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"What do you mean by that?" Lian Meng was startled.

But the storyteller didn't answer.

He gave Lian Meng a meaningful look, then picked up the medicine package prepared on the table, and walked out of the pharmacy.

When he passed the little monk in front of the door, he deliberately turned his head to look at Lian Meng.

Lian Meng didn't react for a while, at this moment, the boy who dispensed the medicine patted him on the shoulder, and when he looked up again, he found that the storyteller had disappeared.

"What's wrong?" Yaotong asked strangely.

Lian Meng quickly waved his hand and said, "It's okay."

It's just that he turned his head slightly, but saw the little monk with a strange expression still standing at the door, and he felt a chill behind him.

Later, he really cared a lot, so he thought about it, and asked the boy in a low voice: "I said...you, can you see...that person standing at the door?"

"Ah?" Yaotong was startled, looked over, and then didn't say a word for a long while.

Lian Meng saw that he immediately fell silent, thinking that he had bumped into some evil ghost, but at this moment, the drug boy burst out laughing: "Young man, you don't really believe what Mr. Zhang said? That's There is a famous crazy monk in our town, who has been here for a long time."

"Crazy monk?"

"Well, he was a monk here a few years ago. When he came here, he was fine. Somehow, suddenly one day, he started wandering like a ghost, looking for something."

"..." Lian Meng felt that his description was a bit strange.

"We only recruit this kind of crazy and sick people here. There was a lunatic who didn't want to talk before."

"It's... a lunatic again?"

"Well, I've seen him before, he looks really good-looking. I heard from the waiter in the teahouse that he came from the mountains..."

"In the mountains?" Didn't they also pass through the apricot tree forest?Could it be that he was also talking about dumb seven?

Lian Meng wanted to ask a few more questions, but at this moment, the monk at the door suddenly turned and left the medicine hall.

He was hesitant to follow to have a look, but at this moment, he saw a light figure following him.Lian Meng took a closer look, only to find that the person was the Miao girl who had talked to him earlier!

He was startled, and subconsciously grabbed the medicinal materials wrapped on the table, leaving only a piece of silver, and followed out without explaining.

But it was late at that time, and pedestrians were eager to go home, and the vendors on the street hurriedly cleaned up their stalls, blocking many roads.

He looked at the figure of the Miao girl, and managed not to lose track of her.

However, when he went around an alley, he realized that the Miao girl had disappeared.

The crisp bell was missing, and at the end of the dead end, there was only the monk who was said to have gone crazy standing.

The man stood there, muttering something.Lian Meng couldn't hear clearly, so he subconsciously took a few steps closer.

Hearing the movement, the monk stopped immediately.He looked up at the direction Lian Meng was coming from, and stood upright on the spot.

Lian Meng also felt presumptuous and said, "I didn't mean to disturb, I just happened to see..."

"Come here." The man suddenly said.

Lian Meng was taken aback, hesitated for a moment, and then walked up.

"I see you a lot these days, so I'm thinking..."

"I've seen the man in your house before."

"What?" Lian Meng's expression froze.

"They seem to be the same person, but they don't seem to be."

"What do you mean?" Lian Meng asked again, but the monk stopped talking.

Lian Meng felt a little strange.

Although he didn't know the meaning of what the man said, but he was clearly articulate in the few words just now, he didn't look like a crazy person.

"Why are you with him?" the man suddenly said.

Lian Meng didn't know how to answer, so he used the other person's words in an irrelevant answer: "Is it because you want to ask me this, that's why you've been following me?"

"Following you?" The monk raised his head suspiciously.

Lian Meng noticed that there was an obvious knife mark on his face, which ran across the right side of his cheek and went straight to his ear, as if he had been severely wounded.He doesn't look very old, about twenty or so.

"Well, I've seen you several times, and thought you were following us."

"..." The man lowered his eyes again, and his tone suddenly dropped a lot, "I didn't follow you, I was just looking for my master."

"Master?"

"Well, that year my master took me down the mountain to beg for alms, but after coming here for a few days, he suddenly disappeared."

"Gone?"

The monk nodded, his expression became even more downcast.

Lian Meng saw that he looked strange, and felt that there must be something hidden in it.

But the man didn't seem to intend to speak directly, he just babbled on some bits and pieces.

After listening to him for a while, Lian Meng finally pieced together the story of this man.

This monk, named Shi Xin, said that he was brought down the mountain by his master ten years ago.

His master is an eminent monk who has attained the Tao and has excellent martial arts skills. He said that he went down the mountain that time to show his good disciple the great world.

They walked through some towns, encountered villains who did evil, and also met kind-hearted people. Finally, the practice was over, and the master and apprentice decided to go back to Qianyue Town after a short rest. in the temple.

At first they only planned to stay for one night, but who would have thought that on that night, they would encounter bandits from the mountains who came to the town to do evil.

Those wicked people burned, killed and looted many people.

Shi Xin couldn't see it, and wanted to help, but was stopped by Master.

He told him not to be fooled, but he walked out alone and stopped the gangsters.

