Chapter 43 The Human World
Maocao Village is a small village along the Zhujiang River system.
"Second brother, wait for me! I'm afraid!" A little girl wearing coarse clothes with some mud stains on her face looked aggrieved and pouted, as if she was about to cry in the next second.
"Xiaoyue, don't be afraid. Look what I picked. When we come out of the Hongling Fruit Forest, I will give it to you." The little boy with a tiger-like head and a tough head saw Xiaoyue stop and stand there looking like she was about to cry. He quickly shook the thing in his hand again.
It was a red spirit fruit with a faint golden halo. It was an extremely rare golden red spirit fruit in this red spirit fruit forest. It was very rare.
As expected, Xiaoyue was no longer aggrieved, but looking at the golden red spirit fruit, she shook her head and said: "Second brother, we secretly entered the red spirit fruit forest without telling Uncle Wang, and now we also took away the rare golden red spirit fruit. , will he be angry?"
The little boy frowned and said, "If you don't tell me, if I don't tell him, he won't know. Let's go quickly. We have to go through the side of the orchard and return to the village. There are still several miles to go."
Xiaoyue was still a little hesitant, and then looked at the dense red fruit trees around her, and said, "I'm still a little scared. They all said that Uncle Wang raised a few vicious dogs in the forest. Just in case..."
As if in line with Xiaoyue's worries, as soon as she finished speaking, a hoarse roar came from the depths of the Hongling Fruit Forest, and the fruit trees around her seemed to tremble.
"Ah!! Second brother! Listen!" Xiaoyue was coaxed in by Xiaohu to steal the red spirit fruit, but now she was frightened and stood there with tears already filling her eyes.
When Xiaohu heard the roar, he knew that those vicious dogs would not harm anyone in the village, but he still felt a little frightened. He pulled Xiaoyue over and ran to the side of the orchard without saying a word. There is an extremely hidden gap in the fence on the side of the Hongling Fruit Forest. He and his friends from Maocao Village spent a lot of effort to open it up in the past few years.
This large red ling fruit forest is the foundation of the whole village in Maocao Village. Every household has worked hard for decades in it. Uncle Wang only looks after this red ling fruit forest on behalf of the whole village. Although most of the harvest has to be turned over, the remaining small amount is converted into money and food, which is enough to feed and clothe dozens of families in this village. Therefore, even though some kids came in from time to time to secretly pick a few things, Uncle Wang was very lenient in controlling them. Even the gap in the fence on the side of the red spirit fruit forest, Uncle Wang just turned a blind eye.
However, the vicious dogs he raised are really scary. The origin of these vicious dogs is unknown. According to the villagers, they were given by the above to protect the red spirit fruit forest. He is as tall as a person and has a mouth full of sharp teeth. With a single grind of his bloody mouth, he can crush a person's entire body. In the previous episode, there were some thieves who wanted to steal, and they were treated as appetizing desserts by those vicious dogs.
But this was Xiaoyue's first time here. She was coaxed by Xiaohu, and she had heard the rumors about those vicious dogs. At this moment, I was being pulled away by the little tiger. The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became. I just heard a few more hoarse screams.
Roaring, his face turned a little pale.
The two ran for a while, with some sweat on their heads. Xiaohu wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeves, glanced forward, and said with a smile: "Xiaoyue, look, we will soon reach the gap in the fence. Just hold on a little longer. You can go back to the village."
Seeing that Xiaoyue was about to go out, her expression became a little more relaxed. She touched her face with her slender hands. The sweat on her face was mixed with mud. The good little girl turned into a little painted face, which was very cute.
After leaving the fence, Xiaohu hid the red spirit fruit with a golden halo in his arms and held it tightly. The two of them relaxed and walked slowly towards the village.
"Second brother, why aren't there any lights in the village?" Xiaoyue stopped and looked at the dark thatched village with a bit of panic on her face.
The two of them entered the Red Spirit Fruit Forest in the afternoon. It was already approaching garrison time, and it was getting late. If it had been normal, the village would have been filled with lights, so it wouldn't be so dark. Xiaohu raised his head and glanced at the three silver-white moons high in the sky, and murmured: "The moon is out, how come the village doesn't light up the lights?"
Standing at the entrance of the village, looking at the dark thatched village, both of them were a little panicked and did not dare to go further inside. Thinking of those horrible and terrifying legends, I couldn't help but be even more frightened. Xiaohu turned around and saw that his sister Xiaoyue was at a loss and about to cry. After sinking his mind, he pinched his wrist and said firmly: "Let's go to Uncle Wang's place first!"
