Strange Tale

The monster untied the rope from the girl's mouth.

"Ah──you let me go! Let me go! Help──help──"

It seemed that the girl put all her energy into breastfeeding, but the monster was not only not affected by her jumping up and down, but also easily bent down and stretched out her hand to pick up the young man on the ground next to her.For a moment, both of them were held in the air by him, their collars stuck around their necks, and they couldn't speak.

"I like young girls and pretty boys best." The monster approached the girl, and while speaking, stuck out his tongue and licked her face.

"Ah—ah—" the girl screamed hoarsely, as if being burned by the tongs.

"Hahahaha!" The monster looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, "Scream, soon you won't be able to scream anymore!"

The girl bit her lip, and her screams turned into low sobs.

The monster glanced at Huan'er and Qilin on the ground, "The rest of the people and these two things belong to you."

As soon as he said that, someone immediately started dragging the man who was brought out by them and was tied up into the house.The monster suddenly jumped into the air and took off with the two people in its hands.

Si Ren was afraid that Long Jiu would chase him, so he held him down.

But Long Jiu not only didn't move, but also looked at him puzzled, "What are you doing?"

Si Ren was stunned, "You...don't plan to chase after him?"

"Why should I go after it?"

"That monster is likely to hurt those two people!"

"What does that have to do with me?" Long Jiu looked calm.

Si Ren was very surprised, "But... didn't you insist on rushing out just now?"

"It was Huan'er and Qilin just now, people who are related to you."

"Someone related to me?"

"Yes."

Si Ren suddenly understood: from the time he knew Long Jiu to the present, every time he made a move, it was not for no reason.Either it is his own business, or it has something to do with people he knows, and the art of defeating the way of flattery in Yancheng is only due to the duty of temporarily stationing in the city.

"You've never helped anyone who doesn't have anything to do with it?"

"Everyone has their own destiny. When encountering monsters like me, I don't eat people. It's already their fate. Why should I meddle in my own business to save others? But..." Long Jiu looked up and saw that he was already flying. A monster with only a black dot left in the distance, "If you want me to go after him I can go. Need me?"

Saving people is the most important thing, and Si Ren didn't care to think about what to say, "Can you save those two people while ensuring your own safety?"

Long Jiu raised one corner of his lips to show a disdainful expression, he stopped talking nonsense, he jumped up from the spot, and flew over after chasing the black spot.

As soon as Long Jiu moved, Si Ren was discovered immediately.He put away the enchantment, and ran straight to Huan'er and Qilin who were lying on the ground.

People in the village were taken aback by the sudden appearance of Long Jiu and Si Ren, but Long Jiu disappeared in a blink of an eye, so they slowly surrounded him curiously after seeing Si Ren's appearance and thinking that he was a normal person.

Si Ren tried the breath of Huan'er and Qilin: both were normal.He pinched Huan'er's acupuncture point again.

"Who is this son? Why did he appear in our village?" A middle-aged man in the crowd asked.

"I passed by here and got separated from my friends." Si Ren raised his head and had no impression of the person in front of him.Back then when he came to Ershen Village by chance, his appearance was still quite different from what he is now. So many years have passed in a blink of an eye, and now he is in the dark, so no one recognizes him.

"Is this your daughter?" Someone in the crowd asked again.

"Sister." Si Ren took out a silver needle from his backpack.

"Are you a doctor?!" The man who asked the question just now stood up from the crowd, and his voice was obviously a little more excited.

"No, I am..."

"Xiao Ren..." Huan'er woke up.

Si Ren quickly picked her up, "Huan'er! What happened to you?"

"Xiao Ren... Xiao Ren..." Huan'er hugged Si Ren and began to cry, "I... I fell into a big hole, and Xiao Lin also fell into it... Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I couldn't get out, and then it got dark, and something ran out. The thing moved so fast and strong, Xiaolin's spells didn't work, and we were both caught... That thing bit me, it hurt so much! Then... …Then……"

"Then what happened?!"

"Then... I don't know anymore! Woohoo..."

"What the hell is that?"

"I can't see..."

Can't even see it?Si Ren wanted to ask again, but the Qilin next to him moved.Si Ren quickly grabbed him in his hand and shook him vigorously, "Xiao Lin?! Xiao Lin?!"

