Chapter 54: Zhou Hexuan's Mission

"The meat...... Really fragrant ......"

Zhou Hexuan didn't know if it was his own delusion, but when the old woman said this, a slow memory appeared on her face......

It wasn't until half a ring passed that the old man came back to his senses.

"Since then, the people in the village have indeed sent us two-legged mutton meat every once in a while, and our old couple thought that this was really an eye-opener, seeing our hardships here, and sending us such a gift.....

The days went by like this, and we knew that one day, no one would come to bring us meat......

We were so hungry that the old man decided to go out and have a look, and he went out, but never came back........"

When the old man mentioned this, he looked very sad.

"That'..... What happened next? Mother-in-law, you ...... last"

Zhou Hexuan knew that since the old man was buried here, there must have been some turning point behind it.

"Later...... The old man won't come, I don't dare to go out, but I am too hungry, I can't stand the hunger, I just want to go out at night to find the old man, that night, I went out, I touched all the way to the east of the village, all the way to the whole village without a sound, as if the people in the village disappeared in an instant, I can vaguely hear some movement from the east of the village, so I touched it, and when I got there, I knew that the people in the village were gathered here, But at that time, all I saw were young people, and most of them were young and strong, and there were no children, and the old people ......."

When the old woman said this, she shook her head with a sad expression.

"Later I learned that the old men of the village had died at their hands, just like the old man of my family, and I looked for the old man in the crowd, and soon I saw him, but at that time he was plucked naked, and he was tightly tied to a wooden post, and I wanted to go there, but I didn't dare, and hid there and watched them stab him one after another, and the old man had seen me, and I knew he had seen it, because he was the only one facing me, but he didn't cry out, He just looked at me like that, and he didn't close his eyes when he died........

I hid there and didn't dare to squeak, watching them throw the old man into a cauldron, and everyone seemed to be very excited to see this scene, and they all gathered around the cauldron and waited, and I took advantage of their lack of attention, and fled back.......

The next morning, another villager knocked on my door, and they came again and brought me a bowl of meat for the two-legged sheep, saying that the two-legged sheep had become less and less in the past two days, and they could not catch them......."

When the old woman said this, Zhou Hexuan's heart suddenly became clear, that old man was not a human at all, but what happened later, does this village still exist now? Are those who survived eating human flesh still in that village? And the old man later ..... How did you die.......

Zhou Hexuan didn't ask, because he was waiting for the old man's next step.

The old man seemed to be reminiscing, and it took about ten minutes before the old woman spoke again.

"I didn't move the bowl of meat, I knew it was the old man's meat, and I buried him in the yard.......

At that time, I knew that there were no two-legged sheep in this world, they were eating human flesh, no, I was eating too, but I didn't know it all along......

I hid in the yard, and at night there was a knock on the door, and I didn't dare to open it, and then no one came to deliver the meat of the two-legged sheep.......

This thing lasted for two days, I couldn't hold it anymore, suddenly there was a noise outside, the sound was very loud, mixed with screams, I hid in the crack of the door and looked out, everyone was crazy, they bit when they saw people, I saw with my own eyes a big living person was gnawed by them only white bones, they are no longer people, they are a group of beasts, a group of ...... A beast without humanity.......

That night...... Someone knocked on my door again, and I didn't open it, and they came in over the wall, and they started to look room by room, but I hid in the cellar, so they didn't find me in the end, and then they left........

It's not just one time to eat a living person, that... It's just the first time.......

I'm dead...... Dead in the cellar, I'd rather starve to death than be eaten by them. ”

"And what about later? Are they all dead? ”

"No...... They didn't all die because of the cannibalism, but on the third day of my death, a man came to the village, a beggar who asked for food, and it was not surprising, there was a famine everywhere, and it was not the first beggar to come into our village to beg, and the people in the village did not hate people entering the village, but they were very happy, because it was a two-legged sheep given to them by God.......

But the beggar was different....... He shook his head when he saw that the people in the village looked at him like beasts, and then the beggar told the villagers that there was no longer a famine outside, but no one in the village knew about it, because they were no longer human, and they thought in their hearts that the outside was the same as here......

When the old man said this, there was a bit of misery in his eyes.

