Chapter 7: The Singing of the Ancient Forest

In Sanhuai Village, the old village chief led the people to place the corpses of the dead villagers in the square in the center of the village. In the end, there were 34 corpses, and four families were killed in the last night's killing, and almost every household in the village died. The whole village is now filled with a sad feeling, plus all the children in the village have been demonized, and the parents of these children are also called heaven and earth, only secretly weeping.

A man came to the village chief and said, "Village chief, the population of the village has been counted. With the exception of the eleven missing children, the others have been confirmed dead or alive, with a total of 34 dead, and 42 others in the village surviving, several of whom suffered some minor injuries, all of which were bruised by falls and bruises. People who have been attacked by monsters...... None of them survived. The old village chief shook his head when he heard this, sighed and did not speak.

The middle-aged man continued: "The corpses of the demon beasts were piled up at the entrance of the village and burned according to the instructions of the little brother before. ”

The village chief nodded, he muttered for a while and said, "Tell the villagers to do their best to collect and bury the dead, and if the corpse is left for a long time, it will inevitably attract other bad things." Didn't you send someone to Meicheng to ask the government for help before, but what news is there?"

The middle-aged man said: "The messenger set off before dawn, and according to the time, it may not be until the evening to Meicheng, after all, there are more than 100 miles from here to the town." ”

The village chief's brows furrowed even deeper, and in the morning, the little brother and sister said that they were going to find the kidnapped village children, but there was no news so far. The government over there in Meicheng estimates that the news will not be delivered until tomorrow evening at the earliest. The villagers were frightened right now, seeing that it was about to get dark, how could they spend this long night.

Suddenly, a villager stumbled in the distance, stammering and shouting, "Oh no! Wolf...... The wolf is back!" the old village chief was startled, and the people around him were even more frightened, and some of them fainted directly on the ground with their butts. The village chief forced himself to calm down and drank: "You can see clearly, don't ......mess around" Before the village chief finished speaking, a terrible wolf howl sounded not far away, and the sound came from afar, making people feel cold.

The villagers in the square scattered and fled, but there were only a few broken houses in Sanhuai Village, where could they go? Some people simply squeezed their bodies into the dog holes, completely ignoring the fact that their buttocks were still leaking outside, and they were really making a mess. The village chief stood in place and staggered, thinking to himself if it was really heaven for us.

At this moment, a clear voice came from afar: "Don't be afraid! It's us back!" The old village chief was stunned for a moment, listening to this voice, it seemed to be the little brother from last night. He stared at the place where a cloud of smoke and dust rose in front of him, more than a dozen demon wolves rushed towards the middle of the village like lightning, and a person sat on the back of each wolf.

On the back of the tall black wolf, a young man was waving his hand from afar, it was the fairy brother who fought the wolves alone last night! In the blink of an eye, the wolves had already run in front of the village chief and others, Jiang Jianqiu turned over and jumped off the wolf's back, stretched out his hand and patted the top of the black wolf's head and said, "It's hard work, go to the side and rest." The black wolf was obedient, whimpered, trotted to the base of the wall on the side, lay on the ground and stretched out his tongue and licked his front legs, which was really a little similar to the domestic wolf dog.

Ling Shengxue also turned over from the back of a demon wolf on his rode, those children were still young and couldn't sit on the wolf's back, before Ling Shengxue used their belts or clothes to tie knots on the wolf's back, and two young ones were directly tied to the wolf's back. At this moment, Jiang Ling and the others were busy untying the ropes one by one and lowering them to the ground, and the villagers on the side watched from afar, and none of them dared to come up to help. It's no wonder that these demon wolves were still man-eating monsters last night, and now they have turned into docile mounts, which is really beyond the common sense of ordinary people. In any case, the villagers admired these two "immortals" even more.

Jiang Jianqiu put down the children one by one, most of the children sat on the back of the wolf and bumped all the way, all of them were a little listless, only a boy named Xiaozhu, who was still playing with the demon wolf under him. Jiang Jianqiu couldn't help but be a little amused when he saw it, and smashed his mouth and said, "You doll is special, and you're not afraid of man-eating monsters." There will definitely be something in the future!"

