Thinking of this, Guan Heng said to Tianlin again: "My big guide, the road ahead has been blocked. How we will continue to change the route depends on you."

"Well, let me take a look at the map first." Tianlin hooked her finger at Rong Xuan's corpse horse, and the other party immediately ran over with a pleasing manner. She reached out to take out the map of the animal skin hanging on the other party's body, and then unfolded it.

"Well..." After a while, Tian Lin raised her head and said, "There are very few nearby villages. If you walk more than ten miles northeast, you can pass by a place called "Jackdaw Village". We can turn around from there and walk to Guishan for about half a day."

"Okay, the next destination is Han Jiao Village." After hearing Guan Heng's words, everyone cheered in unison and walked forward.

...

At the same time, in a forest near Jackdaw Village, a woodcutter walked on the path in the forest with a firewood. He thought to himself: "I don't know what happened, but I always feel like something is following behind me. Although there are few monsters here, it's better to go home quickly."

But the next moment, a cold and cold wind suddenly blew behind the woodcutter. He couldn't help but shivering: "It's so cold..." As soon as these two words were said, the man fell down immediately, and a layer of dark blue frost formed on his body and even the scattered wood.

"Wuwuwuwu--" There were a series of shrill low whistles from somewhere. Then, the owner of the voice suddenly rushed to the near the frozen woodcutter and suddenly penetrated into his forehead.

"Crack...Crack..." The dark blue frost layer on the woodcutter's body suddenly burst into pieces, falling to the ground and splashing dazzling ice flowers. He also stood up slowly, his eyes dulled up the woods on the ground, and slowly walked towards the Jackdaw Village outside the woods.

...

Time passed quickly, and it was almost dusk in the blink of an eye. After Guan Heng and his friends arrived at the Jackdaw Village, they knocked on the doors of several families, but when the other party saw the appearance of the ghost tiger and Rong Xuan's corpse and horse, they closed their doors and did not let everyone stay overnight.

"Oh, you two guys are all implicated." Guan Heng scratched his head and said, "It seems that we have a great chance to stay in the wilderness today."

"Aowu--" The ghost tiger and the corpse horse shouted at the same time, their tone full of grievance.

"Actually, sleeping in the wild is nothing." Agou said sarcastic words next to him: "For us travelers, isn't that common?"

"Brother Ah Gou, we were forced to stay in the wild overnight because we didn't meet a village." Tian Lin looked at the curling smoke rising from the village and muttered: "But now we have the opportunity to warm the pillow with a high bed and eat some hot meals, but we can't see or touch it."

"Puff..." Hearing this, Guan Heng almost laughed out loud: "Girl, you have become more and more charming and sentimental recently."

"Where do I have it?" Tian Lin was about to argue for a few more words, but a trembling old woman suddenly walked not far ahead. She was strolling hard with a cane, but she was carrying a large bamboo basket in her arms, which contained a lot of things, bent the old woman's waist.

"Oh, mother-in-law, your stuff is too heavy, I'll help you." As soon as this sentence was said, Tian Lin immediately ran to the old woman and carried the bamboo basket. The other party immediately smiled and stretched out his wrinkles on his face: "Thank you, little girl."

Tian Lin was sweet-mouthed and helped the old woman walk to her house with a bamboo basket, and everyone followed without saying a word.

"Oh, it turns out that you are foreign guests, and you are looking for a place to stay?" Hearing Tian Lin telling the situation in a few words at her door, the old woman said without hesitation: "Then let's stay at my house tonight. I still have two empty rooms in my house, only Lao Shi and his son live, so everyone can stay overnight."

Tian Lin was overjoyed when she heard this, but still asked in a low voice: "Mother-in-law, aren't you afraid that those guys around us will scare her and her elder brother? The other villagers all looked very nervous."

"Oh, they are not afraid of monsters." The old woman, that is, Grandma Chen, looked left and right, and then said, "What everyone is afraid of is the monsters that will appear at night."

"What monster?!" Seeing Guan Heng and others' faces appearing astonished, Grandma Chen hurriedly said: "It is not appropriate to say that these are inappropriate at the gate, which will cause misunderstandings from the villagers. Everyone, hurry up and go into the house with me."

When he came to Grandma Chen's house, he swallowed ghost tigers, mountain croakers, elephant snake birds, corpse horses, and red horses were all arranged in separate rooms.

Guan Hengyan ordered them not to cause trouble, eat something casually, and just squeeze together and cover their heads and sleep well, and never cause trouble to Grandma Chen's house.

At this moment, Grandma Chen took the others into the big house. According to her, as a woodcutter, her son Chen Zheng often went out early and came back late. He usually didn't even have anyone to talk and accompany him at home. The room seemed deserted. Today everyone came just in time and could also relieve the loneliness a little.

After chatting for a few words, Tianlin became curious and turned the topic to the "monster" mentioned by the old woman just now. She blurted out: "Mother-in-law, what is that monster? Tell me."

"Okay, anyway, my old woman has lived for most of her generation and has seen it a lot a lot. She has no worries, unlike those people in the village who are afraid of everything."

Grandma Chen sighed at this time and said, "Oh, it is also a detriment of the evils committed by the villagers in the past, but everyone could not do this back then. That was sixty or seventy years ago..."

According to Grandma Chen, in the past sixty years, Jackdaw Village had a severe plague and wasteland. The grain crops they cultivated were almost unharvest. The birds and beasts in the mountains had already run away, and even the bark and grass seeds had left everyone with nothing left.

That year, a total of more than a dozen babies were born in the households of the villagers in Jackdaw Village, but even adults were not full, so what could they use to raise their children?

Finally, everyone was cruel and put the dolls into the bamboo basket and threw them into the mountains. When everyone left, they heard the children crying in the bamboo basket. The sound was so miserable.

When Guan Heng and others heard this, they all looked unbearable on their faces. When they thought of those people facing a life-and-death choice, they could only grit their teeth and abandon their flesh and blood, and shook their heads involuntarily.

At this time, Grandma Chen continued: "After abandoning those babies, I don't know why, the fields in Jackdaw Village achieved a bumper harvest the next year, and countless grain harvests. Everyone laughed for a whole year, but in late autumn, strange things happened."
Chapter completed!