Everyone was really satisfied with this meal. Although the iron-combed chicken was delicious, it was only enough for two people to share. Instead, the rock-skinned pig was a feast for everyone.
"Ouch, that's too much."
Chen Yao stood up holding Xiaohu's shoulders.
"Yes, brother, I'm so happy. I really hope I can eat meat every day."
Xiaohu also took advantage of the situation and lay back.
"Hmph! That's a nice thought. If you want to eat it, you can eat it yourself!"
Jiang Qingyan patted her belly happily.
"Little guys, come over here."
Jiang Qingshan barely ate much during this meal, with a worried look on his face.
"What's wrong, old village chief, do you have anything else to explain?"
Chen Yao held his belly with his left hand and supported his waist with his right hand.
"It's around ten o'clock now. You should leave the village at twelve o'clock. There can be no further delay."
The village chief took out a square booklet from the binding ring. It looked a bit old but not damaged. He opened one of the pages and saw that it was covered with dense dark red slashes.
There was no pen in Black Abyss Village. Only two hundred stars ago, they began to write with iron-crowned chicken tail feathers dipped in the blood of alien animals and mixed with some dark stone powder.
Paper cannot be made. Except for the various books left by the ancestor village chief, the others were scavenged by the villagers from the Black Abyss garbage dump.
"What a coincidence. Today is the eighth day of the four-star month in the ancient wilderness of 631. The day after tomorrow, there will be a dark day every ten star days. We must hide ourselves and wait until the dark day passes."
"If you encounter a danger that cannot be solved, you can temporarily return to the ten miles around the village. That is the daily activity range of the villagers. Alien beasts generally will not approach. You must remember." The old village chief said seriously.
Everyone nodded seriously.
"This time you will go out of the village to train for seven days, and you need to make more preparations. You go, I will send someone to call you when the twelve o'clock is up."
"Qingyan, go to Lao Li's place and see if the children's equipment has been reinforced."
"Don't worry, father. Although Lao Li is just an ordinary person, his ancestral blacksmithing skills are trustworthy. I'll go and have a look."
Jiang Qingyan replied neatly, anyway, it's only a few minutes' walk from the blacksmith's house.
"Little guys, come on, I have a few more things for you." The village chief chuckled.
The old village chief flicked his right hand and held it with his left hand, and two things appeared on his palm. One was the rag bag just now, and the other was a square piece of old black leather paper folded.
"Ah! Village chief! You gave us the salt, what are you going to eat for yourself! Hey~ what is this piece of paper?"
Qiu Yueli gently picked up the old paper.
"This is a map made of black rat skin. When you go out, you don't even have a decent map. Besides, I have these two things in reserve. Haha, don't worry."
"Ah! Black rats! I hate black rats the most!" Qiu Yueli threw it away as if she was electrocuted.
Qiu Yunxi had sharp eyes and quick hands. He grabbed twice with his right hand and quickly stuffed the salt bag and map into Chen Yao's hand. It was obvious that girls didn't like rats very much.
"Oh, it's a map! Lili is so timid. What's there to be afraid of black rats? It's just a piece of skin. Xiaohu and I used to catch small black rats in the fields and roast them. They were delicious. .”
Chen Yao put away the salt bag and was about to open the map.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! It's not good! Father, something big happened! Old Li! Whoops! He..."
Everyone turned their heads and saw Jiang Qingyan running towards him.
"What happened, Qingyan, please tell me!" Jiang Qingshan frowned.
"When I arrived at Lao Li's house, the doors and windows of his house were closed. I asked the people around me and said that Lao Li had been like this since last night, and there were strange noises coming from the house! Just like...ah! Just like father, you The sound of the spell when turning on the Binding Dial is very similar!"
Jiang Qingyan took a deep breath and said hurriedly.
"I have sent a few people to guard the area, father, what should I do now?"
"This... is indeed a big deal! Yun Xi, go and ask Doctor Feng Xue to rush over. Qing Yan, let's go over and take a look first!"
The old village chief looked a little anxious.
"We want to go too!" The three people except Qiu Yunxi shouted.
"What are you going to do? This could be dangerous!"
"Old village chief! We are not afraid! We have completed the ceremony and are no longer children." Chen Yao said loudly.
"Grandpa, let us go!"
"Yes, Grandpa Qingshan, maybe we can help."
"Okay, try not to get too close! If there is any danger, evacuate immediately!" the old village chief said sternly.
The three people responded quickly.
Jiang Qingshan turned back to the house and took out a bundle of hemp rope: "Huzi, take this, it will be useful later, let's go."
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When the old village chief and his party arrived, Tiejiang Li's house was already surrounded by meddling villagers.
"It's gone! It's all gone! What are you doing here? Go back and do your work!"
Jiang Qingyan's voice dispersed the meddling villagers. Only a small number of villagers were still watching from a distance. Apart from the villagers who had been ordered to guard before, there was only one person left in front of Li Tiejiang's door.
Jiang Qingyan grabbed her hand and pulled Li Tieniu, the son of Tiejiang Li, over: "Niuzi, what's going on with your dad?!"
The young man in front of me was about twenty years old, with a look of deep confusion on his face.
"Chief Qingyan, please let my father go. He will never do anything to harm the village!"
Niu Zi trembled all over and begged with a cry in his voice.
Li Tieniu is not an orphan, but he has also lost his mother since he was a child. It can be said that most people of this age in the village are like this, and their childhood is incomplete.
