Chapter 24: Niushan Village (4)
"Auntie, I'm back. β
The wooden door of the small courtyard creaked open, but there was no figure inside.
"Strange, what about people?" Qin Han touched the stove and muttered, "The stove is hot, and there is boiling water in it, it shouldn't have been long gone, where can I go so late?"
Qin Han listened quietly, and after half an hour, except for the noise of the neighbor's house next door, he didn't hear any information about Aunt Li.
She had no choice but to give up, went into her room and began to meditate and practice, if Aunt Li hadn't come back after dark, she decided to mobilize the villagers to find her together.
"Miss Qin...... Miss Qin!" A shout came from afar, which immediately startled Qin Han, and she hurriedly looked into the distance, looking forward to Aunt Li's appearance.
However, Zhang Erniu was the only one in the distance, and there was no figure of Aunt Li at all.
For no reason, she had a very bad premonition.
"Miss Qin, you can stay at my house this month. β
"What's the matter? Sister Erniu, tell me, is there something wrong with Aunt Li?" Qin Han stepped forward and unconsciously tightened Zhang Erniu's sleeve, Aunt Li is the person she cares about the most here, she must not be fine.
"She didn't have an accident, but her mother was sick again. She went to Yangpo Village to take care of her mother. β
Hearing this, Qin Han's heart was relieved, but he was still not completely relieved, and for some reason, the faint uneasiness always lingered.
Zhang Erniu took Qin Han back to her home, there are four people in her family, in addition to her parents, she also has a sister named Da Niu. A few years ago, when the eldest girl got married, her room was idle, and this time it was just right for Qin Han.
Zhang Erniu's family is not wealthy, Qin Han only drank some porridge at night and went back to the room to rest.
"It's windy, don't come out!" shouted Erniu's father at the top of his voice.
"Miss Qin, don't go out, it's a demon wind outside!"
Zhang Erniu's voice suddenly sounded in her ears, startling Qin Han, "Er...... Sister Erniu, is this room open?"
"My sister and I used to whisper at night when we were at home, so we made a hole in the wall so we could talk every night. β
"Oh, I see. So what's going on with this demonic wind?"
Since she came to Niushan Village, it has been windy almost every night. She had regarded this wind as an ordinary gale before, but almost all the villagers in Niushan Village were very afraid of it, which made her have to wonder something.
Zhang Erniu shook her head and said, "I don't know the specific situation, I heard Daddy and Auntie say that thirty years ago, the demon wind blew in Niushan Village for a month, and many seven or eight-year-old children were swept away. I heard that this is a monster in the mountains casting a spell to catch children and eat them!"
"And then?"
Later, Aunt Li's husband went into the mountain, saying that he was going to find a monster to take revenge, but he didn't come back until now. β
"Revenge?"
"Well, Aunt Li's daughter was blown away by this demon wind. Hey, Aunt Li lost her husband and daughter, we thought she would go back to Yangpo Village, but she insisted on staying in Niushan Village. Speaking of this, Zhang Erniu wanted to speak and stopped.
"Sister Erniu, do you think Aunt Li wants to avenge her husband and daughter?"
Zhang Erniu seemed to think of something, and said with a strange face, "Everyone thought so at the time, but as long as someone said that they wanted to kill the monsters in the mountain, they were all stopped by her." She said that the wind was the anger of the mountain god, and that it was our virtue that angered the mountain god. β
"What about other parents who have lost their children?"
"What else can I do, if I lose it, I will lose it, who is not seven or eight children, and one less is not necessarily dead or alive. If it weren't for the fact that my father and mother were old when they gave birth to me, I guess I would have a few younger siblings. β
Outside the window, there was a sudden sound of something collapsing, "bump-bump-", followed by a rooster and a dog barking, which disturbed people's hearts.
"It's broken, the chicken coop and kennel have been blown down!" Zhang Erniu finished speaking and was about to open the door and go to the yard.
"What are you doing out here, Dead girl!
As soon as Zhang Erniu opened the door, she saw her father guarding the door.
"Dad, didn't I want to come out and help?"
"Nonsense! Come in! If you dare to come out again, Lao Tzu will break your legs!" Daddy Zhang didn't care much, pushed her directly into the room, and beckoned his wife back to the house.
