I have an invisibility charm, and I can go directly into the village in broad daylight without alarming others, but I still choose to act at night, because strange things often happen at night, and I must gain more at night than during the day.

Ling Fengpiao, Ouyang Zhenfei and Kompasu were waiting for me on the cliff far away from the village, and I repeatedly warned them not to follow, to wait in peace, and I would definitely come back before dawn.

Today is the twelfth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and there should be more than half a moon after nine o'clock in the evening, but the sky is full of dark clouds, and there is no light of stars and moons, and the village is under the Grand Canyon, which looks even darker. I followed the path to the outside of the village, and I could only see a few small bright spots flickering in the houses, which felt particularly strange in the night—there were no electric lights in this village, only kerosene lamps or candles.

"Watch out for someone up ahead!" Xiaoxue suddenly reminded me.

In fact, I also sensed that there were two people hiding behind rocks on the side of the road, one left and one right. The villagers knew that we had not gone far and were afraid that we would return, so they sent two men to ambush here, which also showed that they had ghosts in their hearts.

The village is backed by a cliff, but it is not immediately below it, and the river is not so low, but hangs alone on a fault that is not too high. There are huge rocks more than ten meters high on the east and north sides of the village, and most of the west and south sides are suspended in the air, and there is only one way into the village. In ancient times, in order to prevent bandits from attacking, remote villages would choose such a treacherous terrain and difficult to defend and attack, which is not surprising.

I used the invisibility charm to enter the invisibility state, and walked directly over with a light step, and the two strong men were completely unaware of it.

When I looked closer, I thought it was a little strange that when I looked at it from a distance during the day, I felt very old and dilapidated, and the style of the house was relatively old. But now that I look closer, I find that the houses in the village are not particularly dilapidated, the houses are not obviously damaged, the ground is clean, and the stone mills and wells are in good order.

Most of the residents here have yards, and I was close to the first one at the entrance of the village, so I easily jumped over the courtyard wall, walked to the gate, and looked through the doorway, and just saw an old man in his fifties and sixties sitting on a low stool smoking a dry tobacco. His hair was gray and a little messy, his face was wrinkled and deep, his brows were tightly locked, and his big hand holding the cigarette stick was rough and cracked like old bark, giving people a feeling of being weathered and miserable.

An elderly woman's voice came from inside: "...... The harvest was not good, and there was not enough to eat this year, so I took advantage of the good weather to turn over the ground and grow some potatoes. ”

The old man smoked without saying a word, and a middle-aged man's voice said: "Dad, we have to get some money to buy fertilizers and seeds, and learn from people outside, otherwise there will be not enough to eat every year, when will it be a head?" ”

The old man was still silent, and a middle-aged woman inside scolded her husband, saying that she hadn't added new clothes for several years. Then the old woman asked her son to prepare more firewood and grass for the winter...... I listened for a few minutes, and there was always complaining and nagging in it, but the old man never said a word. I have a feeling that they don't have any emotion when they speak, just like the actor who is holding his feet doesn't get into the groove when he reads his lines, or that he really doesn't have anything to say, which feels unnatural.

Did they know that I was eavesdropping outside and deliberately acting for me? This is unlikely. This is a common poor family, there is not the slightest evil spirit from the inside out, perhaps it is the long-term poverty and heavy labor that have made them numb.

I was not interested in hearing them complain, so I went to another house, where the windows were not closed, and I could see a sturdy young man of twenty-five or sixteen walking about in the bedroom, sighing and sighing.

"Alas, weishenme always stammers in front of her, and I forget what I want to say, I'm really useless!"

"Cuihua, Cuihua, if you are willing to say a few words to me, I will die immediately!"

"Alas, it's all my mother's fault, if only I had proposed to her earlier, she wouldn't have stayed alone in the empty room like this, alas, ......"

“……”

I was still listening, but Xiaoxue giggled: "It turns out that he is still an amorous species, why don't we help him make a marriage?" ”

How can I have the heart to give someone else a month old now? Although this young man has some chatter, it is caused by bitter love, which is normal, and he will listen to it in another family.

In the third house, there was only a young mother and a daughter of three or four years old, and the mother was putting her daughter to sleep, while the daughter was crying for her father. The young mother said in a loving but suppressed voice, "Well, go to bed, your father has gone to a far away place to make money, and he will make a lot of money, and he will come back with lots and lots of delicious things, and maybe he will come back when you wake up." ”

The daughter asked, "But Weishenme hasn't come back for so long?" ”

"Because it's a far, far away place, and it's going to take a long time."

"But he didn't come back every day?"

"I will definitely come back tomorrow, obedient ......"

The young mother's voice was a little choked, I couldn't listen anymore, apparently the girl's father would never return.