Ling Shengxue walked over and pulled the small pillar open, and said to him, "Don't listen to his nonsense, these demon beasts don't dare to eat you now, because they have seen how powerful I and my senior brother are, if we don't have it, we will bite you to death without hesitation." Xiao Zhu looked at Ling Shengxue, nodded as if he didn't understand, then grinned, and reflexively ran to the crowd on the side to find his parents.

The children were returned to the village, and those whose parents were still there were handed over to their parents, and those whose families were no longer in the family were temporarily handed over to the village chief to take care of at home. Jiang Jianqiu called the black wolf aside again, and warned it in a loud voice, this time the wolves helped bring the children back to the village, which can be regarded as a meritorious service and spare their lives. This black wolf has been buried with a curse mark on Ling Shengxue's body, and once it hurts people again in the future, it will be tracked to the ends of the earth to take its life. The black wolf bowed his head and whimpered a few times, and then ran out of the village with a group of wolf cubs and returned to the deep mountains and dense forests.

After sending away the wolves, Jiang Jianqiu and Ling Shengxue came to the old village chief and roughly described the process of tracking the two of them to the wolf's den to kill the wolf king and rescue the village boy. The villagers listened and were grateful. The villagers didn't know how to thank the two benefactors, and some people brought treasured grain and bacon from home to entertain the two immortals, but Jiang Jianqiu also refused with a smile. He and Ling Shengxue were already monks in the Jade Mansion Realm, and as long as they meditated and absorbed the aura of heaven and earth every day, they could ensure that they were full of energy, even if they didn't eat or drink for more than ten days, their bodies would be fine, so these foods were a bit cumbersome for them.

Jiang Jianqiu wanted to leave the village and return to the division, but looking at the old village chief in front of him, he hesitated and seemed to have something to say, so he smiled and said: "Boss, we have now helped you run away with wolves, and the child has also been found for you, why are you still sad?" The village chief hesitated for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "Shangxian, I won't tell you, the people in the village were frightened by what happened last night." When it got dark, I didn't even dare to go back to my room. The officers and soldiers in the city we went to invite will not arrive until tomorrow at the earliest, and it will be dark soon, how can you spend this night?"

Jiang Jianqiu suddenly realized, turned to Ling Shengxue and said, "Senior sister, how about we stay in this village for the night?" Ling Shengxue thought for a while, nodded and agreed: "Now that the children have been rescued, there is no hurry to return to the master at this moment." Let's stay overnight, and when it dawns tomorrow, I will strengthen and strengthen the small Fengyuan array around this square, which can be regarded as leaving a shelter for this village. ”

Seeing that the two immortals agreed to stay, the village chief also smiled on his face, and hurriedly invited the two to his home. He cleaned the two side rooms spotlessly and let the two immortals move in. Jiang Jianqiu and Ling Shengxue also knew that the village chief was grateful from the bottom of their hearts, and did not make too many excuses, Jiang Jianqiu asked the village chief for a change of clothes, his previous two sets of clothes, one was stained with blood when fighting wolves at night, and the other was directly blown into pieces by the wolf howl of the golden-maned wolf king. Looking at the rag-like clothes that he had changed, Jiang Jianqiu's head was big again, and he ruined his clothes again within a few days of going down the mountain this time, and after returning to Huaishan, I am afraid that he will inevitably be beaten by his senior brother.

After nightfall, in order to make the people in the village feel at ease, Ling Shengxue and Jiang Jianqiu divided the order of night duty, Ling Shengxue in the first half of the night, Jiang Jianqiu in the second half of the night, the two of them patrolled around the village to check, and they were safe all night.

When the sky was bright, Ling Shengxue took out the spirit crystals and array flags and other things, and began to reinforce the formation she had arranged around the village square. This small sealing yuan array is a relatively commonly used formation, and it has a strong suppression power against low-level demon beasts.

