Chapter 13: The Dead Village
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Lin You walked among the snow layers, which seemed quite interesting.
He didn't carry anything, just a long sword in his right hand, and he was barefoot in the snow.
In these days in the mountains, Lin You's cultivation has made great progress.
However, it made him a little regretful that he was unable to break through the realm after all and enter the middle stage of refining and refining qi.
But it's only a little bit worse.
He didn't have any worries about whether he would break through.
Lin You looked up at the scene in the distance.
He opened his mouth and exhaled a white gas, which dispersed in the cold air and turned into clouds.
Lin You lowered his head and continued to walk forward in silence.
The long inky hair had already reached the shoulders and was scattered behind Lin You, dancing with the cold wind.
Lin You's back was straight, and he stepped barefoot in the snow, as if he couldn't feel a little cold.
If he was a little afraid of the cold before, now he is completely unaffected by this temperature.
The sword qi in his body was constantly circulating, making him not only not feel the cold, but instead felt a chill from the outside world.
The feeling of coldness, the cool view, the feeling of relaxation.
The faint sun in the sky hung in the middle, but the things on the earth did not feel a little warmth.
All around are in a desolate mood.
But Lin You walked on the snow, but he knew that under the scene of white flowers, there was vitality.
The river, which was dozens of meters away from him, was still flowing freely, as if it had not been affected by the cold.
Lin You continued to walk silently on the riverside.
The winter days passed quickly, and when Lin You was still crossing the mountains and mountains by the river at the same speed, the sky was already showing signs of darkness.
It's almost evening.
Suddenly, Lin You stopped his steps.
He turned his head to look to his right.
Walking over directly, Lin You swept away the snow with his feet. A slightly flat piece of earth appeared at Lin You's feet.
It's a path out of the mountains.
The path was already completely covered with snow, and if it weren't for Lin You's sensitivity, he would have missed it.
Lin You looked ahead in the direction where the path appeared.
Some of the lower mountains came into his view.
I found the road, and the mountain in front of me was not high, and it seemed that there was some gentle slope, so I guess there was a small village in front of me.
With a plan in his heart, Lin You also walked forward.
He walked fast, but it was still when it was already dark that he reached what might have been a village.
Lin You stood on a high place, looking around.
Suddenly, a low building came into his sight.
It is a bungalow made of bricks and tiles, and because Lin You is condescending, it looks relatively short.
Seeing that the target appeared, Lin You carried his long sword and walked there.
He thought about it for a moment, and waited for how he should contact the other party.
After thinking about it for a while, Lin You had a plan in his heart.
There is no need to lie, there are many strange people in the empire.
As long as he says that he is a Taoist priest who has entered the mountain to practice, although the other party will be surprised and strange, it will also be understood by the other party.
There are many mountains and wilderness in Shudi, and even if the locals have not seen them with their own eyes, they have all been exposed to them since childhood.
As for worrying that the other party will have evil thoughts about him, report to the official, etc., that is to think too much.
When I met him who could walk naked in the snow, it was too late for ordinary people to stutter. Moreover, Lin You's cultivation so far is not for hiding.
When the time comes, if something evil happens, just ask the sword to solve it.
His mind fluctuated slightly, and he fell into a plan.
Continue to the front.
Lin You walked to the front of the bungalow, but found that there was no movement inside.
The door to the house was closed tightly. The concrete floor was covered with a thick layer of snow.
The sight of no one.
Lin You raised his eyebrows.
It should be that the owner of the house does not live here. Maybe it's going down the mountain and living in the town.
After all, when winter arrives in the mountains, there will be a lot of trouble. There will be a lot of inconvenience in terms of materials, and it may be difficult to drink water and electricity.
Passing over the house, Lin You looked in other directions.
Later, Lin You appeared in front of a house again.
The snow was still layered on the front of the house.
The roof of the small two-story building is covered with snow.
It's also like no one.
Lin You's brows furrowed, and there were no one in even a few households.
"Could it be that the whole village has moved away?" Lin You thought slightly.
But suddenly, Lin You's nose shrugged.
He smelled a very faint sweet smell.
Lin You's face was still flat, but there was a change in his eyes.
He walked to the door of the house.
After a moment's hesitation, he stretched out his hand and knocked on the door.
Bang bang bang!
Lin You knocked a few times in a row, but no one answered.
Then, Lin You stopped knocking on the door, took a step back, and the long sword flipped out from behind.
Without hesitation, a sword was slashed, and the door was easily split.
Lin You kicked it open and kicked the iron-clad door into the room.
The wooden door landed in the middle of the room with a banging sound.
The sound was gone, and there was still silence inside, and no one was silent.
However, Lin You felt that the sweet taste in his nose had become a little stronger.
He held his sword and walked inside with some caution.
There was no one in the hall, and there were no people in the few small rooms.
Lin You had some doubts on his face.
He continued to walk upstairs.
There was still no one on the second floor.
But Lin You saw the messy room, and there were traces of fighting or dragging on the ground.
He followed the remaining traces to the window and looked out.
Outside is a courtyard, behind the building.
Lin You went downstairs, kicked open the back door directly, and walked into the courtyard.
The snow layer, which was still white, fell all around, and it was white.
The slightly sweet smell comes from here.
Lin You walked over, stood in front of the somewhat uneven layer of snow, and observed carefully for a few seconds.
He had a conjecture in his mind.
Then, Lin You carried the long sword in his right hand, and the long sword waved, and the sword qi in his body was shocked.
Suddenly, the layer of snow covering the ground was swept away by the air flow brought up by the sword body.
With a sword swinging this effect, Lin You was very calm.
He saw something on the ground, and at last he knew what the sweet smell was, and he knew why he hadn't met anyone in the village.
I saw that the ground was black and red, and something stiff fell to the ground.
It's a corpse, a male corpse.
Judging from the blue face, the original body of the corpse should not be more than forty years old.
As for the time of death, in this kind of snowy winter, it is difficult to judge with Lin You's shallow experience.
Something had slit the corpse's neck, and the blood was scattered all around, turning into ice.
This should be the cause of the other party's death.
The sweet smell that Lin You had smelled before should have been emitted by the coagulated blood on the ground.
The smell of blood mixed with the cold air created a sweet feeling.
Something bizarre.
Lin You carefully probed the ground, his face was still flat, but there were already waves in his heart.
He looked at the mountain behind the small building, and was not ready to climb up to investigate.
Walking out of this small building directly, Lin You went to other rooms to check.
Later, Lin You sat in the hall of a hut and wiped the long sword in his hand with a piece of cloth cut out of his hand.
As he expected, there was no one in the whole village except him.
No...... It should be accurate to say that there is not a single living person.
(To be continued.) )