Looking at the curtains blown by the wind blowing in the window, Lao Wu remembered all the things they had experienced in the past few days, and his thoughts blew from the side with the wind, and were taken away from the other side, leaving only himself and this quiet ward, as well as the stool where Li Huan was still sitting just now.

It turns out that the old man Bai in this bathhouse has already died, and he doesn't know how many years he has been dead, and now the old man who opened the bathhouse is actually Zhang Mao of the Zhang family in the Houtang Temple, and his father pretended to open it, and he has always done those things.

It stands to reason that the matter of this Zhang family was more than 30 years ago, it was still the early days of the Republic of China, if this old man lived to be eighty or ninety years old, but how do you look at the old man of the Zhang family does not look like a person of such an age, and he suddenly changed his body in the end, isn't he already dead, but he is alive for some reason? That's what Lao Wu thought, but Li Huan told him what was going on.

A few days before Li Huan left, he actually went to the "Sixteen Institutes" that he didn't know where to hide. According to scholars in the horizontal underground cave after the investigation and some historical records, the ancient people of Juyu discovered this unknown who built the underground palace, but also imitated the predecessors to do the sacrifice of eternal life, but in the end everything is just an illusion, is the underground that is still alive black copper taro sandalwood after the impact of the illusion, there is no immortality and nothing immortal, just a strange impact on the creature caused by a species that is not yet unknown, scholars named it "black copper taro sandalwood!" ”

Black copper taro sandalwood is an ancient big tree, that is, the sandalwood that is now said, its origin has not been investigated, but most of the black copper taro sandalwood in ancient times was cut and transported from Shennongjia Yanziya. But when a living plant of black copper taro sandalwood with rhizomes spreading for dozens of kilometers was found under Hengshan, this provided excellent research materials for Li Huan's so-called research, and he also put aside the small pieces of black copper taro sandalwood artifacts he had received, concentrating on studying this living mysterious plant. And then in a very short time. I have cracked a lot of things that have been spread in the past about the myths of black copper taro sandalwood.

This kind of black-black sandalwood with the aroma of taro is particularly rare before it was used by the ancients, a plant can survive for thousands of years without dying, and there is no living creature near the place where the black copper taro sandalwood grows, it is because of this characteristic that it was worshiped as a sacred object by the ancients, so it is mostly used as a ritual and other ancient traditional ritual utensils, but the taro aroma it emits is a deadly toxin.

The smell of taro emitted by black copper taro sandalwood is indeed poisonous. However, it is not directly fatal, but it can seriously affect the brains of creatures that inhale this smell, causing these close creatures to become crazy and murderous, and even start killing their own kind or committing suicide. Some scholars describe this behavior as this extreme evolution of black copper taro sandalwood in order to protect itself; Others say that the black copper taro sandalwood actually has to survive on the nutrients brought to the soil after the death of the organism, in short, it all revolves around the strange behavior of the gas affecting the brains of living beings.

But with the advent of intelligent humans, humans will not go berserk like ordinary creatures after inhaling gas, and will do some unexplained behavior, as if they are controlled by something. In fact, it's just that the brain is diseased, and the perception of the outside world becomes weaker, and it will gradually become unable to control its behavior with the appearance of hallucinations.

And every few years, the black copper taro will regain its activity, and the gas will also cover a large area, and a large number of affected organisms will kill each other under the tree. It can even temporarily resurrect the dead creature in the distance, and slowly move it under the tree with stiff arms and legs. The new death decomposition, but all nourished this black copper taro sandalwood, this is the secret of its ability to survive for thousands of years, it should be a perfect evolution, but it was discovered and used by humans to almost extinct it, which is ridiculous and sad.

It is said that there should have been some Jews who left from Yokoyama alive. Their descendants may still be scattered all over the country now, and it is certain that these Juyu people must have a black copper taro carved object in their hands, and this Zhang family should be. But the tablet in Zhang's hand has the characteristics of this ordinary black copper taro sandalwood, it can actually delay aging in nearby people or creatures, this old man should be more than ninety years old. But because he has a tablet in his hand, he has always maintained the appearance of being fifty or sixty years old, but like those sons, he was hurt by the breath of black copper taro sandalwood, and he is no longer a normal person, but he still remembers an ancient traditional ritual, that is, the eternal sacrifice.

