Chapter 53 A monster that eats children appears in the town
The four of them walked down the mountain very tired.
They came here early in the morning, and when they came out of the barren mountain, they found that it was already evening.
"I didn't expect it's been so long. No wonder I feel so hungry." Xu Yuan touched his stomach.
Jiang Yi also felt it: "I'm hungry too."
"Miss Liuli and I are both passionate people." Xu Yuan praised.
Jiang Yi felt that he was just bragging by praising himself, and couldn't help but smile and shook his head.
"Back in town, you can have a feast."
"That's what I thought!"
"By the way, how did you find out that we needed to water the dead tree?" Xu Yuan asked the three of them.
It was Bai Zhuo who suggested finding water, and Jiang Yi waited for his answer.
"The five elements, you can figure it out if you use your brain." Bai Zhuo said concisely.
"Tsk, if I didn't pick leaves for you from the tree, I could find them too." Xu Yuan was not convinced.
When the four of them returned to the town, it was already dark. All the vendors had packed up and gone home. They finally found a restaurant that was still open and Xu Yuan rushed in.
"Waiter! Give me a portion of all your food!" the wishing lion asked loudly.
There was only one waiter cleaning the restaurant. When he saw Xu Yuan coming in, he replied fearfully, "Sir, we are about to close. Please go somewhere else."
Xu Yuan was angry: "What time is it now? I can understand street vendors closing their stalls, but why are you restaurants closing so early?"
Normally, restaurants and hotels would be open until very late.
The waiter looked embarrassed: "We have no choice. We were delayed because of something, otherwise we would have closed before dark."
Jiang Yi and the other two rushed to the restaurant: "Xu Yuan, why are you running so fast?"
Seeing Xuyuan was very angry, she asked, "What's wrong?"
"They're closing." said Xuyuan.
His stomach was empty now, and he was so hungry that he wished he could swallow a cow.
Who would have thought that just one day before they arrived, the town had changed its schedule and closed early.
"Aren't they usually open late? Why are they closing so early today?"
Seeing that the girl was easy to talk to, the waiter explained to her, "Miss, you don't know, many children disappeared in this town last night."
"Disappeared last night? He was fine when we left this morning."
"Those who disappeared at night were from the suburbs. They came to the town to report to the police early in the morning, but they didn't expect that several children in the town were also missing." The waiter explained.
So that's how it is, Jiang Yi understood. When they left, the person who reported to the police had not arrived yet.
"Do you know what's going on?" Jiang Yi asked him.
"I also heard this from the guests. They said that it was a demon that was causing trouble, kidnapping children and eating them for cultivation."
"Then why do you close so early?" Xu Yuan asked resentfully.
"My dear, I have elderly parents and young children to take care of. The boss has left his stall and gone home. I have to pack up quickly and go back to accompany my children. If something like this happens, who knows if my children will be the next one to be lost." The waiter complained bitterly.
Jiang Yi looked at him with sympathy, then said to the other three: "Let's go and investigate. Don't make things difficult for him."
"But I'm so hungry!"
"Waiter, do you have any leftover food in the kitchen?" Xu Yuan did not give up.
"Yes, yes, there are still some buns and pastries. I'll bring them to you right away." The waiter remembered that there were still some unsold staple foods in the kitchen.
"Bring them all up."
So, the three of them took a bag of buns and went to investigate the missing child.
Make a wish and eat while walking, one big bun at a time.
"Slow down, don't choke." Jiang Yi looked at him and shook his head disapprovingly.
"It's okay. I'll starve to death if I don't swallow it." Xu Yuan continued to talk while chewing.
"Let's go to the outskirts of the city first." Bai Zhuo suggested.
The three agreed to go to the suburbs where the child first disappeared.
I happened to see a woman drawing water in the yard.
"Sister, are there any children missing from your family?"
When the woman heard her say this, her eyes immediately turned red. The light was not good at night, but Jiang Yi could still see the tears in her eyes.
"Sister, don't cry. We are here to exorcise the demon. Can you tell us what happened before and after the child disappeared?"
The woman invited them into the house.
"The child's father was sent by the master to work somewhere else, and there were only the two of us, mother and son, left at home. I was still holding him to sleep last night, but when I woke up in the morning, I found that there was no one in the quilt. I thought that the child was playing around and got up early to go out and play, but I found that the door was still locked from the inside. I panicked and went out to look for him. I searched everywhere but couldn't find any trace of him. Then several neighbors were in the same situation as me, and they were all missing. Woo woo woo, the child's father is back, how should I explain to him..." As she spoke, the woman began to cry.
The four of them exchanged glances. It could only be a monster that could kidnap a child without anyone noticing, especially from such a large family.
After asking each family one by one, there was no significant progress.
The villagers were all very simple and honest. They couldn't remember anything wrong. They just said that the animal was fine at night, but disappeared when they woke up the next morning.
Jiang Yizhuo fell behind the three of them, lowering his head and thinking about something.
"Miss Liuli, have you found anything?" Bai Zhuo stopped and asked her.
"I just asked them if the missing child was a boy or a girl. Then I did some calculations and found that there were ten children missing from the outskirts of the city, all about three or four years old, five boys and five girls."
"Let's go to the town and ask." Chen Yu walked in front.
"What did you find?" Xuyuan asked him.
Jiang Yi answered him: "If ten children have also disappeared in the town, then this monster is likely trying to absorb the children's souls to improve its cultivation. A soul-sucking formation requires 10 children."
Late at night, the four of them went door to door asking, and sure enough, there were ten children missing in the town, and their ages were about the same as the children missing in the suburbs.
This formation that sucks the souls of children is extremely evil. It can only be used once and requires twenty children of similar age, ten boys and ten girls.
The power of monsters will increase greatly after sucking souls, but there has never been a case of missing children in this town before.
"This monster is either practicing this kind of evil skill for the first time, or it came from somewhere else," said Bai Zhuo.
"Do you remember what that old man said just now?" There was an old man in the suburbs who was taking care of his grandson alone, while his son and daughter-in-law were working in the next town.
"He said he heard a noise and the next day he found that the bolt had fallen off."
"Well, usually powerful monsters would do such a theft very well. It wasn't very experienced in that old man's house, so it opened the bolt from the outside little by little before entering."
"So this means this monster is practicing this kind of martial arts for the first time!" Xu Yuan said in surprise.
Since it was the first time, it meant there was still a way to save it.
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