"It seems that everything living within a radius of ten miles has been cursed, even the hares you ate before, so if we want to break the curse, we have to find a way to break the curse from the hares, or from ourselves! Instead of studying the stele, it's no wonder that we have been studying the stele for several hours and found nothing. ”

The old village chief said meaningfully.

"Hare? But, old village chief, we have eaten all the hares, how can we find a way to break the curse from the hares? So is my little Qing'er saved? ”

The woman with the child in her arms asked, puzzled.

"Listen to what you just said, you ate one hind leg, so one leg is petrified. And the couple ate half of the rabbit's head and one front leg, so half of the face and one hand were petrified, and the fat boy ate the hare's body, so the upper body was petrified, and as for the skinny boy, he ate the other half of the rabbit's head and the other front leg, so half of his face and one hand were petrified.

"So, there should be one hind leg that hasn't been eaten, so what about that hind leg? Maybe we can find a very important clue from this hind leg. As long as she finds a way to break the curse, Xiao Qing'er may still have a chance to live. Rest assured, we'll try to find a way to break the curse. ”

The old village chief stared at the five villagers in front of him in turn and tried to analyze, glanced at Xiao Qing'er with some regret, and comforted the villagers in a firm tone.

"There is also a hind leg that was originally given to the eldest of the six people, Uncle Wang, who has always loved to eat rabbit meat, but after drinking rabbit blood, he actually refused everyone's kindness and insisted on not wanting it, so we didn't force him. As for this hind leg, I put it away, and I was going to keep it for the hungry midnight to eat. ”

The lame middle-aged man took out an oilcloth bag from his bosom and handed it to the old village chief as he spoke.

The old village chief took the oilcloth bag, and as soon as he opened it, an extremely tempting aroma of meat wafted out, and there was indeed a roasted oily hind leg inside, which looked very appetizing.

After taking a closer look at this hind leg, the old village chief didn't find anything special.

"Boom ......"

Just as the old village chief was seriously studying the hind legs of this hare, another hour came, so the entire Yanjia Village once again let out a violent tremor, accompanied by a dull and palpitating sound, and sank more than a foot.

As a result, most of the lower houses were covered by the rapidly rising water.

The villagers who had taken refuge on the roofs were all immersed in the water, but fortunately, the children and the elderly with limited mobility were sitting in the wooden basin, so when the wooden basin floated, it was safe and sound, it was just a false alarm.

And the old village chief and the others were all standing on the raft at the moment, floating near the stone monument. There were also several rafts standing next to it full of onlookers.

Fortunately, the stele is extremely tall, and it is more than three zhang high, so even though the ground of the entire Yanjia Village has sunk by almost half, it can still be exposed to the water, otherwise it will be very difficult for the old village chief to study the stele.

After all, it was impossible for them to dive into the water for a long time to study the stele, and the visibility in the water was very low, it was muddy and dim, and it was impossible to look at the stele closely.

In the process of sinking this time, the stele also sank a little more, and thus formed a whirlpool around the stele, causing the old village chief and his raft to turn back and forth and jolt very violently.

Several villagers did not stand still and fell into the water, including the fat boy with a petrified body, and just when everyone wanted to save the villagers, a terrible scene appeared......

I saw that after the fat boy fell into the water, his originally hard petrified body actually bubbled out countless bubbles, and then melted rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At that moment, the water seemed to become very hot, and the other villagers who had unfortunately fallen into the water were struggling in the water, trying to climb back onto the raft with the help of the bamboo poles stretched out by the villagers on the raft, but suddenly let out a heart-rending scream, rolling back and forth in the water in pain.

Their skin soon turned red, as if they had been scalded by boiling water, and it didn't take long for countless blisters to appear, and after the blisters burst again, their whole bodies festered, and in addition to the blood gushing out of their bodies, the flesh on their bodies also fell off in large chunks.

Even the internal organs slipped out of the torn body and floated in the water, and in a few moments the color turned bloodless gray-white, apparently cooked.

As for the fat boy, after his petrified body disappeared, his limbs and head were completely broken, and the blood instantly stained the water, as if the most heinous prisoner had been tortured.

It was unbearable to see, and some of the villagers spit on the surface of the water when they smelled this extremely bloody smell.

In just a quarter of an hour, the villagers who had fallen into the water before were all turned into broken bones and were sucked into the bottom by the whirlpool.

After that, the water gradually calmed down, and the whirlpool gradually disappeared, but the water was still blood-red and muddy.

