Chapter 35 Sortie
Tianze Palace!
"There was some accident at this sect banquet, presumably everyone knows what it is, and after discussion with several of our factions, the matter has become more and more serious, so we cultivators need to go to the secular world to maintain order and find the people behind the scenes........................
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"Senior brother in charge, it's almost there, every time you gather, it's your show. "The Great Elder has the heavy responsibility of interrupting the Master's speech every time. He was really worried that one day his senior brother couldn't help but beat him.
"Ahem...... Okay, that's it. Feng Che ended the topic awkwardly.
After a day of repairing, everyone who went down the mountain began to set off in batches, Qin Xuanyin had to be in a group with Bai Luoqing, Zheng Wen looked at Qin Xuanyin who was dead with a black face. Could it be that the slap of the sect banquet was not enough, or did he want to experience Hongen's treatment......
Can't figure it out......
According to their respective tasks, they went to different places to investigate, and Bai Luoqing and the others went to the south this time.
All the way to the difficulty, they will pass through a place called the Annihilation Forest, this place is very weird, most of the beasts in the forest are fierce and abnormal, but fortunately, there is the Annihilation Forest as the boundary, and the beasts inside will not run out easily, but if someone runs into it with death, then we can't care about it.
A few people stopped and stopped all the way, and they also noticed that something was wrong from time to time.
On this day, I happened to stop at a place called Niujia Village, which was very close to the Annihilation Forest, about ten miles away, and the Annihilation Forest was the Annihilation Forest.
There is a village so close to the Forest of Annihilation, and if you think about it with your toes, you should know that there should be a story in it.
The whole village is dilapidated, overgrown with weeds, and the land has long been encroached upon by weeds. Most of the houses were adobe thatched huts, lifeless, and as soon as they entered, they felt a sense of gloom.
Bai Luoqing and the others were all sweating, and they always felt that this place was strange.
How come no one......
"Senior brother, this place is a bit weird, and the aura is cloudy. Is it possible for a village to be able to make no one?" Bai Luoqing watched as he walked.
"That's right, everybody be careful. This place is not normal. Zheng Wen took everyone around for a while, and finally found a family with people.
The village chief's house!
The door was opened by an old man with slightly dark skin, his face crawling with wrinkles.
The door was only open with a small crack, and the old man looked warily at the people outside the door.
Opened the door, the village chief looked at them and was stunned for a moment, and after a few people explained, the village chief let them into the house, a simple wooden house, and a stone table was placed outside the house.
Zheng Wen first said that their group was a disciple of ΓΓΓ, and they had traveled here and wanted to borrow it for one night. Zheng Wen has always been cautious in doing things, so naturally he will not really expose his master.
The village chief looked at them, nodded, and admonished, "It's going to get extra weird here at night, but as long as you don't leave the village, you shouldn't be fine, no matter what happens outside." β
"Village chief, what's wrong with this village?"
Zheng Wen looked at the village chief and asked questions, looking at what the village chief said just now, he must know something.
"This ......"
The village chief was a little embarrassed, not knowing whether to say it or not.
"Since the village chief is embarrassed, he just asks. β
Zheng Wen is still a little bit of a person who observes words and looks.
The village chief nodded and led them into the house.
However, their family was not large, and they could barely live for two more people, so they found an empty house next door.
"How are we going to stay?" Tai Po looked at the two rooms, and there seemed to be no difference.
"You two guys will live here, and the clean ones on the side will be left to the girls. The village chief's wife's eyes swept over Taibao Qin Xuanyin, and she didn't know why Bai Luoqing looked very uncomfortable.
So Tai Bao and Qin Xuanyin lived in the village chief's house.
At the dinner table, the village chief and the village chief's wife looked at them and stopped, the village chief was an old man in his fifties, with a kind face, but his face was full of sorrow.
"Village Chief, I don't know if you have anything unspeakable. Zheng Wen probed cautiously again.
"This ...... How do you say that?" the village chief was anxious for a moment.
Bai Luoqing saw that there was something wrong.
"From the moment we came in, the village chief seemed to have something to say, and he must have guessed our identity, so the village chief had something to say. β
"Tell me, old man, maybe he can help us?" urged the village chief's wife.
"Hey," the village chief sighed and said slowly, "We have lived in this place for generations, although we are not rich and rich, but we are also comfortable, but recently there are always some people who have disappeared inexplicably in the village, and everyone didn't take it seriously at first, but gradually everyone found out that something was wrong." We began to panic, and those who could escape fled, leaving only us, the old and weak, women and children. Alas......"
After the village chief finished speaking, he sighed again and again.
"Didn't you report to the authorities?" Tai Bao always thought that the government would take care of this kind of thing.
"Where is there an official government in our place, they can't wait to stay away, how can they care about our life and death, all these years of fleeing, dying. Hey!," the village chief sighed and shook his head.
The naΓ―ve Taibao was stunned by the village chief's words, after all, in his consciousness, the government is to serve the people, just like they are in the country.
While they were talking, the village chief's wife came in tremblingly and added a plate of dishes, and suddenly Bai Luoqing contracted her pupils violently, and quickly covered up the strangeness.
A peasant woman has no calluses on her hands......
"Village Chief, is this the case in other villages?" Bai Luoqing asked.
The village chief shook his head, "Other villages, ahem...... There is only one remote village in this hundred miles, and I am an old man who has fast-entered the coffin, and I have been wandering around this place all my life......"
