The Game with Fairies-Chapter 293

“You two little rascals, not coming home when it’s getting dark!”

“Didn’t your parents tell you before they left not to stay outside after the sun sets?”

The fierce Aunt Wang, shaking her body like a water bucket, came running over, and grabbed the ears of the two children with one hand each, causing them to cry out in pain.

As she scolded, she dragged the two children towards home.

“Your parents even asked me to help keep an eye on you two little rascals, have you had enough of living?”

“Five children in the village have already died, do you not want to live?”

“Who knows how many evil spirits are hiding in the bamboo forest outside, even the dogs in the village don’t dare to get close!”

“You wait at home, see if your parents don’t beat you to death when they get back.”

Aunt Wang scolded and threatened, but she didn’t dare to stop her steps.

She pulled the ears of the two children and hurried them towards the village, occasionally looking back at the outskirts of the village.

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Behind and to the side of the village lay a vast bamboo forest.

Originally, the villagers relied on the bamboo forest for their basket weaving craftsmanship, and the craftsmanship of their village was well-known within ten li.

But recently, something strange had happened in that bamboo forest; people had seen terrifying shadows moving within it.

Children from the village had mysteriously disappeared, and their bodies were found deep in the bamboo forest, their organs all eaten.

The dogs, cattle, and sheep of the village also dared not approach the bamboo forest.

Even the fiercest dogs dragged into the bamboo forest were frightened into immobility, lying on the ground shivering.

The villagers all said that an evil spirit had emerged in the bamboo forest.

Everyone was on edge, and no one dared to approach the bamboo forest anymore.

As soon as it got dark, every household locked their doors and stayed inside, not daring to wander.

Although Aunt Wang was fierce, she didn’t dare to provoke the evil spirit.

She pulled the ears of the two children, dragging them towards the village.

In the distance, behind the rolling mountains, the sun had completely set.

Even the afterglow of the sunset was gradually fading from the sky.

The cold night wind blew, and a layer of misty grey enveloped the land.

But at that moment, the two children being dragged along by Aunt Wang suddenly screamed out loud.

“Monster! The monster is out!”

“No, it’s not a monster, it’s a dragon! A dragon!”

Two little kids looked towards the edge of the village in utter shock.

In the woods outside the village, the trees began to tremble.

Soon after, the ground seemed to tremble slightly as well.

Aunt Wang, already on edge, was so frightened by the commotion that she shuddered and almost jumped up.

Following the direction the children were pointing, her eyes widened in disbelief.

There, not far from the village in the mountains, burst forth a serpent as white as jade, with two small horns on its head… or should it be called a dragon?

Aunt Wang stared, dumbfounded, unable to believe as the massive beast bulldozed its way out of the forest, plowing fiercely through the fields, flattening all the bushes and straw in its path.

Where there had been lush green rice fields, a long serpentine trail now appeared.

In the blink of an eye, the enormous and terrifying creature slid past just a few zhang from Aunt Wang and the two children, charging directly into the bamboo forest behind the village.

“…a…a demon?!”

Aunt Wang, terrified by the horrific scene, had her mind go blank.

Instinctively, she picked up the two children and ran towards the village, wailing for her parents.

“The demon has come out! The demon has come out!”

“Mommy, it’s a giant snake!”

Aunt Wang cried and screamed, so scared that she stumbled and fell, even losing her shoes.

The two little kids squeezed tightly in her arms, struggled desperately and rolled on the ground several times.

The other villagers quickly heard the commotion and all rushed out with pitchforks, kitchen knives, and hoes in hand.

But they only saw Aunt Wang dragging the two children, crying and screaming as she ran.

Everyone was stunned: “Where did this demon come from?”

They instinctively looked towards the bamboo forest behind the village but saw no sign of the demon.

Back among the crowd, Aunt Wang, as if having survived a catastrophe, let go of the two children and collapsed on the ground, pale-faced, pointing towards the bamboo forest.

“I saw it with my own eyes, the demon ran into the bamboo forest!”

“It’s a giant snake! It could be twenty or thirty zhang long, or maybe even fifty or sixty zhang! So long and terrifying!”

“And it had two horns on its head!”

Aunt Wang vividly described the terror of the demon.

However, the two little kids loudly protested: “It’s not a snake! It’s a dragon! It has four legs, like the dragons in the plays!”

