no puppet

There was a commotion inside and outside the crowd, and gradually there was an uneasy commotion.

"A monster has sneaked in?"

"Where is the demon?"

"Mo...could it be just a puppet?"

Xie Hengyan's dark almond eyes were narrowed, and he could even clearly see that people stood up to see the seals in their hands, among which dense groups of complex mantras gathered in one place, accompanied by a series of small sounds accompanied by the uproar of the mountain wind, like an invisible mockery Xie Hengyan's recklessness is the same as cowardice.

——The talisman is their patron saint, but it is also the most direct and sharp blade that can hurt puppets.

"...Shh, don't move around."

At this time, Xiaolu's familiar voice suddenly came from behind.

Xie Hengyan's expression was tense, Fang turned around for a short while, and caught a glimpse of Xiaolu squeezed behind the crowd, clasping his wrist with cold fingers, while pulling him back continuously.

"Miss Xiaolu!" Xie Hengyan said in surprise, "Why do you..."

"Shh...!" Xiaolu pulled him and said, "Come to the back, don't squeeze so far in front!"

Xie Hengyan: "Oh... oh."

The two sneaked around, Xiaolu was like a hen protecting its cubs, dragging Xie Hengyan back all the way.At this time, Xie Hengyan didn't care too much. Seeing the falcon spreading its wings and circling above his head, he ran straight to hide in the crowd like a mouse seeing a cat.

"Don't mess yourself up first, you may not be the one who caught you." In the confusion, Xiaolu pressed Xie Hengyan's shoulder and said in a low voice, "I prepared a carriage on the mountain road, and Pingbari will help take care of it. As soon as the truth is revealed, we will flee directly from there."

"Miss Xiaolu..." Xie Hengyan's eyes turned hot, and she was both moved and sad for a moment, "I..."

Before finishing speaking, the falcon in mid-air suddenly let out a long hiss, Xie Hengyan and Xiaolu raised their heads at the same time, and saw the pair of sharp eagle claws descending from top to bottom, quickly falling into the restless crowd, and instantly set off bursts of waves. The sound of exclamation like a wild wave!

For a moment, Xie Hengyan's throat froze, almost thinking that it was going to attack her head-on, and Xiaolu also tensed up at that moment, ready to turn around and run away——

But unexpectedly, Falcon's target was not Xie Hengyan.

The moment its terrifying sharp claws touched everyone, it turned outward suddenly and suddenly, and it swung down from the very front where the figures were scattered!

"!!!"

At that moment, Xie Hengyan tried to hold his breath, Xiaolu couldn't help stretching out a hand, holding him tightly beside him, and comforted him in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, it doesn't look at you, it doesn't look at you!"

"I...I know." Xie Hengyan felt weak all over, "Who is it looking at?"

Xiaolu shook her head and said, "I don't know!"

——But I saw the falcon hovering in the low sky for a long while, but finally it was unbiased, and it stopped half a foot in front of Xie Hengyan, a middle-aged man dressed in coarse linen, and his clothes looked ordinary.

"...It's a wooden puppet!" Cheng Miling's eyes were cold, and she suddenly ordered, "Come on, catch him!"

As soon as this statement was made, it was undoubtedly another puddle of boiling water poured into the restless crowd.When the villagers who were already in fear heard this, they all exploded one by one. The brave ones picked up tools such as hoes and iron bars and held them high above their heads, while the timid ones hurriedly hugged and rolled into a ball. Looking at it like that, I wish I could get into the ground and hide on the spot.

Xie Hengyan and Xiaolu were still in the crowded place. Seeing that the falcon was moving forward swiftly, they suddenly lifted the back collar of the middle-aged man, and a pair of sharp claws fiercely slashed across his defenseless cheeks, leaving behind a long trail of glaring eyes. hideous scars—

And under those obvious wounds, there really wasn't a single trace of flesh and blood left!

"He's a puppet!" The crowd roared, "This guy has no blood, so he must be a puppet!"

"Hurry up, hurry up... Copy the guy, kill him!"

"kill him!"

"Don't let this monster run away, hurry up and hold him down!"

