"No souls?"

Jiang Yao was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered his previous discussion with Mu Jianyun in the cave. Due to the domineering of the "Seven Star Soul Bundle Array", once ordinary people who have not cultivated step into the array, I am afraid that their souls will be instantly withdrawn and die on the spot, and Jiang Yao and others were able to enter the magic circle safely because of the protection of the "Power of Zhurong", but there should be no such special shelter for those villagers, but the fact is that those people have already entered and exited the formation many times to take the coffin, so by inference, there seems to be only one answer......

"But, but...... People should not be able to live without souls, why can they still move freely?" Jiang Yao looked at the villagers and asked Xuan Ming in a low voice.

"Of course, ordinary people can't live, but they are "special". Xuan Ming said calmly. "Each of them had been stripped of their souls and restrained beforehand, but at the same time they had been subjected to a spell that ensured them to move freely within a certain range of their souls, but once they left the restricted area, they died, like prisoners chained, trapped in this place. ”

"They said before that if they left this forest, they would die, so that means their souls will be bound in this area?" Jiang Yao pondered. "Did that mysterious man do it? But who is that man? He has the ability to do such a thing as draining the soul of a living person!"

"I don't know who that person is, but I guess that person probably has the 'Soul Suppression Stone' in his hand. ”

Xuan Ming's words made Jiang Yao's face change suddenly, and the keyword 'Soul Suppression Stone' instantly reminded him of Xiao Yuan's incident at the beginning, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

"'Soul Suppression Stone'? It's 'Soul Suppression Stone' again!—What the hell is this, what ...... this thing is!?" Jiang Yao asked hurriedly.

"This is a legendary magic stone that can control the soul and reverse reincarnation. Back then, humans relied on the 'Soul Suppression Stone' to split Chi You's Three Souls and Seven Spirits, making him immortal and unable to reincarnate, and after that, the 'Soul Suppression Stone' disappeared...... "Xuan Ming explained. "In the case of these villagers, I think it can only be done with the power of the 'Soul Stone' with spells, and there is only one way to save those villagers, and that is to find the 'medium' that binds the souls of those villagers, and break the spells on them, so that the souls can return to the bodies of the villagers. ”

"It turns out that the 'Soul Suppression Stone' is this kind of evil thing...... But even if we find the "medium" that binds the souls and destroy the spell, what about the "poison" in the villagers......' bodies? Forehead...... The blood of the undead has such side effects, is it because of the mutation?" Jiang Yao considered his words and looked at Xuan Ming cautiously.

"No, those who did not drink the blood of the undead did not die because of the so-called "poison" or "curse" in the blood, on the contrary, it was because of the blood of the undead that they were able to survive in this miasma forest, and those who died festering and dying without the help of the blood of the undead. Xuan Ming shook his head and said. "I was aware of their actions a long time ago, but I couldn't bear to stop them, because they couldn't leave this miasma-filled forest, and if they wanted to survive, they had to rely on the blood of the undead. ”

"I see...... Now that the miasma in the forest has disappeared, then they actually have no worries, and they can live even if they don't drink the blood of the undead. Jiang Yao breathed a sigh of relief, but then became entangled again. "The problem now is the 'medium' that binds their souls...... Where is it?"

"Theoretically, the 'medium' wouldn't be too far away from the villagers, and it must exist in a physical form, but only the caster knows the exact location. Xuan Ming said.

"Is that the mysterious person...... Jiang Yao thought for a while, looked up to the villagers, and interrupted everyone's discussion:

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that things have happened to such a point, I'm afraid the only turning point is on the body of the mysterious cloak man back then, only by finding this person, everyone has a chance to live, do you have any clues about the whereabouts of that person?"

"That man has never been seen again since he instructed us to enter the tomb, and we have tried to find that man all these years, but he has simply disappeared from the world, and there is no trace of him in the mountains. One villager said.

"Have you already left...... But the villagers are still alive, which means that the 'medium' was not taken with him by the man, but stayed here......"

Jiang Yao muttered, suddenly thought of something again, and hurriedly continued to ask, "That...... Did that man leave anything behind before he left?"

"Anything left...... Oh, by the way, it's just the black iron sword that lets us take the blood of monsters. ”

"The black iron sword, could it be the one I broke in the first place?" Jiang Yao was stunned. "Is that sword still there?"