"Don't tell me this, what on earth is he..." Qingyan grabbed Niuzi's collar with both hands and lifted him up.
"Qing Yan! What are you talking about! Put Niu Zi down." The old village chief scolded angrily.
"Yes! Father." Jiang Qingyan put Li Tieniu down and stepped aside.
"Li Tieniu, don't be afraid. First tell me, has your father been anywhere recently?"
Jiang Qingshan gently pressed Li Tieniu's shoulders and asked kindly.
"Ho. Ho. Father, he... left the village alone a few days ago and came back a week later."
Li Tieniu gasped for air, obviously in shock.
"Where did he go? Where were you last night?" the old village chief then asked.
"I don't know. My father looked very strange last night, and then asked me to stay elsewhere for the night, so I went to Wang Mazi's house." Li Tieniu said truthfully.
"How strange is your face?"
"Yes, very rosy and excited. I thought my father was looking for Widow Zhang again..."
Li Tieniu said calmly.
"Okay! Needless to say! Huzi, Qingyan! Get ready to break down the door! Zhang San, Li Si, and Niuzi are guarding the door! You little guys, stay away!"
Jiang Qingshan interrupted Niu Zi directly and ordered everyone around him in an orderly manner.
Everyone responded.
In fact, the houses in Heiyuan Village are not very strong, and the wooden doors are also made of snakewood vines. Chen Yao can break the door open even with some effort.
Xiaohu took a breath and slammed forward with his left shoulder!
"Boom!" The wooden door fell down in response.
Jiang Qingshan, Jiang Qingyan, and a group of villagers filed in. Chen Yao and three others gathered around the door, looking in.
What did they see at this moment? !
There was no light in the shack. It was completely blocked. An open space was made in the center of the shack. A strange pattern was drawn on the ground with black and red blood. There was a half-burned grease candle in the center. , the light of candles is very limited...
Faintly, everyone could only see a black shadow, which sometimes twitched strangely around the pattern.
"....'ai...ooo..bushu...c-...ehye
.......'ai...ooobushu...c-ehye..."
Everyone was stunned and didn't know what to do for a moment.
If you look closely, you will see that this is not the only abnormality about Tiejiang Li. There is also a faint layer of black energy floating on his body.
At this moment, Chen Yao's whole body began to tremble slightly. He saw the black energy around Li Tiejiang. The black energy first gathered in the formation, and then was guided to the top of the shed by the rising candle smoke. His eyes followed the black energy upwards. ....
null! ! ! A heartbreaking pain came, and Chen Yao's head seemed to be exploded and smashed to pieces!
"Ah!... Ho! Ho!" Chen Yao sat down on the ground in shock!
"What's wrong, boy Chen Yao?!" Everyone was brought back to their senses by Chen Yao's scream.
"Come out quickly! Don't go there!!! There is a... a strange thing on the roof!!!"
Although it was only for a short moment, Chen Yao could vaguely see that the black air mass hovering on the roof looked like a strange and unknown creature. It greedily sucked the black air around Li Tiejiang and was still expanding.
Although several people didn't believe it after hearing it, they also withdrew.
"Ah! Sister, and Aunt Fengxue is here!" The worry on Qiu Yueli's face disappeared.
"Chief Qingshan, what's going on in such a hurry?"
These words were like a spring breeze blowing through everyone's heart. Although the visitor was only wearing a simple white cloth, Chen Yao still secretly took a few more glances.
Fengxue has a pair of tall mountain peaks that are about to burst through the cloth, gentle wind and drizzle, and her skin is as delicate as snow. Fengxue is already thirty years old, but the years have not left a trace on her face. She is still unmarried. , but he is the object of admiration of all the young men in Heiyuan Village.
At the same time, she is also the only doctor in Black Abyss Village who has awakened the healing ability.
"Fengxue, you came at the right time. Lao Li was contaminated a few days ago for unknown reasons. It probably only started yesterday."
"Okay, Chen Yao, what did you just say you saw?"
The old village chief stared at Chen Yao closely, as if observing.
"I just saw a monster lying on the roof of the shed for just a moment. It was about the same size, and then I couldn't see it. My head and eyes are hurting now."
Chen Yao gestured with some pain.
"It's possible that boy Chen Yao was dazzled, but we can't rule out that it's true." Jiang Qingshan glanced at Li Tiejiang, who was twitching even more violently, and frowned.
"We can't delay any longer, Niu Zi. Go next door and get two lanterns."
"Qing Yan Xiaohu Zhang San and Li Si, listen to my instructions and be ready to control Li Tieniu at any time and drag him out of the range of the pattern."
"Wang Mazi, please open the windows on three sides as quickly as possible and don't get close to the roof! Doctor Feng Xue, after we control Li Tieniu, you can use your healing power on him immediately."
The old village chief quickly made arrangements.
Everyone made the arrangements clear, but they were still a little nervous. It seemed that nothing like this had ever happened in Black Abyss Village for hundreds of years.
"Bring the lantern!" Niu Zi gasped.
"Zhang San and Li Si, each of you has a lantern. You will put the lantern in the corner of the east and west rooms later."
The old village chief lit the tallow candle in the lantern with a flint.
"Qingyan, you can control Lao Li later. Huzi, you can use hemp rope to tie Lao Li's hands and feet to death!"
"Get ready... to act!" Following the old village chief's order, everyone immediately took action.
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