The room was still dark, Luo Zheng was choked by the scholar's neck, his face turned red, and it became more and more difficult to breathe......

"I know I'm wrong, I'm sorry for Hongyan, I'm sorry for the villagers, but I can't control myself, and I can't stop him. It's not that I don't dare to die, it's just that as soon as I die, the village will be hopeless!" The scholar had only one eye on his broken head, which was red and terrifying, staring at him deadly, pinching and shouting hoarsely: "You are looking for me, why bother targeting my wife and villagers?"

"Hmm...... cough cough "Luo Zheng was like drowning, and his hand unconsciously grabbed forward.

He was a little puzzled, everything was dead? Who wouldn't let him go? Isn't he a powerful ghost here? He didn't know where he got the strength, kicked the ghost away, broke free, jumped backwards, covered his neck and coughed while asking, "Cough~cough, what do you mean? Kill whom?"

The scholar was stunned for a moment, listening to his question, a little confused. "The whole village has turned into ghosts, don't you know?"

"What?" Luo Zheng was startled, his head rumbled, and he couldn't believe it.

"Don't believe me, don't believe it, look back!"

He instantly felt a chill behind him, and he stiffened his neck and looked out of the broken wall...... I don't know when, it's already dark. Outside the dark courtyard, a pair of green and faint eyes looked at this side, and the dense light made people shudder. He was so frightened that his hair exploded, and he sat on the ground with a face full of disbelief, and muttered, "How is it possible?"

"Well, believe it now! Because ...... I killed them all!" the scholar tugged at the corners of his mouth, feeling a little depressed.

"What?!" Luo Zheng's eyes widened again, and he was so frightened that he kicked his legs and leaned against the wall, what the hell is this?

"There are seven hundred and twenty-three people in the village! I have killed all of them, and not one of them has been left! I do not want to kill them...... I don't want to ......" The scholar retracted his expression, his voice became lower and lower, and then he sat on the ground and sobbed!

Luo Zheng's face was full of horror, his brain was confused, and he just muttered in his mouth, "Why?"

"Would you like to hear me tell you a story?" said the scholar, sitting in front of him, propped up his tattered body, staring at him.

"What's the story?"

"The story is like this...... the scholar said slowly, his voice calming down, "The story has to start when I fled here...... My name is Zhu Zixing, but I am not a villager in Youtai Village. Eight years ago, when there was a flood in my hometown and my parents were gone, I left my hometown and was forced to relocate, and fled to this Youtai village, and then I met a woman named Xu Hongyan...... "This scholar named Zhuzi Xingde said and pointed to Luo Zhengyi......

............

Luo Zheng was in a trance, as if he had entered the memory of a scholar.

Eight years ago, at dusk hour. A weak scholar carried a wooden bookcase on his back and came to Youtai Village......

"Hello, uncle! Xiaosheng fled from Dongran Village, and he has no acquaintances, can he settle down?" The scholar was unkempt and dirty, and his clothes were ragged, and he stopped an uncle and asked if he could settle down here.

The uncle doesn't know the whole thing, but he also understands most of it. He snorted his lips and replied, "Do you want to settle down?"

"Would you like to tell the village chief where his family lives?"

"If you go south from here, if you see a big locust tree in front of the courtyard, it is the village chief's house. ”

The scholar nodded, smiled and thanked him. Towards the path of guidance...... After a while, I came to a courtyard where a big locust tree grew. The scholar pushed open the courtyard door and whispered to the room in the courtyard, "Is there anyone?"

"Who?" said a girl's voice from inside the room. Then, a figure walked out. This is the daughter of the village chief, named Xu Hongyan, eighteen Fanghua, wearing a floral dress, not very beautiful, but very attractive...... She saw a stranger, a little shy, and with a "swish", she turned and ran back to the house.

"Dad, someone is looking for you!"

"You girl, since someone is here, why don't you invite you into the house?"

"But I don't know this man! and he's so dirty. ”

"Oh~?"

The voice in the room came intermittently, and the scholar listened to it, touched his nose, and was a little embarrassed.

After a while, an old man walked out, followed by a shy girl, who was the one just now. The scholar hurriedly saluted and said, "Xiaosheng fled from Dongran Village to here, dare to ask the village chief if this village may settle down?"

Old man Xu glanced at him and said with a smile: "This village can settle down, but I don't know how many people are here?"

The scholar's eyes were dim, and he said in a low voice: "My parents are dead, and I am the only one ......"

"Huh, are your parents dead?" Xu Hongyan covered his mouth and exhaled softly.

