Ran Zhu opened the creaking wooden door, welcomed Chen Si in, and proudly introduced him to his home.
He also pulled Chen Si to look at his wife. Of course, his so-called wife was also a ball of air in Chen Si's eyes.
"This is our daughter-in-law, Qiao Niu. How does she look? Isn't she beautiful?"
Chen Si reluctantly nodded.
Ran Zhu chuckled, and started making out with "Qiao Niu" in front of Chen Si. After being intimate for a while, he proudly took out a few red bills given by Chen Si and handed them to "Yunxiu".
"Your man made a lot of money today, spend it and buy some clothes! You don't have to pay back the rest, just keep it with you."
Then he sent Yunxiu to make dinner, then sat down and happily told Chen Si about Yunxiu's various benefits.
A series of actions made Chen Si's head full of black lines.
Did he really find a ghost wife?
Ran Zhu kept talking about it for a long time. When he saw that he was tired, he finally ran to the kitchen and brought tonight's dinner.
It's just that the food placed on the table is really hard to eat.
Several pieces of rotten pork were placed on the plate, with white maggots crawling inside, emitting a strong stench.
The large intestine of a human or an animal was placed in a pot, some water was added, and it was cooked until it was half-cooked. There was still a lot of blood in the soup.
I don’t know if the dirt inside has been cleaned, but the smell of feces spreads freely from the pot.
Others include various insects and weeds, and even a plate of human fingers!
Chen Si resisted the urge to vomit and silently put down his chopsticks.
"What's wrong? I asked my mother-in-law to prepare a special meal when you came to see me today. Isn't it to your taste?"
Chen Si waved his hand.
"After walking for a day, I don't feel well, so I went to rest."
Ran Zhu looked at Chen Si in confusion, but didn't stop him much. He stretched out his chopsticks and threw a piece of his finger into his mouth, making a crunching sound.
"It's so delicious. It's a pity that people in the city are so hard to take care of."
Then he quickly picked up some food and stuffed it into his wife's bowl. The man who seemed glib and carefree had eyes full of love.
"Eat more, wifey."
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When Chen Si came to the bedroom, he discovered that the so-called bedroom was shabby. Not to mention the quilt, the entire bedside was rotten, making it impossible for anyone to sleep on it.
However, Chen Si didn't have high requirements for the resting environment. He found an open space, cleaned it, and started practicing by drawing formations.
While practicing, I thought about my future plans.
The current situation of this village is unclear, and the reasons why the people in the village disappeared are also unclear.
But there is no doubt that there are currently very few living people left in the entire village.
As for whether these villagers disappeared completely or became another kind of existence that they could not detect, another investigation is needed.
Perhaps we can only know the truth after going to the small temple in the valley.
Just as his thoughts gradually gathered together and he began to immerse himself in the world of cultivation, a terrifying and cold sixth sense suddenly penetrated his brain.
Chen Si suddenly opened his eyes and looked sideways. A face with a twisted smile was very close at hand.
He broke out in a cold sweat, stood up suddenly, took two steps back, pulled out the Tang Dao in his hand, and was about to stab him with the sword!
However, seeing that this man was about to die, Chen Si suddenly stopped his sword.
He noticed that there was no immortal energy fluctuation in this man. He was actually just an ordinary person, and a living person!
It's just that this man's head is extremely big, but his body is pitifully small. He seems to be underdeveloped, only about the size of a child.
For some reason, he was on all fours, with a twisted smile on his face, and slowly crawled towards Chen Si.
He sniffed it with his nose and asked flatteringly: "You smell delicious, can I eat you?"
Chen Si frowned, caught off guard by this question, and replied coldly: "No."
The dwarf looked sad after hearing this, and the flattering smile on his face disappeared and became sad.
"Okay, then I don't have anything to eat."
After saying that, the dwarf lifted up his sleeve and bit hard on his right hand.
A large piece of flesh and blood was directly torn off his skinny and shrunken arm.
The dwarf chewed hard, chewing up the piece of flesh and blood, and then swallowed it into his belly.
Only then did Chen Si notice that there had been many bite marks on his arm, and even the entire palm was bone-white without a trace of muscle tissue.
Feeling a little nauseous, he took out a few biscuits from his backpack and threw them in front of the dwarf.
"Eat this."
The dwarf tried his best to smile again, tore open the package of biscuits and gobbled them up.
Chen Si asked in confusion: "Why do you eat your own flesh?"
The dwarf finished the biscuits in two or three times, and then responded: "I used to eat hundreds of meals. When I was hungry, I would go to someone to kowtow and say good things, and they would reward me with some leftovers to eat with the dogs in the yard.
Now everyone in the village is dead, no one feeds me, and I am hungry. "
After hearing this, Mr. Chen was slightly surprised.
This villager is raising him as a wild dog.
Judging from the way he crawls, he does look a bit like him at first glance.
Moreover, this dwarf has atrophied limbs and has no strength. He cannot climb into the villagers' houses. Once the food outside is eaten up, he will really have no choice but to wait for death.
Perhaps he appeared here tonight because Ran Zhu opened the door and left it open, so he wanted to come in and try his luck in finding food.
Chen Si realized that the dwarf was different from Ran Zhu, and he might be able to get some information out of him, so he continued to ask: "You said that everyone in the village is dead. What's going on?"
The dwarf answered honestly: "I sleep with wild dogs in a kennel on the street at night. I often see several villagers entering other people's homes and taking out the living people inside, and finally disappearing into the woods on the edge of the village. There is no telling where they ended up.
I heard that that direction is the location of the temple. I went there once when I was a child. "
Chen Si felt a little uneasy.
Are these villagers really being lured into making human elixirs?
But why would these villagers follow willingly?
"Didn't the villagers resist?"
"No, they seemed to have been distracted by the black and white impermanence, and they just left in a daze and never came back.
As a result, there were fewer and fewer people in the village, and I felt that they were all eaten by the King of Hell. "
The dwarf probably has some mental retardation and cannot provide any more information.
But his thoughts were very simple. After eating Chen Si's biscuits, he thought about repaying him, and carefully reminded: "Everyone in the village is dead, and the rest are the living dead. The wild dogs who live with me are all dead." Don't dare to approach them.
Ran Zhu, in particular, is very bad. I advise you not to live in his house anymore. He must have no good intentions! "
Chen Si didn't reply and threw him a few more biscuits.
After the dwarf accepted it, he did not dare to stay at Ran Zhu's home anymore. He used his hands and feet to crawl back along the way he came.
The posture is exactly like that of a wild dog.
Chen Si touched his chin, not knowing which side to believe for a moment.
However, at present, what the dwarf said is more credible.
After all, he is a living person, relatively speaking, he is more normal.
But Chen Si still didn't give up his original plan.
Ran Zhu is a very important clue. Only through him can we follow the clues and find out the truth.
