Chapter 54: Witchcraft
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Ling Jitian said that those Ran people who were recalled could no longer get used to the isolated and backward life of their tribe's seclusion. The pen & fun & pavilion persuaded www.biquge.info patriarch to move out and integrate with the outside world, but the patriarch did not agree. For the sake of freedom, they decided to unleash an internal revolt... They are the remnants of the Ran tribe, after thousands of years of development, the number of people at that time was more than now, and they lived in seclusion here, just like a small country, in addition to various clan rules and laws, people also have hierarchies. The highest rank is naturally the patriarch, below is the wizard, then down is the steward, and then below is the ordinary people. Among them, the wizards are equivalent to the law enforcement officers and defense personnel of our world, and they hold the top secret of the Ran tribe - the witch charm, which is used to control all the people and prevent foreign invasions. The sorcerers have sworn that if they betray the patriarch, the snake spirits will descend and bite them to death...
Therefore, those people have internal changes, and the first thing to deal with is the wizard. Wizards are not that easy to deal with, and they have a lot of work to do with it. Eventually, after one of the clan's rituals, they poured the poison they had brought back from the outside world into the wine that the wizards drank, poisoned all the wizards, and then killed the patriarch in the chaos... In this way, their fate can finally be controlled by themselves, and they can leave this place safely. However, in the end, they did not make it. The patriarch is dead, the wizard is dead, the steward is not. The 'inner changelers' were about to flee this place, but they were chased and intercepted by the calm steward and his clansmen, and they were caught and subjected to a punishment that was even more cruel than burning themselves in the fire.
Although the internal change failed, it was not without meaning... A clan must not be left without strengths, and after the execution of the inner transformers. And the stewards consulted together and elected a new chief from among them. However, due to the killing of those sorcerers and the previous patriarchs, the core thing that had been monopolized by them, the magic spells passed down from the ancestors, were lost. In this way, the people were no longer under control, and one after another people fled to the outside world. Over the years, more than half of the people have been lost. The rest are people who are used to life here and don't want to go out.
Finally, one day, the successor patriarch couldn't sit still, and if he wanted to change back to the previous situation, he had to restore the witch spell, but how to recover this? … After thinking about it, he decided that it would be better to send reliable people to the outside world. According to the ancestors, during the period of the ancient Ran Kingdom that ruled the outside world, their Ran clan would carve sporadic witchcraft spell symbols in the tombs of some nobles, sacrificial temples and other places... Then send someone to find it, collect those spell symbols, dripping water can pass through stones, list and sort out the various symbols collected, and over time, one day you should be able to restore the lost witch spells in the clan...
Also, continue to search for the bronze people, as well as the whereabouts of those Yang family members. Looking for the bronze man is because it is a holy relic, and looking for the Yang family is because those Yang family members were dealt with by the sorcerers of the clan back then... Back then, because the Yang family refused to hand over the holy relics, after the wizards of the Ran clan passed, they relied on witch spells to summon a mysterious power to envelop everyone in the Yang family, so that all of them could not escape, and they were slowly executed one by one. Later, the old man of the Yang family made a 'contract' with the wizard, although that power was taken away, but the physique of their Yang family has undergone subtle changes, which is like using a magnet to attract iron sand, after the magnet is removed, those iron sand will be magnetic, almost the truth... The 'change' of the Yang family's physique will be passed on to future generations, and once they are found, they can be used to regain the magic spell that summons that mysterious power...
"How do you get the law?" I couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know." Ling Jitian said, "Ran Guohua didn't tell me. ”
I nodded, and suddenly realized something... Back then, the remaining Yang family members followed Gao Qien to Gaojia Village by the Yellow River, stayed for two days and then went north... From the Yellow River to the north, where did they go? … My heart beat rapidly, and I repeatedly recalled Ling Jitian's words just now... The physique of those Yang family members has changed, and it has been passed on to future generations... Variation... Posterity... Could it be ......
Listen to Ling Jitian continue, "That's why, the reason why Ran Guohua is engaged in tomb robbing, he wants to get the spell symbols left by their ancestors from the ancient tombs, or some ruins, so as to restore the lost witch spells of their clan. ”
"And the result? So many things that the 'seniors' haven't done, won't they be completed by him? I said.
"Hehe..."Ling Jitian smiled, "If it weren't for that, how could I come to this place?" ”
"Was he really done?" I was surprised.
