Manual of the Monster in City

53 The Guardian

The mountain road is rugged, and the temperature on the mountain drops very quickly in the afternoon. The few people can't take a rest and have to rush in that direction as quickly as possible.

    The road they took was not the mountain pass that Jia Qingming and Yuan Mu-mutu had taken before. The road they took before was a gentle road that existed in ancient times. It is to pass the original ancient temple site first, then arrive at the forest ranger's hut halfway up the mountain, from there into the forest on the east side of the mountain top. Generally speaking, the slope is gentle and the natural distance is longer.

    Su Qiang chose a rugged path. In ancient times, when Shenting County was a small village with a small population, many villagers entered the mountains from here to engage in hunting or gathering herbs, so it was completely convenient. There is no need and conditions to build modern roads.

    The slope here is steep and there are no roads to be repaired. In many cases, it is necessary to climb high rocks.

    Jia Qingming felt that Su Qiang seemed to be able to cope with this situation very well. She was just an ordinary girl high school student, but when traversing this complicated terrain, she acted better than him. Fortunately, she has some skills. Vigorous, able to climb up quickly and pull him back.

    Jia Qingming knows that Xiaobai's speed can be faster, but if she suddenly starts to advance at a non-human speed, or changes in an instant, becoming a super huge white dog (at least Jia Qingming is so irresponsible) Su Qiang will definitely be frightened by that kind of scene.

    So he had no choice but to follow the two fast-moving girls, wondering when he would reach his destination. Soon they ended the steep mountain road and began to enter the forest. The area with trees growing was much flatter than the area with bare brown rocks.

    "That's good, we split up." At this time, Xiao Bai proposed the plan.

    "Huh? How do you separate?" Jia Qingming asked.

    "I'm going to solve the tiger. You two go to the west of the mountain to see if we can stop them. Anyway, if we split up, one of them can catch up." Xiaobai said.

    "It's really a good idea. But do you have a way to deal with tigers?" Su Qiang asked her while continuing to march in a hurry.

    "I have my own way, don't worry." Xiaobai waved the baseball bat in his hand twice.

    "Good." Su Qiang answered cleanly.

    So you agree? !

    "The key is the position of the tiger..."

    "Of course I can find the smell of tigers so obvious. Don't worry about it!" Xiaobai grinned broadly.

    However, Jia Qingming remembers that there was a saying that someone once put the dead tiger carcass in the yard, and as a result, the ferocious big dog that was raised in the yard did not dare to make a sound at all and was completely shocked by the breath... After all, Bai is a big white dog, can he really shake the tiger?

    Xiaobai smirked and said: "You can enjoy the opportunity that your sister has created for you to be alone. Hehehe. Don't thank me too much!"

    "Hey!"

    Why is it so unrefined suddenly?

    "Okay, let's hurry up." Su Qiang coldly ended two amusing gossips.

    So Xiaobai sniffed, and went in another direction. Her body suddenly became a white dog, and the aura released instantly surrounded her. Sure enough, the imaginary scene appeared in front of him, and Jia Qingming still couldn't help but be stunned.

    "What are you looking at? Hurry up! Time is running out! You weak chicken." Su Qiang looked at Jia Qingming's direction in a daze and said coldly. "There is nothing over there."

    Jia Qingming and Su Qiang continued to race against the clock, but he had some other doubts in his heart, which became more and more serious.

    Can't she see Su Qiang at all? It seems that Xiao Hei gave birth to cat ears and tail that day. It seems that Yuan Mu-mutu can't see it. Now when he recalls, he can notice the details that the sky saw in the vision at that time. The details about the cat's ears and tail... The structure is correct.

    The form used by this guy is spirit?

    The existence that can transform between the spirit and the flesh is probably neither a spirit nor a demon?

    What kind of background is it? noob? Xiao Hei? Stealing Pavilion? And... Bai Ling? What kind of existence is it?

    As if from that day, from the rupture of the sealed jade bracelet that gave him a peaceful life, and from the unsealing of his celestial eye again, the world seemed to suddenly begin to unfold an unknown mystery before him.

    There are too many unknowns waiting for him to explore, and these unknowns are... terrible and dangerous.

    "Ding--"

    Deep in the memory, in a very distant place, it seems that there is something or a sound, tracing back indistinctly:

    "This is a shop where wishes come true. Any wish... as long as you can afford it. Haruaki, are you sure you want to... exchange?"

    ————

    The minivan was parked in front of the entrance of the engineering camp. Under the operation of the workers in the camp, the automatic door opened slowly and the van was entered through the gate.

    This engineering camp is currently closed. The gate was always open before. Workers sometimes wandered around in the nearby woods, but now everyone is shrinking in the camp.

    The injured worker escaped from the forest a few days ago. The bloody scratches have impressed many people so far, and now they are still shocking. These days there have been people getting injured and people constantly deciding to leave. In any case, they will definitely not do this dangerous job. The rest are only panicked, shying away in the camp, hoping that this matter will be resolved as soon as possible, but it is also impossible to stay. Sooner or later.

