Chapter 136: Cause and Effect
At sunset, when Mo Li disappeared at the end of the road, the old lady's smiling face suddenly turned gloomy and walked into the house, Mo Li's figure appeared again, and the whole person was hidden in the sky above the house, releasing his divine sense to probe the situation in the house.
The old lady entered the middle hall of the house, licked some minced meat on the bowl, and then showed a crazy face, went directly out of the house, ran to the kitchen, after entering the kitchen, in the dim light, exuding the smell of mold, the old lady did not know where to get the strength, directly moved the big water tank, lifted the stone slab on the ground, revealing a right black hole, in the face of the darkness, the old lady was not afraid, but smiled and climbed down the wooden ladder.
In fact, it is not surprising that there is such a cellar in the kitchen, many people will hide the pickles, brewed lees and bacon that are pickled every year, and the rich people's cellars are placed larger, ventilated on all sides to ensure that the cellar is dry; a little worse, the sealing will be better, but the days are long, the moisture under the ground is constantly gathered in the ground, especially when the weather is hot, the whole cellar is more damp and cold.
The old lady walked into the cellar with a wicked smile on her face and strange noises in her throat from time to time. In the dim light, there were three trembling black shadows, and when they looked at Xiulian, Xibao and Xingxing, they looked at the old lady with fear on their faces, their bodies bound by ropes kept trembling, tears were gushing, and they were still stuffed with strips of cloth in their mouths, making a whining sound.
"Xiulian, you still expect that little Taoist priest to save you, but unfortunately he has already gone out, hehe. The old lady smiled wickedly and walked towards Xiulian.
Xiulian was very frightened, her body moved towards the back, but unfortunately there was a wall behind her, her eyes were full of despair, looking at the Xibao and the stars curled up beside her, her heart was even more sad, I don't know where the strength came from, her body suddenly jumped towards the old lady, knocking the old lady to the ground. The old lady turned over with a harrier, rushed to Xiulian with a brisk stride, and kicked her a few times directly on her with her deep foot.
Xiulian let out a "wow" and spit out two mouthfuls of blood.
"Why don't you resist, come on!"
"That little Taoist priest can't save you. ”
"Hmph, when I eat you, I'll eat these two children again, the children's tenderness is fresh enough. The old lady had a look of pleasure on her face, sticking out her tongue and licking her lips from time to time.
Xiulian heard that the old lady was going to eat her two children, regardless of the old lady kicking her stomach, she pounced on the old lady, bit on the old lady's calf, and bit hard, the old lady bent down and grabbed Xiulian's clothes and pulled them out, the force was so great that Xiulian's clothes were unbearable, and the clothes were torn apart. However, Xiulian still bit the old lady's calf, and the old lady kicked Xiulian away, and Xiulian hit the wall and passed out.
The old lady looked at the two children Xibao and Xingxing who were huddled in the corner with an angry face, and the two children trembled with fright. Seeing the frightened look of the two children, the old lady showed that weird smile, walked towards the two children, I don't know where the strength came from, one in each hand, and forcibly lifted the two children up, the old lady opened her mouth, showed a row of fangs in her mouth, and bit towards Xibao.
In the dim cellar, a flash of light flashed, and the old lady flew upside down.
Mo Li put Xibao and Xingxing on the ground, untied the rope on the child's body, and said, "Xibao, Xingxing, don't be afraid, the big brother will protect you." ”
Xibao and Xingxing saw Mo Li and threw themselves into his arms, crying loudly.
Mo Li touched the heads of the two children and said gently: "Don't cry, go to Grandma first, close your eyes, and my brother will go to fight the bad guys first." ”
The two children nodded obediently and turned around and walked in the direction where Xiulian was.
Mo Li turned to look at the old lady lying on the ground, and saw that the old man's body bones made a clattering sound, and his body kept twisting, and then the sound disappeared, and the black shadow flashed, and the old lady had already rushed towards Mo Li, her hands were like sharp claws, grabbing towards Mo Li's chest.
Mo Li turned sideways, the old lady missed, and then the old lady turned around and attacked Mo Li, Mo Li slapped several palms at the old lady in a row, the old lady was not in a hurry, and was shocked and flew out.
"What kind of monster are you?" asked Mo Li, looking at the old lady on the ground.
The old lady stood up and said with a strange smile, "Don't you even know what I am?"
"What did you do with that old lady?"
"How do you know I'm not that old lady?"
"From the moment I entered the door today, I knew that you were not the old lady with whom I had a candlelight conversation last night. ”
"Oh?"
"I have been cultivating for so many years, and my perception of breath is beyond ordinary people. Although your aura is well hidden, I still noticed something unusual, and in order to fully confirm your identity, I took out melon and fruit flesh. How could an old lady who was half-cut into the ground eat all the meat on a large plate, and your appetite betrayed you. Especially of course, I put a drop of blood with the qi of cultivation on the meat, and you have completely exposed your feet, your crazy expression, and the green light flashing in your eyes are enough to prove that you are not an old lady, what kind of monster are you?"