Usually setting up a small Fengyuan array like this, even a skilled array mage would take nearly an hour. The position of each spirit crystal, the direction of the array flag, etc., need to be calculated according to the actual terrain position, and the effect of the formation will be greatly reduced if the position is slightly deviated. Last night, Ling Shengxue came in a dark place where she couldn't see her fingers, and in a moment, she laid down the entire small Fengyuan array, if there were other formation mages present, I was afraid that her entire jaw would be shocked on the spot.

Jiang Jianqiu sat on the low wall on the side, watching Ling Shengxue shuttling around, moving the spirit crystal here, adding a formation flag there, only to feel very boring. He didn't know anything about formations, so he said hello to Ling Shengxue out of boredom, and then ran outside the village to relax.

It is already the early autumn season, the morning breeze is blowing, blowing on the body is quite cool, Jiang Jianqiu walks in the wind, the newborn morning sun shines on the face, making people feel a itchy warmth, but it is very pleasant. Jiang Jianqiu walked along, and unconsciously walked to the edge of the dense forest.

This Sanhuai village is built on the mountain, next to a dense forest that stretches to the depths of the mountains, this dense forest is full of branches and huge trees, I don't know how many years have passed. Deep in the forest, there are ancient trees of hugging thickness, and even the midday sun can hardly penetrate the dense foliage. Beneath the canopy of trees, it is a world of seclusion.

Jiang Jianqiu walked on the side of the dense forest and walked forward. Suddenly, he vaguely heard a singing voice wafting in, sounding like a woman's voice. Jiang Jianqiu couldn't help but be a little strange, did the residents of this village get up so early to do farm work? He listened carefully, and the song didn't seem to come from the direction of the village, but it seemed to float from the dense forest in front of him.

Jiang Jianqiu couldn't help but wonder a little in his heart, those villagers in this village were scared one by one yesterday, how could they run into the woods and sing as soon as it was dawn. Yesterday they saw the wolves running back into the woods.

Jiang Jianqiu pondered for a moment, he shouldn't be from the village. Anyway, this song sounded very strange, Jiang Jianqiu hesitated for a moment, and then stepped into this ancient forest.

The light of the morning sun was mostly blocked out of the ancient forest by the dense canopy of trees, and the forest was quite dim. The ground was sparsely covered with shrubs, and the branches and leaves were covered with dew, and Jiang Jianqiu had only walked a dozen steps before his trouser legs were wet. He frowned, this kind of strange place still didn't make sense, and immediately wanted to reflexively quit.

At this moment, the ethereal singing voice sounded in the distance again, this time more clearly, with a faint sadness in the song, like a young girl calling for her lover in a distant land. Jiang Jianqiu pursed his lips, and said in his heart that this song is really evil, whether you are a human or a ghost today, I will take you out and take a look at it clearly! He made up his mind, and his feet rushed towards the direction where the song came from in the dense forest.

Towering trees sped away behind them, shrubs streaked across their clothes, leaving behind large patches of dew, and ethereal songs looming in front of them. Jiang Jianqiu felt that he had run far away, and he couldn't tell the direction he came from in this ancient forest, he couldn't help but feel a little irritable, and once again increased his speed, like a sharp arrow off the string rolled up an afterimage, whistling through the dense forest.

Gradually, the singing became clearer, and the voice was tactful and subdued, like a melancholy girl, pouring out her heart in the quiet night, which made people listen to it with mixed feelings and couldn't help themselves. Jiang Jianqiu's eyes gradually became a little confused, he seemed to have forgotten where he was, and there was only one purpose left, to find the source of this song!

While running wildly, a tall bush suddenly appeared in front of Jiang Jianqiu's eyes, and the branches were intertwined and impermeable, blocking the way like a tall wall. Jiang Jianqiu also seemed to have lost his calm judgment, and rushed towards the thick bushes in front of him, with a crackling sound, and he rushed over the bush wall with his whole body and fell on a piece of grass.

