But the way of disappearance this time is different from the previous underground water channel hole, which was that even the cave and the mountain disappeared, and this time only the city gate disappeared, the city wall is still there, but the city gate at the intersection has become a stone wall, and the city wall on both sides has become one.

"Big official, dare to love us all the way, there is no turning back?" Jin Facai scratched the golden retriever on his head, but he seemed to be used to the strange things along the way, and although he seemed a little confused, he was not too panicked.

"Don't care so much about it for now, find someone to ask Xiao Lizi where they are first." As I spoke, I walked towards a fried noodle stall facing the street.

"Fellow, may I ask ......," I asked, as I walked up to me.

This stall is a stall selling roast chicken and pork with fried noodles, and the stall owner is a middle-aged uncle, who is frying a pot of noodles with his head down. Even though we were already standing in front of him, he still ignored him, continued to bow his head and take care of himself, and did not answer a word.

"Hey, I said that you fellow is too rude, are you deaf or dumb, believe it or not, I ...... you Jin Yuan" Jin Facai saw that the man ignored him, so he rolled up his arms and started a fire.

"Wait!" I reached out and stopped: "Don't be impulsive! ”

I opened my five fingers and shook it in front of the fellow, he was completely unconscious, still frying the noodles by himself, I and Jin Facai looked at each other, but for a while I didn't know what to do, so I had to stand on the side and observe for a while, to see that his eyes were not blind, but there was a trace of sluggishness.

"Don't you look like a blind man, can you be a fool?" Jin Facai put his face in front of him and looked at him carefully, then turned back and said, "Big official, look, this person's eyes are wrong!" Look, it's like it's not like the iron egg passed out yesterday......"

I had doubts in my heart before, and when Jin Facai shouted like this, I guessed that eight or nine were not far from ten, and I thought that Ah Zi had said before that all the fellow villagers walked to the rainbow pool and fell into the water like delirium, so according to this view, among these people, they have the same soulless disease, and even, this person may be Ah Zi's fellow villagers!

I took a closer look at the bloodshot in the man's cloudy pupils, and I quickly took out the soul-scattering decoction powder from my bag, rubbed some with my two fingers, and poured some water into him, but the man did not resist, and let me lift his neck and pour the medicinal soup into his mouth.

When I let go, he continued to do his thing, putting the noodles out of the pot and on the table, and then beckoning the passers-by in his native dialect. Except for his eyes that are a little dull, he is no different from ordinary people.

After waiting on the side for five or six minutes, seeing that he didn't change anything, I slammed the Xiangfei bamboo fan in my hand three times on his Tianling Gai, he just turned his head to look at me, and then continued to shout at him.

Jin Facai and I didn't know what to do, when we saw another aunt come over, muttered a few words to the man, and then took out a small pebble like a mung bean from his pocket and put it on the plate on the table, and picked a few pebbles the size of rice grains from the plate and put them in a bag, then took a bowl of vermicelli and a roast chicken and walked away, as if completing a transaction.

Similarly, the aunt who bought vermicelli and roast chicken also had cloudy and dull eyes, which was no different from soul loss.

Jin Facai asked softly, "Big official, why is your medicine powder not working?" Didn't the iron egg last time be cured? ”

I remember Bingbing told me that their family's medical book said that this loss of soul disease, one is that it may be possessed by the Yin Spirit, and the other is that it may lead the soul to be dispersed for some reason, from the current situation, the loss of the soul of Sister Ming and Tie Dan last time is more likely to be possessed by the Yin Soul, and the situation of these fellow villagers should belong to the latter, that is, their three souls and seven spirits are no longer complete.

The two of us continued to hurry, although there were many pedestrians on the road, but on closer inspection, they were all like walking corpses, and they had their own ways of communicating with each other, but they were all expressionless. Along the way, we also saw the transactions of many roadside stalls, and their circulating currencies were all green stones of different sizes, such as mung beans and rice, and large ones such as broad beans and peanuts.

