Xianmen does not ask about the mundane

Jiang Jinyue and Hu Yuetao were drinking tea in a farm house.There is a simple gossip array on the table, and a bell the size of a fingernail is placed in each of the eight positions, which are connected together by a red string.While chatting gossip, the two waited for the monster that the villagers said was stealing children to show up.

In the small village where they live, there have been several incidents of missing children in the past month.Originally, their village was in a remote location, few outsiders would visit, and the neighbors knew each other. Usually, when the adults went out to do farm work, they would let the children play in the village by themselves, and never worried that their children would be lost.

So at the beginning when the first child disappeared, everyone thought it was a child who was playful and sneaked into the woods of the back mountain by himself, and was captured and eaten by wild beasts in the mountain. In the next few days, two children were lost one after another.

Since then, the farmers have been careful. If there are elderly people in the family, let the elderly take care of the children. If there are no ones, they will take the children to the field by themselves. Unexpectedly, the adults lost two more children if they were not careful.

The owner of the farmhouse where they were staying said that he had seen the thief who stole the child with his own eyes.At that time, they were doing farm work in the fields. They were thirsty and wanted the child to scoop up some water to drink. They didn’t answer twice, but when they turned around, they saw a very thin and inhuman thing picked up his child and was about to run away. For some unknown reason, the child let the thief hold him without making a sound.

Seeing this, the child's father immediately yelled and chased after him. Seeing that he was found, the thief left the child and ran away. The speed of escape was quite fast.Afterwards, the child never woke up, and the young couple was in a state of anxiety, having trouble sleeping and eating all day long.The villagers all said that the thief who stole the child was a monster, and the child must have been possessed by an evil spirit, so they decided to invite a fairy master to do it.

When the two arrived here, the child had been in a coma for five or six days. Jiang Jinyue made a little investigation and found that he had been enchanted. After casting a spell to undo the spell, the child woke up quickly.When the villagers saw this, they all shouted for the living gods, and asked them to stay and catch the monster and bring back the stolen child.

The two asked about other villagers' recent situation, and several villagers said that everyone was very cautious these days, and the child had never been lost again, but several people also saw what the farmer said near the forest Thin and small, his human-like figure made the whole village feel anxious.

When Jiang Jinyue heard about it, she used the child's ecstasy technique to set up a circle of restrictions around the village, letting the villagers relax their vigilance and wait for the monster to come by itself.

"The farmer said that the monster is short in stature, almost reaching his waist, but his arms are strangely long, human-like and non-human. I sound a bit like a monkey." Hu Yuetao said, holding a warm teacup in both hands.

Jiang Jinyue said: "I think so too, but I specifically asked the villagers, and they said that monkeys have never been seen in the woods in this area. I don't know if it is some other form of evil."

The two of them were talking when they suddenly heard a crisp bell ringing on the table. Looking down, they saw that the bell on the northeast corner was shaking unceasingly, causing the red rope to vibrate, and the bells on the other seven corners were shaking. But it was as stable as Mount Tai, and was not affected by the red rope at all.

The two looked at each other, quickly got up and went out towards the northeast direction, and as expected, they saw a thin black figure stepping over the fence of the farmyard in a farmhouse in the northeast, approaching step by step towards the children playing alone in the yard , while the child turned his back to the black figure but was ignorant.

Jiang Jinyue and Hu Yuetao concealed their aura and quietly outflanked from both sides respectively, intending to follow Hei Ying after he succeeded and then follow him to find the other missing children.Unexpectedly, the child's grandmother happened to come out of the house at this time, and she screamed in fright when she saw this scene.

Although Jiang Jinyue told the villagers not to panic when they saw monsters before setting up the formation, so as not to scare the monsters away, but the elderly could not control this scene.The black shadow was also taken aback for a moment, and immediately turned around and ran away.

Seeing that his plan was disrupted, Jiang Jinyue hesitated for a while, considering whether to chase him or let him go.If he chased after him, the evil spirit would run around in panic, following him might not be able to find the missing child, but if he didn't chase him, if he didn't come later, how would he explain to the people in the village?

Just as she was hesitating for a moment, Hu Yuetao had already followed up first, and Jiang Jinyue hurriedly chased after seeing this.The black shadow moved extremely fast, and it might not be possible for an ordinary person to catch up with it, but it was not enough for monks.

The two chased the black shadow one after the other. Seeing that the distance was getting closer and closer, the Huyuetao in front was about to reach the black shadow. How could they have imagined that the black shadow climbed up a tree a few times after entering the forest, and disappeared immediately In a lush foliage.

