Chapter Eighty-Five: A Serendipitous Encounter
As soon as he entered the small lonely village, he was greeted by a foul smell, Luo Qing knew that it was the smell of corpses, it should be that the corpses in the village had begun to decompose in the past few days, so it would emit such a smell.
The small lonely village is not small, there are more than 100 families in the whole village, and Luo Qing plans to go in one by one to check the situation.
What made Luo Qing feel strange was that the hundreds of families seemed to have discussed in advance, and each of them locked the door from the inside, as if they had discussed in advance to die together.
Because each household was locked, Luo Qing had to climb over the wall one by one in order not to destroy the scene, and every time he entered the door, it was stinking inside.
I don't know if what happened in Xiaogu Village is too bizarre and terrifying, so it has been four or five days since Xiaogu Village was slaughtered, but there is still no one from the neighboring village or the government to collect the body, so that the corpses began to rot and stink.
In a situation like this, if the corpse is not disposed of for a long time, under the long-term spread of the corpse odor, it is easy to bring epidemics to the neighboring villages, since no one has dealt with it, so Luo Qing decided to wait for himself to find out the situation, and he will directly purify everything in the small lonely village with a fire.
After checking, Luo Qing found that the people in the small lonely village all maintained the same posture before they died, kneeling posture, as if they were worshipping something before they died, but Luo Qing searched all over the house and outside, and did not find a single thing to worship.
And every deceased, from old to young, had a serene expression on their faces before they died, as if they had experienced something good before they died, so that they did not know when death came to them.
Soon, Luo Qing came to the sacrificial square in the small lonely village, the layout of the square is very peculiar, full of the flavor of ethnic minorities, all kinds of different beast stone statues, no one of the strange beasts can be recognized by Luo Qing.
Each stone statue of the alien beast was drenched with blood, and although the blood had dried up after many days of exposure, the bloodstains full of fishy smell were not difficult to recognize.
In the center of the sacrificial square was a group of corpses, these corpses from the inside out, a total of four circles, one circle after another, the corpses were like lying on the stomach like frogs, they were facing the inside of the circle, they formed a circle with each other, and then the outer circle formed a circle according to the same standard, and the third and fourth circles were also enclosed in the same way.
Luo Qing felt speechless about the villagers' death, what they were worshipping and what they saw before they died, all of this was a mystery.
If it is said that it is a cult, it is really a bit similar, but if it is said that the cult itself is the one who has the time to arrange the corpses so neatly, unless there is a reason, that is, the whole village of people committed suicide.
If it is a suicide, it is also a suicide that has been collectively discussed, in this case, it is estimated that the whole village has been brainwashed very seriously!
But there is another possibility, that is, the whole village is hallucinated, thinking of this, Luo Qing hurriedly went to the well in the village, if it is really the whole village hallucination, then the people who murdered this village will definitely start from the water source.
Sure enough, when Luo Qing came to the well and took out a large bucket of well water, he found clues in the water.
The water in the well contains the Phantom Flower toxin, also known as the Phantom Flower, which must be measured in large quantities for practitioners to cause hallucinations.
But for ordinary people, as long as they smell the smell of phantom flowers, they will hallucinate, and if they take too much, they can even make ordinary people unable to distinguish between reality and illusion, and finally die of exhaustion in the center of the illusion, and the deceased will still think that their hallucinations are real even at the moment of death, and then feel happiness and die.
"It seems that the death of this whole village is not so simple, is this a kind of sacrifice?If so, then what are they offering to sacrifice?" Luo Qing asked himself repeatedly, but it was not nonsense at all.
Suddenly, Luo Qing had a flash of inspiration, and finally thought of the crux of the problem, if this is a sacrifice, then someone is needed to preside over the sacrifice, then there must be a living person, and this person is definitely not a person from the village, because if you choose to sacrifice a person from a village, you will not let the village still have a living mouth, otherwise the sacrifice will not be complete.
"It seems that we will have to ask the people of the other villages tomorrow to see if any strangers have been to the small lonely village recently. In the dark night, Luo Qing held a torch and muttered alone.
After investigating in the village for a few hours, he basically searched every corner, but he couldn't find more clues, so Luo Qing planned to go back to the inn.
And at this moment, Luo Qing heard footsteps in the village, quickly extinguished the torch, and Luo Qing quickly jumped onto a roof.
After carefully observing the people who came, Luo Qing shook his head and smiled bitterly, it turned out to be a person from Tianyi Sect, this is really a coincidence! However, on this big night, could it be that the people of Tianyi Sect have the same nosy heart as himself?
There were four people from Tianyizong, two men and two women, these were exactly two pairs, Luo Qing originally thought that they were here to cheat, but after thinking about it, he felt ridiculous, who would have nothing to do to cheat in the pile of corpses, he would never believe that the people of Tianyizong had such a habit.
Among the four people, two women Luo Qing knew each other, one was Ling Yu, and the other was the woman who was bounced off by Luo Qing during the day.
Among the men, one man is Mo Yan, and the other man Luo Qing doesn't know him, Luo Qing hasn't seen this person in the daytime, but at this time he is also wearing the clothes of Tianyi Sect, presumably he is also a person from Tianyi Sect!
