Chapter 40: Monster

Chen Erniu jumped off the couch, pulled the clothes by the bed, put them on messily, pulled his son and ran out of the door, asking hurriedly:

"What the hell is going on!"

Chen Erniu's eldest son, Chen Sanshui, was reaching for the long knife on the wall with an anxious face, shouting:

"Father, take the knife, Father, take the knife! I'll tell you on the way!"

Chen Erniu took the long knife, wrapped it around his waist, and ran to the entrance of the village with big strides.

"A village servant went to patrol the fields at night and felt that there was someone rustling in the fields. The village servant thought someone was doing that thing in the fields, so he hurriedly hid and peeked, but saw a bloody corpse without a back of the head, and was so scared that he peed his pants on the spot."

Chen Sanshui followed Chen Erniu hurriedly while talking.

"How did he die?"

"The back of the head was smashed, the brain marrow was dug out, and the death was miserable."

Hearing this, Chen Erniu hurriedly stopped his steps and asked in surprise:

"Can you send someone to notify the master?"

"Not yet..."

Chen Sanshui replied hesitantly.

"Idiot! Do you think this matter can be hidden?!"

Chen Erniu was furious on the spot, shouting hatefully.

"I have already discussed with those few households by the field... told them not to speak out for now. This is the first murder case in these years, and I am afraid that Xu Wenshan will be unfavorable to my father!"

Chen Sanshui saw that his father was anxious and hurriedly explained.

"Idiot! This person had his brain marrow dug out!"

"This..."

Chen Sanshui saw his father's angry face and slowed down half a beat, seemingly realizing it.

"Can an ordinary murder dig out brain marrow?! Moreover, Xu Wenshan and I were fighting for others to see. Both of us were very satisfied with each other. Can Xu Wenshan take advantage of the situation to harm me? If he harms me, he will offend the more than one hundred households in Lichuan Mouth for nothing?"

"You brothers are all stupid as pigs. Xu Wenshan is younger than me. If I am not here in the future, what will you use to fight with others?!"

"Father..."

This questioning made Chen Sanshui ashamed, and he lowered his head and stopped talking.

Chen Erniu lowered his face, feeling extremely depressed, and said coldly:

"I'm afraid there is a monster making trouble. You go and notify the master yourself."

Chen Sanshui nodded forcefully and hurried towards Lijing Village. Chen Erniu watched his eldest son go away, finally having a bit of horror and sadness on his face, and said softly:

"I don't know how much this monster weighs. If Sanshui's eyes are brighter, he can still leave a successor for my Chen family."

Chen Erniu had experienced the terrifying drought in Lichuan Mouth. At that time, he was still young and playing in front of the door. He watched a large bird covered in red flames land in Lichuan Mouth, swallowing several village servants like pecking at small insects, and then flew away, leaving Lichuan Mouth with fields spraying hot air for three months.

The surviving village servants ate all the things that could be eaten near Lichuan Mouth, scooped river water from the Meichi River, and poured it into the fields, but it all disappeared. Chen Erniu's father carried one load of water after another, poured the fields for nine days, and committed suicide while holding his starving wife.

Chen Erniu abandoned his parents' corpses, gritted his teeth, held back his tears, and fled to Lijing Village, kowtowing until his head was covered in blood, and finally entered the Li family.

Watching the fire flickering in front of him, he suddenly woke up from his memory, pushed away his second son Chen Qiushu who came to greet him, raised the torch, looked at the bloody corpse lying on the ground with an empty brain shell, and was already in tears, gritting his teeth and saying:

"Who is this?"

"Old Ye at the entrance of the village."

Chen Qiushu looked at the tears on his father's face, feeling uneasy, and replied in a low voice.

"Call everyone in the village up, light a fire, and take knives and sticks."

Chen Erniu ordered in a low voice, but saw a village servant hurriedly coming from the village gate. Seeing him, he said:

"Manager Chen, Manager Chen! The master came to ask: Is there anything unusual in Lichuan Mouth?"

Chen Erniu was stunned, terrified, and full of doubts, thinking to himself:

"How can there be such a fast speed from Lichuan to Lijing! If there is an informant in the village, it can't be so fast back and forth. It seems that the master knew as soon as the people in the village died. There should be some means to deal with the monster."

His frowned eyebrows suddenly relaxed, and Chen Erniu felt much more relaxed, answering loudly:

"I'm afraid there is a monster making trouble in the village, and I have already sent someone to inform the master!"

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Li Xiangping looked silently at the blue-gray mirror on the platform. The fragmented mirror surface seemed to have recovered a little compared to when he picked it up when he was a child, but it was still in a state of breaking at any time. Faint silver-white light radiated from the mirror surface, looking quite dreamy.

"How long has that person been gone."

"It's been a quarter of an hour."

Li Tongya looked anxiously out the window, put down the wooden slip in his hand, and continued:

"We should go out, I'm afraid those people will break the rules and come to this backyard if they don't see us."

"Go!"

Li Xiangping looked at Li Xuanxuan sitting cross-legged and said in a deep voice.

Just out of the backyard, he saw Li Yesheng running around in the main courtyard like an ant on a hot pot. Seeing Li Tongya and the two, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said:

"Someone from Lichuan Mouth came, saying someone had their brain marrow dug out!"

"Dug out brain marrow?"

Li Xiangping was stunned, looked at Li Tongya, and said:

"I'm afraid there is a monster."

"Not bad."

Li Tongya nodded solemnly, pondered for a few breaths, and said in a deep voice:

"The monster dug out the brain marrow and retreated. It should still be afraid of people. Its cultivation will not be too high. It must still be in the Embryonic Breath realm. If it were in the Qi Refining stage, it could kill all the villagers and drive away in the mist."

"I'll go take a look!"

Li Xiangping pondered for a few breaths, frowned slightly, and said to Li Yesheng:

"Call the strong men in the village and bring weapons."

"Yes!"

Li Yesheng responded and hurried away. Seeing Li Yesheng go far, Li Tongya frowned and said:

"I don't know the depth of the monster, you and I shouldn't go."

"If I don't go today, the prestige that my Li family has worked hard to manage among these villages will be completely gone. I have to go!"

"Second Brother, you guard on the mountain, I will go and investigate. You know my temper, I won't take risks."

"Even if something happens, my Li family at least still has you. At worst, we will abandon Lichuan Mouth and ask the sect for help."

After speaking, Li Xiangping nodded to Li Tongya, took his bow and arrows, put on his yellowish-brown vine armor, and hurried down the mountain. ===== CHAPTER 41 =====