Although Xiao Chi is not optimistic about this rusty knife, and it doesn't feel like a decent knife, but now the ninth master hasn't pronounced the verdict, isn't it, there is still hope, maybe his old man will accept me as a disciple because of my persistence, my efforts, and my luck.

In the longing of Mizuki Koike.

It rained, and from the first drop of rain fell on the face of Koike, more rain fell one after another.

The rain became heavier and heavier, and the leaves crackled, and some of the yellow leaves were smashed down by the rain.

Among the fallen leaves, occasionally one or two dead branches will follow.

In some lush branches, the nest was overturned by the wind and rain, and the nestlings in the nest were ruthlessly thrown down in the scream, fell into the damp soil, and could not get up again, leaving only the helpless ** sound of the nestlings.

Xiao Chi stepped on the fallen leaves, did not look at the dying chick, and continued to rush back, because he wanted to hurry home, so that the ninth master could teach him kung fu.

The parents of the chicks screamed as the human stepped over the chicks, and they flew towards the chicks to get their baby back.

The adult birds tried to fly faster to the children, but the rain was so great that it was difficult for them to even fly a pair of wings, and they found that they had no strength to fly more and more.

Flying is the most basic skill of birds, is it so difficult to even fly now?

The birds did not give up, flew strongly, and with all their strength, they finally flew to the children, but they only stared at the children struggling in the dirt with wide eyes, and they could not do anything because their last breath was used on their wings.

Koike did not see the parents of the nestling dead.

But he saw several other nests of birds die, including an adult eagle.

The rain was abnormal, and it was a little too big, and it actually killed all the adult eagles.

Puzzled, Koike slowed down and began to look around, and then this observation startled him, not only the birds, but also all kinds of small animals, and even faintly heard the mournful cry of the fierce beasts in the mountains.

Could it be that even the great beasts were crushed to death by the rain?

This storm is strange, or because there are demons in the mountains, which scare them all to death.

Legend has it that youkai come with dark clouds and wind and rain.

The fear of the unknown scared Koike, and he tightened the rusty knife in his hand and ran away.

During the run, his head twisted back more often, because he had to keep looking back, maybe at some moment the monster would come behind him and swallow him, although even if he saw the monster to swallow him, it couldn't change the result of him being swallowed, but death also made him die to understand, what kind of demon he looked like, because he was not only afraid of the unknown, but also curious about the unknown.

The rain is still "instigating", but for some reason today's summer rain is not accompanied by thunder, only the monotonous "flutter and crackling" sound of water droplets hitting the object, which makes people feel a little confused.

Rainy days in summer are usually accompanied by thunder and lightning.

And now this phenomenon is like a person with his mouth open and a big crying face, but there are only tears flowing, and there is no crying, which makes people depressed and speechless.

Depression is upsetting, upsetting is unsettling.

Xiao Chi always felt a little strange in his heart, and a little uneasy.

Koike didn't think about the consequences of this uneasiness, but even if he couldn't think of it, he hadn't studied physiognomy and could calculate it from a little detail.

But in fact, if there is a little weirdness and a little uneasiness, there will be a fruit from it.

And when Koike gasped and ran back to the village, the strange feeling intensified.

Because the village is now the same as in the woods, there is no sound but the sound of rain.

I didn't see a single person, there were domestic animals, but they were all dead, like beasts in the woods: no scars, foaming at the mouth, exhausted and exhausted.

Koike ran frantically home, it was a thatched hut.

He was an orphan whose parents were forced to flee by war when he was six years old, and then died of the plague on the way to escape.

At that time, Koike also had a fever, but when his parents died, he surprisingly had a fever, and he survived like other lucky people, and then continued to flee to the deep mountains and old forests, and formed this village.

Now, there are only two members of his family, one is himself and the other is the old hen that doesn't lay eggs. This old hen was left outside the village by the villagers because she was afraid of infecting other chickens because she was sick, so Xiao Chi checked it back and spent a lot of effort to treat it, but the disease was cured but it would not lay eggs.

Koike opened the door suddenly, and the chickens didn't see it, but he saw a lot of chicken feathers because he slammed the door outward, and the gust of wind caused them to fly towards Koike, and then some of the chicken feathers were blocked by his body and fell, and some flew with the wind into the rain outside.

The chicken feathers are smashed by the rain and dance in the air, just like a flat boat in the sea, chasing the waves with the waves, and there is a danger of capsizing at any time.

Xiao Chi watched the chicken feathers fly in the rain and continue to sink, as if he saw his own fresh hen slowly drenched by the heavy rain to foam at the mouth and drench to death.

The hen was missing, and not a single villager was seen, but he had to find it.

After putting on a set of clean clothes in the thatched house, Koike rushed into the rain, preparing to start from the houses in the village and then look for them outside the village.

Koike found the north of the village from the south of the village, and there was no one and the hen.

Koike finds Muranishi from the east of the village, and finally sees a person in the west of the village.

In the heavy rain, the man was digging a pit with a hoe, and in front of the pit there were many half-man-high slopes of earth.

Is that......

Koike had a bad premonition, could it be that he was digging a grave, and the whole village was dead, and they were all buried.

Koike had just found that the joy of people had been washed away all at once, and now there was only a trace of sadness in his heart, and something called heartache was pressed down heavily.

As if to set off this sad picture, Koike walked forward gently, slowly.

The closer he got to the man, Xiao Chi saw that the man was wearing a black robe, with black hair draped over his back, and his movements with a hoe were majestic and powerful, his hair danced in the wind with his movements, and his posture was indescribably elegant and beautiful, this feeling was very familiar—this was, Ninth Master.

It's the ninth master, and when he gets closer, Xiao Chi is even more sure of him.

Xiao Chi hurriedly ran over and shouted "Ninth Master" loudly.

The Ninth Master ignored him and continued to dig the pit.

It's a bit difficult to hear in such a heavy rain.

Xiao Chi quickened his pace again, and then called "Nine Masters" in a louder voice.

The ninth master still ignored him, only to see him put away his hoe and walk towards the grave in the rain.

By the time Xiao Chi arrived at the pit dug by the Ninth Master, the Ninth Master had already disappeared.