Chapter 50: The Truth Emerges (Part II)

The village chief was not in a hurry to talk about what happened ten days after the wedding, but talked about the past again, east and west, and there was no regularity, but Ruan Zhan still started from the trivial things in the mountain village he said, from his lament that the kind and profound Abaya Ban only brought peace and happiness to the mountains and forests for a short period of fifteen years, and from the little clues and clues in his words, he slowly understood Ah Mu's growth experience.

It turned out that after Ah Mu and Ah Wu were accepted as apprentices by Ah Baiya, they did not study with the master for a long time, and in less than three years in total, Ah Bai Ya Ban mysteriously disappeared. It's just that Ah Mu's understanding is very high, the master seems to have opened his ignorance, he understood his own power for the first time, and then he has no teacher, and the magic power is getting stronger and stronger, although he is not as extraordinary as Abaya Ban, but he will solve a lot of things for the villagers at the age of eight, and the older he gets, the more awe-inspiring he becomes, and he will become the premier wizard in this mountain at a young age.

It's just that he doesn't have the kindness of Abaya, and he will charge a fee for helping people exorcise evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and communicate yin and yang. But his ability is unmatched, and what others can't solve, he will solve it as soon as he makes a move, and he won't make random offers, so the mountain people don't care.

And Awu, although he apprenticed with him and practiced with him, and after the death of the master, he also lived with Ah Du in the octagonal building and studied witchcraft until he reached adulthood at the age of fifteen, but his ability was much worse than him. But even so, she is the strongest among the local witches.

From this, it can be judged that Ah Wu was punished very severely for doing something wrong, and it was definitely because he offended Ah Mu that he didn't dare to go back to the village, and he avoided disasters every day and lived a wild life in the mountains and forests so miserably, because except for him, no one was more capable than Ah Wu, and made her afraid of being like that.

Moreover, Huang Boheng personally said that Awu offended him and did not end well. Since he is just a puppet and reflects the consciousness of the manipulator, then the 'I' in his mouth is actually the person behind the scenes, and what he thinks he does is actually done by the manipulator. And this person behind the scenes, nine times out of ten, is dumb.

But why did she offend him? What did she do wrong again? Is it because the relationship between the same family is not harmonious, or is she ruining something about him?

From Huang Shi's experience and the feeling he felt when he fought him, Ruan Zhan had reason to believe that many of his Gu arts and witchcraft were created by himself, because Abaya was so kind, it was absolutely impossible for such an extremely evil thing, let alone have time to teach him.

In the hallucinations that Abaya forbade to Xiao Xia, she mentioned the matter of accepting apprentices, was it unintentional or intentional? Does this have anything to do with Sima Nan?

"If you can find my cousin Awu, see if you can help her." The village chief sighed and interrupted the two of them's thoughts, "I only know that she offended Ah Mu and hid, and I don't know why, seeing her suffer in the mountains and forests like a wild man, and can't go home, in my heart - although she has God-given divine power, lives longer than ordinary people, and ages very slowly, she is also almost seventy years old." ”

"Don't worry, we will help her." Promise of Vision.

The village chief nodded gratefully, "Speaking of which, I remember that when Ngawang and his father died, Cousin Awu came back and stood in the woods, as if to say something. At that time, I asked her to go back because no one knew that she was still alive but me. I don't want anything to happen to her again, who knows if Dumb is dead? From the disappearance of those two dozen villagers, he also disappeared. But since Cousin Awu is still very afraid, he must not be dead. ”

"How did so many people go missing? It can't be silent, right? Wan Li asked again.

"It's just silent." The village chief muttered, filled another bag of cigarettes, and only then began to talk about it.

In the days after the wedding, Ah Mu sat outside the bamboo building in a daze during the day, and everyone who passed by his door would stare at him, which made people can't help but be afraid, but at night he began to run around the mountains, no one knew what he was going to do, everyone only felt more and more nervous, and always felt that something big was going to happen. Until the evening of the tenth day, he suddenly stayed at home and lit all the oil lamps. That night was very dark, there was no moon, everywhere was dark, only the wooden building of his house was bright and shining, and from a distance, it looked like a big lantern.

The whole village didn't dare to sleep, and even the dogs of each family hid in their dens and didn't dare to come out, only a few old uncles in the village and me, the village chief, gathered at Liangwazi's house, because his house and Adu's house were opposite the door, and the terrain was high, so they could clearly peek at the situation on the other side.

