The gloomy Wei'an Town is located in a blind corner of the ridge, which not only blocks most of the daily sunrise, but also makes the land unsuitable for sowing.
Although there are large tracts of rice planted outside the town, if you look closely, you will notice that the ears of rice are only the size of sesame seeds.
It is obviously caused by the lack of nutrients in the soil and insufficient sunlight.
But the townspeople never thought of moving away, and for some reason they always stayed at the bottom of the ridge.
There are more than a dozen farmers tending the fields, and some strong men with big shoulders and round waists can be seen around them. It is obvious that food is more important than their lives.
Farmers all have characteristics that are different from ordinary people, or they have deformed hands and feet, or their facial features are in places they shouldn't be.
When they heard the sound of footsteps, they all raised their wary eyes.
I saw two people, an old man and a young man, walking out of the town. The farmers looked relieved when they saw this, and some people even greeted them.
The old man's name is "Wang Qi", his skin is covered with dysentery, and his clothes are relatively simple, but he is a famous hole-digger from all over the country.
The so-called burrowers actually refer to the market activity of cleaning up rat infestations. They can identify the location of rat nests through various traces, and use poisoning, arson, smoke and other means to drive away the pests.
Behind Wang Qi is his granddaughter Wang Ling.
Wang Ling is at most in her early twenties, has an ordinary appearance, and suffers from hysteria, so she has not yet married.
"Ling'er, don't go any further. Don't you know that the wildfires a few days ago almost burned through the mountains?"
Wang Ling pulled a simple two-meter cart with her right hand and murmured to herself: "Master, I found my brother, I found my brother, he is still alive..."
Wang Qi was speechless and didn't know how to refute his granddaughter, so he could only follow Wang Ling silently, sighing constantly.
Ten years ago, there was a famine in Wei'an Town. Thousands of people died at that time, and the scene was as horrific as hell on earth.
When you are in a famine, many things will go against human ethics and are simply unimaginable.
Wang Ling's brother Wang Shanlu died because of this. When he was about to starve to death, whoever died first had to distribute the body to the rest of his relatives.
Wang Ling ate Wang Shanlu's meat and went crazy from then on.
"Grandpa, Grandpa, we're almost there..."
Wang Qi's thoughts were interrupted by his granddaughter's shout. He quickly walked towards the tree hole at the edge of the jungle, thinking about how to comfort Wang Ling.
"Brother is here."
As a result, Wang Ling's slender body pulled out a skinny man from the tree hole, looking at Wang Qi with an expression that made her laugh.
Wang Qi's eyes were a little sore, and Wang Shanlu looked like this during the famine. He was so thin that even wild dogs didn't care.
But he knew where Wangshan Road was.
The man was probably from a nearby village. He fled to Wei'an Town because of the wildfire and seemed to have fainted from hunger.
"Grandpa, Grandpa, I'm home."
Under Wang Ling's anxious urging, Wang Qi couldn't help but be in a dilemma.
The rule of Wei'an Town is that outsiders are not allowed in. With his old face accumulated over the years, he can reluctantly make an exception, but...
I am afraid that I have a stubborn disease caused by evil spirits, or that I am a disciple of some immortal sect.
Wang Qi said softly: "Ling'er, I will naturally come home when I wake up."
"No, no, my brother's forehead is bleeding, he's going to die, he's going to die!!!"
Wang Ling's face was so anxious that it made Wang Qi's arm hurt.
Wang Qi was stunned for a moment, and quickly moved to the man's side to check the situation. Then his expression became mixed, and he shook his head with a wry smile.
The man's forehead and eye sockets had protruding veins, and his temples were also protruding, which was obviously caused by heat poison entering the brain.
If such severe heat poison enters the brain, there is a high probability that the child will develop dementia.
Wang Qi murmured: "Raising one is just as important as raising two. The money I earned from digging holes must be enough."
He looked at Wang Ling and thought that if his granddaughter's hysteria could be alleviated, if she still couldn't support herself when she was old and frail in the future, he might as well take the two of them away together.
"Let me do it. I need some food to moisten my stomach on the mountain road."
Wang Qi mixed the dry food he brought with him with water and fed it to the man, while Wang Ling watched carefully and did not dare to interrupt.
Little did they know that the shadows in the tree hole were squirming like living creatures.
Fortunately, neither of them had any ill intentions, otherwise they would have suffered the same fate as the beasts that broke in before, and would have been swallowed up by the ghost.
After all the dry food was fed to the man, Wang Qi saw that the man's breath had eased, so he picked him up and placed him on the cart prepared by Wang Ling.
Strangely enough, Wang Qi felt that the men had become so thin that their ribs were clearly defined, but their weight was heavier than that of ordinary people.
"Linger, let's go, we're going home."
Wang Ling nodded happily, and the two of them walked along the path towards the town.
As soon as he arrived at Wei'an Town, Guiying instinctively tensed his body, and he could clearly feel the scrutinizing eyes falling on Ren Qing.
"Mr. Wang, you should know the rules in the town, right?"
The old farmer walked up to Wang Qi and asked in a deep voice. The other farmers also gathered around, and those strong men even showed signs of exerting strength in their feet.
"He is my brother..."
"Stop talking, Ling'er."
"That's it, Brother Xu."
Cold sweat broke out on Wang Qi's forehead, and he quickly explained: "This man is from another village. I have seen him a few years ago. Now, because of the fire poison caused by the mountain fire, he will not survive."
"What's the matter, Mr. Wang, do you want to take him as a companion to your granddaughter?"
