On the pitch-black mountain road, a pale beam pierced the darkness.
Holding the bright light, Han Zhen silently looked at the girl half a step ahead to her left.
They had already left the viewing area, and they couldn't see the lights of the hotel behind them. It was dark all around, and this strong light was needed when they met the security guards returning from the search.
However, Tang Xi seemed to have a purpose, and never hesitated in the direction of her feet.
"What do you want to ask?" Tang Xi said impatiently, tossing her ponytail, "Don't keep looking at me and say nothing, it's awkward."
"Police certificate." Han Zhen opened his mouth, and chose the question he wanted to ask the most, "Your age..."
"Look clearly." Tang Xi threw the certificate to him directly.
Han Zhen was stunned, opened the ID, and looked at it with the beam of the bright light in his hand.
He had seen the police officer's certificate, and the steel seal was true no matter what, but... Turning his eyes, he finally noticed the difference: "Consultant?"
"Yes, consultants, non-staff personnel, belong to the serious crime team, is there any problem?" Tang Xi retracted the certificate.
Han Zhen shook her head, and didn't ask her why she became a police consultant. What came to her mind was the video that became popular on the campus network last year. The girl neatly subdued the kidnapper and rescued the police. The highest number of votes in history took the throne of the school belle.
Tang Xi stopped suddenly.
"Xiao Xi, the traces here are suddenly separated." Su Huang floated towards him, "Those children seem to be divided into two groups. Which side should we chase?"
"On both sides." Tang Xi looked at the two equally difficult fork in the road, and asked in a low voice, "How many people?"
"One person to the southeast, and two people to the northeast." Su Huang replied.
Tang Xi heard the words and walked to the northeast without thinking.
"Hey? Isn't the one who is alone more dangerous?" Su Huang was puzzled.
"The so-called rescue should start with a large number of people. In case of the worst result, more people can be saved." Tang Xi said lightly, "It may not be correct, but this is my principle."
Su Huang was silent for a while and didn't speak.
"However, there is still time left. Go and see the southeast, and don't be too far away from me." Tang Xi said again.
"Okay, be careful." Su Huang responded and drifted to another road.
"Who are you... talking to?" Han Zhen hesitated.
"I said to myself, haven't you seen it?" Tang Xi looked back at him in surprise.
"..." Han Zhen was speechless. He wanted to say that he had seen someone talking to himself, but how did you look like you were talking to yourself just now
After walking for a while, he couldn't help but ask, "Are you sure they're coming in this direction?"
"There are new signs of being trampled on the bushes, at least someone must have been here today." Tang Xi affirmed.
Han Zhen moved the bright light, and sure enough, she saw some low bushes being stepped on as she said, but her doubts grew stronger.
Tang Xi walked this way without hesitation along the way, how did she know there were traces here
"Be quiet, shut up." Tang Xi shouted.
Han Zhen swallowed the words abruptly, and there was still a trace of frustration that she didn't understand.
Why did I subconsciously listen to her
"Huh?" Tang Xi stopped suddenly, squinting her eyes, "Is there a light over there?"
Han Zhen was taken aback, and quickly turned off the bright light in his hand.
In the darkness, the light spots in the distance stand out and can be seen clearly.
"This is... a bonfire, right?" Han Zhen hesitated.
He has camping experience in the wild, and the flickering light does seem like something is burning, but the color doesn't seem right? Generally speaking, the flame from burning firewood is red, and this kind of bluish flame is more common in gas stoves.
Couldn't it be that in the middle of the night, someone in the deep mountains and old forests came over to cook with a gas bottle? And the flame of the gas stove will not be so obvious from such a distance.
Tang Xi couldn't help frowning.
"It's a will-o'-the-wisp." Yun Qi appeared beside her.
"Woman's fire..." Tang Xi repeated, thoughtfully.
"What, what kind of will-o'-the-wisp?" Han Zhen asked in surprise, "Don't you want to say there are ghosts? Have you returned all your chemistry knowledge to the teacher? The reason why there are occasionally will-o'-the-wisps in the cemetery is very simple..."
"I told you to shut up!" Tang Xi growled impatiently.
The situation in front of him was very difficult, but there was still a bee chattering endlessly in his ear.
"Anyway, just go and have a look." Han Zhen finally said.
