There don't seem to be many villagers in Xiaga Village, but looking up, the village in Shangga Village looks very large, and the distribution of various households is also sparse. We climbed all the way up the hill, and after a short distance, we saw a fire again. But before Master and I could step forward, the fires disappeared into the village in a flash. It makes me feel weird. I looked around and asked Master, "Master, there are still many villagers holding torches in this place just now, why are they all gone in the blink of an eye?" ”

The master frowned and said, "The situation is not good, be careful!" ”

Before I could understand what Master meant by "be careful," I suddenly saw a large group of villagers rushing out from all directions, holding torches aloft and carrying knives, forks, and sticks in their hands, shouting one by one, "Kill them!" ”

Now I instantly realized that these villagers couldn't find the corpse, thinking that the two outsiders, Master and I, were bloodthirsty monsters.

Master hurriedly waved his hands and shouted loudly, "You have misunderstood! We're not man-eating monsters, we're living people! Don't be impulsive! ”

Fortunately, Master's voice was loud enough, and when those knives, forks, and sticks fell on top of our heads, they were drunk by Master and stopped abruptly. Among them, an old man, who seemed to be the head of the village, appeared and the villagers around him took a few steps back, and then the old man said in a stiff Chinese dialect: "What are you doing?" ”

This contrast is big, the young man in Xiaga Village speaks Chinese very neatly, while the people in Shangga Village speak Chinese very bluntly, is it that one of these two villages is a local seedling, and the other is a foreign mature seedling?

But as long as you can understand it, it's easy to do. The master stepped forward and clasped his fists and saluted, and said: "In Xiamaoshan Sect Yang Yuanshan, Ben and the apprentices live in the area of Phoenix Ridge in front, this is also heard that there are corpses and animals for the people, so they followed the traces of the beast and found it here, if there is any offense, please forgive me!" ”

"Maoshan ...... Taoist? The old man seemed to be well-informed, and immediately asked rhetorically, and immediately motioned to the other villagers to put down everything, and then said politely: "We were chasing that beast just now, and we didn't want to be run away by it, and you suddenly came to our Shangga Village, and thought you were ...... Forgive for misunderstanding, since Mr. Yang is the Taoist chief from Maoshan, he will definitely be able to subdue demons and eliminate ghosts, so help us villagers capture that man-eating beast! ”

The master nodded slightly, and said, "Yang came here to get rid of the corpse animal, but seeing that there are so many of you here, and the corpse animal has not yet become a climate, it must have escaped." Corpse animals can only eat weak fetuses and newborn babies now, and if you have these conditions, you had better go home immediately, otherwise the beast is inhumane and bloodthirsty at any time! ”

But after the master finished speaking, those young adults didn't seem to understand any of them, and they all stared at the master in a daze. Soon the old man translated to them in the local Miao dialect, and as soon as the old man finished speaking, those young adults were suddenly shocked, and many people carried the guys back one after another.

But there are still many left, burly men in their forties, who may not have babies at home. Looking at these people, Master asked again, "Is there any place near you where I can hide?" It is better to be in a dark, damp place, which the carcass likes the most, and it is easier to find the kind of place to hide. If there is, we'd better look for it now, because if it eats the fetus in its hands, it will definitely run out again! ”

The old man hurriedly translated to those people, and after listening to these words, those burly Miao men pointed to the deep mountains and old forests on the left and right and spoke. Hearing these chaotic voices, the old man immediately stopped angrily, paused, and then said to the master in stiff Chinese: "Mr. Yang, they said three or four places, saying that they are all very damp and dark places, and many poisonous insects live there, but I know those places, let's take you there!" ”

"No!" The master directly refused, and said: "They can't deal with that corpse animal, and they don't need to go so many people, they just need to choose two ones with a bit of brute strength, and just bring a sharp knife and follow me!" ”

Immediately, the old man chose four burly men on the left and right, all with sharp woodcutters in their hands, and the others motioned for them to go home. The old man said, "I'm too old to walk the mountain road, and maybe I'll be a burden to you, so I won't go." But I'll tell them to do whatever Mr. Yang tells them to do, and all you need to do is make a few gestures. ”

The inability to communicate normally is indeed a big obstacle, but with the old man's orders, those strong men are also obedient, and it seems that the old man's prestige in the village is still not small.

