Like other villages, Qishui Village also has the habit of building tombs close to the mountains. Tombs and tombstones hidden in the grass can be seen everywhere on the distant hillsides, which look a little intrusive even in the daytime.
Ji Xingwang looked at the tomb mountain and asked, "It's a bit far. Do you want to go there and have a look?"
"Yeah, but leave a note here first."
Li Ang used a pen and paper to leave a few notes, which were written in Southern Zhou characters on what he and his group had seen, especially the situation where the villagers in Qishui Village would turn into evil spirits at night.
He posted the notes in different places in the temple. Currently, the whereabouts of Liao Kaifeng, Yan Yan, Yu Shusheng, and Wang Linian are unknown. If they also come to Qishui Temple, they will be reminded——
Wang Linian holds the Zhenghun Incense in his hand. Even if he cannot solve the mutation itself and directly make the mutation disappear, there is still a way to get out with the Zhenghun Incense.
The group came to the tomb mountain and found that there were many tombs, but they were quite scattered, and the new tombs and old tombs were mixed together.
Ji Xingwang asked: "Are there any doubts?"
"Well..."
Li Ang made an observation and said, "The earliest and latest tombs match the time when Qishui Village was founded and disappeared. Brother Ji, have you brought the soil and the talisman?"
"Take it, what are you going to do?"
"Open the coffin."
Li Ang asked for talismans from Ji Xingwang, melted the soil on the surface of more than a dozen tombs, and opened the coffins. The result surprised everyone.
Some coffins contained normal skeletons, while other coffins were empty, with only hair, clothes, and some personal belongings from their lifetimes. They were clearly burial tombs.
"how so?"
Ji Xingwang frowned and said: "The tomb is a tomb set up to commemorate the living if the body of the deceased cannot be found.
Judging from the closed situation of Qishui Village where it is inconvenient to go out, there must not be many people who can go out to do business. Why are there so many tombs? And the timing is so strange. Only the old tombs have burial mounds, while the new tombs have skeletons. "
"Open a few more coffins and take a look."
Li Ang opened more tombs and found that the pattern of tombs was more obvious - almost all the old tombs from the 80 years before the founding of the village were tombs. However, in the 100 years after the founding of the village, the number of tombs decreased greatly and became more and more obvious. Later, the number of tombs became lower.
In the past thirty years, there has not even been a tomb.
The four of them looked at each other, what does this mean?
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"Finally, I came out."
In the forest, Liao Kaifeng, Yan Yan, and Scholar Yu breathed a long sigh of relief and walked out of the dense forest.
The three of them were also separated in various parts of the mountain col after the strong wind and earthquake. They finally gathered together and encountered attacks from unknown sources in the mist and ghosts beating the wall. It was only now that they came out of the mountain forest.
"I haven't seen anyone launching communication fireworks until now. Won't everyone else be dead?"
Liao Kaifeng said gloomily: "Then if Luffy and Ji Xingwang die, they will die, but Wang Linian has the fragrance of his soul. If he dies quietly, we might be trapped here forever."
"Shut your crow's mouth now."
Yan Yan said coldly: "This change is not simple. It covers such a large area of mountainous areas. The real owner who caused the change has not yet been seen. If a few more people die, we don't have to think about going out. , find a place to dig a hole and bury yourself,
I pray that the Secretary of State can come and take over soon. "
"you sure?"
Liao Kaifeng said with a gloomy face: "According to the nature of the Zhenfu Division, even if they come to solve the mutation, we, who owe the life-saving grace, will have to sign a contract with them and fight the Zhenfu Division for several years, or even more than ten years. White labor.”
"Isn't there still the Taiyuan Wang family by then? We have all come to help. There is no credit but hard work. No matter what, we must settle this debt of gratitude."
Scholar Yu said: "Okay, there is a temple ahead. Brother Liao, how are your injuries?"
"snort."
Liao Kaifeng pressed the side of his heart, his face turned a little pale, but he still snorted coldly: "I can't die for the time being. Let's go."
The three of them walked into Qishui Temple. Liao Kaifeng sat in the corner, leaning against the wall, silently regaining his strength.
Yan Yan glanced at the fruit tributes on the altar, took out the dry food from his arms indifferently, and ate every bite.
