Night fell.

The night in the countryside is remote and empty. The wilderness shrouded in darkness, full of shadows, seems to lurk countless unpredictable things.

The village of Yuling was also invaded by darkness. Yuling Mountain shrouded the sky like a huge black curtain, and scattered lights flickered. From time to time, the sound of dogs piercing the tranquility of the village. Loud noises or muffled dog barks seem to convey some kind of uneasy message to people in the dark.

Qin Feng raised his eyes, and the wooden windows squeaked in the night wind. The dim incandescent lamp, instead of making him feel that the room was bright, had a more vague feeling.

Since entering Yuling Village in the afternoon, he has stayed in this house and has not gone out. He felt like he was imprisoned. At dusk, he wanted to go out to have a look, but was stopped by two big men.

Qin Feng sat down again, picked up a white porcelain teapot on the table, and poured a glass of water.

Bang! The door opened, and a man walked in, pulling him out without saying anything.

Qin Feng broke free a few times, and the man's hand was tightly clamped around him like iron tongs, making him unable to move. No matter how much he asked, or even how he scolded, the man was like a mute and wouldn't say anything.

Crossing a dark path, the man led him to a house and pushed him inside.

Entering the door, Qin Feng saw Su Xiaonuan's grandfather Su Zhengde. He was holding the jade dragon pendant in his hand, and he didn't seem to feel Qin Feng's arrival.

Qin Feng looked at the scene in the room. The furnishings inside are very simple, in addition to a sandalwood carved bed, a table and a few stools, there is a large bookshelf more than one person high standing against the wall.

At this time, Su Zhengde put down the things in his hand, raised his head, and stared at Qin Feng's eyes without moving. In his eyes, in addition to seriousness, there was also an indescribable sadness.

Qin Feng looked back and smiled at Grandpa Su uneasily.

Su Zhengde's eyes were like two sharp blades, and he scanned him for two minutes.

"What the hell is this?" Qin Feng asked tentatively.

Su Zhengde closed his eyes slightly, and then stroked the gray beard in front of his chin to solve Qin Feng's doubts.

According to legend, Liu Bowen was a god in front of the Jade Emperor, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, wars were continuous, and famine was everywhere. The Jade Emperor ordered Liu Bowen to reincarnate to assist Ming Jun in order to determine the world and benefit the common people, and gave him the sword of the immortals, and ordered the Dragon King of the Four Seas, but the Dragon King was old and frail and had many affairs, so he sent his nine sons. Long Jiuzi has boundless mana and vast magical powers. They followed Liu Bowen to fight for many years, laid a great foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang, and helped Zhu Di win the throne. When they were ready to return to Heaven to resume their lives, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, the extremely ambitious emperor, wanted to keep them by his side forever, stabilize the country, and dominate the world. So he took the name of building the Forbidden City and took Liu Bowen's immortal sword to order the nine sons. But the nine sons are still divine beasts, and they suddenly call for wind and rain and are furious. Zhu Di saw that the sword of slashing immortals could not shake the nine sons, so he decided to use a trick, and he said to the boss of the nine sons: "You are infinitely powerful, you can carry ten thousand catties of things, if you can carry this ancestral monument, I will let you go." As soon as he saw that it was a small stone tablet, he didn't hesitate to put it on his body, but he couldn't move an inch with all his mana. It turns out that the stele of divine merit and holy virtue is to record the merits made by the "True Dragon Son of Heaven" in his lifetime, and there are two generations of emperors' jade seals, which can suppress the gods and ghosts in all directions. Seeing that his eldest brother was crushed under the monument, Bazi couldn't bear to leave, so he decided to stay in the world together, but vowed never to show his true body. Although Zhu Di kept the nine sons, all he got was nine statue-like divine beasts. After Liu Bowen learned of this, he also abandoned Zhu Di and returned to Heaven from his body. Zhu Di regretted it too much, and in order to warn future generations not to repeat the mistakes of the past, he let the nine sons each have one position, which will be passed down through the ages.