After the discussion, Master and I took four Miao men down the hill and rushed towards a dense forest. It was also the old man's idea to choose this place as the first search point, and he said that this road was the most convenient way, and if the corpse animal had no intelligence, but was only driven by an instinct, then it would probably choose this road to hide in the mountains.

The four strong men first led the way in front, but when they reached the dense forest, they were instructed by the master to go to the back. After all, walking in front is the easiest way to bump into the corpse animal, and although the four strong men have sharp and sharp woodcutters, they still make the master feel at ease.

It's just that when I heard Master's orders, the four strong men were not very convinced, it seemed that seeing Master's such a depressed and thin figure, and he didn't have much strength, I couldn't help but laugh secretly, if I want to deal with demonic things, I really haven't seen a few people who dare to be unconvinced in front of Master. Maybe these villagers have never seen the Taoist priest, but they are a little unconvinced when they see the master ordering them everywhere.

In the dense forest, it is indeed damp and dark, not to mention, these strong men are not useless, two of them made two burn-resistant torches, replacing the previously extinguished torches, lighting the way ahead for us.

After a difficult journey, one of the strong men spoke in Miao dialect that we did not understand, and pointed to a mountain wall on the left, and kept saying to the master.

The master was stunned and asked, "Is it possible that this place is hiding that corpse?" ”

As soon as I heard it, I was immediately happy, the master and the strong man of the Miao tribe, one in Chinese and the other in Miao dialect, each talking about their own, no one seemed to understand anyone, but the master still followed the man's guidance, all the way to the mountain wall cautiously, not far away, under the light of the fire, sure enough, I saw a withered cave entrance. The master suddenly realized, I dare to think that the strong man just now said that there is a cave here, probably this is what he meant.

But outside this cave is withered and weeded, and it is very barren. The master was about to step forward to investigate, but was stopped by the strong man, only to see the strong man pick up a stone and throw it hard, and soon, a burst of pig barking was heard outside!

"It's a wild boar!" I exclaimed in astonishment. Immediately provoked four strong men to laugh, I didn't expect there to be wild boars here, I couldn't help but laugh like them. But Master's face was slightly angry, and I was so frightened that I hurriedly closed my mouth.

Master said angrily, "We are here to catch the dead animals, not to find wild boars!" ”

After speaking, under the stunned gaze of the four strong men, the master strode away. I smiled, and explained in Chinese they didn't understand: "My master has this temper, he has always disliked jokes, he has always been a one-sided one, you better not mess with him, otherwise he will send you all home." ”

I was stunned, and sighed lightly: "You don't understand what I said, and I don't understand what you say, so let's go, don't waste time here." ”

After a not-so-pleasant joke, we headed deep into the mountains again. Suddenly, the master glanced left and right and stopped. I hurried up to ask why I had stopped, but before I could ask, even I paused, because I could smell the stench wafting in the air. It's the smell of dead animals! Looks like the corpse is nearby!

Seeing that we stopped, the four strong men also stopped without knowing anything, and I immediately made a sniffing motion, motioning for them to smell the smell of the neighborhood as well, but when the four strong men smelled these fishy smells, their faces suddenly changed greatly. They all picked up the woodcutters and snooped left and right, and it seemed that they had also found something wrong. It is not unreasonable to say that they found the situation bad. They were chasing the corpse animal a while ago, so they were naturally familiar with the smell of the corpse animal.

The master froze his mind and waved his hand and said, "Ergou, you take the four of them to go that way, for the teacher to go this way, this smell is everywhere, in case we go wrong and miss the opportunity, it is better to go separately, if we can't meet at the other end later, we will come back here in half an hour to meet, if any of you find the corpse animal first, shout, the teacher will come when he hears it!" ”

Giving the plan, the master snatched a torch from one of the strong men and walked away without saying a word. The four strong men were stunned, all of them didn't know what was going on. I didn't know how to explain it so that they could understand, so I simply didn't explain, and just made a gesture of encirclement, signaling them to go this way with me, and my master to go that way.

But they were obviously still a little worried, as if they were not worried about the master going alone.

I smiled and said, "I'm afraid that if I really encounter that corpse animal, only my master can deal with it, even if the five of us add it together, it won't be useful, let's go." ”