Scholar Jade searched the temple and found a few notes.
"What was left by Luffy? Has he already joined the others? Is it written in Southern Zhou script to avoid being picked up by the villagers of Qishui Village?"
Scholar Yu frowned and read the contents of the note. Yan Yan leaned over and read together.
The history of Qishui Village...the terrain...the ancestral hall...the legend of Qishui God...
Suddenly, Scholar Jade's eyes narrowed, and the hairs on his back stood up.
'The villagers of Qishui Village will turn into evil spirits after night, and then return to their normal appearance during the day. After being killed, they are suspected to be resurrected. '
Scholar Yu thought of something and subconsciously glanced at the corner of the temple with the corner of his eye. Liao Kaifeng was sitting there, covering his wound and lowering his head.
After yesterday evening, Liao Kaifeng was attacked by an unknown entity in the thick fog. He lost contact all night. It was not until after dawn that he appeared and joined the two of them. He claimed that he was only seriously injured and barely escaped.
But his injuries...
Tick tock, tick tock.
Dripping blood dripped along Liao Kaifeng's fingers, forming a pool of blood underneath him.
He slowly raised his head, looked at Scholar Yu and Yan Yan who suddenly fell into silence, and asked expressionlessly: "Keep reading, why don't you read?"
"It's over. The paper just said that anyone who saw the note should find them as soon as possible."
Scholar Yu smiled without changing his expression, "Is your injury okay?"
"I've told you so many times that I can't die."
Liao Kaifeng waved his hands impatiently and stood up from the ground. As if to prove himself, he lifted a corner of his shirt, revealing the messy and deep wounds on his chest.
"Look, it's okay."
He raised his palm and smoothed the folded skin at the wound, but it couldn't be completely smoothed anyway. He let out a soft "tsk" and stretched out his hand to pull off the entire piece of eroded and fragmented skin.
Tick tock.
Blood was dripping down, and Liao Kaifeng continued to scratch the wound expressionlessly as if he didn't notice the pain.
The more he tried to smooth out the wound, the more it worsened. He could only tear off the skin piece by piece and pile it up at his feet.
Tendons, blood vessels, bones.
Liao Kaifeng's chest was exposed with white bones, and through the bones he could see his heart that had stopped beating for a long time.
"Phew, finally no more bleeding."
Liao Kaifeng smiled slightly and looked up at Scholar Yu and Yan Yan.
What greeted him was a ball of talismans.
boom! !
The courtyard walls collapsed, the roof beams collapsed, and smoke filled the air.
Threads, fist winds, and talisman techniques come and go.
After a long time, Scholar Yu and Yan Yan stumbled out of the ruined Qishui Temple. Yan Yan was still holding a thought thread in his hand, and the other end of the thread was dragging Liao Kaifeng's headless corpse.
"Unexpectedly, Liao Kaifeng is already a ghost."
Scholar Yu said sternly: "And he also accompanied us all the way."
"Don't say so many useless things. Let's cut him into pieces first. Do you still remember the content on the note? The killed evil ghost may turn into water stains and escape, and be resurrected the next day, and there is no Memories from before.”
Yan Yan shook his head and used his mind thread to mince Liao Kaifeng's body into pieces, then took out the talisman and burned all the pieces into ashes. "I hope this will be useful. Phew, let's go and find Ji Xing to watch them."
Yan Yan put away his thought thread and looked back at Scholar Yu. He found that the latter's expression kept changing, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying, "What's wrong?"
"nothing."
Scholar Yu reluctantly twitched the corner of his mouth, "I was just thinking that Liao Kaifeng died silently, which is a bit sad for a rabbit to die and a fox to die."
"Ha, he has been licking blood all year round, and there will always be times when he misses. He must have been mentally prepared for it. Don't worry, the Taiyuan Wang family has five surnames and seven hopes after all, and the pension money will be sent to his family."
Yan Yan shook his head, scratched his cheek and walked towards the graveyard, casually saying: "Let's go, it seems to be getting dark faster here than outside. If we don't leave, it will be too late."
"Um."
Scholar Yu nodded and followed Yan Yan, still thinking about the scene he saw just now in his mind - the skin on Yan Yan's face was slowly cracking.
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