In the Blade

The next morning, Du Chengfeng got up very early.

After all, it seemed that he was the only one who could stand up and work in Sanshan Town at the moment. Others could not deal with those evil monsters at all - of course, except for the Songzhou people. Those Songzhou people with tattoos all over their bodies might be a little crazy, but they were ridiculously strong in hunting.

But it was precisely because these Songzhou people were a little crazy that Du Chengfeng really didn't dare to entrust the matter to them.

Of course, the existence of these evil monsters might have another use, that is, to force out another master lurking in Sanshan Town - Du Chengfeng still remembered the master who used spiral force to severely injure Jingtao Daowang. Originally, he thought that County Magistrate Yuan was the hidden master, but County Magistrate Yuan did not use spiral force.

So this time, Sanshan Town suffered such a disaster, would the master lurking in the dark take action?

"...Probably not."

Thinking of his running around yesterday, Du Chengfeng shook his head.

Obviously, although the master protected the inn for some reason last time, this time, the master had no intention of protecting Sanshan Town.

"You still have to do it yourself."

Thinking of this, Du Chengfeng habitually returned to the kitchen and began to prepare breakfast.

But immediately, Du Chengfeng frowned.

"Where are my rabbits?"

Du Chengfeng looked around in confusion. He clearly remembered that the two rabbits were still there yesterday. At that time, he was too sleepy, and he was not hungry, so he did not stew the two rabbits-if he remembered correctly, the two rabbits should have been put in a cage by him, but now there is no cage, let alone rabbits.

"Who touched my rabbit?"

Seeing that the boy holding the iron whip had just woken up, Du Chengfeng grabbed him.

"Did you lose my rabbit?"

"What rabbit? Where did the rabbit come from?"

The boy looked a little confused.

"Does that mean we're eating rabbits today? Isn't rabbit meat tough?"

"It seems it's not you... then it's you?"

Du Chengfeng called over the mill masters in the backyard, along with the five Songzhou people, and even the old man who was sleeping.

However, even if he searched everyone, Du Chengfeng couldn't find his rabbits. The two rabbits seemed to have disappeared, along with the cages outside.

"It's impossible for us to take the two rabbits. After all, we gave them away."

Seeing Du Chengfeng's eyes glance back again, Wang Tonggong and Hu Sanbian waved their hands.

"What's more, rabbits... must be somewhere unknown. After all, they are locked in cages. The rabbits can't bite open the cages and run out by themselves, right?"

"..."

Du Chengfeng fell silent.

It seems, really, there is this possibility.

It had been a while since he woke up, and his mind was much clearer. He gradually remembered what he did last night. If he remembered correctly, he was trying to feed the two rabbits with evil spirits before going to bed. All the evil spirit weapons in his hands were touched by the two rabbits.

That's why he put the two rabbits in the pot. It was not so much for eating, but to get rid of the two dangerous goods.

But now...

"Don't."

Du Chengfeng was sweating for the first time in a long time.

Fortunately, he finally found a clue. It was the cage fragments by the backflow river. Obviously, the two rabbits had really bitten through the cage. This made Du Chengfeng more worried. He was afraid that the two rabbits would do something extraordinary.

So, following the faint footprints on the ground, Du Chengfeng chased them all the way.

As soon as he entered Sanshan Town, Du Chengfeng saw corpses all over the ground. The corpses of those monsters fell on the ground in all directions, blocking the entire street.

Du Chengfeng saw clearly that all the corpses had a transparent hole in their chests.

"Who did it?"

Du Chengfeng's pupils shrank.

It was relatively easy to cut a monster in half, at least for him, but not everyone could accurately pierce the monster's chest and kill it on the spot - even Du Chengfeng himself couldn't do it, because for most evil monsters, the chest was not a weakness at all.

