"You ...... I've heard that you claim to be a villager from Chiquan Village, aren't you?"

Jiang Yao looked at the old man in front of him and said vigilantly.

"...... 'Chiquan Village'? Heh, Chiquan Village is long gone, and it hasn't even been erased on the map, as if there has never been this village, and we are not so much the villagers left over from Chiquan Village, but the 'undead' of Chiquan Village...... Never see the light. The old man said quietly.

"Our Chiquan Village was originally just a remote village, and we have been living in this mountain forest in peace, but a few years ago, a group of old Maozi came to the mountain, sneaked into the forest to rob the tomb, not to mention, and blew up a big hole in the mountain, because of the explosion, the mountain collapsed...... If I hadn't noticed the movement in the mountains in advance and fled into the forest with my fellow villagers, I am afraid that we would have been buried alive with the village......

"Original...... You are really the remnants of Chiquan Village back then......" Jiang Yao said in surprise. "Then since you escaped, why don't you contact the outside world to rebuild your home, but hide in this dense forest?"

"Hmph, do you think we don't want to go out?" the old man looked directly at Jiang Yao and said slowly. "Not long after we entered this forest, we felt a strange smell floating in the air, and then all of our bodies began to be unable to hold on, and some of us who were in poor health fell on the spot, and we found that the air was poisonous...... I thought that God wanted all the people in our village to die here, but I didn't expect someone to suddenly appear and save all of us. ”

"Is there a person?" that is ......," Jiang Yao frowned.

"I don't know, a strange man, this man wears a black cloak from head to end, and he can't see clearly. But if that man hadn't given us life-saving medicine, we would all have died. The old man smiled bitterly. "It was a black water that smelled fishy, and we only found out what it was later......"

"Could it be, is that a monster's ......!?" Jiang Yao thought of something from the old man's tone, and his face couldn't help but change.

"That's right, it's the blood of the monster in the Aoki coffin. The old man gave the answer. "But although the blood saved the lives of our entire village, it was also the beginning of the curse, and from that day on, we could never walk out of this forest again......

The old man paused, looked up at the inky sky before dawn, and the expression on his face did not know whether to cry or laugh.

"In order to survive, we listened to the man's words and drank the monster's blood, but we didn't think that the thing itself was a kind of poison with a "curse", although it temporarily saved the villagers, but the price was that from now on we had to drink the monster's blood regularly, and we couldn't leave the range of this forest, once we went out, we would die! And if we didn't drink the monster's blood for a while, we would festering and die. ”

"What!?"

Jiang Yao was shocked, and subconsciously glanced at Xuan Ming on the side, but saw that the other party didn't say anything, just stared at the old man and didn't say a word. And when Jiang Yao was about to ask something, he heard the old man continue to narrate:

"At first, we didn't believe it, thinking that it was just some kind of disease, and we still wanted to go out to the doctor, but none of us came back alive, and a few of us didn't believe in evil and didn't continue to drink the blood of the monster, and they festered and died in front of us...... We were so scared that we didn't dare to believe it, and the man said that if we wanted to continue drinking the blood, we would have to collect it ourselves, and he could tell us where it was. ”

"The place where the man told you...... Is that the tomb?"

"That's right, that man gave me a black iron sword, saying that as long as I carried the coffins out of the tomb and inserted the black iron sword into the coffin, I could get life-sustaining blood. We had no choice, in order to survive, I listened to the man's instructions, found an old village that had been abandoned for a long time, and began to camp, and regularly removed the coffin from the tomb, trying to get blood, and we were all trapped in this forest......" said the old man.

"That'...... Are those missing people in the mountains related to you?" Jiang Yao continued.

“…… If you want to say whether it has anything to do with us, the answer is 'it has to do with it', because those monsters that escaped into the forest to eat people are the ones we released......" The old man paused, and there seemed to be guilt in his eyes. "Those monsters will jump out of the coffin as long as they get close to the living creatures, although we have been very careful, but in the end a few popped out in the process of carrying the coffin, those monsters went into the forest to kill wantonly, but they were not interested in us, hehe...... In this respect, we may no longer be considered 'living creatures'. ”

The old man smiled bitterly.

"And...... The man also told us that once the outside world discovered our secret, the government would send someone to seal off the tomb, and then all of us who had no medicine would have to die......!