Kim Fa Cai laughed on the side, and I looked at him suspiciously: "What, are you stupid too?" ”

"Great official, do you know what it means to be a descendant of the God of Windfall? I kind of understood, even if we don't want to get rich, this money will be sent by ourselves. After speaking, he patted his big bulging trouser pocket, and it made a noise. He reached out and took out a pebble the size of a fish ball: "Look at the souvenirs picked up in the riverbed in front of you, this one is not the biggest, hehehe." ”

Although I don't know how much a green stone is worth here, judging from the big bowl of vermicelli and a roast chicken from the aunt in front of me, only a stone the size of a mung bean and change, it should be enough for a long time.

The two of them were on the side of the road for a while, and suddenly their shoulders sank, and when they looked back, they saw Li Youwu putting one hand on my shoulder, crooked his mouth and said with a light smile: "I finally found you, I turned out to make a fortune here." ”

"Ouch mom, little plum, where did you come out of here, how did you ...... Huh? What about them? Jin Facai glanced behind him, and I also noticed that he was alone, and there was no one else with him.

"Follow me." Li Youwu didn't say much, turned around and walked towards a small alley on the side, and Jin Facai and I followed closely.

This small alley can only walk two or three people wide, turning around, after many forks, finally stopped in front of a small courtyard, Li Youwu gently patted on the door three times, paused and patted four times, as if playing a code. After a while, there were five knocks on the door, and Li Youwu whispered, "I found them." ”

The door creaked open, and it was a tiger and a leopard guarding the door, and there were three or four men in national uniforms with steel knives in their hands, but they looked like they were accompanying the tiger and leopard brothers to guard the door, and they nodded to us to show friendship, and their eyes were not as muddy as those outside.

"Master Zang, Boss Jin, come in and take a look." Ah Hu led us to the courtyard house, Ah Bao immediately plugged in the door bolt, and the men stayed by the door and did not follow in.

I looked around and felt that the courtyard was not very large, surrounded by a circle of wooden houses on stilts, in the middle of which was a patio about ten meters square, surrounded by a few torches, and the patio was empty, only a well and a pile of dry firewood, and there were no plants.

Walking into the door of the main hall in the middle, through the papier-mâché pane, there was some candlelight, Ah Hu pushed the door in, Li Youwu turned back to me and said, "Big official, look at what's going on." ”

I saw him frowning slightly, as if some problem could not be solved, so I stepped into the door, and there was a vague apprehension in my heart.

When you step into the room, the whole room is full of people sitting and standing.

Standing were a few men and women dressed in ordinary ethnic attire at the door, as well as Company Commander Wang and Ah Zi and two soldiers with faces, and sitting on the ground were a few soldiers with familiar faces from Tiedan, as well as several soldiers with faces, and these faces should be the comrades who were separated from the other two teams.

When Company Commander Wang saw me enter the house, he hurriedly walked over and said, "Master, come and see what is wrong with them. ”

When Ah Zi saw us coming in, he also hurried in front of me, first excited, then pointed to the people sitting on the ground, and shook his head at me.

When I saw that everyone was there, I breathed a sigh of relief and looked around the room, although there was not much furniture, it was clean and tidy, and there were many bedding piled up on the stools on the wall, which should be a lot of people living in normal times.

I saw that there was nothing wrong with the few people standing, so I walked towards the people pointed by Ah Zi, and when I squatted down, I found that these people were tied hand and foot with ropes.

Company Commander Wang said softly: "After coming out of the cave, a few of them seemed to have lost their souls, and they didn't listen to their names, they just walked around by themselves, there was no way, they were tied up and brought over first, fortunately, there were these fellow villagers in the forest to lead the way." ”

As I listened, I observed the eyes of the soldiers sitting on the ground one by one, and sure enough, like the pedestrians outside, their eyes were cloudy, and their pupils were bloodshot.

"Well, it's soul loss, and the soul is incomplete." I said.

"Lost souls? Is there any salvation? Ah Zi asked.

I shook my head: "I don't know, this is a little different from the situation I encountered before, I don't know how to recover for the time being, first I have to figure out what caused it, but it shouldn't be caused by fright." ”

I pointed to the men and women in national costumes and asked Ah Zi, "Are these your lost fellow countrymen?" ”

Ah Zi nodded: "Well, yes, yes, there are a few of them from our clan, and a few more...... I haven't seen them, but they're members of the same clan as us. ”

I stood up, nodded to them, and asked, "Can you tell me, what the hell is this place, and how did you get here?" ”

Those men didn't seem to understand my words, and looked at Ah Zi in confusion.

