Zhuo Zhuo turned around and listened to Linghua's moving words, stared at her for a moment, and asked, "How can you be sure that I am a person with a conscience?" ”

Linghua stepped forward: "You didn't eat meat." ”

Zhuo Zhuo took a step back: "That's because I had a stomach problem yesterday and couldn't eat." ”

Linghua did not give up, and asked firmly: "I believe this reason, but why did you save us that day?" ”

Zhuo Zhuo shrugged his shoulders and looked like he didn't care about himself: "I just threw you on the 'hillside', how can I know that you will definitely live?" It's just a gap in fate, whether you live or die is your own business. ”

Linghua stepped forward again, raised his eyes and looked directly into Zhuo Zhuo's eyes: "If you only think it's our business, you won't persuade us to leave again and again."

And you didn't let He Yue go out to work because you were afraid that she would encounter danger if she was naïve, but you thought so? You have your own principles of good and evil, right? ”

Zhuo Zhuo looked at Linghua's blazing gaze, took a deep breath and exhaled again, turned around and shook his head, turned his back to Linghua and continued to walk forward, no longer speaking.

Seeing his reaction like this, Linghua had a bottom in his heart and strode to catch up.

The two of them detoured many trails, and along the way, the towering earthen walls intercepted all the views that could be explored, and all they could see was a vertical strip of blue sky overhead, and the same loess walls everywhere around them.

Walking in front of a wide loess house, Linghua suddenly sensed that there were spiritual power fluctuations nearby.

Before I knew it, the narrow road that was originally empty under my feet doubled, and the sound of noisy conversation gradually came to my ears.

On the earthen walls on both sides of the road, many houses suddenly appeared, the thick curtains of each house were lifted, and the townspeople in the houses were wearing patches, wiping their faces with dry handkerchiefs, or sitting on wooden benches and pouring sand from their shoes, each doing their own things, a lively and busy scene.

In the distance, a newlywed couple with a red lantern hanging in front of the house was quarreling, and the aunt who was opposite the door of the husband and wife saw it and hurriedly came out of their house to persuade them.

A child ran over to watch the excitement while flying a kite, and was chased out and carried home by the adults in the family.

An old man pushing a wooden cart to sell vegetables walked to the door of each house to sell, and after a while, several families lowered the thick curtains, and faintly heard a few words such as "can't afford it" and "let's eat something else".

Linghua stood in a lively environment, a little stunned for a while.

Is this a hallucination?

There was no one on the way here, and he didn't even dare to speak loudly, for fear of this quiet town. And in a few breaths, there was a earth-shaking change, as if a new world had changed.

Maybe that's what Jieping Town was supposed to look like.

In the wide loess house, a woman came out and bought all the vegetables of the old man with a smile, waved her hand with a smile in the old man's thanks, and called two men to move the vegetables.

Linghua looked at the wide loess house, where several people were working. Men and women chatted with each other and did the work at hand.

Linghua walked towards the house, and the spiritual power fluctuated even more intensely. She looked at the townsfolk as they worked, and on closer inspection, their bodies were translucent, as thin as pieces of paper, as if they would shatter at the touch of a button.

She immediately understood what was presented in front of her, looked back at Zhuo Zhuo, and found that he didn't seem to see these people, and pointed to the low earthen house and introduced: "This is the big kitchen that supplies half the town's food, you can start with the help cook." ”

Linghua nodded quietly and said, "Okay, I can do anything." ”

At this moment came a translucent man with a basket came out of the low house, and the man scattered the rice in the basket on the ground to dry, as if he did not know that anyone was passing by, and worked on his own, not hearing what was going on outside the window.

