Chapter VIII Defects
"I'm sorry to bother you, I'm an investigator of the Imperial Court, and I'm here to solve the anomaly. After Lu Ye heard the voice, he knocked on the door again and said, "Everyone wants to live a normal and healthy life, whether it is for themselves or for their children......"
The atmosphere inside and outside the door was a little stiff, but eventually the door was opened.
A woman with deep-seated eyes and black and red stood inside the door to greet Lu Ye.
Seeing the other party's haggard look, Lu also put away his unorthodox appearance, and stood straight, although his face was a little young, but he also had a bit of the appearance of a shunter anyway.
Entering the house, Lu also took a look, and it could be seen that the house had not been cleaned for a long time, and the vegetable bowls on the table were some paste that I didn't know if it was a vegetable root or something.
Come to think of it, this mountain village has been locked down for a while, and because of the disappearance, everyone is afraid to go out, and the supplies here have been scarce to a certain extent.
Sitting at the table was a thin man, the man seemed to be a little sluggish, just glanced at Lu Ye's arrival, and didn't make any more movements, just holding a little girl who still looked a little ignorant.
"Hello uncle!" said the little girl tenderly, but her voice seemed weak, and she coughed a few times after speaking.
"Hello!" Lu also squinted and smiled at the little girl.
"If there's anything you want to ask, Investigator. The woman's eyes were full of numbness caused by despair, and it was only when she looked at her daughter that those eyes seemed to be touched.
"You have a custom of pressing the foot of the bed here, right?" Lu Ye asked, and after seeing the woman nodding, he continued to ask, "So is there any child in the village whose name is Liu Yu, or is it with the character Yu in his name?"
"Liu Yu?" the woman said after glancing at her husband: "There are not many people with surnames in the village, and those with the surname Liu only need Liu Miaozhu." ”
"As for the one with Yu in the name, there is only the youngest son of Li Gouzi's family, named Li Yu. The woman thought for a while and said: "When the policy was relaxed a few years ago, Li Gouzi's wife gave birth to Li Gouzi, but the premature baby was also fat and fat. ”
"How much do you know about Liu Miaozhu?" Lu Ye nodded and continued to ask, although he had learned about it once from the old village chief, he might as well learn about it again.
The woman's description is similar to that of the old village chief, Liu Miaozhu doesn't know when she appeared in the village, she was idle and had no job, she was beaten by the villagers a few times at first, and then she slowly integrated into the village and helped to do some odd jobs to survive in the village.
In the end, when choosing a temple blessing, this somewhat delicate profession was given to him.
Lu also learned some information from the women's mouth, Liu Miaozhu is a cultural person, and part of the money is used to buy books, especially those books with strange spirits, and he also specially asked the old people in the village for information about the mud spring.
I have also looked for the cave paintings on the west side of the back mountain, and sometimes I can see him digging something everywhere, saying that he is digging antiques, but I have never heard of him digging anything.
"So how much do you know about Village Chief Li Si?" Lu Ye thought about it and continued to ask.
"I used to hear the old people in the village say that Li Si was a native of Niquan Village back then, but he caused something in the official face and ran out, and he returned to the village after the policy changed more than ten years ago, and then became the village head. ”
"Anyway, everyone in the village is quite convinced of him, including the old people. ”
"Then do you know which one in the village has a big cellar or basement?" Lu also remembered the dark room where he was before, and the environment was somewhat similar to a basement or cellar: "Or where are there a large number of large water tanks?"
"I don't know about this, but most of the water tanks in the village are made by Li Gouzi, you can go to his place. ”
"Are they all gathered at Li Gouzi's house?" After Lu Ye asked the location of Li Gouzi's family, he stood up and said to the family: "You'd better leave here during the day, be careful of places where there is water on the road, it's not a way for you to stay here." ”
"If you can't escape, no one can escape......" The woman coughed a few times, shook her head gloomily and said: "It's not that we haven't tried, and even ran to the foot of the mountain, but unfortunately we all came back again, as long as we leave the village, we will all feel pain, we can't escape......"
After that, the woman repeated the phrase that she could not escape, as if possessed by a repeater.
Lu also called her a few times, but she didn't respond.
Waving his hand to the little girl who kept coughing, Lu also walked out of the house with a calm face.
"Is this so-called anomaly accompanied by a large-scale flu?" Lu Ye touched his neck again, and suddenly felt a little itchy in his throat, and couldn't help coughing twice.
"Looks like the potion is starting to work. Lu didn't care too much, anyway, it was just a mirror body, and if he died, he would die, and he had died once before anyway, maybe he would get used to dying and dying.
Lu Ye was walking, and suddenly felt that something was not right, and looked at his left hand, only to see that his left hand was a little blurry, and it looked a little transparent.
"Is it the effect of that potion?" Lu Ye thought about it and shook his head, the effect of that potion should not be as simple as killing himself, otherwise when he was controlled by the turbid water flow before, the other party had many opportunities to kill him, and there was no need to inject the potion before making a move.
In a trance, Lu also raised his head to look at the sun in the sky, and the time was now more than one o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was the most intense.
Holding on to the discomfort, Lu Ye walked into the shadow of a house next to him, and then he felt better.
"If the effect of the potion is ruled out, then only the defects of the mirror body remain?" Lu Ye was not surprised.
The time of his previous action was either three or four o'clock in the afternoon, or in the evening, just after twelve o'clock, and he was also walking in the grove, and this was the first time he was exposed to strong eyes.
The mirrored body is the body that is reflected to reality through the spiritual body inside the mirror, and it is reasonable that the strong sunlight can interfere with this reflection.
"In that case, I need to avoid moving around noon. Lu also looked at the sun outside, and simply didn't rush to Li Gouzi's house, went to the house to find a chair to sit down, and began to study himself.
He still didn't know a lot about his current situation.
Consciousness sank into the core of the soul, Lu could also feel that he was in the mirror fragments, if Zhai Di had the method of throwing consciousness into the mirror fragments, they could still exchange information, but unfortunately although he became a half-psychic envoy, in terms of occultism, Zhai Di was still a rookie.
"Huh?" Suddenly, Lu also found that when his consciousness sank into the mirror fragment, although he couldn't control the mirror body, he could observe the projected body.
He could observe that there was some pitch-black liquid eroding through the mirrored body.