"Yes, of course, how dare we throw this thing, of course we have to hide it......"

"Boom ......"

As he was talking, a black broken sword wrapped in an oilcloth suddenly fell from the sky and was thrown in front of the villagers, and before everyone could recover from their surprise, they heard a man's voice coming from the side:

"It's such a broken thing, and it's hidden so deep by you, that I've been looking for it for a long time. ”

With the sound of footsteps from far and near, a tall figure gradually appeared from the shadows of the woods, and I saw a red-haired man appear beside everyone at some point, pacing, and walking slowly towards Jiang Yao.

"Gluttonous ......!?" Seeing the red-haired man's unharmed appearance, Jiang Yao's originally hanging heart finally fell slightly, and he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "You, are you okay......?"

"It's been hung up early. Gluttony said lightly, then moved his gaze to the stunned villagers and pointed to the sword on the ground. "The black iron sword you are talking about, is this what you are talking about?"

"Really...... How did you find it? I have already put it away carefully......" Old man Huang glanced at the broken sword on the ground, and looked at the gluttony vigilantly, but saw the other party sneer, and said:

"You don't even know what it is, and you still think it's a treasure, hehe...... Did you know that this was the culprit that killed you?"

"What!?" Old Man Huang's face changed, and even his figure staggered a little, and he hurriedly asked. "W-What the hell is going on here?"

"Well, it's a long story...... "Gluttony sold Guanzi, with an inexplicable smile on his face, Jiang Yao knew at a glance that this guy was about to start fooling, and sure enough, after successfully bluffing the villagers, Gluttony immediately began to talk:

"After the landslide, some harmful biogas was leaked from the mountain forest, which would not have been fatal, but the mysterious man lied to you that the monster blood could detoxify, so he lured you to drink the blood, and kept stealing the coffin from the tomb. In fact, the monsters in those coffins are just mutated new species secretly cultivated by some foreigners, and their blood is not poisonous at all, and there is no "curse", and that person is just fooling you to help them smuggle out the monster from beginning to end, covering people's eyes and ears. ”

"But...... But some people died of poison because they didn't drink the blood!

"yes! yes......"

Faced with the gluttonous rhetoric, the villagers quickly raised questions, but the gluttony was not in a hurry, and calmly blocked back with a sentence: "There are so many poisons in this world, I really haven't heard of any kind of poison that can't die if you eat it, and if you don't eat it, you will die." ”

"This ......" The villagers were collectively dumbfounded and speechless.

"Those people died not because they didn't drink the blood, but because of it. As he spoke, he stepped forward and lightly kicked the broken sword on the ground. "Do you know what this sword is made of? It's meteorite, that is, made of alien meteorite, and it's full of cosmic radiation. ”

"Spoke...... I think I've heard it on the news, it's the kind of thing that makes people sick and kills people invisible!"

"Yes, yes, I've heard that it can mutate people and turn them into monsters!"

"Isn't it really what he said......?"

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly "hula" and retreated a few steps, subconsciously staying away from the broken sword on the ground, obviously compared to the mysterious "curse", the gluttonous "radiation theory" is more convincing to the villagers, and Jiang Yao looked at the gluttony with a pretentious look, and understood the reason for his remarks, so he continued to listen to the gluttonous nonsense in silence;

"As I said just now, the monster in the coffin is actually a mutated new species secretly cultivated by foreigners, and their blood has an anti-radiation effect, so those who drink the blood will not die from radiation, and those who don't drink it will die. Seeing the shaking appearance of the villagers, the gluttony pursued the victory. "Isn't it more logical to explain that those who ran out of the woods also died quickly because they did not receive anti-radiation treatment in time?"

"Yes...... That means we can live as long as we stay away from this sword and go outside for treatment?"

"We ...... Can we finally live this life of hiding and hiding and survive openly?!"

"Well, it's not a dream, is it......?"

……

The gluttonous words strongly shook the hearts of the villagers, and for a while, the hope of survival in a desperate situation appeared on the faces of the villagers, and even the eyes of the old man Huang were a little shaken.

"What do you mean...... Is it true?" Old Man Huang looked at the gluttony, doubt and hope intertwined in his cloudy eyes.

"Hehe, now that you are cornered, staying here is also waiting for death, why don't you believe me once?"

Gluttony smiled and looked up somewhere in the sky.

"Behold, here comes the man who saved you. ”