Looking at the back of the man pulling the cart, Tsurumi Hatsumo was stunned for a moment, and finally smiled bitterly, did not chase, pulled up the skirt and walked on the stone road.

Like just now, she and Shen Yi had already met more than one before, and she really wanted to ask if there were any villages or towns in front of her, so that she could buy some food or sell pills or something.

And every time she asked, the person who was asked either ignored her, or had the same horrified look on his face as the man just now.

Not to mention talking to her.

People living in Jizhou are silent and numb.

Halfway down the stone path, she stopped and looked up into the distance, where she could see the shimmering green plains to the east through the light mist of the water.

But it wasn't a plain, but a watery grass that few people dared to set foot on.

Not long ago, when Shen Yi took her on a flight, he saw that the grass was very large, accounting for almost one-third of Jizhou's area.

Tsurumi Hatsuyun also knew that he and Shen Yi were now in the boundary around the Sheltered Water Grass, which should be in the western area of the Sheltered Water Grass, but he didn't know exactly where it was and on that road.

When Shen Yi took her to escape three days ago, he didn't keep flying forward with his head down, he sometimes went to the left, sometimes to the right, constantly changing directions, only in this way could he successfully get rid of the other party.

Fortunately, she still has a compass in her hand, otherwise she wouldn't even be able to find the direction after flying and landing.

After crossing the river, Tsuru saw Hatsukumo and immediately released his horse, took out the spirit magic weapon, and rode slowly along the road in front of him.

After walking for two hours, when we reached a detour, a rancid smell came from ahead.

Her brows furrowed, her nerves tensed, and she subconsciously clenched her sword, ready to draw it at any moment.

"What's wrong?"

"It smells of corpses."

"The smell of corpses?" Shen Yi wanted to sweep around with his senses, but before he could do so, he saw the source of the smell of corpses through the other party's perspective.

It was a tree, as thick as three people hugging each other, and its trunk was rooted in the ground, but the tree was dead, and there were no green leaves on the branches, and instead there was a human corpse hanging on it, and it was impossible to count, just a glance, it could make people feel the extremely oppressive death.

Some of these corpses had just died, some had turned into white bones, all kinds of bones were scattered everywhere, and some corpses were piled up under the trees, either covered by a thick layer of gray incense ash, or visited by scavengers, some of the corpses had their chests completely open, their flesh was scarlet and rotten, and the internal organs were gnawed into a blur of flesh and blood.

Shen Yi only felt a burst of physical discomfort, although he didn't have so many psychological obstacles to killing people now, but the impact of this scene was still too strong.

"What's wrong with these people? How are they all hanging here? ”

"I don't know." Tsurumi Hatsuun shook her head, rode closer, and for a while a strong rancid smell came to her nose, making her stomach tumble for a while.

After observing the circle, there were various items used to hang the corpse, including white silk, hemp rope, and strips of rotten cloth tied after tearing clothes.

Some of these people seem to have been hanged artificially, and some of them simply hanged themselves.

She's not quite sure either.

After a few hasty glances, she was about to leave, but the next second she seemed to see something again, her eyes lit up, and she hurriedly dismounted and picked up a bamboo pole next to her, and then picked up one of the corpses.

There was a sign pressed under the corpse, and although it was badly broken, it was vaguely readable to read the words written on it.

…… Po Village.

Looking at the size of the brand, there should be three words on it, but I don't know where the missing part went, but for Tsurumi Hatsukumo, these are enough.

She took out the map, searched it carefully, and finally found a place marked "Xiuba Village" on the left side of the watery grass.

"There's a village nearby."

"See."

"Let's keep going and see if we can find it."

"Let's go."

"Oh."

Remounted on her horse, Tsurumi Hatsukumo sped up her advance, and when she was far away, she glanced back at the people who died under the tree, as if they were using their corpses to warn passing travelers.

When the rancid smell in the air dissipated a little, she took a deep breath and ignored it anymore, at which point Shen Yi asked, "What is the custom of sprinkling incense ash on corpses?" ”

"It's not custom."

"What's that?"

"Yes......" Tsurumi Chuyun gave Shen Yi a brief explanation, it was an aged incense ash that had been placed on the offering platform for a long time, because it received some incense fire, the incense ash itself had some power of faith, and it could prevent the birth of evil to a certain extent.