"So in order to prevent the outside world from discovering your secrets, you have killed all those who inadvertently bumped into you carrying your coffin?" Jiang Yao remembered Zhou Wenhai's matter, and his words became a little unpolite. "Three men strayed into this forest a while ago, and only one escaped in the end, and he was unconscious, and the other two disappeared, and their belongings were also found on you, don't tell me that their disappearance has nothing to do with you. ”

"Are you referring to the two of them?"

The old man said, and raised his hand to the villagers behind him, only to see two unconscious men who were tied hand and foot tied in the crowd suddenly lifted.

"These two people discovered the secret of our village a while ago and were locked up for a few days, but now they ...... There's no need to keep them locked up anymore. ”

Seeing the two unconscious bodyguards, Jiang Yao hurriedly stepped forward to check the situation, but fortunately, the two of them were not in danger of life as the old man said, so they were relieved.

"I know we're doing these things bastards, but please understand that we're doing this to survive...... Because we can't live without the blood of those monsters. The old man said, bowing his head slightly and sighing.

"After hearing so much, I always think that person deliberately made you dependent on the blood of that monster, and threatened you with your lives to enter the tomb, and kept bringing out those monsters......" Seeing that the villagers released the missing bodyguard, Jiang Yao's tone to the old man also eased a lot. "The biggest problem is not with you, but with the mysterious man, who is simply using your hand to unleash demons. ”

"But...... We still can't hate that man, and if it weren't for that man, we would have been poisoned in the woods. The old man shook his head and said calmly. "We have been thinking that as long as we keep this life, we will one day find a real antidote and we will be able to go out and reunite with our relatives outside...... That's why we've survived until now. ”

“…… No, maybe that person caused the destruction of your village, and all of this may have been arranged by that person from beginning to end. Jiang Yao said.

"The terrain in the mountains is so complicated, and the location of the tomb is so hidden, that even you who have lived in the mountains for generations do not know it, but the group of Russians can find it accurately without any obstacles, and blow up the tomb, presumably there is a person who knows the location to guide the way, and the mysterious man appeared immediately after the accident in your village, and gave you fresh monster blood that can only be found in that tomb, indicating that the man had just been to the ancient tomb that was blown open, and the two things are too coincidental in terms of the time of occurrence......"

Jiang Yao paused and continued.

"If we imagine that the man first attracted the group of Russians to blow up the mountain, causing the landslide and causing the miasma in the tomb...... That is, if the poisonous gas leaks into the forest, so that you people whose homes have been destroyed and poisoned have to take the blood of the monsters he brought from the tomb, so as to use you as coolies to force you to enter the tomb and release more monsters, everything makes sense. ”

"What ......!"

"This, this...... How could it be ......?"

Jiang Yao's words were like a *, which instantly detonated the discussion of the villagers.

"Wait, speaking of which...... Back then, those old hairy men did follow a cloak man into the mountain...... I seem to have glimpsed it!"

“…… No wonder, I think it's strange, you said that in the barren mountains and mountains, how could a strange man wearing a cloak and not even want to show his face suddenly appeared? And the elusive ......."

"Isn't it really like what he said? In this case, our village was actually destroyed by that man, and we have been being used by him from beginning to end!?"

……

The villagers talked a lot, and after the old man heard what Jiang Yao said, his face changed slightly, but after all, he didn't complain about anything, just shook his head and sighed.

"Even if things really go as you say, they can't be undone now...... We didn't know anything about the man back then, and second, the tomb had been destroyed, and we could no longer collect the blood of the monster, and now we had to wait for death. What's the point of pursuing these for people who are dying?"

Old man Huang said, glancing at Ah Kui and Lao Qi who were unconscious on the side. "We have indeed done a lot of evil over the years, and those monsters in the forest were also released by us in the final analysis, and now this kind of ending can only be said to be retribution, hehe...... Maybe that's our fate......"

"......" looked at the desperate villagers in front of him, Jiang Yao wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it, although he couldn't fully sympathize with those people, but he couldn't sit back and watch them die in pain in front of him, after all, fundamentally speaking, these people are also victims.

Jiang Yao hesitated, turned his head and quietly glanced at Xuan Ming, but saw that Xuan Ming was also looking at him, and shook his head slightly.

"I know what you're thinking, but even our blood won't save them. Xuan Ming whispered, moving his gaze to the bloodless villagers who acted like zombies.

"Because all these people have no soul. ”