Chapter 18: The Midnight Sacrifice
The night is dark and the wind is high, the wind in the mountains is very strong, and the air is very cold. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Read the full text of the latest chapter
Clouds and mist continued to sink from high in the sky, and even if you opened the eye of heaven and reached the mountain, you couldn't get anything five meters away.
Yu Chengyao could only feel the road and walk forward, stumbling and not knowing where he had arrived. At this time, he could only use his limited field of vision to carefully discern the changes in the terrain to determine whether he was going up the mountain.
Before you know it, a cold night breeze blows through a foggy area. A figure suddenly jumped into his field of vision, the Corpse King!
Yu Chengyao was taken aback in his heart, and he hurriedly took out the charm from his bag. This corpse king is the one he met in the sky, I really can't imagine that he actually ran here.
He was slowly approaching Yu Chengyao, and the icy night wind was brought by him. On the lifeless mountains, his sudden appearance looked extremely strange.
Yu Chengyao didn't dare to act rashly, and when he was in the first line of heaven, he overtook the corpse king's subordinates. And Li Wei once came in like this, if the corpse king would leave the line of heaven to take revenge on those who had violated him.
How could Li Wei and his subordinates live a comfortable life? Yu Chengyao felt that what had happened was too strange, and this corpse king was probably not the corpse king anymore.
He carefully observed the Corpse King, and the movement of the Corpse King as he walked over was extremely smooth. This seemed to be a little wrong, after Yu Chengyao seriously injured the Corpse King, its movements were obviously stiffened a lot.
In just two days, was it really able to recover to its peak by sucking human blood?
The answer is yes, but it doesn't make sense. There were no dead people in the village, and it was obviously impossible for it to go to the town outside, otherwise how could there still be living people in this area?
There is also a possibility that it is to suck the blood of wild beasts in the mountains, which may also be true, but the climate here is cold, and even if there are wild beasts in the mountains, they should be very rare!
So, the only possibility of the Corpse King is someone else in disguise!
Yu Chengyao quickly rushed towards the Corpse King, and kicked the other party's chest first.
The corpse king Cui was caught off guard and was kicked out by Yu Chengyao. He was shocked, and blood continued to spill from his mouth.
"I'm really not wrong in what I guessed!" Yu Chengyao sneered, quickly chased after him, he reached out and quickly pulled off the mask of the corpse king.
At this time, Yu Chengyao has already seen the true face of the other party, a middle-aged man in his thirties, but this person Yu Chengyao has never seen it.
It is estimated that Zhang Jue and his gang are together, Yu Chengyao pulled this under the tree and forced Zhang Jue and his gang to ask about the whereabouts of Zhang Jue's group. He didn't say whether he was alive or dead, and was finally tortured to death by Yu Chengyao.
In the face of such a tight-lipped guy, Yu Chengyao was also very helpless.
He continued to search in the mountains, and since he had found the other party's people, they should be in this vicinity.
The wind is getting stronger, and the humidity in the clouds is getting heavier, and it is going to rain.
Yu Chengyao flinched a little, if it rained, he would be miserable. It must be very cold when you get wet, and once your body is cold, you can't move flexibly.
If the other party had discovered himself a long time ago, he would have been surrounded and would not have been able to run if he wanted to.
In desperation, Yu Chengyao could only start walking back.
When we reached the halfway point, there was a light rain in the sky, and the rain was not heavy, but the mountain road was difficult to walk after the ground was wet.
Yu Chengyao accelerated his return as soon as possible, but when he returned to the village, there was a fire at the entrance of the village through the rain curtain.
Yu Chengyao touched the past suspiciously, and there were seven or eight people who were more than capable of checking the shadow. Everyone held a torch to the sky, burned incense, and bowed.
Are they worshipping zombies? Yu Chengyao's heart was even more puzzled, he got closer again, and at this time he had already crossed the stream.
The group of people at the entrance of the village were middle-aged men from the village, and although they didn't know them, their identities could be determined by their clothes.
Yu Chengyao did not continue to investigate, he returned to Li Wei's house and quietly returned to the room.
At dawn the next day, the village bell was woken up, and it turned out that someone had died again the previous night.
And he died at the entrance of the first line of heaven, and the blood on the dead man's body was sucked up.
Yu Chengyao followed Li Wei into the crowd to investigate, and he found that this person was not one of his seven people last night.
He wondered last night why someone was prostrating over there in the middle of the night. Today, there was a direct death, which is even more strange.
Could it have something to do with Zhang Jue's gang?
It rained last night, and if it was really Zhang Jue, those people came to the village, and it was normal for everyone to not notice it;. But Yu Chengyao went out for a stroll last night, how could he not even believe himself?
There are ghosts in the village!
Yu Chengyao was taken aback by his own thoughts, and he deduced that Zhang Jie's people had indeed come to the village, but they did not rush to do it, but hid in the mountains.
And the people who kill people here must have been done by the ghosts in the village.
So how did this man kill someone?
Yu Chengyao's lacquered aisle, and the torches and charcoal ashes and messy footprints left here late.