"Village chief, you said that there is basically no village within a hundred miles radius of this place, so where can those who escaped go?" When Bai Luoqing said this, he found that there was a subtle change on the face of the village chief's wife.
Next, the village chief gave a general introduction to the situation of the village, and the village chief's wife listened quietly, sometimes heating a dish for them.
After chatting for a long time, the village chief staggered back to his house. Several of them were also ready to rest, but Bai Luoqing and Zheng Wen were still sitting.
"There's a problem!" Bai Luoqing looked at the dark village outside the wall.
"But we don't have any conclusive evidence yet, so be careful. After Zheng asked, he also went back to the house.
"Senior brother, do you think the people in this village really escaped? Even if there were so many people left, there would not be only two people. β
"It's so weird, we'll take turns on duty tonight. β
Niujia Village at night is particularly weird!
The originally empty village had inexplicably appeared at the moment, and there were still many people talking and laughing.
Bai Luoqing and the others heard that their scalps were numb for a while, except for Tai Bao and Qin Xuanyin, who had already slept like dead pigs, the others couldn't sleep anymore.
"What the hell is going on?"
Cao Xiaoyun shrank and approached Bai Luoqing.
"I don't know! β
Bai Luoqing set up a circle of enchantments in the house, and listened quietly to the situation outside.
The figures were just wandering around the village, not knowing what they were going to do, and it was impossible to tell if they were aggressive or not.
finally survived until dawn, and these figures slowly retreated.
Bai Luoqing and the others had no sleep all night, and when they got up in the morning, the whole village changed to the same state again.
But last night's events were definitely not a dream......
After dinner, a few people walked around the village to see if they could find any clues.
The village looked as if it had been abandoned for a long time, and the sparse fields were overgrown with weeds.
Bai Luoqing asked, "Senior brother, what happened last night?"
"Well, I heard it too, I took a look and found ......," Zheng Wen paused, "those people are some unconscious void souls. β
"Void Soul !!!"
"Didn't the village chief say that many people in this village have left?" Bai Luoqing suddenly asked a question, if they are all gone, where will those void souls come from.
He also said that there were basically no villages within a hundred miles of this place, and according to him, most of the people should have left instead of died. Zheng Wen looked around, "But it doesn't seem to be necessary now." β
"So alive people!" Bai Luoqing continued.
Several people glanced at each other, already understanding something.
"This village is too weird, first of all, its location, it is too close to the Annihilation Forest, the spirit beasts in it may riot at any time, and it is not convenient to enter and exit from here and the outside world. Zhu Li spoke slowly, and Zhu Li's analysis made sense.
"When we came in yesterday, I found that the yellow-faced woman of the village chief was staring at Ben Gongzi like a hungry wolf. Qin Xuanyin remembered the scene where the village chief's wife stared at him drooling yesterday, and suddenly felt disgusted.
"Now we have to be vigilant and don't know what the village chief is trying to do. Zheng Wen frowned.
After a round and round, everyone went back to their houses and slept after dinner.
On the other side, Haiyou and Tangerine were wandering around the Annihilation Forest, and Haiyu was sitting on a thick branch, his feet dangling in the air, and a grass in his mouth.
Hai You watched a few spirit beasts leisurely in the trees foraging for food in the forest.
Everyone said that the beasts of this annihilation forest were all fierce beasts, and most of the beasts here were indeed not enlightened, but they were not all full of beastliness, and the sea was leaning on the branches of the trees.
After a while, a nimble body landed on his shoulder, and he meowed a few times.
"Oh!"
I don't know what the orange meowed, so Haiyou followed it.
"At night we go out to see, and there are things we can't see during the day. Zheng Wen whispered. After the night was late, except for Tai Bao and Qin Xuanyin, several people quietly came out of the house, bent on their waists, and disappeared in the dark.
Because he felt that there was something wrong with the village chief and his wife, Tai Bao and Qin Xuanyin quietly stared at the two, Tai Bao listened carefully with his ears pricked up, and Qin Xuanyin fell asleep wrapped in a quilt, but before he knew it, Tai Bao fell asleep with dark eyes.
There were few people in the village, and it was even more terrible after night, and there was almost no light in the village, and a few people could only fumble cautiously.
Looking at those souls that are wandering around, I have to say that it is still a little oozing.
When they were about to arrive at the village chief's house, several people saw the village chief's wife quietly open the door, carrying something in both hands.
A few people looked at the village chief's wife who was carrying a sack in one hand, and it was really difficult to connect with the village chief's wife who was trembling when serving dishes.
"What does she seem to be carrying?" Bai Luoqing hid in the corner and stared.
"Sack!" Zheng Wen spat out a word.
Bai Luoqing, "......" I know it's a sack, I just want to know what's inside.
"How do you look like a human. Cao Xiaoyun said quietly.
"The two of them!" Zheng Wen took a breath, Zheng Wen held his forehead, originally wanted them to star, but now he was attacked first, sighed, Zheng Wen was helpless...... Followed.
Several people quietly followed, and the village chief's wife went straight to the gate of the village, and stopped at a well, which they had seen when they entered.
The village chief's wife looked around, confirmed that there was no one, and then jumped straight in.
Cao Xiaoyun, "What should I do?"
"Don't startle the snake, in case it's a trap. Zheng Wen stared at the well, and several people held their breath and stared, seeing that there was no movement, and were about to probe out.