I'm wandering in the world

Chapter 168 Tiger
The role of the Patrol Inspection Office is the same as that of the police stations under the police bureau in later generations, and is mainly used for maintaining public security and warning of various dangers.

Liu Azong went to the Inspection Office to report, which actually meant filing a report...

After Chen Qingyuan communicated with the soldiers patrolling the wall, he learned that the Inspection Office was not qualified to control the barracks of Toushan City to resist the Japanese pirates. However, Hui'anli saw that the Inspection Office had a high degree of trust with the local people, so he simply let the Inspection Office try to control the barracks. Unexpectedly, the effect was good...

The names of the two patrol soldiers were Lu San and Sun Ren.

They are patrol soldiers selected by the locals. When they encounter danger, they will not cause misunderstandings with the locals because of their accent.

When Lu San and Sun Ren learned that Chen Qingyuan was really coming to Toushan City to exorcise demons, they immediately became enthusiastic and even invited Chen Qingyuan to the top of the wall to enjoy the scenery.

On the city wall, the sea breeze is blowing gently. Standing here, the view is wide and one can indeed observe very far. In the distance, two people are standing on the beacon tower of the city wall. From time to time, they will raise the small flags in their hands and wave them to indicate whether the current situation is safe or dangerous, or whether they need to pay attention to vigilance...

Lu San leaned against Chen Qingyuan and lowered his voice and said, "Master, can you really catch the evildoer?"

Chen Qingyuan realized that Lu San's attitude was a little unusual, and replied: "I can't be sure. After all, I have only been here for less than half a day, and I don't know what kind of monster it is."

Lu San looked around, put his hand on his waist, and then patted Chen Qingyuan's palm and said, "Master, I ask you to get rid of the evildoers in Toushan City. I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be unable to help when my fellow villagers are dragged away for no reason."

Chen Qingyuan looked down and saw that Lu San had given him a piece of silver weighing about half a tael.

Lu San's eyes were slightly red, and he held the long knife at his waist with his right hand and said, "My father was dragged away while he was sleeping at home the night before last. I went up the mountain to look for him myself. He was thrown on the rocks like a rag bag, and his intestines were completely emptied..."

Chen Qingyuan understood.

He collected Lu San's change, looked at the pale blue sea in the distance and said, "I will do my best."

Liu A Zong reported the matter to the Inspection Office, which was very cooperative and immediately contacted the villagers whose homes had recently been attacked by monsters to come to the Inspection Office.

Chen Qingyuan is here too.

The inspector briefly explained what happened, and the victims' families began to recount their own experiences.

Chen Qingyuan sorted out the various attacks described by the victims and came to a conclusion: the first incident of a monster injuring people originated from a family in the east of Toushan Castle.

There are five people in this family: a couple, a five-year-old son, and two elderly parents in their sixties.

When the wife woke up at night, she found that her little son who was sleeping in the bed was missing. She hurriedly looked for him and saw blood on the ground. She followed the blood all the way outside. She was shocked to see a burly monster wearing ragged clothes holding her son's neck on the street of Toushan City late at night. He jumped up from the ground and landed on the roof of the neighbor's house. After a few more jumps, he disappeared. Then the next day, her son's body was found on the mountain...

The child's father was extremely sad. He carried a hoe and went up the mountain to look for the monster. After searching for several days without any results, he suddenly disappeared one day. Everyone searched for him and found his body.

Something went wrong.

The Inspection Office sent out all their best men to investigate door to door, and finally searched the mountains, but found nothing.

But one of the masters of the Inspection Office also died inexplicably in the mountains, just like the child's father.

What happens next is that whoever goes up the mountain to look for the cause will most likely die together.

But if you don’t find it.

In Toushan City, children would be kidnapped by monsters, and their families would go to look for them, only to die again. This vicious cycle continued, and almost ten people died in three months, causing panic among the people.

As a last resort, they had to ask outsiders to catch the monster. They invited a monk who was muscular and looked like he had deep Buddhist knowledge. He walked into the mountain with a Zen stick in his hand and a smile. When he was found, only a torn cassock, a Zen stick and a skeleton were left...

The villagers were extremely frightened and could only try to find more capable people from farther places. Unfortunately, three groups of people came and all had the same ending.

The Inspection Office had no choice but to send three skilled soldiers on fast horses to a distant place to ask a senior monk or Taoist priest to come and subdue the demon. However, they had been waiting for more than fifteen days and no one had returned...