To put it bluntly, this sacrifice is just that the black copper taro sandalwood has reached the active period, and it has begun to cause large-scale toxin release to the surroundings, but human beings wishfully think that their sacrifice has worked. Old man Zhang should have died a long time ago, and the reason why he has survived until now is because of the role played by that tablet. But when the active period of black copper taro sandalwood arrived, its nature also changed, it was originally allowed to delay the aging of creatures, but it suddenly changed into accelerated corruption, this old man was actually dead at that moment, and then he was called alive, which would attack them.

I don't know why it came to Xu Xiaolin later, Lao Wu remembered that he was invited by Xu Xiaolin for several meals, so he wanted Li Huan to help return the money owed to him, Lao Wu didn't want to owe people things and friendship, so he was afraid that he would not pay it back in the future.

But when it came to this matter, Li Huan paused for a while, turned his head and looked at the window for a long time before telling Lao Wu that Xu Xiaolin had someone in the old bathhouse a few days ago who wanted to use the tablet to make sacrifices, and something bad might happen. Li Huan rushed back all the way after receiving the news, originally wanting to see the situation first, mainly to understand what the sacrifice of black copper taro Tan meant, what could happen, and whether it could really arouse the dead. But when the moon red ghost door opened, it was a little late to act, causing many unsuspecting people to be bitten to death by the walking corpses, they went directly to the bathhouse, settled the matter, and when they went to the public security bureau to find Xu Xiaolin, they found that he had died in the public security bureau, in order to cover the public security officers on duty at night for several nights, he was trapped on the first floor by several walking corpses, he saved many people, but he couldn't save himself, and the last bullet was left for himself, which was the gunfire that Lao Wu heard them.

Lao Wu didn't expect it to be like this, when they first heard the gunshot, they could go to the Public Security Bureau and maybe they could rescue Xu Xiaolin, although the impression of the young man was not very good, but when I heard Li Huan say that he committed suicide after being trapped in order to cover the escape of others, there was a feeling in my heart, which could not be said to be self-blame, because they were already unable to protect themselves, and they could only be said to be sad. In the past, the world was that you couldn't live while kneeling, but now you stand up, but your knees are broken, and people with injuries often choose to escape, and people with ambition and enthusiasm are desperate on the battlefield, and they are left with little people, and there will not be many people who know when they are alive, and if they die, at most a handful of loess will be scattered on the grave, and nothing will be left over time, so how many people just live for the sake of living, and how many people still remember the original intention and essence.

I don't know how long it took, but when I saw Hu Dawei looking into the house, and when I found that Li Huan had left and only Lao Wu himself, I pushed open the door and went in, not knowing what I was carrying. Leaned over and sat on the stool, and threw the things in his hand on Lao Wu, which was an oily paper bag, and the cracks of the paper were still oozing with oil.

"Hey, I said, when did Li Huan leave? What did you tell him again? Is there any benefit? Look! Hurry up and eat it! This is still the little brother who bought it from the outside for me, aren't you just like this? I knew you must be hungry, but unfortunately there is no wine, this thing is not easy to bring in, and I am not embarrassed. Hu grinned shyly.

Lao Wu didn't speak, and slowly opened the oil paper bag, which contained a few roasted wild birds, which could be bigger than swallows and a lot in the mountains but not easy to catch, Lao Wu usually didn't eat much, but he was really good at this bite.

Holding the oiled paper bag, Lao Wu remembered what the fourth child said that night before the walking corpse rushed in, so he directly picked up a roasted oily mountain bird and took a bite, turned his head sideways and said to Hu Dafang: "We used to live too meaty, just like that broken melon, there is no oil, water and no taste, and we won't live like this in the future!" (To be continued......)