I came out of the house and had just walked a short distance when I saw a figure flashing to the north and rushing towards this direction quickly.
"How's that? Did you catch that person?"
It was Shao Zilong who came, with streaks of black mud on his face and a sullen look.
"How are you, are you okay?" I looked him up and down.
"It's okay. I was covered in mud by that thing, but it still ran away!" Shao Zilong cursed and took out something from his pocket and said, "Just grab a piece of this thing!"
When I saw it, it turned out to be the scales of that thing. When I took it in my hand, I felt that the tentacles were cold, almost the same texture as metal, with a faint luster. I was a little surprised and said, "You couldn't pick this off with your bare hands, right?"
You must know that Shen Qingyao held the iron awl in his hand and struck with all his strength, but he was unable to break the opponent's scale armor, which shows how strong it is.
"Originally I wanted to catch that guy, but it turned out to be too slippery, like a loach, and in the end I just picked off a piece of scale." Shao Zilong said with a gloomy look on his face, and asked me how it was going over there.
"I didn't catch him either. He was eaten by a kid." I shook my head.
"Little devil?" Shao Zilong was surprised, "Who raised him? Could it be the midwife?"
"You guessed it right..."
As soon as I said this, I suddenly heard a flurry of footsteps coming from the direction of the village entrance. It seemed that a large number of people were entering the village quickly.
"Who is this person in the middle of the night?" Shao Zilong naturally noticed it and said with a sigh.
The two of us quietly walked towards the entrance of the village.
Although it was already early in the morning, it was the darkest hour before dawn, and the entire village was shrouded in deathly silence.
Several rays of light flashed at the entrance of the village, and then a group of people was seen hurriedly coming from outside.
"Aren't these those bastards?" Shao Zilong asked.
His voice was not deliberately lowered, and it came out clearly in the night. The other party naturally heard it and immediately ran towards us.
"Why are you two here?" Wei Dongting asked with a frown.
"Listen to your words, are they human words? Didn't you ask us brothers to stay in the village?" Shao Zilong asked.
Wei Dongting's face sank and he said, "I mean, why are you still wandering around the village this late at night?"
"Why don't you do your best and patrol all night?" I took a look at the people who followed Wei Dongting back. There were quite a few people, and no one was injured. It was probably a wasted trip and nothing was found.
"That's right, look at how hard we two brothers are working?" Shao Zilong continued, "But you guys, why did you come back again? Did the monster catch you?"
Wei Dongting's face froze and he said coldly, "We set up a dragnet and searched everywhere. Later, we found that the thing was forced to panic and might have ran back to the village, so we hurried back!"
"You sound so awesome!" Shao Zilong clicked his tongue and said, "Even after talking for a long time, you still haven't caught a single hair, right?"
"You..." Wei Dongting choked to death and glared at us fiercely, "Then what did you two do?"
"Don't you guard the village? It's well guarded by the two of us." I handed the scales back to Shao Zilong.
Shao Zilong took it, waved it in front of Wei Dongting, and said lazily, "I even grabbed a hair by the way."
Wei Dongting and others were shocked when they saw the scales in his hands.
"Have you encountered that thing?" Lao Meng asked anxiously.
"Two people have already died, what do you think?" Shao Zilong said angrily.
Wei Dongting's expression changed drastically and he asked, "Where is it?"
We took a group of people to the place where the accident occurred, and saw the shriveled body still lying there quietly.
Wei Dongting and others gathered around and took a closer look, all with solemn expressions.
"Didn't you say two people? Is there another one?" Wei Dongting turned around and asked.
"One more escaped." I replied.
Shao Zilong glanced at me in surprise, but remained silent.
Wei Dongting caught us again and asked us carefully about the situation at that time. As soon as we asked a few questions, someone hurried over and said, "There is a car coming from the village entrance!"
"Go over and take a look!" Wei Dongting left two people to look at the body, and he led the others to the entrance of the village.
Shao Zilong and I followed slowly.
When they arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw a group of people walking in from outside.
"Senior brother, Sister Qingyao, what's going on?"
Seeing the person coming clearly, Wei Dongting exclaimed and hurriedly greeted him.
Shao Zilong and I were also shocked, because the appearance of this group of people was so miserable.
Shen Qingyao's eyes were red and her expression was dull. The clothes on her face were spattered with blood, and her hair was messy and stuck to her face and neck, and she couldn't care less about it.
Cao Junwu, who came back with her, was also in a miserable state, but his mental condition was obviously better than Shen Qingyao's, with a frown and a gloomy face.
As for the group of people traveling behind, the situation was even more miserable, with almost everyone injured.
"Brother, Sister Qingyao, what happened? Are you injured anywhere?" Wei Dongting was extremely anxious.
However, Shen Qingyao and Cao Junwu ignored them.
"Don't disturb Yaoyao yet." Cao Junwu frowned.
"Okay." Wei Dongting quickly asked people to come over to help and bandage and treat everyone's injuries.
There were a total of seven people who came back with Shen Qingyao and Cao Junwu. They were all very familiar. From the conversation between the two parties, they should be people from the Feng Shui Association, that is, people brought here by Shen Qingyao.
"Brother Sun, what happened?" Wei Dongting found a man in his thirties with slightly bald hair and asked.
Brother Sun's body was covered in blood and his clothes were in tatters. However, his injuries were not bad. They were all skin injuries. He punched the wall and said with red eyes, "As soon as we arrived at the Five Yang Temple, Something happened, two brothers died, three brothers were seriously injured, and they are still in the hospital and they don’t know whether they are alive or dead!”
"What?" Wei Dongting and others were shocked.
Shao Zilong and I were also surprised, so we went over and asked, "What's going on?"
Brother Sun's chest heaved and his voice trembled slightly, "We... After we arrived at the Wuyang Hill, we spent half a day to find the Wuyang Temple."
"This Five Yang Temple is built in a deep mountain and old forest. It is hidden very deep. It is a bit... a bit weird, but we didn't care at the time. With so many of us, a small Taoist temple can turn the world upside down."
"It was still daylight at that time, but the Five Yang Temple was very dark and gloomy, especially...especially the statues enshrined in the temple, which made people's hair stand on end."
"What statue?" Wei Dongting couldn't help but interrupt and asked.
"I can't tell what it is. I've never seen it before. It doesn't look like a god, but more like a ghost." Brother Sun swallowed his saliva and said.