"Don't turn on the light, follow me, no matter what you see, don't scream like a little girl, if you can't do it, cover your mouth first." After Tang Xi finished speaking, she walked towards the fire.
Even the veins on Han Zhen's forehead burst out.
What is "screaming like a little girl"? Still "cover your mouth if you can't do it"? This is how despised him!
However, before he protested, the man had already walked away.
Because he couldn't turn on the light, he was also afraid that he would get lost if the distance was too far away in the dark, so he could only suppress the urge to vomit blood and chase after him.
Going closer, apart from the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the branches, there seems to be a faint sound of weeping.
Tang Xi waved his hand, signaling him to keep his footsteps as light as possible.
Slowly pushing aside the branches and leaves of the bushes to look over, Han Zhen's eyes widened when he saw the scene, and he couldn't help crying out, but a soft hand took a step ahead and covered his mouth.
"Woooo..." Han Zhen finally pulled her hand away, gasping for breath.
"I told you not to scream." Tang Xi lowered her voice and let out a cold snort.
Han Zhen bit her lower lip tightly to avoid making a sound. If you looked closely, you could even see the trembling on her skin.
I saw a bonfire burning in the middle of a small open space in the woods, but the color of the bonfire is pure blue—even the flame of the gas stove is blue with reddish, not to mention that there is no fuel under the flame, just like It's a huge ghost fire.
There were two people sitting not far away. Rather than sitting, it would be more appropriate to say that they were lying on the ground. The faint crying came from there.
However, this is not as scary as the monster next to the campfire.
The monster is more than two meters tall, with black air all over its body, and only a pair of blood-red eyes. In terms of appearance, it seems to be able to see the characteristics of various animals from its body. For example, the head is a deer head with obvious The antlers, the position of the mouth are raised, more like the beak of a bird. Its body is like a pangolin, with four legs like a bear, wings growing from its ribs, and a... pig tail growing behind its buttocks.
"What... what monster is this?" Han Zhen asked softly, barely controlling his fear.
"Who knows." Tang Xi shrugged nonchalantly, and looked at the collapsed person in the distance.
"It's Han Jia and Zhang Mei, Liu Weiwei is not here," Han Zhen said.
Tang Xi frowned.
It's fine if you're just scared and stupid, but if you're seriously injured, like a broken leg or something, it's a little troublesome.
"What is it trying to do?" Han Zhen asked suddenly.
But the monster fiddled with it, made the bonfire more intense, then landed on its hind legs, walked over like a human, and stretched out one paw towards the two teenagers.
"Ah~~~ Don't, don't come here!" Zhang Mei tightly closed her eyes and screamed.
"Go away!" Han Jia didn't know where the strength came from. With a shoulder bump, he pushed Zhang Mei away, and then grabbed a fist-sized rock on the ground and threw it at it.
"Snapped."
The stone hit the monster accurately. After all, it was such a short distance and such a big target, it was strange to miss it. However, what was horrifying was that when the stone hit the monster's head, it passed through without hindrance as if it had hit the air, fell to the ground, and rolled twice before stopping.
"You, you..." Han Jia was dumbfounded, seeing that huge claw falling towards him, he even forgot to dodge.
Behind the bushes, Han Zhen froze for a moment, but as soon as he gritted his teeth, he was about to rush out.
"Don't make any trouble!" Tang Xi grabbed him back.
"They are in danger!" Han Zhen glared at her.
"An extra one of you is also a snack." Tang Xi hit the nail on the head.
Han Zhen was speechless, but quickly said: "Then you can't just watch them die!"
While speaking, the monster picked up Han Jia like an eagle catching a chicken, and walked back towards the campfire.
"Han, Han Jia!" Zhang Mei was flustered. Even though she knew it was useless, she still picked up some rocks and branches and threw them at them.
Of course, all the debris passed through the monster's body, and some even hit Han Jia.
"Run! Run! Run farther away, and call the police as soon as there is a signal!" Han Jia shouted hoarsely.
"But, but..." Zhang Mei's face was full of tears. After trying several times, she got up and fell back weakly. She didn't run a few steps for a long time.
"What... what is it going to do?" Han Zhen's hairs stood on end for a moment.
"Humans ate them, and now it's their turn to eat humans, isn't it fair and reasonable?" Tang Xi's voice was calm.
"They?" Han Zhen was puzzled.
