The sky was getting dark, and Nie Elegy's stomach was already rumbling.

Fortunately, when she went out, her grandmother specially prepared some snacks for her to take with her.

Fortunately, Jiang Chen didn't need to eat, otherwise these things would really not be enough for her to eat.

Nie Elegy's eyesight was not bad, so he saw a sparkling light on the other side from a long distance.

"Jiang Chen, look over there, is there anyone living there? ”

Although the vision is a little hazy, you can still vaguely see the outlines of some houses, and it seems that there are indeed houses here.

Nie Elegy was extremely surprised, she didn't expect that there would be people here.

"Something like Spirit Grass happens once in a thousand years, so naturally someone will guard it, so it's normal for someone to be here. It's just that these people should not have any contact with the outside world, so don't let your guard down. ”

Although there are still some snacks, they don't have a clue yet, they can't last a few days, and now they have to find a place to provide them with food.

Fortunately, it was not too far away, and the light was getting closer and closer, and finally appeared in front of them.

"Wow! I didn't expect there to be so many houses here!"

The houses here are scattered and look very quaint. Red lanterns hung at the doorways, and the light that illuminated the roads connecting the houses turned red.

It's just that the strangest thing is that there is no one on the road, and if it weren't for the atmosphere here, she wouldn't even think that these houses would be inhabited at all.

Jiang Chen stepped forward and knocked on the door very gentlemanly.

Soon the door opened from the inside.

"Who are you looking for?"

It was a woman in her thirties and forties, and she spoke Mandarin not very fluently.

Jiang Chen didn't say that they were here to find the spirit grass, he just said that they had strayed into this place and couldn't get out now, and they wanted to borrow it for a few days.

How do you know that the other party doesn't dislike them from outside, and actually invites the two of them to it enthusiastically.

There was no male in her family, only a little girl, which made Nie Elegy incomprehensible.

This girl is seven or eight points like that woman, and at first glance she is her daughter, but there is nothing about men in the house, as if there are no men at all.

The problem was confirmed the next day. It's not just that there is no man in the house they live in, there are no men in the whole village.

But why are there so many children? Women alone can't have these children.

Nie Wangge knew that this was their private matter, and he didn't plan to ask, but the more he thought about it, the more strange he felt, so he couldn't help but ask.

But the woman didn't seem to want to hide it at all, and poured her a cup of tea and told her what had happened.

"We never had any men here, and my grandmother said that a long, long time ago, men here seemed to disappear, and all women would conceive children between the ages of eighteen and thirty. No one knows what happened, but everyone was doomed. ”

It seems that her daughter should be like this. However, there seems to be no problem with children born without men, which reminds her of the Zimu River in Journey to the West.

"We've had men here before, but they've disappeared inexplicably, so for the sake of people's safety. Men are not allowed to come in. ”

According to what she meant, Jiang Chen couldn't have come in originally, but because these days she heard that the men who disappeared did not disappear for no reason, but were taken away by the most powerful women here.

All children who are inexplicably conceived have shortcomings in one area, such as insufficient intelligence or physical insufficiency, and even if these are okay, they will shorten their life.

Everyone was saying that the woman wanted to give birth to a normal child, so she kept the man with her, and even the little boy had to keep it for her daughter.

It seems that she is also selfish, and wants to see if Jiang Chen will also be taken away by that woman.

But Nie Elegy didn't understand, if that was the case, why did she still say it? Wasn't she afraid of them leaving?

"But...... As you can see, not long after you came, she died suddenly. But everyone searched her house, but they didn't see a single man. I'm saying this to get you out of here, and maybe this friend of yours will disappear too. ”

Perhaps because of her words, Nie Elegy actually felt that the atmosphere was a little weird. What is the situation when a man suddenly disappears and a woman inexplicably conceives a child in her belly?

However, she just smiled on the surface, pretending not to care too much, after all, Jiang Chen had not come back from going out to investigate the situation, and these things still needed to be discussed with him.

Nie Elegy specially asked her name, and she said that she didn't have a full name, because the people here were basically born directly from the mother's pregnancy, so they only took a name for distinguishing them.

She said that her name was Xiaojin, and her name didn't have any meaning, but it was easy to remember.

Although she said that she was thirty-five years old, she still looked like a girl in her early twenties.