Seeing this, Jiang Jinyue murmured inwardly, now the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, and it will be dangerous to catch up again.Just as I was about to tell Hu Yuetao to come back quickly, I heard her shout from the front: "It's a monkey!"

Immediately afterwards, the canopies of several adjacent trees began to shake one after another, and the branches and leaves rustled. It was the monkey jumping back and forth between the trees.

Jiang Jinyue murmured, "It's really a monkey", and speeded up to catch up. While observing the shaking sequence of the canopy, he determined the direction of the monkey's movement. out.

The monkey was wandering happily among the woods with its arms stretched out. It didn't want to be stopped by the talisman array that appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the way, and was directly shot to the ground.Hu Yuetao took the opportunity to catch up and restrain the monkey. Jiang Jinyue arrived afterward and tied up the monkey with a rope.

The two checked the monkey up and down, and found that it was indeed just an ordinary monkey, but the black paws were extremely resentful, and someone had cast an enchantment spell on them.

Hu Yuetao asked strangely: "This monkey is not evil, what is it doing to catch children? And why is there an enchantment on its paws?"

Jiang Jinyue thought for a moment and said: "I heard that there is a sorcery in the evil cultivator that uses the life sacrifice of human children to cultivate. I think it is very likely that it is the evil pet of some evil cultivator, who is specially trained to steal children. But it stands to reason It is said that he was found in one place, so he should not continue to die, but should change places."

Hu Yuetao said: "In short, since it is an ordinary monkey, the problems it can think about are very limited. It should not play tricks. If it wants to escape, it will only flee back to its master."

Jiang Jinyue nodded and said, "I'll put a spell on it first and then let it go, and see where it will go. However, the life-sacrificing child is considered a high-level spell in the sorcery. What if it is really As I thought, the evil cultivator behind the monkey must have a high level of cultivation, let's wait and see, and don't rush to do it."

As he spoke, he cast two spells for tracking and control on the monkey, and then released the monkey once the talisman paper was collected.The monkey broke free and immediately ran deep into the forest. The two of them made a distance to keep up. After a while, they saw the monkey running into a cave.

The two of them stopped a few meters away from the cave at the same time. Jiang Jinyue broke a talisman crane with the talisman eye and quietly threw it into the cave, using the talisman eye to observe the situation inside the cave.

Hu Yuetao asked: "Sister Yue, how are you doing?"

Jiang Jinyue said: "We found those children, and that evil cultivator is not here now, but we'd better act quickly."

After speaking, he cautiously set up a simple magic circle outside the cave, and then rushed into the cave together with Hu Yuetao.Seeing the two men chasing after the monkey, the monkey jumped up and screamed hoarsely to escape. Jiang Jinyue cast a spell to calm the monkey down, and hurriedly inspected the children with Hu Yuetao.

There were four children lying side by side in the cave, all around three or four years old, and three of them had completely died.There were no scars on their bodies, and there were no traces of other spells cast on them. They starved to death in the cave. Because of the spells, their bodies were still relatively intact, but the process of starving to death was too long. Even if the first child passed away in his sleep, his expression was very painful, and only the last child still had a faint breath.

Jiang Jinyue hurriedly picked up the only surviving child, undid the ecstasy on him, took out a water bottle and heart-protecting pills from the storage amulet on his waist, and fed the child, temporarily keeping the child.

She glanced at the three children lying on the side, and said: "If you want to sacrifice life, you must be a live young child, and it is not easy to train the evil pet. If the owner of the monkey is still there, it is impossible to let these children starve to death in vain. And I won't leave my evil pet behind, that evil cultivator should be gone."

Hu Yuetao said: "I heard from the villagers that five children were lost in the village, but there are only four here, and one is missing."

Jiang Jinyue said: "I am afraid that the first child has already been sacrificed. I think the owner of the monkey died suddenly after the first child was sacrificed, but the monkey didn't know it and was still taking care of him." He catches the child, no wonder he has not left after being found out several times, and I don’t know who is the mastermind who got rid of this evil cultivator.”

Although the monkey was an evil pet who worked for the evil cultivator, it was not evil after all. As immortal cultivators, they couldn't deal with the creatures, so they discussed removing the enchantment spell from the monkey's paws and handed it over to the villagers themselves.

The two decided to take the children who were still alive back to the village first, and they did not forget to clean up the bodies of these children before leaving, so that they would be more acceptable when the family members came to pick them up.

Unexpectedly, when the two were arranging the remains of the child, they suddenly felt that their vision dimmed. When they looked back, they saw a burly man suddenly appearing behind him, blocking most of the light coming in from the hole.

The narrow cave suddenly became dark, the man's long and narrow eyes shone slyly in the dimness, staring at the two people who raised their right hands high, overwhelming resentment instantly swept towards them.