Chapter 2, Section 46 Atrophied Dried Corpses

In the early morning, the noise disturbed Lin Feng's good dreams, listening to Geng Buqu's story last night, Lin Feng unconsciously drank more wine, although the degree was not high, but it was enough to make him relax his spirits.

Lin Feng stretched his waist and looked left and right, Xiao Sheng was gone, You Boyun was sleeping in the next room, I don't know if he got up. Lin Feng got up and tidied up his clothes, walked to the window of the next room, and could see from the crack in the window that You Boyun was lying on his side on the bed and sleeping soundly. She was wearing only half a quilt and a sword in her arms. There were two tear stains on his immature face, but there was a smile on his mouth that couldn't be hidden.

Lin Feng couldn't help laughing, and was about to go downstairs to find some breakfast. I heard a shrill shout, and the cry stopped abruptly, as if the shouter had been covered in the mouth.

Lin Feng's heart tightened, and he took a few steps to the staircase and looked down. I saw that the woman who delivered the meal last night covered her mouth and couldn't help but retreat to the back hall, and the other people in the inn looked strange, and they all gathered at the entrance of the corridor on the first floor.

What's going on!?Lin Feng cautiously walked down the stairs. The innkeeper and his family all stared into the corridor, completely oblivious to Lin Feng having walked behind them. Across the crowd, Lin Feng saw that there was no one in the corridor, and then took a closer look, there were two people lying on the floor.

Lin Feng was startled and immediately rushed over. He leaned against the wall, with blood at the corners of his mouth, his brows furrowed, and his face heavy. Lin Feng probed him with his fingers to breathe, and his breath was acceptable.

"What's going on?" Lin Feng patted Xiao Sheng's shoulder. After a long while, Xiao Shengcai opened his eyes slightly, and said intermittently: "I was ... I was injured by a weirdo, hey... It's a pity that Geng Buqu doesn't bend him...", he said and turned his head to look at Geng Buqu lying inside.

Lin Feng's heart sank even more, he stood up and slowly walked towards Geng Buqu. After just one glance, he immediately turned his face away, and his heart was disgusted, fearful, and angry. I finally couldn't hold back the turmoil in my heart, and when I looked closely, I saw that Geng Buqu's corpse's mouth was wide open and rectangular, his eyes were cracked, his eyes shrunk to the size of mung beans, and the skin of his whole body was wrinkled, as if he had been roasted, and his muscles and bones were all cracked. It's just that the corpse's clothes are intact, there are no blood stains, the black sword he holds in his left hand is not unsheathed, and there are no traces of fighting and chopping in the corridor, it seems that he was killed by surprise.

"What the hell is going on!" Lin Feng roared angrily at the inn.

The old man's hands trembled, and his eyes were misty and desperate. Lin Feng walked over, stared at him, and asked coldly, "You must know something, right?" and then yelled at the others: "Why don't you help my friend back to the room, and wait for him to die?"

The people of the inn woke up like a dream, helped him up with all hands and feet, sent him back to the room, and then went to prepare hot water and meals, and served him wholeheartedly.

Lin Feng's mood eased slightly, sat down at a table in the front hall, and asked the innkeeper to come over, "Boss, I know you have nothing to do with this matter, but if you know something, just tell me the truth." ”

The old man winced, pulled over the stool and sat down beside Lin Feng, he swallowed his saliva with difficulty. "I didn't expect it... Unexpectedly, what we were most afraid of happened..."

The old man sighed to himself first, seeing that Lin Feng looked a little impatient, the old man hurriedly said, "Things have to start from more than ten years ago. At that time, it was still the main commercial route to the sea, and it took three generations of our ancestors to develop the inn to such a scale... Ahem... Okay, I won't talk about these superfluous things. There is a cave at the foot of the mountain to the west of our fat tribe, and there is a temple dedicated to the great god Changzuo in the cave. One evening, the woman who was in charge of receiving offerings at the temple gate suddenly opened her mouth into a square, and then the whole person turned into a dry corpse, and soon the same strange thing happened to the two men guarding the temple, and finally even the entire temple was burned to black ashes. Since then, there have been such tragic deaths every once in a while. Everyone was terrified, saying that Angshanwu had been cursed by the bloodthirsty devil and could no longer live there. Ay... Poor our store's business, it's plummeting. ”

The old shopkeeper was dejected when he talked about his business, and shook the beard on his round chin. In normal times, Lin Feng must have thought that his appearance was ridiculous, but now he just wanted to know who caused Geng Buqu to be like this.

