Raising his eyes and looking at the strange stamen, Chen Changsheng's heart sank, but with a gust of wind blowing, the stamens were directly shattered like an illusion, leaving the flower pillars close together to sway from side to side.

"The tools are given to you, I can't do it." Old man Li's voice came, Chen Changsheng turned his head to look, and saw that old man Li had touched a hoe out of nowhere and carried it on his shoulder.

Taking the hoe handed over by Old Man Li, Chen Changsheng didn't speak, went straight to the tree, and raised the hoe high.

The moon hung high, shining a dazzling cold light over the hoe overhead, sinking into the darkness beneath the trees.

The hoe sank into the dirt, making a crisp clicking sound, and Chen Changsheng's arms holding the hoe trembled slightly.

The hoe sank into the dirt, Chen Changsheng's arms were bruised, but the handle was only slightly shaken a few times.

"Come out for me!" The handle fell forward suddenly, the ground made a sound of earth collapsing, and the object stuck with the hoe flew out, Chen Changsheng hurriedly looked at it.

The round object flew in the moonlight, a skull, and when it hit the ground, it made a shattering sound.

Looking at the skull that had broken into pieces, Chen Changsheng was calm, refocused his gaze on the hoe, and continued to dig the ground.

"Click, click......" With Chen Changsheng's continuous excavation, the sound of broken bones continued to echo in this small courtyard, and the white bone fragments were also mixed with the soil to form a hill.

"These people don't look like they're being controlled." The holes on the ground gradually expanded, and the frequency of white bones became more and more frequent, and suddenly a piece of upper skeleton curled up with folded limbs aroused Chen Changsheng's suspicions.

Although the suspicions in his heart intensified, the hoe in Chen Changsheng's hand still dug mercilessly into the bones.

After digging for about half an hour, Chen Changsheng's action of wielding the hoe gradually slowed down due to soreness, the bones dug up became sparse, and the sound of iron tools colliding came from the ground.

This sound was like an old monk striking a bell, which made the originally anxious old man Li's face show great joy, and he ran to Chen Changsheng's side in a few steps, looking into the depths of the soil through the dim moonlight.

Raising the hoe, Chen Changsheng followed Old Man Li's eager gaze.

I saw a tree root the size of a human head and full of lumps appeared in the ground, and the dark red juice flowed from the place where it had been cut by the hoe, soaking the surrounding land.

"This is the thing!" In the silent darkness, Old Man Li's excited shouts were particularly excited.

"Bang! Boom! After receiving the confirmation of Old Man Li, Chen Changsheng's strength at hand couldn't help but increase a little, and when the soil flew, a thick tree root was brought up by the hoe.

Chen Changsheng hooked the roots of the tree with his hoe and looked up.

The roots of the tree were half a meter long, like a baby who had just been full moon and was wrapped around his neck with hemp rope, hanging high, and with the dark red liquid of the roots, Chen Changsheng felt extremely depressed.

Looking at the excited old man Li, Chen Changsheng picked up the roots on the hoe, and said in a consultative but disobedient tone: This is for you. ”

After speaking, Chen Changsheng's hand quietly fell on the hoe, his eyes became sharp, as long as Old Man Li showed a trace of hesitation on his face, the hoe would slam down.

"Thank you." Old man Li looked excited, his eyes were fixed on the root of the tree in his hand, and he didn't notice that Chen Changsheng, who was pinching the hoe, bit into the center of the root.

The skin of the roots of the tree is firm, but the inner core is soft, and when Old Man Li goes down, the roots disappear a lot.

"I felt a paralyzing sensation in my body slowly subside." Old man Li, who was carefully feeling the changes in his body, suddenly pulled open his trouser legs, only to see that the originally fibrous calves had regained their blood color.

Seeing this, Chen Changsheng's hand holding the hoe turned in a direction and dug into the ground.

The dark sky gradually brightened, Chen Changsheng held a freshly unearthed tree root in his hand, pushed the soil back to the big pit with one hand, and shouted to the dazed old man Li on the side: "Come and help." ”

After returning the dirt to the mound, the panting two did not dare to stay long, and returned to the wooden house.

"Goodbye, presumably you have to leave too, you take this money as a reward." Lao Li, who had solved the worry of his life, was extremely happy, took out a silver tael of white flowers from his arms, and stuffed it into Chen Changsheng's hand.

Chen Changsheng looked at the silver two in Old Man Li's eyes, and couldn't help but flash a gleam in his eyes, and he didn't delay taking the silver two, and said, "Well, the key will be placed in the third crack of the courtyard for you when the time comes." ”

While speaking, Chen Changsheng kicked the silver two into his arms, said goodbye to Old Man Li, and trotted all the way to the courtyard while the night was dark.

The courtyard was pitch black, Bai Ruoqing should still be sleeping, Chen Changsheng took out the key and opened the door softly, and suddenly saw a figure sitting in the center of the courtyard.

"You're back, get something to eat." On the stone bench, Bai Ruoqing looked at Chen Changsheng, who had some mud marks on his clothes, and didn't ask much, opened the medicine stove on the side, revealing the boiled sweet potatoes inside.

"Well, the fire is out, we're leaving." Chen Changsheng took out the sweet potato from the medicine stove, put it on the stone table beside him, and instructed, while walking towards the small building.

"Hmm." Bai Ruoqing looked at Chen Changsheng who was in a hurry, and he also had some guesses in his heart, so he promised, picked up a few sticks of firewood on the side and knocked out the flames.

"Take it." Chen Changsheng walked out of the small building, leading a sack with a rope tied tightly in one hand, and looked at the extinguished fire and threw a sack to Bai Ruoqing.

Putting the medicine stove into the sack, Chen Changsheng put the sweet potato on the stone table, locked the gate of the courtyard, hid the key in the designated position, and walked towards the vast grassland with Bai Ruoqing.

"When did you wake up?" Walking on the road, Chen Changsheng looked at Bai Ruoqing with dark circles in the corners of his eyes, and asked suspiciously.

"Awake all the time." Bai Ruoqing's answer was very ordinary, as if he was talking about something that didn't concern him, and there was no trace of displeasure on his face.

"Here you go!" Looking at the displeased Bai Ruoqing, Chen Changsheng took out the root of the tree from his arms and handed it to Bai Ruoqing's hand.

"What is this?" Looking at the gray and muddy roots in his hands, Bai Ruoqing's eyes were more disgusted, and he pinched a corner and asked.

Chen Changsheng told Bai Ruoqing word for word about the events of the past two days, and said, "This is the root of the demon tree, and you will be fine if you eat it." ”

Listening to Chen Changsheng's description, Bai Ruoqing no longer hesitated and began to nibble away at the core of the tree little by little.

As they spoke, the two of them had drifted farther and farther apart, and the outline of the village had become blurred.

"Hey, there's another version of this story." Old man Li stood at the entrance of the village, looking at Chen Changsheng who had disappeared, the smile on his face gradually distorted, and he ate the root doll that was missing a corner under the root of the tree in his hand.