Chapter 11 Strange things in a small mountain village
Along the way, Hua Wanzhao saw that the doors and windows of every house were closed.
Although the temperature in the mountains is generally low, in early autumn, the summer heat has not completely dissipated. What is it that makes these people prefer to endure the sweltering heat but close their doors?
The village chief's home is located in the innermost part of the village, which shows the village chief's highly respected status in the village.
This time it was a joint operation between the two factions. No matter how streamlined the number was, there were only twenty or thirty people. Pei Jitong and Li Muhan had to relocate these people first.
Anping Village seemed to have been hit hard before, and there were many vacant houses, so they were allocated in groups of two or three.
The village chief was frightened: "The houses in the mountains are small and shabby, and they have wronged all the immortals."
"It doesn't matter, the village chief should tell you about the situation in the village first."
The village chief sighed quietly.
It turns out that although Anping Village is located in a remote location, it is a place that must be passed by when traveling from east to west. Whether they are ordinary merchants passing by or immortal disciples who are out for training, they will come here to stay. They usually farm some land and hunt in the mountains during their free time.
Therefore, although life is not very rich, we can still make ends meet.
The first abnormality occurred half a year ago. Villagers disappeared every once in a while, including men, women and children, and there was no regularity in time. The village chief took his family members to report the case to the government, but in the end nothing happened.
Until more than half a month ago, a traveling monk from Dingzen Mountain came to Anping Village to stay overnight. He bluntly said that Anping Village was infected by evil spirits, and even drew an exorcism seal for Anping Village - the one Hua Wanzhao and the others saw.
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After the seal was drawn, no one in the village disappeared anymore.
The monk at Dingzen Mountain originally planned to deal with the evil spirit before leaving, but he received a message from his master and had to leave early.
Before leaving, he told the village chief that he had informed the nearby fairy gate about the strange phenomenon here, and someone would soon come to solve the problem.
Unexpectedly, just after the monk left, the villagers began to disappear again. Moreover, this time the change was so violent that monsters came directly into the village to commit crimes, and the village was attacked every night.
When monsters attacked the village a few times before, everyone came out to check, but the scene was so tragic that no bodies of the dead were left behind. The villagers were so silent that they never dared to go out once it got dark.
By the time they arrived, one-fifth of the people in the village were missing.
"You immortal masters have worked so hard to come here. I am very grateful..."
After the village chief finished speaking, Hua Wanzhao asked: "Village Chief, when I entered the village just now, I saw that every household in the village had their doors and windows closed, but the man at the entrance of the village..."
The village chief looked unbearable: "That child's name is Cui Shu, and he is a poor boy."
Isn't the BOSS of this Anping Village dungeon called Cui Shu?
In the novel, this man sold his soul to evil spirits, turned all the villagers in Anping Village into walking zombies, and used the ghost world to trap the male protagonist and his party who were on a mission.
If Mu Linxiao hadn't followed the male protagonist secretly, the male protagonist would have shed his skin even if he didn't die here.
According to the village chief, the young man named Cui Shu fled to Anping Village with his wife three years ago. The villagers helped build his house. Cui Shu also knows how to repay his kindness. When he goes hunting in the mountains and the harvest is good, he will share it with the villagers.
For some, he would help anyone who had too much work in the field.
"It's a pity that fate played a trick on us. His wife contracted the disease when she was fleeing. She became seriously ill some time ago." The village chief wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes. "He went to work in the town. Unexpectedly, when he came back, he
My daughter-in-law is already... alas..."
Pei Jitong asked: "So, Cui Shu's wife has also disappeared?"
"That's not true," the village chief said, "her daughter-in-law did die due to illness. Alas, the couple had been dependent on each other for so many years, and not even a boy and a half girl were left behind... Cui Shu was still shouting when she died.
If you let the monster take him away, no matter how many people try to persuade you, it will be useless."
After saying that, the village chief sighed again.
After coming out of the village chief's house, Pei Jitong and Li Muhan discussed arranging vigil disciples at night.
