Trying to pretend to be human today

Chapter 306 Hatchet Player
It seemed like... I heard something amazing.

His bent knees began to tremble, and he couldn't help but let out the breath he was holding, making an obvious gasping sound.

The sound was so clear that it was extremely harsh on this quiet mountain road with no other voices.

The two people in the conversation stopped immediately, especially the old man who stopped his sinister smile, and they both turned their heads in the direction of the sound of gasping.

Are you about to be discovered?
The old man suppressed his smile and nodded towards the middle-aged man.

After receiving the instructions, the middle-aged man stood up and walked at first, then gradually accelerated his pace, and finally rushed to the edge of the woods.

He was extremely vigilant, reached into his arms and groped around, and took out a hatchet.

The handle of the blade was wrapped with a strip of cloth. The middle-aged man moved closer to the tree while removing it. The moment the strip of cloth completely fell to the ground, the middle-aged man's hand touched the trunk of the tree.

The sound seemed to come from this tree.

If there's nothing under the tree...it's on the tree.

The middle-aged man suddenly raised his head.

The leaves on the treetops were rustling in the wind, and there was nothing on the bare branches except a few residual leaves.

The middle-aged man who didn't find the target turned back and shook his head at the old man, who narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

"No?" he said, "Look around a little more, maybe he's hiding."

The middle-aged man nodded and said yes. He walked around the edge of the forest a few more times as instructed, and even slashed at the low branches with a hatchet a few times.

Many branches were cut down, but no one was still seen.

After searching twice, they found nothing, so the middle-aged man had to go back the same way. The old man took one last look into the shadows of the trees and led the middle-aged man to continue walking upward.

After they walked out for a while, at the top of the crown of the tallest tree that could not be seen from the ground, a rustling movement flashed by, and Bai Su fell to the ground with Gao Tianyi.

The experience was like bungee jumping. The young man immediately let go of his neck, covered his mouth, and hugged the nearest tree trunk.

The feeling of your feet touching the ground is so good.

It was difficult for Gao Tianyi to describe what he had just experienced. He really felt like he was on a jumping machine.

Unlike the rising process of the jumping machine that is slow, the Baisu brand jumping machine also rises in one go. Only the sound of the wind is heard, and the color in front of you changes from green to gray and blue.

The green ones are the shades of the trees, and the gray-blue ones are the sky.

In the blink of an eye, the young man was lifted to a high place to breathe in the fresh air above.

Gao Tianyi didn't expect that there was such a tall and dense tree in the woods.

So next, the middle-aged man searched for talents in the low branches of the tree without success. Who would have thought that he would climb to the top of the tree in an instant?
After calming down the sudden rise and fall of his heart, the young man finally stuffed the heart hanging in his throat back into his chest. He was about to ask Bai Su how he did it just now, but when he turned around, he realized that he had lost the black-haired young man's figure.

Gao Tianyi: ...where are the people?
The human boy quickly turned around to look for him, and saw someone on the mountain path going up a bit.

"Bai——Brother, what are you going to do?"

"Well..." Bai Su's black eyes did not blink, and he turned back from the front, "Why don't you follow and have a look? They should be going to the ancestral hall."

"Ah...of course I want to see that, but..." Gao Tianyi was asked and messed up his hair, "Brother Xia and the others are more important. Let's go back first."

The previous ominous hexagrams made the underage Taoist priest very concerned. Now that he was being delayed for a while by two people from the village, Gao Tianyi was even more anxious to rush back.

Humanity made a choice.

Between getting closer to discovering the truth and going back, humans still chose the side that favors their companions.

"Okay." Bai Su's black eyes blinked, and he turned around, "Then let's go quickly."

Although the monsters are interested in what happens up there, the humans are asking to get their act together.

Bai Su thought, he came down in a hurry or carelessly. His original intention was to come down to see the human boy who suddenly ran away. It was an accident that he met people in the village.

After all, he didn't keep an eye on him all the time.

Speaking of which... I followed the human boy down for a while. Because they were afraid of bumping into people again, they did not walk on the paved road, but walked to the side closer to the woods.

Bai Su also remembered something.

He had not planned to leave directly just now, so neither the offerings placed on the altar nor the tablets he picked up and put down were placed neatly.