And an even more terrifying thing followed, that is, the fat boy's heart, not only was not boiled by the boiling lake water before, but actually surfaced intact!

Just as everyone stared at the heart that was still beating and looked at each other, they didn't expect the heart to suddenly crack......

A blood-red spider, about the size of a child's fist, and a thin layer of ice on its body, crawled out of it, swam around the water, and then quickly swam over after seeing the direction of the raft where the old village chief was.

Suddenly, the villagers on the raft became nervous, wondering if this spider, which looked small but felt very dangerous, would bite people, let alone whether it would be highly poisonous.

"Don't panic, don't move, run around, otherwise the raft will capsize, and if it falls into the water, I'm afraid it will be really dangerous. After all, you can't see anything in this water, and who knows if there's anything else in it. As for this little spider, as long as it is not allowed to climb onto the raft and bite us, it will not be in danger. ”

The old village chief stared at the little spider that was constantly approaching the raft, holding the long bamboo pole used to support the raft in his hand, and said with a serious face.

"Huh? This little spider seems to have a word on its back! A villager suddenly pointed to the little spider and said.

Hearing him say this, everyone took a closer look, and it was really the case, there was a faint word "sheng" on the back of this little spider.

"How do I feel like there are two words going back and forth?" Another villager crouched down and took a closer look and said.

At this time, the little spider had swam to the water less than a foot away from the raft, and everyone finally saw clearly, and there were indeed two words on its back that were changing back and forth, one moment the word "life", and the other the word "death".

It's just that the time for the word "life" to appear is very short, and the time for the word "death" is a little longer.

The old village chief cautiously guarded the raft with a bamboo pole and aimed at the little spider, but he did not take any action, and seemed to stare at the little spider in deep thought.

When the other villagers saw the old village chief's appearance, they also knew that he was thinking about countermeasures, so they all understood that they did not speak or make any sound, so as not to disturb the old village chief's train of thought.

When the little spider finally came to the raft and climbed up the raft along the edge, everyone became nervous and stared intently at the little spider crawling towards the old village chief who was standing at the front.

I thought that the old village chief would poke the little spider to death with a bamboo pole when it was very close.

Unexpectedly, the next move of the old village chief made the villagers behind him look at each other, and looked at the old village chief with a puzzled expression.

It turned out that the old village chief actually put down the bamboo pole, tore the hind legs of the hare in his hand into small pieces of meat, and threw it on the raft, which happened to block the path of the little spider.

And when the little spider touched the hare meat, it did not hesitate to open its mouth and bite down fiercely.

When the old village chief saw the little spider biting the minced meat of the hare he threw down, his expression was very expectant, and he continued to throw it, while still muttering something silently in his mouth.

The villagers behind him were very puzzled by the old village chief's approach, they didn't understand when this was, and they were still in the mood to feed the spiders, although everyone wanted to ask the old village chief what he was doing, but they still held back, after all, at this moment, once the old village chief was distracted, it would hurt him.

When the little spider took a big bite on each piece of meat, everyone found a special phenomenon, that is, most of the meat was bitten by the little spider, and it quickly turned black, and then festered.

Such a strange phenomenon is also difficult for the villagers to understand, but one thing is certain, that is, no one wants to be bitten by this little spider.

But the villagers also found that a small amount of minced meat was not only not black and festering, but turned from cooked meat back to fresh meat, and even blood flowed out of this small piece of meat.

On this piece of meat, there is also a vague text, that is, the word "stone" for stone, which is obviously the curse placed on the hare, and it is also the reason why the five villagers have petrified their bodies after eating its meat.

Then, the old village chief carefully picked up the hare meat that had turned back into raw meat, and after counting it lightly in his mouth, he suddenly stretched out his hand and threw the raw meat in his palm in front of the little spider.

Naturally, the little spider instinctively bit down.

So, everyone stared curiously at this piece of hare meat that had turned back into raw meat, wanting to see what would happen to it after it was bitten by a small spider.

I saw this piece of raw meat with the word "stone" appearing from time to time, and at the moment when it was bitten by the little spider, everyone saw the word "death" on the back of the little spider, which happened to become the word "life", although the display time was very short, but before turning back to the word "death", the little spider had already released the mouth that was biting the raw meat.

And the word "stone" on this piece of raw meat that appeared from time to time turned into a trace of white gas, evaporated from the meat, and after that, everyone found that the word "stone" never appeared in this piece of raw meat again!

"Haha! It's paid off, I finally know how to break the curse! ”

The old village chief shouted to the villagers with a look of ecstasy......