In addition to Li Muhan, Beidou Cha also has nine disciples, all of whom are in the middle and late stages of foundation building. Li Muhan himself is at the stage of foundation building, one step away from forming a core. There are many people coming from Yi Jian Feng Sha, but there are five
He is a Qi refining disciple, but Pei Jitong, who leads the team, is in the early stage of pill formation.
After discussion, the two decided that Yi Jian Feng Sha's Qi Refining disciple would not participate in the night watch, and the remaining disciples would work in pairs and take turns patrolling.
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The only two female disciples of Yijian Fengsha who came out this time were Hua Wanzhao and Cheng Yingying, so they were naturally assigned together.
Cheng Yingying had already despised Hua Wanzhao, but she was left alone just now. When she saw Hua Wanzhao coming back, she naturally had a nose instead of a nose, and eyes instead of eyes.
This house can no longer be described as simple.
An old wooden table with four corners, two stools with uneven legs, an earthen bed, and a mattress that exudes a strange smell are surrounded by uneven earthen walls. There are no windows on the walls, and there is nothing in the room.
Lighting tools.
"The 'bed' is given to you."
Cheng Yingying pointed to the back room with her chin.
Hua Wanzhao was not annoyed: "Thank you very much."
She first performed a cleaning technique, then added an isolation technique, took out a mat from her storage bag, spread it on the kang, and began to meditate.
She can't sleep in this kind of environment. She is a monk now, so it's okay not to sleep occasionally.
The mountain village at night seemed more eerie than the tranquility in the evening. The mountain breeze rustled the leaves, and they could hear it clearly even if they stayed in a house near the village.
I don't know whether to call it fortunate or unfortunate, but nothing happened on the first night that Hua Wanzhao and the others stayed. The screams in the middle of the night and the scary shadows that the village chief mentioned did not appear.
The next day, the atmosphere in the village, which had been attacked by evil spirits for three consecutive nights, became noticeably livelier. Villagers rushed to tell each other that an immortal master had come to the village, and the monster no longer dared to harm people.
Pei Jitong was deeply worried about this.
The village chief clearly said last night that evil spirits would come into the village every night to harm people, so why were they so quiet on their first night? If they were simply afraid of their strength, it would be fine, but if it was something else——
He didn't dare to think about it any more, and he couldn't bear to break the moment of peace that the villagers had finally gained.
Because the evil spirit did not appear last night, we can only conduct a blanket investigation today.
The mountain in Juji Mountain is very big, and the villagers had troubles in different places. For safety reasons, they worked in groups of three, so there were only six groups of people who could really investigate.
Just in case, Pei Jitong left five Qi-refining stage disciples in the village and arranged for two Foundation-building disciples to protect them.
Hua Wanzhao's voice transmission: [Tell me, what's going on here?]
In the novel, when the protagonist arrived here, the whole village was wiped out and all the villagers turned into evil spirits. Now it seems that there are still a lot of normal people in the village.
The evil spirits here should not have evolved to the level in the novel.
[There are evil spirits, and the exorcism mark at the entrance of the village shows traces of man-made destruction.]
As he said that, Mu Linxiao seemed to have a goal.
"He is..." Ning Chenhao looked at Hua Wanzhao.
"You found something, let's go and have a look."
Mu Linxiao stopped in front of a low wall and stared at the exorcism seal on it.
Hua Wanzhao: "This seal..."
Even though Hua Wanzhao didn't understand runes or Buddhism, the long dark red engraved line on the wall was so eye-catching that it didn't take a guess to know that this exorcism seal had lost its original function.
"This must have been destroyed by someone..."
The person who spoke was a Foundation Establishment disciple who volunteered to stay and protect them for several Qi refining periods. Hua Wanzhao remembered that this person should be named Shang Ziming. Based on his observations on the road, he seemed to have a good relationship with Cheng Yingying.
Ning Chenhao asked: "If it is really to destroy the seal, this one is enough."
"You'll know if you take a look."
After walking around the low wall, they found a total of four such scratches.
Mu Lin smiled meaningfully: "It seems that this village is very interesting..."