In the gray light, the simple thatched huts were scattered from east to west, and more and more villagers came out of the houses, carrying or carrying various agricultural tools that could be used as weapons.

Stomp ...... The sound of more and more dense footsteps swarmed, and a pair of cold eyes all locked on Zhou Zhen, and the strong hostility seemed to turn into substance.

Zhou Zhen stood motionless, looked at the old blacksmith, and asked coldly, "Are you the actual person in charge of this village?" ”

The old blacksmith didn't answer, just raised his arm, pointed at Zhou Zhen, and said briefly: "Up!" ”

The next moment, many villagers suddenly poured up like a tide.

Nail rakes, hoes, sickles, and poles...... waved it messily and smashed it towards Zhou Zhen.

Zhou Zhen's eyes immediately appeared in front of him with dense numbers, formulas, symbols, and graphics...... They were like invisible bridges between his thoughts and those of the villagers, and then, a large wave of math problems, like a floodgate, roared into the minds of all the villagers.

Digital Domain, [Overclocking Interference]!

All the villagers who were rushing up collectively paused, as if they were stuck robots.

But the next moment, they immediately regained their consciousness and continued to grasp the farm tools and attack Zhou Zhen.

Zhou Zhen frowned slightly, then opened his arms, and in the void in front of him, more than a dozen black and red cubes suddenly appeared.

The moment these cubes appeared, they instantly turned into powerful shockwaves, roaring and blasting towards the villagers in front of them.

Digital Domain, [Fusion Cube]!

Boom Boom Boom Boom ......

With a deafening loud bang, energy waves rushed through the air, plowing holes in the air where the light distorted, and everywhere they went, all kinds of materials were incinerated in an instant.

The villagers were torn apart in the blink of an eye, their mutilated limbs were scattered all over the ground, and a head rolled a few times along the mud, stopping at Zhou Zhen's feet, and there was still undisguised dazed hostility in his eyes that quickly dissipated.

Several thatched huts near and far were also affected, and the adobe fell in a tumble, and the thatched grass turned into nothingness.

However, there were a lot of villagers, and soon more villagers rushed up from afar, running towards Zhou Zhen without fear of death, and the hoes, nails, rakes, etc., wrapped in the whirring wind, smashed down.

Bubbling blood water suddenly appeared under Zhou Zhen's feet, and these blood water appeared abruptly and spread faster, and in the blink of an eye, the nearby area turned into a bloody swamp.

All the villagers who entered the bloody area were suddenly forced to slow down greatly, like small insects caught in cobwebs, and despite their struggles, every movement was still as slow as a movie, extremely slow. Just trying to take a step forward requires a lot more effort than usual, and speed, agility, and physical strength are all declining rapidly.

Digital Domain, Crimson Trap!

Immediately afterwards, black and red cubes appeared in front of Zhou Zhen again.

Boom Boom Boom ......

The loud bang rang out again and again, and the whole ground trembled slightly.

A few seconds later, all the villagers who rushed up were slaughtered without even touching Zhou Zhen.

Between the dark thatched houses, only Zhou Zhen and the old blacksmith were still standing, and the dirt floor around the two of them was full of ragged villagers.

The north wind swept by, and the ragged clothes hunted in the wind.

Zhou Zhen turned his head slightly, looked at the old blacksmith, stepped out, and came to the other party in an instant.

Syllable!

Zhou Zhen stretched out his right hand and put it on the old blacksmith's shoulder.

The old blacksmith was just about to raise a nail rake in his hand when a great fear suddenly appeared, like an invisible shadow, and suddenly enveloped his whole person.

In the old blacksmith's vision at this moment, Zhou Zhen in front of him is not a human at all!

The other party's body seems to be thin and thin, but in fact, it is not slowly squirming all the time, the old blacksmith cannot describe the horror and grotesque in words, the other party seems to be the epitome of fear, the embodiment of the most fearful in his heart, and it is like a terrible existence beyond human imagination.

Just by glancing, the old blacksmith was like a frozen creature, and the whole person stood there straight, unable to speak, move, or think, as if even his thoughts had been frozen.

His mind was frightened, his body stiffened, his mind was blank, there was nothing but fear, and the thoughts of resisting, fleeing, and hiding could not arise at all.

Digital Domain, [Zero Distance Fear]!

At this time, Zhou Zhen opened his mouth again and asked, "Are you the actual person in charge of this village?" ”

The old blacksmith looked at Zhou Zhen with horror, opened his mouth, and his voice trembled almost as if it were not the same: "No, it's not ......"

No?

Zhou Zhen frowned, and then asked, "What is going on in this village?" ”

The old blacksmith looked even more frightened, as if he had seen something incomparably terrifying, his lips twitched, and he replied with great difficulty: "Pestilence...... Plague ......"