We saw that the gate of his house was open on all sides, and Dumb was sitting on the edge of the fire, and in addition to the fire in the fire, there was an oil lamp around him, and he was surrounded in the middle. He seemed to feel that someone was peeking at him, and even turned his head to smile at Liang Wazi's house. This smile frightened half of my soul, and I could see clearly that his eyes were not like ordinary people, but the whites and blacks of his eyes were mixed together, like two silver balls with cold light.

He sat there and stood still, throwing strange things into the fire from time to time, and when I looked closely at the stumps and furs of plants I had never seen and of unknown animals. As soon as those things were thrown into the fire, the flames 'rubbed' up more than a foot high, but the flames made people feel cold to see, because not only was the color strange green, but the shape was more like a hand sticking out of the fire to grab something, which reminded me of the appearance of his father and his mother when they died!

Also, as soon as those strange things are burned, there is an indescribable smell coming out, saying that it is sweet, and it has a bit of burnt smell, saying that it is fragrant, and there is a smell of cow dung. The smell of this thing makes people's heads dizzy, and they want to lie down on the ground and fall asleep immediately. I knew that Ah Mu was going to do something bad for the village, and I desperately wanted to wake up, burning my hands with a cigarette pouch, but my eyelids still kept fighting, and then I looked at the rest of the people, and all the people who were left fell asleep.

At this time, Dumb suddenly stood up and grabbed a black cat from nowhere. He hung a small bell around the black cat's neck, and said something to the black cat, and the black cat obediently ran out of the house and ran out of the village. This was nothing, but the strange thing was that the white smoke that rose from the burning of those strange things in the fire pit did not disperse at all, and it had been covering the fire pit like a pot lid, and at this time, as soon as the black cat left, the white pot lid became a plate of fine silk thread-like things, which was pulled by the black cat and dragged to the outside of the village. When the black light was blind, he saw a white smoke in the middle of the air being pulled by a black cat, as if it had no head.

I knew that he was about to start, and I was afraid that he would hurt too many people by tying up his brain, so I endured the thought of sleeping, and ran to the courtyard of Liangwazi's house, and shouted to him: 'Huang Daogong, raise your noble hand, you don't want this to happen!' I beg you on behalf of the villagers in the village, and you will be angry! ’

He probably didn't expect anyone to stop him, so he turned to look at me. I thought that he would definitely give me something ruthless at this moment, but I didn't expect him to stand still for a while, and said to me: It seems that my skills are really poor, and there are still people who have not slept. Since you are awake, then you can let you see, those who have offended me will not end well, and those who owe me will have to be repaid. I want to make a Gu that no one has ever made, and I need someone to help me, they owe me, so let them come! Don't worry, I won't kill innocents indiscriminately, but I won't let go of those who are sorry for me! It's just that you don't say anything about tonight, or I'll make you never turn over.

He stared at the pair of white eyes, and his face was as green as the flames in the firepit, and I was so frightened that I could not speak, and I stood stupidly in the courtyard, and I was not sleepy. I didn't notice that I was going to stand in the courtyard and shout and talk to him, and he just moved his mouth, but it was as clear as he was saying it in my ear. Moreover, it was not that I was too frightened to move, but that I froze, and felt that I was rooted in the yard like a tree he had planted.

After several bags of cigarettes, it was almost midnight, the strange fireworks were finally extinguished, and at the same time the sound of bells came from a distance, although my whole body was stiff, but my head could still move, I turned my head to look, and saw that the black cat had returned, although there was no longer white smoke behind him, but there were several black shadows. Take a closer look, there are more than a dozen people, looking like the villagers of Najin Village, although I don't know the bride's family, but our two villages always have contacts, I know a few of them. The men stood in a row, one on the other's shoulders, all with their eyes closed, and as soon as the bell on the black cat's neck rang, they took a step.

I wanted to shout, but I couldn't. I saw that Ah Mu also came out of the wooden building, tied a small drum around his waist, and beat a strange drum beat as he walked. With the sound of his drums, I saw a few more people come out of the village, and they were also like the people of Najin Village, as if they were sleeping and walking at the same time. There were more than 20 large living people in one piece, all of them in the same shape, the grass under their feet was trampled to the sound of 'brushing', but not a single voice spoken, and the whole village was as quiet as a grave, only the sound of brass bells and drums. I took a closer look, these people are all related to the marriage of the dumb, and there are more people in Najin Village.

The dumb beat the drum one after the other, and the group of people behind him followed him without any resistance, including me. I felt stiff, my legs didn't obey me, and the drums beat like whips, pumping us forward involuntarily, but the whole village was asleep, and no one came out to help. In fact, even if he is awake, who would dare to anger the dumb who is already completely unreasonable, his mana is so high!