"You can also see the body structure of that guy. It's not one kind of animal, but many kinds. It's a collection of resentments, and the main body is those wild animals hunted and killed by humans." Tang Xi said lightly, "You Look, sika deer, wild boar, young chicken, pangolin, bear paw, monkey brain... are they delicious?"
As she spoke, she also pointed to the various parts of the monster's body and commented.
"..." Han Zhen turned pale.
If someone had told him ten minutes ago that the body of resentment or the eaten animal had come back for revenge, he would have called the mental hospital immediately. However, he saw the monster in front of him with his own eyes, and the victim was his classmate.
"Help!" Han Jia struggled, seeing himself getting closer and closer to the weird bonfire, his heart was broken.
Han Zhen gritted her teeth, put down the bright light, and tightened the shovel in her hand to rush over.
"You want me to tell you a few times not to cause trouble." Tang Xi pressed his shoulders with a cold face.
"Let go, he's my cousin!" Han Zhen growled, and was surprised that he was considered a Lianjiazi, yet he couldn't break free from the strength of a girl
"I can't die." Tang Xi said angrily.
As she spoke, she pushed the person aside forcefully, and said coldly, "Leave the monster to me, and you take Han Jia and Zhang Mei to a farther place."
"But..." Han Zhen wanted to say that he would lure the monster away and let her save people, but before he could say it, Tang Xi had already pushed aside the bushes and walked out.
"You, what are you doing here? Run!" Han Jia was stunned, and then yelled.
"If it weren't for seeing that you still look like a man in a critical moment, maybe I would have let you fend for yourself." Tang Xi sneered.
Hearing the sound, the monster turned around slowly, as if looking at her, with a look of doubt on its terrifying face.
Tang Xi understood very well that because she and Han Zhen were clean, she would not irritate it. Even if she wanted to leave now, the monster would probably not chase after her. Unfortunately, even if Han Jia and Zhang Mei did something wrong, she would To take back.
"Now, give him back to me." Tang Xi waved his hand, turned his spiritual power into a whip, and whipped it away.
The whip is much longer than the sword, and consumes more spiritual power. If she hadn't recovered to her peak level after the battle during the Chinese New Year, she wouldn't dare to use it lightly.
"Pa~" The light whip was firmly drawn on the monster's body, and it did not pass through the body like those stone branches.
"Wow!" The monster raised its head and screamed, waving its claws, and threw Han Jia out.
"Ah!!!" Han Jia saw himself jumping at the will-o'-the-wisp, and couldn't help but lose his mind.
Tang Xi gave a "tsk", wrapped the whip around his ankles, shook him, threw him out, and threw him beside Zhang Mei.
Han Zhen just ran over and looked at her as if he had seen a ghost.
Forget about monsters, the classmate actually took out a glowing whip. Is this a two-dimensional animation? Sailor Moon or something
"What a fool, pull them away and get in the way!" Tang Xi shouted.
Han Zhen pursed her lips and ran over in silence.
"Roar~~" Seeing this, the monster was about to chase after him.
"Your opponent is me." Tang Xi squeezed a Five Thunder Talisman with his left hand and struck it.
No matter what time it is, Thunder Curse is the best nemesis against demons and ghosts. After the monster was hit, black smoke rose from many places on its body, which obviously caused a lot of damage.
This completely enraged the monster. It gave up on Han Zhen who ran past it, opened its huge fore paw, and slapped down on the human who hurt it with the wind of spiritual power.
"Be careful!" Han Zhen just helped Han Jia up, heard the voice, looked back, his eyes tightened, and he couldn't help shouting.
Tang Xi remained unmoved, but took two steps aside.
"Boom!" The bear's paw slapped the ground, and the earth and rocks flew, almost smashing the ground into a big hole.
"Really, the clothes I just changed into." Tang Xi looked down at the stains on her light-colored T-shirt and complained dissatisfiedly.
Han Zhen froze on the spot, wondering if I should complain that all you care about is dirty clothes!
"Brother." Han Jia called out in shock.
Han Zhen came back to his senses suddenly, supported him, and looked at Zhang Mei who was on the ground again: "Can I go?"
"Yes." Han Jia rubbed his ribs and gritted his teeth.
"I, I..." Zhang Mei reluctantly supported a tree and climbed up. Although her legs were still shaking, she was able to walk anyway.
"Go away." Tang Xi waved his hand.
