Thinking of this, Guan Heng said to Tian Lin: My great guide, the road ahead has been blocked. How we continue to change the route depends entirely on you.

Well, let me take a look at the map first. Tian Lin hooked her fingers at Rong Xuan's corpse horse, and the other party immediately ran over to please him. She reached out and took out the animal skin map scroll hanging on his body, and then unfolded it.

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Well, after a long while, Tian Lin raised her head and said: There are very few inhabited villages nearby. If you walk more than ten miles to the northeast, you can pass by a place called Jackdaw Village. We can take a diversion from there and go to Aishan Mountain.

The distance is only about half a day longer.

The next destination on that trip was Jackdaw Village. After hearing Guan Heng's words, everyone cheered in unison and headed forward.

At the same time, in a mountain forest near Jackdaw Village, a woodcutter was walking on a forest path carrying a load of firewood. He thought to himself: I don't know why, but I always feel like there is something following behind me.

Although monsters rarely appear here, it's still best to go home quickly.

But at the next moment, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew behind the woodcutter, and he couldn't help but shiver: As soon as the word "so cold" was uttered, the man fell down, with wood even scattered all over his body.

A layer of blue frost formed on the load.

Wuwuwu came from nowhere, and the owner of the sound suddenly rushed to the frozen woodcutter and suddenly got into his head.

The layer of blue frost on the woodcutter's body suddenly cracked and shattered, falling to the ground with dazzling ice splashes. He also stood up slowly, picked up the load of firewood on the ground with dull eyes, and walked slowly towards

Jackdaw Village outside the woods.

Time flew by so fast, and it was almost dusk in the blink of an eye. After Guan Heng and the others arrived at Jackdaw Village, they knocked on the doors of several houses. However, when the other parties saw the appearance of the ghost-eating tigers and corpses, they all closed their doors.

It was closed and no one was allowed to stay overnight.

Alas, they are all caused by you two guys. Guan Heng scratched his head and said: It seems that we have a good chance to stay in the wilderness today.

Aowu Tunguihu and Corpse Horse yelled in unison, their voices full of grievances.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with sleeping in the wild. Agou said something sarcastic next to him: For travelers like us, isn't that a common occurrence?

Brother Agou, we were forced to stay overnight in the wild because we didn't find a place to stay in the village. Tianlin looked at the smoke rising from all over the village and muttered: But now we have the opportunity to raise the bed to warm it up.

Eat some hot food as a pillow, but you can't see or touch it.

Hearing this, Guan Heng almost laughed out loud: Girl, you have become more and more delicate and sentimental recently.

Tianlin was about to argue a few more words when a trembling old woman suddenly walked up not far ahead. She was walking hard with a cane, but she also carried a large bamboo basket in her arm, which contained a lot of things.

, bending the old woman's waist.

Oops, mother-in-law, your things are too heavy, let me help you. As soon as she said these words, Tian Lin immediately ran to the old woman and carried the bamboo basket. The other woman immediately smiled with wrinkles on her face: Thank you, little girl.

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Tian Lin, who was sweet-tongued and hard-working, helped the old woman carry the bamboo basket to her house, and everyone followed her without saying a word.

Oh, it turns out that you are foreign guests, and you are now looking for a place to stay. When Tianlin told the situation in a few words at the door of her house, the old woman said without hesitation: Then you can stay at my house tonight. I still have two vacant rooms in my house, and only

I live with my son, so we can stay overnight.

Tianlin was overjoyed when she heard this, but she still asked in a low voice: Mother-in-law, aren't you afraid that the guys around us will scare you and your eldest brother? The other villagers looked nervous.

Alas, how could they be afraid of monsters? The old woman, Granny Chen, looked to the left and right, and then said: What everyone is afraid of is just the monsters that appear at night.

What kind of monster? Seeing the stunned expressions on Guan Heng and the others' faces, Granny Chen quickly said: It's not appropriate to say this at the gate. It will cause misunderstandings among the villagers. Everyone, please come into the house with me.

When they arrived at Granny Chen's house, Tungui Hushan, Xiang Snake Bird, and Corpse Horse Hunhong Horse were all placed in separate rooms.

Guan Heng strictly ordered them not to cause trouble, just eat whatever they wanted, huddle together and sleep with their heads covered, and they must not cause any trouble to Granny Chen's family.

At this moment, Granny Chen led others into the big house. According to her, her son Chen Zheng, as a woodcutter, often leaves early and comes back late. Usually, she doesn’t even have anyone to talk to at home, and the house seems deserted.

, it’s just a good time for everyone to come today, and you can relieve your loneliness a little bit.

After everyone chatted for a while, Tian Lin became curious and turned the topic to the monster the old woman mentioned just now. She blurted out and asked: "Mother-in-law, tell me what that monster is."

Okay, anyway, my old lady has lived for most of her life and has seen a lot. She has no scruples, unlike those people in the village who are afraid of things.

Granny Chen sighed at this time and said: Well, speaking of it, it was also a legacy of the evil deeds committed by the people in the village in the past, but everyone had no choice but to do this. It was sixty or seventy years ago, right?

According to Granny Chen, Jackdaw Village experienced a serious plague and famine more than sixty years ago. Almost no food crops were harvested. All the birds and animals in the mountains had long since disappeared, and even tree bark and

Everyone has eaten nothing like grass seeds and the like.

That year, a total of more than a dozen babies were born in the homes of Jackdaw Village villagers, but the adults couldn't eat enough, so how could they raise the children?

In the end, everyone was cruel and put the dolls into bamboo baskets and threw them into the mountains. When everyone left, they heard the children crying in the bamboo baskets. The sound was extremely miserable.

When Guan Heng and others heard this, they all had a look of unbearable expression on their faces. When they thought of those people who had no choice but to grit their teeth and abandon their own flesh and blood when faced with the choice of life and death, they shook their heads involuntarily.

At this time, Grandma Chen continued: After abandoning those dolls, somehow, the fields in Jackdaw Village got a bumper harvest the next year, with countless grain harvests. Everyone laughed for a whole year, but in late autumn,

Weird and strange things happened.

Every night, sad howls began to sound in the village. At first, some brave people went out to look, but they were hit in the head by a dark strange shadow like lightning, and fell unconscious. Family members went to help them.
Chapter completed!