Chapter 89: A Rainy Night (3)
The drizzle is hard to see in the night, but it's everywhere.
Jiang Yuan didn't know how to track, and he didn't know where the villagers had gone after they left for the north, and he wasn't sure that he would follow Gongliangyi and Yuniang without being discovered.
But Jiang Yuan was not in a hurry, he slowly walked into the mountains and forests and headed in a specific direction.
Yu Niang had a wound on her arm and was also medicated.
Whether it was the bloody smell of the wound or the smell of medicine, it was slowly wandering in the cold air.
Now Jiang Yuan's sense of smell has become sensitive and abnormal, he only needs to follow the smell of Yu Niang's body, he can find Yu Niang, and then find Gongliangyi and the villagers.
After shuttling through the mountains and forests for a while, the clothes that had just dried in the ancestral hall were soaked again, and even his hair was dripping wet.
Jiang Yuan still walked unhurriedly, slowly.
As we go deeper into the mountains and forests, the ancestral halls and villages have gradually faded away.
After climbing over two ridges, a muddy path began to appear in front of me.
With a road, there is a clear destination. The path winds its way up the mountainside to the back of a large mountain.
Jiang Yuan walked for a while, and a boundary monument appeared on the side of the road, with the three big characters "Shanyin Village" on it.
"It looks like the destination is not far away......"
Jiang Yuan continued to walk along the road, only hoping to arrive early, otherwise it would be dawn if it was delayed for another two hours.
As you follow the mountain path around the mountainside, shadows and silhouettes of buildings appear faintly in the col.
The thick blood also followed, and Jiang Yuan followed the blood to find the bodies of two villagers in the grass beside the mountain road.
The corpse still had a residual temperature, but it was badly decomposed.
"There's no ghostly spirit...... It seems to be a good and easy hand. ”
The two corpses may be secret sentinels, or they may be abandoned villagers, but they have been easily disposed of.
Leaving the corpse, Jiang Yuan slowly approached the village.
He began to become cautious and left the road into the lush grass. Because the smell of Yu Niang's body is already very clear, it is not far away.
In the deep mountains, the weeds are very luxuriant, and the leaves and stems of the raindrops are almost a man tall.
Jiang Yuan kept shuttling along the grass, and did not approach Yu Niang, but gradually moved away, and went to a place with a wide field of vision.
Pushing aside the weeds in front of him, Jiang Yuan's eyes looked towards the position of Yu Niang in the distance.
After careful searching, Jiang Yuan finally saw Yu Niang hiding in a tree canopy in the distance, and her eyes were looking in another direction.
Jiang Yuan followed Yu Niang's line of sight and found Gongliangyi standing behind a boulder in the distance.
Gongliang Yi quietly observed the village, holding a crystal round jade in his hand, emitting a faint blue light. And at his feet, too, lay a highly decomposed corpse.
The woman's voice kept coming from the village, and Jiang Yuan could hear that it was the voice of the pregnant woman from before.
And what is strange is that apart from the cry of the pregnant woman, the village is so quiet that there is no other sound, and it is lifeless.
"Ding Ling Ling Ling ......"
The crisp brass bell suddenly rang in the silence of the night.
The brass bells sound intermittently and seem to wander through the village.
With the sound of the bell, many wandering figures began to appear in the gloomy village.
The woman's cry became more and more terrible at this time.
The brass bells began to shift, gradually leaving the village and heading towards the hill on the other side of the village.
The figures followed the brass bells out of the village, and the screams of the pregnant women disappeared.
The gloomy village became more and more silent.
At this time, Gongliangyi moved.
I saw that he put away the round jade and did not continue to move forward, but turned around and left.
Jiang Yuan originally thought that Gong Liangyi was just taking a detour, but after a while, he realized that he really returned the same way, and it didn't take long for him to disappear into the thick night.
"What's going on?" Jiang Yuan couldn't help but wonder, "Is there something that makes him jealous?" or...... He's got what he wants?"
In addition to Jiang Yuan, there is also the jade lady hiding in the canopy.
She stared at Gongliangyi in surprise and left, and then looked back at the mountain behind the village, as if hesitating.
Jiang Yuan expected Yu Niang to leave with Gongliangyi.
However, Yu Niang jumped off the tree with agility, and even rushed towards the mountain behind the village.
Jiang Yuan snorted coldly:
"This woman ......"
Yu Niang is naturally not stupid, Jiang Yuan thinks she is too greedy.
People like her have always relied on intelligence to get paid. This time, I encountered such a secret and tried to profit from it.
Jiang Yuan didn't know what kind of confidence Yu Niang had in doing this, but it was okay to do this, so let her explore the way for herself.
Not long after Yu Niang left, Jiang Yuan also walked out of the grass and followed Yu Niang closely.
One after the other, the two of them made rapid progress along the mountains and forests around the village, heading towards the mountain where the bell had disappeared.
Yu Niang was not in Jiang Yuan's sight, but the smell on her body ensured that Jiang Yuan would not be lost.