After Zhang Erniu entered the house, she wrapped herself in the quilt and whimpered softly.
Seeing this, Qin Han no longer looked at her through the small window on the wall, turned over to the bed, and began to close his eyes to recuperate.
The wind howling outside the window made it difficult to sleep until midnight.
As soon as the wind stopped, Qin Han casually pulled a piece of black cloth to cover his body, and climbed over the wall and walked out of the small courtyard.
After she learned that this was the world of a thousand years ago, she had some guesses about the mountains behind Niushan Village.
The mountain road at night is not easy to walk, there are potholes everywhere, and there is not even a decent road. However, martial artists can see at night, and Qin Han's own perception is strong, so it is not difficult for her to enter the mountain at night.
The area was not very large, and it took her only an hour and a half to explore the outer perimeter of the mountain, and she found nothing dangerous except for some hares, pheasants, and roe deer, which were more "kind" wild animals.
"Roarβroarβ"
A shrill roar pierced the night sky, followed by the chaotic footsteps of wild beasts running wildly, Qin Han followed the sound, and gradually showed a solemn look on his face.
"Damn!
When she heard the familiar roar, her heart jumped, could it be that this mountain is really related to Wudang Mountain?
It's just that Wudang Mountain is a mountain range, with several peaks, and it is hidden in the mist all year round. Among them, there are many monsters, so that people dare not set foot in them. And this mountain is also just a mountain, and there is not a trace of fog around it.
But it is not known what will happen in the course of this millennium.
Qin Han's brain was running rapidly, but his footsteps didn't stop, and he didn't stop until he ran all the way to the foot of the mountain.
Just as she let down her vigilance, she raised her head and met a pair of cloudy eyes, and her body instinctively reacted, and a broken jade palm shot towards those eyes.
The cannibal didn't dodge or dodge, and took this palm. Qin Han saw the pleading in its eyes, and his heart was complicated, and he couldn't bear it at all. It's the nature of demon beasts to eat people, and people will also hunt demon beasts, so who is right and who is wrong?
Her mind gradually began to be chaotic, and her eyes were no longer as clear as before, and just as her consciousness gradually began to blur, suddenly Na Lingpei on her neck sensed something, and a trace of spiritual energy poured out into her body. Suddenly, her spiritual platform became clear, and her brain also regained its spiritual light.
"If you don't eat people, it's okay to keep you, but it's a pity that you can't!"
She is a human being, so she should think from a human point of view, she is not a virgin!
Bumper and bumper, he swung out two palms again, hitting the fragile eyes of the cannibal.
Seeing that the human was about to slap it again, the cannibal was immediately enraged and entered a state of madness, and its eyes turned red.
The various skills of the cannibal in the frenzied state are several times that of the usual state, and he easily dodged Qin Han's two palms with a slight lean, and at the same time gathered a wheal in his mouth and attacked Qin Han.
Damn! It's a spell! She was horrified in her heart, and quickly used her internal strength to run wildly.
But the man-eating lily was originally a wind-based demon beast that was good at speed, and where could Qin Han escape, he was caught up with in three or two breaths.
Sure enough, is she still too weak? Without the space to save her life, is she certain to die?
She stopped, not wanting to waste any more energy, she stood opposite the cannibal and looked at it fixedly, and raised her voice, "Let's make a break!"
The wind suddenly blew in the mountains and forests, and the roar of the cannibal became more and more fierce, as if it was holding back some big move.
The cells of Qin Han's whole body were trembling in the wind, and the placket of her clothes seemed to be unable to resist the wind, and she would be crushed in the next second.
I only heard a "bang", and the first thing to be shredded was the black cloth that served as a cloak outside, and then there was no more.
The wind stopped without warning, and the cannibal's red eyes gradually returned to their previous cloudiness.
It just stared at Qin Han and looked at her quietly. But Qin Han didn't dare to despise it, his whole body tensed, his palms were on his chest, ready to attack at any time.
The night is quiet and sometimes eerie.
I don't know how long it took, just when Qin Han was about to make the first move, the man-eating lily turned his head and hurriedly ran into the mountain, as if he was afraid of something.