Jiang Jianqiu turned over and stood up a little dazed. Suddenly the eyes opened up, under the feet is a green and quiet grass, the grass seems to have been trimmed as neat, as if the feet are not enough, the grass is blooming all kinds of unknown wildflowers, colorful dotted on this green carpet. Rays of sunlight shone down from the canopy of trees overhead, and the air was filled with the faint scent of flowers, like a fairyland on earth.

In front of Jiang Jianqiu, in the middle of the meadow, a young woman in an emerald green dress carried a flower basket, she bent down to pick a wild flower from the ground, put it in front of her and sniffed it, smiled and put the flower into her basket. Jiang Jianqiu couldn't help but look stunned.

The woman in green turned around and smiled at Jiang Jianqiu. In Jiang Jianqiu's eyes, this smile was as sweet as the morning dew in the valley, and his brain completely stopped thinking for a moment.

The green-clothed woman opened her jade mouth lightly and asked Jiang Jianqiu, "Who are you?" Jiang Jianqiu replied as if he had lost his soul: "Disciple of the Huaishan Sect, Jiang ...... Jiang Jianqiu. The woman frowned slightly when she heard this, but she smiled again and asked, "Am I beautiful?" Jiang Jianqiu stood in place, his eyes seemed to be fascinated by a layer of mist, and he said like a puppet: "You...... You are pretty. ”

The woman in green smiled slightly and said, "Okay, for your sake, my sister wants to reward you well." With a wave of his hand, a little green light flew towards Jiang Jianqiu's forehead!

Jiang Jianqiu stood in the middle of the grass, feeling as if he was falling in an endless white mist, and his limbs did not obey the command at all. The woman's voice and the flying green light were clearly close in front of you, but they seemed to be out of reach. Jiang Jianqiu was confused and thought about where this was, what was he doing? A little green light flew closer and closer in front of him, it was to take his own life, why didn't he resist it at all?

Suddenly, the sound of a clear guqin sounded leisurely behind the thick bushes. The sound of the piano is like a mountain falling into a deep pool, arousing a ripple in people's hearts. The sound of the piano came into Jiang Jianqiu's mind, and he screamed loudly, and finally recovered from the chaotic state. He only felt that he had regained control of his body in an instant!

At this moment, the green light had already flown less than a foot in front of Jiang Jianqiu, and he struggled to lean back, while drawing his sword with his right hand to block. The green mangs came so fast that he didn't have time to unsheath his sword completely, so he had to raise the sword and protect it in front of the door.

At the same time as Jiang Jianqiu raised his sword, there was a soft sound of "ding", and that little bit of green light had already hit the hilt of his sword. In an instant, Jiang Jianqiu felt a tremendous force coming from his wrist, and the whole person flew out like a meteor backwards, hitting a thick ancient tree straight up.

"Boom!" A loud sound spread far away in the dark forest, Jiang Jianqiu's body slid down the trunk of the tree softly, and a mouthful of blood spat out with one mouth. The towering ancient tree behind him was hit by Jiang Jianqiu, and the yellowed leaves fell one after another. Among the fallen leaves flying in the sky, Jiang Jianqiu reluctantly raised his head, looked at the beautiful and extremely dangerous woman in the middle of the venue, and said in a hoarse voice: "Who are you? If you want the life of the master, report your name first!"

The woman in green covered her mouth and giggled, and when the laughter subsided, she said, "I can't imagine that Xiaohua's tooth nails can't kill you, your life is really hard enough." She poked lightly with her jade hand, picked out a blue and yellow flower from the flower basket on her side and pinned it to her chest. Her fingers were as light as a breeze, as if she was afraid of hurting the petals that fluttered slightly in the morning breeze.

"Although this dust flower is beautiful, it is a pity that it withers too easily. After the woman said goodbye to the flowers, she smoothed out a strand of hair on her chest to the back of her shoulders, smiled at Jiang Jianqiu and said, "I came all the way here, but I found that the golden mane was killed by you, and those children were also let go. Let me think about how I can reward you. ”