After being sacrificed as cannon fodder, the gods cried and begged for a hug

Chapter 20 Auditory Hallucinations
Although the missing villagers have been found, the danger in Changle Village will still exist if Tianyi is not eliminated.

Furthermore, the corpses of the old people who had froze to death have not been recovered yet. No matter what, they must give an explanation to the villagers.

After some discussion, Lu Hua decided to lead the team himself and take Xuan Yu and the three of them to capture Tianyi.

Jiang Nan had a legitimate reason to stay in the village and mess around because his leg injury hadn't healed yet.

However, the display of garbage was not really a display of garbage. She did not forget the main purpose of going down the mountain this time: to collect medicinal materials.

Changle Village is not big or small, and there is only one medicine shop in the village. Jiang Nan made an excuse to tell the village chief that he wanted to buy some medicinal materials to treat leg injuries, and asked the village chief for the address of the medicine shop.

But the harvest is not big.

After asking the owner of the drug store, I found out that most of the medicinal materials in his drug store are collected from nearby mountains. Most of the varieties inside are mainly therapeutic drugs. As for the raw materials that can be used to refine poisons, they are not as good as those collected by Jiang Nan himself. Many varieties.

But it was not all without gain. From the drug store owner, she found out about the nearby places where herbs could be collected. After running back and forth for two days, she actually found one of the raw materials.

After returning from collecting herbs on the third day, it was already evening when I returned to the village court.

The people who went out to capture Tianyi haven't come back yet. According to Jiang Nan's guess, Tianyi is hard to find, and they probably won't gain much in three to five days.

Anyway, whether they come back or not has nothing to do with her. It would be better if they never find Tianyi and have no return date.

While collecting herbs in the afternoon, she passed by a pastry shop. She exchanged the herbs she collected with the owner of the pastry shop for a box of pastries, planning to make do with it for dinner.

As soon as I unwrapped the layer of oil paper on the cake and prepared to eat it, I heard a low wailing coming from outside.

Although the sound was not loud, Jiang Nan could still clearly distinguish the sound of a kitten's cry.

She heard the cat meowing one after another, and she was confused. She didn't care whether she was hungry or not, so she opened the door and walked out directly.

The yard was empty.

I searched around and couldn't find any trace of the cat. Could it be an auditory hallucination?
After dark, it was freezing cold in the yard. She did not continue to struggle, turned around and quickly returned to the house.Unexpectedly, the bag of pastries placed on the table was missing half.

Jiang Nan subconsciously scanned around the room.

"Who, who stole my sweet-scented osmanthus cake?"

Someone opened a small crack in the originally closed window, and the cold wind slowly penetrated in along the crack.

Thinking of the cat meow I heard earlier, I hurriedly walked to the window and took another look outside.

I didn't see the cat's shadow, but I saw a few cat paw prints on the snow beside the window sill.

There are real cats!

And it’s still a cat that only steals food.

Somehow, when Jiang Nan found out that it was a cat that stole her food, Jiang Nan didn't feel angry. Instead, she had a strong intuition: Could it be a cat monster?

Thinking this, she quickly opened the window and peeked out.

Not far away, a figure walked slowly towards the house through the snow.

Seeing who the person was, Jiang Nan breathed a sigh of relief, walked around the door, and said hello first: "Village Chief Wu."

"Xiao Zhenren, you are back."

While talking, the village chief walked up to him with a food box and said, "I brought you some food. When I came here just now, I saw your door was closed, so I thought I would come back later to try my luck. I didn't expect that I would be lucky this time." Got it." It was rare that the other party was still thinking about him, so Jiang Nan smiled happily back: "Thank you, village chief, it's all thanks to you these two days, otherwise I would really be hungry."

"You're welcome. You found the villagers for me. I'm grateful that you didn't have time. It's nothing to give me something to eat."

After the village chief finished speaking, he handed over the food box in his hand, "The weather is cold. Xiaozhenren, you are so thin. You need to eat more. Otherwise, how will you resist the cold?"

It was Xuan Yu's credit for retrieving the villagers, but since he was a bigot, he didn't need these things after all, so she took the food box with peace of mind and said, "Okay, thank you village chief for your concern."

It felt heavy as soon as I took it over, and I could vaguely smell the fragrance coming from inside.

Thinking of the footprints he saw on the window sill before, he asked: "Village Chief Wu, does anyone in our village keep a cat?"

"In recent years, the general environment has been in recession. It is difficult for people in the village to feed their families. How can there be enough food to feed cats?"

The village chief sighed as he spoke, "But there are no domestic cats, but there are a few wild cats. At night, they come out to look for food. It may be because of the cold weather recently, but they often howl in the middle of the night."

"Oh." It turned out to be a wild cat.

Seeing her solemn expression, the village chief was curious: "What? Did the little real person meet a cat?"

"Yes."

Jiang Nan pursed her lips and felt regretful, "But it seems to be very afraid of me. It doesn't dare to show up. It just takes the things and leaves."

"It's normal. Wild cats are very vigilant and avoid people." After the village chief finished speaking, he reminded her, "If you have food in your house, just remember to close the doors and windows when you go to bed at night."

"Okay, got it."

After seeing off the village chief, Jiang Nan returned to the house with the food box.

After locking the door and preparing to eat, he suddenly thought of something, so he went to the window again and gently opened the bolted window.

She was not afraid of the cat coming to eat. Instead, she left a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake on the table before going to bed, waiting for the cat to take it away.

The village chief fed me, and my belly was warm, so I slept very peacefully that night.

When I woke up early the next morning, I heard some movement outside.

The foursome who went to arrest Tianyi came back and recovered the body of an old man.

I don't know what they have been through these past few days. The dust sweeper Lu Hua carried with him disappeared, and he sat in the hall feeling regretful and sighing, unwilling to say a few words.

Xuan Yu had probably fought fiercely with others, and there were several holes in the corners of his clothes, which looked like they were torn by huge claws.However, there were no injuries visible on his body, and his face still looked calm and composed, as calm as the breeze and bright moon.

Qing Xin and Liu Shui are the worst.

The two people seemed to have crawled out of the quagmire. There was no dirt on their bodies. Even their heads and faces were covered with many black stains, leaving a thick smell of corpse wherever they walked. Rotten smell.

The person who most hoped that he would not come back would suffer the least harm. Although Jiang Nan felt a little regretful, seeing the disgraced and embarrassed look of Qingxin and Liushui, she couldn't help but feel secretly proud.

"Senior Brother, have you caught Tianyi?" Jiang Nan asked, why did he end up like this? Hahaha.

"No, it ran away."

After she finished speaking, Xuan Yu noticed a flash of schadenfreude on her face, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why, Tianyi ran away, are you happy?"

(End of this chapter)