Chapter Eighty-Four: Hexi Village
The group spent the night breathing in the cave, and when the first white of the sky was revealed, they also came out of the cave and continued to run towards their destination.
In the early morning, the humidity was heavy, and everyone couldn't help but get a little water stain on their bodies.
However, as they advanced with all their might, the moisture on their clothes evaporated in the blink of an eye, as if it had never appeared.
After a few hours, Bi Fu and the others finally arrived at the village mentioned in the mission.
As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village, I saw an elderly woman standing there with a crutch.
As soon as she saw Yu Bai appear, the old woman's eyes lit up, and she walked towards them with a pestle.
Although her legs and feet were inconvenient, the old woman's walking speed was not slow at all, and Bi Fu was afraid that she would fall if she walked fast, so she hurriedly rushed up to support her.
"Mother-in-law, is Hexi Village here?" Bi Fu was afraid that the old woman would not be able to hear clearly, so he increased the volume a little.
Who knew that the old woman grabbed her hand, nodded again and again, and said hurriedly: "Yes, yes, this is it, I can wait for you." β
The old woman spoke quickly and urgently, and her words were vague, and Bi Fu and the others were confused.
Seeing that they didn't react, two lines of tears flowed from the wrinkled eyes of the old woman.
This frightened Yu Bai, Yu Bai was not good at words, and could only imply a few Yi Tianlei with crazy eyes.
Yi Tianlei and they also secretly complained.
Yu Bai is a cool girl, and they are not so eloquent, so in the end, they can only look at Bi Fu, the hope of the whole team, in silence.
Bi Fu also took over the heavy responsibility as expected, holding the old woman with his hand, and softly comforting: "Mother-in-law, don't worry, you can say slowly, we are monks from the Buddhist sect, and we are here to help you." β
The old woman's mood stabilized a little, and her tears stopped, she was a little embarrassed, wiped her face with a handkerchief, breathed a sigh of relief, and glanced at them gratefully, "I am the village chief of Hexi Village, and I have been waiting for you at the entrance of the village for a long time, and I will finally wait for you to help us." β
Yi Tianlei has a lively temperament, and he can't help but be curious, "Village chief mother-in-law, how do you know that we are disciples of the Buddhist Sect." β
As soon as these words came out, the village chief's mother-in-law was silent, and Yu Bai was also silent.
Yi Tianlei suddenly felt that the atmosphere was wrong, his eyes rolled on several people, and he didn't understand why they suddenly stopped talking.
The doubts on her face were too obvious, but Rong Xue couldn't stand it anymore, and whispered, "Let's wear Buddhist disciple clothes." β
"Oh! That's right, we're wearing Buddhist disciple uniforms! Yi Tianlei suddenly realized and smiled honestly.
Yu Bai had a heart attack, turned his head and couldn't bear to look directly at Yi Tianlei's face, which was both a little silly and a little naΓ―ve.
If Bi Fu knew Yu Bai's thoughts, he would definitely give her a description: clear stupidity.
It is absolutely appropriate to use it on Yi Tianlei.
Yu Bai coughed lightly, pulling everyone's attention back from Yi Tianlei, she took two steps forward and looked at the village chief steadily, "Trouble mother-in-law to inform us of the matter completely, so that we can find the whereabouts of the missing villagers." β
The village chief's mother-in-law was a little unnatural by Yu Bai's calm eyes, and listened to their words, nodding again and again, "It should be, it should be, let's go into the village and say, my house is not far away." β
Yu Bai responded, and the five people followed the steps of the village chief's mother-in-law into the village.
As soon as they entered the village, they felt that the atmosphere was not right, and the whole village was filled with a negative mood, and the villagers passing by looked in a hurry.
I didn't feel much when I saw a few of them, so I glanced at them and left, with numbness and indifference in my eyes.
Yu Bai felt strange in his heart, and gave Yi Tianlei a look without a trace, and several people were silently vigilant.
I don't know if it's because some villagers are missing, so there is no activity, everywhere you go is quite quiet, everyone is doing their own thing, everyone is talking in a low voice or silent.
Bi Fu had lived in the village for a few years and knew what an ordinary village was like, but this Hexi village was too calm and weird, which made people feel uneasy.
Yu Bai and Bi Fu quietly looked at each other, and then inadvertently staggered their eyes.
Just quietly followed the village chief's mother-in-law to the house where she lived.
The village chief's house is in the middle of the village, the house is not big, but it is neat, and when you open the door, you can see the cleaned yard.
The village chief's mother-in-law led them into the back room, made them sit, and ran to boil a pot of hot tea.
After Bi Fu was embarrassed to let an old man do something for them, Shen Zhuo stepped forward step by step, took the teapot in the hand of the village chief's mother-in-law with one hand, and helped the village chief to sit down with the other.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you." The village chief's wrinkled face bloomed with a grateful smile.
What Yu Bai wants to know most now is the situation of the mission, so she is not ambiguous and asks directly.
"Village chief, mother-in-law, what's the whole thing?"
The village chief, who was holding hot tea, sighed deeply when he heard Yu Bai's question, and described what happened melancholy.
Hexi Village, like other villages, in addition to cultivating crops in the village, will also go to the mountains to hunt some wild beasts, and every seven days will go to nearby towns to sell them to earn spirit stones.
Two months ago, a female villager went up to the mountains to hunt and did not return for a long time, and her husband, worried about his wife, also went up the mountain to look for her, but also did not return.
But the couple lived at the end of the village and had no children, and the next day no one found them missing.
So the rest of the village didn't know what was going on in the mountains and still went up to hunt, but some of them disappeared in the mountains, while others returned safely.
More than a dozen people disappeared in a row, which finally attracted the attention of the village, and they formed a team to go into the mountains to search, but this time none of them returned, and the villagers were finally afraid to enter the mountains.
Only then did they find the Buddha and ask for help.
After Bi Fu listened, some thoughts flashed through his mind, but he didn't show them.
She just asked gently, "Mother-in-law, is this all there is to it?" Do you recall if there was anything missing? β
The village chief's mother-in-law paused, as if reminiscing, and shook her head firmly for a while, "No, everything I know has already been said, and I also hope that you can help us find the missing villagers as soon as possible."
Their families are worried. β
Thinking of the missing people, and the current situation in the village, she sighed again, nothing like this had ever happened in the village, and this sudden change caught them off guard.
Seeing the village chief shaking his head, Bi Fu asked again: "Aren't there any monks in Hexi Village?" Are there monks among the missing people? β
When the village chief heard this, he smiled bitterly, "How can there be so many monks, we are all mortals.
It's not that there have been no monks in the village, but you see that our mountain place can't provide any resources for the children with spiritual roots, so we can only send them out to seek immortals and ask, and they rarely come back, and many of them are basically not heard from. β
There is really no problem with this, I think Uncle Lin and they were like this at the beginning, even if they were reluctant, they also sent Lin Yun to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, just to get better resources.