The shopkeeper continued: "We fat people have thought of a lot of ways, but it is useless, and more and more people are dying. Just when everyone was about to despair, one night the people of the tribe had the same dream. In the dream, three immortals descended to earth, and they looked like the lines of a coloring book, singing songs, and floating in the sky above the tribe. Eventually, they stopped above the stream, and the three lines slowly merged into the form of a god, and then vanished. The next day, the group gathered at the place where the idol had disappeared and found a section of wood in the stream. The wood is also strange, it does not float in the water, and it still shines with a turquoise color, which makes people's eyes glaze. They couldn't make up their minds for a moment, but one of the fools of the tribe jumped into the water and scooped up the piece of wood. It happened that there were a few Chuang Zi people beside them at that time, and when they saw the fool scooping up a piece of glowing wood, they thought it was some kind of treasure, so they rushed over to grab it. But before they could get close to the fool, they were all bounced away. They tried many more times, but none of them could get close to the fool. The fool didn't know what he had done, but he saw a flash of green light, and all the people of the Chuang Zi tribe were knocked to the ground, and they lay on the ground and hummed for a long time before they got up and ran away. ”

The fat shopkeeper was a little tired in one breath, picked up a small teapot, and poured it down three times.

From then on, the tribesmen enshrined the piece of wood in front of the burned temple as a treasure given to the tribe by the great god Changzuo. Everyone kowtowed, praying that it would bless the fat tribe from the curse of the devil. Strange to say, no one in the tribe really died in vain after that. Everyone was overjoyed, thanked Chang Zuo for his blessing, and began to prepare to revive the reputation of Angshanwu. But the good times didn't last long, and somehow, the fool's hair gradually turned green, and the brilliance of the sacred tree that was enshrined slowly disappeared. Rumors spread throughout the tribe that the fool was the devil, and that he didn't do anything every day, but was corrupting the sacred tree. At first, people were talking behind their backs, and then they simply accused the fool to his face and told him to get out of the fat little clan. The fool is clumsy, and it is useless to cry and explain. At last one night, another member of the tribe died by the lake, and the emotions of everyone reached their highest point, and they all clamored to tie up the fool and send him away, and if he did not leave, he would simply sink him into the lake of the heart. But at this time, there was no fool to be found, and even the sacred tree enshrined in front of the temple disappeared with it. When everyone saw this, they immediately cursed. I went to ask the two injured guardians of the sacred tree, and sure enough, it was a fool who snatched the sacred tree away, and he took the sacred tree and broke directly into the cave where the temple was located. ”

Seeing that Lin Feng was deep in thought, the old man smashed a few sips of tea to calm his emotions.

After discussing for a long time, they decided to go into the cave together to find the fool and take back the sacred tree. Unexpectedly, not long after entering the cave, there was a terrifying cry from the depths of the cave. When I think about it now, my hairs stand on end. Everyone didn't dare to go any further, looking at each other, at a loss. At that time, I heard the rumbling sound in the cave, followed by a strong green light, which was even brighter than the sun. We were immediately so frightened that we crawled out and many of us were trampled on. But fortunately, in the end, everyone escaped from the cave. Soon after coming out, the cave collapsed, and the fool and the sacred tree were buried inside. From that night on, every time in the middle of the night, there would be a cry from the mountains. At first, we were scared, thinking that the fool was trying to get revenge on us. But as the days passed, apart from hearing crying every day, nothing strange happened in the tribe, and everyone slowly relaxed. I just didn't think that this cry is more than ten years, although no one in our tribe has died, but there are few travelers willing to stay here, and then the Ao Ling people built a big road outside the mountain, and the people who come here are even rarer, even the name of our Angshanwu is called a thousand crying docks, you say, who is looking for reason... Hey, it's the ancestral business that I've saved in the past few generations~"

"Then what do you mean, today's incident was done by the fool who became a devil?" Lin Feng stared at the fat old man and said, "Is there any basis?"

The old man shook his head and said, "I don't know, but... But the appearance of the corpse of that hero is exactly the same as the death of our people more than ten years ago, it was burned to ashes from the inside of the body, and I will never forget this appearance. The old man paused, his voice a little dry, "And yesterday, guest officer, you also heard that strange cry." It's the first time we've heard such a sound since the fool was buried in a cave for more than a decade. I'm afraid that fool has found another way out and killed your friend. ”