Chapter 2 Xiao Ai

Lu Heng was a little confused.

He didn't react at all to the sudden appearance and departure of the group of villagers.

When he heard the sound of gongs and drums in the forest, he thought someone's daughter was getting married and encountered a rainstorm, so the wedding procession came to the mountain temple to take shelter from the rain.

In order not to disturb these mortals, Lu Heng hid in the statue and used the power of the mountain god to sneak underground to rest, intending to come out to practice after the group of mortals left.

However, after listening underground for a while, he found that the group of villagers came and went quickly, and they all ran away without staying for long, and someone was left in the mountain temple.

Out of caution and curiosity, Lu Heng emerged from the underground and took a look, but found that it was such a little girl who was left in the mountain temple.

She was wearing a bright red wedding dress, which looked out of place. Her hands and feet were tied to the rattan sedan chair, and she couldn't get away no matter how hard she struggled. Even her mouth was tied with cloth strips, and she could only make pitiful whimpers... What's going on? Human trafficking? Or what?

Lu Heng looked at the little girl in front of him in surprise, looking at her frightened pale face, thought about it, and decided to comfort the little girl first.

He knew how scary he looked in his demon body. If he didn't speak and pretended to be deep, he would scare the little girl psychologically.

After a low cough, Lu Heng spoke in a low voice.

"Little girl, don't be afraid. I won't eat you."

Lu Heng's voice was low and hoarse, with a faint echo. It can be said that it was a very handsome voice-like the evil villain in the movie.

And this handsome voice really worked now.

The girl who heard the giant wolf speak twitched all over, rolled her eyes, and fainted. The temple was temporarily quiet.

Outside the temple, the heavy rain was still falling.

Inside the temple, Lu Heng was a little embarrassed.

This... uh... is this little girl so timid...

He lowered his head, sniffed closer, and smelled a little fishy smell... Well, she was scared to the point of incontinence.

Lu Heng stretched out his front paws and used his sharp nails to cut the ropes tied to the girl and the cloth strips on her mouth, helping the little girl regain her freedom.

But the little girl couldn't escape at this time.

She lay softly on the rattan sedan, with a terrified expression, stiff limbs, and eyes closed.

If he hadn't heard the little girl's heartbeat, Lu Heng would have thought that the little girl was scared to death by him.

Hey... what kind of sin is this?

Although he was not a handsome guy in his previous life, he was not ugly enough to scare children to tears.

In this life, he actually scared a little girl to faint on the spot and urinate incontinence, making him look like a monster who did all kinds of evil.

Hmm? Wait... monster?

Lu Heng stood beside the rattan sedan, pacing and thinking, and flipping through the giant wolf's vague and incomplete memories again.

After the wolf demon was hit by the thunder, its soul completely dissipated. Lu Heng only inherited some memory fragments when he traveled through. He could only speculate the wolf demon's general experience of life based on these fragmented information, but he could not know every detail.

However, after carefully flipping through these memory fragments, he did find some useful information.

It seems that not long ago, the wolf demon notified the villagers down the mountain to offer it some sacrifices.

The sacrifice was related to the wolf demon's practice. Although Lu Heng could not remember the specific requirements of the sacrifice, it should not be a righteous practice.

Looking at the girl who was tied up and sent here, and the strange behavior of the group of villagers, Lu Heng immediately thought of a legend-offering a virgin to a monster?

Damn!

The wolf demon has been a mountain god here for eighty years. Because of the stagnation of practice, it actually asked the villagers to offer it a virgin? This is the practice route that only real monsters and demons will take.

After being a mountain god for decades, this is the result?

No wonder he was struck by the thunderbolt, he deserved to die.

In the mountain temple, after Lu Heng figured out everything, he looked down at the little girl in front of him again.

The girl was wearing a slightly loose wedding dress. Even in a coma, she was curled up and felt very insecure.

How could he not scare her again?

After thinking about it, Lu Heng jumped directly onto the altar and merged into the clay statue.

Then he blew a breeze, and when the breeze fell on the girl's face, the little girl, who had closed her eyes and frowned, gradually softened her expression.

After a while, the girl slowly opened her eyes, and after seeing the mountain temple in front of her with a little confusion, she suddenly remembered the horrible scene she saw before she fainted.

"Help——?!"

The moment the girl opened her mouth in fear, she suddenly found that she could speak.