Although the evil monsters were transformed from evil masters, they were completely different from humans. Humans have weaknesses and vital points, and they will basically die if they are stabbed, but evil monsters don't. Under the alienation of evil spirits, the flesh and blood of these monsters have been constantly proliferating. Ordinary puncture wounds can be blocked by flesh and blood in just a moment, and healed again, or simply grow new limbs at the location of the wound.

In simple terms, unless it is a bone spear specially made by the people of Songzhou, most of the time, cutting is better than piercing when dealing with evil monsters.

No matter how much flesh and blood proliferate, it can't withstand being cut in half on the spot. If you must use piercing, then the power of piercing should be strong enough to flatten a building.

But now...

The bodies of these monsters just fell to the ground. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the cause of their death is the hole in their chest.

"This..."

Du Chengfeng, who was getting more and more confused, simply continued to walk.

He always felt that he might see something extraordinary.

Fortunately, he finally saw people.

Not just one or two people, but groups of people. Looking around, I'm afraid that most of the people in the town have walked to the street. Their faces are full of sincerity and gratitude. Even if there are monster corpses around them, they don't show any fear on their faces-this also makes Du Chengfeng more confused. Where do they get the confidence?

"There are adults protecting us."

The neighborhood grandmother who was asked by Du Chengfeng laughed.

"We can have a good life today because adults are protecting us."

"...Hmm?"

Du Chengfeng frowned.

Protecting the entire Sanshan Town...That County Magistrate Yuan did this before, but County Magistrate Yuan is dead, and those flying swallows have been broken into ink-except County Magistrate Yuan, who else can it be? Could it be that the master who uses spiral force has finally emerged? That kid finally stopped hiding his head and showing his tail?

"Come on!"

Thinking of this, Du Chengfeng's chest instead gave birth to the desire to fight.

Since the master hiding in Sanshan Town could use spiral force on the post station when he didn't know, he must compete with this hidden person - if he could use spiral force on the post station when he didn't know, he could take off his head when he didn't know. He couldn't sleep well without competing with this master.

"Where is he? I also want to see the adult who protects Sanshan Town!"

"The adult is in front, in front."

The neighbor's grandmother smiled and pointed to the bell and drum tower in the distance.

"It's under the tree below the bell and drum tower. My wife has already gone there... Hey, young man, why are you in such a hurry!"

Before the neighbor's grandmother finished speaking, Du Chengfeng had already run out. The fighting spirit in his chest made him as fast as the wind.

But when he rushed all the way to the big tree in front of the bell and drum tower, he didn't see any so-called master at all.

There were only two rabbits stacked together in front of him.

"Come down!"

As soon as Du Chengfeng stopped, the onlookers shouted to him.

"Don't disturb the adults from breeding!"

"...Huh?"

Du Chengfeng was choked for a moment.

The two rabbits were stacked on top of each other on the ground, trembling, weren't they mated?

"Ah, this."

Standing next to the two mating rabbits, Du Chengfeng didn't know whether to advance or retreat.

He wanted to take the two rabbits away directly. After all, although he didn't find any masters, at least the rabbits were found - but just when he was about to reach out for the rabbits, the neighbors who were surrounding him grabbed him like crazy.

"What are you doing! Don't be disrespectful to adults!"

"...Adults?"

Du Chengfeng looked at the neighbors, and then at the two rabbits that were still mating.

"Are you talking about them?"

"What else? Do you know how hard adults work?"

The neighbors pulled Du Chengfeng back, and then they talked about the story of the two rabbits.

According to the locals of Sanshan Town, these two rabbits have been protecting them for a long time. It is precisely because of the existence of these two rabbit Buddhas that Sanshan Town has been peaceful and harmonious for so many years, away from the worldly troubles. Even those evil monsters have been blocked outside the three mountains. All this is the credit of the rabbit Buddha.

"This..."

Du Chengfeng's mind was confused.

