They followed Gu Momo to the Taoist temple. Momo ran into the main hall, took out a book from behind the portrait of the patriarch, and handed it to Xu Anran.
Then, like a little adult, she arranged rooms for everyone, especially for Xu Anran. She said in a serious tone, "Sister, you can stay with me. Our room is great. I'll have Dahei and the others take care of you."
After saying that, he called out, "Big Black, Spinning Top, go tidy up the room."
The two zombies, one tall and one short, jumped into the room.
Xu Anran's lips twitched as she watched.
Then, little Momo ran over to Maisui, who looked a little older than her, and looked at her curiously, asking, "What's your name? How old are you?"
Mai Sui whispered, "I'm about ten years old. My name is Wang Weiwei, and my nickname is Mai Sui."
"Huh? You don't look that much older than me, how come you're already ten? Okay then, from now on, I'll call you Sister Wheat Ear, and you can call me Momo." The little guy pouted.
This kid is quite sociable; in no time, he became familiar with everyone and started calling out "brother" and "sister" to everyone.
Her chubby and adorable appearance made Uncle Li extremely fond of her.
Uncle Li took out a lot of delicious food and fed it to Momo. Momo accepted it all happily and didn't forget to sweetly praise him, saying, "Grandpa Li, you're so kind. Momo likes you very much."
They stayed at the Taoist temple for two days. During that time, Xu Anran asked Momo curiously, "I haven't seen any monsters here. Is there some reason for that?"
Momo proudly said, "My ancestor drew a formation here, so no one, let alone monsters, can find this place."
"Then why did your master say that staying here is a dead end?" Xu Anran asked again.
Momo pouted and said, "Master said that the magic power of the formation will gradually weaken over time."
Afterwards, Xu Anran asked if there were any monsters nearby. At this point, the little guy immediately perked up and said, "I know, I know all the monsters around here. I'll lead the way for you."
Over the next few days, led by Momo, they dealt with the scattered minor demons on the nearby hills one by one, and obtained a lot of demon cores.
On their way back to the Taoist temple that day, they encountered a person.
The man, covered in blood, ran over shouting, "Help us!"
He was a cave dweller, and a pack of weasels had just run into the cave and attacked them.
Momo knew them, so Xu Anran decided to go and see what was going on.
When Xu Anran and the others arrived at the cave, they saw a pack of weasels slaughtering the people inside. Many corpses lay scattered on the ground, and some people were protecting the children behind them.
Xu Anran organized her team to participate in the battle, and they quickly rescued everyone. The pack of weasels ran away just as they saw their prey.
They spotted the youngest ear of wheat and rushed toward her together. Seeing this, everyone quickly went to protect the ear of wheat.
Just then, the wheat ears mingled with a large number of weasels, and all the weasels transformed into the shape of wheat ears.
For a moment, no one could tell which was the real ear of wheat. Everyone was showing fear and crying for help. Some were trembling, some were crying, and some were shouting for help.
Xu Liang was a little anxious, but Xu Anran patted his shoulder, looked at the "wheat ears" and laughed, "I know who the real ones are. In a little while, I'll have Yi Yi take the real ones away, and you can kill the rest."
"Are you sure?" Xu Liang asked.
"Of course," Xu Anran replied confidently.
Just now, she tried to see through these weasels, using her golden energy to reach her eyes. Sure enough, she saw that the wheat ears that the weasels had turned into all had some brownish demonic energy on them, while the real wheat ears were completely clean.
Xu Anran called Yi Yi over and told him who the wheat ear was. He nodded and got the answer.
He swooped down and quickly grabbed the ears of wheat, then shouted, "Do it!"
Black lightning, poison gas, golden light, lasers, and gunfire all crashed down at once, wiping out the entire weasel army.
They went forward, dug out the demon core, and put it away.
Gu Momo found a ticket for the high-speed rail waiting room next to the weasel carcasses, picked it up, and asked Xu Anran, "What's this?"
Xu Anran glanced at it and laughed, "You're lucky. This is your ticket to travel with us. When you come back, you can use this ticket to leave with us. So, keep it safe, understand?"
After hearing this, Momo quickly packed up the train tickets.
Xu Anran and the others approached the people in the cave and asked, "Are you all alright?"
Those people thanked them, and then collected their companion's body for burial.
Xu Anran looked at the leading man and asked, "Can you tell me what happened?"
The man recounted their story: they were originally from the county town, and the town had been controlled by a rabbit demon.
Although this rabbit demon made them work for it and had to offer tributes every year, it didn't like to eat humans, which was quite good compared to other demons.
However, a few years ago, a large tree came here. It took a fancy to the area in the center of the city and clashed with the rabbit demon. Later, the rabbit demon was killed, and the area was taken over by the tree demon.
This tree demon not only controls them to work, but also likes to eat people, and every month they have to offer young boys and girls to it for its consumption.
These people escaped from the county town.
Later, they saw their loved ones forced to swallow the tree spirit's fruit, which controlled them, forcing them to laugh all day long.
They were too afraid to rescue their loved ones and could only observe from a distance.
Later, they discovered that as long as they kept laughing, the tree spirit wouldn't notice them.
After that, they frequently went to the city to visit relatives. Sometimes, when a child was secretly born at home, they would let the family smuggle the baby out of the city before it was discovered.
In this way, they have successively brought out more than ten children.
Just then, another woman came running up in a panic. She told everyone that she and Aunt Huang had gone to the city to find Aunt Huang's daughter. Aunt Huang's daughter had given birth to twins and wanted them to take them out of the city together.
However, the two children were too obvious targets. She was initially unwilling, but later Aunt Huang couldn't bear it and let her take the girl first, and then Aunt Huang took the boy a little while later.
She could only reluctantly agree.
But when she came out to wait for Aunt Huang, the tree demon discovered her and grabbed Aunt Huang, who had already run to the door.
Seeing this, she didn't care about anything else and ran away. Some controlled trees attacked her on the way, which she dodged, but the child was swept away by a tree.
After hearing her words, the leading man looked at Xu Anran and the others, knelt down and kowtowed: "Everyone, we know you are really capable. Please, please save the people in the county."
Xu Anran did not respond, but said, "Our abilities are limited, so please take your leave."
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