The old monk never used a sword, only used some sticks, and drove away those evildoers.

After that, in order to prevent them from turning back again, Shi Xin and his master stayed for another three days.

Three days later, in the early morning, the master and apprentice finally left.

But they hadn't traveled far when they saw a Chai Fu rushing over, saying that he wanted to invite the old monk back to the town to save people.

Shi Xin was surprised and asked him what was going on.But Chaifu hesitated for a while, but couldn't explain clearly.

Seeing that he was full of anxiety, the old monk agreed to go back with him. Shi Xin was about to go with him, but he was stopped by his master.

He said that they hadn't returned for a long time, and the fellow disciples in the temple would be worried about their safety, so he persuaded Shi Xin to go back first, and he would come later.

The little monk was a little puzzled, but he also obeyed the master's order, crossed the hill alone, and returned to the temple.

But who would have thought that since then, his master never came back.

"Did something happen to him?" Lian Meng asked softly.

The man shook his head: "I thought so too."

After Shi Xin returned to the temple, he waited for a full month and still did not see Master return.

He was so anxious that he asked the host for leave and went down the mountain again.

He followed the mountain road and came to this Qianyue town again, but he still couldn't see his master.

What's even more strange is that when he asked the townspeople about the master's whereabouts, they all said that they had never seen any old monk.

"How did this happen?" Lian Meng felt even more strange, "Did they all lose their memory together?"

"Amnesia?" Shi Xin glanced at him, and the expression on his face suddenly became cold, "They don't have amnesia, they are just lying."

Later, after several rounds, the little monk finally found Chaifu who was looking for them on the road that day.

Although the man evaded his words, he finally revealed the truth.

It turned out that the villains in the mountain did not come here to kill all the residents of the town, but to lure his master alone.

Not long after Chaifu brought the monk back, his master was taken away by those villains in the mountains.

"Then he..." Lian Meng asked with a frown.

"The man said that he only saw those bandits taking the monk away, and he didn't know anything else."

"Really?" Lian Meng still frowned.

"Later, in order to find my master, I personally went to the cottage where the villain was. I still couldn't find him. I only found a blood-stained cassock in the dungeon."

"Could he..."

"Well, they have tortured him to death, and his bones are gone."

"..." Lian Meng felt that there was something that didn't make sense, but he didn't know where to start.

"I was so angry that I was extremely angry... So, in a fit of rage, I slaughtered all the people in their village."

"What?" Lian Meng looked at him in surprise, "You...killed someone?"

"Well. I killed all the people, but left the life of their village master. Because that he told me another thing when I was about to kill him."

"what's up?"

"He said, in fact, they really just wanted to slaughter the town again, but the residents in the town kept fanning the flames, saying that money is a small matter and face is big. Instead of killing them, it's better to find the one who made him lose face. To save the reputation of Jiang Hu. He was also fascinated by ghosts at that time, so he listened to their slander and tricked the monk back with them."

The man spoke slowly, and the expression on his face gradually became vicious.

Lian Meng felt that the matter was not so simple, so he said tentatively: "Maybe he just provoked it on purpose?"

"Instigation?" Shi Xin chuckled, "I didn't believe it at first. So I let that man live for half a day, and arrested him to confront the people in the town. Of course those people would not admit it, but I did. In the corner, I found the rosary that my master was carrying with me. It was also at that time that those innocent people who had been pious before finally revealed their true colors."

"They say that people don't kill the world for themselves. They just want to survive. Even if they were replaced by others, they would choose to exchange one life for several lives."

"This..." Lian Meng didn't know what to say.

The expression on Shi Xin's face eased a lot: "They told the truth, I was extremely angry, but I was knocked out by them in public. Those people tried to repeat the same trick and drowned me and the village owner together In the middle of the river. Unexpectedly, I sneaked out when no one was looking."

"..." Lian Meng felt that the story was getting weirder. If these townspeople really wanted to harm him, why would they let him wander here day and night?

"I know what you're thinking. We're about to get to the most exciting part of this story." Shi Xin breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "That night, I set a fire and burned this town and its people together. and burned to death."

"What?" Lian Meng was startled.

"The fire burned all day long. I sat on the tree and listened to the desperate cries of those people for a whole night."

"but……"

"I sat until the morning. After I was sure that those people were sure to die, I prepared to drown myself in the river. However, I just walked to the river when I heard the noise of the street market behind me."

"The... sound from the market?" Lian Meng felt a chill behind him.

"Yes. I turned around and saw this town as if nothing had happened. Everything was like yesterday."

"..." Lian Meng froze in place as if unable to speak.

He thought that maybe the monk was really crazy to tell such a weird and bizarre story.

"But that's not the worst part, because I suppressed my composure and walked around the town again, only to find something even scarier."

"What?" Lian Meng asked hastily.

The monk did not speak.

He just lifted the sleeve of his other hand with one hand.

Lian Meng stepped forward to take a look, and found that there were several strings of identical rosary beads hidden underneath.