"Someone is gone...... They left the village and went outside, they didn't stay here any longer, they wanted to go outside, because no one outside knew that they had eaten human flesh, and some of them died, committed suicide, and they were awakened by the words of the beggar, but they couldn't accept the fact that they had eaten their parents, relatives, and even their wives and sons, and they committed suicide......

The beggar didn't leave, he picked up the bones piled up in the open space one by one, and buried them here, under your feet.... Every grave here is a villager in the village, and all the dead are buried here, and I am also the beggar who brought it out of the cellar at that time, and I am the last one he buried, and he left, and before he left, he said a word....... He said... In fact, there is still a famine outside, he is not actually a beggar, he is a monk, he came from far away, he has seen a lot of cannibal villages, he has not walked through a village, he has to bury all the bones with his own hands, he is gone......."

Zhou Hexuan finally knows everything that happened in the village, this is a sad story, perhaps..... In the eyes of that monk, this world has become a cannibalistic world, and he is searching, looking for the pure land in the mouth of the Buddha......

Zhou Hexuan thought that this story would end here, but the old man spoke again.

"Can I ask you a favor, young man?"

Zhou Hexuan didn't know what the old woman wanted to help her, but she must have something to do with the village.

"When the monk left, there was still a sentence that the bones were not brought out of the village and buried, young man, can you help me bring the bones here and bury them next to me......

Zhou Hexuan's heart was shocked.

"Mother-in-law, are you talking about your wife?"

The old woman nodded......

Zhou Hexuan hesitated a little, but after hesitation, he nodded and agreed.

The old man's request may be a little difficult for him, but this is the old man's regret, maybe the reason why the old man has not left until now may be the reason why he has not been able to let go of it.

The reason why Zhou Hexuan hesitated was his instinct, or no matter who it was, he would hesitate, after all, not everyone is willing to do such things as risking oneself and sacrificing oneself......

When the old woman saw that Zhou Hexuan agreed, a smile appeared on her face, and her figure finally dissipated in front of Zhou Hexuan's eyes.

At the moment when the old man disappeared, a pain came from Zhou Hexuan's left hand.....

"Fulfilling the Old Man's Last Wish"

The mission finally appeared, and this time it was the only time that Zhou Hexuan had not resisted the task of the ghost card since he was controlled by the ghost card.

"Why didn't that monk sell the old man's bones in the end?"

Zhou Hexuan didn't think that the monk couldn't find the old man's bones, since he could even find the old woman who died in the basement, then why couldn't he find the old man's body?

Zhou Hexuan had doubts in his heart, and once again walked on the familiar path, this road he had walked eight times, but this time it was the longest he felt......

After entering the village, Zhou Hexuan stopped outside the courtyard gate of the third house for a while, but this time he didn't knock on the door, and walked directly from here along the village road to the east of the village.....

This is where the old man died, and the remains of the old man are most likely to appear there.

This is the first time Zhou Hexuan has gone deep into this village, I don't know if it's an illusion, this village feels darker than the outside, not even a little starlight shines in, the doors of each house are tightly closed, Zhou Hexuan didn't dare to knock on the door easily, he followed the direction pointed by the old man all the way to the east end of the village......

The village is not big, but it also allowed Zhou Hexuan to walk for half an hour, and what came into view was a clearing, it seemed that this should have been a threshing floor before, and stone snails were piled up on one side, and there was a wooden pillar buried in the middle of the field, and the color of the ground under the wooden pillar was obviously darker than other places.....

Zhou Hexuan walked back and forth on the threshing floor a few times, and there was nothing out of the ordinary, but he always felt that something was missing here......

Just as Zhou Hexuan walked past the wooden pillar, his eyes suddenly saw a piece of ground with scorched marks, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind.

"No, if this is the place the old woman said, then where is the pot? The pot that can completely boil a living person must be not small, and if you go to this pot or cook people, there shouldn't be anyone who will carry the pot away for no reason......"

Zhou Hexuan looked back at some of the entire threshing floor, and indeed did not find the figure of the pot, but the ground in this place did have traces of being burned or burned.

"Could it be the monk?"

Zhou Hexuan didn't know why he always remembered the beggar monk mentioned by the old woman......