Ruins of the past

When Zheng Sanshui led the two of them to the inner room and opened the black-red straw mat, the corpse exposed underneath was so frightening that Chen Gang stepped back and finally vomited out.

"I told you to stop looking." Zheng Sanshui shook his head and explained: "This was bitten to death by the monster. There are traces of the monster's bites all over it."

After checking the body, Zheng Sanshui was about to go back to rest. He looked at Chu Qiguang and reminded him kindly: "It's getting dark and it's dangerous to go out now. Why don't you just stay in my room for one night?"

Chu Qiguang said that he would go around to look for clues about the monsters, but he actually took Chen Gang to meet Qiao Zhi and the others.

As soon as they met outside the village, Big Tou ran up with a roar, hugged Chu Qiguang's calf and shouted, "Godfather, I found the monster! I smelled it all!"

Seeing Datou's appearance, Bai Mi and Qiao Zhi twitched their beards together: "It's disgusting to lick a dog."

"Good job, take me to see it." Chu Qiguang touched the Shar-Pei's head, and the latter showed an expression of enjoyment.

So the two people and the three demons quickly found the location of a cave. Shar-Pei said: "There is an earthy smell mixed with a stinky smell everywhere outside the village. Finally, I followed the smell and found this place."

Datou said eagerly: "Godfather! I'll go in and help you catch him!"

Chu Qiguang said: "No one would go into a mouse hole to catch mice."

So under Chu Qiguang's instructions, Qiao Zhi, Bai Mi, Da Tou, and Chen Gang picked up a pile of dry firewood from around, put it into the hole, lit tinder and flint, and Chen Gang took off his clothes and directed the smoke into the hole. Fan away.

After waiting for a while, the soil at the entrance of the cave suddenly shook, and a khaki field mouse came out with a bang, its mouth bulging and roared at Chu Qiguang and the others.

Seeing the field mouse as big as a pig in front of them, Chu Qiguang, Qiao Zhi, Bai Mi, Datou, and Chen Gang all took action. Amidst the strong wind, the field mouse turned around and ran away, squeaking and screaming.

The field mouse was first slapped on the back by Baimi, and then Qiao Zhi scratched blood marks on his face. In a panic, he was hit by Chu Qiguang. With the surging heat wave, and with a bang, the field mouse was killed by Chu Qiguang. Hikaru fell to the ground.

Chen Gang, Bai Mi, and Da Tou immediately rushed forward and controlled him firmly.

Seeing the vole struggling desperately, the white rice slapped him on the head: "You are a rat with no martial ethics. You even attacked me last time."

The field mouse said angrily: "So it's you, you useless cat? I can defeat you without a sneak attack. If someone hadn't helped you today, you wouldn't be able to defeat me ten thousand times."

Chu Qiguang touched the field mouse's shriveled belly: "Are you so hungry that you started stealing food from the villagers?"

The field mouse was unconvinced and said: "Those are all my food. I planted the land for them."

Chu Qiguang asked curiously: "Oh? Then tell me what is going on?"

The field mouse squinted at Chu Qiguang with a pair of small black eyes, and squeaked: "Who are you? Are you also a cat demon?"

The white rice slapped the field mouse on the head: "This is our king, please show some respect."

After hearing that the other party was also a monster, the field mouse's attitude became slightly better and he said: "This shabby village is full of liars and scoundrels..."

Chu Qiguang's eyes showed surprise as he listened to the vole's narration.

According to the other party's description, the field mouse's name is Jinji, and he comes from a country called Dazhu in the far west. It is said that that country is ruled by three demon kings. From these three demon kings to the demon generals below, and then to ligers and monsters , pig and cow monsters, sheep and horses monsters, cat and dog monsters, monkey monsters, mouse monsters, humans... etc., are all divided into different levels according to different races.

High-level monsters can eat low-level monsters and people at will. Like field mice and people like him, they are all at the lowest level. In addition to farming every day, they may be eaten by high-level monsters at any time.

So he escaped from Dazhu with his family of eighteen, and traveled eastward, finally arriving at Daqian. Only eight of them died along the way.

As a result, the life of working on the grassland was not easy. When he went there, he was captured and made a slave. He worked non-stop every day, but often did not even have food. The family died and only four rats were left.

So the escape began again, and the four voles fled south to Dahan. He was the only vole left who died on the road.

After finally escaping to the vicinity of Nanjian Village, he found that there were sparsely populated areas and a large amount of uncultivated wasteland. He wondered if he could make a living here.

After some testing, he actually reached an agreement with the villagers here. The villagers rented land to him for planting, and he had to hand over half of the grain.

This was much better than his days in Dazhu and Dagan, so Jinji lived beside the fields here and started farming.

At first, he was wary of the villagers in Nanjian Village, but soon discovered that they really didn't seem to be hostile to monsters, and even sometimes helped the Jinji Gang...

"I really believed in their evil deeds..." Jinji said angrily: "I worked hard in farming, but they invited me to drink and stole all the wheat I harvested while I was drunk! In this village, They are all thieves! They are robbers! They are liars!"

Qiao Zhi listened to this story in surprise and said thoughtfully: "So you steal their food every night?"

"It's not stealing!" Jin Ji screamed angrily: "It's about taking the food that belongs to me! And I didn't get much back. I don't know where they hid the food!"

Chen Gang asked: "Then why do you want to bite people to death? And chew others into messes?"

Jin Ji said: "What do you mean by biting someone to death? I have never bitten anyone to death."

Chen Gang said: "Did you bite the person who died in the village?"

Jin Ji refused to admit it: "I have never bitten anyone to death."

Qiao Zhi touched his cat's chin and said slowly: "Well, let me reason about what's going on..."

"Reasoning is nonsense." Chu Qiguang tied up Jin Ji and walked towards the village: "Just ask the head of the village what's going on. If you don't tell me, I'll beat him. Who has time for reasoning?"

So Baimi stayed outside to guard Jin Ji who was tied up. Chu Qiguang, Chen Gang, and Qiao Zhi and Datou who were following secretly, divided into two groups and walked to Zheng Sanshui's home in the village, one in the dark and one in the dark.

It was obviously late at night, but as soon as they entered the village they could hear the sound of various windows opening and closing. In the darkness, it seemed that many people were not sleeping yet and were still paying attention to them.

Chu Qiguang walked to Zheng Sanshui's door, knocked on the door and shouted, "Zheng Sanshui, are you asleep?"

No one answered in the darkness, so Chu Qiguang continued to shout: "We found the field mouse monster. He said you rented the land to him? Let him help you farm?"

As these words spread far into the village late at night, the whole village seemed to suddenly become quiet.

There was the sound of tables and chairs overturning in Zheng Sanshui's room, and then the other party's voice sounded: "What are you... Oh, please wait a moment..."