Before King Kong and Lan Muxue could figure out what was going on, Wu Wei pulled them quietly to the door of the outhouse. He gently closed the door, leaving a slit to observe the movement outside.

The figures on both sides of the street had come out of the fog one after another, and they didn't seem to be trying to hide themselves in the fog. There were more and more figures on both sides, and they got closer and closer, sandwiching the house where Wu Wei and the ancestral hall were located. At this time, Wu Wei didn't know whether they were coming for the ancestral hall or for them.

The figures were walking upright, unlike what had just run out of the room. "Are they all human?" Wu worried. However, their identities are still uncertain, and Wu Wei and the others can only hide in the room and observe secretly.

The figures on both sides had already come to the ancestral hall and the house at this time, but when they reached five or six meters away from the gatehouses on both sides, they suddenly stopped. Now only the street between this house and the ancestral hall has left a small open space, and the street is already full of people on both sides.

After stopping, the figures on either side did not move further, and after a while, a figure stepped out of the crowd on the left. He walked to the halfway point between the ancestral hall and the house and stopped, followed by a human-like figure, hovering on all fours beside the figure's legs.

The thing that ran out of the room called the accomplice? Wu Wei saw clearly that the figure on all fours was the guy who had escaped just now. Wu worried, this is what happened, I didn't expect that guy to have so many accomplices!

I saw that the figure first walked to the door of the ancestral hall and looked at it, and then the guy who was on all fours, not knowing whether it was a man or a beast, ran to his feet and circled around, and his mouth made a whining sound, as if he was sending some message to the figure.

The figure glanced down at him, then turned around and walked towards Wu Wei. The figures on both sides of the street slowly moved closer to the house. Wu Wei knew that they should have been discovered.

The leading figure walked to the street about three meters in front of the door and stopped, he waved his hand, and the figures on both sides quickly surrounded the door. Only then did Wu Wei realize that these figures were still holding weapons of different lengths in their hands.

"Ignition!" An old voice shouted.

With the sound of "whirring", countless torches lit up on the street in an instant.

"It's human!" Wu Wei said to the two people around him with a little surprise.

"That's not right!" Wu Wei was just about to get up, but King Kong pressed his shoulder and said, "Look at the color of these torches. ”

After being reminded by King Kong, Wu Wei found that all the flames lit by the torches emitted a green and faint fire. By the light of the fire, it could be seen that the faces of these people were like dead corpses, without a trace of the breath of the living.

"Come out, don't hide anymore!" The leading figure shouted to the door, his voice old and cold.

has been discovered, no matter whether the other party is a human or a ghost, he can't hide. Wu Wei stood up, slowly opened the door and walked out first, King Kong and Lan Muxue walked behind him. Lan Muxue pulled Wu Wei's arm tightly, trying to overcome the fear in her heart.

"Who are you, and why did you break into Shangxian Village at night?" The old man in the lead asked gloomily when he saw Wu Wu and them come out. As the old man asked, the figures around him also came up, each face was lifeless, but there was a vicious cold light in his eyes.

After Wu Wei walked out of the door, he stared closely at the dead face of the old man in front of him, and there was a hint of familiarity.

"The village chief?" After careful identification, Wu Wei exclaimed.

Hearing Wu Wei call him the village chief, the old man's originally vicious dead face changed slightly, he was stunned for a moment, and then walked up to Wu Wei suspiciously, and looked at Wu Wei's face carefully.

"Who are you? How will you recognize me? The old man asked in a cold tone.

Seeing that the person who came was really the village chief of Shangxian Village, Wu Wei said in surprise: "I am Wu Wu, the grandson of Wu Mian in the west of the village!" ”

Looking at Wu Wei's appearance, he should know these people, and King Kong and Lan Muxue both breathed a sigh of relief.

"Wu Mian's grandson?" The village chief seemed to recognize Wu Wei, and he said, "Didn't you leave the village a long time ago, what are you doing when you come back?" ”

Wu Wei said: "I heard that something happened in the village, so I came back to take a look!" What happened and why did you all become like this? ”

After recognizing Wu Wei's identity, the village chief's tone also softened a little: "Since you're gone, don't come back, it's dangerous in the village now, you guys leave quickly!" ”

The village chief did not answer Wu Wei's question, but immediately drove them out of the village.

