Two corpses were mixed together, and a black dagger was stuck in the spine of one of the corpses, which was already full of rust. "It seems that two people had a dispute and struggled with each other, and one took the opportunity to kill the other."
Murong Hai expressed his guess.
"Then what was the cause of death of the other corpse?" Tang Yue asked her own question.
Senior Brother Qian added, "It looks like he was poisoned. The poison was released during the struggle and he died of gas. The two bones are of a man and a woman, and the poisoned one is the female."
"Maybe it was love killing." Murong Hai had a deep look on his face, and his expression seemed to say that love in the world is so miserable.
Ruan Ying pouted, "It's also possible that the unfilial son wanted to rob the old mother's property and poisoned her. The old mother exposed the unfilial son's plot, but it was too late, so she was cruel and killed her son too."
"Ruan Ying, why are you so dark?"
Tang Yue nodded, "I think what Ruan Ying said makes sense. Besides, why isn't the love affair between a man and a woman dark?"
Senior Brother Qian also nodded, "It is true that judging from the bone age, the woman is twenty years older than the man. It is possible that they are mother and son."
"No way? Is it really a human tragedy?" Murong Hai looked incredulous.
"I just read the village annals. This village used to be a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and the land was fertile. The villagers made a living by farming and fishing. But then I don't know what happened. The village became droughtier year by year, and many villagers moved away."
"Only some old people who can't leave are left. They are either old people living alone without children, or their children work in other places and don't come back often. One day, a sandstorm came, and the village became even drier, and there was no harvest. The villagers' homes
The remaining grain is gone, and after that, the records are gone.”
"There is a ring on the middle finger of the left hand of this male skeleton. The pattern on it is consistent with the seal in this village chronicle, so he may be the village chief." Tang Yue squatted on the ground and pointed to the ring on the white bone of his middle finger.
ring.
Everyone thought deeply for a while, and Duan Yitang said, "Do we have to find out the cause of the sandstorm before we can find a way out?"
Senior Brother Qian said: "If there is a sudden drought in a certain place, it may be because Kuiba appears, but I don't know why the sandstorm appears."
They rummaged through the basement again, but didn't find any useful information. They only found the poisoned bowl and the ledger, but there was only one strange thing.
There is an iron chain on the wall at the corner of the stairs. It seems that something was once locked here. "What would be locked in the basement?"
Ruan Ying was curious and looked at the chain, "Is it a dog?"
Chi He shook his head, "Dogs are usually kept in the yard. It's not easy to clean them in the basement."
They checked the iron chain and found that it had been broken into two pieces and had been torn apart by external forces.
"Could it be that the family locked something unusual downstairs, and then it broke free of the chain and ran out. Could this be the cause of the sandstorm?"
They returned upstairs, and Tu Yangxing was still upstairs. Although Senior Brother Qian put a little bit of his soul on him, after all, he could not leave a patient alone for too long.
After going up, they found that the sandstorm was much smaller and had a tendency to stop. Tu Yangxing's high fever also subsided, but he still didn't wake up.
Tang Yue asked Senior Brother Qian, "Brother Tu's high fever has gone away, why can't he wake up yet?"
Senior Brother Qian shook his head, "I don't know the specific reason. I only know a little bit about medical skills."
Tu Yangxing muttered, "Don't kill your mother!"
Everyone was silent. They wouldn’t hear any secrets about the Tu family, right?
Murong Hai squatted down and performed a little magic, "Yang Xing is unconscious and may talk some nonsense. For the sake of convenience, I'd better not let him speak."
Tang Yue guessed that Murong Hai knew what Tu Yangxing said and was afraid that everyone would know about the Tu family's private affairs, so he attacked the patient directly.
"The storm outside has stopped." Chi He took a look at the door and said to everyone.
Senior Brother Qian also went to see it, "It has indeed stopped. I think we should go out and take a look. Being trapped in the building is not an option."
No one had any objections. When they opened the door, they were surprised to see dozens of corpses outside. Judging from the appearance of their clothes, they were guests at Shui's house.
Everyone nodded and almost went to see the corpse. It was so dangerous.
"These corpses are so weird, as if they have been dead for more than ten years." Tang Yue saw that many of these corpses had become mummies.
"Is it because we came in at a different time? Even if the desertification here is severe, the corpse will not turn into a mummy." Murong stood a little far away from the corpse with a poster on his chest.
Suddenly Tang Yue felt something in her heart and felt bad, "Everyone, pay attention."
Several mummies instantly got up and attacked them. Everyone drew their swords to resist. Brother Qian cut off the arm of the mummy. The mummy continued to grab him with the other hand, and he cut off the head of the mummy.
Now the mummy fell to the ground and stopped moving. He immediately shouted to everyone: "Cut off the head!"
Tang Yue swung his sword, stood up and struck the head, then went to help Duan Yitang. She was the lowest in cultivation and could not hold on anymore.
Tang Yue used his sword to shoot a stream of flames, which went straight towards Duan Yitang's mummy and burned his head off in an instant.
Next, she killed several more mummies in accordance with the law. These mummies were not very powerful and she could kill them. Senior Brother Qian and Murong Hai could kill even more. After a while, the mummies were all lying on the ground and became real mummies.