"Girl!" Old Man Xu scolded. Then he smiled at Zhu Zixing and said: "Since there are no relatives, it is okay to settle down in my Youtai Village." It's just that my village is full of reckless men, and most of them are illiterate, and I see that you are a scholar, but would you like to find a gentleman here, and teach the children to read and write? I let the villagers offer the gift of the three masters, so that you can teach them knowledge and support yourself. ”

"Of course you can, then thank you to the village chief!" When Zhu Zixing heard this, he was full of joy and hurriedly thanked him.

............

In this way, the scholar made a home here......

Three years later......

"Princes, when you see a gentleman, what does it mean?" Xu Hongyan sat in front of the door, looking at the scholar with his head in his hands.

The scholar sat in the courtyard, holding a wooden hairpin in his hand, listened to her inquiry, asked for a levy, turned his head and smiled: "Now that I have seen the person I like, how can I not cure my heart disease!"

"That'...... When you see a gentleman, you don't like it? What does it mean?"

"Now that you have seen the person you like, how can you not be happy in your heart!"

Xu Hongyan grinned when he heard this, stood up, then snatched the wooden hairpin from his hand and ran towards the outside of the courtyard.

"Eh, it's not cut yet!"

"Just send me, I don't care!" she could hear laughing even though she turned her back to the scholar.

The scholar shook his head and was about to speak, but he heard a voice from outside the courtyard......

"Princes, when you see a gentleman, Yunhu doesn't like it?......"

The scholar blushed for a moment......

The two came and went, and gradually became affectionate. The old village chief saw that the two had the intention of having a concubine, so he asked someone to be a matchmaker, and then the two got married. Marriage should have been beautiful, but unfortunately, the good times didn't last long......

Two years ago, something suddenly fell from the sky, like a meteor streaked by, and I don't know where it fell...... Then, the village gradually began to change...... It's getting weird. When the sun was shining in the sky, the villagers did not feel warm, the grass and trees on the ground began to wither, and the most strange thing was that there was no wind or rain in the village. When they tried to escape from the village, it was as if they were blocked by an air wall, and they couldn't get out............ And then ...... The people in the village, except for the scholars, all began to change. He became short-tempered, unkind, lazy, extravagant, and foul-mouthed. The village is in chaos......

Seeing this, the scholar was worried and wanted to go out to stop all this, but the villagers couldn't listen to him at all, and they were injured during the dispute. He was chilled and dragged his injured body home. As a result, when he went back and arrived at home, he encountered another scene that made him angry, his wife was being choked with one hand, and the man was holding a wooden hairpin in one hand and stabbing her in the heart, and the murderer turned his head and looked at him expressionlessly!

Zhu Zixing only felt a shock in his head, and his anger rushed straight to his brain, and he clenched his fist and smashed it at the man, and the two scuffled together. It's a pity that he was born and his body is weak, where is the opponent of that person, he was pushed to the wall by his palm, and his head hit the wall, and his head broke and bled ............

"Do you feel useless? Do you feel like you need strength urgently? You see...... The person in front of you is still looking at you with his body propped up, and there is only indifference and disdain in his eyes. What is he doing? He's laughing at you, he's laughing at your weakness! Your wife died so miserably...... You see him lying motionless in a pool of blood, and she must be disappointed to see you so useless. Come, I can give you power, and as long as you agree, there will be no end to it. You can calm the chaos in the village!What are you still thinking?" At this moment, a voice full of demagogy gently swirled in his mind, lingering......

The scholar's eyes were blood-red at the moment, and anger had already occupied his brain, where to distinguish this, and nodded hurriedly. At this time, a force rushed into his body, and he felt that a powerful force spread to every corner of his body, as if he had been reborn, full of power. It's just that the brain was shocked, and suddenly it became muddy, like dust, and I couldn't remember anything.

At this time, Zhu Zixing's muscles began to bulge abnormally, his body became extremely huge, and his eyes stared at the person blankly. The man smiled strangely, punched out, but he grabbed it gently, and then lifted it directly off the ground, fell to the ground, and did not move for a long time......! By the time he woke up, the house was in shambles, and the man was nowhere to be seen.

In a daze, the scholar saw his wife, who was in her last days and dying, lying on the messy ruins. Just as I wanted to go to check, I found that I was weak, my skin quickly dried up, my head turned gray, my body couldn't stand up straight, I bent over and crawled back, like an old man in the last years of the wind and candles.

"Red smoke!" the scholar lost his strength, crawled on the ground and screamed in despair.

Xu Hongyan seemed to hear it, turned his head with difficulty, hooked the corners of his mouth, and there was some reluctance in his eyes, and then left peacefully......

Zhu Zixing was stunned, looking at his wife with a look, his eyes dimming.

At this time, the village chief and the villagers seemed to hear the noise, rushed in, and when they saw this scene, they couldn't help but say that when they came to the scholar, they punched and kicked him, and then tied him up in the courtyard.

