The next day, the rainstorm that raged all night finally stopped, Xuanyi rubbed his loose sleepy eyes and got out of bed, and in the second half of yesterday night, Xuanyi himself didn't know when he went back to bed in a daze and fell asleep.

After washing, Xuanyi went downstairs, pushed open the heavy warehouse alloy door with some change and walked out. In the early morning, Huaihuan Town is still relatively lively, and from time to time you can see the townspeople rushing to the market, the peasant women doing laundry, and the frolicking primary school students.

Xuanyi walked to the old site where the locust tree burned last night and found that there was only a small puddle, which could be said to be empty.

Xuanyi, who couldn't believe it, squatted down and touched the ground under his feet with his hand.

"Smack!", an electric current bloomed at his fingertips, half of Xuanyi's body was almost paralyzed, and a strong feeling of dizziness almost made him unsteady on his feet.

The temperature of the water in the small puddle was unusually hot, his fingers touched the bottom, and a small wooden card was pinched in his palm, and suddenly, the piercing scream of last night filled his ears again.

"Hey, Xiao Xuan, what are you doing here in a daze!" A deep male voice came from behind him, and then the man patted Xuan Yi on the shoulder.

The screaming finally stopped, and Xuanyi stood up suddenly, put the small wooden card in his pocket, and turned back to smile gratefully at the visitor.

After graduating from university, he gave up a lucrative job in a foreign company and returned to his hometown to become a village official and the principal of the town primary school, and the town primary school including Wang Hao has only three teachers.

Wang Hao is in his early thirties, tall, with short flat hair, and speaks very modestly, and is quite respected in the town. In the past month or so, Xuanyi and him have had a lot of contact, and they are both so-called "senior intellectuals", so naturally they have a common language, and the two have gradually become acquainted.

"Have you had breakfast?" asked Wang Hao.

"Not yet?" Xuanyi pointed to a breakfast stall not far away. "Let's go to Aunt Zhang's to eat rice noodles together. ”

The two came to the breakfast stall, and after each ordering pasta, they began to talk.

"Brother Wang, the rain last night was really heavy. ”

"Yes, if this situation continues, I'm afraid there will be flash floods, and the terrain of our town is too low. Wang Hao was a little worried.

Xuanyi's heart moved, "By the way, Brother Wang, where did the big locust tree on the corner go?"

"Locust tree, where is there a locust tree on the street corner?" Wang Hao was a little puzzled.

Xuanyi pointed to the approximate location of the burning locust tree last night to Wang Hao.

Wang Hao shook his head affirmatively, "Where are there locust trees there, the locust trees in our town are all planted in the small village square, are you dazzled?"

Xuanyi subconsciously touched the wooden card in his pocket, and the wooden card was faintly hot. Reminds him that what he saw last night was not unreal.

However, as a native of Huai Huan Town, it is impossible and unnecessary for Wang Hao to lie to him, Xuanyi feels that he may have come into contact with some unspeakable strange existence.

After a few casual chats with Wang Hao, Wang Hao hurriedly asked a few village cadres to go to the back mountain to check whether there was a possibility of landslides in the mountain.

Xuanyi took out a small wooden card and looked carefully, the wooden card is about the size of a jade pendant worn by ordinary people, the front is painted with a pattern of a locust tree, and the back is a pattern similar to a face, which looks a little weird. What's even weirder is that when Xuanyi looked at the face mask fixedly, the face mask grinned, rubbed his eyes, and Xuanyi put the wooden card back in his pocket.

There is definitely something wrong with this wooden plaque, and Xuanyi does not dare to take it for others to see. After thinking for a moment, Xuan Yi decided to ask the village elders on the side.

After a short walk, Xuanyi came to the reading room in the village, which was originally not managed by people in the town, which led to a group of idlers using it as a place for gathering people to gamble, until Wang Hao took office, put it in order, and even placed several computers for the townspeople to inquire about information and send and receive letters.

Administrator Lao Tu is over 60 years old, a few years ago due to a car accident caused by the disability of both legs and unable to work, fortunately he went to high school as a child and had some cultural skills, so Wang Hao placed him in the reading room as an administrator, and applied to the town for a monthly salary subsidy of 300 yuan.

