I let you be a fugitive, not to set up a private army.

"Don't follow me."

Zhang Ting angrily said to the stranger behind her, "I've had enough of this kind of life. You must be trying to lecture me. I don't want to listen. It will only make me more and more annoyed."

I ran to the cliffs of the village and looked down at the bottomless abyss.

The girl felt a faint fear in her heart and turned back and said, "I told you not to follow me anymore, otherwise I will jump from here."

"Then what are you waiting for?" Chen Jiajun continued forward.

The girl had run away from home before and was entrusted to Zheng Yin.

"Don't come over here again." Zhang Ting's face became increasingly angry. "I'm really going to jump."

"Yeah." The footsteps did not stop.

"Try taking another step forward..." The girl threatened, but saw that the stranger in front of her ignored her and continued walking towards her.

I heard back: "You think I care? I'm not your parent."

Zhang Ting was slightly stunned, her expression becoming more and more aggrieved, and she turned to face the dangerous cliff.

"I'll take you down."

Chen Jiajun reached out and pushed the girl down the cliff.

"Do not……"

A scream echoed through the air.

Zhang Ting plummeted from the clifftop, feeling her heart about to burst. Numerous images flashed through her mind, but it was too late...

Mom and Dad, I'm dying—

She closed her eyes, recovered from the fall, and then plummeted again, her heart practically pounding!

It rose again, like a swing, and soon it was back to the heart-pounding drop...

Wow, so exciting!

Zhang Ting opened her eyes and looked up, and found that the guy next to the cliff was holding a chain in his hand and was pulling her.

There was no time to think, and my mind went blank as I fell rapidly.

A voice came from above: "Let me know when you want to come up."

……

After playing for a while, Zhang Ting was pulled up and looked very happy:

"Uncle, thank you. This is the first time I've played such an exciting game. It's more fun than being caught by Dasha."

She continued, "But I'm grown up now. I can no longer play with the other kids like I did when I was little. The adults in the village are very fierce..."

"Only Dasha was willing to play with us kids. Although he was ferocious when he chased us, he never hurt us..."

After listening quietly for a while, Chen Jiajun asked, "What is under this cliff?"

I just threw a stone down, and several minutes have passed since then. Even with my keen hearing, I didn't hear the sound of the stone falling to the ground.

"No one knows." The girl shook her head. "Usually, the adults don't let us play here. They say there are hundreds of people below."

"A hundred-foot person?"

"Yes, that's the rumor in the village. They also say that if a child disappears on the cliff after the Black Moon, he will be caught and eaten by the Baizhang people."

The girl seemed to have thought of something, and her eyes suddenly lit up. "Uncle, how long can your chain be extended? Why don't we go down and take a look?"

"About 30 meters." The length of the chain is related to its energy coefficient.

The girl's eyes turned disappointed. "That's not enough. It's at least several hundred meters below."

"Are there any other legends about the village?" Chen Jiajun asked again.

"The haunted house in the front village. You should have seen it when you came here. It's the lonely red brick house at the entrance of the village."

The girl continued, "From a distance, you can see lights on inside and the sound of children crying. As soon as you walk near the house, strong winds will appear and cut people."

"I heard from the adults that when they pushed open the door, there was no light at all inside."

The girl shrank her neck. "There's also the forest outside the village. I heard there's a crazy woman wandering around, looking for her missing daughter. The village chief's wife occasionally goes out to give her something to eat."

"Any more?"

"There's a cave in the mountain behind the village chief's house that leads to other villages. I've never been in there, but there's a big, fierce dog tied up at the entrance."

In the gap between words, I heard the adults' scolding:

"Hey, don't sit on the edge of the cliff, leave now."

……

The village chief’s house is in the back mountain.

After leaving the "dangerous cliff", Chen Jiajun and the girl came to the cave in the back mountain, which was one of the ghost stories.

Zhang Ting saw a large, black-haired dog the size of a wild boar at the cave entrance and quickly backed away: "That dog is really fierce!"

The big dog opened its eyes, which were full of ferocity, and opened its mouth: "Woo woo..."

The sound was not the roar as imagined, but a whimper, the tail was tucked between the legs, and the feet kept moving backwards.

The fierce look in his eyes turned gentle.

Strange things!!

Zhang Ting was stunned and looked to the side: "Uncle, is it afraid of you?"

"Maybe." Chen Jiajun walked forward.

"Except for the village chief, this big dog barks at everyone." The girl hurriedly followed, "Uncle, you must be very powerful. Even it doesn't dare to make a sound."

"good."

The cave in sight was colorless and as dark as the moon.

"Uncle, can you help me teach this dog a lesson? My friends and I once sneaked into the cave, but we were scared by it and it chased us until we fell and got bruised."

"You can go by yourself."

"You won't bite me?"

Zhang Ting picked up a branch from the ground, and with her heart beating faster, she approached the big dog and poked the dog with the branch in her hand.

Seeing that the other party didn't dare to pounce on him, he suddenly became bolder and knocked his big head with a branch: "You dog-eyed guy who looks down on others, do you still dare to bark at me?"

He continued to knock on the big head: "I'm asking you a question, do you dare?"

"Woo..." The big dog shook his head.

"Hmph! I'll spare you this time, but you can't yell at me next time, okay?" Zhang Ting poked her with a branch.

"Woooo..."

"Speak louder." He poked with the branch again.

"Woo, woo, woo..." The big dog whimpered towards the sky.

"Not loud enough." The branch continued to poke.

"Wang..."

"How dare you bark at me? You're so bold." The branch hit the big dog's head.

Big Dog: “…”

"I'll spare you for now." After avenging her fall, the girl threw away the branch and seemed quite happy.

"Uncle, let's go."

"Ah."

Chen Jiajun took out the white lantern and walked into the cave. A clear path appeared in his eyes.

"Where did you make this lantern?" Zhang Ting asked curiously, "It looks like the lantern at the village chief's house. Uncle, you must be a magician."

It was not as I had imagined that there was no end to the road. After walking less than 20 meters, I saw a tightly closed stone door blocking the way ahead.

The girl said, "This must be the road leading to other villages."

"Take a few steps back."

After Chen Jiajun finished speaking, he punched the stone door with all his might.

In the light of the white lantern, the cave seemed to come alive instantly. A layer of energy as light as a thin wing was flowing on the surrounding cave walls, converging towards the landing point between the fist and the stone gate.

The entire stone gate remained motionless.

"Woof..." Suddenly, I heard the frightened barking of a big dog outside the cave.

The entire ground beneath my feet began to shake, and an unknown "roar" came from far away in the center of the village.