monster he just wants to be a good guy

There are monsters that can eat people in the swamp, please don't approach them.

"Brother, I'm here to give you warmth!"

Lu Man was packing his clothes in the room when a small head poked out from the door.Lu Xiaoan snorted and ran in with his backpack.

It was only when Lu Man took it that he realized why his younger brother was struggling to carry it.

Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs, and the small backpack is full of supplies.Emergency medical kits, air-dried meat strips, chewable flatbreads, water bottles, thick ropes, thin blankets, various daily necessities, and even nail clippers were brought to him.Aunt Lu prepared them for him.

Lu Man also saw a familiar clay puppet stuffed in the corner. He took out Big Brother Zheng's clay puppet and stroked it gently with his thumb.The already bald head was smoothed by Lu Xiaoan, and the feather hanging from the ear was still dazzling.

"Just keep it at your place for two days." Lu Xiaoan tugged at the hem of his clothes awkwardly, and added: "Brother Zheng's clay puppet is alive, and it can keep you safe. Brother, you must take good care of it."

Lu Man held back his laughter, and rubbed Lu Xiaoan's messy hair into a chicken coop.

"Don't press my head... I won't grow taller in the first place." Lu Xiaoan muttered dissatisfiedly in a low voice.

"Your patron saint himself will go with me."

"Brother Zheng wants to go with you? Don't tell me sooner!" Lu Xiaoan snapped and snatched the treasure from Lu Man's hand.

Before, Lu Man expressed to the village chief that he was worried about Uncle Lu's safety and wanted to get out of the village to get in touch with them. On the same day, the village chief sent a letter to Uncle Lu and the others to confirm the situation on Zheng Qingyan's side.

But three days later, no reply was received, and the carrier pigeon disappeared.On the third day, Village Chief Zheng arranged for Lu Man to follow Zheng Qingmiao and Zhang Qingyan out of the village in the name of an assessment.

"There has never been any assessment before leaving the village...Xiao Man, tell Auntie honestly, has the village chief made things difficult for you?" Aunt Lu knew that Lu Man was going to leave the village, and her first reaction was to go to Uncle Zheng for a theory. "It's so dangerous outside the village, and you still have to go out of the village. Is there anything that can't be assessed in the village? Hey, don't stop me, I'll go to him and find out."

After Lu Man managed to persuade the outraged aunt, Lu Xiaoan next to him started again.

"You must follow Big Brother Zheng carefully, don't run around alone. I am a road idiot..." Until Lu Man walked to the entrance of the village with his luggage on his back, Lu Xiaoan was still nagging.

"Understood. Is your brother so unreliable?" Lu Man's ears were almost ringing, and he really didn't know why such a small person like Lu Xiaoan was so cautious.

"Did you get lost in the village less often before? This time it's different. The wilderness is so big. If you really get lost, you won't be able to get back!"

"Don't worry, I will definitely bring back your big brother Zheng's clay puppet to you intact." In the end, Lu Xiaoan gave the clay puppet to Lu Man to ward off evil spirits.

Aunt Lu hugged him gently, and told him in a low voice, he must pay attention to safety and protect himself.

The gears creaked and turned, the heavy village gate opened in front of him, and the warning light at the entrance of the village changed from green to yellow, silently urging Lu Man to go faster.

Lu Man nodded from a distance to Big Brother Zhang who controlled the village gate, and walked forward through the village gate.It was the first time he passed through the village gate normally and came to the outside world.

The yellow warning light flashed continuously, the rollers turned, and the door gradually closed.

Lu Man looked back subconsciously, and through the gap, he found that his aunt and brother were still standing in place.

Lu Xiaoan stood on the rock, suddenly gathered his hands into a trumpet shape, and yelled something loudly at him.

The sound wave passed through the grass, over the iron gate, and reached Lu Man's ears.

"Brother—be careful—return safely!"

Lu Man was taken aback when he heard the words, a smile slowly rose on his face, and he waved at them.

The door is fully closed.Only the cold iron blue is left in front of his eyes.

Across the gate and the fence, the village is warm and beautiful with cocks crowing and dogs barking.

And in the wilderness behind him, monsters are raging, ready to move.

The soft smile remaining in Lu Man's eyes turned cold in a second. He turned around and faced the dangerous wilderness.

"Lu Man, come here... We have found the road sign left by Uncle Lu before." Zhang Qingyan beckoned him to follow not far away, and Lu Man obediently ran over with his schoolbag on his back.

Zheng Qingmiao effortlessly carried a half-person-high suitcase, a bundle of tents was tied separately on top of the backpack, and a gleaming broadsword was pinned to the waistband of her trousers.Zhang Qingyan was still dressed as usual for training, with a whip around her waist, a bow and a quiver on her back, but she had a light shoulder bag on her body.

"Before the official departure, there are a few things that need to be explained." Zhang Qingyan's tone was more serious than usual.

"First, you must obey the instructions outside, and you cannot act without authorization."

"Second, you must follow Zheng Qingmiao closely, and you cannot leave the team without authorization."

"Third, when you are in danger, don't make a sound. Now I will teach you a few body emoticons commonly used in hunting teams, watch it."

Lu Man has always been a quick learner, and Zhang Qingyan can imitate it very well once he shows it.

