Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 5 Lord Wenli
"Blood, I want human blood..." the monster muttered to himself. The sound was like metal friction, making people's scalps numb.

Ren Yuan was completely stunned. He tried hard not to make any sound, but his breathing still became rapid.

After turning into a monster, Grandma's senses became much more sensitive, and she immediately noticed, "Who's outside?!"

Ren Yuan only had time to move his body back under the window before it was slammed open!
At this critical moment, a tabby cat screamed and rushed into the room through the window.

The monster's attention was attracted by the cat. Ren Yuan quickly retreated and ran all the way back to the sheepfold.

He closed the door of the pen in shock, knelt on the ground and gasped. Damn it, he was scared to death.

If the cat hadn't come to the rescue by accident, I would have died in a different way this time.

Although dying in a dream was not a big deal, the pain was very real. He really didn't want to experience another way of dying.

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When Ren Yuan calmed down and sorted out his thoughts, he found that he had gained a lot tonight.

First, he figured out the identities of everyone in the dream, and also knew that the so-called "grandmother" was actually a monster!
The 'Third Young Master' was originally the same type of person as himself, both were poor children who were turned into sheep and kidnapped into the villa.

Unlike the poor red-spotted boy, these two are not edible, but materials used for some kind of ritual.

Although it is still unclear what the specific ceremony is, the third young master should correspond to his grandfather, and he corresponds to... his cousin.

Because the "Azhi" mentioned by "grandfather" and "grandmother" is Xie Zhi, the eldest son of Xiejiazhuang, the good man who calls himself "big brother".

Ren Yuan couldn't help but sigh secretly, it seems that his 'cousin' is not being nice to him for no reason...

Giving up the last bit of fantasy, he calmed himself down and continued to think.

Ren Yuan remembered that his cousin in real life said that his grandfather and second uncle had passed away two years ago.

And my great aunt also passed away two years ago.

It seems that something big will happen to this family soon... Unfortunately, after being skinned tomorrow night, I will exit the dream and will not be able to see what happens next.

But I think it's probably related to that terrifying bloodthirsty monster...

After thinking about it for a long time, he found nothing to think about, so he knelt down and went to sleep. Although the monster had revealed its true form, based on experience, nothing major should happen in the village tonight.

Even if there is, this sheepfold should be the safest place.

I just don’t know how the tabby cat is doing now. Has it escaped from the tiger’s mouth?

The big black sheep thought and thought, and finally fell asleep.

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The last day of the dream.

The big black sheep slept until noon. Then he opened his eyes, looked around, and found that he was still in the sheepfold.

Suddenly, its eyes lit up, and it saw the "heroic sheep-saving" tabby cat squatting on a stake, looking at it seriously.

The big black sheep bleated happily...

The tabby cat looked at it for a moment, and actually spoke in human language: "Why do you look like a human?"

Ren Yuan rolled his eyes when he heard this, and wrote five crooked characters on the ground with his right front hoof:

'I am a human being!'

The tabby cat could actually read. It tilted its head to watch him finish writing before explaining, "What I meant is that, according to the animal-making technique of the monster, if you are turned into an animal, your mind will also be clouded. If you don't shed your animal skin, you won't be like you..."

Ren Yuan was overjoyed when he heard this. He finally met someone who knew what he was doing! He hurriedly wrote: "Who are you, senior? How can you read?" As far as he knew, there were no more than one hand of people who could read in the entire Xiejia Village...

The tabby cat licked its front paw, raised its head proudly and said, "I am Master Wenli, and I have been practicing for many years in the presence of the mountain goddess. Knowing how to read and write is nothing to worry about, I know a lot more."

Ren Yuan was so happy that he wrote: "How can I ask the mountain goddess for help?"

The tabby cat was silent for a long while, then said breathlessly: "My sister was also turned into a bird by the monster."

"The one in the cage?" The big black sheep immediately thought of the bird raised by 'grandma'.

"Yes. But that is not an ordinary bird, it is a divine bird!" The tabby cat emphasized, slapping the stake with its front paws.

"Can a divine bird be caged?" Ren Yuan forced himself not to write this sentence, but the disappointment on his face betrayed him.

"Because that's not an ordinary cage..." The tabby cat quickly explained, "Anyway, my sister has great magical powers, but she's too kind and naive. She just fell into the trap of that old dog Xie You!"

The big black sheep nodded repeatedly. The cat was now the only lifeline, so naturally he would agree with whatever it said. He quickly wrote:

'Do you have any help?'

"Of course there are." The tabby cat said loudly, and then his voice became weaker, "Unfortunately, none of them are reliable. For example, the stupid leopard only knows how to run around anxiously outside and can't help at all. The only reliable one is the willow spirit that can't move.'

"..." The big black sheep's mouth twitched, and he wrote: "Do you have a rescue plan?"

After reading this, the tabby cat's whiskers drooped down, and he said dejectedly: "I have been here for almost a year, but my sister is being watched too closely by the old witch, so I can't find any opportunities at all."

"I'll help you!" The big black sheep wrote four ugly but powerful characters.

"You..." The tabby cat looked at him suspiciously, obviously lacking in confidence.

However, it still shared the information it had with Ren Yuan.

The tabby cat told him that the Xie family was indeed a descendant of the Xie family of Chen County, but only a branch of the family. When Xie You was forty years old, he was sent to Xiejia Village to manage the family's forests and farmland...

"Thirty years passed in the blink of an eye. Xie Youren was seventy years old and very afraid of death. He tried every means to live longer. So he secretly organized people to rob tombs in search of the legendary elixir." The cat actually had the talent of a storyteller, shaking his head and saying:

"In the end, the elixir was not found, but a fierce ghost named Wu Xiang was released from the tomb. Wu Xiang envied my sister's success, so he tempted Xie You to change his faith, abandon the mountain god he had worshipped, and worship himself as the community god instead. After the matter was accomplished, he could teach him the secret method of eternal youth, and he would also marry my sister to him."

"Xie You was bewildered, so he agreed to help Wu Xiang turn his sister into a bird. Then he built a huge community temple, made a statue of Wu Xiang, and forced the people to worship him. The amulet you wear contains Wu Xiang's innate magical power - the ability to create animals. Anyone who speaks ill of him will be turned into an animal. Who dares to act rashly now?"

"Then his old wife was also parasitized by Wang Xiang's sister Fang Liang. Fang Liang told Xie You that she could also let him parasitize in the same way, but both parties needed to have the same horoscope."

"Xie You ordered people to look for a young man who was sixty years younger than him but had the same horoscope as him." The tabby cat continued, "That was the Aries who was skinned tonight."

"Besides, his only grandson has an incurable disease. Anyway, it doesn't matter if you catch one toad or two, so he called you here again."

"What happened next?" Ren Yuan wrote.

"What happened later hasn't happened yet, how would I know?" the tabby cat said speechlessly.

Ren Yuan shook his head and wrote slowly: "No, you know!"

"I don't know yet. Do I know?" The tabby cat arched its back in annoyance.

"You really don't know." Ren Yuan wrote mysteriously.

"Go to hell, Riddler!" The tabby cat jumped up and pounced on the big black sheep's face and started scratching it.

(End of this chapter)