"Monsters, hmph, aren't these people monsters?" said the old lady with an angry face.
"That old lady is just an old woman who is over half a hundred years old, and this Xiulian and her two children are just helpless women and children, why do you want to hurt them?
"Heavenly Dao, Heavenly Dao! Can it control the fate of all living beings at will, should those with good intentions die, and those who are full of sin should live?"
"You don't argue between good and evil, and you are a cultivator in vain. ”
Seeing that the old lady turned into black smoke and fled, Mo Li snorted coldly and chased after the old lady and left the cellar.
It's a barren and grassy place, full of long-abandoned graveyards where the dead of these villages are buried.
"Strange, why did the aura disappear here?" Mo Li was in the air, probing carefully, but he couldn't find any trace of the old lady, but he confirmed that the old lady must be hiding in the graveyard in front of him, so he had a plan.
Mo Li flew around this cemetery in the air a few times, deliberately raised his voice and said, "It seems that it is not here. With that, he flew towards another place, and then his aura was hidden above the clouds.
After a while, he found that there was still nothing unusual about the graveyard, and he thought that this old monster was quite cunning. So, in a flash, the figure flew back from the direction where it disappeared, and raised his voice and said, "Is it really not here?" This time, Mo had been hiding in the clouds for a longer time, but he didn't expect the monster to be so cunning and calm, so he came out of the graveyard again.
The night shrouded the earth, the moonlight was getting thicker, and the call of the sleepless bird was heard from time to time in the distance, Mo Li pretended to be disappointed: "Pull it out, you should go back and take a look at the injury of your sister-in-law first." ”
Mo Li flew towards the village disappointed.
After a while, a puff of green smoke came out of the cemetery, and a figure appeared, it was the monster old lady, who was wearing a strange smile on her face at this time, and said unhurriedly: "This little Taoist priest is really not deep in the world, and he is so easy to deceive." Hehe. ”
"Is it?" Mo Li's voice came, and a sword shadow blasted directly at the old lady, the old lady didn't react, her left arm was directly cut off by the sword qi, and a lonely grave behind her was blown apart, Mo Li's figure appeared, and saw that the old lady seemed to be about to escape, so he shouted: "Can you escape?"
After speaking, Mo Liru picked flowers with his hands, several green lotus flowers appeared in the air, crystal quicksand gushed out from everywhere, fingers picked flowers, quicksand rose, the stars were ink, the phantom array appeared, and the ground was painted as a prison, and this hand was to draw a sand array. No matter how much a monster like the old lady, you can't escape from the bush.
The quicksand sat down under the influence of the starlight, gradually becoming transparent, hiding its own light and color, and the old lady who was struggling in the formation stopped the movements in her hand at this time, looked at Mo Li and shouted: "Let me out, you demon way." ”
"Demon Dao?" Mo Li laughed, "You monster, you actually have the cheekiness to say that I am a demon Dao, it's just a great Miao in the world." ”
Mo Li walked up to the old lady and looked at the tombstone on the ground that had been broken into several pieces, "Wang Shou, isn't this the name of the old village chief?" Mo Li suddenly realized that the old lady in front of him was Wang Shou, the old village chief who died decades ago.
"Wang Shou, it's time to show your original appearance, right?"
"You, how do you know it's me?!" After the black smoke on the old lady's body dissipated, an old man's appearance was revealed, but the old man's face was a bit like a tiger and leopard, two sharp teeth were exposed at the corners of his mouth, his eyes showed green light, and the corners of his eyes were red like blood, his nose was twice as big as that of ordinary people, his nose and mouth and philtrum were jet black, and there were two black eyes visible to the naked eye above his nose and mouth, and a trace of white gas kept coming out of the black eyes.
"I went to the graves of the widow and the three of them, and found that those who tried to insult the widow and bury her alive were probably killed by the living dead who had formed after the soul of the scholar had been fused with the widow. It stands to reason that after the king's widow and scholar took revenge, their souls had left the mortal world. And what is the curse that is coming from this village? I thought, there must be someone else, but I ignored you. ”
Mo Li sighed, and then said: "Back then, as the head of a village, you didn't stop the widow and felt guilty, which is also the reason why you adopted their children later. However, the ignorance and ignorance of the villagers caused the child to be burned alive, and you were shameless in the face of the dead widow and scholar, and died in grief at their graves. Hey, people's hearts are flesh and blood, who can be ruthless. What's more, you have already had a relationship for that child after you adopted it for so many years. ”
"You hate the people in this village, and you have a grudge in your mouth, although there is no place to raise corpses here, but by chance, you can also form a living dead, but I still can't understand that you are neither like the living dead, nor like other ghosts, what have you become?"
"Well, those people deserve to die, they are selfish, greedy, afraid of death, disregard for other people's lives, you say I'm a monster, then what are they? Shu'er is such a cute child, they actually burned him to death. They all deserve to die. Wang Shou was mixed with crying, and the more he said, the more resentment on his body became, and the endless hatred became.