Seeing the situation, Linghua deliberately pointed near the man and asked, "Zhuo Envoy, what is this?" ”

Zhuo Zhuo's face turned pale, and he pretended to look left and right unnaturally, and spread his hands and said suspiciously: "Miss Ling, what are you asking?" ”

Linghua pointed to the place next to the man again, and said tentatively, "Can't you see him?" ”

Zhuo Zhuo's eyes widened, and he lowered his face and asked seriously, "What did you see?" ”

Linghua knew it in her heart, she withdrew her hand, and squatted down to look at it as she spoke: "Zhuo Messenger, can't you see it?" It turned out to be a small worm, and there are insects in the desert, which is really a novelty. ”

Zhuo Zhuo looked at the ground, a black worm was half-buried in the loess, as if it was dead. He didn't know what to do for a moment, and smiled awkwardly: "So you were referring to it." ”

Linghua pretended to be innocent: "What else is it?" Is there anything else here? ”

Zhuo Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief, walked over to make Linghua stand up, and kicked the insect with his toes, and the small, black insect immediately woke up and crawled away.

He looked at the trajectory of the black worm's escape, and there was no expression on his face: "Some things look dead but they are alive, and some things that look like they are alive are actually dead." This is a pseudo-death, like a dead during the day, and alive at night. ”

Linghua smacked the taste of this sentence, and always felt that he was hinting at something.

Time passed, day and night alternated, and the day's work was soon over.

Linghua took advantage of the kitchen to bring a large pot of water, a bowl and some food to hide in his arms, and bent down to return to his small courtyard under the watchful eye of the manager.

Henggu had already come back from work and sat at the door of the house, and when he saw Linghua entering the yard, he immediately got up to greet him, and the two of them entered the house and began to sort out today's information.

"Let's start in the morning." Linghua found a corner and hid the kettle and food, covered it with his clothes, sat down and whispered, "The woman's words in the morning are true, the monster she said may be an unknown object with rotten blood that I touched last night. ”

Heng Gu scratched his head: "But isn't that Sun Lianran?" Only Sun Lianran has such an aura. ”

Linghua was silent for a moment and guessed: "Not really, Sun Lianran was resurrected. Since she can come back from the dead, the people behind them can also resurrect other dead people in some way. ”

Heng Gu suddenly realized, and was very worried: "It turns out that it can be like this, if they find the dead and resurrect them, then the world will be in chaos." ”

Linghua's hands folded and hooked together, and he said uneasily: "We don't know how Sun Lianran obtained cultivation to maintain his existence.

Today's women are as dry as if they have been drained, weak and weak, and their spirits are sluggish, and this symptom is clearly that they have been sucked in essence.

If the resurrected survive by sucking the essence of the living, the dead and wounded will only increase. ”

"Spirit?" Heng Gu stood up suddenly, "Was she sucked the vitality in her body?" No wonder she looked listless. ”

"If a living person is sucked too much essence, he will slowly dry up and die, and if there is no continuous replenishment of qi and recuperation, it is difficult to return to the original healthy state, but it is just worthy of life." Linghua thought about what had happened in the morning.

She added: "He Yue said that only the woman would be taken to the hospital when she was sick, could it be ......?"

"She was specially raised to continue her life and use it to supply essence?" Henggu was taken aback by his own thoughts, and he denied it, "Wouldn't it? She'll die if she's sucked again. ”

Linghua narrowed his eyes: "Have you forgotten the mountains of corpses in the desert?" They don't care about human life. ”

Heng Gu nodded vigorously in understanding: "Linghua, I have seen their power today, and they really don't care." ”

"In the morning, after the woman was escorted away by the manager, I walked with her for a while, and then came to a very wide junction and went in the opposite direction to her.

We were escorted together under a large cloth tent, first blindfolded, then tied to our hands and feet, and walked in a long line until we reached an underground chamber.

It was full of herbs, and we had to pick them up and grind them into powder or dispose of them in a state that could be easily preserved. ”

Linghua covered his mouth: "You dare to say these things? ”

Henggu suddenly covered his stomach and smiled, and he held back his laughter and smoothed out: "These are all scares, just like that Jiao messenger, they are all paper tigers." I heard that some people talk to their fellow residents every day about their work, and they are still alive and well.

