Chapter 18: The Bark
In the woods outside Sanhe Village, Lu Youwei whispered: "Master, when will we go back, it's been three days." ”
Li Chenfeng sighed, "Wait a little longer, I always feel that something big is going to happen, Brother Liu, they are good, we have to stay for a few more days, and I want to check on Liu Daye's matter again." ”
"Master, I want to take a bath."
"Well, I'm going to get bath water in this place in Sanhe Village, bear with me, we'll go back in two days."
"There is a river behind the mountain, the water is very clean, you help me stay by the side, don't let people come."
"No need, there will be no one in this barren mountain and wilderness."
"Not necessarily."
"Okay, okay, where is it, I happened to go over and wash one."
After walking towards the back of the mountain for more than ten minutes, Li Chenfeng heard a loud sound of flowing water, and he suddenly remembered that this was the big river he encountered when he came to Sanhe Village last time, there was a waterfall in the woods, and a big pool of water had hit out under the waterfall.
"You just stay here, don't peek."
Li Chenfeng stretched his waist casually.
"Come on, I've seen your body a long time ago."
Lu Youwei stomped her feet angrily.
"When are you ......? Hello host, so despicable......"
"It's not that I'm despicable, it's that you're arrogant at home, just the bath towel has fallen off no less than ten times, and the things that are delivered to the door don't look at it in vain, so who is to blame."
"You ......"
"Alright, let's go, it'll be dark again later."
After about half an hour, Lu Youwei walked back with wet hair.
"What the hell, it takes so long to take a shower."
"Do you think this is at home, there is no shower gel or anything, of course you have to wash it for a while."
"Come on, change me, you're here to guard."
"You're a big man and you're afraid of other people's peeping?"
"Maybe there is a superb village woman, I don't want to suffer that loss."
"Forehead ......"
The two had just returned to the construction site after taking a shower when a worker hurriedly ran towards them.
"Brother Xiao Li, come and take a look, something happened again."
Li Chen's heart was shocked, "What did you dig up this time?" ”
"No, come and have a look."
Li Chenfeng followed him into the shed and found more than a dozen people, including Lao Liu, lying on the ground, their faces were dark and blue, and they looked very painful.
"What the hell is going on?"
Lao Liu stood up tremblingly, "It must have provoked the mountain god, the mountain god is angry, this project can't be done no matter what." ”
He rolled up his sleeves, and a hand like a dead tree root was exposed, Li Chenfeng was startled, and the other people's bodies also had this kind of problem to a greater or lesser extent, and the flesh part of the body became a state of bark.
A worker sighed: "But the project was contracted, and we couldn't get a penny when we stopped at this time, and it was in vain to work for so long." ”
"If we continue like this, our lives will be gone, what's the use of money!"
"Yes, I won't do it......"
"I'm still young, I don't want to die......"
Lao Liu's proposal was echoed by many people.
Li Chenfeng looked at their bodies again and asked, "Brother Liu, how many people are in this situation on the construction site now." ”
"Basically everyone has it, and I don't know if it's a strange disease or if it can be cured."
At this time, Lu Youwei suddenly said: "I don't think you guys are sick, but like poisoned, have you eaten anything strange in the past two days?" ”
"No, it's the same as usual, the big pot of rice cooked in the construction site, the big guys eat the same."
"It's mostly a matter of food, Wei'er and I eat what we brought, so we're fine."
"The food is all made by Lao Zhangtou, quickly find him over and ask."
Through asking Lao Zhangtou, Li Chenfeng learned that the daily food in the shed was supplied by the surrounding villages, and the water was transported from the big river behind the mountain.
Since the project was about to end, Li Chenfeng and Lu Youwei were also ready to leave.
That night, Li Chenfeng slept until midnight, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back, he touched it with his hand, and he was directly scared into a cold sweat, and his back was covered with bark.
"Viola, Vier......"
Li Chenfeng was very frightened, and Lu Youwei also looked very anxious when she saw the situation on his back.
"Why, you didn't eat the food in the shed?"
Li Chenfeng suddenly realized, "Could it be the water, is there something wrong with the river water, I took a bath in the river yesterday, but why are you okay?" ”
"I am a corpse, and I am not affected by human poisons."
"Then there must be something wrong with the river, let's go and see again, if I become a tree man, it will be troublesome."
At two o'clock in the morning, Li Chenfeng came to the waterhole under the waterfall again, and when they took a closer look, they seemed to feel a layer of green gas lingering on the water, as if it was the same situation they saw on the tiled house that day.
Enduring the sharp pain coming from his back, Li Chenfeng's temper became a little irritable.
"What the hell is going on, you have a kind of it!"
His echo could be heard on the water, ethereal on this quiet night.
At this time, Lu Youwei seemed to think of something, and gradually became distracted by the water.
