Chapter 68: No Shadow
"Tonight, I was about to open the door of the courtyard when you grabbed me by the shoulder from behind."
Facing Old Man Zheng's questioning, Yuan Feng picked up something that only two people knew.
"Really, I didn't expect it to be real......"
Old Man Zheng didn't know what to think, so he muttered and turned around and walked towards the village.
What the?
Yuan Feng, who was waiting for an answer, saw this situation, and was so stunned that he didn't know what to do next.
Yesterday has passed.
Today, although living the life of yesterday, everything has changed.
Yuan Feng chased after him, but Old Man Zheng just walked with his head bored and didn't say a word.
Back at the gate of the small courtyard, Old Man Zheng suddenly stopped, and his eyes were raised.
"Don't you want to know what's going on in the village?"
Yuan Feng was so frightened that he took a step back, and Old Man Zheng's gaze made him feel bad.
"Look at them, what's so special about them?"
Yuan Feng looked at the children who were playing more than ten meters away, and saw that the children were calm and free of illness and disaster, so he said, "It's very healthy." ”
"Then look at the ground."
Ground?
Just now, Yuan Feng's whole body tightened, and then he subconsciously looked down at his feet and Old Man Zheng's feet.
A child playing has no shadow under his feet.
There are shadows around himself and Old Man Zheng.
At this time, a couple happened to come back from work and greeted Old Man Zheng, and Yuan Feng also looked at their feet, there was no shadow.
The villagers of Peach Blossom Village, except for Old Man Zheng, seem to have no shadows.
It is impossible for people to be without shadows.
A terrifying thought appeared in Yuan Feng's heart.
At the same time, Yuan Feng understood why he always felt that something was not right when he walked in the village and looked at the faces of the people in the village before.
It is precisely because of death that everyone's physiognomy will be similar, with a stable face, no illness and no disaster, and very healthy.
Now that I think about it, I was too stupid at the time, as long as it was a human being, they all had their own lives, and they couldn't escape birth, old age, sickness and death, no matter how good their lives were, they would not be flawless in physiognomy.
But it's normal to think about it, who walks will deliberately pay attention to whether others have a shadow.
At the same time, Yuan Feng also understood why the village was full of gloom at night.
Because the whole village except for Old Man Zheng died.
If nothing else, he died in this village, and the whole village is similar to a mass grave, so that the village will be thick at night.
"They didn't even know they were dead."
Old man Zheng threw down this sentence in a painful tone and entered the courtyard, Yuan Feng hurriedly rushed into the small courtyard next to him and pulled Meng Xiao to the open space mountain.
Seeing that Meng Xiao had a shadow under his feet like himself, his hanging heart fell, thinking that Meng Xiao was still a human being, otherwise he would be the same as the people in the village, and he really didn't know what to do.
When I returned to the gate of the small courtyard, I looked outside at the people in the village who had long since died, but they were no different from ordinary people, still working, playing, and chatting. Yuan Feng frowned, unable to guess why they could still be like normal people since they were dead, and could not see the slightest problem.
It is said that it is a ghost, and there is a body.
said that he was a living dead, but there was not a trace of corpse gas on his body.
After observing for a while, but failing to find anything, Yuan Feng walked into Old Man Zheng's courtyard and understood that he must know the reason.
The layout of the small courtyard is very simple, and Old Man Zheng is sitting at the stone table under the tree, as if he is waiting for Yuan Feng any longer.
"Uncle, what's going on? Why are they neither like the Yin Nor the Living Dead? ”
Old man Zheng looked at Yuan Feng in some surprise and asked, "What else do you know?" ”
Yuan Feng nodded and said that he was involved in feng shui physiognomy.
"Have you ever heard of Golem Souls?"
Golem Souls?
Yuan Feng suddenly thought that this was a relatively superb Qimen secret technique in Qimen Dunjia, and the production method was to use the flesh and blood of the deceased and mix various materials to make a human puppet.
Then, use a secret method to penetrate its soul into the human puppet's body.
As long as it succeeds, then the puppet will become bigger and more alive, and it will be no different from the living.
There is not the slightest yin qi on the body, nor does it emit the smell of corpses like the living dead, and it can also have the memories of the deceased.
This kind of "person" is called a puppet.
Puppets are not human, they are not ghosts, they are not corpses.
The actual size of the body is generally only the size of a palm, but under the urging of the secret arts, it looks as big as a normal person.
So, the puppet has no shadow.
A puppet made by puppet soul art can be said to be an immortal in the true sense of the word.
Because as long as the puppet person pays attention in life and does not touch things that will cause harm, the life expectancy will be two or three times that of a normal person. If the puppet body is regularly cared for and maintained, the lifespan can even reach five or six times or more.
