Script, on which the Demon Destroyer Seal is applied, and once the Demon Immersion Body touches it, it will be wiped out." ”

The sailor continued, "What is the Demon Slayer Seal?"

By this time, we had unconsciously come to a mountain pass, which was flanked by two high cliffs, and in the middle was a path, only four or five feet wide.

I looked up and saw that the cliffs on both sides stretched up, and above them were actually two towering peaks. The top of the mountain is obscured by clouds and mist, and it is impossible to see how high it is.

I said, "Sailor, don't ask so many questions, this should be the passage into the mountain, after entering, you should be careful, there are jackals, tigers and leopards in it at any time, it is better not to speak." ”

He Xuanya said, "According to Master's words, this should be a line of heaven, because after entering the road between these two cliffs, you can only see the sky winding like a long line above your head. ”

I said, "I remember, isn't the place where the fairy grandma picks Siyang tea?"

"It's right above our heads," he said. ”

I casually said, "I've been here." ”

The sailor asked, "Why did you come here?"

I said, "For your grandmother's grave." Don't ask, let's go inside. ”

As soon as we walked into the canyon, we felt a chill hit us, and the weather inside was completely different from the outside. We walked all the way from Shangjiazhuang to the mouth of the canyon, the sky was clear, there was no trace of clouds, but the canyon was dripping with light rain, the ground was muddy, it was difficult to walk, every foot would fall into the mud, and it would take half a day to pull out the foot.

As I walked, suddenly a lot of messy footprints appeared on the mud on the ground, and they continued to stretch towards the ground. Those footprints were different from those of a man, nor like those of a wild beast in the mountains, for they were more than a foot long, and the ruler was wide, and they had only three toes.

He Xuanya said, "This should be the footprints of the Demon Immersion Body. They also run into the mountains from here. We followed the footprints to see where they had gone. ”

The sailor asked, "Those monsters ran out of Shangjiazhuang, why didn't we see them where we walked just now?" ”

I also find it strange.

He Xuanya tilted her head and thought for a while and said, "That means it only started to rain when they ran here." ”

The sailors and I suddenly realized, and we both praised Xuanya for her smart brain.

He Xuanya said: "Don't be afraid of my sycophants, let's see which one of the forks in the road we should take." ”

I looked ahead and saw that a hundred meters away from us, the road had split into two branches, one to the northwest and one to the southwest, forming a herringbone intersection.

Walking to the fork in the road, we found huge footprints along the southwest-facing passage.

I said, "I used to listen to the story of my father, and when he talked about the place of the Drought Devils, he always mentioned the Southwest Secret Forest, I think I should take the southwest road, and by the way, I can also track the Demon Immersion Body." ”

He Xuanya said: "I've always been worried about whether I will meet Master on the road, if she goes to track down the Demon Immersion Body, she should return after destroying the monster, we will meet her head-on sooner or later." ”

I also think it's a bit of a hassle.

The sailor's words dispelled our worries, he said: "But I looked carefully along the way, and I didn't find any footprints of my grandmother, did she not enter the mountain at all." ”

He Xuanya thought for a while and said, "The sailor is right, there are very few people living in the mountains of the Wa royal family, and she may think that the affairs in the mountains are the affairs of the drought people, not her duty. According to her attitude towards the Drought Devils, she would definitely not come to this secret forest for the sake of the Drought Devils. By the way, it should be like this, just now at the entrance of the first line of heaven, I saw some strange patterns on the cliff wall, and now I think it should be a drawing of the demon slaying seal. Master must have sealed the mountain pass with a demon slaying seal in order to prevent the demon immersion body from coming out of the mountain to plague the Wa royal family. ”

I said, "Then we can go forward." ”

At this moment, a dark shadow flashed above us, as if something had jumped from one cliff to the other.

We immediately got nervous.