Among them, the second son, Jair, is aggressive and killing. Therefore, some knife rings, knife handles, and dragon swallows are its relics. These weapons adorn the image of a dragon and add to the intimidating power. It is not only decorated on the weapons of famous generals on the battlefield, but also used in a large number on the weapons of honor guards and palace guards, so as to appear more majestic and solemn.

After listening to Su Zhengde's words, Qin Fenggang wanted to ask something. The man who had sent Qin Feng over just now suddenly walked in, and he walked into Su Zhengde's ear and said a few words. Su Zhengde's face couldn't help but change greatly, and then he hurriedly walked out with the man.

Qin Feng was a little curious, not knowing what was going on. So, he put away the pendant and followed them out.

When he walked to the entrance of the village, Qin Feng saw many people standing in front of the ancient tree with torches. Walking to him, Qin Feng saw a woman with loose hair, hanging from a tall tree trunk. His eyes were wide and round, his lips were white, and his body swayed gently from the tree.

Qin Feng couldn't help but take a few steps back. The villagers stood by and pointed and talked about something. There were a few dogs with sleek fur on the side of the road barking incessantly at the old trees.

Su Zhengde calmly glanced at the scene, and then asked people to put the woman's body down first.

At this time, Qin Feng knew from the mouths of the people next to him that the woman hanging from the tree in front of him was called Cheng Pozi, a widow in Yuling Village. Tonight, a neighbor went to borrow something from her, only to find that she was not home. Because Cheng's mother-in-law's children are not at home, she rarely goes out. The neighbor thought it strange and called out to the Venerable Master to start looking for her. Eventually, she was found hanging from the ancient tree.

At this time, several stout young men with a few sticks cautiously approached the ancient tree. Qin Feng couldn't help but laugh a little, a corpse, as for being afraid of this?

"They weren't afraid of the corpse, they were afraid of the tree." Suddenly, someone next to me spoke.

Qin Feng turned his head and saw that it was Su Xiaonuan. Since entering the village, Su Xiaonuan has been taken away by Su Zhengde. Qin Feng was still thinking just now, if something happened here, would Su Xiaonuan come.

Su Xiaonuan shook his head slightly, put his index finger to his mouth and gently shushed him, signaling that he was silenced.

Ah, there was a sudden scream from the crowd.

Qin Feng turned his head, and only then did he see that the trunk of the ancient tree was dancing like a snake. The whole ancient tree seemed to come alive, waving its trunk to prevent people from approaching.

Qin Feng's eyes widened, has this tree become a refinement?

"Alas, it must have been Cheng Pozi who angered the tree god. I told her a long time ago that she wouldn't let her provoke the tree god all day long. An old man next to him sighed softly and said.

Finally, several young people slowly took down the body of Cheng Pozi.

Su Zhengde hurriedly walked over, and Qin Feng and the villagers behind him rushed over. Cheng Pozi's face has turned into a shriveled face, almost like a skeleton. Qin Feng remembered that when he was on the trunk, although Mrs. Cheng's face was not bloody, her face was not so shriveled. Could it be that this is a man-eating tree?

Thinking of this, Qin Feng's heart sank suddenly.

Regarding the cannibal tree, Qin Feng had read it in a book before. Some literary works, and even some popular science books, have descriptions of man-eating trees. It was a willow-like tree with a branching trunk. When it's quiet, it's like a normal tree, and there's no danger in sight. But if a person or animal approaches, it immediately rolls up the person with branches and trunks. Then, from the branches, an extremely viscous digestive fluid is secreted. Some foreign news reports have described man-eating trees. However, there are no exact examples of the real existence of man-eating trees.

Could it be that this ancient tree that has existed for thousands of years in front of you is actually the legendary man-eating tree? Yes, according to the analysis of botanists. Should cannibal trees live in tropical jungles?

