In Yanmiao Village, there are 32 families, the ancestral hall is built in the northernmost part of the village, and the thatched hut closest to the ancestral hall is the residence of the village chief, and there is a deep well outside the house.

By the time Hua Ruxue returned to the courtyard after exploring, Su Yi and the snake vulture had also returned.

The snake vulture is full of confidence with its head held high, and it has gained a lot at a glance, and it still depends on the bird clan to find out the news. On the other hand, Su Yi, after some investigation, his expression was slightly solemn, and he didn't know what he found.

When Ning Shuyan saw them coming back, she served the brewed spiritual tea, and then put on the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

"Sister Ning, what is this?" Hua Ruxue saw that Ning Shuyan began to grind ink, and she couldn't figure out what Ning Shuyan wanted to do for a while, didn't she find something in the yard just now?

When she was still in Qingyang Mountain, Hua Ruxue would receive gifts from Ning Shuyan every year, and from time to time she would also receive greetings and thoughts from snake vultures. Therefore, although Hua Ruxue has only seen Ning Shuyan in Siguo Cliff, she is no stranger to her in her heart.

Ning Shuyan is not delicate, but she is by no means a careless person, she moves like a cunning rabbit in front of her brothers and sisters, she is happy and colorful, steady and decisive in front of her brothers and sisters, acts vigorously, and is honest and reliable.

The snake vulture did not fail to say good things about his master in his letters.

"You say, I'll remember." Ning Shuyan dipped her pen in ink and wrote on the book cover the five big characters "A Trip to Yanmiao Village".

Hua Ruxue saw that the corner of the book was printed with the seal of "Dongyang Ning's Clan", and then she remembered that these disciples of the family who went out needed to write a book of experience minutes, and then circulate them to each other to increase each other's knowledge.

In her storage bag, there are still minutes of Su He and others' training, and she said that she would have a good experience. Later, when I was busy with other things, I forgot about it, but I only remembered that Su He had always written the minutes of the experience as a notebook, which was very popular with the disciples.

Hua Ruxue shook her head and warned herself not to think about those things, and she was the first to say what she had found.

"First of all, the thirty-two families in this village are all middle-aged couples, and their highest cultivation is the seventh level of Qi cultivation. As the village chief said, they are very repulsive to outsiders, and whenever I want to get close to them, they will avoid them and go about their work. We can't communicate properly with people other than the village chief."

"Secondly, the two women on the east side of the village are making new quilts, cotton shoes, cotton socks, and cotton clothes, while the men are chopping wood, repairing houses, and reinforcing doors and windows.

It's already spring outside, but it's not winter yet.

Everything is so weird here.

"Sister, I know this, I heard my little brother say that there are only two seasons in this place, autumn is winter, and autumn will usher in autumn when winter ends."

"Only autumn and winter? That seems to explain the strange behavior of the villagers." Hua Ruxue looked at the snake vulture who was in high spirits, and always felt that something was wrong there, and the snake vulture was a little too excited.

Su Yi also sensed this, and he asked the snake vulture, "Is there any other news?"

The snake vulture cleared his throat, his handsome countenance wonderfully matched his loud and rough voice.

"My younger brother said that this forest is called the Forest of Death, and this village is also called the Village of Death. All the people and beasts who strayed into this forest will be trapped here and will never be able to get out!"

"Why do you look so happy when you can't get out?" Hua Ruxue looked at the rippling tea on the table, her tone was flat, she seemed to know where the sense of disobedience came from.

"That's because I didn't come here before, and I was the first bird to fly out of here!" The snake vulture spread its wings slightly, telling of its wisdom.

Hearing this, Hua Ruxue and Su Yi looked into the eyes of the snake vulture at the same time. As soon as they entered the forest, there were no mountain birds and beasts around, the marks they left when they came had long disappeared without a trace, and the smoke outside the village was filled, did the snake vulture really walk out of this misty village?

Ning Shuyan shook the pen for a moment, and she suddenly couldn't hear the snake vulture's heart, the snake vulture had left for so long and never told her that she had left the village!

The atmosphere in the room grew dull, but the snake vulture seemed to be unheard.