Qilin slowly opened his eyes, "Xiao Ren..."

After recovering his sanity, Qilin immediately transformed into a human form.As a result, the crowd of onlookers suddenly exploded.

"Ah! Yellow Immortal!"

"He must be a mage!"

"Quick! Drive them away! Don't let Mr. Ji see it!"

"Wait! Maybe this mage has something!"

"Impossible! Isn't the previous lesson enough?!"

"The person who was with him just now flew away, he must be very powerful!"

"Try it, if it works, you don't have to be afraid of that monster anymore!"

"You can't take that risk!"

……

Seeing that the villagers were divided into two groups noisily, Si Ren became more and more confused. He wanted to ask Qilin what happened to him and Huan'er, but he couldn't hear clearly because of the noise.

Si Ren stood up and waved his hands to tell them not to quarrel anymore, "Can you tell me what's going on? What happened in the village? What happened to those half-dead people? Was it poisoned or something? And what are you doing?" Why do you want to catch someone and give it to that monster?"

Long Jiu quickly caught up with the target, the black dot turned into a figure, the figure fell down at a high speed, and finally stopped on a rock at the foot of the mountain.A man and a woman in his hand had fainted from fright.

"Who are you? Why are you following me?"

Long Jiu fell onto a tree and sat on a branch, "Who are you? Why are you arresting people?"

The monster looked up to see Long Jiu clearly, and he let go of the two people in his hand and dropped them by his feet, "Hmph, if I saw you earlier, I wouldn't want them."

"What are you going to do with them?"

"I'm hungry."

"You eat people?"

"That's right. Are you here to save someone?"

"That's it."

The monster frowned, "Someone paid you to come here?"

Long Jiu also frowned, "Well...he asked me to come without paying."

"who is it?"

"You don't even know it."

"I know everyone in the village."

"Not from the village."

"Then why bother?"

"Get used to it, he likes to take care of weird things like you."

The monster picked up the man and the woman again, "If you want to save someone, you can use yourself in exchange."

"You want to eat me?"

"Afraid?"

"Okay, I'll change it with you."

"Aren't you...we've met before?!"

It seemed that someone recognized Si Ren, the crowd was restless for a moment, and a person came out from inside.That man is Uncle Zhang's son.

Si Ren remembered that his nickname was a character for tiger, "You are Uncle Zhang's son, Zhang Hu."

Zhang Hu walked up to Si Ren and grabbed his arm and looked at him in surprise, "You... are you really Xiao Ren?!"

"it's me."

"You're back?!"

"Well, I want to go home and take a look. Passing through your village, I wanted to rest and replenish some food and water, but... what happened to you here? I saw Uncle Zhang just now..." Si Ren didn't know How should I describe it.

Zhang Hu had a look of helplessness before, but when Si Ren asked this, his sad face became even more sad.

"Oh—don't mention it..."

It turned out that two months ago, many people in the village suddenly went missing, every family had them, and the missing people were basically the elderly and children.Then suddenly one night, all the missing people came back.It's just that they are no longer the same as they used to be, they all got strange diseases, they became dumb and said nothing, and bit their necks when they saw people.That's when the monster appeared, and he asked everyone to call him Mr. Ji.He also said that there is a way to cure everyone's strange disease.But he asked the normal people in the village to go out on the first and fifteenth day of each month to catch someone to prepare for him. He picked two and gave the rest to those who had strange diseases.At first, the villagers refused, and invited a mage from outside.But in the end, the sorcerer invited not only failed to restrain the monster, but was also killed by the monster.Then soon another person in each family got a strange disease.The monster said that if something like this happens again next time, he will pick another person from each family until they are all obedient, or the whole village will get sick.

Zhang Hu roughly talked about the current situation in the village, but Si Ren still didn't understand.

"What do you mean when you say 'he picked two of the captured people, and gave the rest to the sick people in the village'? What happened to the people he picked? Why should the rest be given to the sick? The captured people What happened in the end?"

Zhang Hu gritted his teeth and was about to open his mouth.

"Ah—"

A scream came from the yard behind Si Ren.