Chapter 194 Chaotic Dance of Gods and Demons
"We didn't mean to disturb them, so we chose this place without going down to ask about accommodations," Rong Yi explained, to avoid the villagers overthinking things.
They spoke clearly and without the slightest hesitation, so the village chief was somewhat convinced that they were not monsters.
"I believe you two are familiar with the customs of each village, so I won't bother you any longer."
The village chief only chatted with them for a few words before dismissing them, leaving the men confused. They even tried to peek at the two men, but the village chief slapped them away.
"They were still frightened," Wei Yanqing said, securing the rope.
"There's nothing we can do. The town is still far from here. Even if we don't rest, the horse still needs to rest." Rong Yi said, getting up and patting the horse's back. It hadn't stopped all day and had just drunk two large jugs of water.
They could travel without stopping, but horses are ordinary creatures.
Wei Yanqing set up the tent and started cooking. Even in the wild, it didn't stop him from making delicious rice.
The two worked together, while the horse tied to the side leisurely ate its fodder.
After a hearty meal, the two sat by the fire chatting about how many demons they would encounter on the road and what the capital city was like.
As darkness fell, the once beautiful forest instantly transformed into a black hole capable of swallowing everything, with strange noises echoing from within, as if a bunch of monsters would spring out at any moment.
When Rong Yi had almost finished reading another book, Wei Yanqing placed his hand on hers and said, "Something has arrived."
Rong Yi was overjoyed. They've finally arrived, monsters!
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In the darkness, several figures darted through the forest. The clouds were thick tonight, and the moonlight could not penetrate them, but to these creatures, there was no difference between night and day.
Several figures arrived at the edge of the slope, looking down at the houses with only a few windows still lit, their saliva dripping unconsciously from between their teeth.
Crackling——
The sound of firewood burning reached their ears, and they looked in the direction of the sound to see the flickering firelight in the forest.
Is anyone there?
They rushed to the fire and saw a horse-drawn carriage. The horses, seeing them, began to pull on their ropes.
Is that... a hyena?
From the tree, Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing could clearly see the full appearance of these creatures. They had brown fur all over their bodies and were about the size of normal dogs, but their teeth and unusually protruding mouths made them clear that they were wolves.
Unable to find the person, the hyenas decided to eat the horse first.
Rong Yi couldn't stand it, so he jumped down from the tree.
The sudden appearance of a person startled the hyenas. What frightened them wasn't the way she and Wei Yanqing appeared, but rather that they couldn't smell their scent at all.
"Trying to eat my horse? You're asking for it."
Of course, she never intended to let these hyenas go.
A coyote pounced, but Rong Yi kicked it accurately, sending it crashing into a tree with a loud thud as its spine broke.
The coyote had a broken spine and lay on the ground howling.
Seeing this, the other hyenas raised their heads and howled, calling to their companions.
Originally, I wanted to investigate the village first and find out how many people were patrolling, but I didn't expect to see these two strange people, who seemed to be from the Immortal Sect.
Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing did not stop their howling, which actually attracted more hyenas, which was a good thing.
Inside Dapan Village, the patrolling villagers had just finished walking around the village, and each of them was holding a torch as they prepared to go to the designated rest area.
Before they even reached the ground, they heard the howling of wolves in the nearby forest, which terrified everyone.
"It's a hyena demon!"
The silly wolf demon has been entangled with Dapan Village on and off for nearly a hundred years, attacking the village almost every year. Once it escapes, it runs far away, and even mortal disciples from immortal sects cannot find it.
The attacks occur at unpredictable times and without any pattern. Therefore, the village has established a rule to organize patrols every night to promptly warn others of the loach attacks.
A group of hyenas came from the forest and surrounded Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing.
The fighting hadn't gone on for long when suddenly a deafening gong-beating sound erupted from the village below, accompanied by shouts: "The coyote demon is coming! Folks, get up!"
Seeing that the villagers had all woken up and the coyote pack was considering retreating, Rong Yi was not about to let them go; these were all inner cores.
"Wei Yanqing, subdue them all and kill them!"
She didn't have time to kill them one by one, so she handed them over to her companions to take care of them all at once, so they wouldn't escape.
Upon hearing this, Wei Yanqing controlled all the hyenas within his range, and with a twist, the hyena demons all fell down.
When the villagers came running up, banging gongs and carrying hoes, they saw the ground littered with the corpses of hyenas.
The person banging the gong was startled, and the villagers who had been shouting all fell silent.
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A brand-new teacup is filled with boiling water, with a few tea leaves floating in the water.
"These are newly bought bowls that we haven't used yet, please have some tea." The village chief, whom they had met in the evening, smiled like a chrysanthemum and invited Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing to drink tea.
When Manxun's strong man ran up the hill, he discovered that the two had killed so many earth wolf demons, and immediately realized that these two were not demons, but disciples of the immortal sect!
If they were demons, they would definitely attack the village together with the hyenas; there's no need to go to the trouble of killing them.
Rong Yi graciously picked up the teacup and took a small sip. The tea was refreshing and not too strong, with a unique flavor.
"Thank you for your hospitality, village chief, but it's so late, there's really no need for this. Everyone should go and get some rest."
They killed nearly a thousand hyenas. Even if the pack is united and large, nearly a thousand is still a significant loss, and they probably won't come back.
"That won't do. We must thank you two experts properly. If it weren't for you being here, with so many hyenas, the whole village would have been in trouble." The village chief still felt lingering fear when he spoke of it.
Nearly a thousand hyenas! The worst hyena attack in a century. At most, there are only about a hundred, and even then, nearly half the population died.
A thousand of them would be enough to flatten Dapan Village.
Wei Yanqing: "They just happened to run into us and that solved the problem. However, we will be leaving the next day. I suggest you go to the town and report to the county magistrate. There are so many small demons in a small place like yours, so you need to be careful."
The village chief nodded repeatedly, "Of course, I didn't expect there to be so many hyenas. In previous years, the ones that attacked the village were mostly in groups of dozens. Moreover, every year, the disciples of the immortal sect would patrol around the villages to prevent the number of demons from becoming too large. Last year, the patrol was fine, but I never expected there to be so many hyenas in just one year."
I really don't know where all these hyenas are hiding, managing to evade the immortal master's patrols.
Rong Yi drank most of the tea in his bowl and put it down. "With such a large loss, those hyenas must know they've been exposed. To avoid being tracked down by disciples, they'll definitely have to move."
In her view, the hyenas shouldn't be thinking about revenge; instead, they should be trying to escape as quickly as possible.
The immortal disciples in this world are extremely skilled at dealing with demons, which allows humans to occupy large tracts of land and live there.
Since it was quite late and everyone had to go to work in the fields before dawn, they chatted for a while. The village chief thanked them profusely and let them stay in an empty house.
Wei Yanqing thought that staying in a house was better than a tent, so he and Rong Yi went to pack their things, and the carriage stopped next to the cowshed in the village.
(End of this chapter)
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