"Finally we can see the smoke! We don't have to sleep in the woods anymore today." Zhong Lai stretched and said happily.
Lin Chuan saw the faces of several people beaming with joy. Even Zhong Hui, who had always been shy and reserved, had a smile on his lips and asked with a smile: "Brother Zhong, how long has it been since you saw the smoke from the kitchen?"
"I think it took half a month. Our group encountered a sandstorm at the border. We rescued the dead and injured along the way. We wanted to go to Licheng to rest for a day, but unexpectedly the city gate was closed. We had to continue marching, and then we met you brothers and sisters."
Zhong Lai recalled for a moment and replied.
"Thanks to the three of you for rescuing me. I won't thank you for your kindness. If you find it useful in the future, just give me your instructions." Lin Chuan cupped his fists and cupped his hands again.
"Brother Achuan, please stop talking about this. This is the destiny of our brothers!" Zhong Lai patted Lin Chuan on the shoulder, expressing his gratitude.
"Actually, we have a purpose in rescuing you. After the academy trip and experience, the senior students will make an evaluation based on the performance of the six intermediate students on the way and hand it over to Mr. Academy. Saving lives and helping the wounded, and acting as a hero are all in the evaluation.
The bonus points are only minimal."
The upright and honest Lu Liubao answered.
Zhong Laiden's face turned red with embarrassment, and he turned his head away in embarrassment and pretended to walk aside.
Lin Chuan thought in his heart that it was no wonder that the three Jinyi brothers ridiculed Zhong Lai and the others for picking up garbage last night, so that was it. But he still nodded gratefully towards Lu Liubao, Lin Chuan didn't care about anything else, as long as others were kind to him,
The spring will definitely repay you.
"Why doesn't that sister leave?" Qiao Waner raised her head and asked Lin Chuan.
A few people just noticed that Zhong Hui, who had been walking behind them, stopped at some point, and his soul-catching pupils, which were obscured by his bangs, emitted a faint white light.
"What's wrong, Xiaofen!" Zhong Lai asked.
"Above the village...there are many living souls floating..." Zhong Hui's voice was thin, but it was like thunder.
Several people frowned and looked at the smoke-filled villages at the bottom of the mountain. There was nothing but smoke from cooking stoves in the sky.
"Open!" Zhong Lai muttered something, and suddenly shouted, his eyes emitting a faint white light like Zhong Hui.
"Brother Six, here comes the big life!" After a moment, Zhong Lai said.
At this moment, the trio in Jinyi had already arrived at the entrance of the village. They had already had enough of the hardships in the mountains and forests, so they rushed to the front regardless of the situation.
"What do you say? Brother Zhong." Lu Liubao frowned, and Lin Chuan also looked at Zhong Lai in confusion.
"Let's talk together when the two seniors arrive." Zhong Lai said in a deep voice.
"Do you want..." Lin Chuan originally wanted to ask if he should call the three Jinyi brothers at the foot of the mountain, but he remembered the evil words and evil deeds of the three people last night, so he gave up.
The tough-looking Luo Xiaoyin waved his chubby little hands at several people and ran forward.
"Brother Liubao, brother Zhonglai, sister Xiaohui, brother Achuan, sister Wan'er, why don't you leave!" Luo Xiaoyin, who was as sweet as honey, said hello to each other and asked.
"Something happened ahead." Zhong Lai said.
Hearing this, Leng Luo and his wife came to them in the blink of an eye.
"What happened ahead?" The voice was gentle, and the person who spoke was none other than Luo Xinghe.
Lin Chuan just looked at the two of them carefully. They looked to be only thirty years old. Luo Xinghe's face was like a crown jewel and his temperament was calm; Leng Yue'e was really like a fairy from Guanghan Palace, elegant and refined, full of fairy spirit. The two stood side by side.
, a match made in heaven.
"Senior, the village at the foot of the mountain is unusual. Xiao Hui and I just observed through the underworld, there are hundreds of living souls floating in the sky above the village." Zhong Lai reported back.
