"To be honest, we have been tracking this monster for more than a year." Chen Xiao said.
"This monster has been wreaking havoc here for three years. Why did you start tracking it more than a year ago? Why didn't you kill it immediately despite knowing that there was a monster here and that it had been harming the lives of people here?" Meng Ran said. asked in a cold voice.
"Hey! We..." Xiaojing was about to speak, but was stopped by Chen Xiao's hand.
He shook his head and smiled bitterly, feeling helpless.
"Can we talk somewhere else?"
Qi Zhen and others looked at the villagers kneeling in darkness around them and nodded.
"You all, please get up and find us a quiet place, please." Qi Zhen said.
The vast majority of the villagers had never seen these gods flying around in the sky in their lives. They dared not talk nonsense at this time and stood up one after another. The respected old man arranged a quiet room for the immortals to talk.
The remaining villagers naturally rushed to tell each other, their faces unable to hide the joy.
In a spacious and clean room, everyone sat down one after another.
"The thing is like this..." Chen Xiao didn't talk nonsense and got straight to the point.
Three years ago, the demonic energy from the Well of Gods and Demons leaked into the human world, causing a great movement of monsters in the world. There were so many monsters in the world that the cultivators were overwhelmed. The most important thing was to ensure that they would not be harmed by the monsters. fundamental……
In short, these so-called immortal masters have really not had an easy life in the past three years.
The only advantage is probably that you can use fighting to support fighting and improve your cultivation.
Even so, this kind of high-intensity battle is still a bit tiring to deal with.
Among the three generations of disciples in Shushan, each generation is naturally the leader, and Chen Xiao and Xiaojing are the better ones among the three generations of disciples.
Therefore, the division commander ordered the two of them to go together to deal with the monsters infected by the evil spirit.
The two of them came to the vicinity of Taihu Lake more than a year ago. They discovered a faint evil spirit here and heard about people missing.
However, this beast was really cunning, and the two of them had no way of finding the monster's location by relying on its vaguely demonic aura.
Moreover, its behavior is very restrained. On the one hand, it almost never reveals its true form in front of ordinary people. On the other hand, it would not look like it was simply invaded by demonic energy and went crazy.
Naturally, there are more difficult monsters around for the two of them to deal with, so waiting here for it to appear is not an option.
The two began to take Taihu Lake as the center and continue to radiate outwards to clean up the crazy monsters around them.
This naturally included the Immortal Pit where the Sang Snake clan was located, but at that time Suzhou City was still searching for Yuemeng silk, and Sang Snake and humans were still at peace with each other, so the two naturally had no reason to fight against the Sang Snake clan.
In the following year, the two would often return here to visit the homes of the missing villagers. Except for a faint trace of evil spirit implicating Taihu and the villagers' homes, these villagers seemed to have really disappeared from the world.
Probably because the sword energy of the Shushan disciples was too sharp, the monster never dared to make a move when the two were here. As soon as the two left, people would disappear again in these seven villages.
However, Shushan's sword-wielding skills are so magical that he can travel thousands of miles away in an instant. In the end, the two of them encountered the whole process of the disappearance case.
No, it’s not so much the whole process as it is actually nearing the end.
"Do you know how this evil beast made the villagers disappear inexplicably?" Chen Xiao said, but here he gave it away.
At this time, Xiaojing's face was livid and very ugly.
This is actually something Qi Zhen has been wondering about. For such a huge lobster, even if it climbed ashore, it would definitely be a scene of collapsed walls and destroyed houses. How could it be possible for the villagers to be inexplicable without alerting anyone? Missing?
Chen Xiao's face was also a little ugly at this time.
When they followed the faint evil spirit to a house, they saw a scene that they would never forget in their lives.
Countless crayfish were densely surrounding a person. They kept using their small pliers to pick off the meat from the person bit by bit and put it into their mouth.
The man's body had been disemboweled, but his heart was still beating slightly!
Some other crayfish that had no chance to come forward to feast on them opened and closed their pincers gently, making a slight sound.
Countless crayfish tapped their claws together, creating a strange rhythm.
Chen Xiao listened carefully and found that his sword almost became unstable and fell to the ground.
What an amazing sound barrier!
He and Xiaojing quickly blocked their hearing with sword intent, so they didn't end up fainting on the ground.
It turned out that the reason why no one noticed that someone was missing, and the villager himself did not rise up to resist, was because he was hypnotized by this illusion.
After dark, the crayfish quietly crawl to their target's home, and then tap the shrimp claws to hypnotize the target's spirit.
Then they gathered together and started enjoying the feast...
More than half of this man's body had been eaten, and there was definitely no chance of him surviving.
Chen Xiao made a quick decision and gave him a pleasant surprise.
As for the crayfish that were still nibbling, Chen Xiao thought about it and still did not choose to kill them all.
Not only were they afraid that the villagers would panic when they saw the body, but they were also afraid that they would lose clues again.
Based on Chen Xiao's study of the relevant knowledge of Shushan, there is definitely a much more powerful monster commander behind such a large-scale and orderly behavior.
These strange-looking things are not recorded in the Ten Thousand Monsters Genealogy, and the demonic aura on these animals is not heavy. However, this kind of demonic aura does not seem to be fake. It does not seem to be born with it, but is contaminated from the outside world. of.
So he recalled that there was a "Beast Book" in the Shushan Library. It seemed that there were similar records about this animal, but he really couldn't remember it.
