Lan Ruo sighed softly, "There is no clear answer to the cause of the fire, the ancestral shrine is on fire, of course it will be discovered, all the people in the round building went to extinguish the fire at that time, but the strange thing is that the water poured down one after another, and the fire not only did not decrease, but burned more and more." There are many mouths, saying that the flame is gray-blue, burning a ghost fire, and the well water is yin, so the fire can not be extinguished, everyone put out the fire all night, but it is adding oil to the fire. ”

"This incident later became a heart disease for the second young master." Lan Ruo said: "The significance of the ancestral hall to a family is self-evident, the eldest young master is the head of the family, what emotions does he have, he can't show it in front of everyone, and he can't have too many obsessions about one thing, he wants to solve the problem and find a way to take care of the overall situation." But the second young master is not, his hatred is hatred, hatred is hatred, he can get up before dawn every day for this one thing, guard the plane tree buried with ashes to practice swords, and patrol the outer edge of Dongchuan every day, for so many years, in order to catch the initiator, personally cut him under his own sword, protect the people of Dongchuan at the same time, and sacrifice the ancestors and dead of the Situ family with the blood of that evil way. ”

"Dead?" I asked.

Lan Ruo was stunned, as if realizing his gaffe, and was silent and stopped mentioning it.

"I'm sorry." I said, "I shouldn't have asked so much." ”

"It's okay." She lowered her head, looked at the stall on one side, squatted down to pick fruits and vegetables, and said to me vaguely: "In a disaster, there will always be many deaths, and no one can hide from the knife on the neck, and the same is true for the guards." ”

Guardians, Situ Family?

In addition to the burned ancestral shrine, there are also people in their clan who have lost their lives because of that demon path, is that so?

I secretly thought that I would not mention it on the surface, and buy the ingredients I needed with her.

The market in Dongchuan is not lively, in this unstable situation, many people have moved, young people can go to work in the outside city, the rest are almost all old people who were born here and grew up here, men and women in the prime of life are still willing to stay here, basically people who do things for the Situ family, we walked all the way, except for Lan Ruo, I didn't see a face that represented youth.

Lan Ruo told me that when the evil path first appeared, it killed a lot of young children, all between the ages of 16 and 23, and that was when the local population loss was the worst. Although the person has not been caught in the past few years, under the management of Situ Yu, the situation has been much more stable than at that time, and occasionally during the New Year's holidays, the young people outside will also come back, bypassing Pu Xian to enter Dongchuan, and staying here for a few days, the Situ family will also send people to secretly guard, and there has never been an accident. But this year's zombie riot refined by the evil way suddenly broke this peace again.

Thinking of what happened on the day of the Midyear Festival, my heart was unusually heavy and I fell silent.

This trip turned around from the beginning, and I was surprised that they actually have a forging shop here, and there is no shortage of metal materials. I thought they were just making some bamboo and wooden handicrafts, but I didn't expect that the range of items they made was much larger than I thought, in addition to the tables, cabinets and farm tools used in daily life, the magic tools used by Situ to fight against evil ways were also refined by their own people.

Lan Ruo said that they were born here, and these people who stayed behind of the older generation will more or less understand some of the methods of yin and yang, and will leave a few things for themselves to defend themselves, which is also acquiesced by the Situ family, but the investigation is very strict, and it is expressly forbidden for anyone to practice magic in private, and fight privately with weapons, they can only defend themselves, not attack others, otherwise they will be expelled from Dongchuan immediately and will no longer be protected by the Situ family.

I asked Lan Ruo what was going on with the people who lived in Puxian Village, and she asked me, "Did you come from where you saw an old man and his daughter?" ”

I nodded and said, "That old man showed us the way." ”

"No wonder you came that way. We, the people of Dongchuan, are absolutely not allowed to cross the border line to Puxian, and those who come back will not come in from there, there are defenses on both sides of the vicinity, and it is the most dangerous place, and he is leading you into a trap by letting you go that way. ”

Lan Ruo's face became serious, and he said: "That old man used to be an employee of the Situ family, and he was with the little master to take care of him. Later, I don't know what happened, he suddenly disappeared for a while, and even his daughter was gone, and when he reappeared, he was already in Puxian Village, helping that evil person. ”

"They have such a good relationship, Situ Yao knew that he was in Puxian Village, so he didn't go to him?"