After a long journey, Jiang Yuan finally came to his destination.
The peaks are steep and steep, making it difficult for ordinary people to climb.
It is on this steep mountain wall that there is a gap two zhang wide, and the fault caused by the movement of this mountain has formed a miraculous scene.
Whether it is the footprints of the villagers or the smell of the jade lady, they have entered this dark and straight gap.
Jiang Yuan hesitated slightly, and then followed.
Walking through the dark tunnel, a strong sense of pressure and persecution rushed to both sides.
In the darkness, I don't know how long I have been walking, and my vision suddenly opens.
It turned out to be a valley surrounded by steep mountain walls.
The valley is hotter and humid than outside, and the plants here are exceptionally large and dense, taking on a dark dark green color in the night.
The tunnel exit is on high ground and has an open line of sight. Looking around, you can faintly see the gloomy figure of a towering cliff behind the fog that spreads in the valley.
Jiang Yuan only felt as if he was in a volcanic crater, but the difference was that it was full of fat plants.
The valley was full of dense woods, and in the middle of the trees there was a faint fire dancing, and there seemed to be buildings in the woods.
"It seems to be ...... here Something is wrong!"
Jiang Yuan raised his head and saw the mountain wall reaching into the sky from all around his sight, but he couldn't see the starry sky, and there was only a slowly wriggling mountain mist in his eyes.
The magic of nature, coupled with this strange aura, made Jiang Yuan also hesitate:
"Should we continue to dig deeper......
When Jiang Yuan was hesitating, he saw a translucent figure slowly wandering out of the woods under the gentle slope.
The man's head was expressionless, his eyes had no sparkle, his body seemed to be a phantom, and his feet did not touch the ground, just wandering aimlessly about a foot from the ground.
"Youyou! ”
Jiang Yuan's heart moved, and he walked quickly towards the figure.
The figure still hung its head slightly, and seemed to only wander within a specific area, and did not react in the slightest as Jiang Yuan approached.
Until Jiang Yuan approached the figure a foot away, the figure still did not move.
Jiang Yuan hesitated for a moment, and quickly came to the figure only a few feet behind.
At this time, the figure suddenly reacted, it turned around in an instant, its expression was hideous, its teeth were grinning, and it slammed towards Jiang Yuan with both hands raised.
Jiang Yuan stood still and did not move, but a flame rose in his hand, and then pressed towards the demon that pounced.
The figure was instantly burned away by the flames, and a wisp of ghost qi was also absorbed by Jiang Yuan.
"What a faint ghostly ......"
He couldn't help but be a little disappointed.
However, immediately after, Jiang Yuan was overjoyed, he saw that among the lush trees, there were many such spirits floating.
These spirits, as they had encountered before, wandered aimlessly through the dense forest. There were more than ten of them that Jiang Yuan could see alone, and it was not clear how many there would be in the depths of the dense forest.
"There are so many, the quality is not enough, so let's make up for it with quantity. ”
At that moment, Jiang Yuan no longer hesitated, and stepped towards the dense forest.
One after another the spirits were burned into ghost qi by Jiang Yuan and absorbed, and these spirits didn't know what the reason was, so they didn't know how to run away. They all wander in a certain area of the forest, and only become vicious when they get closer.
This was convenient for Jiang Yuan, and it didn't take long for him to sweep away the surrounding spirits.
After absorbing a lot of ghost qi, Jiang Yuan was still unsatisfied, and he cast his greedy gaze deeper into the dense forest:
"This trip is not a loss, although I don't know what will lie ahead, but it is worth the risk!"
He rushed into the woods, chasing more spirits.
Jiang Yuan couldn't guess how many geists there were in the valley, but as long as he advanced about thirty meters away, he could see that there were geists drifting.
Jiang Yuan absorbed all the way and moved forward, getting deeper and deeper into the jungle.
However, not long after moving forward, a sound of fighting and a strong smell suddenly came.
"Yu Niang, this woman is so bold!"
Jiang Yuan recognized that it was the smell of Yu Niang's body, but he didn't expect that she, as an ordinary martial artist, would dare to go deep into this dense forest full of wandering spirits.
Although there are traces of the geist operation and it is not difficult to penetrate into it, who can guarantee that there is no greater danger in it. Yu Niang's courage surprised Jiang Yuan very much:
"Is she really just greedy because she's greedy? Maybe she has her own secrets......
Jiang Yuan immediately approached softly in the direction of Yu Niang, wanting to take a look at this woman's support.
As she got closer, Yu Niang's figure was gradually revealed in the forest, and she was actually fighting fiercely between two strange villagers.
Jiang Yuan hid behind a big tree and looked ahead.
I saw that Yu Niang was pulling out the long sword in her hand from the chest of a villager, and then quickly retreated, and at the same time, the long sword in her hand instantly cut the throat of another villager.
Although the two villagers were fatally beaten, they still showed no signs of pain.
I saw that their faces were pale, and two white fangs stretched out of their mouths, smiling hideously.