However, the man in front of him didn't react at all. When he turned his head, an eagle claw slapped his back fiercely again. The clear sound of the wooden body rubbing against the raptor's claw instantly filled the sharp and alert ears of everyone around. !

"Really, it's a monster!"

"The monster dared to come to the shrine?! How did he get up the mountain!"

"No matter how he came, kill! Kill him!"

At this moment, the puppet man clutched his wound tightly, staggering back and forth.Under his usual scarlet eyes, he suddenly revealed confused and complicated emotions.

"Why...?" He couldn't help murmuring, "Can't monsters worship God together? I obviously didn't do anything, I just wanted to..."

Before he finished speaking, a hoe swept across from the front.

——Accompanied by a crisp sound of "click", the tip landed on the top of the puppet's head, which is the fatal part of containing the karma seal.

"!!!"

In the crowd, Xie Hengyan's eyes widened suddenly, almost screaming out in shock, but Xiaolu forcibly covered her mouth behind her.

It's just pity for that nameless puppet man, who hasn't got the answer he wants, and after his originally red eyes dimmed, they never light up again.

"You monsters don't have the right to be blessed by the gods." The man who swung the hoe was Song Yang who had lost his little sister earlier.He took a step forward, stepped on the broken seal of the puppet, and said indifferently, "...these are all unintentional things, no matter how many times you visit, they can't wash away the inherent dirt."

"Brother Song is very skillful!" Seeing the puppet's sudden death, the surrounding audience couldn't help but thumbs up and boasted, "We thought it was another fierce battle. Thanks to you, no one was killed or injured today."

"Brother Song... Brother Song!"

Not far away from the crowd, Cheng Miling jumped down the steps in twos and threes, pushed the crowd away and rushed to Song Yang, and said out of breath, "Brother Song, how could you kill him?!"

Song Yang threw away the hoe, put his hands on his hips, and asked indifferently, "Why can't I kill him?"

Cheng Miling shouted anxiously: "I don't know where this puppet came from. If you execute him rashly, how will I explain to my father and the others!"

"If you don't kill him, why don't you wait for him to run away?" Song Yang raised his voice, "Today's Mid-Autumn Festival is an important day for routine worship. Enter a puppet! Sister Xiaocheng, don't you think that before telling the truth to Mr. Cheng, we should give us an explanation first?"

"That's right. It's fortunate that the Rong Mansion issued the talisman papers earlier, otherwise, in the eyes of those monsters, wouldn't we all be a group of cattle and sheep at the mercy of others?" Someone behind echoed.

"Brother Song is right, if we don't act quickly, we will be the ones to die!" Some townspeople sighed, "I don't know what the Biyu Mansion is for... If you get mixed up with such a big dummy, you won't be killed." One finds an anomaly."

Soon someone answered, "Let me see, since Mr. Cheng is gone, this yellow-haired girl hasn't done a serious thing."

"you……"

Cheng Miling's face was flushed, and she shouted in a trembling voice: "I'm going to explain, you killed him as soon as you came up, how can I explain?"

"It should be your problem that the puppet got into the shrine." Song Yang said coldly, "Sister Xiaocheng, you are not doing things properly, and you are impatient... How can you come forward to preside over the overall situation if this goes on for a long time?"

"Irritable?" Cheng Miling laughed angrily, "You killed people with your own hands, what right do you have to say that I am impatient?"

"Look, this little girl...you have to answer back when you say something to her."

Before Song Yang opened his mouth to speak, the townspeople suddenly started talking.

"It's true that she was spoiled by Cheng Daofeng..."

"That's right, without the presence of her two senior brothers, what would a little girl be like?"

All of a sudden, some were cursing, some were helpless, and there were many lingering fears. The originally well-organized worship day suddenly became as noisy as a vegetable market.

Cheng Miling's face was flushed with anger, her voice was intermittent, but she couldn't utter a word to refute at this time, and now no one from her father and senior brother was present, and almost everyone stood by Song Yang's side, desperately accusing her of her sins. .

As everyone knows, Song Yang, who has a bad temper now, is so quick that he tramples the puppet's body under his feet, causing everyone to clap their hands and applaud.

