C236 Guardian

Xiao Miao was a very sensitive person, she was very meticulous. He noticed every movement of mine, every emotion that was out of place.

After a while, he seemed to be unable to hold it in any longer and offered me his hand. "What are you looking at me for?"

I forcefully chopped the meat and absent-mindedly asked, "Really?" When did I see you? How come I didn't know? "

Seeing that I did not admit it, Xiao Miao did not say anything else and just chuckled. Then he said, "If you're tired, go upstairs and rest for a while."

The first time he said this, he was extremely passionate. Now, when I say it again, there is a kind of routine perfunctory.

Not only did I agree to it, I even put the kitchen knife on the chopping board, and said to Xiao Miao: "I'm a little tired now, can I go up and rest?"

Xiao Miao looked at me in surprise. "Why are you tired so quickly?"

"The last time I was working, I was still a novice and wouldn't steal anything," I said with a treacherous look on my face. This time is different. "

Xiao Miao nodded, "Come." He also looked at my kitchen knife to make sure I had put my guesses on the chopping board before she turned and went upstairs.

As usual, he was at the front and I at the back. I walked slowly for a moment, and then suddenly there was a clank and my dagger fell on the steps.

Xiao Miao jumped up as if her tail had been stepped on. He stood high up and looked at me warily: "What's going on?"

I scratched my head and said a little embarrassedly, "This is my personal dagger for self-defense. "You don't know, that cat almost killed me just now. Luckily I had this dagger, so I managed to survive."

Xiao Miao uncertainly looked at me, then nodded and said to me: "You should keep such an important thing well. Pick it up quickly. "

I pounded my waist and said, "When I was chopping the vegetables earlier, my waist seemed to have flashed and I couldn't bend down. Can you help me?"

Xiao Miao nodded and agreed. He stooped to pick up the dagger, but kept her eyes on me. He moved quickly, like a dragonfly skimming the surface of the water, and instantly picked up the dagger.

After Xiao Miao received the dagger, she didn't even look at it before stuffing it into her chest. She didn't have any intention of giving it to me, and I didn't want it either.

The two of us continued up.

Xiao Miao took the dagger, and it was clear that she was more at ease. While she was climbing the stairs, her footsteps became a lot lighter, and she did not always turn her head to look at me.

We went to the door of the dormitory and he opened it. When the door was halfway open, I took out my dagger and pressed the cold edge of it against his neck.

Xiao Miao's body stiffened for a moment, then she stopped moving.

He was silent for a while before he said faintly, "Didn't your dagger fall to the ground?"

I said, "It was the sheath that fell to the ground."

Xiao Miao was silent.

I said a little proudly, "If you look carefully, it won't be hard to find that it's just a sheath. It's a pity that you were always on guard against me, but you ended up falling into a trap. "

Xiao Miao said: "You outsiders, you are truly treacherous."

I spat out, "How can you be so treacherous? If you hadn't wanted to harm me, would I have done this? "

Xiao Miao asked me: "Then what do you want to do? "Do you plan on abducting me and negotiating the terms with the boss?"

I said, "You go in first. We'll talk inside."

When the two of us entered the dorm, I once again forced Xiao Miao to close the door, and let him take off the bed sheets and bind her own hands and feet.

It was very easy to play tricks on him if he tied himself up. But I kept a close watch on them from the side, to make sure that Xiao Miao didn't leave any chances for me.

I made Xiao Miao sit down, and I was always behind him, my dagger always on his neck.

I asked him, "Who the hell are you?"

Xiao Miao was silent for a moment, then said: "I am mutton restaurant's shop assistant, I am in charge of cooking, and also in charge of serving food."

My dagger tightened a little. "Don't try to lie to me. I already know what you are."

Xiao Miao was stunned for a moment, and then said: "What do you know?"

I placed my hand on the back of his neck, causing Xiao Miao's body to violently tremble. There was a new wound, and when I touched it, the pain was palpable.

I said to Xiao Miao: "I once injured that cat with a dagger. That wound is very similar to the one on your neck. "

Xiao Miao burst out laughing, and said with a hint of ridicule: "What you mean is, am I a cat transformed into a human, or am I a cat transformed into a human? Am I a god? It can change into a myriad of forms? "

I didn't answer, instead I said lightly, "I heard that cats have nine lives. I'll kill you. If you can survive, then you're the cat. On the other hand, if you are not, then this will prove your innocence. "

Xiao Miao's expression was unsettled. He didn't speak, so I did.

Just at this moment, Xiao Miao called out, "Wait."

My hand stopped. I smiled and asked, "Why?"

