The attending physician's words kept echoing in Wen He's head. She had to think about a lot of things. Finally, she sighed, rubbed her sore temples, and decided to work harder to complete the old house. When her mother was really relieved, she could take her mother in to live with her.
Thinking of this, Wen He seemed to be motivated again, and his originally depressed mood became a little better. He walked along the village road towards the path leading to the old house.
Wen He has walked this road many times in recent times and is very familiar with it. Although the villagers in this village are sometimes a bit stubborn and keep a distance from Wen He, to be honest, Wen He does not hate this village because it is simple and natural.
However, the atmosphere in the village today seemed different. The peaceful atmosphere was gone. Instead, a large group of villagers gathered together, crowded together. This scene suddenly made Wen He's heart tighten. It reminded her of the "thief" she had accidentally overheard exposing the scene. Almost subconsciously, Wen He wanted to sneak around from behind the crowd and pretend that she didn't see it. But she had only taken a few steps when the desperate wails of an old woman suddenly exploded in the crowd: "Damn it, give my child back to me - it's all your fault, it's all your fault. If you hadn't often told this child about the things in the mountains, how could the child run in out of curiosity and now become a monster? My child, give my child back to me, my child..."
Wen He felt a little familiar with the old lady's voice. She was the one who told Wen He not to go into the mountains at the beginning, saying that her husband had encountered monsters in the mountains. She was also the one who was said to expose the "thieves" who used rabbit footprints. Perhaps it was the old lady's miserable cry that made Wen He think of his mother who was still in the hospital. He couldn't help but lean his head over and look inside to see what was going on.
It would have been fine if I hadn't looked, but once I did, I was shocked by the look of the crowd.
There was not only an old lady crying miserably while holding a child, but also her husband and a child beside her. However, what scared Wen He was not the old lady crying miserably, but the child in her arms. The child was covered with yellow fur and had a long tail behind it. If it were not wearing clothes and had a child's face, it would look like a monkey. The child was still struggling desperately in the old lady's arms, making monkey sounds of "Oh Oh", and the long sharp claws that suddenly grew out scratched the old lady's arm and made it bleed!
In addition to this, right in front of Wen He's sight, there was a middle-aged man in a Taoist robe, with an immortal look. Beside him stood a person dressed as a child as his assistant, who seemed to be performing some kind of magic.
"What... happened?"
Unable to help himself, Wen He spoke. When the villagers nearby saw that it was Wen He, they subconsciously wanted to step back a little and keep a distance from Wen He. But when they looked up and saw Wen He's eyes, the villager hesitated. It was not because of anything else, but simply because eyes cannot lie.
Wen He's eyes were very clear, and he could see through everything at a glance. There was no gloating or curiosity in them, just pure worry. Such pure worry made it impossible for the villager to refuse. After a pause, he finally told the whole story in a muffled voice.
It turned out that the aunt's child had accidentally run into the mountains this morning. The aunt and her family were extremely worried. They had been looking for him all morning but couldn't find him. It was almost noon when a figure suddenly jumped out. The aunt was scared to death when she saw him. It was definitely their child, but for some reason, he had become like a monkey, with yellow hair and a tail.
When the village chief saw this, he knew that the matter was serious, so he immediately asked someone to invite Zhang Daxian, who was a capable person in the neighboring town. This was the one Wen He saw now wearing a Taoist robe. It was said that he was the most powerful Zhang Daxian in the nearby village.
This was the first time that Wen He had witnessed such a mysterious thing, but according to the villagers here, it seemed that this was not the first time such a thing had happened. It seemed that it happened once or twice occasionally, but the mountains here had always been peaceful and such things had basically never happened. They had never imagined that such a strange thing would happen in their mountains and bring disaster to the villagers.
The villagers' faces were filled with suppressed fear, but Zhang Daxian said that they had to surround the "mountain ghost" to prevent it from escaping, so the villagers surrounded it.
Just at this moment, the little boy next to him seemed to have made preparations and nodded to Zhang Daxian. Zhang Daxian's face became serious and he suddenly shouted, "Mountain ghost, why don't you leave the body quickly?" and shook the big copper bell in his hand violently.
The sound of the big copper bell seemed to have really worked. The child in the old lady's arms, the "mountain ghost", suddenly became angry and let out a sharp scream. This sound did not sound like a human voice. It directly irritated people's ears and made the villagers who were surrounding them step back in discomfort.
Wen He subconsciously wanted to cover her ears, but she did not feel as uncomfortable as she had imagined. She seemed to feel a slight warmth in her chest, and something offset the shrill screams of the "mountain ghost". But everyone else around her was in pain. Zhang Daxian, who was ringing the bell, could not bear it anymore and covered his ears, stepping back a long distance. Only the old lady held the "mountain ghost" tightly, but because the distance was too close, her ears and nose were bleeding.
The big man next to him, who was the old lady's husband, didn't care about anything else when he saw this. He ran over to cover his wife's ears, but now it was the big man's ears and nose that started bleeding quickly. This was not what shocked Wen He the most. The most shocking thing was that she saw the child next to the big man give up covering his ears, and with a look of discomfort on his face, he was about to reach out and tiptoe to cover the big man's ears!
How could this be possible! This was just a child. Even that big man couldn't stand it, so how could a child possibly stand it?!
Almost subconsciously, Wen He rushed out, reaching out to help the child cover the big man's ears, and lowered his head to shout at the child, "Child, I'll cover your father's ears, you quickly cover your ears and hide aside - and... I don't know what you are, but you're so noisy! Have you shouted enough? Stop it right now -"
Suddenly, as Wen He shouted angrily, something on his chest suddenly felt hot, and he heard a clear "hum", as if some invisible object suddenly shook away. In an instant, the shrill screams stopped abruptly, and the surroundings became extremely quiet, and his hearing returned to normal.
But at this moment, everyone was stunned, including Wen He himself.
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