Chapter 16: The Truth Comes Out
Maybe it's because of the touching scene, Ling Huayin will stop and look at a few times everywhere she goes, and she should remember the fragments of her previous life here. In those long days, although sometimes it was very difficult, there were still people who silently cared for her and gave her one of the few warmth in the world.
Ling Huayin walked under a peach tree, took off the veil, and then picked up a thick branch and squatted under the tree to dig up, but after digging a large piece of it deeply, she didn't see anything.
"The thing is missing, and that person is indeed a senior brother. Ling Huayin concluded.
"Could it be that someone else took it?"
Ling Huayin stood up, patted the dust on her hands, and said, "That ice jar is a treasure that my first master brought back to my senior brother, and it is said that it can store many items like the Sumeru we use. My brother was reluctant to use it, so he gave it to me, but I didn't confiscate it, so I came up with a good idea to seal the water of the sacred tree inside. My brother once told me that his hometown was often hit by droughts, and the people were having a very hard time. I thought that if I could bring the water of the sacred tree to their hometown, I might be able to help them. My brother was very happy to hear my suggestion, and we agreed to wait until he went down the mountain to visit his relatives, and then we would go to his hometown with the water of the sacred tree. However, it did not fulfill people's wishes, and when an epidemic spread, all the people of my senior brother's clan died, which is what I later learned from my senior sister. When my brother needed comfort the most, I was not by his side, and my sister was always with him, so I gradually became estranged from my brother later......"
After hearing this, Situ Yan said, "Your senior brother is empathetic, don't fall in love, are you sad?"
Ling Huayin lowered her head and said, "Maybe there will be a little sadness, but it's more just unwilling." After all, in Dongling Mountain, there is no one else who is good to me, and when I am lonely, the only thing I want to rely on is that little bit of rare warmth. ”
Situ Yan raised his eyebrows and said, "One yard is one yard, no matter what, your senior brother still hurt your heart in the end and hurt Hengwei, this account still has to be settled with him." ”
Ling Huayin smiled slightly, just as he played tricks every day, and didn't care very much.
"Now that the matter has been confirmed, let's go back, otherwise we should be in a hurry if Oro can't find us. ”
As soon as the two returned to Lingyin Village, before they landed, they heard the shouts of the villagers from the cave, so they hurried over. From a distance, I saw that E Luo was alone against several giant wolves, and there were wolves around, while Zhang Xingwen and a few strong men were standing at the entrance of the cave to protect the villagers in the cave. A pack of wolves and a few people confronted each other, and the situation was tense.
"Come and help me, there are too many wolves for me to take care of!" Elo shouted to the two who were late.
Situ Yan raised his hand to stop Ling Huayin, and said in a deep voice: "Don't make a move." As he spoke, he summoned his lyre, and with a pluck of his fingers, the sonorous sound of the piano poured out from his fingertips, and wave after wave of spiritual power spread out, and the wolves who were still fierce and vicious shouted instantly seemed to be controlled, and after a few chirps, they became well-behaved, and then left one after another. And those huge head wolves, when they heard the sound of Situ Yan's piano, they all covered their ears with their front paws and wailed like humans, looking extremely painful. While Situ Yan continued to pluck the strings, he slowly fell to the ground, and only stopped playing when the giant wolves fell to the ground one after another.
"Are they all dead?" asked Elo, seeing the giant wolf lying on the ground and not moving.
"I didn't die, I was stunned by spiritual power. It seems that this is the so-called 'messenger of the mountain god'. Ling Hua, what do you say these demon beasts should do?" Situ Yan turned around and asked Ling Huayin.
Ling Huayin took a few steps forward, thought for a while, and said: "Now I can't collect demons, I remember that there is a Taoist temple in the northwest of Dongling Mountain, maybe we can temporarily lock these demon beasts in the cave first, and then hand them over when the people from the Taoist temple come." ”
"It's for the best. Situ Yan asked the village chief and Zhang Xingwen their opinions again, "What do you think?"
The village chief hurriedly said: "Okay, thank you so much, you guys saved all of our lives......!
"Knowing your mistakes can improve a lot, I hope you can learn a lesson in the future, and don't do this kind of hurtful thing again. We will find Bai Yi as soon as possible, he has an unshirkable responsibility in this matter. Later, I will purify the village of turbidity and rebuild a new barrier, and you can return to your normal life. Situ Yan said.
"Thank you to a few benefactors. Then, those wolves ......" the village chief suddenly became worried again.
"Don't be afraid, those wolves originally lived in the wilderness, and they were influenced by demon beasts to take the initiative to attack the village. If you don't provoke them, they won't attack anyone. ”
The village chief relieved himself and said again and again: "Okay, good." That's good, that's good......"
Situ Yan turned to Ling Huayin and said, "Linghua, you go back first, you have been consuming too much recently, I am worried that the distraction will not be able to support it, just leave the matter here to me and Miss Eluo." ”
When Ling Huayin saw this, she responded: "Well, I'll go back." ”
After Situ Yan and E Luo placed the demon beast in the cave, they took care of the affairs of the village, and then went to the Taoist temple that Ling Huayin said. It wasn't long before a person came in front of the cave where the demon beast was kept. As soon as he arrived, the monsters in the cave began to let out restless roars.
"You are all like this because of me, and it should be me, not you...... who will be punished," the man said, and stretched out his hand to open the cave's barrier.
Before he could cast the spell, a purple figure suddenly appeared behind the man, interrupting his spell.
"Sure enough, it's you, Zhang Xingwen. Situ Yan's voice sounded behind him, and he took the village chief, Bai Ning, and several villagers to the cave.