After walking for a long time, we came to the edge of the cliff of Nanshan. Ah Du flashed to the side, turned to look at us with those cold white eyes, and said, "You go first, and I will arrive later." Then he reached out and tore off the little drum and threw it under the cliff in one fell swoop. The little drum also sounded like someone was beating in mid-air, making a 'dong-dong' sound, causing the black cat to pounce on it, regardless of life or death. It fell off the cliff, and the people who followed him also lined up with the bell, jumping down one by one.

That cliff is a cliff, and a bird feather will be shattered, let alone a human? I was standing last, and I was scared to death when I saw that it was my turn. Just when I thought I was going to die, I hit an invisible wall on the edge of a cliff, blocking my way. I couldn't move forward or backward, so I stood there trembling, feeling that there was nothing in front of me or behind me, even my dumbness was gone, I was anxious and afraid, and I couldn't make a sound in my throat, so I stood until the sun went uphill, and then I felt that my body was loosened and I fell backwards to the ground.

As soon as I could move, I ran back to the village, and saw that all the people in the village had risen, but I only remembered the dumb and frightened appearance of the last night, and I didn't remember anything about the rest, only found that a few people were missing. I didn't dare say anything because I had been warned before. By noon, word came from Najin Village that more people had gone missing in the middle of the night. So the people in charge of the two villages combined, knowing that the person who suddenly disappeared was not related to the wedding, or the bride's relatives and friends, and it must be a dumb revenge, so they didn't dare to speak out, and suppressed all the things in the villages on both sides, afraid that the more they investigated, the more they would not be safe, and the matter would be over. In fact, everyone understood what was going on, but no one dared to mention a word, for fear of setting themselves on fire. Later, I quietly went to the bottom of the cliff, thinking that at least I should bury those unfortunate poor people, but before I could reach the place where they fell, I was stopped by a cloud of black and purple corpse gas, and I came home and fell seriously ill. Since then, the dumb has disappeared, and the people in the village have acted as if this incident had never happened and this person had never appeared for the sake of the safety of their children and grandchildren.

Therefore, if you had not had the dream of Abhaya, no matter how much you asked about the events of the past, no one would have said it. I don't think Abaya can bear to let her apprentice do this, so we need to find a way to get him on the right path. ”

After the village chief finished talking about the events of the year, he sat on the chair and sighed tiredly, as if the past events of many years ago had been experienced again in the process of his narration, and Ruan Zhan and Wan Li were a little shocked when they heard it.

Needless to say, the twenty or so people back then were used by Ah Dumb to refine the ghost Gu, Huang Boheng once told Xiao Xia about the refining process of that Gu, when Xiao Xia was playing the game of 'catching the bride' in the mountains and forests, he also encountered ghosts that seemed to be in a village, although the number seemed to be more, but it could not be ruled out that there were illusions.

That is to say, after refining the ghost Gu, he left the mountains and forests or lived in seclusion, and he didn't come out of the mountains until ten years ago, controlling Huang Boheng to make a lot of noise in the city, and he was almost seventy years old. If Huang Boheng is a puppet controlled by him, and all the performance of the puppet is the reaction of the real mentality of the controller, then Huang Boheng is obsessed with Xiao Xia, that is, dumb is obsessed with Xiao Xia.

But he's that old, is it possible? Even if Xiao Xia looks exactly the same as the Miao bride back then, it has been so long, is there still such a strong love and hate? Moreover, looking at his attitude towards the ghost in the cloth, he obviously doesn't like it anymore, so why does he still have a special interest in Xiao Xia?

Also, the ghost Gu is going to fall on the body of the newly deceased, if that clothed ghost is the Miao bride who is controlled by the ghost Gu, where is his ghost Gu still refined at that time, and how can he keep her soul?

With these questions, Ruan Zhan chatted with the village chief for a while, and it wasn't until it was almost noon that the village chief left. Before he left, Ruan Zhan repeatedly assured him that he would definitely protect the village, and gave him a few charms, although it would not be foolproof, at least it could protect the village chief's family from being violated for the time being.

"What are you going to do? Is there a plan? Wanli asked.

At this time, Xiao Xia was still sleeping hotly, and she had no intention of waking up.

"I didn't have a plan, but I had feelings."

"What do you mean?"

"It doesn't feel like we'll be able to fight against Dumb in less than three days, so prepare in advance."

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