"Ah Jiu is the most powerful, what else have you heard?" The flowers are like snow suppressing the confusion in their hearts

, continued to ask, is the snake vulture in front of you really a snake vulture?

"I heard from them that a long time ago, a pair of ancestors and grandchildren who depended on each other lived in Yanmiao Village, and the people of the village welcomed them very warmly. But the good times did not last long, and one day, the people who had been chasing them suddenly came to the door, and the villagers fought hard, but they were defeated, and most of the people in the village died.

On the same day, in order to find out the traitor, the villagers opened a secret meeting, except for the grandfather and grandson, the rest of the people were there.

On the second day, calm returned to the village, and the rest of the people did not mention the traitor again, as if that day had never happened. Soon after, the only child in the village disappeared mysteriously, and everyone but his grandfather seemed to have forgotten about him."

As the snake vulture said this, the loud voice suddenly became hoarse, like the crow chirping.

"They are not worthy of men, and I curse them that they will not see spring and summer, but winter will last forever!"

The wind swirled outward from inside the house, the doors and windows cracked, and the snake vulture disappeared, leaving only a feather remaining.

"Ah Jiu!" Ning Shuyan was in a mess, she got up and looked outside the courtyard, the induction between her and the contract beast was completely broken at this moment.

"Sister Ning, don't worry, his target is not Ah Jiu, Ah Jiu is safe now."

Hua Ruxue picked up the feathers that slowly fell on the table, and the smell of snake vultures remained on the feathers, and she was deceived by a small feather.

Ning Shuyan quickly calmed down, everything was so strange from the time they walked into the forest, whether it was the season that was different from other places, the aura that had completely disappeared, and the villagers who regarded them as air.

"The way into the village is gone." Su Yi walked back along the mark left when he came, and found that there was a fog outside the village, and the forest he passed by when he came completely disappeared.

If the snake vulture goes out of the village and finds that it can't find the way, it will definitely tell Ning Shuyan first, but Ning Shuyan is acting like she doesn't know the situation outside the village, so Su Yi guessed: "Ah Jiu is still in the village."

"What now?" Ning Shuyan was convinced of Su Yi's words, and it was naturally a good thing that Ah Jiu was not in danger of his life.

She looked in the direction of the other two courtyards, and hesitated to call the other people over, "Do you want to tell them?"

"No, we don't have to tell them until we find the key clues to solve the problem."

It's not that Hua Ruxue doesn't trust them, it's just that I'm afraid that they can't help but run out one after another and disappear into the village like snake vultures.

Those few people seemed to be indifferent to everything, but in fact they were more enthusiastic than the other, and if they knew that the snake vulture had disappeared in the village, they would dig into the ground to find it.

"What Ah Jiu said just now, can Miss Ning write it down?"

"Got it." Ning Shuyan put away her pen and ink, she put the book in front of Su Yi, and what happened far exceeded her expectations.

Hua Ruxue also leaned over to take a look, "There is only autumn and winter in the village now, which proves the last curse. What else happened in the village after the child disappeared? Who is the one who casts the curse? Is it the same person who took the snake vulture?"

Su Yi didn't fully believe the news left by the snake vulture, "There is no curse in this world, and there is another reason for the abnormal season in the village."

"This anomaly may have something to do with the forest that disappeared outside the village, like a maze array, and we need to look again to make a conclusion." Hearing Su Yi say that the way into the village had disappeared, Ning Shuyan's first reaction was that there was a Lost Array here: "Ah Jiu told me shortly after he left that there are many wells in the village, and I want to go and see those wells."

A large-scale formation that can envelop the entire village requires a large amount of spiritual energy, either supported by spiritual treasures, or directly absorbed the spiritual energy within a radius of hundreds of miles.

The situation in Yanmiao Village is closer to the latter, and Ning Shuyan needs to find the formation eye to verify her guess.

The three of them went out of the courtyard and went straight to the place where there was a well, and there were sixteen wells in the village, and the well outside the village chief's house was the last one.

After Ning Shuyan's repeated identification, it was confirmed that the Lost Trace Array had been planted here: "It is indeed a Lost Trace Array, this kind of large Lost Trace Array requires a large amount of spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy inside and outside the village is absorbed by the formation."