As soon as these two words came out, the old blacksmith's head exploded like fireworks whose fuses had been burned out!

Bang!!!

The old blacksmith's gray-haired head exploded into a rain of blood on the spot, and the red and white flew and fell, and the fishy and sweet smell was great.

These flesh and blood residues suddenly floated violently and swam up between the drifts, like tiny pixels, turbulent and reorganized in the void, turning into a familiar scene.

In the hot blacksmith shop, Zhou Zhen held a hammer in his left hand and pressed a skull with his right hand, and the hammer had been raised in the air and was about to fall.

Dingdingding......

The sound of striking iron came one after another, and a shirtless villager pounded the materials on the anvil without reservation.

The old blacksmith was standing not far away, urging Zhou Zhen to start quickly in a stern tone.

Looking at this familiar scene, Zhou Zhen suddenly came back to his senses, it was a "ring"!

He went back to the time when he had just entered Yue's blacksmith shop!

In this village, there is a [Mobius Ring] like him?

No!

Wrong!

It's like...... It's his own "ring"

This village, copied his "ring"!

However, his current "digital energy" has not disappeared, and this copied "ring" has not been able to reset his physical state and "digital energy"!

At this moment, the old blacksmith's gloomy voice came: "Catch him!" ”

Just like just now, the surrounding villagers who were originally working hard to strike iron, after hearing this, did not hesitate for a moment, and immediately grabbed all the nearby tools that could be used as weapons and smashed them at Zhou Zhen.

Zhou Zhen turned around calmly, and a translucent energy barrier appeared in front of him, blocking all attacks.

Immediately after, he took a step forward, and after this step, he instantly appeared in front of the old blacksmith, this is the digital domain, [Plane Leap].

Zhou Zhen stretched out his palm, pressed the old blacksmith's arm, and asked again, "In this village, there has been a plague?" ”

"What kind of plague is it?"

"The youngest son of the village chief's family, Ji Li, is he infected with the plague?"

He suspects that the so-called "plague" of the other party is a "digital virus"!

However, as soon as Zhou Zhen's words were asked, the old blacksmith's whole person exploded like a ripe watermelon hit by a punch.

Blood rained down all over the sky.

At the same time, the villagers who were striking iron next to them also fell down one after another, just like wheat at harvest time.

Everything seems to be a repetition of the scene just now.

The whole scene seems to collapse as if a sand tower has collapsed, turning into a sky of numbers, symbols, graphics, formulas......

When the scene in front of him was fixed, Zhou Zhen found that he was lying in a thin-skin coffin again, the lid of the coffin was sturdy, and through the faint light in the gap, the coffin was full of white bones.

Zhou Zhen frowned slightly, punched the coffin lid again, and crawled out of the coffin.

He saw the thin straw mats overhead, blocking most of the daylight, and sinking the spacious courtyard into a gloomy darkness.

Far and near, they are all thin-skinned coffins.

The compacted mud floor has been left untended for a long time, and weeds have grown, mixed with sand and gravel, and puddles have accumulated.

Cold, rotten, dead and silent.

Zhou Zhen looked around, and immediately used the digital domain [Plane Jump], and instantly appeared outside the coffin shop.

A small faded banner with no clear handwriting on it was stuck alone on the dirt floor.

The original village is now nowhere to be seen, with low thatched huts, rudimentary earthen walls, bare hedges, and bloated haystacks...... It's all gone.

What appeared in front of Zhou Zhen was a continuous grave.

They all seem to have been the result of haste of work, about the same height, and at the top of each grave there is a cube of adobe.

Pale yellow weeds grew freely on the grave, and many weeds were already about as tall as the grave, submerging the small soil bag in it and turning it into a flat field.

Looking into the distance, the grass is so far away that you can barely see the edge of this grave.

It's like the whole village is a tomb.

Zhou Zhen was puzzled, and everything around him collapsed into a mighty array of numbers, formulas, and graphics again...... Then reorganized into a hot blacksmith shop.

Dingdingding...... Bite...... Ding Ding ......

The impermeable sound of striking iron came into the ears, and the light of the furnace fire illuminated the faces of the surrounding villagers into a crimson like persimmons.

This is the "ring"!

Zhou Zhen once again returned to the time when he had just entered the blacksmith shop!

He snorted coldly, this time without waiting for the old blacksmith to speak, he directly raised his right hand, and in his right hand, the skull he was holding gradually transformed into a cute lunch box with a Q version of the strawberry pattern that was incompatible with this era.

Zhou Zhen opened the lunch box, which contained nine slightly wriggling unknowns.

