Jin Facai will always be at this juncture, and suddenly his IQ exploded so suddenly that he woke up all of us present, only Aliangbo and the old man just smiled slightly.

Alan Bo waved his hand and said: "Blame me, blame me, this point is not clear, I said that no one dies and no life is a thing, only within this city wall, all our melons, vegetables and poultry here are planted and fed outside the city, and outside the city hens can lay eggs and cows lay cubs."

As soon as these words came out, although the confusion in my heart was solved, a new thought was born, it turned out that although the city and the outside belonged to the same strange space without boundaries, it was even more difficult to explain that there was such a subtle difference between the walls.

I saw that the old man in black was still studying the stone of Jin Fa Cai, so I gave Jin Fa Cai a color, and then said with a smile: "Old man, we have been disturbed here a lot when we first entered the city, this stone ...... No, you can accept this big money, it should be our meeting gift. ”

"What's so embarrassing about that...... Such a big gift. Aliangbo conveyed the old man's original words: "Although such a large amount of money is already worth a fortune, it is worthless in this city. ”

"Huh? What do you mean by that? I asked.

Aliangbo explained: "It's not simple, although the size of this money is enough, but no one has ever seen it in this city, this money is not simply multiplied by the size of the volume, for example, this grain of rice can be exchanged for a chicken, but if there is a dollar as big as ten grains of rice, it will not be exchanged for ten chickens but a cow, do you understand?" ”

I nodded, thinking about the reason, it's right, it's like a diamond, if a one-carat diamond is 100,000, then a two-carat diamond is several times more than a carat, and a three-carat diamond will be several times the value of two carats, and so on, this golden fortune has such a big stone in his hand, it is really a priceless treasure.

Aliangbo continued: "Don't say that no one dares to take this stone out, and even if they do, no one has so much money to change. ”

I originally wanted to use this gift to get close to the old man and exchange some more valuable information, but I didn't expect that there would be so much trouble, so I couldn't insist on anything.

But Jin Facai is a face-loving person, how can there be any reason to take back the gift he gave out, and shouted: "Oh Mom, what a big deal a broken stone is!" Who let him take it out and spend it, I asked him to keep a souvenir and put it at home as a decoration, don't mother-in-law, no matter how verbose it is, Jin Yuanwai is going to get angry! ”

The old man didn't put it off any longer, he took it and hid it in his pocket, then expressed his gratitude and said something we didn't expect. Don't talk about us, even Aryan Bo has heard of this for the first time.

Aliangbo said: "When you asked about the difference between inside and outside the city, the old man remembered something. ”

I nodded, motioned for him to continue, thinking to myself that it was money that could make the devil grind, and a single stone would dig out the secret of the old man's heart.

Ah Liangbo took a sip of wine, calmed down for a while, and continued: "I also learned about this, it turns out that we have also given birth to children. But these children were killed before they were born. ”

"What? Killed? Why? Jin Facai asked.

Long story short, the general thing is this:

I don't know how many days ago, but it was a long time before Aryanbo and his group entered the city.

The old man was originally a wizard, as the saying goes, the song does not leave the mouth and fist, the old man will often take advantage of the gap between the closing of the store, take out the close-fitting magic weapon to start the spell, to ensure that his ability is not wasted - he always feels that one day there may be a chance to escape.

For many years, every time the old man practiced and reviewed, he only completed it in the time of a stick of incense, first, he was afraid that the movement would be too big, and he would alarm those ghosts and expose the flaws that he did not lose his soul; Second, because this spell will make his soul in a short-term state of dissociation, the maintenance time of this state is the time of a stick of incense, during this time, the old man often goes out through the wall, looking for some opportunities to escape, he also wants to know, when the city gate is closed, is it a little unusual place outside the city.

"Is that any difference?" Company Commander Wang asked.

In the countless years before this, nothing new had been discovered, but it was in the recent past—the recent past, but it was also long before Aralan Bo and the others entered the city. That time, when the old man's soul had just come out of the city wall, he found that on this day, on the bridge outside the city, there was a row of blue-eyed ghosts, gathered in a circle, as if some ritual was being performed.

The old man was worried that he would be discovered by them if he got too close, so he went to the eaves of the city gate and observed carefully.

He saw that in the circle surrounded by the group of ghosts, it was the owner of the Yunnan Yue Underworld who was delivering a young girl.

"What? The master of this city? I asked.

"Well, yes, they didn't sue you before? The owner of this city is a beautiful woman, and according to the old man's guess, she may be the legendary mountain ghost of the ancestors. Alean Bo continued the story.

The old man's soul hid behind the eaves of the castle tower, and after watching the whole process of delivery, when the mountain ghost stood up and held the child to the sky, with the cry of the baby, all the ghosts let out a loud cheer, and after that cheer, the old man heard the child's mother crying, and begged the mountain ghost.

The mountain ghost grabbed the baby's legs with one hand, hung it upside down in the air, and then took out something like a piece of iron from his hand, heated it with a palm fire, and burned it under the child's feet, and then threw the crying baby under the moat.

"That's how it was born...... It's cruel! Ah Zi clenched his fists and slammed on the table.

Not only Ah Zi, but Ah Hu and Ah Leopard also shook their heads on the side.

"It's not over yet, the old man only saw the baby's mother's face clearly on the wall at this time, guess who?" Aaron asked.

