I Eat Monsters In the Town Monster

"because this."

Zhu Xiucai took out a few waist cards from his pocket.

A little flag surnamed Sun next to him took the badge curiously, saw the words on it clearly by the moonlight, raised his head, and asked in surprise, "This is the badge of the tax collector, where did you get it? "

"It's in the cave of the tiger." Zhu Xiucai replied, "These are the remains of the tax collectors who were eaten by the tiger."

A strongman behind Sun Xiaoqi walked a few steps to catch up, looked at the tax collector's badge with his head, and suddenly realized.

"Tigers ate the tax collectors who came into the mountains to collect taxes? No wonder they sent troops over during the second time to suppress the demons. It turned out that it was not to protect the villagers in the mountains, but to kill the demons so that they could continue to collect taxes in the mountain villages. "

Another wrestler next to him said doubtfully, "So the tiger is still protecting the villagers in the mountains?"

Zhu Xiucai sneered and said, "Eating virgin boys and virgins makes you angry. What kind of protection is it? It's just a monster's territorial consciousness."

Monk Ma recited the Buddha's name, and followed Zhu Xiucai's words: "The tiger claims to be the master of the mountain, and regards the villagers as his livestock. Naturally, he only allows himself to eat and refuses to let others get involved.

But he did benefit the villagers by eating the tax collectors.

Under such circumstances, if we tell the villagers the news of the killing of the tiger, they will probably not thank us and curse us. "

Everyone was silent, but they all agreed with Monk Ma's words.

With the presence of tigers, the villagers can avoid all kinds of exorbitant taxes.

Although tigers will swallow their energy and eat their children.

However, such things as essence, although exhaustion will affect health and even endanger life, but after all, it is an invisible thing, invisible and intangible.

Therefore, in the eyes of most villagers, money and food are not as important.

Especially food... the taste of being hungry is really uncomfortable!

Compared to dying of starvation, even dying suddenly after being drained of essence is a comfortable way to die.

As for tigers wanting to eat people... that's not a problem.

In this world, it is not uncommon for children to sell their daughters, abandon babies and drown them.

For the villagers in the mountains, they would be reluctant to give up, feel sad, and blame themselves for exchanging a baby they could not afford for an opportunity without paying exorbitant taxes, but they would not refuse.

Su Tingyu figured out what was going on, and felt a little aggrieved: "These villagers are too heartless!"

The team didn't know which wrestler it was, and sighed faintly.

"I can't blame these villagers for being ruthless. I can only say that this world is too fucked up, and it turns people into ghosts."

Everyone sighed in unison.

Su Tingyu also sighed, then frowned and asked, "Will the tax collector come again after that?"

"It depends on what the villagers do."

Zhu Xiucai said: "If I were a villager here, I would let the legend of the tiger continue to be passed on, and it would be even more powerful, so as to scare people outside and make them dare not enter the mountain to collect taxes."

"But when you go back to Zhenyaosi, don't you have to report this?" Su Jianqing suddenly interrupted and asked.

Qin Shaoyou said: "Of course we have to report, but what we report is that we encountered a ghost on the way to escort the children to the Jade Emperor Temple and killed them all."

When he said this, he glanced at the night watchmen in the team.

The night watchmen instantly understood what he meant.

Qin Xiaoqi wanted to use Chunqiu's style of writing, not mentioning the name of the tiger or the place where the monster was killed, but only said that he ran into a monster on the road and beheaded him.

In this way, the credit will not be less, and the villagers can be secretly helped.

Anyway, with the corpses and heads of ghosts, no one would think that they were lying and taking credit.

None of the night watchmen in the team objected to this.

There were even a few clever people who would come to the incident, and immediately swore that they would never reveal the details of the matter, and even drove other people to follow suit.

Even Sun Xiaoqi is the same.

They did this not only because Qin Shaoyou was Xue Baihu's brother-in-law, but also because he made several great achievements as soon as he returned to Zhenyaosi, and also made Zhang Shilang owe a lot of kindness, and he will definitely be promoted later.