——And in the end, the one who really came out to deal with the aftermath was the yellow-haired girl they kept accusing.

late at night.

The round of bright moon around Mid-Autumn Festival is always clear and round.The light was very weak and silent, and it fell on the small roof in the backyard of the tavern, slowly illuminating a person's dark and silent almond eyes.

Xie Hengyan sat on the edge of the roof, hugging his zombie legs, without saying a word, it has almost consumed half a day.

Xiaolu brought out a bowl of white porridge and wrapped him in some clothes.Neither of them spoke, and the silence lasted for a long time. Later, Xiaolu handed over the porridge, and Xie Hengyan raised her head to drink it. After a while, she suddenly called her: "Miss Xiaolu."

Little Green: "Huh?"

"Do you think...they are right?" Xie Hengyan looked up at the sky and couldn't help asking her.

Xiaolu asked back: "Who? Who is right?"

"They." Xie Hengyan said, "That's... well, they."

Xiaolu pursed her lips, seeming to have hesitated for a moment, but she still took a deep breath and replied: "In this world, there is no absolute right or wrong. In your opinion, they may be outrageously wrong and cruel." Crude... but in my opinion, it's just a way for the townspeople to protect themselves."

Xie Hengyan lowered his eyelashes, silently staring at the porridge bowl.

"Just like Aunt Liu... Sister Zhou, when she left, she was in more pain than that person today." Xiaolu hugged her knees and whispered, "But she killed too many young and innocent lives for her own sake. Xiao Xie, tell me, did she do something wrong? Did the villagers who killed her do something wrong too?... No one can judge right or wrong like this, after all, the interests are always on their side.”

"Could it be... there is no way to coexist peacefully?" Xie Hengyan asked, "That monster this morning, maybe..."

Perhaps like him, he just wants to slowly try to become a human being.

"It's impossible, don't think about unrealistic problems." Xiaolu shook her head, her tone was very firm, "In the days after you and Yinzheng left, almost everyone shouted at monsters. The deep-rooted thoughts of rejection, Even if you spend more than a hundred years, it will not be completely wiped out—people are people, and monsters are monsters. There is no way to easily offset the prejudice between each other."

Xie Hengyan said: "But I..."

"For example, you and Yin Chun, the two of you—even if you are not a puppet or a goblin. But your background is unknown, and you have been in a brothel before, and your status as a young lady will definitely cause dissatisfaction with the family." Xiaolu said, "They are against a certain This group has strong prejudices, not only between humans and demons, but also between humans. I mean, can you understand...Xiao Xie?"

After saying such a long series of big truths, Xiaolu thought that Xie Hengyan must have understood and listened to it, and let go of the dangerous obsession with Yin Zhu.

Unexpectedly, just as she turned her head, she saw Xie Hengyan tilting her head, facing the big moon bit by bit, as if she had closed her eyes and fell asleep to meet Duke Zhou.

"Hey, this guy, who has lived for nothing for so many years, how can he be so innocent as a child." Xiaolu sighed, and pulled the blanket over the puppet's head, "You are not afraid that I will pull you to the Biyu Mansion on the spur of the moment. Want to change money?"

After speaking, he went down the escalator all the way to the backyard, and softly called the waiter, "Pingbarley...Pingbarley! Come and do me a favor and move Xiaoxie into the house to sleep."

And at a place where she turned her back and couldn't see at all, Xie Hengyan slowly opened her eyes.

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Xie Hengyan: It is impossible to give up. Not only do I want to sneak up the mountain, but I also want to run away with oil on the soles of my feet.

——The map that previews the next chapter: Biyu Mansion

Xiaolu: ...Sure enough, it was a wrong choice for me to trim his legs.

And about the cannon fodder puppet in this chapter, although he is a cannon fodder without a name, he is indeed the one who started the incident.

Human beings want to resist, just like puppets, they resist together... After a scuffle, Yin Chun hugged Xie Hengyan's only remaining zombie leg, and said to everyone, "...this is my wife."

...the above are edited.Absolutely absolutely absolute he ending. After n years, they will most likely be staring at the little savings in their hands, and start discussing which remote village to settle down in.