Spirits and demons

Tonight, the bright moonlight scatters over the earth, outlining clear boundaries for light and shadow. The breeze brings the sound of insects from the fields. Tonight, it is a wonderful night to sleep well.

But this comfort does not belong to the traveler who is always on the way.

The young girl with the title of "Spirits and Demons", Mingdian, was riding on the back of the white Tengu, Koukou, and since it was long past the time for "good children to go to bed", she was being infested with sleepy bugs, and her upper body was shaking in all directions with great difficulty. But miraculously, she refused to fall down.

In a daze, Mingdian murmured, "Do we have to sleep in the wild today?"

Xiao Kong also understood the young girl's desire to sleep comfortably in a comfortable house and bed, so she said comfortingly, "Didn't we just cross a field, which means there must be a village nearby."

"Then, I'll try to hold on a little longer!" Ming Diao clenched his teeth and almost bit his tongue.

Originally, Tengu had the ability to "step in the air", so if they were in mid-air, not only would they have a clear view, they would also be able to move quickly after confirming their target. Therefore, she decided to rely on her own two legs or Khung's four legs to walk unless there were special circumstances.

Suddenly, from the night curtain ahead, there was a "poof" sound, followed by a long object sliding in front of his eyes, and when he looked down, he saw that it was a saber. Since we embarked on the long journey together, we could not say that we had traveled thousands of miles and experienced all the vicissitudes, but we had eaten, drank and played all the way through, but this was the first time we encountered such a sight.

Ming Xuan swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked Xiao Kong in doubt: "What could be the situation?"

"Who knows. Maybe they just escaped from the mountain bandits' lair, maybe they were robbing and didn't want to meet the officials, or maybe their enemies came to their door and fled thinking they had recovered their lives and were attacked." After seeing enough to scare Ming Cui to three days, small empty heartedly said, "Just now is a joke, the next is serious, only a person fainted, or at least not what trauma."

"Damn, I won't be able to sleep for five days!"

After her vision got used to the darkness, she realized that the other person was just a 10-year-old boy who didn't match the saber at all, so why did he appear outside the village in the middle of the night? At this point, the possibilities that Khung had just mentioned, as well as the more possibilities that it hadn't, all came rushing into her little head.

"Don't think about it there." When Ming Duan's head tilted, Xiaokong knew what she was thinking, "Look at the little dirt on his feet, which means he ran out from a nearby village. There's nothing on his clothes other than dust that shouldn't be there, so it's not to escape."

In short, let's send the boy back to the village first. Having decided so, Xiaokong leaned down, and Mingdeng carried the boy onto Xiaokong's back, and took the knife with him, although he was not sure if it was the boy's property yet.

After the two of them spent a second to discuss, this is a rare "special situation", so Khung used the "air" ability, stepping on the invisible air stairs, to the mid-air, with the help of the moonlight, immediately clear the location of the village, just Not far from the place where I met the boy.

The village was already asleep, and apart from a few lights for emergencies, there was only darkness and tranquility, and it didn't look like any tragedy had occurred, so Khung's deduction was correct.

"Xiao Zhong--"

An eager voice came from a peasant woman who looked like she could be the mother of the unconscious teenager, so they were probably really a mother and son.

Khung gently landed in front of the farmer's wife, but the other woman almost screamed in fear. After explaining "who we are, where we came from, and what we are doing," the peasant woman glanced at the child lying on Khung's back and immediately recognized it as her own child.

"Xiao Zhong--"

The voice was three times louder than the one just now, and the joy of finding the lost child was well conveyed.

"Thank you guys so much! I woke up in the night to go to the bathroom and found the child not in bed, which really scared me, even more than hearing 'flooding'. Then I searched everywhere in and out of the village, and I came across you. Fortunately, it was you, if I had met a human trafficker, then I would have cried. This child could be an evil spirit? I'll go to the ancestral tomb at dawn and burn incense to ask the ancestors to bless my poor baby. Knife? We country people, sickle knife kitchen knife is skilled, this kind of knife for killing, I have seen the real thing for the first time, definitely not our, seems to be Xiao Zhong that kid from where to pick it up."

Out of gratitude to her benefactor, Xiao Zhong's mother insisted that they stay at her home for one night. On the way, this enthusiastic woman told them everything they wanted to know before they could even ask.

After putting Xiao Zhong safely and completely into bed, Ming Chan thanked Xiao Zhong's mother for her kindness and chose the woodshed as the place to stay for the night. Although the bed was not as comfortable as she had imagined, with straw underneath her and a roof over her head, she soon fell asleep with the question of what had happened to Xiao Zhong.

The next day, Jong was very excited about the sudden arrival of two guests in the house. Since the events of last night seemed like a dream to him, he was dancing with joy as he rode on Khung's back for the "first time". After getting acquainted with Xiao Zhong, Mingdian asked about the knife.

Xiao Zhong recalled that he had found it by chance a few days ago while playing in the wild. At first, he asked all the people in the village with the knife, but they all said that the knife was not theirs, so he had to put it in his house for the time being. But Xiao Zhong's parents also do not want this kind of thing in the house for too long, after all, is not something they can touch, only afraid to attract trouble. So they decided to wait for the next time the Yunyang merchants come to the village, with the knife for something.

But what they didn't expect was that the trouble would come to their door before the merchants arrived.