After saying that, he no longer looked at the dark entrance to the village, and took Xiaoyue with him towards the Hongling Fruit Grove where he had just come out. But this time, I walked through the main entrance, where Uncle Wang lived.
What frightened the two of them was that the main entrance of Hongling Fruit Forest and several wooden houses owned by Uncle Wang were also dark with no lights.
"Second brother, what should we do? Where are we going?" Xiaoyue's eyes were filled with tears, but she held back the tears. The brother and sister lost their parents when they were young and depended on each other for life. In addition, people in the village helped them from time to time. Although their lives were poor, they were still stable.
Xiaohu calmed down, knowing that he could not panic, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go back to the village entrance first. Maybe we went to bed early tonight and didn't turn on the lamp?" The two of them had no other choice, except for their home in the village. People have nowhere to go, and they can't spend the night in the wilderness. It's too dangerous.
While he was talking, a scream came from the silent village. This scream was definitely not something a human could make. It was a high-pitched roar that contained incomparable malice and weirdness.
Xiaohu held Xiaoyue's hand a little tight. Listening to the continuous screams in the village, both of them turned pale and trembled a little.
The weird screams stopped, and Xiaohu was about to speak when he suddenly saw Xiaoyue's pupils shrinking, her little face filled with horror, looking behind her, her mouth wide open but there was no sound at all.
Just as he was wondering, a vicious scream sounded in his ears, right behind him! Just as he was about to turn his head, his vision went dark and he lost consciousness.
A long-haired woman suddenly appeared behind Xiaohu, opened her bloody mouth, and spoke
He swallowed Xiaohu whole with his mouth. She was said to be a woman, wearing a pale dress, but her face had no facial features, only a big mouth full of sharp teeth, occupying the entire face.
Xiaoyue opened her mouth wide, but no sound came out, and there were clear tears on her face.
The woman opened her sharp-toothed mouth and was suspended in the air. She was about to punish Xiaoyue according to law, but suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky.
A red rainbow light passed by high in the sky, as fast as a shooting star. At this moment, it suddenly paused. The red rainbow light circulated, but after a moment, it turned around and went straight to the thatched village, landing in front of the woman and Xiaoyue.
He was a Taoist wearing a Taoist robe with complicated patterns and red light flowing all over his body. He looked about thirty years old. At this moment, the rainbow light fell, and he glanced at the frozen woman and Xiaoyue, and wrinkled. Frown.
The woman suspended in mid-air was trembling all over, and her big mouth full of sharp teeth actually moved. If there was an expression on her face, matching her movements, she should be begging for mercy.
The Taoist didn't look at it anymore. The sea of consciousness in the Daoji realm spread, taking in the entire thatched village. When he saw the corpses scattered around the village, his expression did not change, but when he saw the dead vicious dogs in the red spirit fruit forest, his frown became even tighter.
Tears kept flowing on Xiaoyue's face, and suddenly she found that she could speak. She knelt on the ground, her mind went blank, and she sobbed and repeated: "Immortal, is it an immortal? Please avenge my brother and the people in the village, wu Woo..."
The woman trembled even more violently, but she didn't dare to move at all. The Taoist casually glanced at Xiaoyue and said his first words here: "Okay." A brilliance flashed in his hand, and there was already a red sword, and the light was extremely dazzling in the night sky.
With a casual stroke, a brilliant sword light knocked the woman suspended in mid-air to pieces. Xiaoyue was also within the range of the sword light, but before she died, she closed her eyes facing the sword light.
The Taoist took out a green jade slip, pondered for a moment, considered the words, and entered the information: "I am reporting to the Law Mountain Patrol Hall that we are conducting a routine inspection at the 23,000-mile distance outside Zhuri Mountain on the Eighth Mountain. An evil spirit appeared in an unknown village and has been eliminated. This is hereby recorded. There is a forest of Hongling fruit, a low-level elixir of the Holy Sect, in the village. This record jade slip is sent to the Wenyuan Mountain Planting Hall. It is recommended to relocate the migrant population here and cultivate it. The location of the unknown village in Guolin has been recorded on the map on the jade slip. Wang He, a disciple of the patrol hall, conducts routine inspections on the jade slip and presents it for the third time."
Among the jade slips, there is no mention at all of the dozens of families who died in Maocao Village. The only thing related to it is probably the sentence "It is recommended to relocate the migrant population here and cultivate fruit trees."
In his or their eyes, these living beings are just tools for planting low-grade elixirs.
The red rainbow light reappeared and gradually disappeared into the sky like a shooting star, leaving only the eternal moonlight shining down on this mess.