    Seeing that the competent department sent someone over, this panic atmosphere was instantly full of anxious smell, surging rapidly in this small camp surrounded by board houses.

    Fortunately, a staff member stopped, plus Yuan Mu-mutou's expressionless but vaguely domineering look, which allowed the workers to calm down slowly...In fact, it was only because of his abundant sun. Qi makes people feel as if there is something in the air, burning with a tingling sensation.

    Master Lin explained the situation to everyone. Many of these workers are natives of Shenting County. They also know that Master Lin is a forest ranger here, and the ancestors have guarded this forest for generations. Naturally, they were convinced of his words. Although it is a ghost and god, it is indeed a reasonable existence in the eyes of these simple worker brothers.

    On the way here, they had bought some cold and fresh raw meat from the supermarket to use as a sacrifice this time, and they also bought a few very professional incense candles in some specialized supply stores.

    Although Master Lin only said, the most important thing is the heart. However, in the opinion of the supervisor, as long as the money is spent and the things are bought neatly, it can be regarded as conveyed to the heart.

    I have explained the purpose of this trip with the people on the construction site, and many workers have enthusiastically joined them, intending to worship with them sincerely. In this way, after entering the camp, there was a delay of ten minutes before and after, before a team of more than a dozen people set off from the camp mightily.

    Yuan Mu-mutou followed Master Lin. He felt that there was something wrong with Master Lin since he returned, but he couldn't say what was wrong.

    In fact, he knows that Jia Qingming must have some feelings, for a certain... field that he can't explain, so now he can only pin his hopes on him. What he can do now is to control everything he sees as much as possible.

    So he always remained alert.

    The easiest among the crowd, apart from the construction workers who believe in Master Lin’s words and feel that they can finally be relieved of fear, it should be Xiao Shanshan...

    She ran to the front again to take a group photo of the big guy, saying that it was going to be published in the journal of Shenting Middle School tomorrow; after a while, she ran to the back of the team to interview and greet the worker. Edogawa's eyes passed through the lenses of the black-rimmed glasses, not knowing what he was looking at.

    They followed this path. The surrounding trees have been cut down. They will be used to build a driveway in the future. Therefore, they cut down the trees in advance and leveled the land. When the driveway is repaired, two rows of trees will be planted. It will look very beautiful.

    After a while, they saw the construction site and the simply erected skeleton. Between the tree stumps and the fallen trees that had not had time to clean up, they looked extremely desolate and lonely. Construction has not continued for the past two days, so it is now quiet as an ancient ruin located in the forest. It also seemed to be the corpse of a giant lying on the ground, unpredictably, waiting for time to soak and rot.

    In fact, the most nervous and disturbed person among the group was Master Lin himself.

    He didn't expect that things would turn out to be like this. Now a team of a dozen people entered the forest, and when they really met a tiger, the number of injuries must be uncontrollable such a tragic situation...but...

    But he didn't dare to directly mention the danger, otherwise, the staff at the leadership level would definitely retreat. Now that it's here, everything to be done must be completed.

    He held a firm belief in his heart.

    Besides, he did this not for himself at all, not for the little grudge he had before...

    It was just a demolished house, something that had to be broken down and erected for the modern development of Shenting County. And what he is carrying now is this ancient forest, the bond between his ancestors and this forest that he has guarded for generations, and the request of the creatures whose homes have been destroyed.

    In fact, he always knew that his son who was studying abroad would not come back. In recent years, many young people have gone out of Shenting County, but they are unwilling to return to this small county.

    He is just a person who has gone through too many years now. He doesn't need to live in a good location. The old house is demolished to give way to the county's development plan. But... But he always felt that that house carried some of his hope. It seems that the house has always been there, and it has always been the wedding room he prepared for his son. It seems that he will come back and start a family one day. Someday in the future, he will live in the forest ranger's hut with these things and guard the forest.

    So now, if this forest has been exploited a little bit like this and eaten up, he will have nothing left.

    When he went up the mountain that day, he did bring good wine, meat, and a roast chicken to go to the depths of the forest to comfort those irritable old friends.

    But that day, he heard their pain and heard the request of the big tiger.

    That is his old friend. He just took over the duties of his father. When he lived in the hut by the forest, he was still a little tiger, squinting and feeding under the mother tiger's belly. But now it is very old, and it is even older than him when converted into a human age.

    This forest is the same to him and to it, and it's everything to them.

    That pain...the fear of losing everything...occupied his heart. He was determined to guard the forest, and at this moment, he heard the tiger's proposal.

    Hear...

    He has been with his friends in the forest for a long time, and he can tell what they are thinking only by his eyes. But this time, he felt that he really heard the voice of the tiger.

    With their thoughts flying, they have reached the junction of the construction site and the forest.

    So the red candle is lit and the sacrifice is in place.

    A tiger roar suddenly cut through the silent forest.