"Our trip this time is just to get in touch with Uncle Lu and the others. We can avoid the danger as much as possible. Xiao Lu, you have a bad sense of direction, just follow me closely."

While talking, Zheng Qingmiao took out a small jar from the side of her backpack, took out some black ash from it with her fingers, and wiped it on her neck, inside of her wrists and behind her ears.

He handed the jar to Lu Man, motioning for him to apply it too.

Lu Man was about to sniff it in his palm, but Zheng Qingmiao stopped him and said with a smile: "This stuff is not interesting. It's the ashes left over from the monster's burning. It's painted on the body to cover our smell. You know , monsters are very sensitive to the smell of people." Lu Man obediently smeared himself with ashes according to the gourd painting.

Next to her, Zhang Qingyan also took out a small spray bottle from her satchel, and sprayed herself a few times.

Seeing that Lu Man was a little confused, Zheng Qingmiao pulled him and explained in a low voice: "The ashes of the monster are also in that bottle. After soaking in water...it's not so annoying."

After getting ready, they followed Uncle Lu's mark and walked into a forest.As a sentinel, Zhang Qingyan didn't go with them, but Lu Man could hear the trembling sound of the branches being touched. Sister Qingyan should be following them not far away.

The underground ground is getting wet and slippery, and even if you step on it with a little force, you can sink half your feet.Zheng Qingmiao is worthy of being the seasoned leader of the hunting team, who can avoid the dark swamp and mud every time and find the most suitable foothold.Lu Man followed him step by step, even in the swamp as if walking on flat ground.

Suddenly, there was movement not far away.

Zheng Qingmiao was the first to stop.Lu Man also stopped.Two people stand as two sculptures.There was silence in the woods, not even the sound of breathing could be heard.

"Strange..." The voice continued intermittently.

"There are monsters..." The wind direction changed, and the voice clicked and drifted along the wind to their ears.

Hearing what seemed to be a human voice, Zheng Qingmiao still looked dignified and walked forward lightly.Lu Man frowned, feeling a sense of familiarity.

"Xiao Ai, what is this place?"

"Report to the master! This is the forest northwest of the village."

Seeing that Lu Man didn't seem to realize where it was, Xiao Ai added thoughtfully.

"It's where the owner "fixed" the tuatara and the parrot octopus two days ago. "

Zheng Qingmiao was the first to arrive at the place where the voice came from.

There is a large swamp deep in the forest, the water surface is turbid, and occasionally two bubbles come up.Zheng Qingmiao finally saw clearly who was speaking in the middle of the swamp.

A tentacle with a suction cup sticks out of the water, and there is a sound that pops out section by section from the suction cup.

The tentacle's posture was very unnatural, as if it was forcibly fixed out of the water by someone, looking straight at the sky, a little dehydrated and sick.

"In the swamp... there are monsters... that eat people... don't get close..."

Zheng Qingmiao was stunned for a while, never expecting to encounter such a situation.

After a while, another tentacle came out of the water and sprayed water on the tentacle that was fixed outside as a warning sign, as if watering a flower.

Behind him, Lu Man tilted his head to look at him, as if wondering why he didn't continue walking.

The tentacles in the swamp sensed someone approaching, and began to yell even harder:

"There are monsters in the swamp that can eat people, please don't approach them."

This time, I no longer stuttered, and my sentences became more fluent.

Zheng Qingmiao's eyebrows twitched.He recognized that it was Lu Man's voice.

Behind him, the young man looked at the water with a blank expression, his fingers rubbed the pearl earring on his right ear, and the tentacles trembled like prey being targeted by a predator.

There are more than a dozen scarred tentacles on the surface of the water, with big spines and suction cups, and it starts to play in a loop:

"There are monsters in the swamp", "can eat people", "do not approach".

For a while, the originally quiet swamp was filled with cheerful air, and the voices rose and fell, weaving into a noisy ditty.

The monsters scrambled to shout out warnings.Zheng Qingmiao could even sense their sincerity and sincerity, as if they were afraid that if they spoke in a low voice, they would be caught cooking octopus legs in salad.

He has been hunting for so many years, and this is the first time he has encountered such a funny scene, and he almost couldn't help laughing.Although it was not his masterpiece, he still felt happy in his heart.

In the past, when was it not that monsters used people as toys to tease them?This time, it was the other way around.

Zheng Qingmiao knows better than anyone that monsters do not have the rationality that normal animals should have, only the desire to eat.

After all, monsters have a strong self-healing ability, and they will heal quickly if they bleed a little when they are attacked by humans.

And human beings, their extremely fragile food, will die if they are caught by a claw.

The disparity in power makes the monsters even more unscrupulous.Even when wounded and bleeding, they will not be afraid, will not retreat, but will continue to move forward.

Zheng Qingmiao couldn't imagine how these tentacles in front of him turned into cute sirens.

For monsters who only like to eat and have no brains, perhaps only by equating eating with pain can they be taught like this.

He gestured that there was no danger, and continued to move forward.

The boy passed by the swamp, squinted at them, and made a gesture of silence.

The tentacles stopped again, one by one running faster than anyone else, sinking into the lake as if dead.Only one tentacle was left alone and continued to stick out.

In the distance, you can still hear the tentacle dutifully broadcasting:

"There are monsters in the swamp that can eat people, please don't approach them."

The author says:

Merry Christmas everyone!