However, the use of this incense ash is very limited, because its role is only to reduce the probability of the birth of evil, and the best way to deal with evil is to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, once and for all, if you do not remove the roots, the evil is like leeks stubble after stubble long, sprinkling incense ash is only a symptom but not a cure.

Besides, people generally can't find the places where evil can be bred, and when they are finally discovered, most of them are evil that have been born and have begun to bring disaster to the world.

There are so many corpses on the tree and under the tree that they are left to the wind and rain, and if they are ignored all the time, it is only a matter of time before the evil is born.

And the steward of the nearby village didn't want to work so hard, thinking that it was too troublesome to dispose of the corpse, so he simply sprinkled some fragrant ash and grass to do something.

Of course, evil is not a child's play, few people will be like this, especially where they live, but the nearby village just did it, and I don't know if something happened, who can say clearly?

In the past five days, she has almost eaten on the road with food on her body, and now Tsurumi Hatsukumo has a few hard-boiled eggs left, no matter what, she will go to Naxiubo Village to have a look, and if the situation is still good, she will use the last ten taels of silver on her body to buy some dry food.

After riding the horse for I don't know how many miles, the billowing black smoke rising in the distance made Tsurumi Hatsuun couldn't help but pull the reins, causing the horse to slow down.

"Isn't it, it's Tucun again?"

The rising black smoke darkened the sky, giving people an extremely ominous feeling when they looked at it, and Shen Yi immediately thought of Tu Village.

Tsurumi Hatsukumo didn't say anything, but his face showed thought, and finally chose to let the horse speed up and rush in the direction of the black smoke.

The further I went, the more desolate I became, the weeds on the ground were withered and yellow, and there was no vitality at all that we should have in spring, and there was always a putrid smell in the air, and it was even more a bit of dead silence.

After a while, some pedestrians could be seen on the road, but most of them were skinny and numb.

At first glance, you can see that these are refugees who have been displaced by the war.

Probably unable to stand the foul air, they covered their mouths and noses with the fabric torn from their clothes, and passed by in groups, without saying a word, and the silence was terrible.

Looking at Tsurumi Hatsukumo on horseback, greed flashed in the eyes of more than one person, but then the sword in her hand dispelled the thoughts in their hearts.

Tsurumi Hatsukumo was also silent, and when she walked a little further, she saw the outline of the building in the distance, and the black smoke was rising from that direction, but it seemed to be farther away.

From time to time, a figure walks out of it, it should also be a refugee, and looking at the state of the refugees, there is no doubt that they have been hungry for a long time, and if the situation allows, they can even go to gnaw on the grass on the ground.

She was too conspicuous to ride a horse, and it was easy to be beaten at her, so to avoid trouble, she rolled over and dismounted, put away the spirit artifact and hung it around her waist, hung down the hem of her clothes to cover it, and chose to walk over.

But even if she walked by, whenever a refugee passed by, those eyes would be on her body, as if she were looking at a rare treasure, and slowly, her face began to sink.

She is now disguised, with Jiang Yiyi's appearance, but her skin is as fair as ice and snow, and when she walks on the road, she has formed a strong contrast with those refugees, and it is difficult not to attract attention.

"Old witch, you should disguise yourself as a man."

"You think I don't want to?"

With Tsurumi Hatsumo's disguise technique, it is not difficult to make herself look like a man, but the problem is that she can't speak after she becomes a man, and Yidan's opening will definitely reveal her gender.

It seems that the practice will have to be put aside in the future, and it will be necessary to practice ventriloquism a little more, so as to achieve the effect of being fake and real as soon as possible.

Instead of putting the sword in storage, she hung it around her waist to deter some of the petty people, but luckily, there were still refugees who gave her malicious glances, but none of them actually did it.

The buildings in the distance weren't far away from her, and she quickly saw the front and saw more detail.

In front of me was a wooden wall made of wood, more than a foot high, the wall was covered with mottled marks, everywhere there were gaps cut by knives or holes shot by arrows, and in some places there were traces of re-repair, judging from the mud filled between the cracks in the wood, it seemed that not much time had passed since the wooden wall was built.

Looking up, there were still several badly decomposed corpses hanging from the wooden stakes at the head of the wall, and countless crows and vultures were circling in the sky.

Next to one of the corpses, three large letters could be seen.

Xiuba Village.

"Forehead ......"

Whether it is Tsurumi Chuyun or Shen Yi, in their opinion, this Xiubo Village does not look like a village at all, but more like a bandit village.