Everyone here is so real and simple, there is no sign of practicing evil skills, and there is no evil spirit in the village, not like there are demons and monsters, so where does the weirdness come from?

I began to wonder how I felt during the day, and what Compass said, was his erratic "discernment" really reliable? Even if he is a person who has cultivated to the world, it is unlikely that he is still alive after his yang life is exhausted, let alone the ordinary people of an entire village? As for Ouyang Zhenfei's whimsical fountain of eternal life, it is even more of a myth within a myth, and there can be no secret of immortality here.

I am a little vague about the word "Yangshou", because Master did not teach me specific methods of observation, and the secret notes left to me by Master Zeng did not mention it. Judging from what the master said inadvertently before his death, Yangshou is inferred from numerology on the one hand, and from the innate ancestral qi of people on the other. The innate ancestral qi is the innate qi brought by a person when he is born, and it gradually disappears with age, and theoretically the cultivator achieves immortality by keeping it or enhancing it, but this kind of thing cannot be accurately measured even with spells, and the compass can see the whole village at a glance?

But then again, if there were no eccentrics, there would have been two villagers in Weishenme ambushing at the intersection? Weishenme village chief does not have the slightest right to speak, only promised? If it's just a matter of intuition, I think there's something wrong here, or maybe there's a secret hidden here that I haven't touched yet.

Xiaoxue said: "Why should the son be entangled? If he refuses to speak, I will make the spell confuse him, and answer whatever he asks. ”

Normally, I don't approve of using spells on ordinary people, and it will harm the innocent, but this village chief is so suspicious, if he refuses to cooperate, it is really necessary to use some means against him.

The village chief's home is at the back of the village, with a single door and a single courtyard, which is also small and dilapidated compared to this village, which is also in my expectation, how can a village chief who has no right to speak reap the benefits?

I jumped into the courtyard lightly, approached the window, and heard a woman talking inside: "Xiaolan, our family is poor, everyone pooled money to let you study, you have to remember the benefits of the villagers!" ”

"I know." The voice of the young village chief Yilan came from inside, which was a little low and depressed.

"You've grown up, you've read a lot, and you've learned a lot of things, Mom...... Not much more. ”

"Yes, I know."

"Go to sleep, go to bed early if you're okay, save some oil."

"Okay."

Yilan left his mother's room and walked to another room, Xiaoxue said to me in surprise: "It's strange, his mother looks about the same age as him, this, this is too abnormal, right?" ”

Xiaoxue said that Yilan's mother appeared in my mind, but it was a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old woman who looked quite dignified and delicate, and her facial features were not obviously similar to Yilan.

"Maybe it's a hug?" I quickly thought of another possibility.

Xiaoxue immediately retorted: "Impossible, there are only two of them in the house, Yilan looks to be in her twenties, and his mother was only five or six years old at most when he was born, it is impossible to raise him, even if he holds a baby, it will only be commensurate with sister and brother, and it is impossible for mother and son to be commensurate." ”

Indeed, then the source of all strange things must be in their mother and son, and it is necessary to use some means against them! Xiaoxue knew what I wanted, and immediately began to urge the power of the demon spirit, confusing the two people in the house, and controlling Yilan to open the door.

Before the footsteps inside reached the door, I suddenly felt some kind of powerful spiritual power fluctuation, the sky was blank and dazzling, and when I looked up, I saw a full moon in the sky, as bright as day, as if it had illuminated all my internal organs. At the same time, Xiaoxue also screamed: "It's not good, run away!" ”

I have always heard Xiaoxue's warning, and I did not hesitate to turn around and flee immediately, and at this time, the dogs in the village barked wildly.

I sensed that Xiaoxue was scared, and this fear came from the moonlight in the sky. When I looked up, I realized that something was wrong, the moon seemed to be very close and large to me, and I only saw the moon, not the sky, and no stars.

It's obviously a cloudy day, how can there be a moon all of a sudden? Besides, it's only twelve today, and even if the moon appears, it's not round, and it's absolutely impossible to be so round, so this must be an illusion! Xiaoxue said to me in a panic: "It's not a hallucination, it's an immortal coming, who was alarmed by me, and may come to arrest me." ”

I was shocked, I have not heard less stories such as Baolian Lantern, Cowherd and Weaver Girl, and the Legend of the White Snake since I was a child. Could it be that which immortal didn't like me and Xiaoxue, and came to collect Xiaoxue? Demons and monsters want to harm me, I may still have the power to resist, the immortals can't get along with me, I don't have the ability to resist at all.

I rushed out of the village with a beating heart, and along the way the villagers had already opened the doors and came out, but no one saw me, and there was no time to stop me, so I rushed out of the village.

The sky suddenly darkened, and I looked up again, where was the moon? It's still a cloudy night sky! I was horrified, what had just happened?