5. Ancient Villages (1)

Lou Qingyue jumped, and at this moment, the scene in front of him suddenly changed into another scene, revealing the shape of a snow-capped mountain in the mist.

It's a new illusion again!" she thought.

But as the snow-capped mountains loomed, a sense of familiarity that seemed to be there spread into the bottom of his heart, and Lou Qingyue felt a tremor in his heart inexplicably.

The illusion comes from desire, Lou Qingyue asked herself, there is no desire, she wants to see what kind of illusion can be created?

When she flew towards the looming snow-capped mountain in front of her, suddenly a flame-colored unknown thing flew towards her, she dodged, avoided it, and chased after it.

But in any case, this flame always escaped when it was about to reach it, and after several struggles, it finally ended in failure.

Lou Qingyue planned to break the formation first.

She held her breath and stared, reciting the spell spell in her mouth, and then with a wave of her sleeves, she said, "Break." ”

The scene in front of him returned to the same as before, at this time, the man next to him made a painful sound, Lou Qingyue looked at him, and saw that the man's palm was scratched with a long blood mark, which was dripping blood.

Soon, the man also struggled out of the illusion, probably because he had spent too much energy and physical strength, he was obviously a little overwhelmed, his face was pale, and he fell to the ground on one knee with a snap.

Lou Qingyue glanced at it and saw that he was fine, so she shifted her attention back to the towering tree with new green, just as she was about to approach the towering tree to find out.

With a sudden tremor under her feet, all the white bones on the ground gathered together, and they were put together into a complete corpse, and walked in front of Lou Qingyue step by step, blocking her way forward.

"It's a 'little bone man'. ”

"What is a 'little bone man'?" the man asked.

"It is contained in ancient books: The little bone man is a resentful spirit formed by the white bones of the carrion eaten by raw birds, who is not afraid of the sun and can turn into an adult. ”

"What is a 'bone-making adult'?"

"With the bones of a living person implanted in the body of a dead person, and with the spirit of a living being, the resurrected person is no different from a mortal. But the bones of a living person must be changed every ten days, otherwise the flesh will rot, and I think the recent disappearance of officers and soldiers must have something to do with him. ”

The man looked at the towering tree, and in an instant, he understood the meaning of Lou Qingyue's words, the tree in front of him was a creature that cultivated spirit, no wonder it wanted to stop them from approaching.

Lou Qingyue's left hand used a spell to conjure flames and threw them towards the pile of white bones in front of him, which collapsed and fell to the ground.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the flame mass condensed in Lou Qingyue's right hand was thrown towards the big tree, and at this time, a child-like person walked out of the trunk of the tree to block the flames.

"Finally showing up?"

The child did not speak, and looked at the two with hateful eyes.

In the face of the little bone man, the contrast between the strength of the enemy and us is obvious, Lou Qingyue didn't pay attention to it, and said lightly: "The monsters in this world have always known my Zhaohua's rules. ”

The little boy was not moved at all, but became more and more fierce, baring his teeth and scarlet eyes, like a fierce beast in the mountains and forests.

"Maybe there's something unspeakable about it?" the man rested for a while, stood up, and came to Lou Qingyue's side.

"The rules are unbreakable. After speaking, Lou Qingyue urged the spell, and a flame-colored light suddenly surrounded the little bone man, and with the urging of the spell, the flame became smaller and smaller.

The little bone man wrapped in it struggled in pain to get out of the flames, and as he tried his best to resist, he looked back at the towering tree and let out a wolf's howl sound.

At this moment, a dying voice came from inside the tree, "Little aunt, it's not a bad demon. ”

Lou Qingyue stopped the spell, turned his five fingers to the trunk and pulled back, only to see a person falling out of the tree with a person on his back.

"Little aunt, it's just repaying the favor. "His face was covered with mud, and he couldn't even distinguish his nose and eyes, and he fell to the ground, along with the person on his back.

At this time, the little bone man in the flame group struggled even more, it hit the flame group hard, the wear and tear between the bones caused by the swing made a clicking sound, the mouth opened and closed, and the roar just now became a whimper.

"Little aunt, it just wants to save him. He said.

"He's dead. The man crouched down and probed the man on the ground to sniff.

Lou Qingyue looked at the person lying on the ground, only to see that his face was as white as snow, she was not surprised, as if she had guessed it a long time ago.

"Actually, he died decades ago, and the reason why the body is not ossified like other corpses is because the little bone man keeps replacing his slowly decomposing body with the bones of living people, so it does not deserve sympathy. ”

Xi Xi didn't speak again, her eyes full of sadness.

After a long time, Xi Xi said, "Yuling has never done anything bad, he has saved so many people, but in the end it didn't end well, it's really unfair." ”

When he was left in the trunk of a tree by Little Bone Man, he saw the village and the past of the people he saved in the illusion.

The young man's name is Wang Yuling, he has no parents since he was a child, and he has been relying on the relief of Aunt Shen next door, Aunt Shen has no children, so he treats him as if he is his own, but unfortunately, not long after such a happy day, Aunt Shen also passed away, leaving him alone.

Twenty years ago, a major event happened in the village, and for some reason, the women in the village began to be unable to have children, and gradually the status of women became lower and lower, and they almost wanted to be called like slaves.

The mage invited by the villagers said that it was the woman who had offended the gods by showing her head, and the patriarch adopted the mage's statement, so the women here had to wrap themselves tightly every time they went out, and they could not see a trace of light.