Leng Luo and his wife were both shocked when they heard this. Spirit masters in the Earth Spirit Realm cannot yet see the invisible and colorless souls of ordinary people. In the Heaven Spirit Realm, they can capture the souls through the fluctuations of the surrounding aura.
Suddenly Leng Yue'e turned her head, and a palm-sized bronze mirror appeared in her palm. The bronze mirror shined down the mountain, and the mirror surface emitted a faint light after being injected with spiritual power.
There were clusters of fog that looked like human figures in the area, making it difficult to see clearly.
"But it is undoubtedly a living soul..." Leng Yue'e frowned slightly.
"Mother, what is a living soul?" Luo Xiaoyin, a tiger-headed person, asked.
Leng Yue'e's willow eyebrows stretched, her face was full of kindness, and she opened her teeth lightly: "The so-called soul is the soul of ordinary people who leaves the body shortly after death..."
"Then the spirit master who leaves his soul after death is also called a living soul?" Luo Xiaoyin continued to ask.
"What is born after the death of the spirit master is called the soul. The two are very different. I will tell you slowly in the future as a mother." Leng Yue'e gently stroked Luo Xiaoyin's little tiger head and said softly.
"Please be careful and follow me down the mountain to investigate." After Luo Xinghe said this, he took the lead and walked at the front of the team.
Not long after everyone left, a dog's head poked out from the grass, looked around furtively, sniffed, and jumped out of the grass.
This dog is the Jia Tian Dog that we have been chasing all the way. The Jia Tian Dog has many fur curls on its body, and there are many bite marks on the dog's face. It seems that it was bullied by wild dogs all the way.
Jia Tian Dog shook the fur on his body and walked down the mountain. He suddenly stopped. The scarlet dog looked at the living souls floating in the air with hot eyes. He thought to himself that these are great tonics! If these raw souls are used,
After refining and absorbing all the souls, the soul that was damaged due to the body snatching should be able to be restored. It’s just that so many souls appeared in this village for no reason, which is definitely not an ordinary thing. I can’t guarantee that there is a powerful evildoer hiding in the village. Go to the village first.
Let’s talk about it Tantan.
There are thousands of hectares of fertile farmland at the foot of the mountain. Most of the nearly 100 households in the village are tenants. The houses are lined up in rows and have been renovated. They live a relatively prosperous life.
No one was seen on the paths in the village, the doors and windows of every courtyard were tightly closed, and there was no sound of cocks crowing or dogs barking in the morning.
"Brother, what does this smell like? It smells so bad!" Qiao Waner asked, holding her nose.
"It must be the smell of rotting corpses! Almost every household has it!" Zhong Lai said in a deep voice, changing from his usual playful tone.
Every household? Lin Chuan thought to himself, maybe the village was massacred by bandits, otherwise why were the bodies left unburied, not buried in the ground, and left to rot at home?
But Lin Chuan soon denied this speculation. The alleys in the village were neat and tidy, and did not resemble the behavior of bandits. Moreover, there were still smoke coming out of many houses, which proved that there must be living people in the houses, which was a bit strange.
"Could it be that the village suffered from banditry!?" Lu Liubao asked in a buzzing voice.
"It doesn't seem like it." Luo Xinghe shook his head and didn't explain much.
"Is it because of the plague?" Zhong Lai asked.
"If it was a plague, how could you not know that keeping sick corpses would only harm your family? It would be cleaner to cremate and bury them. Don't even guess, the villagers will know as soon as you find them." Leng Yuee'e said.
Several people knocked on the doors of ten houses in succession, but no one answered. Just as they were about to knock on the eleventh house, they heard a "bang", and the only blue brick house not far away was kicked open and someone moved their feet.
It was the three men in Jinyi who entered the village first. When the three brothers entered the village, they went straight to this house to seize the best place to sleep and eat. They knocked on the door for a long time but saw no movement. When they saw the Linchuan people approaching, they
Mistaking that they were also coming for this high-end compound, Wen Qi kicked the door open in desperation.
The sound of soft footsteps was heard from inside the door. As soon as the three brothers in Jinyi stepped across the threshold, they were frightened by the people coming from the door and stepped back.