Chapter 69: The Statue of a Saint
The time is close to night, for fear of accidents, Qianjia Village is now a sleepless village, the village is brightly lit, and there are people guarding the village.
Seeing three martial arts people coming together, a white-haired old man greeted him.
"Thank you for coming to the rescue, the people in our village are ordinary people, I hope you knights with martial arts can find out the real culprit as soon as possible, so that our village can survive this catastrophe!" said the white-haired old man with a sad face.
After all, if you don't want to move, the people of Qianjia Village still don't want to leave the place where their ancestors have lived for generations.
"Uncle, we will do our best, please rest assured. Lin Xiaoxie said.
Because it is not safe at night, many related villagers will sleep in one house, and many houses are vacant in the village.
The disappearance of people happens every once in a while, and the white-haired old man needs to arrange for the martial arts people who come to support him to live in an empty house in the village.
"You all live on the outskirts of Qianjia Village, and every night the village arranges for strong young male villagers to cooperate with you on night patrols. The white-haired old man led the way while introducing the situation to Lin Xiaoxie and the other three.
"We heard the news that some martial arts people have discovered that the disappearance of the villagers was taken away by a black-clothed masked man?" asked Lin Xiaoxie.
"Yes, it was seen by a hero named Chenghou, and another person disappeared in our village last night!" replied the white-haired old man.
Chenghou is nicknamed "Monkey", and he is very good at doing light work!
Speaking of which, the white-haired old man was in a complicated mood, and he was not a demon after all.
After putting down the horses and other casual items, Lin Xiaoxiao and the other three asked the white-haired old man to lead the way, and together they went to find this Chenghou to understand the situation.
When he found Cheng Hou, Cheng Hou was alone in a corner of the village, leaning on a long wooden chair and closing his eyes to recuperate.
"I found the black-clothed night walker in the middle of the night last night, because of the cultivation of the exercises, I was not in the village in the middle of the night, but on a big tree in the southwest of the village, when I was facing the moon to practice the inner strength of the mind, I suddenly saw a black-clothed night walker, still carrying people in his hands, crossing the air!" said Cheng Hou, a martial arts person.
"You are known as a divine monkey, and with your light skills, didn't you try to catch up?" Duanmuyun asked suspiciously.
"The martial arts of this black-clothed nightwalker were too high, and I didn't have any other thoughts at that time, so I instinctively just held my breath, for fear of being discovered by this black-clothed nightwalker!" Cheng Hou continued.
"The martial arts are too high, you can see it at a glance?" Lin Xiaoxie asked with interest.
"This hero, with my eyesight, I can barely see the movement speed of the black-clothed night walker, if he finds out, I will be killed!" Cheng Hou sighed.
"Now that Lin Daxia of the Beggar Gang is here, plus us, as long as that black-clothed night walker still comes, we will work together to eliminate this scourge for Qianjia Village!" Duanmu Yun said nonchalantly.
"Hmph! half a bucket of water!" Seeing that Lin Xiaoxie didn't think so, Cheng Hou snorted coldly, jumped on the roof lightly on his tiptoes, and then his figure flashed a few times, and soon, he disappeared from Lin Xiaoxie's line of sight.
Cheng Hou was so good at light skills that he was so frightened by the black-clothed night walker that he didn't dare to breathe, Lin Xiaoxie was secretly surprised.
"Let's find a vantage point to guard it. Lin Xiaoxie said to the Duanmu brothers, and then jumped onto the roof.
When Lin Xiaoxie and the others walked a little farther, the young men in the village all looked at the old man white: "Village chief." These martial arts people. Can you help us catch the man in black?"
"Alas, it can't all depend on them, you have to hold on for a while, if you encounter an abnormal situation, call someone immediately, if the people in the village continue to disappear, we can only relocate and leave here!" the white-haired old man sighed.
"Yes, village chief!" more than thirty young men from the village began to patrol the village in groups.
The moonlight shrouded the entire Qianjia Village dimly, and all the martial arts people were also waiting quietly in the night.
In the next two days, in addition to occasionally sleeping, Lin Xiaoxie wandered around the neighborhood during the day and guarded at a high place at night.
No villagers have gone missing in Qianjia Village in the past two days.
Considering that the people in Qianjia Village went out to work in groups during the day, the risk was relatively low, so he decided to go to the nearby Shigu Academy on the third day to see what the ancient university was like.
The sky was slightly bright, Lin Xiaoxie didn't call other martial arts people, and set off alone.
Although the Shigu Academy is near Qianjia Village, it is actually more than 20 miles away.
By the time Lin Xiaoye walked up to the Stone Drum Academy at the foot of the foothills, the sky was already bright.
On either side of the entrance of the Stone Drum Academy is a row of food stalls.
These stalls are filled with smoke and have an attractive aroma, and you can eat everything from fried to barbecued and noodle soup.
At this time, people came and went at the gate of the academy, and many scholars got up and came out for breakfast.
This scene is so familiar, it is very similar to the university before Lin Xiaoxie crossed over, but when Lin Xiaoxie was in college, he couldn't get up so early.
Lin Xiaoxie found a middle-aged couple in Qianjia Village setting up a stall here to sell mutton soup.
Lin Xiaoxie walked over and asked, "Boss, you don't do the business of the villagers at the entrance of Qianjia Village, and you deliberately ran so far?"
"Originally, it was Lin Daxia, our village made our own food, and a few people were willing to come out in the morning, and most of the people who could study in the Shigu Academy were either rich or expensive, and business here was much better!"
"Oh, I see. Lin Xiaoxie ordered a mutton gnocchi soup, and while drinking it slowly, he observed the scholars here.
Some of the scholars here wear coarse clothes and linen, some wear brocade clothes and satin, and some of them wear good martial arts like knights who roam the world.
In the future, they will all be the pillars of the imperial court!
After Lin Xiaoxie finished drinking, the scholars at the door gradually decreased, and they all returned to the academy, Lin Xiaoxie wiped his mouth, and did not hurry up and walked towards the gate.
Originally, Lin Xiaoxie was worried that he was not a student here and could not enter the gate of the Stone Drum Academy, but it turned out that the Stone Drum Academy was under open management, and although there were officers and soldiers standing guard at the gate, it did not restrict the entry and exit of others.
As soon as Lin Xiaoye stepped into the gate of the Stone Drum Academy, he saw several ancient sage scholars enshrined in the center of the gate of the academy.
These scholars of the ancient sages were representative figures of various schools of thought, such as Confucianism, Mo, Taoism, Law, and Bing.
These saint statues, at first glance, are just clay sculptures and wood carvings, and they look very wooden, but Lin Xiaoye stopped and stared at it a few more times, and those saints seemed to suddenly come to life, and the boundless coercion was rolling towards Lin Xiaoxie!
With Lin Xiaoxie's current martial arts, he didn't have the slightest power to resist, and he was forced to retreat more than a dozen steps in a row.
Illusion? Lin Xiaoxie looked at the saints again, but they were still clay sculptures and wood carvings, and the sense of coercion just now was as if it had never happened.
"This, could it be that there are really immortals in this world, these ancient saints have been worshiped for generations and have become gods?" Lin Xiaoxie was horrified in his heart.