When this system was first introduced, several women with violent personalities tried to resist, and they continued to go their own way, despite the patriarch's instructions.

One day, when the sun was very hot, the women went out as usual, and the scorching sun was shining on their faces, and then a large group of villagers rushed over, tied up several of them, who were only in their twenties, and slashed off the sun-soaked skin on their faces with knives.

Since then, no one has dared to make a mistake.

Therefore, in the past 20 years, there have been fewer and fewer people here, and the Shen family, a medical family, has become extinct when it reaches the generation of Aunt Shen. However, under the subtle influence of Aunt Shen, Wang Yuling gradually learned medical skills and became a well-known "medical fairy" in the village.

On this day, Wang Yuling walked up the mountain by himself, walked to the mountainside, and looked down the mountain, the high house in the middle was full of smoke, and he looked at the yellow and yellow in the distance, which must have been something messy that the mage came up with to ward off ghosts.

He sneered at the patriarch's system, and he was very sympathetic to the women in the village, but he couldn't do anything with his strength, and the only thing he could do was to study medicine well, hoping to cure the infertility of the women in the village through medical skills.

Back on that day, he was going up the mountain to collect medicine as usual, when suddenly the soles of her feet slipped, and her body fell to one side, and she fell heavily on the stone next to her, and the branches of the tree accidentally ripped through her clothes, revealing her fair skin.

"Yuling, are you okay?" Wang Tang in the village happened to be chopping wood on the mountain, and came over, wanting to help him up, but Wang Yuling got up, thanked him without saying a word, and fled down the mountain like a ghost, making Wang Tang confused and stunned in place.

Walking to the village, Uncle Wang was still staying there, and when he saw Wang Yuling, he said, "Xiao Wang, it's so fast today!"

As if he hadn't heard, Wang Yuling hurried into the house and closed the door heavily.

Uncle Wang: "What's wrong with this child?"

Wang Yuling ran into the house, looked into the courtyard, and after making sure that there was no one, he entered the inner room, closed the door heavily, and plugged in the latch.

When he got to the house, he let go of the hand covering his arm, and the skin was rubbed open by a stone, but fortunately it was not deep, and when he took off his clothes, a woman's carcass was exposed.

Wang Yuling was originally a daughter, and in the process of getting along with him, Aunt Shen found that this child was very talented in studying medicine, and at the same time she didn't want the medical skills passed down by the Shen family for generations, so she concealed her identity as a daughter.

Wang Yuling also knew that this village had never been friendly to women, so she was extra careful, for fear that outsiders would find out, so she spent 20 years peacefully.

She took out a homemade medicine bottle from the cupboard, poured some over the wound, bandaged it with gauze, and changed into a perfect set of clothes.

At this time, someone at the door shouted, "Is Yuling at home?" and the door of the courtyard was slammed loudly.

Wang Yuling was shocked, the medicine bottle in her hand almost fell off her hand and fell to the ground, shouting as she walked, "At home!" She opened the door and hurriedly walked out.

Walked through the courtyard, opened the door of the courtyard, and saw Wang Feiying with an anxious face, "Why is Brother Feiying so anxious, is something wrong?"

Wang Feiying took Wang Yuling's hand, "I'll tell you as I walk." ”

Wang Yuling retracted her hand, and Wang Feiying turned his head to look at her with a questioning face.

Wang Yuling explained: "I just went up the mountain to collect medicine, I fell, and I was just pulled by you, and my arm hurt a little. ”

Wang Feiying: "Oh. I'm really sorry, Yuling, I'm too anxious, my dad somehow, he was fine a few days ago, but today he suddenly vomited and diarrhea, and I don't know why?"

"Then I'll take a look. ”

Wang Yuling followed Wang Feiying to his house, and saw Wang Feiying's wife Cui Ping kneeling beside the old man's bed, wiping the sweat off his forehead.

After Wang Feiying entered the house, he yelled at Cui Ping, "Get out." Then he bowed down to Wang Yuling and made a gesture of please, Wang Yuling took the pulse, lifted his eyes, his expression tightened, and he was about to say something, when a person ran in from outside and shouted, "Yuling, my husband is vomiting and diarrhea, shivering, and cold, I don't know what's wrong?"

"What? Is it .......?"

Wang Yuling said: "Brother Feiying is tired of doing me a favor, go and ask how many people still have such symptoms?"

Wang Feiying: "What are you doing with other people's affairs, Yuling, you haven't said what illness my father has?"

"I'm afraid it is...... Plague!"

"What, plague .........."

After Cui Ping heard this, she was so frightened that the bowl in her hand fell to the ground with a bang, Wang Feiying was nervous and irritable when she heard that it was the plague, and she was startled by Cui Ping again, and slapped his wife to the ground, Cui Ping hit the corner of the table, and blood came out of her forehead.

"Unlucky girl!" Wang Feiying stretched out his hand and wanted to fight, but was stopped by Wang Yuling.

"Is that contagious?"

"Brother Flying Eagle, don't worry, you go and inform the patriarch, and then gather the whole village to see which people have symptoms of the plague and isolate those who have symptoms of the plague. ”

Wang Feiying: "What's the use of that?"

Wang Yuling said: "Those people, I'll figure out a way, the most important thing at the moment is not to let the plague spread." ”

Wang Feiying said: "Okay, then listen to you, I'll go and inform the patriarch." ”