“Yes! It’s a dragon! I saw it, each of its feet had three claws, it’s a three-clawed dragon! Not a snake!”

The conflicting accounts from the two children and Aunt Wang left the villagers looking at each other in confusion.

But at least they were certain that some kind of terrifying thing had come to their small mountain village.

The creature had run into the bamboo forest, and it might really be the demon that hid there, eating children.

The villagers hesitated, discussing whether to go check the bamboo forest.

But at that moment, a piercing scream came from the bamboo forest.

Soon after, the ground shook violently.

It seemed that a terrible battle was taking place within the bamboo.

The villagers hurried to the earthen wall on the outskirts of the village, staring fixedly at the bamboo forest behind.

They saw the bamboo leaves trembling wildly, and the shaking was moving towards the outside of the village.

Then, two pitch-black creatures with slender, flat limbs and bodies ran out of the bamboo forest.

They howled as they ran, their piercing screams making people’s scalps tingle.

Some villagers immediately recognized the two creatures.

“…Yes! That’s them! The ghostly figures I saw in the woods before, those are the things!”

The villagers finally saw the true form of the demon.

One woman even saw her child’s amulet hanging from the neck of one of the demons.

“The demons! It’s these two demons that ate the insides of my Hu’er!”

The sudden appearance of the demons from the bamboo forest startled the villagers.

They finally saw with their own eyes what the creatures that had been lurking in the bamboo forest and had taken the lives of five village children looked like.

But everything happened too quickly.

The villagers were still shocked by the appearance of the two demons when an even more astonishing scene unfolded.

Behind the two howling, fleeing demons, the bamboo in the forest was being flattened.

A huge white shadow burst out from the bamboo.

A ten-zhang-long body, which in the eyes of ordinary people was as massive as a behemoth.

The terrifying momentum of its charge was enough to make all the villagers’ legs shake, nearly bringing them to their knees.

But the terrifying beast that emerged from the forest paid no attention to the villagers nearby.

Under the horrified and shocked gaze of the villagers, it charged past them and caught up with one of the demons on the road outside the village.

Then, the Flood Dragon roared, and red flames from the sky descended directly onto the demon.

The pitch-black, slender demon moved quickly, but in the blink of an eye, it was engulfed by the heavenly fire, rolling on the ground, screaming in agony.

Seeing this, the other demon screamed shrilly, frantically charging at the giant beast.

However, with a cold look in its eyes, the Flood Dragon summoned another ball of heavenly fire from the sky, striking the demon directly.

The two demons instantly turned into fireballs, rolling on the ground and howling in pain.

But after just a few breaths, the two demons stopped moving and lay limp on the ground.

Seeing this, the massive beast walked forward contentedly, opened its huge maw, and directly ate the two demons.

Crunch—crunch—

The loud crunching sounds of the beast chewing were piercingly loud in the silent wilderness.

The villagers watched the terrifying creature with a mix of respect and fear, afraid that the beast might charge at them next.

But the beast, contentedly chewing on the two demons, left without even glancing at the people in the village.

It wasn’t until the beast’s figure disappeared into the forest and was gone for a long time that the villagers began to speak, trembling.

“Is it… gone?”

“Such a terrifying beast…”

“A dragon… it really was a dragon! It had legs and horns!”

The villagers murmured in fear.

Among the crowd, some people began to remember.

“This dragon… could it be the River God of Yushui? I’ve heard people say that there’s a white dragon in the Yushui River that often saves people…”

“The Yushui River’s white dragon god? I’ve heard about it too…”

“Is it really the River God?”

The villagers looked at each other, and upon realizing that it was the life-saving River God, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

“So it was the River God, no wonder it ate two evil demons and then left.”

“It must be the River God showing its divine presence, coming here to subdue the monsters!”

“That damned demon even hung my Hu’er’s longevity lock around its neck… oh… my poor Hu’er!”

“Cough… If it’s really the River God showing its divine presence and helping us subdue the demon, then our Shitang Village won’t have to worry about evil demons anymore?”

“Can we also enter the bamboo forest?”

The villagers exchanged glances, looking at each other.

Soon, a cheer erupted under the night sky.

“The River God has shown its divine presence!”

“Thank you, River God!”