"Don't sell it, how can we guess, hurry up." Kim Fa Cai urged.

"The mother of this child is the little princess of the leader of the old man's clan who has not undergone the tooth dyeing ceremony!" Alean Bo sighed.

"Tooth dyeing? What is the tooth dyeing ceremony? Jin Facai asked.

"The tooth dyeing ceremony is a custom on our side, girls are considered adults when they are about fifteen years old, and they need to chew herbs, and wrap their teeth for half a month with ointment made of pulp mixed with rock nitrate, so that the teeth are blackened, which should be regarded as a rite of passage." Ah Zi explained: "I also heard my grandma talk about it, but I don't remember it very clearly. This used to be common, but Abba says that now these generations in our clan don't force it. ”

Alanbo continued, the mountain ghost first threw the child under the bridge, and finally smashed the little princess's skull with one palm, and was carried by those ghosts and thrown into the river.

Everyone began to sigh, but Li Youwu still drank the wine in the bowl by himself, glancing at the people around him from time to time, as if this matter had not touched him at all.

The old man saw us sigh and added a few more words.

Alean explained: "This is not the end, this is only the first one. Later, the old man would go out of the city every day to see, and found that since that fight, every once in a while, the same tragedy would happen on the bridge, and there would be a new young woman, who was delivered by a mountain ghost at the bridge, and threw it under the bridge, and the woman was also thrown into the river with her skull broken. ”

Everyone was sighing indignantly, but they saw Li Youwu stand up, walked to the window and looked up at the sky, turned around and asked, "Aliangbo, you ask him, have these women seen in the city before, where do they live, and what are the rules for the interval between births." ”

After translating back and forth, Aliangbo said: "The first few who died were all girls who disappeared from the old man's clan, and then I didn't know them, and I never saw them in the city. Before and after, the old man remembers clearly, there are already thirty-three women! If you want to talk about the time interval pattern, because the city can't tell the time, it's not certain, but there is a general pattern. ”

"Tell me about it." Li Youwu said.

"As I said before," replied, "the gates are opened at irregular times, sometimes almost continuously, with very short intervals, several times a day; And sometimes it hasn't been opened for a long, long time, and it's at least a few months. And when these girls gave birth, it was during that period of time when the city gates were not very open. But the strange thing is that every time the child is thrown off the bridge, the gate is opened for a short time. ”

"Little Lizi, what do you mean by this? What did you come up with? Jin Facai continued to nibble on the chicken leg in his hand.

"I don't know now, but sooner or later I'll know." Li Youwu sat back in his seat and poured himself another half bowl of wine.

Although I didn't hear any big mystery from Li Youwu's questioning, in Aliangbo's reply, a few thoughts came to my heart, not so much thoughts, but gradually sorted out a thought:

That is, the previous few women who were executed after giving birth to children, because the wizard old man recognized them as the missing women in the clan, so it means that they are all people of the same age as the old man, and the latter few old men don't know each other, which means that they were introduced into the city later.

According to this calculation, those who enter the city first become pregnant and die first, and those who come in later should be pregnant in the order of entering the city, and then they will be executed.

This is one of them, and the second is that these women are basically those missing eight-character all-yin women, they were premeditated to be caught in this city or some secret place outside the city, so the old man has never seen them.

Third, the legend that the mountain ghost wants to eat people to prolong his life belongs to false rumors, and the facts are far more complicated than imagined.

Fourth, the frequency of these pregnancies is one at a time, and each time there is a period of time, and the interval may be a few months, maybe half a year or a year......

The above can basically have a vague inference, but then there are three doubts that need to be explained:

First. If you want to talk about the age of this wizard old man, although it can't be predicted in detail, it is at least hundreds of years, but Aliangbo and they entered the city a few years ago, and there are so many years between them, why is this little princess pregnant? Why hasn't it happened once in hundreds of years, but it's been happening like this all the time lately?

Second. Whose child will these eight-character women be pregnant? What kind of hatred is it that the mountain ghost wants to put this newborn child to death with its mother?

Third. This gate is sometimes opened frequently, sometimes not for a long time, there must be a law in it, but how to break this law?

Although there are many doubts, but in any case, I already have a faint guess in my heart, that is, this Yunnan and Yue Netherland, which has existed for I don't know how many years, must have a huge conspiracy, and this conspiracy has been lurking here for a long, long time, and just recently, with the continuous murder of women, this conspiracy has entered the countdown to the outbreak.

Perhaps, this conspiracy is related to the historical origin of the entire ancient kingdom of Yunnan and Yue, or maybe it is just the tip of the iceberg under a larger conspiracy, and that larger conspiracy is even ...... A thought suddenly flashed through my mind: Maybe it was related to the three-thousand-year-old human tribulation that our ancestral spirits were going to deal with? Could it be that this mountain ghost is the evil force we have to deal with?

The more I think about it, the more I feel a burst of cold sweat, if this is the so-called underworld, if this is the door opened by the two worlds of yin and yang, then the five eight-character pure yang ancestral spirits that my father asked me to gather are only two and a half now, are we already in the net?

"Anyway, find the remaining missing ones first, or find the mountain ghost directly."

Li Youwu raised his head and drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp, walked to the window, put his hands on the window, and looked at the ancient city with faint lights under the boundless dark night.