The places where Ahri came to the mortal world were prosperous and rich, and even the plague-ridden Liangzhou City did not give her such a shock. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the past, she often said that mortals were really fragile and would die at every turn, and she really didn't know how such a fragile mortal could occupy a place in the Three Realms. Now, in this dilapidated ancestral hall, she felt the strength of mortal life for the first time.

These people are very thin, really skinny, both young and old, expressionless, looking straight at outsiders, as if they no longer have the strength to make a sound.

Ahri wonders how thin a person must be to starve to death?

"Why did you come back? out... What's the matter?" finally an old man asked, standing up tremblingly.

The villager who had just spoken to them briefly recounted what had happened. "Patriarch, we met this Heavenly Master, who is here to help us get rid of the drought......

"Woo......" There was a sudden whimper in the room, and a dry cry sounded, "O evildoer, go quickly, you can't fight it, if you annoy it, we people will have no way to live......"

"Old mother, don't say that," said the villager who brought them back, "we have long run out of ways to live, it is not a person, it is not Jinse, it is a monster drought, although it has not eaten us, but there has not been a drop of rain in this radius of hundreds of miles for several years, we have to eat or drink or not, if we continue like this, it will not be long before the people here will die of thirst and starvation!"

"No... She's Jinse, she's what I grew up watching, how can I not recognize her? You've all seen it, she remembers that we, the old folks, let us go, and she is Jinse no matter when it comes......" The thin and shriveled old woman shouted out these words and had exhausted all her strength, and the person suddenly lost her strength and turned her back on her breath. The woman beside her held her up and wept silently.

King Chen stepped forward to take a look, took out the water bladder and poured two mouthfuls of water on the old woman, and woke up after a while.

"Outsiders, you two can really subdue demons and eliminate demons?" asked the patriarch of Niuxin Village.

King Chen gave him the water bladder, "There is still some water in it, let's give it to the villagers to drink first." ”

The patriarch took the water bladder and asked people to take it and distribute it to everyone to drink, and each person only got a sip of water, but it seemed to be greatly satisfied.

"Can you tell me about Jinse?" King Chen had already heard the clue from their words.

"Alas~" The old patriarch sighed, "Even if the Heavenly Master doesn't ask, I will also tell you, Jinse is what you call the drought!"

From the mouth of the patriarch, they learned some things about the past.

"It all started 20 years ago...... More than 20 years ago, there was a famous beautiful girl in our Niuxin Village, whose name was Jinse.

Jin Se's father is a Langzhong, father and daughter live on the nearby Niuxin Mountain, Jin Se usually often comes to the village to see everyone without charging money, is a rare good girl......

That year, the heavy snow closed the village, and Jin Se rescued a scholar at the bottom of the mountain. The scholar had come from out of town, his clothes were thin, and he was frozen in the snow. It was Jin Se who brought him home and took care of him all the time, and finally the book was cured of illness, so he stayed in the village and opened a private school to teach children to read.

The scholar was young and handsome, and the daughter was young and beautiful, so they naturally came together. The two became relatives and lived in the village, and everyone said that they were a fairy couple made in heaven.

People are always not satisfied, and in the second year of their marriage, the scholar went to Fucheng to take the township examination, and never returned......

Half a year later, I heard that he had been admitted to the Yuan and married the daughter of a high-ranking official. Jin Se insisted on going to Fucheng to find him, despite the fact that he was pregnant, and he was never heard from once he went......"

"Phew, negative man. Ahri said indignantly, it turned out that what was written in the book was true, and there really were such negative people in the mortal world.

King Chen's attention was obviously not on this, and he frowned and asked, "Since Jin Se disappeared twenty years ago, how do you know that she has become a drought fish?"

"We've seen it with our own eyes!" said the old patriarch, reluctantly recalling that scene......

"Three years ago, there was a drought in the state, and at first it was just a rumor, after all, no one had seen it. Later, the people in the nearby villages gradually disappeared...... The whole village was alive and dead...... They said that it was the darthorn that ate them all...... Finally, one day, it was the turn of our village, and the rich people in the village had already run away, leaving us poor people, with nowhere to go but to die.