Chen Qingyuan roughly knew the monster's behavior pattern.

He said, "The monster's target is children, but when threatened, it will also prioritize those villagers who go up the mountain to look for him! I want to set a trap to catch this monster, and I need ten strong and capable men. Follow me up the mountain to look for the monster, and then go down the mountain and wait for the monster to come to us... Is there anyone who would like to volunteer?"

The words came out.

The people around were immediately scared away.

Seeing that no one had volunteered, the patrol inspector general asked five men to step forward and agree to help Chen Qingyuan to subdue the demon. These five men included patrolmen Lu San and Sun Ren...

In this era, the food supply was not so sufficient. Except for the rich, ordinary people were basically not fat. Therefore, even those who could be considered strong men were very thin.

Chen Qingyuan looked around at the families of the victims and said, "I want to destroy the evildoers, and I urgently need your support! This trip to find the evildoers is indeed life-threatening, but I will do my best to protect you!"

A woman asked, "What if we can't protect them and our people die?"

Chen Qingyuan looked at the woman and said, "I only want volunteers, and I am willing to do my best to protect you, but I can't be 100% sure of everything...so if something goes wrong, I can only say sorry!"

The woman quickly reached out and grabbed her husband who was about to sign up, saying, "That won't work. My child is dead. If the head of the family dies too, how can I survive alone..."

Chen Qingyuan was not surprised or angry about the woman's reaction. It was normal.

only……

He said, "I understand. Goodbye."

He came to the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty to resolve the issue of the cat demon.

It is normal for a Taoist to help the villagers of Toushan City to get rid of monsters, but when they need help, the villagers are timid and dare not step forward, leaving him to do it himself. Doesn't the Taoist's life matter? Because of this monster, several monks and Taoists have died...

At this moment, Liu A Zong stood up and said, "Count me in!"

The woman who had just spoken hurriedly said, "A Zong, your child was also eaten by a monster. Your wife relies on you for support. If you die, she, a widow, will be bullied to death?"

Liu A Zong looked a bit struggling, and said with his fists clenched, "How could I not know! But I don't know how many more people that beast will continue to eat. As locals, we should unite while there are many of us and still have the strength to eliminate the beast!
The more we cowardly we are, the more we are sticking our necks into the mouth of that beast! And... my family has only one son for three generations, and my kid is only five years old. I... I must avenge him! My wife will understand me!"

His expression was ferocious, his eyes were red, he was very emotional, tears were streaming down his eyes, and he almost cried out the last few words...

The death of a child.

Liu Azong had been holding it in for too long. Everyone thought that he had endured the pain of losing his son, but unexpectedly, he had been looking for opportunities to take revenge.

For hometown.

Also for kids.

The families of the victims in the inspection department were all infected by Liu Azong's emotions. They also showed a look of shame. Yes, their own lives are lives, but aren't other people's lives lives? They were all raised by their parents!
So they stood up one after another, clenched their fists and shouted, "Count me in!"

"Count me in!"

"I...I'll have one too!"

Young Master Zhang speaks with a heavy accent, and others cannot understand him if he speaks too fast, so since he came to the Wanli period, he has been following Chen Qingyuan and watching silently.

He was also infected by the emotion, his blood boiling, and said beside him: "Daoyou, when are we going up the mountain? Don't look at me having advanced liver cancer, look at the muscles on my arms, even if it's a cow, it will be stunned for a few minutes after being hit by my full-strength punch..."

Chen Qingyuan said: "Once everyone is gathered, let's go up the mountain immediately. We have other things to do and need to speed up the process."

There are five inspectors and five ordinary villagers, a total of ten people.

Chen Qingyuan didn't ask for more people. Too many people would not only make it difficult to command, but it would also easily cause chaos and alert the enemy...

At noon, everyone had lunch at the Inspection Office.

After packing up, they set out in a mighty group. Including Chen Qingyuan and Young Master Zhang, there were a total of twelve people.

The closest and largest mountain to Tosan Castle is called Jiuli Mountain. There is a very long stone on the top of the mountain. According to legend, it was originally a python, nine miles long, which brought disaster to the people in the village. Finally, it was cut into two halves by a sword from Lu Dongbin who was passing by. Most of the body fell into the sea, and the remaining small half fell on the mountain and turned into a long stone.

The crowd entered the forest from the foot of the mountain, stepping on the mud and rocks.

As we slowly went deeper into the forest, the trees gradually increased in number, with branches and leaves intertwined, blocking the sunlight outside, leaving only a few spots of light falling on everyone...