Ah Zi said: "There are not many people in our clan who have been out of the mountains, and many of them can't speak Chinese, so if you have anything to ask, I'll translate it." ”

So, with Ah Zi's help, after some inquiry, I finally knew the general ins and outs of the whole incident:

A few years ago, on the night when Ah Zi and their New Year were celebrated, since Ah Zi and Ah Uncle fled the mountain, when the sky was slightly bright, all the clansmen thought that there would be no more danger and prepared to go home separately.

At this time, suddenly there was a gust of wind blowing in the mountains, first all the roosters flew up to the roof and began to crow loudly, then the black dogs in the village began to bark towards the mountain road, and then all the peacocks of the Azi family flew away in groups as if they were frightened......

The sorcerer Fadhan, who was praying for blessings, suddenly spurted blood from his mouth, fell on the fire, and was instantly burned all over his body by a ball of blue fire, just when everyone stepped forward to save him, the whole valley was covered by a black mist, and a few people with blue eyes could be vaguely seen, standing in the crowd with extremely fast movements, they were holding something like a crockpot in their hands, and everywhere they went, the people in that place suddenly became stunned.

In about a moment, all the people, including the King of Daoyan and his family, as well as the other clansmen, the cows, horses, pigs and dogs in the cottage, all seemed to have lost their souls, and followed a bewitching woman towards the river valley.

"A woman with a voluptuous figure?" Jin Facai interrupted Ah Zi's words, what does this woman look like?

Ah Zi explained: "It is said that the woman is slender, but her appearance can't tell the specific age, just a faint look at the front of the team, these fellows were very sober at the time, and they wanted to resist with a knife, but because the situation at that time was too terrifying, they didn't dare to behave strangely for fear of being discovered by the woman, so they could only pretend to be sluggish and follow everyone together." ”

"Oh...... And what about later. How did you get here? I continued.

Later, all the animals and animals walked to the cliff wall of the waterfall as seen in Ah Zi's telescope, and jumped down into the pool one by one, and the few people who were clear and sane didn't know whether they were scared to run or were surrounded by crowds of people who couldn't hide, and when they found themselves standing on the edge of the cliff, before they could react, they were squeezed down the rainbow pool by the people behind.

When they fell into the water, they were sucked into the bottom of the river by an undercurrent, and by the time they came to their senses, they were already in a dark passage, with clusters of blue-green points of light, leading everyone into the forest.

In the same way, everyone followed the woman into the Yunnan and Yue Netherworlds along the forest, and after entering the city, they found that there were already many people living here, and they were all dressed in the same way as their nation, and they had their own accommodations in terms of clothing, food, housing, and transportation.

"Oh? That is, before you entered the city, there were already people here? "When I heard this, I was a little surprised, I thought that the inhabitants here were only those people of Ah Zi, but I didn't expect that there were people who lived earlier, and most of them lost their souls.

"Yes." Ah Zi translated: "Although they have been inhabited for a long time, they are all the same race as us, so the language and customs are exactly the same. ”

I couldn't figure it out for a moment, so I pointed to the people who were standing and continued to ask, "What about them...... How did you get here? Whose house is this? How do they live? ”

After some communication, I realized that after all the soulless clansmen entered the city, the woman who led the way disappeared without a trace, leaving a few retinues with blue eyes and settling them in batches to different places, and these people with clear minds were mixed in the crowd and arranged to live here.

Every three or two months, the people in the city would be taken to work outside the city walls in batches, most of them were farming, farming, cutting and transporting, and the blue-eyed guards didn't care much about them, and after sending them out of the city, they left on their own, and when the city gate was opened again, the people outside the city returned to the city on their own. After returning to the city, he went to the temple to receive the reward, and got some green stones, which were used as currency circulation in the city.

When the people are not working, they make a living in the city, and the same is true for those who set up stalls and open shops.

I was more and more confused, how could they get in and out of the gate, which had disappeared since we entered the city? And why are these sane clansmen so different that they can persist until now without being discovered? How did they meet Li Youwu and Ah Zi? ……

There were more and more questions, and I was sorting out my thoughts to interrogate more clearly, when I suddenly heard three loud knocks on the door outside the silent courtyard......