The four of them did not go to check the situation one by one like Luo Qing, but went directly to the sacrificial square.
On the sacrificial square, I saw that the man Luo Qing didn't know stretched out his hand and pressed it towards the neck of a strange beast stone statue, and in an instant, the entire sacrificial square was quickly lifted up as if it had been pushed up by something.
After a long while, the sacrificial square finally stopped, and after a careful look, it was found that the square was originally raised by a lifting platform, and the entire sacrificial square was just the top of the lifting platform.
"I didn't expect that there is another mystery in the underground of this small lonely village!" Luo Qing secretly said in his heart, he thought that although the people of Tianyi Sect were arrogant, they were at least decent people, but what he didn't expect was that they knew so much about the situation in the small lonely village, and it seemed that the tragedy of this small lonely village was probably inseparable from these.
I wanted to follow up to take a look, but I accidentally stepped on a tile, which was exposed.
"Who is it?" the man quickly flew into the air in the direction where the voice came from, and in the blink of an eye, he came to the roof where Luo Qing had been staying before.
However, Luo Qing had long since stopped staying on the original roof, and after a few jumps, Luo Qing hid on a roof ridge.
Seeing that there was no chance to go underground with the four people, he had no choice but not to report his hope, and seeing that the four of them had been looking for a while and then there was no movement, so Luo Qing jumped off the roof and was about to go back to the inn.
But at this moment, the voice of the man from behind came from behind: "So you are here, see where you are still fleeing?"
At this time, the other three also quickly surrounded Luo Qing, seeing that the situation was not good, Luo Qing didn't want them to see their true faces, so the fire of the stars in his body quickly spread all over his body, and the whole person instantly turned into a fire man, and his entire face was completely covered by flames.
"Let's go up together, he just saw it, so we can't let him run away. The man who spoke earlier said to the other three.
When the three of them heard this, they all burst out with momentum and attacked Luo Qing together, Luo Qing used the flame shadow step, a few dodges, and avoided their attack, but at this time, the man rushed over and entangled Luo Qing.
The man frequently slashed at Luo Qing, but Luo Qing dodged them one by one, and Luo Qing suddenly pointed at the man's left rib with a backhand.
I only heard a click, and the man's ribs were broken at least three, this combat skill is called Yan Finger, which is a fingering combat technique that Luo Qing practiced in the Demon Beast Forest before the incident in Southern Regions City, this is also the first time he has used the Yan Finger, and after a rough estimate, he only exerted about thirty percent of the power of the Yan Finger.
A finger went down, breaking at least three of the man's ribs, and the man was directly knocked into the air, hitting a wall.
"Thirty percent of the powerful flame fingers, with such an effect, are already good. Luo Qing secretly said in his heart, he didn't want to kill the other party directly, because he hadn't found out what kind of place was underground, and what the purpose of these people was.
Seeing that the man was knocked away, the other three hesitated for a moment, but in the end they continued to attack Luo Qing, and they all showed their weapons, two women made swords, and men made two claws.
Luo Qing smiled secretly, no wonder he didn't think it was a good thing when he saw the man, most of the men who made the claws were coquettish men, this kind of person may pretend to be very enthusiastic about people on the surface, but in fact, his heart is very cold, and his cultivation is definitely a negative exercise.
However, Luo Qing didn't have time to play with them, since he didn't plan to kill them for the time being, let them live well, and then observe how they would act in the future, if it turned out that they were the real culprits who harmed the little lonely village in the future, Luo Qing didn't mind ending them with his own hands.
Since he didn't want to entangle with them, he simply came to a spiritual realm and trapped the four of them in the realm, and when the four of them were confused, Luo Qing was ready to leave.
It's just that when he was about to start, Luo Qing suddenly thought of something, so a sinister smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then planted a flame seed on the coquettish man Mo Yan.
This kind of son is Luo Qing in order to stay on the coquettish man in the future, just in case, if he really needs it one day, maybe he can also use the coquettish man as a hostage to blackmail the people of the Tianyi Sect, after all, no matter how coquettish the man is, he is also the son of the deputy sect master, isn't it!
Or if it really comes to a critical juncture one day, it can detonate this coquettish man, and it is unknown whether it will bring good results.
After the flame seed was planted, Luo Qing took a step and returned directly to the room of the inn.
Now the situation should be clear, the people who destroyed the small lonely village, even if they are not the four people in Tianyi Sect, they definitely have a certain relationship with those four people, as long as they hold on to this clue, they will definitely be able to find out the real culprit behind the scenes.
And Luo Qing also faintly felt that there was a big conspiracy in this, thinking of this, he even felt that the so-called immortal tree was actually a link in the conspiracy, and it was a very important link.
It's useless to think too much, anyway, if it's really some conspiracy made up by the people of Tianyi Sect, as long as you follow that clue, you will definitely be able to find out the clue.
So Luo Qing didn't bother anymore, sat down directly on the bed, and began to meditate and pranayama, as soon as he entered the state of pranayama, the star in Luo Qing's body began to operate again, and continued to silently carry out the evolution of the universe, but Luo Qing didn't notice it immediately for the time being.