Young Master Zhang tightened his clothes and said, "It gets colder the further up the mountain we go."

Liu Azong, who was walking beside him, barely understood his broken Fujian dialect and replied, "Many of the trees in Jiuli Mountain are decades old and very tall. You can't see the treetops when you stand below. It's normal for it to be a little shady without sunlight."

The soil underfoot was gradually replaced by piled leaves.

Everyone stepped on it, and the sound of crunching continued...

In the woods, unknown insects and unknown birds called out from time to time. Suddenly, a flapping sound was heard, and a bird flapped its wings and flew up. It seemed to be frightened by something and tried desperately to get out of the woods.

Chen Qingyuan and Zhang Dashao instantly felt that something was not normal.

In the dense forest, there seemed to be a pair of eyes staring at this place with ill intentions...

Young Master Zhang took out a piece of talisman paper from his pocket. With a little force, the talisman paper automatically burned and broke into pieces. He gently wiped it on his eyelids, and his Yin-Yang eyes immediately opened.

He nudged Chen Qingyuan with his elbow and said, "There's a dirty creature watching us from behind our left."

Chen Qingyuan gathered Qi with his index finger at the point between his eyebrows, opened up the meridians between his eyes, and opened his Yin-Yang eyes.

He pretended to chat with Young Master Zhang, looking around casually. When his eyes swept to the left and back, he frowned and saw a tall and thin figure standing there...

The figure was a little blurry and pitch black, but with a little effort one could still make out the facial features.

He was a man in his early twenties, wearing ragged grey clothes, and his head looked like it was made of plasticine and was pulled into an oval shape by some external force. His eyes were staring wide open with no whites, and his mouth was stretched 15 centimeters long, looking extremely weird and twisted...

Chen Qingyuan suddenly thought of Chu Renmei.

She really likes to do this method of stretching her facial features.

But the young ghost on the left back was obviously not willing. Its body was very stiff, and it seemed to feel that it had met Chen Qingyuan's gaze. It made a sound of wood rubbing against the ground in its throat, and raised its hands with difficulty. Its legs slowly moved forward, as if it could not open its legs widely, and walked towards Chen Qingyuan in small steps...

Young Master Zhang put his index and middle fingers together and stared at the ghost: "Let me deal with it!"

Chen Qingyuan stretched out his hand to stop him: "Don't be afraid, it's just an ordinary ghost, let me see what it wants to do."

The young ghost walked faster and faster, and soon it was in front of Chen Qingyuan, holding his collar tightly with both hands, and black air filled its deformed mouth...

"It hurts so much... Help me... Help me quickly..."

"You can see me, can't you?"

"I don't want to be tortured anymore."

Chen Qingyuan was a little surprised that the ghost was still conscious, so he asked, "Are you from Toushan City?"

The young ghost nodded slowly and said, "Yes...save me..."

Chen Qingyuan asked again: "It was the monster that was wreaking havoc in Toushan City recently that killed you, right?"

The young ghost's already ferocious and terrifying face revealed a look of fear, and his whole body began to tremble violently: "Yes, yes, it is it... It has killed so many people, I have no way to help... Please save me!"

Chen Qingyuan asked: "How can I save you?"

The young ghost said, "Just take me away from this mountain. I'll be fine anywhere as long as it's not here!"

I see……

This is easy to handle.

There were so many people around now that Chen Qingyuan couldn't take out the Merit Banner that would slightly affect people's judgment. He took out a blank talisman paper, used cinnabar ink and his finger as a pen, wrote a talisman paper, dried it with Qi, folded it into a triangle, drew a few times with his index and middle fingers, and then chanted a spell to collect the soul...

He was a Taoist priest and suddenly stopped to chant a spell, so no one dared to disturb him.

The young ghost felt his soul slowly moving into the talisman and began to cry bitterly: "I am finally going to be free. Once I get out of this mountain, I will tell you what it is!"

Chen Qingyuan said: "You can also tell me now..."

The young ghost panicked: "No, this is its territory. If I say anything related to its name, it will know immediately. I can't beat it at all, and you can't beat it either... We can only run away and stay away from here. Let the inspection department go to Quanzhou Prefecture to ask for someone, a real master, maybe..."

Young Master Zhang said, "It has something to do with mountains. Could it be a tiger?"

The young ghost's expression changed: "Ah, you can't talk about this here! I've been discovered..."

(End of this chapter)