Chapter 229: Cause
"Why do you say that?" Jiang Qi, who was standing beside Li Xun, pulled Ma Youyi up and said, "Stand up and say." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Ma Youyi stood up, turned his head to look at Jiang Qi, and said in a hoarse voice: "I know the monster you just mentioned, I have seen it many times, it is very smart, it can command wolves, and it can communicate with people. I also knew that there was such a huge pack of wolves on the edge of our village, and the nest of wolves and monsters was about four kilometers in that direction. ”
Ma Youyi said as he pointed in the direction of the west of the village.
Although standing in the small ravine, everyone could still see the direction of Ma Youyi's finger.
From this direction, it is just facing the barberry-shaped hill to the west, and from this angle, the bull's head is particularly clear, and it looks more vivid than the hill standing near the Dazhong Dam just now.
The four kilometers to the west that Ma Youyi said is about the middle of Niutou Mountain and Dazhong Dam.
Jiang Qi glanced at Li Xun.
Li Xun just listened and thought about it, and he motioned for Jiang Qi to continue asking.
Jiang Qi asked, "Why did the villagers say just now that they hadn't seen the wolves, nor had they seen the monster we talked about?"
Ma Youyi replied with a crying voice: "The lives of the villagers in our entire village have been threatened by that monster, and we are forced to lie." ”
"Why don't you run if you're threatened?"
"Run, where are we going? This is our home! Not to mention, the old people in our village, Women and children, are locked in their nests, help them to clean their nests, they are equivalent to becoming hostages, as soon as we run, they all have to die, in addition, there are wolves around our village, we can't escape at all, caught by wolves not only die miserably, but also affect our relatives, not only that, they also poison us, every month we have to take the antidote given by the monster, otherwise we will die of poison. ”
Ma Youyi's voice became sad and indignant: "And I have lived in this monster's lair since I was a child, and I didn't return to the village until I grew up, our village has been threatened by this monster for generations, and we don't even dare to resist." ”
Everyone suddenly realized, no wonder they entered the village just now, and always felt that there was something abnormal in the village, it turned out that there was no woman or child in the village, and there were no old people, and the village was full of young and middle-aged men.
When Li Xun heard this, his eyes burst into a fine light, so sharp that it seemed to be able to shoot to the bottom of people's hearts.
He reached out and grabbed Ma Youyi's wrist, skillfully took his pulse, sensed it carefully, and then reached out to break Ma Youyi's eyelids and looked at his eyeballs.
Then, Li Xun's face changed.
He looked at Ma Youyi's gaze, and suddenly became very meaningful.
Xu Qianyun found a suspicious point and asked, "Then do you know that this monster can eat people?"
Ma Youyi's expression became frightened: "It does eat people's hearts, it is rumored that there are several elders in our village, who once thought of escaping, but after being caught by it, in front of everyone in the village, they ate his heart, and then ate the hearts of their wives and children, and their bodies were also distributed by this monster to the wolves to eat, this is really miserable, since that fight, we no longer dare to run away." In addition, in the more than ten years that I have grown up in their nests, I have often seen wolves dragging human corpses into their nests, as if they were villagers deep in the nearby Daba Mountain. ”
Xu Qianyun asked, "Since they eat people, why don't they eat you?"
Ma Youyi said bitterly: "They need coolies, they want us to constantly build their nests, and also to help them raise all kinds of poisonous insects, by the way, six kilometers north of our village, there is a valley, there are many poisonous insects in it, and there is a very terrible ant, usually by the people of our village, every three days to transport food to them, raise them." ”
Xu Qianyun's eyes lit up, and she glanced at Li Xun.
Li Xun continued to think.
However, Ma Youyi did have some truth in what he said, in fact, Li Xun had already discovered that there were traces of artificial breeding in that valley.
One of the characteristics of marching ants is that they do not have nests, the whole colony is constantly advancing, catching prey, and they migrate after eating food in one place.
No animal would be stupid enough to send it to die in an ant colony, so the colony can only keep migrating to get food.
If you want them to live in one place for a long time, you have to make sure that they have an adequate source of food, and someone has to constantly deliver food to them.
But yesterday Li Xun observed the valley, there was no trace of any animals in the valley at all, and there were no animal bones, and after thinking about it, it must be someone feeding them, using the meat with the skeleton removed, directly raising them.
If there is no special person to raise it, it is impossible to gather such a large swarm of poisonous insects.
And the complicated thing of raising poisonous insects is obviously not something that wolves can do, let alone do it themselves.
Now that I have figured it out, it turns out that the matter of feeding poisonous insects was actually done by the people of Dazhongba.
In this way, it seems reasonable that Lao Miao's life left the lives of the villagers of Dazhongba Village.
These thoughts flashed through Li Xun's heart, and he asked in a deep voice, "How do you know my name?"
"This is what the secretary said, last night the monster passed by our village with wolves, the secretary went to see them, the monster said that you may go to the village to search for information, it ordered us, today in the food for you to adulterate poison, the monster knows that you are not afraid of poison, can distinguish all kinds of poison, but the poison it gives is very weird, it says that you will eventually be poisoned, so as to slowly lose your strength. ”
Li Xun smiled and said, "There is no poison in the world that can poison me unconsciously. In fact, even if there is poison in your body, I can remove it. ”
"Plop ......"
Ma Youyi knelt in front of Li Xun and said with a crying voice: "I heard the village party secretary talk about you yesterday, and I knew that you are the only hope of our village, I don't want to live in the shadow of this monster for a lifetime, and I don't want me to marry a wife and have children in the future, and they still have to survive in the monster's lair, but I can only see them a few times a month, it's a nightmare." ”
Li Xun picked up Ma Youyi and said in a deep voice: "We came here this time to deal with this monster, and we are confident that we can deal with it!"
Ma Youyi remembered something, and hurriedly said: "By the way, at noon today, the village party secretary will prepare a wild boar meat for you as food, you must not eat it, you will be poisoned if you eat it." ”
Jiang Qi said: "Don't worry, even if we don't have your reminder, we won't eat other food indiscriminately." ”
Jiang Qi was telling the truth.
Even if there is no Ma Youyi's words, just the weirdness of this village, they will definitely not drink a mouthful of water from this village and eat a mouthful of food from this village.
"But I also beg you, the villagers of our village are very pitiful, they have lived in the shadow of that monster all their lives, they pretend to be very optimistic and cheerful on the surface, but they are very miserable and miserable inside, everything they do, they are forced, even if they want to poison your food, they are forced to do so, please don't hurt them. Ma Youyi said with tears again.
The crowd was silent.
In fact, at this time, everyone basically believed what Ma Youyi said.
This old man is so cunning and hateful that he secretly controls a human village in this way.
Jiang Qi gritted his teeth and said: "Don't worry, the villagers are all innocent, we will only eradicate the old embarrassment and wolves this time, and we will save you!"
As a soldier, the sacred sense of responsibility to defend the country and protect the people made Jiang Qi eager to take action immediately to eradicate this murderous old man!
Only Li Xun looked at Jiang Qi and then at Ma Youyi, with a hint of thoughtfulness in his eyes. (To be continued.) )