Chapter 332: Tracking
But Heran is just an ordinary resident, why is he worried about the sorcerer?
The funeral of the Naxi people was very simple, and in order to thank her for her hospitality yesterday, Chen Rulong and Luo Luo also helped dig the grave and bury it.
At noon, Chen Rulong was invited to the witch doctor's residence for dinner.
The witch doctor lives in a three-room tiled house, and in a place like this with high mountains and dense forests, it is difficult to transport tiles in, which is enough to see that the witch doctor has a transcendent status.
Lunch is a roast rabbit with rice served with a variety of spices.
The seventy or eighty-year-old witch doctor has exceptionally well-maintained teeth, a mouthful of big white teeth, and it is not easy to tear rabbit meat.
Chen Rulong suddenly remembered something, and said suspiciously: "Witch doctor, I heard from He Ran yesterday that you went to the mountain to find a lama to help, and it will take eight days to come back, why did you come back this morning?"
The witch doctor's expression stiffened for a few seconds, and he laughed dryly, "I didn't go when I encountered some special circumstances."
Chen Rulong didn't bother, and took out his black stone totem, "Do you recognize this thing?"
The moment the black stone totem was taken out, the witch doctor's eyes lit up, he picked it up and put it in front of him to take a closer look, put it on his nose and took a sip, with an intoxicated expression on his face, which frightened Chen Rulong and Luo Luo.
As if aware of his gaffe, the witch doctor coughed dryly twice and put the black stone totem into his pocket.
"This is the sacred stone of our sacrificial ground, I don't know who took it away many years ago, and now it is also returned to its original owner, thank you Mr. Chen."
Luo Luo frowned slightly, "Hey, we didn't plan to give it to you."
The witch doctor looked unkind, "This was ours."
"You!"
Luo Luo was about to say something, but was held down by Chen Rulong, and said to the witch doctor with a smile, "Since this is the case, it is good to return the things to their original owners."
The witch doctor couldn't hide the joy on his face, but he also pretended to be calm and said, "If you have business to do, I won't keep it much, and I will give you a house to live in in the future."
"Thank you and goodbye."
After speaking, Chen Rulong dragged Luo Luo and turned around and left.
On the way back, Luo Luo said a little sullenly, "Everything has been snatched away, what are you thankful for?"
Chen Rulong said, "The black stone totem is in our hands, and it is useless. Looking at the appearance of the witch doctor, he must know the origin and purpose of the blackstone totem, but he doesn't intend to share it with us."
Luo Luo said a little angrily, "Then you will cheapen her!?"
Chen Rulong smiled slightly, "You'll know when the time comes."
It was already late autumn, and it was already dark at five o'clock in the evening, Chen Rulong finally put on his pants, and used the hemp rope in the house to get leggings for himself, and also smeared realgar on the outside to prevent snakes.
After doing this, Chen Rulong took Luo Luo and the two of them to shuttle through the jungle at night, all the way to the main gate of the witch doctor.
Luo Luo was about to rush forward, but Chen Rulong pressed her shoulder.
"Don't move!"
Chen Rulong lowered his voice and said, "The witch doctor in the house can monitor us, so we have to go around to the back!"
Luo Luo said a little nervously, "I've heard that sorcerers will raise evil spirits, such as feeding chickens and dogs with human blood, so that the eyes of animals grow human pupils, so that sorcerers can rely on the eyes of animals to monitor the surroundings!"
Chen Rulong glanced at her a little inexplicably, "What nonsense, there is an infrared camera with solar panels at the door, we have to walk around the camera."
The two of them walked around the back of the wall, which had a gap in the bricks, through which they could see what was going on.
In the room, the witch doctor was turning over the stewed things in the pot, and the smell was particularly attractive.
Because there was nothing to eat, Chen Rulong and Luo Luo only ate some white rice with soy sauce tonight and came out, smelling the aroma of meat at this time, and couldn't help but growl in their stomachs.
Soon the meat in the pot came out, and it was a whole boiled chicken.
The witch doctor, who is already seventy or eighty years old, is not afraid of being hot, grabs the chicken with his dry and wrinkled palm and sends it to his mouth, and there are no bones left when he clucks and chews, and Luo Luo swallows saliva directly
, asked in a low voice, "Do you think that this witch doctor doesn't behave like a normal old man?"
"Nonsense, everyone can see it." Chen Rulong stared at the witch doctor after eating a whole chicken before he lowered his head and muttered, "Compared to a human, it is more like a beast."
After eating and drinking, the witch doctor took out the black stone totem from his pocket, rubbed it on his pants, put it in his pocket again, blew out the light and opened the door, threw down the crutches in his hand, and flashed out of the door with great dexterity, all the way north along the hillside.
"Quick, catch up!"
The witch doctor ran in front, and Chen Rulong and Luo Luo, who were better skilled, chased after him.
At the beginning, the witch doctor was still running forward like a human, but he didn't run two steps, he landed on the ground with four paws, and continued to run forward.
"It's a brute!"
Chen Rulong continued to chase wildly, chasing and running for more than 20 kilometers in the mountains, Luo Luo was a little tired, and held his waist and said, "I really didn't expect that the dead old woman could run better than us!"
The witch doctor stopped by a waterhole, and likewise stuck out her tongue, gasping for air, when suddenly she took off her clothes and pulled her waist upwards, and immediately pulled off a clean human skin, revealing the fine skin inside.
A guy with the skin of a girl and a fox head on top of it swooped into the water to take a bath, leaving only a human skin in place.
Seeing Chen Rulong's human skin, his face gradually became ugly, and he grabbed some transparent skin that made people's scalp tingle in a flash, and when he saw the blue plum blossom tattoo on his wrist, Chen Rulong could not hide the anger in his chest.
Chen Rulong whispered, "This skin was left by He Ran, I remember that there are plum blossoms on her wrists!"
Luo Luo asked, "Is this monster a murderer?"
"No, it doesn't have that much ability, it can only pretend to be a ghost."