"Hello Tu Lao. Xuanyi said hello to Lao Tu and walked straight to the library.

The reading room is the size of two basketball courts, and in addition to a few computers in the outer room, the inner room is densely packed with all kinds of books, and there are more than 100,000 books as far as the eye can see. Each bookshelf is labeled with handwritten labels to distinguish between categories.

Xuan Yizai carefully looked at each bookshelf, smelled the fresh fragrance of ink, and calmed down.

Finally, on a bookshelf called "History of the County Chronicle Town", Xuanyi found what he wanted.

There are not many books on this shelf, except for a "Harvest County Chronicle", most of them are ancient books that resemble lone fragments.

Xuanyi moved a rattan chair, took a stack of books and sat down to study.

"There are trees first, then there are villages, during the famine, the god of Huai shelters the people of the whole village, picks locust leaves during the day, grows again at night, the locust leaves are endless, and the villagers do not starve to death... ”

"The ghost in the wood is the acacia, shielding the sun and the moon, sucking yin qi, gathering ghosts... ”

"King Taizu Zhou is a person from the capital of Yuan, after the death of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he led 421 heirs of his family to move here... Xuanyi frowned slightly, from the Yuan Dynasty to the Southern Ming Dynasty, there was a gap of nearly two or three hundred years, and this Wang Zhou was so long-lived.

Xuanyi read dozens of broken ancient books word by word, and immediately had a preliminary understanding of the history of this place.

"Huai Huan Huai Fan, maybe this place is transformed from a locust tree?" Xuan Yi was suddenly startled, and the huge locust tree that burned in the downpour last night came to his mind.

Xuanyi left the reading room, bought some vegetables and returned to his nest. Lying on the bed, he unconsciously took out the wooden card again, and the wooden card lay quietly in the palm of his hand, without any movement.

When night fell, Xuan Yi drank all the boiled herbs and sat on the edge of the bed with a bitter face, because his income was not high, and he could not afford to receive the best treatment plan, so he had to use traditional Chinese medicine for treatment in a conservative way.

His body is getting worse and worse. Xuanyi sighed, a little helpless and a little lost.

I thought that I was ordinary but I could spend my life peacefully, but who knew that fate gave me a huge blow, but fortunately, I had no worries behind me.

"Boom~!whoa~!" It's starting to rain again outside.

The rain was unusually intensive, and huge raindrops fell on the land, making a deafening noise.

Suddenly, Xuanyi vaguely heard the sound of the loudspeaker in the small square of the town, and Wang Hao's anxious voice pierced through the rain curtain.

"Not good!" Xuanyi turned over and sat up, quickly put on his clothes and pants, and looked through the small window in the direction of the back mountain in the distance, and the dazzling silver snake lit up the entire night sky from time to time. A huge "white dragon" roared down with mud and sand.

The flood came.

Huai Huan Town was one of the small medicinal fields of Taoism thousands of years ago, Taoist immortals used metal gold, the wood of the locust tree, the water of the mountain spring, the fire of the heavenly thunder, and the soil of the mountain range to form the Taoist Five Elements Array here, and the eye of the array is the huge locust tree in the town. The power of the five elements is mutually reinforcing and circulating, making the environment in the town extremely comfortable and suitable for the growth of all things, and the Taoist immortals planted elixirs in this place for their cultivation. It wasn't until one day that the power of the five elements was exhausted, and the Taoist immortals gave up here, and Huai Huan Town was exposed to the mundane, and it happened that a mortal family accidentally migrated here, and found that this place was very suitable for living and reproducing, so they settled here until the inheritance and development to this day.

The day before yesterday, the thunder turned into a fire, and the fire burned the array eye locust tree by the wind, and the five elements array that had been used for thousands of years was finally broken and dispersed, and the locust ancestral tree that the immortals used as the core of the array eye thousands of years ago also lost its mana and was left on the ground.

Mortals couldn't communicate yin and yang, let alone see the hidden array of the five elements, but under the yin and yang, all this was seen by Xuanyi, and he even picked up the Huai Zumu that had lost his mana.

Now, the shattering of the Five Elements Array will inevitably cause celestial abnormalities, so the surging flood is coming, and Huai Huan Town is about to become a Ze country.