Xiao Zhong said that although his mother and father said that the knife is a murder weapon, but in his opinion, it is not as scary as they say, but when touching the knife, you can feel the same warmth, so that people are very relieved.

Hearing Xiao Zhong's description, Xiao Kong's eyes became sharp, and Ming Cun also noticed it. But because Xiao Zhong was there, Xiao Kong pretended that nothing had happened for the time being. Only after Xiao Zhong was called away by his mother did he say to Ming Duan: "It seems that it is not an ordinary knife. Perhaps its real body is a 'monster'."

The "monster" in "demon and devil" is a kind of alien, which refers to an object that does not have life originally, but by chance, becomes "alien". The ordinary sword is just, if it is really turned into a "strange" knife, it can not be handed over to the Yunyang merchants, but must be professionals.

After learning of the situation, although Xiao Zhong's mother did not want to exchange it for something, she agreed to Ming Cui's proposal to transfer the sword when she thought of the danger her child might encounter.

"What, so you're going to take away my sword?"

Xiao Zhong outside the door happened to overhear the conversation in the inner room, and eagerly defended against it.

"What are you talking about you brat! Someone else saved your life, wouldn't it be just right to give the knife to someone else?" Xiao Zhong's mother crossed her arms and scolded, "Besides, that kind of dangerous thing should not be left at home!"

"That's not a life saver, it's not a dangerous thing either!" After saying that, Xiao Zhong puffed up and ran away.

"This child, why can't you say it ......"

"Leave this matter to us." Ming Duan calmed Xiao Zhong's mother and said, "When we catch up with Xiao Zhong, we will explain the matter clearly."

However, after Mingdian rode out on the small air and circled around the village twice, he did not see Xiao Zhong's figure. Then his feet are too fast, not at all the level of ordinary teenagers.

"That's right, maybe we should go there to look!"

With a flash of inspiration, MingDiu thought of the "chance encounter" with XiaoZhong last night, perhaps it was not a "sleepwalking", but a "travel" with a clear destination. At once, Meisha asked Xiaokong to follow the route from the village to the location where Xiao Zhong had fallen last night, and catch up with him.

Sure enough, Xiao Zhong's figure was soon seen.

After realizing that he was being tracked, Xiao Zhong stopped and said viciously, "You guys, why are you getting in my way?"

That voice, which was not at all Xiao Zhong's childish voice, was obviously possessed by something, such as the knife that was being held in his hand and emitting an eerie light.

"Xiao Zhong, we are here to help you! Let's figure out a way to solve the knife problem together!"

In response to the suggestion of the corpse, Xiao Zhong - the "Xiao Zhong" who was possessed by the knife, I should say - said "no" by his own action.

"Xiao Zhong waved his sword and rushed towards Ming Duan, and Xiao Kong could see right away that he was not just slashing randomly, but had a regular slashing method. But because the physical condition of the person making the knife method is not up to standard, the knife method can only scare the layman after making it, but the connoisseur can see the flaw in it at a glance.

The good news is that Khung is exactly that kind of connoisseur; the bad news is that, because of the fear of accidentally injuring the possessed Xiao Zhong, so there is no way to rashly strike, have no choice but to avoid its edge temporarily retreat. After forcing back the tracker, "Xiao Zhong" did not pursue, but continued to move towards their destination. Little Air, while hiding his tracks, followed closely behind.

Soon, they arrived at a graveyard. "Xiao Zhong rushed straight towards the main grave, kneeled down in front of it with a "poof", placed the knife respectfully in front of the tribute with both hands, and then passed out as if he had fulfilled his wish.

"Xiao Zhong!"

Ming Diao rushed forward to check the situation, only to see Xiao Zhong, who looked at Ming Diao with a yawn as if he had just woken up, and then looked around and asked in confusion, "I remember, I ran away from the village, where did I go?"

Ming Epiphany replied with good humor and amusement, "I almost lost my life!"

After Xiao Zhong had sobered up a bit and recovered his spirit, he said in surprise: "This is our village's ancestral tomb! Every year, the whole village will come to the grave to pay respect to the ancestors, so I can't be mistaken."

Ming Chuan explained to Xiao Zhong that he had come here after being possessed by a sword.

"So that's how it is, I understand."

Xiao Zhong recounted what he had experienced after being "possessed", in a dazed world that seemed to be real.

In that dream, he was a samurai who, together with other samurai, was protecting his lord from the enemy. Unfortunately, the group was overtaken by the enemy, and he offered to stay behind to block the enemy and buy time for the others to escape. The enemy soon caught up with him, and although he valiantly fought, he was outnumbered and died by the enemy's swords. But he was always concerned about whether his lord had arrived at a safe place, and this loyalty was attached to his sword, which transformed him into a "monster" and continued to carry out his mission of following his lord.

The village where Xiao Zhong lives is the descendant of that group of people, and Xiao Zhong inadvertently became the final witness of this journey that spanned hundreds of years in search of the Lord.

"What a story to sing and cry about!" Ming Xuan lamented.

"I will continue to tell this story to more people." Xiao Zhong faced the ancestors and said, "In addition, I have an important mission."

"Oh? What is it?"

"In my dream, I inadvertently remembered the sword technique used by the samurai. I want to memorize it and also learn the swordsmanship to become a great samurai like my ancestors!"

After saying goodbye to the descendant of the hero, the journey of the young girl and the giant dog, continued.