Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Dying Struggle
"Tianyu, don't be in a hurry to get away first, call your classmates and ask if there is anything special in the village?"
Gao Chen's leisurely lying on the passenger seat giving orders made Li Tianyu and Sui Yanxi in the car roll their eyes wildly, but they had to obey, who made their fists hard! Especially Li Tianyu, who has a blue nose and swollen face, can understand it best.
"Brother Chen, we have to change our route, Wang Zhe said that someone in the village died, and the village chief held a meeting to the whole village and said that it was bad luck that we brought, and he was in a mess, and he didn't go into details!"
Li Tianyu hung up the phone and truthfully relayed the content of the call to Gao Chen as soon as possible.
After listening to Li Tianyu's words, Gao Chen fell into a state of contemplation, and he wondered, why did the village chief blame them for the cause of the dead? Before, they were asked to go to the Golden Buddha Temple to investigate the dead trees, but it was from the hands of the village chief!
There must be a demon when things go wrong, Gao Chen concluded that the ability of this old locust tree has not been completely reduced to death due to the disappearance of the source of the natal tree.
"Don't care what the people in the village are, just keep going back, first find a place to stay a few miles away from the village!"
Gao Chen, who closed his eyes and recuperated, said in a deep voice.
Without saying anything all the way, the three of them came to Xiaping Town at noon, which is about eight or nine kilometers away from Wangjia Village, which is particularly in line with Gao Chen's requirements.
However, when he lived in the hotel, there was a small accident, because Gao Chen had no identity information, so he couldn't live in the hotel, fortunately, Li Tianyu's head reacted quickly, and he used a more ambiguous tone to add a heavy temptation, so he obtained the consent of the hotel owner and allowed Gao Chen to move in smoothly, the only condition is that there must be a couple suite, which made Gao Chen speechless.
"Hey, hey! You two should cultivate a good relationship, I... Ouch! β
Gao Chen kicked Li Tianyu's buttocks, interrupting the other party's unobtrusive words in time, the root of his teeth itching, Li Tianyu's mind was too bad, and he used the couple suite opened by the boss as an excuse to live in a single room, obviously looking for an opportunity to deliberately retaliate!
Walking into the couple's suite, Gao Chen sat cross-legged on the bed directly, and said coldly: "You move on your own, don't make a noise to disturb me!" β
Sui Yanxi wanted to scold people very much, she couldn't hold back the anger in her heart, and kept secretly scolding Gao Chen for not knowing how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, if it weren't for the fact that there was really something to ask about this hateful person, she wouldn't be used to Gao Chen, who was stinky and sick!
An afternoon passed in the blink of an eye, and in the couple's suite, Li Tianyu looked at Sui Yanxi with the eyes of a demented child.
"Yan Xi, you really didn't pay attention to when Brother Chen left?"
"Uh, yes! I thought I was so preoccupied that I didn't really notice when he left! β
Li Tianyu collapsed, and was just about to complain about how Sui Yanxi couldn't even look at a big living person, when he found that the other party's face was full of gloomy expression, he immediately changed the topic and said: "Brother Chen must be acting alone, let's go, let's go and wait outside Wangjia Village!" β
The pragmatic Li Tianyu was afraid that driving would cause unnecessary trouble, so he prepared lighting tools and food, and then dragged Sui Yanxi on foot.
However, at this time, the lights in Wangjia Village were bright, and the whole village gathered in front of a dilapidated house to listen to the "generous words" of the village chief!
"Folks, we must be careful of the bad young man with sunglasses, the reason why Wang Po died is completely the bad luck brought by the young man in sunglasses, he is the embodiment of death, don't let him enter his own home, whoever sees this person again, we must notify the other villagers, gather everyone's strength to kill him, lest bad luck befall us!"
The village chief's "speech" ended in a chorus, and the rest of the villagers went back to rest, except for a few people who were left to patrol the night.
When everyone dispersed, Gao Chen, who was in the dark, understood two things, the first was that the village chief, who was covered with evil energy, had become a tree demon puppet; The second is that the goddess and the old woman in the village are dead!
It is better to treat the symptoms than to cure the root cause, Gao Chen knows this well, he gave up investigating the situation of the old woman and the village chief, flew away from the hiding place, and ran straight in the direction of the old locust tree.
Gao Chen's plan was very rough, he was going to set a fire and destroy the dryad body once and for all, saving time and effort.
Coming to the front of the old locust tree, Gao Chen saw that it was still in a state of dead wood, and there was not much change, but there were some delicate green shoots on its torso, just like dead wood in spring, presumably the tree demon wanted to reabsorb the essence of heaven and earth for it to create a new natal tree source.
"Evil obstacles, your wishful thinking is very good! Transferring all your demonic qi to the village chief and making him your stand-in protector, while you quietly hide underground to cultivate, is really a good way to get the best of both worlds, seconds! Seconds! β
Gao Chen lit a cigarette and said with a big grin as he smoked.
"Do you really want to kill them all? Isn't my natal tree source enough to satisfy you? β
With a hoarse voice, a rickety figure slowly walked out from behind the old locust tree, this person was none other than the dead old woman!
"Joke! When you slaughtered the monks of the Golden Buddha Temple, why didn't you think about letting them live? Good has good causes, evil has evil consequences, my Buddha is merciful, and also subdues demons to eliminate demons, the sins you have committed are unforgivable! β
Gao Chen said righteously to the incarnation of the tree demon, the old woman.
"Great Psychic One, I won't sit still, you wait to accept the wrath of the ignorant villagers! Rattle! β
As soon as the dryad's words fell, Gao Chen saw a scene that made him almost vomit the overnight meal.
It turned out that the dryad controlled the old woman's body and made crazy self-harm behaviors, only to see the old woman first pick out her eyes with both hands, and then took out a dagger to continuously cut her own body, causing her internal organs and smelly blood to spill all over the surrounding open space, and in the blink of an eye, a corpse abuse scene was arranged.
"Clank!"
The old woman threw the dagger at Gao Chen's feet and made a crisp sound.
Blame for blame, clumsy blame, such an obvious means of planting, put it in the big city will not have any effect, but for simple-minded rural people, that is the most straightforward evidence.
Seeing the methods used by the tree demon, Gao Chen secretly said that it was not good, it was too late for him to get out, because the villagers came to the road that could leave the old locust tree.
"Vomit, vomitγγγ"
When the villagers came to the dead tree, they were immediately vomited by the fishy smell and the remains of the old woman.
"O dear ones! The man in sunglasses is the embodiment of demons! Not to mention that he killed Geng Wangpo, he also tortured her corpse, let's kill him quickly! β
The demagogic effect of the puppet village chief's distortion of the facts was immediate, and everyone with hoes or iron rods in their hands began to gradually approach Gao Chen, trying to work together to kill the "corpse abuser demon" in front of him, after all, digging up graves and whipping corpses is a matter of common anger between people and gods!
Gao Chen was in a dilemma, if he resisted and burned the old locust tree as originally planned, then it would inevitably hurt the innocent; If he didn't resist, he believed he hadn't reached the point where he could withstand the anger of the villagers, and either outcome was not what he expected.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"
Just as the "Demon Extermination" campaign was about to begin, there was a sudden sound of breaking glass bottles from the direction of the old locust tree, followed by flames mixed with the strong smell of gasoline rising into the sky.
The well-timed fire changed the tension, and the villagers looked at each other at the dead trees, not knowing what to do next. Gao Chen, on the other hand, stared at the two figures not far away and showed a pleased smile......