"Kill him, burn him!" shouted in the courtyard. The scholar looked at them bitterly and said nothing. They are already controlled by instinct, and they can't see a trace of humanity, only fanatical faces, indifference in their eyes!

At noon on the second day, the sons who were covered in wounds were fortunately dying, lying motionless on the ground. He has been lying here for seven or eight hours since the villagers tied him to the courtyard yesterday. However, for some reason, the villagers did not kill him, but as if they had forgotten him, they slowly dispersed and did not care about him. The scholar had run out of oil, and he wandered his eyes, and suddenly saw a person walking slowly...... I couldn't see it clearly under the glaring light, except that he was wearing a bronze grimace mask on his face, staring at him from top to bottom, as if looking at something, and then kicked him in the head, and his head was directly kicked to shreds............

At this moment, the man pinched the seal in his hand and recited the incantation. It's a pity that the scholar can't see it anymore! The injuries all over his body, coupled with physical and mental exhaustion, and the man's kick...... After all, he didn't let him hold on, and he broke off at the heaviest yang energy......

Three days later, at midnight. The corpses in the courtyard were still lying there, and no one cared about them. The strange thing is that after three days, the corpse did not stink, the cerebral marrow and blood flowed all over the ground, and there were no mosquitoes and ravens to eat it! At this moment, a pleasant bell rang, and the corpse suddenly opened its eyes, and its eyes flashed red, and it stood up like a walking corpse. He walked into the kitchen, picked up a kitchen knife, and walked out of the courtyard......

"Ah......h In the middle of the night, the screams in the village rang out without interruption.

More than 700 people in the whole village died overnight. In the early hours of the morning, the scholar came back, full of evil breath, Tsing Yi had already been stained red with blood, his withered hair was stained with blood, and the kitchen knife he was holding in his hand was curled and full of gaps. His eyes were blank, like a marionette, and he walked back to the courtyard. At this time, there was a light in his eyes, as if he had regained his consciousness. Only then did he remember the events of last night, and sat on the ground weakly, sobbing softly.

"Zixing, no wonder you! I know why. ”

At this time, a whisper came from the scholar's ear. Zhu Zixing was stunned, suddenly got up, and rushed into the house, but where could he see the figure, along with the corpses in the house, he lowered his head in dismay......

"Zixing, I'm in the mirror. ”

The soft voice came again, and the scholar's body shook, and he hurriedly ran to the bronze mirror! Sure enough, there was a figure in the bronze mirror, looming. He was ecstatic and whispered, "Red smoke?!"

The person in the mirror smiled, and then said lightly: "Zixing, I don't blame you, I really don't blame you! Don't feel too guilty, I have seen the source!"

The scholar didn't know why, and looked at her suspiciously.

"Poof. Xu Hongyan sneered when he saw his stupid appearance. Then he said slowly: "Our village should be regarded as a place of trial by evil people. Three days ago, I turned into a wandering spirit, and my heart was clear for a moment, remembering the events of my life, and I felt guilty. In guilt, I saw that you were tied up, and I wanted to save you, but the ghost is illusory, but you can't see me, and I can't save you.

At this time, a person from outside the village came, and I was timid by nature, so I hid in the bronze mirror, but fortunately, in the bronze mirror, I was able to stay awake. When I saw that the man was dead, he took out a porcelain bottle, and a drop of blue blood dripped from the porcelain bottle, and your soul was sealed in your body, and you could not come out. I think you've lost your mind and killed like a person. It's a pity that I can't save you. After Xu Hongyan finished speaking, he was a little discouraged, and gritted his teeth and said: "You are not a bad person! ”

"Oh, and the fish that slipped through the net?" Suddenly, a joking voice came from the scholar's side.

The scholar was startled, but saw a person standing next to him, wearing a bronze grimace and a gold silk robe, with his hands behind his back, looking at the bronze mirror with interest. When the scholar saw the visitor, he knew that he was the culprit, his angry eyes were red, and his evil spirit leaked out, and he raised his fist and smashed it at the visitor.

When the man saw him coming, he smiled contemptuously, and with a wave of his left hand, he knocked him away. Then he stretched out his hand to the bronze mirror, wanting to grab Xu Hongyan's soul. Seeing this, the princes were furious and shouted, "You dare?!" and rushed over again.

"I didn't kill you, because of the corpse ancestor, and dare to die?" the man was interrupted by him, and his hand was beaten, as if he was impatient with his toss, and turned around with a punch.

Before Zhu Zixing got close, he was punched away again, and he hit the bronze mirror, spitting blood in his mouth. The man walked slowly, and he didn't know where he got the strength, grabbed the wooden hairpin in front of the bronze mirror, and waved his hand forward.

"Ah......h The scholar's face was happy, and he kicked him away. In the air, the man gritted his teeth, flicked his fingers at the bronze mirror, and then fled with his chest clutched after landing on the ground......