Chapter 37: Acting
The mountain people in the nineties were easy to deceive, not to mention these mountain people who had eaten the 'meat' of villains and caused their brains to be abnormal. ,。
Their temper is similar to that of animals, simple and direct, and what comes from it.
As long as you are afraid, you will definitely show it, and this has been confirmed.
"You go back to the village with us first!! I asked the people in the village to treat you well!! When Old Man Shi said this to me, he had already come up and grabbed my arm, as if he was afraid that I would not help him: "You must help us!" ”
"Yes, Lord Yama!! There are still a few people in our village!! It's all the same as us!! The young man next to him said, "We don't want to be struck by lightning!" ”
"Me"
"Hey, you're welcome!! Let's go back to the village with us first!! ”
Old man Shi's temper was very anxious, and when he saw that I was a little unhappy, he began to persuade me, and dragged me to Mao'er Village while persuading.
The rat was also a little anxious when it looked at it, and kept squeaking, looking at its meaning, as if it wanted to pounce and bite someone.
"It's your friend?" Old man Shi asked me.
"Yes." I nodded, "It crawled out of the grave with me, and it has been following me since the day I became a demon." ”
"So it's not your average rat?" Old man Shi looked at the rat with some surprise and asked me, "Does it have any skills?" ”
I didn't squeak, but glanced at the squirrel, and the meaning was self-evident.
"Squeak!!
The rat and I did not have an ordinary tacit understanding, and when he screamed, a puff of black smoke came out of his mouth.
The young man standing next to him was the most unlucky, he didn't dodge in time, and he encountered these evil qi at the first time, and his arms soon began to turn black, as if he had been poisoned.
"Oops! Lord Yama!! What are you doing with this friend?!! The young man was so anxious that he was about to cry, and he seemed to be in pain: "The smoke it spits out is poisonous!" ”
"It's okay, you're not alive, these cigarettes don't hurt you much, and you'll be fine after a few days of rest." As I spoke, I glared at the rat with a fake look and scolded; "Don't mess around! They're all their own people! You're kind to me! ”
The squirrel is an acting school, which was confirmed at the time.
Hearing me scold myself, the rat screamed twice aggrievedly, and took a few steps to my shoulder, no longer looking at those people.
"How many people are there in your village?" I asked, slowing down, not wanting to go with them at all.
"Ten."
The answer given by Old Man Shi was the same as the answer given by the villager before, and it seemed that he really wasn't lying.
I was about to ask a few more questions, but Old Man Shi didn't give me this opportunity, and dragged me to the village, so anxious.
"Will you wait until I'm done?" I asked tentatively, "I still have some troubles to deal with, so I don't have to rush to your village when I'm done." ”
"Human life is at stake!" Old man Shi was in a hurry more than anyone else, and he didn't have to leave with me, so he ran directly: "You go back to the village with us first!" If there is any trouble, we will help you solve it! ”
I wanted to refuse his offer, really, the thief wanted to refuse, but he wouldn't give me the chance.
This old thing isn't slow to run, even if it drags me to run, it's much faster than I can run at full speed.
When it came to this, I had no choice but to follow them back to the village first, and then think of a way to 'withdraw' away
Anyway, they can't see my real identity, and if I go to Mao'er Village for a walk, it will be regarded as spying on the military.
"Slow down!" Halfway through the run, I couldn't help but say, "My 'leg' was injured just a few days ago!" It's not good yet! ”
"Good, good!! I'll slow down!! ”
After about ten minutes, Old Man Shi dragged me to the entrance of the village, and the other young people did not fall behind, and followed us back.
"Master Shi, Lao Bald and Jiu'er are still outside, why don't I go and call them back?" Someone asked.
Old bald ..... Jiu'er??
The villager who was beheaded by Qibao should be Jiu'er, right??
Old man Shi ignored him, raised his head, and howled twice in his throat, sounding like the howl of a beast, which had nothing to do with human voices anyway.
