Chapter 3 Mental Element
"Heart? No wonder it's so vicious, it turns out to be a monster in human skin, so Miss Rausch will make good use of his corpse for me. The forester said, seeing the puzzled expressions of Zhang Tude and several other people in the room, he continued to explain
"When I was young, I was obsessed with things about the invisible arts, so I like to listen to some strange rumors, and among these rumors there is a kind of thing called Xinsu, although this thing looks like a person in appearance, but it has a big curse inside, and everywhere I go, it will bring disaster to that place, of course, I have only heard rumors, and I don't know as much as a cultivator like Miss Xu." After speaking, the forester looked at Xu Ying.
"Well, although what the forester said is a little different from the heart element I know, the heart element itself is indeed very dangerous, and they are not human beings, and they are essentially no different from the headhunters outside, so I and other cultivators will naturally get rid of the heart element when they encounter it, but ordinary people like you should be as far away as possible when they see the heart element." Xu Ying nodded and said
"Then Miss Xu, since this heart looks like a human being, how can you distinguish him?" Zhang Tude asked
"We cultivators can see the three fires on people's shoulders, this fire is some big and some small, it is normal, only the fire of the heart element will be there for a while and then there will be none, you ordinary people can't see the three fires, but the heart element also has a conspicuous characteristic, that is, they often think that they are from another world, and they will do some unbelievable things, in short, they are like crazy people, so when you meet crazy people, you have to stay away from them, they may be the heart element."
Hearing Xu Ying's answer, Zhang Tude was shocked, isn't the description of this element the same as his own? But Xu Ying didn't see it, did she pretend not to know, or was she not a heart element, just a coincidence?
But this world is false, and it's proof that I'm okay when I die twice, even if I'm the heart she wants to hunt, now hurry up and ask some information that I don't know, and it's important to exchange money for my family when I'm sober, after all, I can't think of those strange things when I'm sober.
"Then Miss Xu, is there a way for ordinary people to kill those things outside?" Zhang Tude asked
"There is a thing in the body of the headhunter that can make them look like living creatures, as long as you destroy that thing, it will be completely destroyed, but its shell is a magic weapon refined by Liang Mo, and it is difficult for ordinary weapons to hurt it." Speaking of this, Xu Ying sighed
"If it weren't for the fact that my armor-piercing arm was destroyed in the fight with that Li Shuiwan, killing those headhunters would not be a problem at all, but the human heads on its body are still made of flesh, as long as they are cut off, the headhunters will completely become blind and deaf, the difficulty is that if they get too close, those heads will spew out a burst of poisonous mist, once the person is hit, the body will not be able to move, just like turning into stone, so now it can only wait for dark, and its eyes will be affected like people after dark, I'll sneak you out when the time comes. After speaking, Xu Ying went to the side to rest, obviously a little tired.
Zhang Tude didn't want to continue to ask questions, so he also found a place to sit down, just ran for a while, he was also a little tired, just sat down next to someone handed him a piece of bread, Zhang Tude saw that it was the woman who threw the stone.
"This son, I'm really sorry this morning, I thought you were the one who killed my child." The woman said guiltily
"It's okay, it's all over." Zhang Tude took the cake and said that he accepted the woman's apology, and he also learned the names of the woman and several others from the conversation with the woman.
The woman's name is He Yue, her husband was killed when Zhao Bing invaded a few years ago, and only one son was abducted a few days ago, and the forester's name is Lin Youfu, who is a rich man who lives outside the city, and the other two are named Wang De and Zhang Xianzhong, one is the shopkeeper of the tavern, and the other is the Yamen's catcher, they all have relatives who were abducted by Li Shuiwan's men, and they don't know where to go, and there are more than a few of their families in the town who were killed by Li Shuiyuan, but a few people got together and luckily escaped.
Zhang Tude ate the cake given by He Yue, this cake is very sweet, it seems to put a lot of sugar, children should like to eat this kind of cake very much, speaking of children, Zhang Tude suddenly remembered the headhunter who killed the heads of those children, will He Yue's abducted and trafficked children be among them?
"Well, it shouldn't be such a coincidence." Zhang Tude thought silently in his heart.
After eating the sugar cake, Zhang Tude felt a little sleepy, maybe he had spent too much physical strength and was frightened just now, and looked at a few people next to him, Lin Youfu and Zhang Xianzhong were already asleep, Xu Ying just sat on the ground, as if he was guarding against something, and finally Zhang Tude couldn't stand the sleepiness and fell asleep.
I don't know how long it took, Zhang Tude felt someone shake his body.
"Zhang Gongzi wake up, it's dark, we should go out." Zhang Tude opened his eyes and found that it was the shopkeeper named Wang De, and everyone else had already woken up.
Xu Ying picked up a bag and put Li Shuiwan's corpse into it, then opened the door on her shoulder, and walked out with a few people, after coming to the courtyard, she jumped on the wall and observed the surroundings, and after a while, she said to everyone
"Let's get out of here over the wall, the main gate has been headhunters here today, and it may still be on that street."
A few people had no opinion, Zhang Tude climbed over the wall first, Zhang Xianzhong and Wang De then also turned over, but there was some trouble outside the forester, and it took a lot of effort for a few people to pull him up, and He Yue also came up with the help of Xu Ying.
It was quiet outside, there was no movement, a few people were walking while paying attention to the surroundings, Zhang Tude looked at the empty streets, and couldn't help but have a trace of doubt in his heart, whether it was in reality or in his usual imagination, this kind of disaster place, shouldn't the streets be full of corpses, although many people in the town were watching on the execution ground, but there will always be some people in other places, are they also hiding like a few of them?
Although this is an illusionary world, there are many strange things, but there is always a reasonable explanation for these things, I wonder what the explanation here will be?
"Mother, eat sugar." Zhang Tude was thinking about the sound of a child coming out of the quiet street, Wang De wanted to scream, but Xu Ying covered his mouth, Zhang Tude and several others also reacted, did not make a sound, and looked towards the position where the child's voice came from.
They spotted a headhunter in the house a little farther away, but it seemed to be facing away from a few people, and they didn't notice them.
Xu Ying used gestures to instruct a few people to leave quietly, but He Yue stood there still, Xu Ying stepped forward to grab her, but she shook her head, Xu Ying suddenly understood something, wanted to persuade but didn't dare to make a sound, hesitated for a moment or stopped a few other people who wanted to dissuade He Yue, and then led them towards the outside of the town.
After Zhang Tude and the others walked away, He Yue walked towards the headhunter, who had been malnourished for a long time, and she couldn't see clearly after dark, but after she heard the voice, she recognized that it was her child's voice, and she also understood that her child might not be the same as before, but it was her child anyway.
"Wang'er, my mother is coming to you." He Yue was talking as she walked, and the headhunter also heard He Yue's voice and crawled towards her.
Looking at the headhunters who were getting closer and closer, He Yue suddenly remembered the days when her husband was just gone a few years ago, she washed clothes outside the city to make a living, one day because she lived too much, she came back late, and when she went back, she fell because it was dark and she couldn't see clearly, and after going back, Wang'er saw the injury on her body, and didn't know where to find her a piece of sugar cake, which was Wang'er's favorite thing, and every time her husband received his salary when he was alive, he would buy a few sugar cakes for Wang'er.
She still remembered what Wang'er said at that time
"Mother, eat sugar, it won't hurt after eating sugar."