Like other places, this village is also surrounded by a wooden fence.
There were two women in the village, each holding a child and crying.
Their relatives stood by and just sighed.
The child looked like one or two years old. Although he didn't know why the adults were crying, he was affected and started crying too.
The other villagers around were busy with their own affairs, as if they didn't see the sadness of these two families, and they seemed to have seen similar scenes many times and were used to it, turning a blind eye.
Qin Shaoyou and the others were about to find the village chief to discuss staying overnight.
People in the village saw them.
Qin Shaoyou smiled and was about to say hello when he saw all the villagers' faces changed, followed by a chaotic scene.
Among the villagers working in the village, the women fled back to their homes and closed the doors and windows tightly, while the men picked up hoes, hunting knives and other things and ran to close the fence doors.
Several people who were working in the fields outside the village saw that they were locked outside the fence. They simply turned around and fled into the mountains and woods.
"you……"
Qin Shaoyou wanted to say "Hello", but this sudden scene made it impossible for him to say "Hello".
Su Tingyu was confused: "What's wrong with these villagers? Why do they hide or run away like seeing ghosts when they see us?"
Before Zhu Xiucai was transferred to the Demon Division of Luocheng Town, he often went on missions in villages and towns. He had seen a lot about the conditions at the bottom, and he immediately guessed the reason.
"They think we are bandits."
"Rogue bandits?"
Qin Shaoyou lowered his head and looked at himself, then turned to look at the people around him.
Although everyone was wearing loose robes, covering their weapons and armor, except for a few people such as Su Jianqing and Su Tingyu, the others were all injured, with ointments on their bodies and even their faces, and some even A bandage was wrapped around one end.
At a glance, it's like traveling in a group of zombies... just being treated as bandits, that's fine.
Qin Shaoyou smiled bitterly, stood on horseback, and waved: "Don't be afraid, folks, we are not bandits, we are businessmen passing by, and the injuries on our bodies are all from fighting with bandits. Seeing that it is getting dark, I want to stay in your village. One night. We don’t lend it in vain, we give you money.”
He glanced sideways at Zhu Xiucai, who took out a money bag from his arms, grabbed a handful of copper coins from it, and held it high.
After hearing Qin Shaoyou's words and seeing these copper coins, the panic in the villagers' hearts immediately dissipated.
Several villagers who originally wanted to flee to the mountains braved the situation and turned back.
But they didn't dare to get close. They stopped at a distance, picked up their hoes, and asked on tiptoes: "Are you really not a gangster? Do you really pay for staying overnight?"
Zhu Xiucai immediately threw the copper coin out, and it landed just in front of these villagers.
"This is the cost of lodging, I can give it to you first."
Several villagers were stunned at first, then leaned down and rushed to pick up the money. They shouted in surprise: "They really gave me money!"
At this time, an old man with gray hair came to the fence of the village.
He first yelled at the villagers who picked up the money: "That's not cool, return the money to them quickly!"
Then he saluted Qin Shaoyou and others.
Qin Shaoyou saw that the old man had prestige in the village, so he hurriedly returned the greeting and asked, "Is this the village chief?"
"Yes, I am the village chief, but I am not old..." the village chief smiled bitterly, "I have just passed my forties."
Just past your forties? That is to say, only in his forties?
Qin Shaoyou was stunned. Looking at the village chief's gray hair and the wrinkles on his face, he believed that he was sixty or seventy years old, but he didn't expect that he was only forty.
Are there programmers in this world?
He quickly apologized and refused to accept the copper coins returned by the villagers. He said: "We really only wanted to stay for one night, and we hope that the village chief will make it convenient."
The village chief just shook his head: "Normally, it is getting late, and you are willing to give me money, so I shouldn't refuse. But I really can't let you stay overnight today, so you should leave before it gets dark and go somewhere else to stay overnight. But remember, never choose villages or temples near this mountain."
Su Tingyu asked curiously: "Why is this?"
The village chief hesitated for a moment and then said: "I won't hide anything from you...it's not peaceful around this mountain."
Hearing this, Monk Ma recited the Buddha's name in a low voice and said with a wry smile: "In today's world, where is the peaceful place? Especially at night... It is precisely because of the unrest that we have to stay in your village."
"We are not at peace here, and it is different from other places." The village chief sighed.
His expression suddenly became a little weird, and his voice was a little erratic as he said, "We are haunted by monsters here. Today is the day when they come to collect big rent!"
"Poltergeist?!"
Qin Shaoyou and others were stunned at first, and then suddenly realized.
They finally understood why the people in this village looked so weak.
I also understood why the village chief was aging before he was old.
It’s all because the demons and ghosts sucked the Yang Qi and Essence!
The village chief sighed and said: "I'm not lying to you, our place is really haunted by monsters. You'd better leave quickly to avoid being implicated..."
In the team, a small flag officer whispered: "Is there a ghost here? Haha, isn't it a coincidence? If the ghosts are not so powerful, we can just kill them easily. This not only protects the villagers here, but also makes money. One stroke of credit kills two birds with one stone.”
The words of this little flag officer expressed the thoughts of many night watchmen in the team.
Although they have just gained a lot of credit in Mianyuan County, who would think that there are too many credits and rewards?
Su Tingyu was also thinking: "I wonder what kind of ghost is going on here? Is there any value in catching it back for experimentation?"
Qin Shaoyou is also very interested.
As the little flag officer said, if the monsters here are not strong, just kill them and collect the ingredients to start the recipe.
If it is very strong, go to another place to stay for the night. After dawn, send someone to report the situation here to Xue Qingshan and let him handle it.
After all, their first priority is to escort the children to the Jade Emperor Temple.
Therefore, Qin Shaoyou planned to find out the details of the monster first.
So he asked: "Village chief, what kind of evil spirits are you having here?"
