Li Chuan and Liu Canjun looked at each other, dumbfounded. After sending Pan Maguan Zhongqiu back to prison, Liu Canjun couldn't help but sigh: "These strange ghosts look too human. Could it be that they pretended to be humans and finally deceived themselves?"
Li Chuan was also puzzled.
The two of them looked over the words they had written down several times, but they couldn't find any loopholes.
Liu Canjun said: "Although Xialin Village is in the mountains, it is not isolated from the world, and its customs are very different from other places in Xiushan County. Therefore, I feel that they are not lying."
"Brother Guan came to Xiushan County in the eleventh year of Tianfu. I found records of demons causing trouble that year. It was a heart-cutting demon that specialized in eating the hearts of young girls. There were also victims in Xialin Village..."
"Heart-cutting demon?" Li Chuan's heart moved.
"The prototype is a koi carp, which usually hides in the water of Qiongdao Lake. After being seen through by an expert, he fled to the southeast and was executed in Xialin Mountain."
That expert is Guan Zhongqiu.
Thinking of this, Li Chuan and Liu Canjun were speechless.
Li Chuan broke the silence first and said, "I would like to ask Brother Guan a few more questions alone."
So Guan Zhongqiu was brought up again.
Before Li Chuan could speak, Guan Zhongqiu asked: "Have you found a way to be possessed by a strange ghost?"
"No." Li Chuan shook his head, and then asked him about the eleventh year of Tianfu, "Did you kill the fish demon in Xialin Mountain?"
"That's right." Guan Zhongqiu replied.
"Where were they killed in Xialin Mountain?"
"In the stream by the village...that's how I recognized Su Niang."
"Did he do anything special in the stream?" Li Chuan asked.
"Special behavior? What do you mean?"
"I don't know, but is there anything special or strange that makes you feel..." Li Chuan didn't know how to describe it.
Guan Zhongqiu began to think deeply, "I have to say something special, it is that the koi carp has a trace of dragon energy on it, so it took a lot of effort..."
He added: "You must have some clues before you ask me this question. But I don't know what you are looking for, so I don't know how to answer it."
After weighing it, Li Chuan said: "There are no monsters in Xialin Mountain."
"There's no demon?" Guan Zhongqiu was also a little surprised.
Li Chuan nodded, "Not even one."
"Just us White Walkers?"
"Yes."
Guan Zhongqiu thought for a moment and said: "The fish monster went to Xialin Mountain. I originally thought it was looking for help, but no monster came out to help it. Maybe..."
"There were originally monsters in Xialin Mountain?" Li Chuan thought of the answer, and asked again, "How many years has that fish monster been practicing? Could it be a monster from Xialin Mountain?"
"Seven or eight hundred years..." Guan Zhongqiu thought for a while and added, "There are no magic weapons, and the methods are also very crude. Except for the silk of dragon energy that can conceal the breath and control water, there is nothing that can be used. It's very good. Maybe it’s a local monster.”
"You can ask the local monsters." A voice interrupted. Li Chuan and Liu Canjun looked up and saw that it was Jin Rong who had returned.
Jin Rong's face was pale and haggard, and he lacked the graceful and elegant demeanor he had on the first day they met.
"Brother Jin, what's wrong with you?" Li Chuan asked hurriedly.
Jin Rong waved his hand and said, "Nothing, just a little tired."
Is it so tiring to search for villages? When I beat up the Lingchuan monks last night, I didn't feel so tired. Could it be that I encountered some ghosts and monsters?
When Li Chuan was about to ask, he saw Jin Rong saying to Guan Zhongqiu: "I searched in the surrounding villages. They said that the people in Xialin Village are simple and loyal. Although they rarely go down the mountain, as neighbors, there are inevitably people. A lot of contact.”
"Sometimes they go to the mountains to collect herbs and wild vegetables. When they meet people from Xialin Village, they will point them to where to look. Sometimes when it gets late and there is a heavy rain, they stay in Xialin Village and they are treated well."
Guan Zhongqiu remained silent.
Jin Rong walked up to him, "I returned to the capital last night, met with the master, and finally found out about you."
It turns out that I went back and forth to the capital overnight.
Guan Zhongqiu is still gloomy.
Jin Rong said: "I want to ask Brother Guan to do one more thing before he dies."
"What's up."
"As a crowned monk, find out the secret of the White Walkers."
"I have been cooperating with you."
"Not just cooperation. You are the person who is most familiar with Xialin Village and the White Walkers, and you are also the person most likely to find out the truth. Guan Zhongqiu, are you willing?"
Guan Zhongqiu turned his head away and said, "I will do whatever you ask me to do."
Afterwards, Jin Rong asked Liu Canjun to unshackle and anklet Guan Zhongqiu. Liu Canjun hesitated a little, but when he heard Li Chuan say softly: "These can't lock him," he untied all the restraints on him.
Guan Zhongqiu stood up and asked, "What have you found out now?"
Li Chuan told him what he saw and heard yesterday during his investigation of Xialin Village, as well as his and his others' guesses. Liu Canjun also told him all the potentially useful information he found.
"Can the souls of toads and shrimps be extracted?"
"Are they ostracized by their own kind?"
"Are the descendants of White Walker butterflies White Walkers?"
"..."
