I'm catching monsters in Liaozhai

Flower village.

This is a small mountain village a few miles away from the misty forest.

Because flowers bloom here all year round, it is named Huajian Village.

The original Huajian Village was like a paradise.

But when the demon-slaying team headed by Master Jingming and Wang Liu arrived here, what they saw was a mess all over the ground.

And an eerily quiet silence.

Under Wang Liu's arrangement, a small group of people were left to guard the horses and luggage outside the village, and the rest followed them into the village.

"There are corpses here..."

Said the person walking in front to explore the road.

Master Jingming and Wang Liu led everyone over.

At the door of a house, there was a body lying on the ground.

A male corpse.

The body was very broken.

It looked like it had been bitten by something.

The exposed intestines can be vaguely seen.

The left leg is broken.

Broken leg, just a few meters away.

Blood flowed out of the body, dripping all over the ground, and turned black.

There were many flies hanging around the body.

As a group of people approached, the flies were frightened and all flew up like a swarm.

The entire air smelled extremely foul.

As if he couldn't see the flying flies or smell the stench, Master Jingming walked forward, squatted down slightly, and looked at the corpse carefully.

Wang Liu covered his mouth and nose and came closer.

"Master, these wounds look like they were bitten by some kind of huge monster."

"Yes."

Master Jingming nodded, stood up and said, "Being able to bite a living person like this in one bite shows that this monster is not that big."

then.

He then told everyone: "The attack here should be a matter of a day or two. Let's search separately. The monster may not have gone far, and may even be hiding in the village..."

Finally, Master Jingming asked everyone to pay attention to safety.

Everyone formed groups of twos and threes and began to search everywhere.

Duan Feixiong and Xu Lang had no other friends, so they naturally formed a group.

They entered a house.

The house is very messy.

It was as if it had been robbed.

A wardrobe fell to the ground, with a large gaping hole on it, as if it had been scratched by something terrible, leaving claw marks.

There was blood inside.

"Someone should have been hiding inside, but he was discovered in the end and was immediately grabbed into the closet and taken away. Or maybe he was eaten directly."

Duan Feixiong analyzed.

The two went to other houses and saw similar situations.

Some beds were lifted directly.

One wall of one house fell down...

This shows that this monster is very violent and will directly capture or eat people regardless of whether they are dead or alive.

Finally, the two came to a house again.

The door was wide open, and the things in the house were scattered all over the floor. This time, no blood was seen.

However, a piece of snake scale was found.

A snake scale as big as a washbasin.

"It seems that there is more than one monster attacking the village..." Xu Lang said.

There are snake scales left here.

That means there is a snake demon.

As for the traces of claws on other houses, that means they are another kind of monster.

Because snakes have no claws.

Huajian Village is not big.

Soon everyone completed the search.

No one found any trace of the monster.

Everyone had already expected this situation. After all, judging from the situation of the corpse just now, the monster attacked here at least a day ago.

It is unlikely that they are still in Huajian Village.

"Master Jingming, Wang Captou, there should be several monsters attacking Huajian Village."

said the leader of a small gang.

"That's right, I just found a claw mark like a tiger's claw and a footprint like a cow's hoof over there..."

At this time, another person spoke.

Everyone stepped forward to report their findings.

finally.

Everyone summarizes it.

There are more than four kinds of monsters appearing in Huajian Village.

Huajian Village is not a big place, with a population of only about 200. It was suddenly attacked by four or more monsters, which made everyone confused.

These monsters eat people and form a team?

With this question in mind, the group of people left Huajian Village and continued towards the misty forest.

Another village.

The same dead silence.

Not a single one was alive.

Even the poultry and livestock are gone.

……

During the journey of several miles, the group passed five villages in total.

Not a single living person was seen.

Not even the body was left behind.

There were only three or four corpses at most.

This was no longer the "monster attacked a nearby village and killed many people" as reported at the beginning, but a direct massacre of the village.

The five villages together have thousands of people.

Everyone became more and more confused.

I don’t understand why the monster attacked so many villages and took away so many people.

Even if there are five or six monsters and thousands of people, they can't eat them all at once.

The only explanation is that they took people away.

With increasingly puzzling questions.

A group of people came to the sixth village.

Yunlai Village.

It is also the village closest to the misty forest.

Along the way.

Everyone no longer has any hope that there are any living people in Yunlai Village.

Because even the villages further away from the misty forest were attacked, let alone the closest ones.

The truth is what they thought.

Not a single living person was seen in the village.

There were several corpses lying on the village road.

Because it was highly decomposed, there were not only flies buzzing around the corpse, but also white maggots burrowing between the mouth and nose from time to time.

Seeing nothing, everyone planned to leave.

"who?"

Just now.

Master Jingming's ears twitched, and then he quickly swept aside.

Everyone quickly followed.

Chased to a house.

They saw Master Jingming standing inside the house.

Not far in front of Master Jingming, there was a figure huddled in a small cabinet with his head in his hands, shivering.

He was also yelling things like "Don't eat me".

"Amitabha, donor, don't be afraid. We are here to kill those monsters. We are not monsters and will not eat you."

Master Jingming stepped forward, squatted in front of the man, and softly comforted him.

The man slowly raised his head.

It was an eleven or twelve year old boy, his face was covered with stains, and there was still fear in his eyes.

"Kid, don't be afraid, it's okay, we will protect you!"

Master Jingming gently stroked the boy's back.

His hand seemed to have great magic power, and the young man's uneasy mood slowly calmed down.

"Are you really here to kill monsters?" the young man asked.

"Yes, we are all here to kill monsters."

Master Jingming asked: "My child, are you from Yunlai Village?"

The young man nodded and said, "This is my home."

"Son, what's your name?"

"My name is Alai!"

"Alai, can you tell us what happened in this village?"