…… The drought is coming, it is dozens of feet tall, covering the sky and the sun, but that face, we old people remember, it is Jinse. She is still the same as back then, her appearance has not changed, she is still so young, her belly is still so big, exactly the same as when she left......

We begged her by name, and she heard...... She stood at the foot of Niuxin Mountain for a long time, but she didn't eat the people in the village, she must remember us!

Although Jin Se spared the people in the village, it didn't rain here for several years, and the people in the village could only go to the cave dozens of miles away to get water, and they had to go secretly. There is no food, everyone can only eat grass roots and bark, most of the people in the village have starved to death, and if this continues, it will not be long before everyone here will become ghosts. ”

Speaking of this, the elderly patriarch fell to his knees and kowtowed to King Chen.

"I see that the Heavenly Master is heroic in appearance and has an extraordinary temperament, he must be a capable person, please, collect the drought!"

"Old man, please get up," King Chen said the patriarch picked up, "It is the duty of my generation to subdue demons and eliminate demons, and it is the right way in the world to punish evil and promote good." Thank you for your affordability and do your best. Is there anything else you want to say about the Dryfish?"

“…… Yes," the old patriarch hesitated, "Jin Se's husband's surname was Hu ...... I saw him in Zhoucheng a few years ago, and he was the Taishou ...... of Nanping."

"Is it him?" King Chen was also surprised, Hu Taishou said that his daughter was taken away by the drought, and this drought, and this drought, which was transformed by his original wife, it seems that he has nothing to do with this matter.

I couldn't get any more useful information from the patriarch, and King Chen finally asked, "It is said that the old nest of the drought fish is in the oolongyan, and I don't know how to take the path, so please ask the old man for advice." ”

"Yes, it's the oolong's eye, and you can see it when you turn over the Niuxin Mountain behind the village. The Celestial Master may wish to rest here, and tomorrow morning, I will have someone take you up the mountain. ”

"No need, cultivators and demons are not afraid, why are you afraid of the dark?" King Chen said goodbye to the patriarch, walked out of the ancestral hall, and went straight to the back mountain.

"Hey, hey, why are you in such a hurry?" Ahri conjured a blue lantern to lead the way, "We can wait until dawn before leaving, don't rush at this time." ”

"Urgent, urgent. King Chen said, "It's not that I'm in a hurry to catch the drought, but I'm in a hurry to leave that room and get out of here." ”

"Why?" those people looked weird and uncomfortable, but they weren't too much to stay.

King Chen frowned and said, "Don't say it, I'm afraid I'll scare you." ”

"Cut, I haven't seen any scenes of the Great Immortal, and I will be scared?" Ahri said disdainfully.

"Alright then," King Tatsu looked around, they had already gone up the hill, far from the village.

King Chen stopped and said, "Do you think those people look at you a little strangely?"

"I guess," Ahri recalled, "I guess I still have water on me, and they look at me with a kind of hunger and thirst." ”

"It doesn't matter if you have water on you or not," King Chen said slowly...... You are both water and food to them......"

"You...... What do you mean?"

"That's what you mean. ”

"Wow~" Ahri retched, "You mean they...... Cannibalism?"

"In every catastrophe, there is always a tragedy of cannibalism, and it is not unusual for the drought to be so severe here. King Chen's voice was slow and desolate, although he had heard it a long time ago, but seeing this kind of tragedy with his own eyes still had a great impact on him.

Ahri now finally understands why fragile mortals are able to occupy a place in the Three Realms, and with their desire to live, mortals who want to live despite everything may not be as fragile as they imagined.

It's really creepy to think about how to eat their own meat in that small room just now, and those people are thinking about how to eat their own meat......

"And how did you tell? Did someone bite your toe?"

"Actually, I was skeptical from the beginning. Mortals are not afraid of immortals, but they must be afraid of ghosts, so normal people have an innate fear of corpses. Why, is he who uses the ghostly fire on the bones to illuminate the bones so desecrated?

What is it that makes them accustomed to fiddling with corpses? There are dozens of people in the ancestral hall, there are too many, it can be said that this place is a scorched earth, how did so many people survive?"