Xiao Miao was silent for a moment, then said: "I am indeed a cat."

I breathed a sigh of relief. This was how interrogating prisoners worked. Some people were tough and refused to say anything. This kind of person was actually the easiest to deal with. As long as he opened the outer shell, he would honestly tell them everything that was inside. The thing he was most afraid of was his glib tongue. It was hard to say which part was true and which was false. You could feel that he had said it all and might even be hiding a lot of it.

I asked Xiao Miao: "Where did you come from?"

Xiao Miao said: "I am just a normal cat, kept in a monastery by monks. During the day, the monk chanted incense, and I lay down by the altar and dozed off. In the evening, the monks went to bed, and I went around catching mice so that they wouldn't bite the scripture. "

"One day, a person came into the temple and said that he was a stonemason. He wanted to see the twenty-five years old statue of Buddha so that he could carve a statue."

"This person was very sincere, so the host agreed. Take him on a tour. This person is not just taking a look, he's staring at the Buddha statue day and night, sometimes even using his finger to write something down in the air. "

"He stayed in the temple for a month, and then he said goodbye to the monk. Before he left, the man told the monk that he wanted to take me away. Because I've been living in the temple for years. During the day, people would pay their respects to Buddha and at night, people would pay their respects to the scriptures. "

Puzzled, I asked, "And then?"

Xiao Miao said: "Then this person brought me out of the temple. They arrived at a small village. He spent a lot of time in the little village, carving countless Buddha statues. This person was very strange. After carving a Buddha statue, he sneaked into his ancestor's grave in the middle of the night. Dig out the human body and put the Buddha in it. Say something... The Buddha statue was just a piece of stone, it was useless no matter how dignified it looked. He has to put a soul inside the Buddha statue. "

The more I heard about it, the weirder I felt. I asked Xiao Miao hesitantly: "This person brought you to a small village? And then carving the Buddha statue? "

Xiao Miao acknowledged.

"This man buried the Buddha in the grave?" I asked.

Xiao Miao acknowledged again.

I said in disbelief, "This person couldn't be surnamed Xue, right?"

Xiao Miao exclaimed: "You know him? That's right, his surname was Xue. I heard someone call him Master Xue. "

I bitterly smiled. "I don't know him, but we've been friends for a long time."

Outside the Stonemason Village, there were indeed a number of Buddha statues, all buried in their graves. The villagers explained that the Master Xue felt that he had committed many evil deeds, so he buried the Buddha statue to pray for blessings.

Now, it seemed that this argument was extremely wrong. It was unknown who created the rumor first, but the result was that it became more and more outrageous.

I said to Xiao Miao, "After Master Xue buried the Buddha statue, did he take it out again?"

Xiao Miao shook her head: "No. However, a few days later, there would be a knock on the door at midnight. These people looked exactly like Lord Buddha. I think it was the soul inside the Buddha statue. These souls have forgotten about everything except finding the Master Xue. "

"For the next few years, he hid in the village and carved Buddha statues. And the food he gave me was also very strange. I always felt that after I ate it, many things that I couldn't understand gradually became understandable, and my thinking became more human as well. "

"The cat's lifespan is very short. Finally, one day, I'm going to die. Master Xue felt that my life was reaching its end. He was very happy and said that he had finally arrived at this day. When I was dying, he took me in his arms and caressed the hair on the top of my head. He said to me, When you were alive, the scripture of Buddha the Guardian did very well. After you die, you have to protect something from being stolen. "

"I didn't know what to say, and then I died. When I regained consciousness, I had already become a ghost. I found myself in a strange place. "There's a temple, a stone stele, a Buddha statue, and a Bibi. Other than that, there's nothing else."

I took a deep breath to calm my agitated emotions. "Do you know what the Master Xue wants you to protect?"

Xiao Miao replied, "I don't know."

I thought, "If I don't know what's guarding it, how am I supposed to defend it?"

Xiao Miao continued: "The temples here are covered by one, endless. Furthermore, every temple had a Buddha statue inside. I'm bored here. Until one day, the Nagzul came. They hung a plaque on the entrance of the temple, which read: Temple of Atonement. and also carved a redemption tablet on the stone tablet. "

"They made all the dead come here to repent, to leave evil behind. After a long time, the Buddha statues were tainted. The originally healthy, invulnerable Golden Man began to fall asleep. Many souls also gradually arrived at this place. I feel that when all the Golden Man s fall asleep, the netherworld will come in. "

When I heard this, I couldn't help but realize that the Nagzul was plotting this. Use the sins of the mortal world to corrode the Golden Man's mental state, and then take away the things that the Master Xue left here.