Wu Wei said stubbornly: "I am also a member of the village, if something bad happens in the village, I have the obligation to help everyone!" Also, I have some questions that I want to figure out when I come back this time. ”

The village chief looked at Wu Wei for a while, then suddenly sighed and said, "The villagers of the whole village are no longer human now, if you are not afraid, come with me." With that, the village chief turned around and walked towards the ancestral hall.

Not human? Wu Wei glanced at the villagers suspiciously, looking at the expressionless faces of the dead people who were green by the firelight, Wu Wei thought to himself, could it be a ghost?

Wu Wei was not frightened by the village chief's words, after all, he was no longer a "human" now, so there was nothing to be afraid of. Seeing that the village chief had already entered the ancestral hall, he also walked in behind the village chief with Lan Muxue and King Kong.

The guy next to the village chief who was on all fours, with a human body, but his face was like that of a dog, with red eyes, pointed ears, and four sharp canine teeth, and he followed the village chief closely.

After Wu Wei and the others walked into the ancestral hall, more than a dozen male villagers with green torches also walked in, Wu Wei turned his head and found that these villagers were very familiar, they were all from the village.

The rest of the villagers gathered outside the ancestral hall and did not follow up, and when everyone who came in entered the ancestral hall, the villagers outside slowly closed the door of the ancestral hall.

After entering the ancestral hall, the village chief first bowed to the portrait of his ancestor, and then turned to look at Wu Wei and the others: "For the sake of your grandfather's face, you can ask any questions, and leave here quickly after asking, now Shangxian Village is no longer a place where the living should stay." ”

When Wu Wei heard the village chief say this, he was no longer polite, and he asked directly: "What happened in the village, and why did everyone become like this?" Is there anything I can do for the villagers? Also, I would like to know if my grandfather ever returned to the village later, do you know any clues about my grandfather? ”

After listening to Wu Wei's question, the village chief sighed deeply and said, "Although you grew up in the village, you are not really from Shangxian Village. But I'm glad you care so much about Shangxian Village. Moreover, the fact that we are like this now does have something to do with your grandfather, and since you are back, I will tell you everything I know! ”

The dark green torches reflected the entire ancestral hall with a feeling of an underworld, and the old village chief sat on the Taishi chair, his face gloomy and solemn, looking like an old ghost judge. His eyes looked ahead, and his whole person gradually fell into the memory, and said slowly in an old and empty voice.

More than 300 years ago, there was a very serious drought in the area of Guanyin Mountain, and the water in a radius of 100 miles seemed to be drained overnight. The rivers dried up, the land cracked, and as far as the eye could see, all the flowers, trees, crops, and fields died, and the whole land turned a desolate earthy yellow.

The drought came so violently without warning, and many people died of thirst or starvation before they could flee. The remaining survivors, as long as they still have a breath of air, have begun to flee from their homes and flee to distant places. But how could it be so easy to flee in those days, who could bear it without food and without water? The cattle and horses were so thirsty that people had to rely on their feet to flee.

The people who fled kept walking, and the corpses of those who died of thirst were strewn all over the field, and many of them were so thirsty that they could not stand it and drank blood, whether it was animal blood or human blood......

Later, there were indeed those who managed to escape, but a large number of people died here in Guanyin Mountain or on the way to escape. When many people died, they were no longer buried, and corpses were thrown everywhere, and soon the plague was caused.

Those who fled at first were considered to have picked up a life, and most of those who fled late were infected with the plague. Even if some people escaped from the area around Guanyin Mountain, the people outside would kill or drive them back for fear of the spread of the plague. It didn't take long for Guanyin Mountain to be isolated from the outside world within a radius of 100 miles, and it became a real purgatory on earth.

Over time, this place was shrouded in resentment, evil qi and yin qi, and from a distance, the entire area of Guanyin Mountain seemed to be covered in a gray and evil fog.

A year later, I don't know where nine powerful warlocks came, and they were the first people to come here after the disaster on Guanyin Mountain. As the saying goes, everything in the world has a source, and the drought in Guanyin Mountain is not an ordinary drought.