The village chief looked at Zhang Xingwen in disbelief, took a few steps forward, and said in shock: "Xingwen, what are you going to do?"
Zhang Xingwen glanced at all of them, lowered his head with a wry smile, and said, "Since you have seen it, then I have nothing to say." ”
"Don't you want to explain the current situation, why did you save these demon beasts, you can't be relatives, right?" Situ Yan said with a smile.
The village chief glanced at Situ Yan in surprise, probably thinking that Situ Yan's words were too unreasonable.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Xingwen said: "You already saw that I was a half-demon, why didn't you demolish me earlier?"
As soon as these words came out, the villagers present were shocked, only Bai Ning glared at Zhang Xingwen viciously.
"Before you do anything bad, exposing you will add trouble, so why should I? Demons and humans are different races, but whoever does bad things will be held responsible. I see that you are quite popular in Lingyin Village, don't you want to give them an explanation?"
"That's right, Xingwen, we don't care if you're a half-demon or not, you've helped us so much, if you have any troubles, we can all understand it!" the village chief echoed.
Zhang Xingwen shook his head and said self-deprecatingly: "You can't understand, greedy for life and afraid of death, selfish, stupid, you people will only take care of yourself, how can you understand others, especially a monster like me who is not human, not a demon." Zhang Xingwen glanced at the demon beasts in the cave and confessed: "The demon beasts in it are all my clansmen. ”
"Our clan, because of the wolf's head and human body, has a strange appearance, and most of them can't speak and think like ordinary demons, nor can they transform into shapes, so they are rejected and bullied by the demon clan, so the patriarch took us to hide in the mountains. The patriarch is the only one of our people who has taken on a human form, and he has developed a relationship with a human. Later, the first half-demon began to exist in our clan, and the patriarch gradually merged into the human community. However, the good times did not last long, this woman found out the identity of the patriarch one day, regarded him as a monster, killed her husband while he was asleep, and led a group of Taoist priests to surround the lair where everyone lived, and only a few young beasts escaped. We fled to the vicinity of Lingyin Village, discovered the barrier, and thought that maybe this was our place to live, so we settled down in the forest. ”
Situ Yan touched his chin, his expression seemed to be solemn, as if he was thinking about something.
Zhang Xingwen continued: "But we always have to eat, there is not much prey here, in order to prevent starvation, so I came to the village, pretending to be a Taoist priest, helping the villagers to exorcise evil spirits in exchange for some meat to sustain our livelihood. Gradually, the villagers accepted me and let me stay. Zhang Xingwen shook his head helplessly, "Food is still limited, and my people are often hungry and full." Five years ago, there was a drought in the village, and I learned about the mountain gods. Driven by curiosity, I secretly went to the place where Bai Qiao'er sacrificed......"
Speaking of this, Zhang Xingwen couldn't help laughing: "That's not a mountain god at all, it's just a hungry wolf." The wolf only gnawed on the body, but did not gnaw the girl's head, and then I also figured out, don't you want to dress up the girl before the sacrifice, and apply a layer of the wolf's most hated thing on the girl's face. ”
Several villagers looked at each other, and one of them shouted angrily: "How is it possible, don't talk nonsense!"
"Look, I say you're stupid. I really believe in the nonsense of your ancestors. ”
"What do you mean!" the villagers were about to step forward to teach a lesson, but they were stopped by Eluo.
"What are you doing, what are you doing, can you listen to it and then fight?"
"When I discovered the secret of the mountain god, a terrible thought suddenly arose in my heart. This idea was brewing in my mind for a long time, and it wasn't until the year Bai Yi came back that I finally put it into action. Bai Ning is right, Bai Yi and I are indeed complicit. He came back to take revenge, and I, in order to survive my kindred, and to punish these inhumane humans, so Bai Yi and I joined forces. I tricked some of the villagers who had been possessed by the demons into going to the mountains to serve as food for my people, and threw their leftover bones and scraps into the cave to feed them with human grass, and then threw their heads and clothes at the entrance of the village...... Later, I approached the village chief and tried to convince him that it was the mountain god's doing, and the village chief quickly believed it. Originally, I just wanted my people not to starve, but after enjoying the food brought to their mouths for a long time, they became more and more greedy, and they were no longer satisfied with eating only one person a month. So I locked them in the forest for the time being, and didn't let them out. But this time, because the sacrificial girls ran away, they were very annoyed, broke free from my restraints, and went down the mountain to kidnap Bai Sanniang. You all know what happened next. ”
The village chief slumped to the ground and said vigorously: "Evil, evil! I am luring the wolf into the house...... Although we didn't do it right, but what our village has done to you all these years, you are simply revenge!"
Zhang Xingwen looked at the old man who was tearful and regretted not being at the beginning, and was unmoved, "If it is not my race, its heart will be different." You and your relatives can give it up, and you still care about me, a half-demon, take me in, but you can't see through my identity, and I'm still useful to you. What is the difference between what you did and the woman who killed her husband? Now that you know the truth of the matter, I don't have to defend myself, because I am the one who has killed so many people. But I will never let my people fall into the hands of you humans. With that, Zhang Xingwen raised his hand towards the entrance of the cave, only to hear a loud rumbling sound in the mountain, and the entrance of the cave collapsed, and soon buried the demon beast under the mountain.
probably didn't expect him to choose such a way to die together, and no one reacted. At this moment, Zhang Xingwen suddenly broke through Eluo's prohibition, flew in front of "Ling Huayin", and reached out to pull out the saber on her waist. This move instantly shocked everyone.