If he remembered correctly, weren't these jobs done by the county magistrate Yuan? The county magistrate Yuan thought this place was good, so he suppressed everything around with his absolute force. As for those evil monsters, they couldn't even touch the edge of Sanshan Town. The moment they entered the mountains, they would be killed on the spot by the self-explosive flying swallow.

So what does all this have to do with these two rabbits? These two rabbits were just about to be put into the pot yesterday...

"All this is the blessing of the rabbit Buddha."

The neighbors clasped their hands together devoutly and kowtowed to the rabbits.

"In the past, we didn't know, but now, we all understand that the reason why we have such a good life now is that Lord Rabbit Buddha has blessed us... No wonder the Year of the Rabbit was celebrated more grandly in the past. It turns out that it was because of this, because of Lord Rabbit Buddha."

Speaking of this, the neighbors looked quite ashamed, as if all this was really their fault, and they had forgotten this ancient heritage.

Even Du Chengfeng, who was watching, was frightened.

"You...really celebrate the Year of the Rabbit?"

Even though Du Chengfeng was knowledgeable, he had not been in Sanshan Town for a long time, and he did not know much about the local folk customs of Sanshan Town-do they really worship rabbits here? There is such a saying?

Why didn't he hear it before?

"Before..."

The neighbors who were asked sighed.

Before? They didn't know anything about rabbits before, and they didn't even know who said the phrase "Year of the Rabbit" just now - but in this situation, it's a good thing to have something to do with rabbits. After all, Lord Rabbit Buddha just saved their lives, which is an indisputable fact, so Lord Rabbit Buddha must have been protecting them all along.

Since Lord Rabbit Buddha is protecting Sanshan Town, as the locals of Sanshan Town, they must have some customs related to rabbits. It doesn't matter if they had it before, but it's enough to have it now.

Of course, even if it is a newly created custom, it has been passed down since ancient times. After all, the Rabbit Buddha has blessed them for so long, they can't say that they have always forgotten their roots.

"So we will indeed celebrate the Year of the Rabbit."

After careful consideration, the neighbors gave their answer.

"The Rabbit Buddha has blessed us for so long, how can we not commemorate Him... Not only do we celebrate the Year of the Rabbit, we don't even eat rabbit meat, that's why."

"This..."

Du Chengfeng recalled that there seemed to be no rabbit meat for sale in the town.

So it seems...

What these neighbors said is very likely to be true?

But he clearly remembered that these two rabbits were caught by Wang Tonggong and Hu Sanbian in Datang Mountain. They were just two ordinary rabbits. Yesterday he almost stewed these two rabbits in a pot. There was really nothing special about them...

Could it be that he made a mistake?

It seems that it is indeed possible to make a mistake. After all, his two rabbits are white, and because they were caught from the wild, they are still a little dirty. However, although the two rabbits in front of him are exactly the same as the rabbits in his memory, their fur is already blood red.

"So are these my two rabbits?"

Facing the various opinions of the neighbors, Du Chengfeng was almost confused by the chat. The main reason was that these people said it with details, as if everyone really believed in rabbits.

And the two unique red rabbits were even more sacred proof.

"...Maybe I really remembered it wrong?"

Finally, under rounds of verbal attacks, Du Chengfeng began to accept the neighbors' statements.

"Look carefully, these two don't seem to be my rabbits... The fur color is different, how can they be my rabbits?"

Although no matter how you look at it, these two rabbits are exactly the same as the rabbits he lost, rabbits look basically the same. If Du Chengfeng really wants to confirm it, he can't confirm it.

Especially at this moment, the neighbors kept nagging in his ears, and he really couldn't tell the difference.

"Then... that's fine."

As he said this, Du Chengfeng bowed to the two rabbits.

"Excuse me."

Although he didn't quite understand how two rabbits could protect a place, since the neighbors said so, he also respected the local folk beliefs.

It's just believing in rabbits, not something more outrageous, so it's actually okay.

However, what Du Chengfeng didn't realize was that in his heart, he had actually acknowledged the sacredness of the two rabbits.