No one needs to observe carefully. As long as you stand in the ancestral hall and glance at it, you can catch a glimpse of several crooked tablets.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is the ancestral hall that has been visited by outsiders.

Bai Su thought of this and told Gao Tianyi.

The young man, who was carefully walking along the mountain road to avoid tripping, became distracted and almost hit a tree.

"What did you say?" The human boy raised his voice, and then suddenly dropped.

Afraid of being overheard, he half-covered his mouth, turned around, lowered his voice and asked again: "Brother Bai, didn't you put the tablet back to its original position?"

Bai Su nodded and added that it was more than that.

"What else?"

"I even touched two pieces of fruit on the table to eat."

"...?"

When a human being puts up a question mark, he doesn’t think he has a problem, he thinks that other people have a problem.

"What did you touch and eat?"

"Offerings, I remember that the kind of offerings that look good can be taken back to eat?"

"...It's possible..." But not now!

Gao Tianyi just wanted to grab Bai Su and shake him crazily to ask if they were treating him harshly - well, the food he came here on a mission was a bit bad. Since there was a problem with the food in the village, he could only use fast food to solve it. ...but this is definitely not the reason why Baisu took the offerings and ate them!

"Aren't you afraid that something might happen if you eat those things?!"

"Huh? Isn't it okay if I eat the fish from this village?"

The black-haired young man licked his lips, as if he was savoring the taste of the offerings, without any reflection.

Bai Su raised a point. He heard from netizens that the food being offered would taste better, so he tried it briefly in the ancestral hall and found no difference.

Gao Tianyi: "What difference can there be...the food served in our Taoist temple tastes the same!"

The human boy even wanted to say that if he had known that Bai Su wanted to try it, he would have taken people to their Taoist temple to eat enough.

But it's too late to say anything now, so I can only leave as soon as possible, lest the old and middle-aged people who go up find that the ancestral hall has changed a lot, and contact someone to arrest them.

I am not afraid of being caught, but if the villagers are unreasonable and cause conflicts, subsequent actions will be full of difficulties.

Like being kicked out of the place where he lives, being hostile to the villagers, etc. Gao Tianyi can cite several common scenarios.
"Go back quickly." The young man sighed, "I don't know why, but I always have a bad feeling."

The two of them didn't stop for the rest of the journey. Bai Su even touched the other's collar when the human boy felt that the speed was too slow.

This time, he was dodged by Gao Tianyi, who had a premonition.The young man sneered and took two steps forward quickly, politely declining and saying no.

Nothing happened in the village, it was peaceful.

When they returned, most of the villagers were doing their own things. There were a lot more people than in the morning. Young and middle-aged men could also be seen in the village. They must have come down from the mountain after finishing their work on the mountain.

When Bai Su and the others walked for a while, almost crossing the center of the village and heading towards where they lived, the village started to commotion.

Specifically, some villagers came out of their houses, communicated there in twos and threes, and cast suspicious glances at those nearby.

Bai Su noticed that some villagers were looking towards them, looked back with a normal expression, and turned back the inquiring gaze of the human boy next to him.

He pressed his hand on the top of Gao Tianyi's head, controlling the direction of the young man's face with his palm.

"Don't look." Bai Su said, "It seems that the village has already discovered it."

What was found?It was discovered that he was playing with the tablets and stealing the offerings.

It's just that this discovery was too shocking, and it was difficult to find the suspect who made this move for a while. It seemed possible that anyone without proof of presence was possible.

Baisu could still hear the villagers whispering, saying that anyone who did such disrespectful behavior would be cursed.

The black-haired young man tilted his head, but the smile on his face did not change.

"What happened?" Bai Su asked the nearby villagers out of curiosity.

The villager who had a face but no name was vague and waved his hand to drive away Bai Su and Gao Tianyi, who behaved normally.

When he was far away from this faceless villager, Bai Su heard him whispering words such as "I found it", "Is it true?", "It turned out to be..." among others.

The human boy's head was kept pressed. When the distance was far enough, he suddenly raised his head.

Gao Tianyi asked: "What were they talking about just now?"

Bai Suzheng felt strange: "They say 'found'...but aren't we here?"

