When they looked out from outside the village just now, the village was very deserted. Not to mention people, even the sound of chickens and dogs barking could not be heard. But now Li Shiyin and Tian Wenjin followed the black-faced man on the village path and found that more and more people were coming into the village.
Originally, every household had their doors closed, but as they walked from the foot of the mountain to the top, every time they passed a house, the family would open their doors and someone would come out.
The people who came out greeted them with smiles, and then followed them, accompanying them up the mountain. They walked behind them, on the road, and on the roadside. Gradually more people came, some people were talking, and the low noise behind them made the village seem lively.
"Maybe the villagers are afraid of monsters?" Li Shiyin thought.
Before, there was no one in the village because the villagers were afraid and hid in their houses. Now that they have come, the villagers are no longer afraid, so they all come out. The villagers have smiles on their faces and are very enthusiastic.
Suddenly someone came to inquire and asked, "Are you the gods from the Hengduan Mountains?"
Li Shiyin nodded.
Someone came over to tell me the news, saying, "Li Ergou's wife cried all night last night and disappeared this morning. Li Ergou was not at home. I think she was probably captured by a monster."
Someone else asked, "Does the immortal know what kind of monster is causing trouble this time?"
"It's probably a mouse-catching spider." Li Shiyin said.
As soon as these words were spoken, the low noise in the crowd on the roadside suddenly became louder, as if they were laughing? Li Shiyin couldn't hear it clearly, but she felt that the laughter made her uncomfortable.
Then someone asked, "Are both immortals sword cultivators?"
Li Shiyin nodded again.
The further up the mountain they went, the more houses they passed, the more people opened their doors, and the more villagers followed them. Li Shiyin occasionally looked back and saw that there were dozens of people on the roadside behind her, both men and women, and the snow on the roadside had melted under their feet.
Some of these villagers were wearing thick cotton-padded clothes, some were wrapped in quilts, and some were strong and only wore thin clothes. They had a very rural atmosphere. They talked a lot, asked questions here and there, and it was quite noisy.
Li Shiyin occasionally answered, always with a slight smile on her face. But as she walked deeper into the village, she also felt that something was wrong.
Walking on the clean snow on the road, Li Shiyin and the other two quickly arrived at the village chief's house halfway up the mountain.
The village chief was at the door early to greet them. He was a skinny old man with a white beard and a dog-head hat. He bowed at the door with a big smile on his face, and cried to Tian Wenjin and Li Shiyin, "Please, God, save me!"
Tian Wenjin and Li Shiyin walked over and returned the greeting first. Li Shiyin stood behind, holding her sword in full readiness, with the hilt of the sword in a position where she could draw it at any time; Tian Wenjin stood in front and asked, "Father, please tell us all the clues you know, and we will definitely save you and slay the demons."
The village chief led Tian Wenjin and Li Shiyin into the house, and after they sat down at the top seat, he closed the door, and then fell to his knees in front of Li Shiyin and Tian Wenjin, crying, "Please, immortal, save me!"
Li Shiyin noticed that the old man called for help twice, saying "save me" instead of "save Dashanling". She felt contemptuous that this so-called village leader was such a selfish, cowardly person.
She looked around the room again and felt that the furnishings were a bit bleak. It didn't look like a place where people lived all year round, as if it hadn't been exposed to worldly life for a long time.
"With us here, you don't have to worry anymore." Tian Wenjin stood up and walked towards the village chief, comforting him, "Father, just tell us the location of the cave of the mouse-catching spider, and it won't take us sisters a moment to kill the monster."
"It won't take a moment?" Li Shiyin looked at Tian Wenjin and frowned slightly. Is this what Tian Wenjin would say
As Tian Wenjin spoke, he reached out to support the village chief.
But just as her hand was about to touch the village chief, the door was suddenly knocked open from the outside, and the dark-faced man walked in, pulled the village chief up, and apologized to her: "I just found out that the village chief was too frightened and mentally ill. I'm afraid he can't explain anything."
Without waiting for Tian Wenjin's reaction, he dragged the village chief out of the door and handed him to a young man outside. The young man covered the village chief's mouth without saying anything and dragged him into the crowd.
The dark-faced man came back and closed the door calmly, blocking the scene outside.
He saluted Tian Wenjin and said, "I just heard someone say that the village chief's daughter-in-law, Li Ergou's wife, was brutally killed by the monster last night. The village chief witnessed it and was frightened crazy."
Tian Wenjin felt sympathetic and said, "How pitiful."
"That monster originally lived in the Hengduan Mountains. It was a big black spider. It came to Dashanling seven days ago." The dark-faced man told Tian Wenjin the details. "It killed more than a dozen of our villagers and hid in the Taoyuan Cave in the back mountain..."
The dark-faced man was still talking, but Li Shiyin frowned and started to argue.
There were two people in Danfeng whose hearts were darker than ink. She had learned some tricks from them through watching and listening to them.
She quickly recalled all the unreasonable things that happened before and after entering the village:
First, this is a hunting village, but there is not even a barking dog in this village;
Second, there were people in the village, but the paths between the villages were covered with snow and no one walked on them;
Third, this dark-faced man clearly knew the specific situation, but he still wanted to bring them to see the village chief;
Fourth, after finding the village chief, they quickly said that he was crazy;
Fifth, the village chief shouted “Save me”;
Sixth, when the dark-faced man came knocking on the door, Li Shiyin, who had cultivated into a primordial spirit, did not even notice it;
seventh…
Li Shiyin felt that there were many unreasonable things in the middle, but with her level, she couldn't find them.
And most importantly, she could only perceive and observe these unreasonable things, but she could not analyze them together and use these clues to find the reasons behind them.
“If only the master were here,” she thought, “if the master were here, he would definitely be able to tell what it is at a glance.”
After Tian Wenjin and the other dark-faced men finished explaining the situation, they paused for a moment and turned back to Li Shiyin and said, "Let's go to the Taoyuan Cave in the back mountain first. It would be best to kill the mouse-catching demon spider directly."
"Hmm? Go directly?" Li Shiyin frowned.
She found that something was wrong with Tian Wenjin. From just now, something was wrong with Tian Wenjin. If she was indeed prudent and cautious, then according to Qin Ran's thinking, she must not rashly go to the enemy's base camp at this time.
"It's just a first-level monster. With your and my strength, how can it be so arrogant?" Tian Wenjin said.
As she spoke, she sheathed her sword back on her back, jumped out of the door, found her way, and headed toward the back mountain.
Li Shiyin first stared at the dark-faced man, looking him up and down. She had studied pharmacology and knew the meridian points of the human body, the body's weaknesses and strengths... She now found that the dark-faced man had a body that was a little unusual and a little uncoordinated.
But Tian Wenjin had already gone to the back mountain. Li Shiyin was worried that something had happened to Tian Wenjin, so she couldn't find out in detail what the situation was with this dark-faced man, so she had to chase Tian Wenjin first.