Facing Cheng Pozi's corpse, except for Su Zhengde, the other villagers were so frightened that they retreated a few steps back. In the middle of the crowd came a man, he was about fifty years old, with a resolute face and a capable eye. It seems a little out of place with this ancient village. I saw him squatting in front of Mrs. Cheng, and neatly turned over Mrs. Cheng's face and already shriveled eyelids. After a moment, a flash of surprise suddenly flashed in his eyes. He and Su Zhengde glanced at each other, and then walked around the perimeter of the ancient tree. turned around and said, "Burn the body of Mrs. Cheng!" Otherwise, I'm afraid something will happen. ”

"What? Our Yuling Village has always been a burial! Someone in the crowd screamed.

"That's it, Mrs. Cheng died so unjustly, and burned her again. Isn't that too cruel? ”

"No matter what, you can't die without a corpse!" The villagers were talking.

"Don't say it, Uncle Bao must have his reason for letting him burn. He Er, take a few people to put the body in the ancestral hall in the village first. Tomorrow, when Cheng's son-in-law comes back, burn it! Su Zhengde shouted.

The crowd dispersed.

Qin Feng glanced back at the man named Uncle Bao, who was still standing in front of the tree, holding a piece of grass in his hand, as if he was thinking about something.

Qin Feng returned to that room, originally he wanted to ask Su Zhengde about the question behind the pendant, but Su Xiaonuan said that something happened in the village now, let's ask again tomorrow!

On the way, Qin Feng knew that Uncle Bao used to be from the city's archaeological team. Later, the archaeological team had an accident in the mountains, and Uncle Bao did not go back. stayed in Yuling Village.

As the night deepened, a hazy moon appeared in the sky, which had been gloomy, and through the dim moonlight, a figure could be vaguely seen running forward......

Qin Feng lay on the bed, tossing and turning. The events of the day were still dangling before his eyes. I don't know why, he always felt a little uneasy. In a daze, Qin Feng fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took for him to be woken up by a gust of wind. When he opened his eyes, Qin Feng found himself in a dilapidated house. Qin Feng looked around, dark and lonely. Only the whirring sound of the wind rushed in from outside.

Qin Feng took a few steps forward, and his gaze froze.

Not far ahead, there was a tablet, on which was a person lying on it. Through the faint moonlight outside the window, Qin Feng could see the man's shriveled face clearly.

It was Cheng Pozi who was entangled in an ancient tree during the day.

This is an ancestral hall? A light flashed in Qin Feng's mind. How did you end up here?

Qin Feng took a breath of cold air. He moved, and just as he wanted to leave, Cheng Pozi, who was lying opposite, suddenly moved. She slowly stood up. The two shriveled eyes looked straight at Qin Feng. Qin Feng felt that there were countless insects on his back, and he wanted to run, but his legs seemed to be frozen.

Mrs. Cheng slowly stood up, and she walked towards Qin Feng step by step.

Qin Feng wanted to shout loudly, but his voice seemed to be stuck, and he couldn't make it.

In a trance, Qin Feng saw Mrs. Cheng leaning over, there was no expression on her shriveled face, and a cold breath was exhaled from her mouth, which instantly froze Qin Feng's entire body.

Qin Feng shook his head and sat up suddenly, cold sweat dripping all over his body.

Only then did he realize that he was lying in bed, which turned out to be a nightmare. Qin Feng leaned against the head of the bed and breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's haunted, and the woman is cheating the corpse." Suddenly, a sharp shout came from outside the door, which clearly reached Qin Feng's ears. When Qin Feng heard this, his heart, which had just been relieved, tightened again. Qin Feng rubbed his head that was a little numb, and the shouts came one after another, and Qin Feng was sure that the shout just now was not an auditory hallucination.

Bang! The door was slammed open. A person rushed in, and he rushed to Qin Feng with a frightened face, his face full of fear and uneasiness.

Qin Feng saw that person's appearance clearly, as if he had been clicked on the acupoint, and he didn't react for a long time.

That person turned out to be Lei Minghao. The sound quickly alarmed the others, and Su Zhengde and a group of villagers rushed over. Lei Minghao's hands holding the hot water were still trembling, and finally, he told the truth of the matter in shock.

