Zhixu Sanren suddenly laughed sinisterly, then quickly covered his mouth and returned to normal. He said: "Before, the forest rangers would bring back some sick villagers with skin diseases. I kept them in the Taoist temple for treatment, and they would leave only after they recovered.
Don't worry, these patients usually don't go out, so you don't have to worry about being infected."
Bai Huo nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
The Taoist temple was quiet, with a faint scent of sandalwood floating in the air. The old trees in the courtyard were intertwined and the temple was much cleaner than the one they had entered at the beginning.
There are almost identical statues enshrined in the hall, with incense and candles burning. Su Qingyu noticed that the monkey statue here has a kind face and sits upright on the shrine.
After Su Qingyu and Bai Huo got the remaining blank tickets, they needed to patrol according to the rules.
Even during the day, no light penetrated the woods.
The dense dark green tree canopy blocks out the sun, and the shadows of the trees are intertwined and twisted with each other, like a nightmare extending into the real world.
Walk along the path in the woods.
In the dark corners, it seemed as if countless pairs of eyes were watching them.
As you walk into the woods, you will see many signposts.
It seems to have been left behind by villagers living in the mountains.
The arrows on those signboards were all over the place, pointing in different directions.
Su Qingyu walked closer to take a look and found dark red words at the bottom of some of the signs. She used the light from her mobile phone to see the words clearly.
It says "Beware the Moonlight!"
Bai Huo observed the road ahead and said, "There are two forks in the road ahead. Judging from the footprints on the ground, the one on the left front is more likely to lead to the village."
He judged it from the width of the road and the footprints.
"The rules mention four villages, namely birth, old age, sickness and death. The village on the hill where we are is the sickness village. The rules say that each village has different customs, and we need to be careful."
Bai Huo frowned slightly: "The first rule also mentions faith. Does it mean that we should believe in the Monkey God?"
Bai Huo is a Taoist priest. He has his own beliefs which cannot be changed.
Su Qingyu is an atheist.
[Monkey God Mountain]Ranger Rules (III) Rule 1.
[The Monkey God is the guardian of the mountains. Faith can help you survive well. ]
Su Qingyu said: "The first rule is a bit strange. The first half of the sentence says that the Monkey God is the guardian of the mountain, and the second half says that faith can help us survive well.
But these two sentences are separated by a period. He only said that faith can help us survive well, but he did not ask us to believe in the Monkey God.
Maybe in this mountain, as long as you have faith, you can find shelter."
If this is true, Bai Huo has a firm belief and is relatively safe, while Su Qingyu is more dangerous than Bai Huo.
On weekdays, the person Su Qingyu is most willing to believe in is himself.
Bai Huo tilted his head, and with a voice as clear as the sound of a seven-stringed harp, he asked, "Does Miss Su have any faith?"
“It didn’t exist before, but it exists now.”
Su Qingyu is a pragmatist. The rules actually say that faith can increase survival rate, so Su Qingyu has to create a faith for himself.