On the way up the mountain, the air was silent.

Hua Shi followed Xie Mingchi and went up the mountain quietly.

She didn't say anything, and Xie Mingchi was like a mute person, unable to utter a word for a long time.

When passing by the temple shrine at the foot of the mountain, Hua Shi was about to bend down and kneel down when his hand was suddenly grabbed by Xie Mingchi.

Hua Shi was confused: "What, what happened?"

"No need to worship." Xie Mingchi looked into her eyes, as if seeing the confusion in her eyes, he said: "This is not the shrine of the mountain god, there is no point in worshiping it."

As for the rumors that those who don't worship the shrine at the foot of the mountain will be punished by the mountain god and their entire family will suffer, these are just rumors circulating in the village and should not be taken seriously...

Hua Shi looked down at the low temple shrine at his feet, then turned around and followed Xie Mingchi.

"You don't even ask me why I want to go into the mountains with you?"

On the way up the mountain, Xie Mingchi, who was leading the way in front, suddenly said these words.

Hua Shi paused, blinked, and walked familiarly along the rugged mountain path, asking, "Why?"

Xie Mingchi suddenly stopped, stood still, turned around and looked at her seriously.

His sudden movement made Hua Shi, who was concentrating on walking forward, almost bump into his arms. After stabilizing her footing, she looked up and saw his serious expression again, and her face was full of confusion.

"I found the trace of the child that Aunt Suhua lost in the mountains." Xie Mingchi said with a frown.

Hua Shi thought for a moment and asked, "So you went into the mountains this time just to look for that child?"

She remembered what Xie Mingchi had told her last time. He had gone into the mountains several times to look for that child. The child had been missing for nearly five years, and now that he was found, he would be almost twelve years old...

A seven-year-old child was lost in the mountains for five years. Xie Mingchi searched for the child for two consecutive years, and only now did he get some news... Is the child really still alive?

According to Xie Mingchi, monsters were rampant in the mountains. How did a young and ignorant child survive...?

Xie Mingchi lowered his eyelids and continued, "When he was first lost, I went into the mountains to look for him, but I couldn't find him..."

I only saw a bloody piece of clothing at the place where I lost it. I brought it back to the village. When others saw it, they thought the person was dead...

He also thought that the person was dead at the time and that the matter was over. But one day two years ago, when he was hunting in the mountains, he found some strange traces. Following the traces, he soon found a dilapidated thatched house and sensed the familiar figure.

After checking several times, he finally confirmed that the traces were the traces of the child from three years ago...

From then on, he kept following the trail, trying to find the person, but every time when he was about to get close, something would discover him faster than him and hide again.

This went on for nearly two years, with traces of her appearing only once every five or six months. If he didn't, no matter how hard he tried to look for her, there would be no trace of her...

After hearing what Xie Mingchi said, Hua Shi's brows furrowed. She asked hesitantly, "So you suspect this is related to the monsters in the mountains?"

Xie Mingchi didn't deny it, but instead said, "I suspect the child survived because he was adopted by a monster. And that monster is very smart. It knew I was looking for it, so it has been hiding."

Although he was a mountain guardian, blessed by the mountain god and exceptional, he was still just an ordinary man, and naturally could not compare to those old monsters who had lived for countless centuries...

If the monster deliberately concealed its presence and didn't let him know, it would be difficult for him to detect it even if he took the initiative to look for it.

but……

Xie Mingchi looked at her, his eyes slightly shining, and said, "However, I have been searching for nearly two years, and it's not that I haven't found anything. It should be a wolf demon that has become a spirit. It ran out from the deep mountains and appears in the forest from time to time."

Hua Shi was a little dazed.

Wolf demon…?

The image of a scene from a movie unconsciously emerged in her mind... a figure covered in black hair, with a wolf's head and a human body.

Seeing that she was silent, Xie Mingchi thought he had said too much. She was frightened by what he said, so she hurriedly spoke to comfort him, "It must be afraid of the mountain god, so it dares not walk around openly. It only dares to hide and occasionally run out to show its true colors. It dares not go out of the periphery, let alone go down the mountain."

"And since it can adopt a human child, you know it doesn't mean to harm anyone. It just escaped from the mountains to avoid my search. Don't worry too much."

Xie Mingchi looked at her and said a long string of words before finally making clear the soothing meaning of his words.

Hua Shi smiled and nodded, "I'm not afraid, I'm actually a little curious about what those monsters look like."

After hearing this, Xie Mingchi looked as if he was thinking seriously. After a while, he said, "Most of them are half-human, half-demon..."

If someone saw it for the first time, they might be frightened by the appearance of the monster...

It looks like half human, half demon, and can speak human language.

Who could have imagined that such a vast forest could hide so many terrifying monsters...

Hua Shi nodded, "So what should we do next?"

She originally thought that after going into the mountains with Xie Mingchi, if he was familiar with the terrain, he would take her to the lake or stream to catch all the fish in it and prepare some fry for his own fish pond in advance.

From the moment she decided to build a fish pond, she had already planned to go into the mountains to catch fish and raise fish fry. After all, there was a spring there, so raising fish should be an easy task for her.

After she asked the question, Xie Mingchi suddenly stood there, closed his eyes, and remained quiet without saying a word.

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