I thought that there were two or three hundred people in the whole village, and all of them were made into puppets by puppet soul magic. Yuan Feng's heart was difficult to calm down for a long time, and he understood that it was not appropriate for this village to be called Peach Blossom Village now, but it was more appropriate to call it Changsheng Village.
At the same time, he also understood why there was a curfew in the village, and why Yin Sha could not enter the house, all because Yin Sha was harmful to the puppets, so he was not allowed to go out and walk around at night.
The house has also been arranged with secret methods to prevent yin qi from entering the house and harming the puppets.
"Uncle, it's ...... who performs the puppet soul technique"
Suppressing the shock in his heart, Yuan Feng looked at Old Man Zheng curiously, knowing that if he made these puppets, then he would definitely be the best of the best.
"I don't have that ability, it's my father, who died fifty years ago trying to keep that thing from coming in."
Speaking of the past, Old Man Zheng looked sad.
That thing?
Yuan Feng was stunned for a moment, found an important piece of information, and asked urgently: "What is that thing?" ”
Nervous, because Yuan Feng thought of the black shadow he had encountered in the woods before he came in, that is, the mastermind behind the fight that brought him in, and he wanted to determine if that thing was behind it.
Figure out the enemy and the enemy, so that you don't stupidly jump into the trap.
"Do you remember what I said yesterday about the curse of Peach Blossom Village?"
Could it be that the curse or is it real?
Yuan Feng's eyes widened.
After the old man Zheng sighed, he began to tell the story, the story is indeed true, but there are changes in the later stage.
The locust tree that was cut down was too old, and it did give birth to the spirit of thinking. After it killed Mr. Feng Shui who chose the site, it took over Mr. Feng Shui's body and turned into a locust tree (xu) that no one is strange about.
The old man who came forward to stop him when he cut down the tree actually had a high degree of metaphysics, and it was useless to block it, and when he saw that the locust tree was cut down, he expected that there would be revenge.
In order to avoid the whole village from suffering, he took the most essence of the core of the locust tree in advance, and borrowed the core of the tree to set up a strange gate around the village early.
When the locust tree found out that the core of the tree was dug up, it was too late, and he wanted to snatch it, but was stopped by the Qimen Escape Formation.
The things that had grown for hundreds of years were taken away, and the locust tree was very angry, and after not being able to enter, he set up a maze around the village, cursing the people in the village who would never get out, and wanted to trap the people in the village to death.
The fight between the two sides has continued until now.
Old man Zheng said that the village chief who let him cut down the tree despite the obstruction was his grandfather, and when he realized his mistake, he thought it was too late, and then his family followed the old man to learn occult arts, and continued to prevent the locust tree from entering the village and harming people.
During this period, in order to destroy the Qimen Escape Formation that the old people in the village had arranged, he didn't know what he was doing outside, causing things in the village to fold, just like what happened in the past two days, retreating from time to time, and every time without warning, the retreat time was not fixed.
The old man was extremely powerful, and he studied a secret method to avoid the retreat of energy, and afterwards passed the secret method to Old Man Zheng's grandfather, and then passed it down.
The first few years were fine, but because they were trapped in it, the land and various things were limited, which led to the gradual illness and death of the people in the village.
Old man Zheng said that in order to make up for the mistakes made by the family, his father cast a puppet soul to resurrect the dead in the village in disguise as compensation.
Fifty years ago, the locust tree fish collided again and wanted to come in, but the old man Zheng's father stopped and seriously injured the locust tree at the cost of his life.
Thirty years ago, the last living person in the village except for Old Man Zheng died, and only some beasts were left alive and well.
In the whole village, only Old Man Zheng is a living person, and the rest are all puppets.
"Even if it's just me, I didn't give up, because I knew that day would come, and the people in our village would be trapped by it, and I would kill it, I would destroy it, and avenge the whole village."
When Old Man Zheng said this, he was already in tears, his eyes were red and fierce, and his voice was like a beast with a roar.
On the side, Yuan Feng didn't speak.
The story, although simple, can be accompanied by too much information.
Yuan Feng originally thought that someone had just arranged a strange gate escape formation on the periphery to prevent the people in the village from going out.
But unexpectedly, the Qimen Escape Formation was actually preventing the locust tree from coming in.
What really makes people can't get out is the maze arranged by the black hand behind the scenes.
At this time, Old Man Zheng suddenly laughed happily.
"After waiting for three generations, I finally waited for this day, finally came, haha, finally waited."
Old man Zheng's crazy appearance made Yuan Feng subconsciously nervous.
Curious ask, "What are you waiting for?" ”
"I'll wait for you."
Yuan Feng only saw that Old Man Zheng's crazy gaze was staring directly at him.
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