He turned his wrist slightly, tilted the lunch box, and poured the nine unknowns directly out of the lunch box......

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The village chief's house.

Back room.

The oil lamp suddenly began to burn violently, and in a short moment, several lamp sparks exploded in succession.

made the originally dim room a little brighter, and it also reflected the bottomless depth in Ji Li's open eyes.

Seeing that Ji Lixi had woken up, the "banana juan" was suddenly startled and hurriedly retreated.

However, at this time, Ji Li's thin arm suddenly stretched out and gently grabbed the hand of the "banana juan".

The child's palm was as cold as a piece of ice, and at the same time that this coldness touched the skin of the "Banana Juan", a huge fear surged over, instantly engulfing the "Banana Juan"'s mind.

As if suddenly petrified, the "Banana Juan" remained motionless and ready to push away, unable to give birth to any thoughts of resistance.

Ji Li slowly got up from the bed, his movements were still a little weak at the beginning, but in the blink of an eye, he returned to normal.

It's as if his originally sick body has become extremely healthy in an instant!

After getting up, Ji Li let go of the hand of the "banana juan" and walked towards the outside of the house with a clear goal.

"Banana Juan" stared blankly at him leaving the back room, and at the moment when Ji Li put down the curtain, she suddenly felt a sense of weakness from the bottom of her body, and she couldn't help but shiver, feeling that this back room was surprisingly cold.

And her strength seems to have been drained by something, and at the moment she feels that just standing is very laborious.

The surging tiredness came up, and the eyelids of "Banana Juan" seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and she couldn't wait to fall asleep immediately.

Just thinking about it, "Banana Juan" found that she didn't know when, she was already lying in a thin-skinned coffin, beside her, squeezed three villagers side by side, looking like the "crown eagle" and other companions, motionless at the moment, as if they had fallen asleep.

Above her face, the heavy coffin was closing little by little.

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The deep night sky seems to be a thick curtain, quietly suspended above.

The night is miserable.

Squeak!

The wooden door of the thatched house of the village chief's house was wide open, and Ji Li quietly stepped over the threshold and walked towards the center of the courtyard step by step.

Click, click, click......

The footsteps were soft, but in the dead of night, they were very clear.

Every step is clear, and the trajectory of his movements can be clearly heard.

Ji Lixi walked unhurriedly until he reached the middle of the yard, not much distance from the big persimmon tree by the pond.

At this moment, he suddenly stopped, and then, as if mechanically, he turned his head little by little, looked around, and seemed to find nothing in the courtyard, so he stopped his progress and turned around, and returned to the thatched hut.

Click, click, click...... Not long after, Ji Li returned to the main hall of the thatched house, and instead of going to the back room, he walked towards the kitchen.

Click...... Click...... Click......

As soon as I came to the kitchen door, I heard the sound of sharp teeth cutting flesh and blood from inside, and blood flowed out of the crack in the door, seeping into the main hall.

Chirping!

Ji Lifu pushed open the kitchen door, and suddenly saw a burly and strange figure, with his back to him, half-squatting in front of the adobe cabinet, his shoulders trembling slightly, as if he was chewing something in a big gulp.

The moonlight shone through the crack in the narrow window, shining on the figure's body, shining on the figure's body with thick black hairs, which were like flowing water in the dark night, and let the cold wind blow freely.

Ji Lixi walked into the kitchen and walked towards "Ares" step by step.

"Ares" didn't seem to notice it, and continued to nibble on the dog meat in his hand.

Blood mixed with flesh foam, flowing down the corners of his increasingly hideous mouth, dripping in the pool of blood in front of him, his distorted body swelled further, and more and more body parts grew long black hair, like steel needles.

Ji Lixi quickly walked behind "Ares" and suddenly reached out and took out a half-worn rope.

This is the same hemp rope used in the yard to tie the guard dogs.

Ji Li's hand shook and he immediately put the rope around the neck of "Ares".

Click...... Click...... Click...... "Ares" continued to devour raw dog meat, unaware of the change.

After some more time, "Ares" swallowed the last piece of dog meat, and on the cabinet in front of him, only a mess of blood stains was left, mixed with black and white dog hair.

"Ares" slowly straightened up, his image had changed greatly at this moment, his whole body was covered with thick long hair, his back and the outside of his limbs were pure black long hair, his belly was as white as moonlight, and his sharp fangs were exposed in his long pointed mouth.

Ji Lixi suddenly pulled the rope, as if to pull "Ares" out of the kitchen.

"There are a lot of monsters in the village, let's go get rid of them......"

It's too late for the second shift at 24 o'clock, so let's see it tomorrow.

(End of chapter)