"Completed a..."Ling Jitian said, "This Ran Guohua, on the surface, looks rustic, very wooden, but in fact, his IQ is very high. In addition to robbing tombs and looking for ruins, he also ran to some ancient villages and old towns where the ancient Shu Ran people once lived, looking for clues, relying on the various materials and Ran symbols collected, and in the end, he really found a kind of ancient Ran witch spell..."
"And then?" I asked.
Then he came back to his life. After returning to meet me, we went to the county seat where Boss Cao was. At that time, there were several people with Boss Cao, and I didn't know them. At the wine table, those people seemed to be evasive of me and kept pouring me wine. I pretended to be drunk, and they helped me into the room, and when they were gone, I quietly ran to the door and eavesdropped, and I heard something quite unbelievable..."
"What?" I asked nervously.
"Hehe..."Ling Jitian shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"What's wrong, Uncle Ling?"
Ling Jitian looked at me, "If I say, I don't remember what I heard at that time, do you believe it?" ”
I, Master, Xiang Feng, and the three of them looked at him in amazement.
"Don't remember?"
"Hmm." Ling Jitian said, "At that time, I was so engrossed in listening that I didn't even pay attention to someone coming in through the small door of the room, and I was knocked unconscious. When I woke up, I found myself lying in a ravine, looking up at the high cliffs. After being stunned for a while, I realized that I was thrown down, or I was cast a spell and fell off the cliff by myself, and I had a backpack and trekking poles not far away... It's just that I didn't fall to my death. However, my face..."Ling Jitian lowered his head in pain, "I don't know if it was completely ruined by the protruding rock tip or tree branches, and my hands and feet were also broken at that time." I didn't know where I got the perseverance, but after crawling for nearly an afternoon, I met a kind passer-by boss who rescued me in the car and dragged me to the hospital. I couldn't even speak, let alone write, and my facial features were ruined. The boss couldn't know who I was, where my home was, and how much he helped me pay for my medical expenses. During that time in the hospital, I thought about it, the people who harmed me must be Ran Guohua, Boss Cao, and the reason is that I heard something I shouldn't have heard. However, what the hell is going on, I can't even remember the headache I think, but I vaguely remember it is incredible... Later, I had to stop thinking about it, calm down, I think Ran Guohua is very mysterious, what he told me, about their Ran clan and so on, I don't dare to believe that it is true, but if it is a fabricated story, I can't find any flaws... It's impossible for me to go back to my hometown in Shandong, what is the boss of the lighting factory, this time I didn't die, next time, I won't be so lucky. So, where can I go like this? Thinking about it, I still desperately want to know if what Ran Guohua told me about his identity is true... After the injury was healed, I quietly went back to Shandong to take a look, and found that my building had been demolished, and Ran Guohua didn't know where he went. Back in Sichuan, I came to the Qionglai Mountains in western Sichuan to find the legendary land of Ran Min. I don't know if it's because my goal is to find it, so the effort pays off, or if there is a providence in the dark, wandering around in the deep mountains and old forests for a month or two, I really stumbled into this place by mistake... At that time, these Ran people surrounded me and asked me what I did, and I said that I was a homeless man with no relatives and no reason. According to the clan rules, they wanted to kill me, but one of the leaders said that they just didn't have a mausoleum guard here, so let me guard the mausoleum. Since then, I've stayed here and become a mausoleum keeper, accompanied by only a photo of Xiao'er that I always carry with me..."
When Ling Jitian said this, the stone of the pot couldn't withstand the charcoal fire, and it blew off a corner with a snap, if I hadn't held it quickly, the pot would have been on the ground.
"I'm going to find a rock." Ling Jitian said.
After he left, I said, "How much do you think his words are credible?" ”
"How?" Xiang Feng looked at me.
"I think he's hiding something from us..."
Ling Jitian came back soon, and after putting the pot up, he looked around at us, and his eyes fell on me, "Xiao Leng, my business is over, it's time for you to say it, why are you here?" ”
Since Ling Jitian doesn't believe that Yuxin is Ling Xiao, I skip talking about her, and pick up the important things, like Ling Jitian's building was not demolished, but was cast, and the nameless mountain village of Taihang Mountain disappeared out of thin air... I told him about it, and he was stunned when he listened.
The meat was almost stewed, we broke a clay pot, made a bowl from the bottom of the pot, and even added the meat to the soup, and drank some in turn, so that the leader of the Ran clan woke up and gave him some to drink. Seeing that his mental strength had recovered, I was about to ask again about the 'Ancient Curse', when Master suddenly pressed my arm and looked out...
"What's wrong, Master?" I was shocked.
"Everyone, be careful, it seems that something unclean is coming..."
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