.
Tang Yue was more thoughtful and opened the image stone after entering the secret realm. Now he asked Senior Brother Qian: "Are these corpses alive? They were just to frame us, so they became like this. Now we have killed these monks."
murderer."
She thought of the time when Lu Lingyi was killed. Who knew if the unknown conspirators in the world of immortality would be targeting her.
Senior Brother Qian admired this junior sister's imagination, "No, I brought the sky mirror given by Master and found no such illusions."
Well, maybe the conspirators in the world of cultivators still look down upon her. Moreover, her magic weapon did not issue a warning. If there are illusions that are more powerful than their heavenly magic weapon, then they cannot be blamed. The enemy is too cunning.
Senior Brother Qian inspected many corpses and said, "They were drained of blood before they were alive. There were teeth bite marks on their necks, and these marks looked very much like human teeth."
"Could it be some kind of ghost that sucks human blood?" Murong Hai frowned.
"It's very possible, but we haven't found any trace of it yet. It's better not to check the villages separately, as they will be vulnerable to attack."
"good."
Senior Brother Qian is the oldest in cultivation here, so everyone naturally takes him as the leader and listens to his opinions.
This time they didn't go far when they spotted a strange figure, which looked like a rickety man from a distance. He was squatting on the ground and chewing something. Hearing a voice from behind, he ran out quickly, as if he was frightened.
.
Murong Hai refused to let go. "Where can the evil thing escape?" he chased after him.
"Mu Di, be careful!" Senior Brother Qian also led the girls to chase him. He was afraid that this was a trap and something would happen to Murong Hai.
The speed of that thing was very fast, and in a moment they chased it out of the village and into the desert. The rickety figure ran towards a small sand dune and disappeared in a moment.
Tang Yue had not discovered this small sand dune when she came here, but she was not sure whether it was formed by yesterday's sandstorm.
They chased them to the sand dunes, and they lost Zong Ying. Tang Yue reminded him, "Maybe he hid underground."
As soon as he finished speaking, something jumped out and clawed at Murong Hai. He blocked it with his long sword, but he barely managed to block it and almost hurt his eyes.
Brother Qian helped and went up to fight with his sword. The monster gradually struggled, its tail slapped the sand in a hurry, and it raised its head to howl.
Tang Yue suddenly felt that he couldn't let it cry out, so he used a fairy rope to tie up the man and his mouth, so that the monster couldn't make a sound.
Chi He said: "It's so dangerous. Maybe this monster will summon something when it opens its mouth. It would be very bad if it is summoned."
"Fortunately, Junior Sister Tang reacted quickly." Senior Brother Qian walked towards the monster and turned over its body.
This monster was barely humanoid, with a distorted face and many scars. The top of its head was bald, leaving only some white hair around it. It glared at them with its eyes. Tang Yue noticed that the clothes on his body were different from the female skeleton.
The patterns on the body are very similar.
"This monster can't be the child of the village elder's mother, right? Otherwise, why would she make clothes for him?" Ruan Ying made a very possible guess.
Senior Brother Qian put a talisman on the monster's forehead. A burst of red light flashed and the monster stopped moving. "This thing is actually a natural drought demon!"
"What is a natural Hanba?" Murong Hai heard this for the first time, and he only knew about Hanba.
"When a pregnant woman is struck by a great yin thing, the fetus in her belly is no longer a human being, but becomes a drought demon. When the drought demon fetus grows up, it will burst open the mother's belly, crawl out, turn around and eat the child who gave birth to itself.
woman."
Duan Yitang frowned, "This thing is so vicious, but the village chief's mother in the building was obviously not eaten and survived to be poisoned. Isn't she her biological mother?"
"No, she is the biological mother. I observed that the female bones were constantly leaking out Yin Qi. Apparently, she lived in excessive Yin Qi for a long time before she was alive and has become one with the Yin Qi."
He looked at Hanbao's skull and said, "Hanbao was probably born before full term. He had no ability to harm his mother, but was taken care of by his mother. So this Hanbao's ability is very weak, and we can catch it."
Chi He nodded, "I've also heard about the natural drought demon. The formed drought demon's strength is equivalent to that of a monk in the integration stage. We are no match for it."
"Sure enough, Fellow Taoist Chi is well-informed." Murong Hai looked at Chi He with admiration.
"Where." Chi He's face turned red.
"What should we do now? Can we go out after killing the Hanbao?" Ruan Ying looked at Senior Brother Qian, hoping very much to get out of this weird place. Seeing that the sun was setting again, Guyue Village would be even more terrifying after nightfall.
"The natural drought demon cannot be killed and can only be sealed in the land of extreme sunshine. After the yin energy is dispersed, it will dissipate between heaven and earth."
Ruan Ying looked disappointed, "This place is so ghostly, how can there be a land of extreme sunshine?
As a last resort, everyone brought Hanba back to the small building. There was Tu Yangxing inside and he couldn't stay outside for a long time.
When he went back, he found that Tu Yangxing had woken up, sitting on the ground blankly, looking around, "Isn't this building destroyed?"