No one would offend Qin Shaoyou because of such a small matter at this time.

Zhu Xiucai even threw the badge of the tax collector into the mountain stream.

Seeing this, other wrestlers also found several trophies that might reveal the identity of the tiger, and either threw them away or destroyed them.

The night watchmen thought that Qin Shaoyou was looking at the pity of the villagers in the mountains and wanted to help them.

In fact, Qin Shaoyou did have the idea of ​​helping the villagers, but more importantly, he still didn't want the news of them killing the tiger to spread, which would attract unnecessary attention and trouble.

Whether it is a mysterious monk or a noble person, he is not able to provoke him now.

When the strength improves, it will not be too late to take revenge one by one.

Qin Shaoyou will not tell anyone about this consideration.

Just let them continue to misunderstand.

Half an hour later, everyone returned to the Earth Temple in Gumiao Village.

There was nothing unusual here, and those who stayed behind were relieved to see them returning safely.

Qin Shaoyou asked people to cover the booty with sackcloth and hide it properly. He reiterated that he should not tell the villagers about the killing of the tiger, and that he should not mention the name of the mountain and the tiger after returning. He only said that he met a group of ghosts on the road. kill it.

The night watchmen who stayed behind also thought that Qin Shaoyou wanted to help the villagers in the mountains, so they all agreed.

For them, this is just a trivial matter. They can still please Qin Shaoyou without harming their own interests, so why not do it.

The night passed like this.

The next day, just after dawn, the night watchmen in the temple noticed footsteps approaching.

The footsteps were very light, but they couldn't hide it.

Qin Shaoyou and Su Tingyu hid immediately, while Zhu Xiucai went to open the temple gate.

The door opened, and there was a man standing outside, bent over, with his butt up, trying to peek through the door to look into the temple.

"Morning, village chief, what are you doing?" Zhu Xiucai asked, looking at the village chief's ass.

It was the village head of Gumiao Village who came.

It's just that after seeing him overnight, the white hair on his head and the wrinkles on his face have increased a lot, and his body has become weaker.

This is a sign that too much energy has been sucked away, and the body is about to collapse.

In his current state, if the tiger did not die and tripled the rent, he might be drained of energy and die suddenly on the next rent collection day.

At that time, his soul will also be enslaved by the tiger and become one of his subordinate ghost messengers, which in turn harms the people in the village.

The village head was a little embarrassed when he was found peeping, and he forced a smile: "I'll see how you are doing."

"Thanks to you, we are fine, but we feel a little weak."

"This is a normal phenomenon of being deprived of energy, and you will be fine after two days of rest."

Zhu Xiucai shook his head secretly, if you really can recover after two days of rest, you won't be like this now...

After the village chief was sent away, everyone packed their bags and prepared to go on their way.

Qin Shaoyou and Su Tingyu hid in the carriage and covered it with sackcloth to avoid being seen by the villagers.

After all, they should have been 'eaten' by ghosts last night.

They were put on the carriage together, covered with sackcloth, and the spoils from killing the tiger.

The night watchmen had already divided up valuable things last night. At this moment, these trophies are all monster flesh and blood, and they need to be used to prove their merits.

Of course, after the merits are verified, the demon flesh and blood will be returned to them as part of the reward.

After packing up, the convoy left Gumiao Village under the watchful eyes of the villagers.

Nobody mentioned the tiger thing.

The road behind went relatively smoothly. Although there were a few bandits and bandits who wanted to rob the convoy, they were charged and killed by Monk Ma before they approached.

In front of the night watchmen who were fully armed and armored, bandits without armor were completely vulnerable.

To these people, Monk Ma and the others showed no mercy and killed them directly.

No matter how pitiful these bandits were before, after they became bandits, they were all more ruthless than the other, killing people and eating people, and doing no less than ghosts.

In the blink of an eye, it was afternoon.

The convoy arrived at Fengyu Mountain in the east of Luocheng.

The Jade Emperor Temple is here.