"No need to go, they'll be back in a moment." Old man Shi said.
"Are you signaling to them?" I asked.
Old man Shi smiled and said, Sort of.
As soon as the words fell, he let go of his hand and politely led me to the village.
"This place is called Mao'er Village, and it is a blessed place where we were born and raised, if we weren't born here, we wouldn't be like this."
"What about the rest of the village?" I pretended not to know and asked him, "There are a lot of houses here, how come there are only ten of you?" ”
"They've all been eaten." Old man Shi smiled, as if he felt that this matter was commonplace, and said to me in a tone that didn't care about eating and drinking tea: "The 'fat' water doesn't flow into the fields of outsiders, and it's useless to keep them, and they don't go to the road!" ”
I nodded, didn't ask any more questions, and followed Old Man Shi towards the village.
There is only one largest house in Mao'er Village, just near the east end of the village, which is supposed to be the village chief's house.
Old Man Shi led me to the outside of the big 'door' and knocked lightly.
"Who?" The person inside asked.
"Me! Old Stone! ”
"Who did you bring back?" The man asked again, his tone very suspicious.
"Someone who can save our lives!" Old man Shi hurriedly said, "Hurry up and open the 'door'!" Don't talk nonsense with me! If I delay the big thing, I will have to eat you! ”
"Hey, you're talking crazy right now."
The man smiled as he opened the door, stood inside and looked at Old Man Shi, and asked him, "Who gave you the courage?" I can eat it if I want to, too? ”
"Dashan, don't make fun for me, there's something serious!" Old man Shi said.
"Bullshit, huh?" Dashan glanced at me, then at the squirrel, and his eyes lit up: "You called this mouse?" ”
"It's not." Old man Shi said.
"Who is this man?" Dashan asked, looking at me carefully, his face full of doubt: "Why haven't I seen him?" Where did he come from? ”
Before Old Man Shi could help me answer, an old man's voice came from the room.
"Come in."
To tell the truth, as soon as I heard the old man speak, my heart suddenly became nervous, and the breath that had been relieved before kept lifting it again.
He is the village chief of Mao'er Village, listening to this 'gloomy' tone, he is definitely not an easy master to deal with!
"King Shen Yan, please." Old man Shi said and led me into the house.
On the table of the Eight Immortals in the hall, a kerosene lamp was lit, and the dim light looked extremely dull, which made me feel breathless.
There were four people sitting at the table, the youngest of whom was in their forties and fifties, and the eldest was only one, with a white beard and looked like he was in his seventies or eighties.
"This is our village chief!" Old man Shi introduced, and said to the old man: "This is the friend we met on the mountain, and he is here to help us!" ”
The old village chief ignored him and asked me directly, "Who are you?" ”
"Just like you." I laughed and said, "We're barely of the same kind." ”
"The same kind?" The old village chief nodded and laughed: "Lao Shi said that you can save us, but I really don't know what you need to save." ”
"Life, do you want it?" I asked.
Suddenly, the old village chief stopped smiling, and his expression became suspicious, as if he didn't know what I was talking about.
"I heard Shi Ye say that you are cultivating by eating people, which is different from the same kind outside the mountain" I sighed, with a helpless face: "Hasn't anyone taught you to practice?" ”
The old village chief shook his head and said that this is really nothing, there is no person like them within a radius of dozens of miles.
"The same kind outside the mountains don't eat people?" The old village chief asked me, with a puzzled look on his face: "Then how do they practice?" ”
"Refining qi like me." I said.
"Is there anything wrong with cannibalism?" The old village chief looked at me suspiciously.
"Flesh and blood are all filth, you eat 'meat' is equivalent to eating filth, if you want to live forever and become immortals, you are too bad!" I put on the appearance of an old gentleman who gave birth to a child after education, and said with hatred that iron is not steel: "The energy you can get from eating people is too little, it is better to refine qi!" What's more, cannibalism is addictive! The more you eat! The more filth you accumulate! All this filth can kill you! ”