Chapter 8: Smallpox
A whole day passed, Huang Yilan did not appear again, and at night there were no villagers guarding the cliff crossing, but there were still people guarding the entrance of the village, and the village was more guarded, and people with dogs could be seen walking back and forth from time to time.
Perhaps the villagers have realized that Huang Yilan is unreliable and put him under house arrest. In such an incredible place, anything terrible can happen, if the villagers find out that Huang Yilan has leaked the secret, they may sacrifice him alive, burn him to death, etc., I can't get restless when I think of this.
Ling Fengpiao, Ouyang Zhenfei and Kompasu all said that they would rush into the village to save people, but I didn't agree, maybe things haven't gotten to that bad yet, maybe Huang Yilan is just being stared at and can't come out, I should give him a little time. The thing of unknown origin in the village temple is quite powerful, and Xiaoxue and I are not its opponents, and I don't want to enter the village again. And I promised Huang Yilan not to take the initiative to hurt the villagers, and if I rushed, it would inevitably cause damage, wouldn't I break my promise?
We waited anxiously all night, and the next day I lurked on the cliff behind the village and waited for another day, but Huang Yilan still did not appear, and the villagers were still very guarded. But soon after dark, there was a turnaround, the clouds gradually dispersed, a full moon rose in the east, and the villagers who were guarding the outside of the village and patrolling the village hurried into their houses.
I was in good spirits, Huang Yilan said that every time there is moonlight on a full moon night, the villagers will hide in the house and not come out, today is September 14th, which is considered a full moon. The full moon is a gradual process from decline to prosperity, and then from prosperity to decline, the moon has been completed on the fourteenth night, and the fifteenth night is the limit of perfection, and it is also the beginning of incompleteness, and the sixteenth night has begun to decay, so the strongest Taiyin essence is only these three days.
Most demon cultivators need to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, so they are very sensitive to the full moon, and there are also many supernatural events that occur on the night of the full moon due to the earth's magnetic field, gravity, and tidal changes. I believe that the villagers hid in the house and did not come out because they did not dare to expose themselves to the moonlight, so if there is an evil spirit inside the temple, it is controlling the village, then it must also be afraid of the moonlight, and the night of the full moon is when it is weakest!
I can't wait any longer, tonight is the perfect time for me to act!
Originally, I was worried that Ling Fengpiao, the troublemaker, would be noisy and want to go together, but I didn't expect that he, Ouyang Zhenfei, and Compass were all consciously staying, and when they were separated, they repeatedly told me to be careful, go early and return early, and so on. It seems that my tireless education has not been in vain, and the two of them have finally begun to be sensible, and I am very relieved!
Walking briskly all the way to the entrance of the village, I used the invisibility charm to enter the stealth state and then walked inside, Xiaoxue tried her best to restrain her demonic energy so as not to alarm the things in the temple.
When I got to the first courtyard, I couldn't help but stop, thinking of the old man who smoked dry tobacco, if he really lived for hundreds of years, day after day, year after year, what was the point of his life? This family lives in poverty, but refuses to accept pesticides, fertilizers and excellent seedlings, is it happiness to survive like this? I listened quietly for a while, and the topics in it were different from the last time, but there were still all kinds of complaints and dissatisfaction with the status quo, and these words may have been repeated countless times, so they seemed empty and numb.
Walking to the front of the second house, I heard the young man who was trapped in love still sighing, I began to sympathize with him, I had a crush on a person for hundreds of years, he was greater than the gods, is he suffering or happiness in life?
In the third house, a little girl was crying, and the young mother was coaxing her...... I am also a young man, and I know the pain of not having a father. There is also the young mother, who has a child she can't raise, and has endured pain and longing for countless days to deceive the child, it is better to die, but how can she leave the child?
I suddenly thought of my mother, and my eyes moistened a little......
When I walked further and turned to Huang Yilan's house, I saw a small temple in the distance. It is a bit of a compliment to say that it is a temple, but in fact, a hole was carved out of the stone slope, a shed was built outside, and a half circle of low walls were built with stones. It looks simple, but it may be a long time, or there are fairies and spirits, and it seems to have a mysterious atmosphere.
I resisted the urge to go over and take a look, walked towards Huang Yilan's house, and climbed into his yard. I gently pushed the door and bolted it from the inside, I could sense that there was a person in each of the east and west rooms, so I walked to the side where Huang Yilan lived and gently clicked on the window twice.
Huang Yilan quickly walked to the window, gently pushed open the window, but couldn't see me invisible, I whispered: "It's me, Zhang Xuanming, are you okay?" ”
Huang Yilan was startled, and said nervously in a suppressed voice: "It's okay, it's okay, but they won't let me go out." You go quickly, if someone finds out......"