After speaking, Ning Shuyan couldn't help but become worried, "If you want to break the formation, you must destroy the sixteen formations at the same time, otherwise

These arrays will be moved out of the village."

The Tracer Array has always only been used to prevent outsiders from entering, so the Eye of the Array is included, but at the moment the situation is the opposite. They are trapped in the village by the Tracers, and if they are attacked, they will be immediately moved out of the village, and they will never be able to get out of it.

Hua Ruxue touched the stone at the mouth of the well, it was extremely hard, and it seemed that the material was from the Shattered Star Mountain Range. The stones of the Shattered Star Mountains are harder than other mountain stones, and there are many poor monks who take a few stones from the mountains as self-defense weapons.

If you are lucky and take away the ore, then the spirit weapon will be gone.

Sixteen wells, some stones were cut in half with sharp weapons, placed in a regular manner, extremely beautiful, and some were piled up with gravel, which was miserable.

"These wells are not the work of the same person, I wonder if this maze array was thought of before digging the well, or after the well was dug, and who proposed to lay it?" Hua Ruxue asked slowly, she suddenly remembered the traitor of Guanyun City in Lin Xi's mouth.

Ning Shuyan replied affirmatively, "Before digging the well. Once the positions of these sixteen eyes are set, they cannot be changed."

"The people who set up the formation are the first batch of villagers, and they have enemies outside and need to hide in the Trace Array." Su Yi said, knowing that there was an enemy outside, it was impossible for the villagers not to make any preparations.

Ning Shuyan: "Once the Lost Trace Array is opened, there is only one way to enter the village from the outside, and the array mages who can directly pass through the Lost Trace Array are at least in the seventh rank. Therefore, one of those ancestors and grandchildren is a seven-rank array mage."

The Lost Array has continued to this day, and there must still be a high-level array mage in the village now.

"These speculations are based on the premise that the snake vulture has nothing to hide, and maybe the original villagers have no enemies, but the ancestors and grandchildren have enemies." Hua Ruxue did not deny their speculation, but the truth of the snake vulture's words still needs to be verified, "What the truth is, we don't count."

Hua Ruxue looked at the thatched house on the side, glanced at the ancestral hall again, and finally decided to meet the village chief for a while.

"I'm thirsty, just go ask the village chief for a cup of tea!"

Hua Ruxue knocked on the crumbling wooden door, and the door was dusty, as if it had not been inhabited for a long time.

The wooden door opened, and the village chief saw Hua Ruxue and a few people, and sighed, "Why are you suffering? Originally, I would have quietly let you go after nightfall, but that demon beast annoyed my family......

"It seems that the village chief is reluctant to say more." Ning Shuyan frowned, her eyes were cold, and she drew her sword to aim at the village chief, who was startled by the sword around his neck and hurriedly begged for mercy.

"Girl, spare your life! The little old man is still trapped here at an old age, but he is reluctant to give up his life, the girl quickly put down the sword, and have something to say! You can't enter that ancestral hall!"

"In that case, then there is Village Chief Lao and take the three of us into the ancestral hall." Su Yi said.

Flowers Like Snow: "......"

Before they could say what they were looking for him, the village chief first said that "the ancestral hall can't be entered", is this because they are afraid that they will not go to the ancestral hall?

As soon as the village chief spoke, he first stated that he did not want to hurt anyone, and then said that he knew about the snake vulture's abduction, so as to create an image of himself as a last resort.

For a while, he pulled out his family as a shield to clear himself, and for a while, he begged for mercy without the slightest consideration, and for a while, he told them to go to the ancestral hall quickly, but he didn't mention the news about Yanmiao Village.

Hua Ruxue glanced at the house, and found that the surroundings were very simple, and there was only a gray cloth on the table, so she couldn't see that the village chief cared about anything. Since he couldn't find anything that could threaten him, and it would be useless to continue asking, he would go to the ancestral hall first to see if there was a genealogy and a summary of the major events over the years.

"Since the village chief doesn't want to tell us about Yanmiao Village, please take us on a trip."