"That's... that Tang Xi?" Han Jia asked in surprise.
"Hmm." Han Zhen nodded, speechless, he could only support and drag each other as much as possible, away from the battlefield.
"Although I know that you have been wronged, I can understand your desire to eat back..." Tang Xi raised her head and said quietly, "But those two children are not dead yet. There are only human laws in the world. Since I bumped into them There is no way to pretend that you didn’t see it.”
What's more, right now this thing has just become evil, and it still has a semblance of reason, knowing how to retaliate against grievances without hurting the innocent, but after a while, it will be confused by the evil spirit, and I'm afraid it will eat people indiscriminately.
Hearing this, the monster's eyes became more bloody, and a low growl sounded from its mouth.
Tang Xi shrugged. Over the years, she has long been used to putting sympathy after the war. If you want to talk about being wronged, how many people are not wronged, whether they are humans or animals, who can turn into ghosts with obsession? But if you can't keep your senses, you will hurt the innocent sooner or later, not only harming others, but also adding your own sins. So no matter how sympathetic she is, she will not be moved in the slightest when she strikes.
The monster took two steps and started to run. Resentment grew on his body, and his size seemed to grow bigger again.
"Trouble." Tang Xi cursed in a low voice, pulled back the whip, and shouted, "Yun Qi!"
The noble young man in white appeared behind her, with the jade flute on his lips, playing a melodious tone.
Beams of light lit up one by one, walking a winding route, dragging the monster's movements slower and slower.
"Twenty-Four Bridges with a Moonlit Night", when they fought side by side, Yun Qi used the most songs.
Tang Xi held a handful of the Five Thunder Talisman in his hand and smashed it down hard.
"Boom boom boom!" The shrill pale lightning almost turned the night sky into day.
This was her first formal battle after regaining her strength, because there were ordinary people around her, and she wanted to make a quick victory, so this shot was to go all out.
After the thunder light dissipated, the ground was scorched black, and the huge monster disappeared, leaving only strands of resentment floating in the air.
"Yunqi, Requiem." Tang Xi sighed, and with a wave of his right hand, scattered the spiritual power whip.
Yun Qi chuckled and changed the tune, the corners of his eyes and brows were filled with a touch of joy.
This is the real Tang Xi, a genius who stands at the pinnacle of the Taoist sect with absolute strength, and is also the contractor he recognizes.
The first battle back was pretty good.
The melody of requiem sounded faintly, and a little bit of golden light was separated from the resentment.
"It's over?" Han Zhen asked.
"That's right." Tang Xi glanced at Yun Qi who was dealing with the aftermath, and walked over.
"You, you, you are a human or a ghost!" Zhang Mei blurted out after taking two steps back.
"What do you think?" Tang Xi tilted her head.
"..." Zhang Mei wanted to scream.
"Stop making trouble." Han Zhen said helplessly, "Tang Xi, you should be the 'type of person' secretly rumored in the circle, right?"
"Which type?" Tang Xi was puzzled.
"Tianshi." Han Zhen spit out two words.
"Tianshi?" Zhang Mei spoke before her, "Is there really a Tianshi in this world?"
"I've seen all the ghosts and ghosts, so it's possible that I'm a living person, but you can't believe it?" Tang Xi was surprised.
Zhang Mei was speechless.
However, at least knowing that the person in front of him is a real person, he is not so afraid.
"I originally thought that the celestial masters they admired were a bunch of liars who cheated money by relying on their customers' feudal superstitions—" Han Zhen said.
"Oh, there are quite a lot of liars of that kind." Tang Xi said casually, "Which industry doesn't have a few black apples."
The group was relatively silent.
"Ah, where is Liu Weiwei? Not with you?" Han Zhen asked quickly.
"Weiwei...you didn't meet her?" Zhang Mei asked hastily.
"No." Han Zhen shook his head.
"There is no mobile phone signal, so we lost our way and couldn't contact others." Han Jia swallowed, and said with lingering fear, "When the monster appeared, it only stared at me and Zhang Mei, so I told Weiwei to run quickly, run Go to a place with a signal and call for help."
"Did she run into the mountains because she got lost?" Zhang Mei asked anxiously.
"It's okay, I know where she is going." Tang Xi comforted her.