Lei Minghao has been deeply interested in the theory of gods and ghosts since he was a child. Therefore, Lei Minghao has always been concerned about Qin Feng's encounter with ghosts. Although, Lei Minghao knew that it was because of that pendant that Qin Feng summoned the resentful spirit. However, Lei Minghao was not sure what that pendant was. So, he went to the library and looked up a lot of information on the Internet.

Finally, in a chat room, he met a netizen who studied jade. After his careful description, netizens told him that the pendant was a pendant, which was originally a murder weapon used to deter the enemy on the battlefield. Qin Feng's pendant must be a dirty thing stolen from the ancient tomb by someone else.

Hearing this, Lei Minghao suddenly realized. Later, he asked the man how to crack it. The man said that in the northeast there was a village hidden in the mountains called Yuling Village, which was rich in jade and was a gathering place for tomb robbers before liberation. Perhaps, the answer will be found there.

Lei Minghao remembered that Su Xiaonuan's hometown seemed to be Yuling Village somewhere in the northeast. So, he and Xiaohang went to the school archives to investigate privately, and found that Su Xiaonuan was from Yuling Village, which the person said.

Just when he didn't know how to talk to Qin Feng, Qin Feng found Su Xiaonuan by himself. Whether the jade dragon pendant was possessed by a resentful spirit, Lei Minghao also wanted to know the answer. So, he discussed it with Xiaohang, and followed Qin Feng and Su Xiaonuan here.

Who would have thought that the two got lost on the mountain road when they came. The two wandered around the mountains for a day and finally found this place. And they happened to see the scene of Mrs. Cheng hanging.

Lei Minghao felt that Cheng's mother-in-law's death was not a simple hanging, maybe he was entangled in something. However, Xiaohang denied his opinion. Xiaohang majored in botany, and when he saw the appearance of Cheng Pozi, he said that the tree at the entrance of the village must be a man-eating tree.

When it was dark, he took Lei Minghao to the ancestral hall to see the body of his mother-in-law. I want to confirm whether Cheng Pozi was killed by a man-eating tree.

The two took advantage of the night and came to the ancestral hall. Lei Minghao stood outside the door to help Xiao Hang control the wind, and Xiao Hang went inside alone. As a result, Mrs. Cheng came back to life. She bit Xiao Hang's neck all at once. Lei Minghao had never seen this meeting, and he was so frightened that he ran out of the ground with a roll.

After saying all this, Lei Minghao's teeth were still trembling.

"Cheng Pozi is not some zombie resurrection. It was only when she died that she took the poison of Rob grass to resurrect her. During the day, Uncle Bao asked them to burn the corpses, but the villagers disagreed. Now, this is happening. Qin Feng said a little gloomily.

"Rob grass, what is it?" Su Xiaonuan looked at Qin Feng suspiciously.

"Rob grass is a spice that can hallucinate when lit. It resembles moss and has no features when it grows on the ground. However, the ancient books say that the robe grass will only have a hallucinogenic effect when it is ignited. I also heard from my botany teacher. ”

"That's not Rob grass." As he was talking, Uncle Bao pushed the door and walked in.

"It's a close relative of the robbe, and it's not written in the book. I've seen it once before, and it's supposed to grow in a damp, shady cemetery. In ancient times, there were all kinds of mechanisms in the cemetery. They planted the grass in the cemetery, and if the cemetery was opened, it emitted a scent that could bring back to life bodies that had been dead for thousands of years. It is said to be resurrected, but in fact, it is just that the dead cells in the body are inspired by the smell. ”

Qin Feng didn't expect that there would be such a plant in Yuling Village. No wonder after Mrs. Cheng's death, Uncle Bao said to let her body be burned. Now Qin Feng is most worried about Xiaohang, she was bitten by the resurrected Cheng Pozi, will something happen?

Of course, what worries him is what others worry about. Su Zhengde looked solemn, as if he was making some important decisions.