The young farmer couldn't help but laugh. Then he noticed that everyone was looking at him and subconsciously took a few steps back.
"Is it your turn to talk?"
Xu Changzhou looked down at the man and found that it was indeed what Wang Qi said. In addition, after hearing the words Wang Ling kept mumbling, he guessed the cause of the incident.
He had watched Wang Ling grow up, and he felt a little unbearable in his heart.
"You take it back to recuperate first, and I'll go talk to the other clan elders."
Wang Qi's expression was overjoyed. After thanking him, he quickly took Wang Ling back home. After all, the man's physical condition could not delay him at all.
Xu Changzhou glanced at the farmer who interrupted, turned around and walked towards the field.
The farmer was confused about the situation, and the people around him reminded him with schadenfreude: "Whose family has not had a rat disaster for several years? If it causes a big problem, it will be difficult for you to ask Mr. Wang."
His face turned pale, he opened his mouth and finally closed it bitterly.
Because of this incident, the news that Wang Qi had brought a foreigner back spread like wildfire, and it soon spread widely among the 30,000 to 40,000 people in Wei'an Town.
However, they were suppressed by the elected elders of various ethnic groups in the town.
It was several days later when Ren Qing regained consciousness. He only felt sore all over his body and the brain in his skull seemed to burst at any moment.
He did not check his surroundings, but first exhaled the information flow.
【Ren Qing】
【Shou Yuan: 17 days】
[Types of disease: gigantism, hard bones, flesh gain, sleeplessness, cancer]
"On the 17th, was there any mistake?"
Ren Qing tried to speak, but was unable to speak at all, and the visibility of his eyes was extremely low, indicating that it was a sequelae of cerebral hemorrhage.
His body is unusually thin, and he is over 1.6 meters tall at most, which is obviously caused by malnutrition.
Ren Qing looked around with the double eyes between his eyebrows, and unexpectedly found that he was not in a tree hole, but in a dark room.
Then he learned from the ghost what he had experienced during this time, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Ren Qing has high hopes for this body. He must at least obtain one of the Immortality Technique and the Six Diseases Technique, otherwise it will be a waste of time.
After the separation of the soul and the cultivation of the Zexian method, he has to regain his footing in the forbidden area of immortality.
It takes several months to go back and forth.
"Grandpa, Shanlu woke up."
Wang Ling's voice sounded outside the house, and she could clearly hear that she was awake.
Wang Qi and the other two hurriedly walked in and opened the windows to let the dim sunlight from the outside disperse the darkness in the room.
He saw that Ren Qing's eyes were dull and he could only say "um um ah ah ah ah", and he also understood that the fire poison entering the brain would cause serious consequences.
"But it doesn't seem to have affected my body. Why..."
Wang Qi was a little confused. He knew that Ren Qing had eaten a lot of dry food, but he didn't gain weight. On the contrary, he became thinner and thinner as he ate more.
He suspected that it was the influence of Ren Qing's original stubborn illness.
"Ling'er, when he can walk on the mountain road, you can take him to the clan to practice some basic kung fu to strengthen his body."
Wang Ling nodded repeatedly, but then heard Wang Qi say: "You just have to remember not to let the mountain road be used as blood food..."
Wang Ling tilted her head and couldn't understand the meaning of Wang Qi's words at all.
"Forget it, I will go and talk to the clan elders in person then."
Wang Qi chatted for a while, but soon left the courtyard because of something else, leaving only Wang Ling patiently feeding Ren Qing dry food.
Ren Qing looked a little embarrassed, but his hands and feet were really weak now.
After Wang Ling waited for Ren Qing to finish eating the dry food, she walked out of the house with satisfaction, and a ray of the ghost's shadow fell in her shadow.
At this time, Ren Qing asked Guiying to take out the food. He couldn't even fill his stomach with dry food alone, and he couldn't afford his various diseases at all.
Small pieces of dried meat were stuffed into his mouth by Ghost Mocheng.
Ren Qing gulped down the dates, her abdomen gradually swelled, but she still felt hungry. It was obvious that her body was too depleted.
Diseases such as hypertrophy, gigantism, bone disease, and cancer all require a large amount of nutrients and cannot even be fully digested by the stomach.
Ren Qing closed his eyes and rested his mind, absorbing the Yuan contained in the jade pendant.
However, as soon as the Youyuan formed in the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, it was absorbed by the flesh and bones, causing a numbing sensation all over the body, and heat flow constantly surging.
This time when he came to the Immortality Restricted Area, Ren Qing brought another jade pendant to store Youyuan, which should be barely enough to advance to the Golden Core stage.
At the same time, he used Wang Ling to explore the situation in Wei'an Town, trying to find any traces of the Six Diseases and Two Methods of Immortality, and found many strange things.
Funerals are more frequent in towns, but there are no graves or mass graves. I wonder if this is related to the blood food Wang Qi mentioned.
Not surprisingly, some of the prisoners in Weinan Town should have come from Wei'an Town.
The Three Immortals of Fortune, Luxury and Longevity are supposed to be popular, and there is no temple to worship them, so why does the existence of the Peach Blossom Immortal not intervene.
Ren Qing felt that there must be a practice system related to the Six Diseases in the town, which was probably different from the hysterical practice of the Tree Immortal.
Hysteria practice is actually a method used to refine complete weird objects.
Thinking of all kinds of things, he couldn't help but fall asleep. The ghost took advantage of his body to recover and implanted the insect roots into his spine.
