In the middle of a forest, Koike was running too fast, leaning against a big tree and panting.

Xiao Chi felt that he had run far enough, and he was already some distance away from the village, so the cat demon should not come, so he would take a breath first.

Also, I'm tired enough now that I can't run.

The most important thing is that Jiu Ye's footprints have completely disappeared after passing through a few meadows, and the only clue to find Jiu Ye is broken, and Xiao Chi has to stop and think about where to go now.

And then he was hungry.

At this point, the rain finally stopped.

The mountains and forests are watered by heavy rain, as if they have been washed, and they are exceptionally green.

A rainbow appeared on the horizon after the rain, and the sun crept out of the clouds, and the sunlight shone through the trees, like straight silk threads, from the gaps in the dense branches and leaves to the ground.

A beam of sunlight playfully shot into Xiao Chi's eyes, allowing him to see the sun in the sky.

The summer sun always brings enough heat to dry Koike's clothes and bring him a hint of irritability.

The irritability came from his neck, which was covered with prickly heat.

Prickly heat often swells and grows happily after rain or bathing, when the weather turns hot, and at the same time of growth, it will suddenly give people a sharp irritability, which is worse than ants and mosquitoes.

Xiao Chi, who was tired and weak, was stimulated by this prickly heat and immediately went crazy.

Both hands turned into claws, the speed was boundless, I saw that his ten claws were like knives, as if he had conjured up a few afterimages and quickly scratched between the neck, and occasionally scratched the shoulders and chest, after the claw marks, leaving a red paw print and the "pop" blasting sound of the prickly heat being scratched.

There was still a hint of pleasure in the process, and Koike smiled comfortably.

After all the prickly heat was caught, Koike seemed to feel his strength returning, and the fly in the ointment was that the faint pain caused by the broken skin was also left.

Koike looked up at the sunlight again, warm and warm.

So he cheerfully went looking for something to eat, and the beast was almost dead, but there was still a mountain fruit to give him food.

When night came, Xiao Chi still didn't find the ninth master, but he found several new graves along the way.

Now he is squatting down to look at the tombstone, because he wants to see the name on the tombstone clearly, he is afraid that the ninth master will also die and become a corpse in the tomb.

Or are these graves also buried by the Ninth Master? Maybe it's another clue to find the Ninth Master.

It was already dark, and Xiao Chi could only guess the words on the tombstone now.

A gust of wind blew, making the woods whine as if they were weeping. The moon in the sky, hidden in the dark clouds, could only shoot a bleak moonlight, and the moonlight sprinkled on the tomb, covering the whole cemetery with a veil of mystery.

In the moonlight, in the west of the village, in the mound, the black cat was lying on its back beside the grave, its two forelimbs grasping a roll of bamboo slips like human hands, and was watching intently.

Black cat reading?

Yes, it's reading a book, and it's pleasant to look at.

At a certain moment, the black cat suddenly threw the bamboo slip, and after reading it, it walked to the middle of the mound, which is the kind of walking that people stand.

And then start "dancing"?

Stand up straight, stretch out your forelimbs, swing your left in a circle, take a step on your left side, swing another circle to your left, take another step on your left side, and then take a step on your left side. Then swing three times to the right and take three steps on the right side...... Cycle.

The cat's butt also twisted with its "dance" steps.

At this time, its "dancing posture" combined with the cat's unique cute pet characteristics is simply cute.

As the black cat danced, the surrounding scenery seemed to be distorted, and the black smoke gradually rising from the grave was pulled by the elder, as if to set off the distorted night, and swayed gently in the breeze.

The swaying black smoke takes various forms, sometimes turning into human faces......

The black cat saw his masterpiece and "laughed" proudly.

Then jump proudly and scream proudly.

Meow, meow, meow, follow the rhythm, meow, meow, meow!

The beauty of singing and dancing blooms in the night, and a bleak wind blows in the middle from time to time.

Xiao Chi finally figured out the words on the tombstone, it was not the ninth master.

Xiao Chi actually didn't know the real name of the Ninth Master, but everyone else called him the Ninth Master.

Just like Koike doesn't know his own real name either, it's his milk name. Before his parents died, everyone called him by his name, and of course he didn't ask his name when he was a child, and after his parents died, even those who knew his name died, and the name "Koike" became his big name.

So eighty percent of "Nine Masters" is just the nickname of Nine Masters, and the name of Nine Masters may be on these tombstones, but Xiao Chi will not think so much, he only believes that Nine Masters must not be dead, he is in front, he may be digging pits, or he may be fighting monsters.

After Xiao Chi touched the tombstone, he continued to walk forward, and he went to find the ninth master.

As soon as Koike left, the black cat came, and it wanted to "dance" in this pile of graves.

That night, Koike saw several piles of graves, all of them new, and the tombstones on the graves had all been touched by him.

In one of the graves, Koike's body finally couldn't hold on, and the changes and fatigue made him physically and mentally exhausted, and he collapsed next to the tombstone.

That night, Koike had a dream.

In the dream, he danced happily with the villagers, accompanied by the sound of "meow".

The dream passed quickly, and it was already dawn, so Koike wiped his saliva, picked up the rusty knife, and hurried away in the opposite direction of the rising sun.

Heading west, Koike knew that there were no people further east of their village, because it was close to the Dragon's Back Mountains, the easternmost mountain range on the mainland, and no one could cross that mountain range, and it was said that no birds could cross it.

There is a town to the west, and Koike's original home is there, which has been shattered by the war.

Koike hates war, but he hates loneliness even more when no one is around.

When he came to the mountain village, he always longed to return to the town, because there were people, there were more people, there was prosperity, and more importantly, there were many warriors there.

What Xiao Chi wants to do most is to learn martial arts, and then act chivalrous and majestic, and then he eats candy without looking at the fat man, and leads the little girl to his house to eat candy, and by the way, talk about life ideals or something.

Perhaps it was because Koike was so eager to see people, and on this afternoon, although he didn't see people, he saw a living thing, a crow, and more than one, there were many crows.

The crows crowed and flew over the head of the little pond, and he was very happy, there were birds alive here, maybe there were living people in front of them.

Koike quickened his pace and walked in the direction where the crow had flown away.

During this period, he also found more grave piles, some of which were like his village, and there were only piles of graves left, and all the tombstones had been seen, but none of them were written "Nine Masters".

Following the crows, Koike broke into another village, which at first he thought was all dead, and he was already numb to such phenomena.

He traveled to the west of the village, because the graves of the villages he had seen along the way were buried in this direction.

Koike estimated that there should be about 100 households in a village of this size, and he began to look slowly from the side of the grave, he didn't want to miss a tombstone, so he saw a tombstone and sprinkled a pile of grass on it to make a mark.

When Xiaochi finished reading it all, he found that the graves seemed to be a little less, only about fifty households, and what about people?

He stood up and looked around suspiciously, and saw the group of crows in the south of the village, where there was a big tree, and the crows were crying happily under the tree.

Koike walked over to the tree and saw dead bodies on the ground. It turns out that these "villagers" have not been buried here yet, so what about the Ninth Master? He subsumingly thought that the graves were all buried by the Ninth Master.

The corpses were torn open by the crow's peck, and Koike tried his best to resist the urge to vomit and hurriedly turned around.

As soon as he turned around, Koike saw a stick gradually enlarge, and then heard a "bang".

He was knocked unconscious by a stick.