It was precisely because of her frankness that Nie Wangge bluntly asked her about Lingcao.

She was stunned for a moment, and then she returned to normal.

"We do have spirit grass here, but I haven't seen it. They are said to grow on the hills over there, but I haven't seen them once. However, there are many people who have inquired about the whereabouts of the spirit grass. ”

Jiang Chen went out for a whole morning, and he did not return until the afternoon.

But there was a hint of tiredness on his face, as if he had discovered something.

"There seems to be the spirit grass we are looking for on the mountain over there, I just felt the aura at the foot of the mountain, but there is no way to go up. It seems that you can only go up the mountain with your blood. ”

This made her suddenly remember what Xiao Jin said today, and she seemed to say that there was spirit grass there.

Nie Elegy told Jiang Chen exactly what the two of them said, although he still had some scruples about that Xiao Jin, but what she said did coincide with the clues he found.

The two of them discussed it for a while, and decided to go out at night to find the spirit grass and rest here during the day.

After all, if you run into other people in broad daylight, I'm afraid you really think they're here to steal.

Nie Wangge slept almost all afternoon, perhaps because the past two days were too hard, so she always felt that her body was a little tired and her limbs were weak.

Fortunately, Jiang Chen came to call her in time, otherwise she might have slept until the next morning.

Originally, looking at her tired appearance, Jiang Chen didn't plan to let her go hard again, and was going to take a little blood from her to go by herself, but she always refused to let Jiang Chen take the risk by herself.

As soon as he approached the mountain, Nie Wangge felt very uncomfortable. The spiritual power of the spirit grass was very strong, but Jiang Chen could only feel a part of it very weakly.

So there is indeed a seal here, but it is unknown whether it needs Nie Elegy's blood to unravel it.

"Just try the same way we first came in, maybe both enchantments have the same solution. ”

Nie Elegy nodded, only to find that it was useless after concocting the same method, the mountain was as if it was tightly wrapped, and it didn't give them a chance to go in at all.

"What should I do?"

As soon as this sentence was spoken, I heard a "bang", like a cracking sound.

Immediately after, the fog shrouded in the mountain actually disappeared!

"It seems like this is a trick, but in fact, your blood is the way to borrow it. ”

The two of them barely delayed any time, and the first thing was to find the route up the mountain.

There are many forks in the road, but the main road is very clear, and the grass has been pulled out of the vicinity, and the soil looks like it has been turned up.

Jiang Chen lowered his body, although he was suspicious, but did not speak.

Since someone deliberately brought them in, it is not impossible to play with them.

As he walked, Nie Elegy suddenly felt that his body was getting heavier and heavier, and his eyelids couldn't open them little by little.

Jiang Chen thought that she had not rested well and was tired, but when he looked at her face, he realized that something was wrong.

It was too late, and at this moment, a large crack suddenly opened in the ground under their feet, and then it fell into a large net.

Jiang Chen wanted to struggle, but an imperceptible smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth. He hugged Nie Elegy and gently closed his eyes.

"I didn't expect good-looking men to have embroidered pillows, so they fainted? But the people outside are really simple-minded, and a few lies make them dizzy. Really thought that Lingcao would be in such an ordinary place? ”

When Jiang Chen "woke up", what he saw was no one else, it was Xiaojin who had been taking them in for the past few days.

Her originally innocent eyes also turned into a greedy appearance in an instant, which was very different from the previous one.

"Why do you look so cold? Although I am in my thirties, I still have a twenty-year-old face, and you see that the woman you brought with her still has gauze on her face, and at first glance she is a defective product, is she one-tenth as beautiful as me?"

There was no shadow of Nie Elegy beside Jiang Chen, and there was a thick anger in his eyes, as if she would collapse if she said one more word.

"Don't be angry, as long as you stay here and have a few children with me, I will let you take you and that woman away, judging by your appearance, you should be able to have a few beautiful children. ”

Her smile was a little hideous, and she didn't know how much she wanted to have a child.

"Isn't that the one you saw before your child?"

Jiang Chen originally just asked tentatively, but he didn't expect it to anger her.

"My child? Do you know how painful it is to have such a child? Every child is painful, and even if it is born, it is not complete. How do you make me endure?"