A standing wolf

While a certain couple were enjoying their moment in the middle of a little village street, dozens of disciples and elders of Jianyu Sect were busy with their own investigation in the area of the ruined brothel.

This was not some normal investigations related to the fire accident or soul consuming curse. Last night, something strange happened here. And a witness inhabitant reported it to the elders just this early dawn.....thus this current situation.

More than ten or so disciples were there, searching if there's anything bizarre in the debris and ashes of the ruined building whereas two elders and two disciples stood just in front of this scene, interrogating a middle aged man who came to report.

"At that time..... I was heading for my farm just after my dinner. You see... these days, random little demonic beasts tend to invade my farm in the dead of the night... and when I get there in the morning, I used to find my farms and crops completely destroyed by them...so I..."

Though this man was the one who hurriedly came to inform the case, now that the investigation started for real and he himself was also going through an interrogation, the man seemed nervous a bit.

Wang Li Jie knew this kind of interrogation might be slightly stressing for the witness, so he tried to be a bit more patient..... just a bit more and a bit more....

But!.... this uncle was just so nervous than he should be..... and his explanation never got to the main point.... he wouldn't just stop giving details as to why he was there last night....or how some minor demonic beasts used to come to his farm and destroy crops.

Seeing his Yeye and uncle Wu remained quiet and waited for the man to get to the point in patience, the youth also attempted to stretch out that tiny little bit of patience he had. Even so, almost some incense sticks of time had passed.... yet the man was here, yet to finish with these unnecessary information.

"Uncle.... could you please just get to the main point? We don't need to know why you are there or how you saw them. We just need to know what that pair of mother and child were doing at that time.... so please... please, just get to the point quickly.....okay? "

Master Wu, who was busy, producing some unnatural coughs just to wake up a certain sleepy elder next to him, fixed his attention back onto the witness after hearing Wang Li Jie's words. Giving a scolding glance at the impatient youth, master Wu opened his lips, about to apologize to the witness for the youth's offensive words. But the middle aged man was quick to defend himself as he said.

"Of course..... do you think I also want to explain this much about myself? I just wanna make sure not to be a suspect of this case. You cultivators were really terrible and thorough when it came to investigation, so I just wanna make sure not to implicate further into this case other than being a witness. "

"Of course.... we knew what you mean. And sorry about this kid's offensive words as well..... he just doesn't have that much experience when it came to handling interrogations like this. "

Putting on that apologetic smile, master Wu urged the man to continue before letting out a deafening cough again. The half asleep physician Chen whose eyelids were this closed to shutting down completely, flinched a bit.

The clinophile physician really got enough with these annoying coughs. This morning, when daylight was yet to peek through the horizon, a certain immortal came, disturbing his sleep, telling him to follow this master Wu in his investigation process down the mountain.

It was always like this. He didn't know whether this immortal was holding a grudge against him or something. Each time an opportunity came up, this nuisance immortal would just show up at his door, giving a particular old man every single task in the sect.....with that innocent facade!

But he didn't complain much and followed master Wu. Physician Chen was already yawning like who knew how many times just before the investigation started. And now that, he was stuck in an interrogation with a certain witness who would never got to the main point, the physician kept nodding off..... yeah... nodding off whilst standing, whilst in an investigation process... in the middle of daylight.....

Master Wu no longer knew how many blessings he had given to immortal Wang this morning for sticking him with this clinophile. This master had been letting out a thousand coughs with his throat almost swollen....but this physician showed no signs of quitting that "sleeping whilst standing" idea.

The man carried on with his explanation and the two elders kept on doing what they're doing. Folding his arms, Wang Li Jie heaved a disappointed sigh. Glancing at his yawning Yeye, the youth covered his lips with one hand as a strange urge to yawn popped up inside him as well. Finally succumbing to powerful yawn contagion, Wang Li Jie also started yawning like crazy.

Though a hand was there to cover his lips, it barely did the trick to conceal his yawns. Sensing an intense gaze coming in his direction, the yawning youth tilted his head before glancing up only to meet eyes with a certain someone biting their bottom lip and looking at him with obvious mischief in their eyes.

"What's with that look? "

Narrowing his eyes, the youth asked followed by a not-so-loud magnetic chortle of his little master, Zhang Long Wei, next to him.

"Nothing. I just think you're right. "

Rolling his eyes, Wang Li Jie attempted to fix his attention back onto the middle aged man. No matter how impatient he was, this case was not something to be careless and the interrogation needed to be done through and through.

According to the brief information when the man came to report to them, last night, there were two suspicious figures popping up within this ruined brothel. Due to the murky night, the man didn't see any of the duo's appearance clearly at first. He only knew it was a woman and a kid just from their vague outlines in the dark.

The man tried to warn them as he shouted to the duo from the street in front of the brothel.

"It's dangerous. What are you two doing in there?"

Getting no response, the man walked closer and asked again. Despite them being quiet, the man said he could sense the eyes of the pair staring at him by then.

"Hey....don't you hear me? This place is dangerous. It's not somewhere a lady and a kid like you should come and go as you wish.... hey... "

Stepping into the debris, the man asked again. Once again...just no reply. But this time, the kid.... that kid with the height of a five-year-old boy beside the lady....walked in his direction with his absolute quiet footsteps. The man knew something off with the situation. But with curiosity hitting him hard, he simply chose to see what happened next.

And....at that second, as the kid got nearer and some faint rays of moonlight landed on him, the face of the kid finally came into his vision. But it was not a face.... not a face of a human... but that of a wolf....It was a standing wolf! And at that moment.... the creature growled, revealing its big and blood tainted teeth.

Faced with a terrifying scene, the villager ran...ran away like crazy, trying to make his escape from the horrifying creature. But what surprised him more was none of the two followed him or tried to harm him. Fortunately, he had been spared... spared....but what about others?... what about their village? ...

The villager had no idea what those two monsters were up to, showing up in that area of their village, so as soon as the dawn came, he immediately ascended the mountain and informed the elders of the sect in a hurry.

Clues after clues..... sect elders were getting. But things appeared more complicated than they thought. At first, the curse.... then the fire accident... than these evil creatures..... just what would be the final picture of all these little puzzle pieces anyway.....