Besides, they are all little demons who are not as good as me, how can they know what I'm talking about? It's just a means to control the spread of secrets. ”

As soon as the words fell, the thick cloth curtain at the door moved, and a man's majestic voice sounded: "Is the younger brother of the Ling family here?" ”

Heng Gu was startled and sat up straight, and immediately restrained his smile and responded, "Who?" ”

The man lifted the curtain and entered, it was exactly what year. He smiled honestly at Linghua: "Sister Ling, today your brother had a fight with Jiao Envoy, I thought he was going to the 'hillside', how do you know that it is okay now." ”

Linghua was stunned in her heart, she glanced at Henggu and asked, "Why are you fighting?" ”

He Nian rubbed his hands guiltily: "It's also my fault, that Jiao envoy doesn't know if his brain is squeezed by the door, so he insists on letting Brother Ling do double the work."

I couldn't stand it with a fellow countryman, so I helped him do it together, but the Jiao envoy didn't let us interfere, and said that he would send us to the 'hillside', how can it be so reasonable?

My fellow villager is also new, I don't know how serious, I opened my mouth and said a few words to Jiao Messenger, but I was almost beaten twice and almost became disabled.

I can really see that Brother Ling is still a hard temper, and he beat the Jiao envoy down in three or two strokes, and avenged my fellow countrymen, which is really powerful. ”

Linghua frowned when he heard this, and blamed Heng Gu: "How can you have a head-on conflict with him?" ”

Heng Gu slapped the table angrily: "It's because he deceives people too much, and it's clear that he is bullying honest people!" ”

He Nian saw that they were going to quarrel, so he hurriedly persuaded him: "Don't be angry, don't get angry, it's easy to get angry and get angry." ”

He continued: "You see that the Zhuo envoy is not angry, and later he put us back, and was scolded by the Jiao envoy. ”

Linghua repeated in a low voice: "Zhuo Zhuo......"

He Nian couldn't help it, and took out a long wooden key from his arms: "Brother Ling saved my fellow villagers, and I also owe Brother Ling a favor." This key was picked up when I was at work before, and when I came back, I carved a handful, and a messenger came to find it just after carving, maybe it was an important thing. I'm not as smart as you, so I'd better give it to you. ”

Linghua took the key, thought about it, took out the kettle under his clothes, and poured him a glass of water. He Nian was speechless gratefully, poured half of the water into his mouth, and went to give it to He Yue to drink, wiped the bowl with a clean cloth and sent it back, and did not leave more, showing eight teeth and smiling and leaving.

The two of them looked at the key, and now it seemed that there was no place to use it, so they put the key in Linghua's arms.

She looked out with compassion: "I saw the afterimage of the people of Jieping Town during the day, not the current outsiders, but the original residents of the town. ”

Heng Gu sighed: "I have seen it too, they are like pieces of paper, but they can't be blown away, they can't be touched, they are like illusions, and they are not completely fake." I heard them chatting, they were a very optimistic group of people, why did they all disappear? ”

"Maybe it's also a lot of bad luck...... These illusions are not imaginary, but real, and you can see them as remnants of past lives. It's just that it was stimulated by some kind of power and floated into the town. Linghua pondered, "But why do you want to stir up the afterimage?" ”

Heng Gu also followed the cheek, he blinked, and suddenly thought of the key: "Linghua, do you remember how An Huai described Jieping Town?" ”

Linghua recalled: "The sun rises, the sun sets, and the people are simple and ......."

As she spoke, she suddenly paused, her eyes lowered: "So that's the case, these afterimages are just a way to avoid the prying eyes of the outside world, in fact, this town has long been in ruins, and it is not as good as before." ”

"But the more this is the case, the more we have to save these people, they are not only from Cloud City, but also from Tiannan and Haibei, so many people, I can't do anything to let them go. And the best helper I fancy is Zhuo Zhuo. ”