Chapter 291: Scarlet Village
"Did you hear anything?" Li Zhisheng frowned and whispered.
"Well, I heard ...... too," I replied, "it seems to be someone crying, it seems to be coming from the kitchen." With that, I tiptoed towards the kitchen.
At this time, the cauldron in the kitchen was still boiling, and from time to time bubbles came out of the lid of the pot. And on one side of the stove there was a very small door, and there was so much firewood piled up next to the door that I didn't notice it when I first came in.
As we walked towards the one-man wide door, we felt the sound of sobs getting closer and closer. "Looks like it's right behind that door." As I spoke, I stepped forward vigilantly, and just as I was about to touch the doorknob, the wooden door in front of me suddenly opened.
I was taken aback by this sudden move, hurriedly took a few steps back, and suddenly bumped into Li Zhisheng behind me. "Why are you here......" I heard the sound and saw that it was the old man I was looking for who opened the door, and he was followed by the middle-aged woman, both of whom had moist eyes, and their words were slightly nasal, as if they had just cried.
"I ......" I seemed a little incoherent in the panic, as if I had been caught stealing, but then I thought about it, why should I panic. Immediately, I hurriedly settled down and said: "I just wanted to ask you about something, and when I saw that you were not there, I searched in the house for a long time, and then I heard crying, so I came to check......"
"I see, let you see ...... smile," said the old man and the middle-aged woman raised their hands to wipe away the tears from the corners of their eyes, looked at the boiling pot on the stove and said, "The rice is ready, let's talk about something while eating." ”
I wanted to refuse, but my stomach screamed out with a "grunt~", and Li Zhisheng also covered his stomach behind him and whispered: "It seems that I haven't eaten for a day." ”
Seeing this, I was embarrassed and said, "I'm really sorry, I misunderstood you before, and now I have to eat and drink at your house, this is really ......" Saying that, I hurriedly stepped forward to help......
After a busy day, we served a pot of hot vegetable stew. After a cursory meal, I asked the old man about the village next door.
The old man told us that the story of the blood farmer had indeed come from the next village, and that the village was not far from here, and it was only half an hour's walk away.
After hearing this, I wanted to rush to the village with Li Zhisheng immediately, but just as we were about to leave, the middle-aged woman stopped us meaningfully and said, "Young man, it's not safe here at night, especially in the recent period, the blood farmer's affairs have been very troublesome, if we are caught, we can't save you......"
The old man on the side was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks on the table while whispering to himself: "They don't need us to save ...... at all."
Even though he was quiet, I could hear him, and I could tell him that he seemed to know that we weren't ordinary people.
I didn't say anything more about this, just thanked them and told Li Zhisheng to stay here and watch Hao Yang, and then borrowed a piece of clothing from the old man and went out alone.
At this time, the sky was dark, there were no street lights on the side of the road, only sporadic candlelight from the thatched house on the side, although the light was very weak, but I could barely see the road under my feet.
I followed the main road in the middle of the village, and after a short time I left the small village, when I looked up and saw that the sky was covered with dark clouds, not to mention the stars, and even the moon was completely hidden in the dark clouds.
I walked for about half an hour or so in the direction that the old man had said, and another village appeared in front of me. From a distance, I saw a lot of blood-colored fireflies floating around the village, and the thatched huts in the village no longer emitted the warm candlelight, but lit up with a red light like blood.
Surrounded by the blood-colored fireflies around him, the entire village was shrouded in a bloody light, which was extremely terrifying. And I could feel a chill drifting from the direction of the village.
At that moment, the blood-colored fireflies that had been flying over the village suddenly began to move, and they surged in my direction like a swarm of bees out of their nests.
Seeing this, I raised my vigilance and clasped my hands tightly, ready to deal with what happened next. The fireflies flew faster and faster, and in a short time they were less than 100 meters away from me.
I was shocked, and I wanted to summon the void spirit to fight those damn flying insects. But they didn't lower their altitude as they approached me, but maintained their original height, and with a loud "buzzing" sound, they skipped over my head and galloped towards the village behind me.
"Oh no, they're not targeting me, they're targeting the village!" After saying that, I didn't dare to pause any longer, and stabbed the spirit into my chest with a sudden thud.
In an instant, time stood still, and the dense array of blood-colored fireflies overhead resembled a red Milky Way, and although the sight was breathtaking, I had no time to appreciate the terrifying beauty.
"Damn bugs!" I suddenly became ruthless, pulled the spirit out, and then let the power in my body slowly inject into the sword body. The jade dragon on the sword felt my power, and immediately turned into a swimming dragon and wrapped around my arm.
"What the hell are you doing?! What the hell are these things! Vanity scolded me inside.
"Enemy!" I replied, and with a sharp force under my feet, I leapt into the air and blocked the blood-colored fireflies. Immediately after, I held the spirit with one hand, and a black light swept horizontally, and a slash mark was born instantly, and time stopped and disappeared.
I heard the sound of a weak insect crackling, and the blood-colored fireflies in the air were directly shattered by the powerful force the moment they touched the slash marks, and they burst one after another.
At this moment, there was a rain of blood in the air, and the fluorescent body fluids of those insects kept falling to the ground, staining the entire ground with blood red.
"Crush a few bed bugs and you have to call me out, don't you think the marks on your hands are not growing fast enough?!" Vanity looked at the fireflies in the sky that I had defeated, and looked extremely impatient.
I said, "It's not as simple as bed bugs, maybe there's something scary in the village up ahead." With that, I fell from the sky and walked towards the village while stepping on the "blood water" everywhere.
As I approached the village, the chill seemed even stronger, but at this time, because the void in my body had been awakened, there was not the slightest fear in my heart......