Before Huang Yilan's words were finished, I sensed the same powerful aura fluctuations as last time, and the light suddenly brightened, and the already bright moonlight became even brighter. I was taken aback, and hurriedly took two steps back to look up at Xiangshang to see that the moon was still the real moon, but it was much brighter than before, and it looked unreal and a little unstable.
Xiaoxue was also a little nervous, but this time she didn't tell me to run away, and the dogs in the village began to bark wildly, and the people were noisy, and the whole village was in a commotion.
This time, Xiaoxue didn't use demonic power, how could she alarm the things in the temple again? I was really curious, and my invisibility was still there, so I didn't rush to leave, but waited and watched with high vigilance.
Huang Yilan ran out, didn't see me, thought I was gone, and rushed out of the yard. Immediately afterwards, his mother also came out, and was the same as the person Xiaoxue showed me the day before yesterday, a young woman of twenty-five or sixteen years old who looked quite good. But the next moment she appeared in the moonlight, her face immediately changed, her eye sockets were deeply sunken and blackened, and there were many soybean-sized bulging pustules on her face, which were densely stacked in many places and had festered, which was shocking and disgusting, and her body exuded the smell of decay and death.
I was so surprised that I couldn't hold back my voice, but Xiaoxue exclaimed in my head: "Oh my God, this is very terrible smallpox, it is contagious!" ”
I was frightened and took a few steps backwards, smallpox I had heard, and it was said that the number of people who died from smallpox in the first half of the century reached 3-500 million, far more than the death toll from war and other plagues. But after the eighties, it was completely controlled, and all shijie was gone, so I had never seen it, and now it is actually in front of my eyes!
The young woman's face suddenly returned to its normal appearance, and she was a little hesitant to go out, and in the short time she hesitated, her face suddenly became normal, and suddenly changed two or three times like a dead corpse, and this change was even more terrifying!
At this time, many shouts came from the direction of the village entrance: "Catch them!" "Stop them and kill them!"
Ling Fengpiao's voice: "**, this is ......"
Ouyang Zhenfei's voice: "It's disgusting! ”
Compass's voice: "Amitabha! ”
I was shocked and angry, no wonder they didn't clamor to come just now, it turned out that they had discussed and secretly followed me, and it was they who alarmed the things in the small temple! But now is not the time to blame them, it is important to save people, so I ran as fast as I could in the direction of the village entrance.
The villagers came out of their houses, armed with machetes, hoes, brooms, etc., and surrounded the compasses and others and began to attack tentatively. These villagers all had smallpox, and they were suddenly normal in the moonlight, and suddenly their faces were festering and pus-flowing, disgusting and terrifying, only the compass was still calm, and Ling Fengpiao and Ouyang Zhenfei had already weakened their feet.
"Stop!" I yelled and rushed over, undoing my invisibility, if they hurt my friends and juniors, even if I promised Yilan, I would do it.
Huang Yilan ran slower than me, and arrived at about this time, shouting: "Stop, you have something to say, don't hit someone!" ”
The villagers didn't attack Kompasu again, and got out of the way for me to go inside, and then surrounded me with me.
Surrounded by so many terrible people, even though my nerves were already considered big, I was still in a cold sweat, Ouyang Zhenfei was the worst, and she was already bending over and pressing her stomach and vomiting. It's not just people who are scary, but also their diseases, maybe we've been infected!
Huang Yilan had never seen the villagers like this before, and was very shocked, but she still ran close to the crowd and shouted: "Folks, please listen to me, they have no malicious intentions, don't do it, if you have something to discuss......"
"They know about us, and they can't let them leave!" A vicious-looking man said that the day before yesterday he was the one who broke the compass's head.
"yes, we can't let them go!" Many people immediately chimed in, waving the weapons in their hands, and killing Dasheng.
I believe that these villagers are kind by nature, but in order to keep their biggest secret, it is absolutely possible to kill people, with Huang Yilan's prestige, he usually can't control them, where can he stop them now? It can only be solved by force!
"Get out!" I screamed, rushed to the people in the direction of the village, bullied a villager with lightning speed, grabbed his stick and threw him hard, and threw him into the people next to him. I snatched my stick and swept it, knocking down several of them in the blink of an eye, these villagers had no foundation in martial arts, and their speed, explosiveness, and skill were far from being comparable to me, and they were vulnerable in front of me. I was still merciful, and I grabbed sticks, not machetes, and I didn't attack them in lethal parts.
Xiaoxue used a spell at the same time, confusing several villagers on the left, right and rear, allowing them to attack their own people and create chaos. Compass and Ouyang Zhenfei haven't reacted yet, but Ling Fengpiao, a small river and lake with rich experience in fighting, followed me with one hand.
I easily broke through the encirclement, but I was surprised to find that the road out of the village was gone, surrounded by houses, and farther away there was a white light, and I could not see the distance, which had a similar effect to the fog.
The things in the small temple were shot, we were disoriented, and to make matters worse, the villagers were enraged, men, women, and children rushed at us angrily with weapons.