Author: Half Life of a Caterpillar

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Two small bags of glutinous rice were shared among twelve people, and they were quickly emptied. Fortunately, these people did not have too many injuries, and a handful of glutinous rice was enough for each person.

After Li Mu took a look at their faces, he turned back to check on these corpses.

From the dry and rotten flesh of the ghouls, it can basically be concluded that these ghouls have existed for a while, and some remaining bones can be found in the corners of the house. Obviously, in addition to Uncle Sheng's team, there are also people who have been victims.

They got into the wrong hands, but they obviously didn't have the same luck as Uncle Sheng and the others.

Uncle Sheng and the others thanked Li Mu while applying glutinous rice on them. There was very little corpse poison on everyone's bodies. After the glutinous rice was removed, the black blood soon stopped seeping out of the mountain pass. Li Mu also learned the identities of these people from their mouths.

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"Didn't you notice something strange here when you came in?"

Li Mu looked at them with a strange expression and asked. At first glance, there was a row of dilapidated houses. If the dilapidated houses were not obvious, then these corpses should be.

With the corpse odor on their bodies and this weird appearance, these people actually dare to live in it!

"Well...it's strange. When we saw them before, they were normal and we didn't smell any bad smell."

Agui looked depressed. He was the first person to enter the village, but he didn't notice anything unusual from the moment he entered the village. The smell of corpses was only discovered after he woke up later.

Hearing Agui's words, Li Mu's eyes flickered and he looked at the village again, but he had already explored the formation here, which was just a blinding method and a formation to restrict the corpses from leaving.

The blinding method is only for people looking in from the outside. During the day, if someone passes by here, all they see is nothingness. It is not until the night when yin and yang alternate that the village is revealed.

Suddenly, Li Mu's nose smelled a faint aroma. He frowned and looked up to find the source of the aroma.

When we walked to the entrance of the village, we discovered that the aroma was coming from the two lanterns beside the gatehouse.

A flash of silver light flashed, and the lantern hanging on the gatehouse broke and fell to the ground, knocking out the candlestick inside.

He picked up the candlestick and brought it to his nose and smelled it, and there was a faint aroma coming from it.

"Smell it and see if you have any impression of the smell?"

He handed the candlestick to Agui who was following him and asked him to try it. Li Mu speculated that the root cause of the problem that they didn't realize was in this candlestick.

"Um?"

"strangeness!"

"It seems like I've smelled this before!"

Agui brought the candlestick to his nose and sniffed, and his eyes suddenly lit up. This aroma could cover up the smell of corpses. He vaguely remembered that he had indeed smelled this smell when he entered the village.

"Brother Li! Is there something wrong with the scent of this candle?"

Uncle Sheng looked at Li Mu who was holding the candlestick in his hand and asked. Judging from Li Mu's reaction, there seemed to be something wrong with the candle.

"The candles are mixed with some medicine called rosemary. In addition to temporarily suppressing the odor, this medicine also has a hallucinogenic effect!"

From the scent, Li Mu could tell what kind of medicine was mixed in it. Rosemary is a plant that grows in carrion. This plant is usually found in places where there are corpses of beasts. There are purple spots on the surface of the branches and leaves, because it needs

It absorbs the sap of decaying corpses as its main nutrient, so the sap of this plant will be extremely smelly. However, during the flowering period, the blooming flowers carry a fragrance that can cover up its own odor.

This kind of fragrance can also cause hallucinations, but this kind of hallucination will affect people's perception, thereby ignoring the influence of some external factors.

But it also has a drawback. For example, it cannot affect people with cultivation skills like Li Mu. Secondly, it requires people to inhale it unconsciously to have an effect.

Uncle Sheng and others were already tired from traveling, so they relaxed their vigilance when they discovered the village. They accidentally inhaled rosemary during the process of entering the village, because the smell of rosemary covered the body of the ghoul.

Stinky, and subconsciously ignoring the appearance of the ghoul, this group of people will be scattered without warning.

After hearing Li Mu's analysis, everyone understood why they and others stepped in despite such an obvious trap.

After understanding the truth, no one wanted to stay in this cannibalistic place for a moment. After simply burying their companions who had been in trouble, Li Mu burned the entire village to ashes.

As for the formations here, they were all destroyed by the fire. When Uncle Sheng and others knew that Li Mu was traveling with them, they enthusiastically invited him to set off together. After all, there was a thigh that could exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts. This

It is safer to walk at night.

The fire in the village grew bigger and bigger, turning the surrounding area a bright red. Under the light of the fire, Li Mu got on Uncle Sheng's donkey cart and set off towards the distance.

"Uncle Sheng, do you only have this many people in your troupe?"

Li Mu calculated that, including Uncle Sheng himself, there were only fifteen people in their team, not to mention that three of them were lost in the village.

"Of course not! There are a lot of people in our troupe, because there is no theater in the place where we are going to sing, so the squad leader led a large team to set up the stage first, but we were delayed and did not catch up with them!"

Hearing this, Li Mu understood why their team had so few people. He felt strange at first. Even people who Li Mu didn't know much about the troupe at the beginning would inevitably have seen some of them after they came here.

Theater performance.

The general theater troupe will be equipped with "four beams and eight pillars", that is, Shengdan Jingmo Chou.

Sheng refers to Xu Sheng (Lao Sheng), Wu Sheng, and Xiao Sheng, all of whom play male roles, while Dan represents women, such as Hua Dan, Daoma Dan, Lao Dan Qingyi, etc. In addition to these, there are also scenes, bottom skirts, etc.

Maybe it’s just a few people.

After hearing Uncle Sheng's explanation, Li Mu felt that it was reasonable. With Li Mu watching over them along the way, Agui and the others also relieved a lot of their previous fears.

The donkey cart, carrying people and boxes, struggled forward, and the wheels left a deep mark on the road under the squeeze of the weight.

In another place, a person cross-legged on a futon suddenly opened his eyes. The candle beside him was about to burn out, leaving only a small flame struggling.

I saw this man getting up from the futon, and when he passed the clothes hanger, he covered himself with the robe on top. The wind brought by the clothes blew out the last flame, and the room fell into darkness again, and only the gradual sound could be heard.

The sound of distant footsteps.

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And Li Mu lit the village on fire, and when the sky was slightly bright, he finally burned out everything that could burn in the village. The green smoke drifted in the wind among the ashes, and in front of this burned and desolate village

A man in a black robe squatted on the ground, silently touching the traces left by the donkey cart with his hand.

I've changed it three times...I don't know what happened.
Chapter completed!