The monster didn't attack Liu Weiwei, which meant that the girl was clean and didn't have any yin on her body. Then, as long as she didn't panic and rolled down the mountain, she would be at most in a mess and wouldn't be in danger. After all, Luming Mountain is also a scenic spot, and there are no ferocious animals such as wolves, tigers and leopards near the viewing area, and Liu Weiwei, a girl, can't run into the deep mountains in such a short time.
Taking ten thousand steps back, she had already asked Su Huang to follow up first.
"What is that monster?" Han Jia couldn't help asking.
"If you can't control your appetite, you will meet that kind of thing." Tang Xi's face turned cold, and he looked at him like a knife, "I've grown so big, my brain is not for display. What can be eaten and what can't be eaten, Didn't the elementary school teacher teach you?"
"You..." Han Jia was taken aback, then his face changed drastically.
"I can break up once, but I can't protect you for a lifetime. I wish I was lucky." Tang Xi said again.
"No! No, no, I was wrong, but...but I didn't do it on purpose." Zhang Mei was about to cry again, feeling a little bit wronged in her heart.
They are still students, so of course they don’t go out of their way to find some rare wild animals to eat, but their families are wealthy, and they often attend various banquets and gatherings with their parents. Who would want to ask what ingredients are on the table? Where did it come from, eat it if it tastes good, who would have known that eating it would cause such a big trouble!
"It doesn't work if you tell me, karma pays attention to the result." Tang Xi shook her head.
"Then what should I do!" Zhang Mei said.
Tang Xi swept across their faces, paused, and finally said: "The sins that have been caused will not be reversed, but they can be offset. After returning, donate a sum of money to the Wildlife Protection Association in your name. Whenever these If the money is put into practice, saving a life will offset a trace of sin. It’s up to you whether you want to do it or not.”
"Donate, I will definitely donate, I donate all the New Year's money I have saved over the years." Zhang Mei nodded repeatedly.
Tang Xi knew that for a family like theirs, the New Year's money from childhood to adulthood added up to a huge sum of money that ordinary people could not reach in a lifetime, so she didn't say much.
Like Han Jia and Zhang Mei, even the laws of the world are not easy to judge, at most a few verbal education, it is better to let them contribute to atonement within their ability. I believe that tonight's experience will be a lesson that will never be forgotten.
"I'm going back, so many people are looking for you, so I just say I got lost, understand?" Tang Xi urged.
"Understood!" Zhang Mei nodded again and again, and at the moment she probably responded to whatever Tang Xi said.
Han Jia didn't speak, but Tang Xi also knew that he had listened to everything.
Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't listen to her, anyway, it's not her who is haunted by wronged souls.
Suddenly, the weird music sounded again.
"Ah~~~" Zhang Mei was startled at first, but jumped up with a scream.
"Shut up!" Tang Xi cursed and connected the phone, "Xiao Liu, what's the matter?"
"Consultant, something has happened!" Xiao Liu's voice was panting, and he could still hear footsteps, obviously running and making a phone call.
"What, where's Chu Li?" Tang Xi's heart skipped a beat.
"We found traces of the suspect Zhang Dayou in Luming Mountain. We chased all the way to the southeast, and finally caught the grandson's tail." Xiao Liu gasped, almost crying, "But, but... the path in the mountain is complicated, we You can’t chase thieves with large lighting equipment, and your vision is dim, so…”
"You lost him?" Tang Xi asked incredulously, "What about the location? Does he have a location system in his phone?"
"This... just now, Team Chu's location suddenly disappeared on the screen, and the mobile phone can't get through." Xiao Liu wanted to cry but had no tears.
"Locate, disappear?" Tang Xi was stunned.
"Also, I couldn't find your location as a consultant before, and my mobile phone was outside the circle. Just now, the information group suddenly reported that your location appeared out of thin air, so I tried to call again, and it was connected." Xiao Xiao Liu then said.
Tang Xi's expression suddenly became serious.
The location disappears and the mobile phone loses contact, which means that the Yin Qi in that area interferes with the signal. She has solved the source of the Yin Qi so the magnetic field has returned to normal. In other words, there are not one monster, but two monsters!
"Understood, send me the last location of the positioning, you continue to find a way, I will go to him." After Tang Xi finished speaking, she hung up the phone neatly, feeling even more irritable.
southeast.
Well, cops, murderers, missing students, and ghosts and monsters.
What a mess!
Why does she want to go on strike!
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