Soon, the man disappeared while nibbling on those crayfish.
Yes, disappeared.
Even the hardest bones in the human body are completely eaten by these crayfish.
There wasn't even a single piece of clothing left on this man's body.
Chen Xiao felt a little chill in his heart.
No one who sees this scene can take it calmly.
The crayfish finished eating contentedly and began to retreat in an orderly manner into Taihu Lake.
Chen Xiao's sword sense swept across the lake, but found nothing.
This situation is the most troublesome for Shushan disciples like them. It seems that the only way to turn to Taoist friends from Penglai Immortal Domain is for help.
It's just that... the situation on the East China Sea is probably even more severe than inland. I wonder if they have time to come here.
A sword letter flew toward the northeast.
It seems that we can only pay more attention to this place at this time and do our best to obey fate.
In order to avoid causing panic, Chen Xiao did not make the matter public.
But since then, the surrounding villages have gradually lost traces of the evil spirit.
Without much effort, Chen Xiao discovered that villagers spontaneously became lake bandits to sacrifice to the lake monster, but he ignored it.
"You're saying that you actually knew about this a long time ago, but you didn't notify the villagers to leave. After learning that these villagers had robbed their property and killed their lives, you didn't stop them in any way. Am I understanding it correctly?"
Hearing this, Jiang Yan couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and asked.
Chen Xiao seemed to know what Jiang Yan was thinking, and still maintained an elegant and easy-going look, and said calmly: "Yes."
If a person has done something wrong, he will deny himself, doubt himself, and be unconfident when speaking, and his tone and intonation will be unnatural. This is a reaction that normal people should have.
So since Chen Xiao said it so indifferently that it was taken for granted, there are only two possibilities, either he really feels that this thing is right, or his acting skills have reached the level of perfection. the point.
But after hearing Jiang Yan's question, even Xiaojing looked dismissive. Qi Zhen knew that it must be the former.
"I would like to hear the details." Qi Zhen stopped Jiang Yan who was about to explode and said to Chen Xiao.
There has to be a reason.
Chen Xiao stretched out a finger.
"Shushan is originally a sect that cultivates immortals. It is its duty to eliminate demons and protect the Tao. There are too many matters of life and death in the world. If you take care of everything, I'm afraid you won't be able to manage it at all."
He held out a second finger.
"We inform the villagers that there are monsters in the lake, but it actually has no effect. The relocation and resettlement of the people should not be done by us, but within the scope of the responsibilities of the human government. If we take care of it, we will inevitably be too deeply involved. In the end It might even be counterproductive.”
"Then why didn't you show any mercy when we were exterminating the demons?" Jiang Yan asked.
Chen Xiao glanced at Jiang Yan and stretched out his third finger.
"Although their abilities are much stronger than ordinary people, immortal cultivators cannot judge good and evil, nor can they decide life and death at will on behalf of the government. The so-called good and evil matters are just different positions."
Qi Zhen nodded, understanding that the mentality of these immortal cultivators was actually similar to her own.
Team Qi Zhen is also extraordinary to this world.
I see a good girl living in a brothel and being beaten up by the madam every day for not treating guests well. Do you care?
After killing the madam and demolishing the brothel, how will these women make a living? Do you care or not?
There is a drought in the northwest and countless people have died. You know it has not rained here for three years. How can you be reminded?
As you have reminded us, people are fleeing from famine on a large scale and the government is unable to implement disaster relief management. Who is to blame?
You see that ordinary people mount their horses to become bandits and dismount their horses to serve the people, burning, killing and looting, committing all kinds of evil, but feeding hundreds of people. Do you stop killing with killing, fight evil with evil, kill the leader of the bandits, or turn all the accomplices in the crime to the government to wait for the Holy Judgment? ? How do those hundreds of people make a living and care about them?
Although this lobster killed people with cruel methods, it only took two lives in ten days. Although the lake bandits were excusable, they killed more people than others. How could the Shushan disciples stop?
There were many blank spaces in Chen Xiao's words, but there were no fools present, and everyone was silent and thinking.
Finally, Chen Xiao made a summary, which can be regarded as the final conclusion on this topic: "The world has its own laws, and the way of heaven has its own reincarnation. Shushan is a sect of cultivating immortals, but it never dares to claim to be the right way in the world. It is Shushan that eliminates demons and defends the way." According to the rules of the sect, Shushan disciples should live up to their mission. However, to act chivalrously and righteously, or to stabilize the country, it is neither unwilling nor impossible."
"How does Heaven determine good and evil?" Qi Zhen murmured at this time.
"You should practice hard, day and night, and only when you can ascend to the immortal world can you get a glimpse of it." Chen Xiao replied.
"Teach me something." Qi Zhen cupped her fists and raised her hands.
"Where." Chen Xiao returned the greeting.
"But we still can't turn a blind eye to this matter." Qi Zhen continued.
"The master's uncle once said that each person has his or her own destiny. It is not easy for a person to do what he wants in his life, and it is even more difficult if he does not violate the rules. It is the choices of countless individuals that lead to such great things. world."
"So it would be great if you can act according to your own ideas."
Chen Xiao spoke sincerely and seriously.
"You are indeed different from the other Shushan disciple I met." Qi Zhen said with a smile.
"Oh? Have you ever seen other Shushan disciples?" Chen Xiao said in surprise.