"What people!"
A voice came from the grass behind him, Li Chenfeng pulled Lu Youwei and rushed up without saying a word, and gradually a black shadow appeared in front of him, Li Chenfeng and Lu Youwei chased more and more urgently, and finally found that the black shadow rushed into the tiled house on the mountainside.
"There's something weird about it."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly fell to the ground.
"Ah, it hurts!"
"Master, what's wrong with you?"
Lu Youwei anxiously helped Li Chenfeng up, and wanted to check whether there were any abrasions on his legs, but when she rolled up her pants, she was startled when she saw that one of Li Chenfeng's left legs had been wrapped in tree bark and turned into a piece of wood alive.
"Master, you ......"
"Don't worry about it, catch that guy first."
A voice came from behind them.
"Who are you going to catch?"
Li Chenfeng was startled, and turned his head suddenly, there was nothing in the clearing except for a huge locust tree.
"Who, who?"
At this time, a voice also came from the house, "Brother Li, we meet again." ”
The black shadow they were chasing just now walked out, and the familiar outfit turned out to be a mouse.
"Is that you? Aren't you reincarnated? ”
The mouse grinned and walked in front of Li Chenfeng.
"Reincarnation, I'm afraid it's you who are about to be reincarnated, haha......"
Li Chenfeng's face sank, knowing that he had been tricked.
"Who the hell are you?"
The mouse blinked, and his tiny pupils glowed red.
"I said my name was a mouse, so I'm really a mouse."
With a wave of his hands, a dozen of the same rats that had appeared on the construction site that day fell from his body, and at the same time a slender tail emerged from his back.
Although this was the first time Li Chen had seen such a strange thing, he had already read the introduction of various demons and monsters in the "Thirty-six Methods of Tianyan" before, so he seemed quite calm at the moment. "So your father Liu Daye and that long worm spirit are all fake, what is your purpose in deceiving us?"
The mouse smiled obscenely, it was really hard to believe that that simple and poor migrant worker would have such a face.
"It can't be said to be fake, you see."
The mouse waved his hands over his face, and changed his face like a Sichuan drama, he didn't seem to have changed much in age, only changed his face, but this appearance was nothing special, no different from an ordinary peasant uncle.
Li Chenfeng didn't recognize him, but Lu Youwei was very surprised.
"Are you, Liu Daye?"
The mouse smiled slightly, "Corpse spirit Lu Youwei, long time no see, Liu Daye is me, and the mouse is also me." ”
Li Chenfeng suddenly became anxious, "What do you want to do?" ”
Lu Youwei is a thousand-year-old corpse spirit, this secret is only known to him and Zhou Ming, and he has never revealed it to a third person. The mouse concisely stated Lu Youwei's identity, which made Li Chenfeng realize that this matter was far from being as simple as he imagined.
The mouse smiled at Li Chenfeng, "There's nothing to do with you here, just get out of here quickly, maybe you can save a dog's life." ”
His target seemed to be Lu Youwei, and Li Chenfeng faintly felt bad.
Although he didn't know what was going on, Li Chenfeng did not show weakness, and said angrily: "Being presumptuous in front of the exorcists, are you looking for death!" ”
Li Chenfeng knew that he was not deep, and he had only learned some of the things on the "Thirty-six Methods of Tianyan", and he didn't know if he was the opponent of a mouse, but the most basic momentum could not be lost, although one of his legs was completely unable to move at the moment, it was impossible to let him leave Lu Youwei alone.
"Exorcist, you really take yourself seriously. Didn't you just ask about the worm spirit, so let's take a look. ”
The mouse beckoned, and another man came out of the room, his brother was very tall, with snow-white skin, and his head was covered with hair that swayed like a small snake like Medusa, and there was an indescribable disgusting feeling to look at it.
"In addition, I want to introduce you as a friend, big brother, you can come out too."
In an instant, the ground trembled violently, Li Chenfeng and Lu Youwei turned around suddenly, only to see that the tall locust tree shrank little by little, and finally turned into a middle-aged man with a big beard.
"Snake spirits, rat spirits, tree spirits, what happened on the construction site these days is that the three of you are messing around, what is your purpose?"
"For what purpose? Everything we did before this, including what happened on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, was just for one purpose, to get the thousand-year-old corpse spirit Lu Youwei. ”
Lu Youwei seemed to understand something.
"It turned out to be you, the one who broke my seal."
The mouse smiled slightly, "It turns out that Miss Wei'er still remembers us, I guess you have forgotten all about us." ”
Li Chenfeng asked anxiously, "Wei'er, who are they, and what does it have to do with you?" ”
"Ten years ago, the seal in the tomb suddenly disappeared, and after I left the tomb, I saw three dark shadows......"