"What the hell is checking the water meter?"

"I appreciate your nonsense. ”

The two waited for half a pillar of incense at the door, and then an old man opened the door tremblingly, the old man was a little dizzy, and looked them up and down for a moment before slowly speaking: "May I ask what the two of you are doing here?"

Lin Mengmeng said softly: "May I ask the old man, do you know this person Song Jiji? We are his fellow disciples." ”

"Send a twitter?" the old man recalled for a moment and immediately said with a smile: "I know this child, I heard that he worshiped in the fairy gate a few years ago, and then came back once, the village was so lively, and then he took his parents to enjoy the blessings, and never came back." ”

Hu Yao said: "Why don't we go in and talk?"

The old man hesitated for a while before letting his debut: "If it's someone else, I'll let him leave this ghost place quickly, since you two say that you are Jiji's fellow disciples, you must be from the Xianmen, and you should have means of self-protection, so I won't worry about this idleness, if you have anything to say, go into the house and say." Xu was the reason for talking too much, and the old man coughed for a while to feel more comfortable.

When he was seated, the old man said, "Do you want to ask about what happened in the village, or do you want to ask about Song Jiji?"

Hu Yao didn't wait for Lin Mengmeng to speak, and took the lead in saying: "Don't be busy, you said, Song Jiji is doing well in the door, and the sect master is going to arrange a special position for him, we were ordered to investigate his background information, but as soon as we entered this village, we found many strange places, such as why every house is hung with white cloth, could it be that something big happened in the village and so many people died?"

The old man was stunned: "Do you really not know what is happening here?"

Lin Mengmeng and Hu Yao both shook their heads.

The old man was silent for a moment, and said solemnly: "Well, things still need to start from three years ago. ”

"Three years ago, there was a ground movement in the mountains behind Sapa Village, and it was at that time that strange things began. "Hu Yao knows that ground movement means earthquake.

"The movement was not too big, it didn't cause much damage to the village, and the village chief didn't report the matter to the authorities. But since the ground moved, some gray mist began to emanate from the back hills, and you know how dark it was around the village? ”

At first, the villagers thought the fog was strange, so they asked the village chief to report it to the township, and some officials soon came to take a look, but they didn't see anything unusual, and scolded the villagers, saying that we were making a fuss. ”

Later, the villagers went to the back mountain to hunt, and there was no danger when they entered the fog many times, and they also felt that they were suspicious. ”

"Everyone is more at ease with the gray mist, but they feel that the view is blocked when hunting. ”

"The trouble began to happen a month after the fog appeared, and the villagers found that the wild animals on the mountain were rapidly decreasing, and even the common birds and hares were gradually disappearing, and at the same time, they were able to pick up some rotting animal carcasses on the mountain, which were so rotten that they looked dead for more than half a month, and they could no longer eat. ”

"There was a beggar in the village, named Li San, who usually had mental problems, and when he saw that the villagers had brought back some rotten rabbit meat, he stole some and went back to eat. ”

The next day, he was found dead in the rotten grass. ”

At this time, the villagers did not suspect these things on the gray mist, but they felt that these animals died strangely, so the village chief strictly ordered no villagers to eat the dead animal carcasses. ”

"But after another month, the child of Widow Zhang's family died suddenly, although the child is usually weaker, he will not die rashly, and Widow Zhang usually cherishes this child the most, and will not feed him bad meat, the village chief became suspicious, and hurriedly sent someone to the township to find someone again, but this time those officials did not come, and said that we have committed an old problem again, isn't it normal for a child to die of illness?"

Widow Zhang was so grief-stricken that she threw herself into her own well and committed suicide. ”

After that, every seven or eight days, one or two infirm people died suddenly, and so on for half a year, even the men who had been very strong became weak. ”

"Some of the families have a relationship, so they hurriedly moved away, and the poor families who have no money can only continue to stay in the village. ”

At this time, more than 20 people had died in the village, and the township finally felt that something was wrong and reported it to the county. ”

Later, there came an immortal chief in the county who looked to be in his twenties, high and high, very remarkable, the immortal chief looked a little gloomy, but he was very enthusiastic, and learned about the situation from the villagers one by one, and then entered the gray fog to investigate. ”

"The villagers all feel that there is hope for life, but unfortunately the fairy chief went in for three days in a row, and when he came out, he told us that he didn't find anything abnormal, and the gray mist was not harmful to the human body, so we thought too much. ”

When the old man said this, he coughed again, Xu endured it for a long time, and suddenly scolded: "So many people died, all because of what happened after the gray fog appeared, how could it have nothing to do with it, it is simply not a son of man." ”

Lin Mengmeng and Hu Yao glanced at each other, and they suddenly thought of the shadowy man beside Song Jiji at that time, could it be him who came to investigate at that time?

Later, there were more and more people who died, those who could run, those who could move, those who could not move, and those who could not move, could only wait quietly for death. ”

After the old man finished saying these words, he coughed violently, and he coughed so hard that he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Lin Mengmeng was frightened by the old man, and when the shock calmed down, she hurriedly stepped forward to support the old man: "How are you, old man?"

After coughing up blood, the old man looked much more comfortable, took a deep breath and said, "It's okay, Ben won't live for a few years, and now the time is almost over." ”

As a beast, Hu Yao had already judged the physical condition of the person in front of him, and he thought that the old man would not have a few days to live, and he only found this place when he heard his cough just now.

Hu Yao suddenly said, "Since so many people have died in the village, can we take a look at the corpses of those people?"

The old man looked at Hu Yao, shook his head, and said meaningfully: "At that time, the immortal chief said that he had no way to solve these problems himself, but he still left people here, saying that these villagers died strangely and could not be buried in a conventional way, so they took away the corpses. ”

"What is the name of that immortal elder, do you know the old man?"

"The surname is Feng, but the specific name is unknown. ”

"Where's the person he's arranged?"

"The dead in the village fled, and when there was no one in the village, they left. ”

Hu Yao took a deep breath, suppressed the thoughts in his mind for the time being, and said slowly: "We will tell the sect about the matter here after we go back, we have not completed the task of this trip, why don't you tell us about Song Jiji?"