A series of questions confused Li Chuan and Jin Rong.
Li Chuan said: "We haven't had time to study it yet, and if we have descendants, we can't have descendants right now, right?"
"Look for Senior Brother Wen, he has a way." After Guan Zhongqiu finished speaking, he added, "Don't trust Senior Brother Wen too much. He is a good person, but no one can think of what he wants to do before the results come out."
Before Li Chuan and Jin Rong could respond, he began to give orders vigorously and resolutely, "The place where I was about to die was in a cave to the west of Xialin Village. There is a path that can lead to it. I should also check there."
He called Li Chuan's name again, "Heir of the Classic of Patterns, can you borrow the power of the mountains and forests!"
Li Chuan shook his head.
Guan Zhongqiu took a step back, "Then if you break the ghost's soul into pieces, can you mend it again?"
Li Chuan continued to shake his head.
Guan Zhongqiu hated the fact that iron cannot become steel, "You caught these White Walkers and just raised them without doing anything?"
"..."
After being educated by Guan Zhongqiu, the three of them, Li Chuan, Jin Rong, and Liu Canjun, all realized their aimlessness and inactivity.
After working diligently all afternoon, when it was time to have dinner, everyone was staring blankly and panting.
They originally invited Guan Zhongqiu to eat together, but Guan Zhongqiu refused and insisted on returning to prison.
So I had to buy food and send it in.
Liu Canjun drank a glass of wine and said with lingering fear, "I didn't expect that the monk Guan had such a temper. No wonder he could do something like extracting the soul and reshaping the body in order to let the Taoist monks cultivate immortality. It's really terrible."
"It's terrible," Gong Er agreed, "I thought only evil cultivators could do it."
Li Chuan asked the two men to come and have dinner together. At first, he was worried that Liu Canjun was timid, so he didn't bring the second demon with him. In the past few days of contact, he knew that Liu Canjun was bold and had good character, so he introduced the second demon to him.
Liu Canjun is indeed an open-minded person, and he and Gong Ersan hit it off immediately.
Li Chuan also drank a glass of wine to calm down his shock, and then he asked Jin Rong, "Did you go back to the capital last night?"
"Yes, the name Guan Zhongqiu has always sounded familiar to me. Senior Brother Wen mentioned it again. If I don't understand it, I feel uneasy."
Jin Rong put down his chopsticks, "Master said that the monster hunt didn't go well at the beginning. The big monsters on the mountaintop seemed to have made an appointment to support each other. Our people were tired of running around, and the formations were thrown into chaos. Brother Guan led a few monks who had also gone down the mountain to gain experience, put out fires and command everywhere, and actually allowed the large army to breathe a sigh of relief and withstand the attack."
"No wonder Taoist Wen would say that." Liu Canjun sighed.
"At that time, he only kept his name, and... in recent years, he has not mentioned the Great Demon Suppression, so the number of people who know him is gradually decreasing," Jin Rong sighed, "There has been a lot of chaos in the palace recently. It would have been a few months earlier. Or it could be a few months later. I guess the verdict won’t come down that quickly, so I’ll make a trip sooner or later.”
Jin Rong spoke cryptically, and Li Chuan knew he was referring to Prince Su's affairs.
Jin Rong added: "It's better to do this now, as it can completely eradicate the disaster."
"Is there a magic weapon for instant messaging?" Li Chuan thought of other places. "It's too hard to travel back and forth just for a word."
Back in Xuanshui Mountain, it wasn't that difficult for Zhu Qingyun to contact Qin Tianjian.
"Yes, yes, it's rare," Jin Rong replied, "The sects have a profound foundation, and I guess they can find a few of them. Qin Tianjian relies on the imperial court, and there is no shortage of worldly things, including heavenly materials, earthly treasures, and even heavenly products. There are many magic weapons, but these rare and useless ones are indeed lacking a lot."
Li Chuan understood. Compared with the sect that has been inherited for tens of thousands of years, the foundation of Qin Tianjian is too shallow.
Liu Canjun continued what he said before and asked Jin Rong, "Although the White Walkers think they are human without knowing it, if they actually know it and mislead us on key clues, how should we prevent it?"
Jin Rong replied: "I also told the master about this concern. The master said that even for the White Walkers, action is better than no action."
Li Chuan and Liu Canjun both said so.
Two days later, Wen Guying came back. He saw three people and two demons being ordered around by Guan Zhongqiu, and he was speechless for a moment.
Gong Eryou showed off to himself and said: "My third brother and I beat the monsters in Xiushan County from bottom to top and beat them into obedience. Now you can say whatever you ask."
"Although they are all little monsters and some can't speak human language, there is nothing they don't know about Xiushan County. They said that there were monsters in Xialin Mountain a long time ago, but they all left later. They think There must be a big demon there, so I don’t dare to go there.”
The third person added, "We were in Xialin Mountain that day, and we often felt uncomfortable, but we didn't know why."
It rained for the next two days, so they postponed going up the mountain. With the blessing of the Reminiscence spell, they studied the breeding of White Walker butterflies. The process was very disgusting, and the conclusion was very clear - the offspring of White Walker butterflies are ordinary butterflies, and White Walkers are indeed No breeding ability.
On the third day, when Li Chuan woke up, his eyes were filled with golden sunshine.
(End of chapter)