There were no villagers following them, except for the initial commotion that attracted some attention, and the villagers quickly looked away.

It's like... they found the prisoner who entered the ancestral hall and caused trouble, but the prisoner was not them.

Gao Tianyi was also surprised. He was sure that they were the only ones entering before and after the ancestral hall. When they entered, they did not observe any traces left by their predecessors in the short term.

Weird, there can't be someone behind them...?
Gao Tianyi thought of this possibility endlessly.

It shouldn't be... right?When they went down the mountain, except for the old man and the middle-aged man, they saw no other villagers.

Bai Su continued to walk back with doubts, and when he almost reached the place where he lived, he smelled some unusual smell.

The human boy was still walking forward unconsciously, but the black-haired young man slowed down and picked up a few leaves on the roadside.

——It’s the smell of food.

The black eyes narrowed instantly, and the fingers that were twisting the leaves were retracted into the palms. The mouth-like slits that opened in the palms easily destroyed several leaves, leaving not even a single residue.

Bai Su felt a little regretful.

It seemed like he shouldn't have followed Gao Tianyi out in the afternoon.

It feels like... something interesting will happen if you stay in the house.

But now it's too late to regret it, and time can't be turned back.

Baisu had no choice but to fall behind and eat the traces left by the black mud along the way, like a scavenger. The road he walked was clean, with nothing left except some sticky mud.

The black silt and soil are actually not very eye-catching when mixed together. Without special senses, it is easy to ignore it.

However, where they live, the marks on the wall are a bit dazzling, deep and shallow, as if they were scratched by some large object.

It wouldn't be called a foreign object, but it would at least be thought to be something large, heavy, and angular.

"What is this?" Gao Tianyi asked, but no one answered him.

As the traces deepened, they returned to the door of the place where they lived.

The first entry destination was the extremely damaged door.

If the door before they left was a dark and atmospheric brown-red, the door when they came back had some pits that were difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. If they reached out and touched it, they would definitely feel it.

"What are these..." Gao Tianyi asked again and hurriedly knocked on the door. After a while, someone came out and answered the door.

The short-haired police officer who opened the door a crack breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the person coming. Then he looked behind the two of them a few times before letting them in.

As soon as the door to the courtyard was closed, a question came out all over the place.

"What did you just encounter?"

As soon as he said this, the young man seemed to realize something. He dug into his pocket and took out a mobile phone with several unanswered calls.

It was a scene that had a sense of déjà vu, and it seemed like they had missed each other's contact.

Gao Tianyi raised his hand and said, "I also want to ask Brother Xia this question... what have you encountered before?"

"We saw strange traces along the way." The young man pointed to the door, "Black, muddy... it seems like something... flowed through."

Xia Chengyin didn't know this. They were in the house from beginning to end and never went out even after everyone left.

Xia Chengyin pinched his eyebrows and said with a headache: "It will be difficult to explain to you clearly for a while...but we did encounter a situation."

The two people outside were still talking, but Bai Su had abandoned them and entered the house first.

Without anyone reminding him, the monster found the room where the person was by smelling the scent.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Qi Zhuyue lying on the bed, and Tang Nuo, who had moved a stool next to her and sat there, watching over her.

"What's wrong with her?" Bai Su walked over and waved his hand in front of Qi Zhuyue's eyes, "Is your eye injured?"

The woman with her eyes closed lay peacefully, not reacting to the changes in light and shadow above her perspective.

It doesn't look like there's something wrong with the eyes, so at this point in time and in this state, is it... a trick?

Tang Nuo nodded helplessly.

"Wen Rongxuan came to the door earlier. We thought he was here to look for books."

In fact, that's what they thought when they were attacked, so they asked Qi Zhuyue to stay with Tang Nuo, so that they could protect Tang Nuo if something went wrong.

Unexpectedly, Wen Rongxuan's goal was not books.

From the beginning, the book was their fault.

Afterwards, Xia Chengyin and Tang Nuoyi gathered together and found that from the moment Wen Rongxuan peeked through the crack in the door, all he said was "Wen Tao" and he didn't mention the lost book.

It was the same when Wen Rongxuan was driven away by the villagers. He looked inside the house.

He is watching "Wen Tao".

(End of this chapter)