Lan Ruo stopped talking, and finally just shook his head and asked me: "When you saw him, did you see that there were large and small jars in front of all the houses in that place?" ”

I nodded again, "What's that?" ”

"It contains the corpses of people who have been killed by demonic weapons. Brother Yu said that they collected those corpse parts, used those rotten blood to wake up the paper puppets, and fed the zombies with rotten flesh and bones, increasing their yin energy, so that they could train into higher-level zombies. ”

I was terrified for a while, and Lan Ruo said: "Brother Yu told me that old man, others have gone crazy, not only him, but those people don't treat people as people, only as smelting materials, all of them are a group of demon-like madmen." ”

People eat people, people kill people, can such people still be considered people?

I was in a bad mood when I bought this purchase, and I was blocked in the process, and the topic changed, and in the casual chat that followed, I probably knew the location of the ravine, and when Lan Ruo was shopping for vegetables, in this place adjacent to a group of zombies, I easily bought cinnabar glutinous rice and other things, and I also bought Huang Fu in a store that sold longevity materials.

At the moment of the great enemy, I was still thinking about casting a magic weapon for Ziwei, and stood in front of a blacksmith shop for a while, waiting for the blacksmith to be free, and tried to ask him if he could rent me this set for a few days.

After saying that, Lan Ruo pulled my sleeve and asked me quietly, "Do you want a magic tool?" ”

I couldn't hide this kind of thing, so I nodded, pursed my lips, and said, "We lost too badly this time, and I want to make something to defend myself against the enemy." ”

"You're going to do this yourself, too?" She was curious.

I said, "My master used to be a craftsman who was proficient in the art of refining weapons, and when it was passed down to the younger generations, there was not much skill left, and I only learned a little from my master's hands. ”

"In that case, I know a place." She laughed, "You come with me." ”

Lan Ruo asked another person who worked at Situ's house to help bring back the things he had bought, and the two of them left the confines of the market and took me to an old street far away from the round building.

The streets were barren, untouched in the depths, dusty and frighteningly deserted.

When I walked into the alley, I immediately felt a sense of tension and oppression that I might be attacked at any time, and I was always on guard, and I also used the narrow alley as an excuse to follow behind her, opening up a safe distance.

The air here was terrifyingly quiet, and it was overwhelming to press on the body, and when he walked to the end of the alley, Lan Ruo stood in front of a door and knocked on it, and called inside: "Uncle Bai, open the door, it's me, Ah Ruo." ”

There was no sound of footsteps inside, and the flow of air was almost static, and there was no popularity, but the tall wooden door in front of me creaked open a crack after a short friction, and when I crossed Lan Ruo, I saw that the huge courtyard inside was empty.

"Let's go, let's go in." Lan Ruo pushed the door, stepped into the threshold, and said to me: "This uncle's name is Bai Zhong, loyal Zhong, he is the best refiner we have here, and the sword in the second young master's hand is made by him, so he is especially respected by us." Although the old man has a strange temper, he is very nice and reasonable, so you don't have to worry. I'll tell him about you in a moment, and he'll be willing to help. ”

I stepped into the threshold with my back feet and followed her five or six steps, when I suddenly felt a cool breeze behind me, and the door behind me closed by itself, and the latch behind the door moved by itself, sealing the door. My tense nerves were pulled by the voice, and I felt that something was looking closer, and I had goosebumps all over my body, and in fright, I directly pulled out the tart whip on my waist at the moment the door closed, but I was still a step slower, and the whip body had just been put together, and two sharp arrows had been shot from my side.

I hurriedly went to hide, my shoulder was cut, and before I could adjust my shape, there was a faint sword sound in my eardrums, and then a cold feeling in my neck, and the blade of the sword was already on my neck from behind.

"Uncle Bai, stop!" Lan Ruo panicked and shouted into the hall: "She was brought back by the second young master, she is our guest, she is only here for the first time, her nerves are too nervous, there is no malice." ”

The blade was against my neck, and I only felt cold, not pain, but I could clearly feel blood oozing out and sliding down my skin.

I held my breath and didn't dare to move a single bit, until the sword around my neck was taken away, and my legs became weak, and after such a while, I broke out in a cold sweat, and I touched it with my hand, and I really saw blood.

"Are you alright?" Lan Ruo took out a handkerchief from his pocket, hastily folded it, and took it to wipe the blood on my neck.

When I turned around and saw what the sword was on my neck, I felt that the muscles all over my body were tense for a moment, and I couldn't say what I felt, but my brain was still numb, and when the cold wind blew, my body was full of goosebumps, and the tart whip was still in my hand, but I didn't even have the strength to pick it up.

Standing behind me was a human figure carved out of wood, which he could not even describe in terms of the word puppet, although the joints of both arms were carved to be flexible and movable, but there was no head or legs, and below was a complete, uncarved piece of wood.