She quickly lowered her head and found that the ropes on her body had been untied and she was no longer tied.

Although the empty mountain temple still looked eerie and dark, the huge white wolf could not be seen.

In the empty and deserted mountain temple, there was only the girl. She shrank her neck nervously, looking at everything around her in fear and anxiety, not knowing what had happened.

Was the white wolf she saw before she fainted just an illusion? Otherwise, why hadn't she been eaten yet?

Also, who helped her untie the ropes on her body?

The girl hurried to the door and looked outside.

It was still pouring outside. It was impossible to go out on such a rainy day, and there were no kind people outside.

She could only look back again, nervously looking at the white wolf clay sculpture on the altar, shrinking her neck.

Could it be... Could it be that the mountain god helped her untie the rope?

The girl thought in panic and anxiety, carefully looking at the white wolf clay sculpture on the altar, and vaguely felt that the clay sculpture of the white wolf was a little different.

It was obviously an ordinary clay sculpture like before, without any changes, but the little girl vaguely felt that the clay sculpture seemed to be alive, and the eyes of the clay sculpture seemed to be looking at her...

The girl called out carefully, "Mountain... Mountain God?"

This low call was as weak as a mosquito's buzz, and it could not be heard at all if it was far away.

But the clay sculpture on the altar suddenly moved, and the clay white wolf let out a low laugh.

"You actually called me on your own initiative... Aren't you afraid of me?"

The moment the clay statue opened her mouth, the girl was frightened and stepped back several steps, and her expression became terrified again.

But perhaps the clay statue did not look as scary as the giant wolf before, or perhaps the mountain god's deep laughter did not sound fierce, so the girl did not faint this time.

Although she was still very scared, the girl immediately knelt down and kowtowed desperately.

"Lord Mountain God! Please don't eat me! Please don't eat me!"

The girl begged desperately. She was so young that she could not think of more words to beg for mercy, so she could only repeat this sentence.

The clay statue on the altar made a sound again.

"Okay, okay, don't kneel, I won't eat you. I am a mountain god, not a monster, how could I eat people?"

The clay statue said such words, which made the little girl a little confused.

Lord Mountain God does not eat people? Then why did the village offer virgins to Lord Mountain God...

The girl looked confused, but Lu Heng did not intend to explain.

Although he traveled into the body of a monster, his soul was human, how could he do such a thing as eating people?

Seeing that the little girl's emotions had calmed down, Lu Heng jumped out of the clay statue.

The moment the huge white wolf appeared in the mountain temple, the girl trembled with fear again - the impact of this huge monster on mortals was too great.

But this time the little girl did not faint from fear. Although she was shaking with fear, she forced herself to kneel there, fearing that she would anger the mountain god in front of her.

Outside the house, the heavy rain gradually stopped.

Lu Heng looked down at the little girl in front of him and asked, "What's your name?"

"Xiao... Xiao Ai, the Ai of mugwort."

"Xiao Ai... I know," Lu Heng nodded, spit out a wooden sign from his mouth, and said, "You can go back. When you go back, tell the people in the village that I don't need you to sacrifice boys and girls to me anymore."

"This wooden sign is my mountain god's order, which can take you out of Hanyu Mountain and back to the village."

"And if you walk in the mountains with this wooden sign, all the beasts in Hanyu Mountain will not dare to hurt you. You should go back now. If you delay for too long, it will be dark."

Lu Heng looked at the sky outside the house. Although the rainstorm had stopped, the mountain road was muddy, and it would take a long time for the little girl to go back alone.

If she delayed for a long time, the mountain road would be difficult to walk after dark.

Of course, the fastest way at this time is actually for Lu Heng to send the girl back personally.

With the power of the mountain god, he can shrink the ground in Hanyu Mountain, or even escape directly underground, and it won't take long to get out of the deep mountains.

However, Lu Heng still has a strong power of thunder in his body and is still in a serious state. Before he dissolves the thunder in his body, he cannot leave the mountain temple at all. He needs to rely on the incense and willpower accumulated in the temple to suppress the thunder in his body.

Anyway, with his mountain god order, the little girl can walk out of Hanyu Mountain alone. It's just that she will be a little tired on the road. The mountain god order is enough to protect her.

After sending the girl away with the mountain god order, Lu Heng went underground again and continued to practice, trying to dissolve the thunder in his body as soon as possible and restore the ability to move freely.

The days of practicing underground every day are not very pleasant.