When Ning Xiu woke up again, he found that it was already dawn outside.

A ray of sunlight hit his face through the dilapidated eaves, not dazzling, even a little warm. But it all felt a little unreal to him, and he would rather everything in front of him be a dream.

Then, the coffin reminded him that it was all true.

"Wake up. ”

"Hmm. Hearing the voice from behind, Ning Xiu nodded, turned around, and found that Xiao Zhu happened to come in from outside the door, still holding two shabby sea bowls in his hands.

"Give. ”

"Thank you. Ning Xiu took the sea bowl handed over by the other party, looked down, and found that the bowl was black and mushy, and he didn't know what it was, but it smelled quite fragrant.

"Hurry up and eat something, we still have a lot of work to do today. After saying this, Xiao Zhu began to "snort" and eat.

Ning Xiu glanced at Xiao Zhu, and also took a big bite of it, and while eating, he asked, "What about the two zombies last night?"

"Aren't you eating?"

Xiao Zhu raised his head and glanced at Ning Xiu, and chuckled.

"It turns out that zombies will really disappear when they touch the sun......" Ning Xiu ignored what Xiao Zhu said, muttered in a low voice, and ate it even more.

"Hmph, I know and ask!"

Xiao Zhu glared at Ning Xiu, snorted coldly dissatisfied, and said angrily: "Are you done eating, after eating, let's go to the village to ask about the situation." ”

"Since there is a problem with this village, why don't we just leave, didn't you say that a small Xuanguang Illusion like this usually only lasts three or five days?

"Don't you know everything, do you still need to ask me?" Xiao Zhu shook his head, obviously still haunted by what had just happened.

After a while, she saw that Ning Xiu really didn't ask any more questions, and the revenge was successful, which should have been a happy thing, but for some reason looking at that indifferent face, she couldn't be happy no matter what.

"Do you really know why?"

"I don't know. ”

"I don't know, you won't ask again. ”

"It's not you ......."

"What are you, I won't let you ask, won't you speak? Now Xiaoyoung is really, I don't have the ability to say it, I still have a big temper, and fortunately I met me, otherwise I don't know how I died. Xiao Zhu looked at Ning Xiu for a while, and in the end, Xu was relieved, and he laughed inexplicably.

"I should have explained to you that the world we live in now is a fantasy of light, that is, a mark left by some people in the long river of time. ”

"Understood, since it is an imprint, then it has its own storyline, and this Xuanguang Fantasy Realm is obviously inseparable from this Yizhuang. Ning Xiu pondered for a moment and spoke.

Xiao Zhu glanced up at Ning Xiu, a flash of surprise in her eyes, only to see her nodding, and then said: "That's right, so if we leave here without permission, it is equivalent to breaking away from the entire story track, then Xuanguang Fantasy Realm will dispose of those who cross the line." For example, if you didn't come in outside Yizhuang last night and were afraid to leave, then you won't be dealing with one or two new zombies. ”

"As far as I know, people who try to go beyond the plot usually die a terrible death. ”

Thinking of the inexplicable fog outside Yizhuang last night, Ning Xiu felt that the other party was not lying to him.

"Okay, it's dawn, let's go to the village and ask about the situation, isn't the purpose of your coming down this time to be invited by the head of Xiaohe Village to come over to do something?" Xiao Zhu put down the broken bowl in his hand, turned around and walked out the door.

Ning Xiu followed without the slightest hesitation, if he wanted to completely solve the matter of Yizhuang's corpse, he must know the root cause of everything.

......

Xiaohe Village is not far from Yizhuang, and Ning Xiu and the others didn't walk long before they saw the village.

The village is very small and the population is not large, and at this time, a large group of people are gathering at the entrance of the village, obviously waiting for Ning Xiu, a little Taoist priest. It's just that some of them were dressed in linen, as if they had just held a funeral, and Ning Xiu also saw the figure of the old man he met at the gate of Yizhuang yesterday in the crowd.

Through their conversations, they soon learned that a widow who lived alone in the village had died. After the widow died, the villagers often heard the cry of a child when they passed by her house at night, and they thought it was haunted, so everyone raised funds to invite Ning Xiu, a Maoshan Taoist priest, to go down the mountain.

"Have you noticed something strange about this village?" Xiao Zhu came to Ning Xiu's side at some point and said in a low voice.

"Well, it's a little strange, there are too few women, there are almost no young women, the same is true for young men, and the rest are old people and children. Could it be that there have been robbers in the village?" Ning Xiu frowned, a little uncertain.

"Probably not ......," Xiaozhu muttered in a low voice.

"Village Chief, Ning Dao Chief is here. Someone in the crowd finally spotted Ning Xiu's arrival.

The village chief of Xiaohe Village was an old man with white hair, I saw that his face was full of sadness, and when he heard the speech of the person next to him, he looked up at Ning Xiu, and the cane in his hand came to him, and he saluted solemnly.

"The village chief of Xiaohe Village has seen the Taoist chief. ”

"The village chief doesn't need to be polite. Ning Xiu returned the salute and replied.

"I'll have to work a little more later. ”

"This is natural, just leave everything to Xiaodao. ”

After the two of them finished saluting, the old village chief turned around and led the way, Ning Xiu was side by side with him, and Xiao Zhu slowly followed.

"I don't know why I don't see the young adults in the village?" Ning Xiu pretended to look around, and suddenly asked.

The old village chief listened to Ning Xiu's words, and sighed a long sigh: "The imperial court conscription, the young and middle-aged people in the village were all taken away by the soldiers who came to recruit soldiers, and my son was no exception, the most pitiful is Ah Chun's husband, who was arrested on the night of the wedding." ”

Ah Chun is this widow who just died.

"Along the way, I saw many people in the village wearing mourning clothes like you, the village chief, but there were also people in the family who had an accident?"

Ning Xiu's words were nonsense, wearing mourning clothes was not something that happened to someone in the family, but because there were too many people in Xiaohe Village who wore linen and filial piety, he had to be suspicious.

"Those boys who are soldiers outside the country, often someone will bring letters back to the village to tell everyone about the latest situation, but every time they bring back bad news. Most of the people you see are children from the family who have died on the battlefield. My son came back with a letter a few days ago, saying that the troops would pass through Xiaohe Village in the near future and would return to the village. ”

"Isn't it a happy thing for Childe to come back to see you, how can I see the village chief looking sad. Xiao Zhu on the side interjected and asked.

The old village chief glanced back at Xiao Zhu, his eyes were full of sorrow, and he sighed at the end: "The survivor is stealing life, the dead are long gone, who knows when this bad luck will befall my head......"