casket of old days

Chapter 111 The Escaped Monster

When Zheng Sanshui brought the two of them to the inner room and lifted the black-red straw mat, Chen Gang backed away in fright at the corpse exposed below, and finally spat it out in a gulp.

"Tell you not to look at it." Zheng Sanshui shook his head and explained: "This is bitten to death by that monster, and it is full of traces of that monster's gnawing."

After inspecting the corpse, Zheng Sanshui was about to go back to rest, looked at Chu Qiguang and reminded him kindly: "It's getting dark, it's dangerous to go out now. Why don't you force yourself to stay in my room for the night?"

Chu Qiguang said that he wanted to go shopping again to find clues to the monsters, but in fact he took Chen Gang to meet Qiao Zhi and the others.

As soon as they came to meet outside the village, the big head ran up blah, hugging Chu Qiguang's calf and shouting, "Godfather, I found that monster! I smelled it all!"

Seeing Datou's appearance, Bai Mi and Qiao Zhi shook their beards together: "It's disgusting to lick a dog."

"Good job, take me to have a look." Chu Qiguang touched the Shar Pei's head, and the latter showed an expression of enjoyment.

So the two and the three demons quickly found the location of a cave, and the Shar Pei dog said: "There is a smell of earth mixed with foul smell everywhere outside this village, and finally I found this place following the smell."

The big head eagerly said: "Godfather! I'll go in and help you catch him!"

Chu Qiguang said: "There is no one who goes into the mouse hole to catch mice."

So under Chu Qiguang's order, Qiao Zhi, Baimi, Datou, and Chen Gang picked up a pile of dry firewood from around them, put them into the hole, lit velvet and flint, and Chen Gang took off his clothes and directed the smoke into the hole. Fan away.

After waiting for a cup of tea, suddenly the soil at the entrance of the cave vibrated, and a khaki field mouse came out with a bang, and roared at Chu Qiguang and the others with its mouth puffed out.

Seeing the pig-sized vole in front of them, Chu Qiguang, Qiao Zhi, Bai Mi, Datou, and Chen Gang all made a move, and the strong wind howled, so frightened that the vole turned around and ran away, screaming.

First, the field mouse was slapped on the back by Baimi, and then Qiao Zhi scratched the face with bloodstains. In a panic, he was bumped into by Chu Qiguang head-on. Light knocked to the ground.

Chen Gang, Bai Mi, and Da Tou immediately rushed forward and firmly controlled him.

Seeing the field mouse struggling desperately, Bai Mi slapped him on the head: "I told you that this mouse doesn't talk about martial arts, and sneaked up on me last time."

The field mouse said angrily: "So it's you, a useless cat? I can beat you without a sneak attack. If it weren't for someone helping you today, you won't be able to beat me if you hit me ten thousand times."

Chu Qiguang touched the field mouse's withered stomach: "You are very hungry, so you start stealing food from the villagers?"

The voles said unconvinced, "That's what I should eat, it's the land I planted for them."

Chu Qiguang asked curiously: "Oh? Then tell me what's going on?"

The field mouse looked at Chu Qiguang with a pair of small black eyes sideways, and squeaked: "Who are you? Are you also a cat demon?"

Bai Mi slapped the field mouse on the head: "This is our king, please show some respect."

Hearing that the other party was also a monster, Vole's attitude became a little better, and he said, "This village is full of liars and rascals..."

Chu Qiguang listened to the vole's narration, and his eyes showed surprise.

According to the other party's description, the vole's name is Jinji, and it comes from a country in the far west called Dazhu. It is said that the country is ruled by three demon kings. , pig and cow monsters, sheep and horse monsters, cat and dog monsters, monkey monsters, mouse monsters, people... etc., are all divided into different levels according to different races.

High-level monsters can eat low-level monsters and people at will. Voles and people like him are the lowest levels. Besides farming every day, they may be eaten by high-level monsters at any time.

So he escaped from the country of Dazhu with a family of [-] people, traveled eastward, and finally came to Dagan, where only eight of them died along the way.

As a result, the days of working hard on the grassland were not easy. When I went there, I was caught and made a slave. I worked non-stop every day, but often didn't even have food. The family died and only four rats remained.

So the escape began again, and the four field mice fled southward to Dahan, and he died on the way, only one field mouse remained.

After finally escaping to the vicinity of this Nanjian village, he found that there were few people here, and there were still a large number of uncultivated wasteland, so he wondered if he could make a living here.

After some probing, he actually reached an agreement with the villagers here. The villagers would rent the land to him for planting, and he would hand over half of the grain.

This was much better than his days in Dazhu and Dagan, so Jinji lived beside the fields here and started farming.

At the beginning, he was wary of the villagers of Nanjian Village, but he soon discovered that they seemed to have no hostility towards monsters, and sometimes they would even help Jin Ji...

"I really believed in their evil..." Jinji said angrily, "I worked so hard to farm, but they invited me to drink and stole all the wheat I harvested while I was drunk! In this village All thieves! Robbers! Liars!"

Qiao Zhi listened to this story in surprise, and thoughtfully said, "So you go to steal their food every night?"

"It's not stealing!" Jin Ji yelled angrily: "It's taking back my food! And I didn't get much back. I don't know where they hid the food!"

Chen Gang asked: "Then why do you want to bite people to death? And gnaw others into a mess?"

Jin Ji said: "What kills people? I have never killed anyone."

Chen Gang said: "Did you kill the person who died in the village?"

Jin Ji refused to admit it: "I have never killed anyone."

Qiao Zhi stroked his cat's chin and said slowly, "Well, let me deduce what's going on..."

"Reasoning ass." Chu Qiguang tied Jin Ji up, and then walked towards the village: "Just ask the village chief what's going on, and beat him if you don't tell, who has time to play reasoning."

So Bai Mi stayed outside to guard Jin Ji who was tied up. Chu Qiguang, Chen Gang, and Qiao Zhi and Datou followed secretly, divided into two groups and walked to Zheng Sanshui's home in the village.

It was already late at night, but as soon as they entered the village, they could hear the sound of windows opening and closing. In the darkness, it seemed that many people hadn't slept and were still watching them.

Chu Qiguang went to the door of Zheng Sanshui's house, knocked on the door and shouted: "Zheng Sanshui, are you asleep?"

No one answered in the dark, so Chu Qiguang continued to shout: "We found the field mouse monster. He said that you rented the land to him? Ask him to help you cultivate the land?"

As these words spread far and wide in the village in the middle of the night, the whole village seemed to suddenly quiet down.

There was the sound of tables and chairs being overturned in Zheng Sanshui's room, and then the other party's voice sounded: "This is... oh, wait a moment..."

(End of this chapter)