Coupled with the incense lit here and some paper ashes, they must have done some kind of ritual here last night!
Yu Chengyao observed carefully, and he found that the location of the corpse turned out to be the location in front of the incense stalk.
He walked over to the place where the men who had bowed down last night were standing, and he gestured twice more at the corpse, and he couldn't help but be surprised.
This is definitely a sacrificial ritual, and this deceased is the one who sacrificed to the corpse king of the first line of heaven!
Why did they do it? Could it be that there are really ghosts in the village?
Yu Chengyao's confusion surrounded the crowd or panicked, or concerned, or angry.
Everyone here looked so suspicious in his eyes at the moment, but he couldn't say what happened to him last night.
Otherwise, the people in the village would definitely suspect that he had done all this, and Li Wei would not be able to help him clarify when the time came.
He could only wait and see what to do with this matter now.
This old man is worthy of being an elder, and he said very simply: "Brothers, don't panic, this is Zhang Jue's deliberate purpose for us to be afraid, if we are afraid, this first rod will be their victory!" ā
But this simple thing was very effective, and the chaotic villagers instantly quieted down, and one by one they regained their composure, as if nothing had happened.
On the way back, Li Wei said as he walked: "This kind of method can be thought of, and they are really amazing!" ā
Yu Chengyao knew that Li Wei was here as soon as he heard this, and driven by curiosity, he hurriedly asked, "Senior, what did you mean by what you just said?" ā
"The corpse king drinks blood, and all he drinks is well-founded blood. They sacrificed their brothers in the village to the Corpse King, didn't the purpose be to tell the Corpse King that the people in the village were easy to bully, could it be eaten as it pleased? Li Wei's words startled Yu Chengyao.
Could it be that the Corpse King of the Heavens has not disturbed the village over the years, and it has something to do with the fact that they defeated the Corpse King at that time?
This thing is getting more and more strange, and the truth is definitely not as simple as it seems.
There was definitely something wrong with the seven villagers, and he decided to continue watching tonight, but he wasn't going it alone this time.
Yu Chengyao asked Li Gang to take a hand, and if something happened, someone would testify to him!
As he expected, there was another glimmer of fire at his entrance that night. According to the expected plan, one rings the bell and the other shouts.
After a while, the people in the village woke up, and everyone ran towards the sky with kerosene lamps.
However, the seven villagers fled, and nowhere else did they go.
Yu Chengyao's corpse, and the torches that were thrown to the ground, he squatted down and picked up the dirt and sniffed it.
There was a smell of blood on the dirt, indicating that the deceased had been killed here.
They fled in panic, so it's easy to investigate.
At this time, they will definitely not be able to come back, and Li Wei also rushed over with Xiaoyue.
Yu Chengyao asked Li Gang to come forward to gather everyone to count the number of people, and after counting, they found that all the people in the village were present except for the three who died.
The suspicion of the inner ghost can be ruled out, and Yu Chengyao is finally relieved at this time. But the other party dressed up as a villager to commit trouble, even if he was a person who was up at night, he would not be suspected.
Are they really doing it to confuse other people's vision?
Yu Chengyao had another knot in his heart, Li Wei didn't sleep this night, and he couldn't sleep.
Li Dagang cooked snacks for everyone and brought them to the hall, and while drinking a little wine, Li Wei said: "I can't hide, I have to come after all!" ā
"Senior, are you worried that Zhang Jue's people will continue to do things to the people in the village?" Yu Chengyao asked.
"You're a smart man, you must have planned tonight's events. Otherwise, where would my stupid son be able to see through those people's calculations? Li Wei squinted his eyes, and he shook his head with a wry smile.
"Elder, you mean, it wasn't Zhang Jue's people who did this?" Yu Chengtian was very puzzled, and when he heard Li Wei's tone, he didn't seem to be worried about the arrival of that group.
"Senior, it's wrong for you to be like this, I asked Uncle Dagang to help, also to prevent the villagers from suspecting me. Isn't there no way around it, but those people are really not from the village? Yu Chengyao frowned suspiciously, pondering.
Li Wei also frowned, he shook his head and said: "It's hard to say this kind of thing, let's not talk about the sacrifice to the corpse king, only the people in the village know." Let's just say that the method of sacrifice is only understood by people in the village! ā
"Oh? Is there such a thing? Yu Chengyao was slightly surprised, he didn't expect Li Wei to know that there was an inner ghost in this matter, no wonder he was so worried.
"Could it be that when you entered the village back then, you also brought Zhang Jue's people here?" Yu Chengtian was also very surprised, he was stunned, with an incredible look on his face.
"It's not true, but Zhang Jue's love Gu is not simple. Be able to perceive people's hearts and control people's minds! If this kind of Gu technique is practiced to the extreme, it will be incredible! Li Wei sighed and shook his head.
Yu Chengyao suddenly realized, and his brows furrowed: "Could it be that someone from the young man outside the village was moved by Zhang Jue?" ā
Li Gang was shocked when he heard this, and he said to Yu Chengyao seriously: "You can't talk nonsense, don't curse your own people if you have nothing to do!" ā
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