According to the legend, in ancient times, the drought was abused, and the water source was exhausted where the drought fish went. When the Emperor of Heaven learned of this, he sent divine soldiers to besiege and kill the Drought Fish, and after the Drought Fish died, he was sealed in the area of Guanyin Mountain. But the drought left a curse before he died, and after a thousand years, his anger will turn into his doppelganger and cause disaster to the world again.

However, with the passage of time, the world has changed, and the matter of drought has long become a legend. Due to the beautiful mountains and rivers and fertile land in the area of Guanyin Mountain, more and more people have migrated here, and no one has taken the curse of drought to heart. People live and work here in peace and contentment, and their ancestors have lived without drought.

Until this time, there was a sudden drought in the area of Guanyin Mountain, so the legend about the drought was mentioned again. Many people say that it was because the drought was sealed on the Guanyin Mountain, and he felt the abundance brought by the people here, which caused him to become more and more resentful, and finally broke through the seal and turned into a doppelganger to bring disaster to others.

These nine warlocks came here after hearing the legend of the Drought Fish, in order to suppress the resentment of the Drought Fish and eliminate the Drought Fish's clone.

These nine warlocks entered Guanyin Mountain, and no one knew what happened later. It wasn't until nine days later that there was a sudden heavy rain in the area of Guanyin Mountain, and the heavy rain fell for three days and three nights, and the evil fog shrouded in Guanyin Mountain was washed away by the heavy rain.

Later, Guanyinshan slowly regained its vitality, and more and more people who had left their hometowns returned here. When the people returned, five kilometers away from Guanyin Mountain, they found an unkempt man, who was the only survivor of the nine warlocks of the year.

The surviving warlock told the people that the Drought Clone had been suppressed on Guanyin Mountain. He set up a huge formation in this place five kilometers away from Guanyin Mountain, called the String Moon Formation. And used five spirit stones to refine the Five Elements Stone Talisman as the eye of the formation, in order to protect the formation and suppress the evil spirit of Guanyin Mountain, this warlock also decided to stay here.

Later, a village was built on the String Moon Array, and many people gathered here to live, and the whole village was laid out like a first quarter moon, so people named this village Upper Quarter Village.

The people of Shangxian Village lived here for generations to guard the String Moon Formation, until more than two hundred years later, Lucheng was invaded by the Shangzu Lu. Lucheng and the towns and villages under its jurisdiction are all controlled by the Ludao forces, and only Shangxian Village is a place where neither the Ludao nor the demon clan dare to set foot in it. During that special period, Shangxian Village was like a paradise away from right and wrong.

However, how many eggs are there under the nest? In order to find a way to eliminate the Ludao Path, someone finally found Shangxian Village. At that time, a Taoist priest discovered the secret of Shangxian Village, and he thought that the five elements stone talisman refined from the five spirit stones on the array must be the key to the Lu Dao forces' fear of Shangxian Village, so he wanted to use the power of the five elements stone rune to suppress Shangzu Lu.

Naturally, the villagers of Shangxian Village would not agree to that Taoist priest's request, because the purpose of their life here was to protect the Xianyue Array. Once the Eye of the Array is destroyed, if the seal of the Official Seal Mountain is loosened again and the Drought Clone is resurrected, it will bring disaster to Shangxian Village.

For the expulsion and rejection of the villagers, the Taoist priest never left. He described the people outside Shangxian Village who were suffering from cholera over and over again, and he said that if the ancestors were not destroyed, all human beings in Lucheng and other places would live forever in a terrible hell on earth.

The villagers of Shangxian Village are not ignorant and hard-hearted, and they have also heard a lot about the persecution and disasters brought by the Ludao forces to the humans of Lucheng. They also want to help the human race eliminate the Lu Dao, but even if they destroy the Formation Eye, even if they destroy the Ancestral Lu, if the drought clone on Guanyin Mountain escapes, the disaster caused to the human race will not be less than that of the Shangzu Lu.

In the end, after the Taoist priest's hard thinking and meditation, he finally thought of a more secure method. This method will not destroy the String Moon Array, and it can also borrow the power of the spirit stone to destroy the Ancestral Lu.