The sound inside was noisy, like some kind of rave party.

The rancid smell in the air lingered, and when I walked into the village, the sound I heard in my ears became even more chaotic, and the thick smell of blood mixed with it was even more overwhelming, and I couldn't tell whether it was from animals or people.

Because she faintly smelled animal droppings.

The ground in the walled city was damp and muddy, trampled with potholes, and everywhere there was sewage mixed with blood.

On the board not far away, there were a few people gathered together, with knives in their hands, dismembering a very strange animal, Tsurumi Hatsukumo looked at it, and at a glance he could see that it was a contract beast, and he didn't know that it was the unlucky guy.

The village is not big, and as soon as you enter, you can vaguely see the wall on the other side, but there are many people, but most of them are thin to skin and bones, and wear tattered clothes without even patches, like defeated and captured soldiers, who gather on both sides numbly, making the street look extremely crowded.

At this time, the butcher who was dismembering the contract beast threw some unwanted internal organs on the side of the road, and in an instant, those people were like zombies, rushing over like a tide, grabbing the internal organs and not caring about the dirt on them, stuffing them into their mouths and gnawing them.

For some unknown reason, these refugees are all hiding here, and those who originally lived in Xiubo Village are all fierce, wearing clothes made of animal skins, or simply bare their upper bodies, revealing a hideous muscle.

At this moment, there was a sudden "bang" on the attic of a building not far away, and a person's figure flew out, fell heavily to the ground, splashing a thin mud, and then there was no movement, just lying motionless in the mud, and I didn't know whether it was dead or alive.

Soon two men pushed open the door and came out, laughing as they came to the man, each grabbed one foot, and dragged him very violently into the house.

Tsurumi Hatsuun frowned at what was happening in front of him, didn't intervene, and waited until the matter was over before continuing to move forward.

Xiu Bocun's first impression of her was that it was dirty and messy, full of savagery, which made her instinctively hate this place.

The center of the stockade is the widest place, and all kinds of buildings are neatly built around it, and no one crosses the line, thus forming a square, but because of this, this is the most lively place in the whole stockade, and most of the sound is also coming from here.

"Mountain wolf! Hurry up and stand up! Hit back! ”

"Help! Savage Bird! Help! Kill him as a bastard! ”

"Hit! Kill him! ”

"Your mother***, mountain wolf I****"

"Savage Bird work harder! Don't give him a stand! ”

"That's right! Give him another kick! ”

"*** I ****"

"Mountain wolf, I'm a ****"

“……”

Countless figures surrounded the place, and the attics of the surrounding buildings were filled with people, raising their fists and waving their fists, howling.

The madness on everyone's face is in full view.

That kind of anger can be felt from the perspective of all kinds of cranes and early clouds.

It is not difficult to judge that there is a fighting match going on in the vacant space in the center of the crowd, but unfortunately there are too many people, and Tsurumi Hatsukumo can't see what is going on inside at all, and can only hear the shouts of people.

However, there seemed to be no rules for this fighting match, and soon she saw someone hand out a knife, shouting ahead and sending the knife to the crowd.

"Look at the wolf who has won."

"Here, here, what?"

"Hand the knife to Lao Tzu and let that savage bird die! I bet so much money and don't want to lose. ”

"Bring it!"

"Pick it up!"

"Mountain wolf! Take the knife! ”

“……”

As the pig-killing knife disappeared in the crowd, the next second, a blood line soared out of the most central duel field, and for a while, people shouted louder, like a mountain overwhelmed.

"Mountain wolf! Mountain wolf! Mountain wolf! ”

"Win!"

"Mountain! Wolf! ”

As the scene became chaotic, Tsurumi Hatsukumo finally saw the situation in the center of the field.

I saw a man with a body of 1.8 meters and covered in blood standing up, holding the pig-killing knife just now, and carrying a person's head in the other hand, lifting it high and announcing his victory to the people.

After that, people entered the field one after another, dragged away the headless corpse of the wild bird, and quickly started the next game, with the sound of someone shouting to start betting, Tsurumi Hatsumo did not have the mood to continue watching, and chose to leave by detour.

And Shen Yi couldn't help but complain in the consciousness space: "Good guy, what kind of village is this, it's really hardcore, I'm afraid it's already occupied by bandits......"

Hearing his words, Tsuru saw Hatsukumo's footsteps pause, and said, "You seem to be ...... That's right. ”

"Huh?"

"......" (end of chapter)