Early the next morning, Li Chuan and the others had breakfast and set off for Xialin Village.
Xialin Village was not far away. They took a small carriage there and arrived at the foot of the mountain in half an hour. In order not to miss the clue, they got off the car and walked up.
Fortunately, he brought the other three along with him. Li Chuan sat on the crab shell and was very happy.
The male was very excited. He did not sit on the crab shell. He walked in front of Li Chuan and looked for clues carefully. Look left, look west, and from time to time fly to the tree to overlook the surroundings.
His gains were also quite substantial.
Got into a fight with an owl; took out a squirrel's food supply; was almost bitten by a blind snake; provoked a nest of bobcats...
Wen Guying and Jin Rong were discussing what to do next. They were both professionals, and from time to time they would say some words that Li Chuan didn't understand. After listening to it for a while, Li Chuan felt that he was needed anyway. When the time comes, they will say it, so they relax and enjoy the surrounding scenery.
It might have rained at night, so the ground was a little moist, and the puddles everywhere were glowing with colorful lights; the air was also moist, with some earthy smell and a bit of grass aroma.
After walking halfway up the mountain, Wen Guying stopped and said, "Ahead is Xialin Village."
Li Chuan looked in the direction pointed by Wen Guying and saw a path interspersed with grass and shrubs ahead, which was obviously made by people.
They walked along the path, and soon they saw scattered houses. Entering the village, the utensils were still as they were before, with hoes on the haystacks, bowls and basins on the wooden tables, and some live chickens and ducks walking around in the open space.
Wen Guying and Jin Rong searched the entire village. Wen Guying returned his sword to the sky and looked at it from top to bottom.
Wen Guying was not discouraged. If the problem could be found after one visit, his junior brother would not need to kill people and extract souls to confirm the existence of the White Walkers.
Wen Guying said: "There are two directions to search for. If according to my previous speculation, the short-term superposition of boundaries during ascension continues for some reason, then there must be a place here that is particularly full of spiritual energy. I found this place That’s it. The other direction is how the White Walkers took over the bodies of the villagers in Xialin Village. There must be some kind of ritual, but there are no living people in Xialin Village right now.”
"Is it possible to summon spirits?" Li Chuan put forward an idea, "According to the crown monk, you will become a ghost at the age of twenty. If there is a ritual, it must be at the age of twenty. Everyone lives in the same village. Here, we can't hide this kind of thing if we meet sooner or later, so we recruit the souls of eighteen or nineteen years old and ask them carefully, for example, if they will do anything special on their twentieth birthday. That's not Do you already know?"
Wen Guying nodded, "I've thought about it too. I tried it just now, but there was no response."
"In this way..." Li Chuan was not discouraged after hearing this. He added: "There's no rush. Liu Canjun went back to check the case files and county records last night. You said, it's impossible for everyone in Xialin Village to be a fool. You don't get married until you're ten years old, right? If someone is married outside and is under twenty, ask her husband's family if anything strange happened to her when she was twenty. Maybe there is Got a clue?"
"This is indeed a solution," Wen Guying heard and praised Li Chuan, saying, "Brother Li always has many wonderful ideas."
Li Chuan felt that it wasn't that he had many fantastic ideas, but that he dared to say whatever he had in mind, regardless of whether he was mentally retarded or not.
So he had another idea and said: "Can we go to the local city god to find the records of soul reincarnation in Xialin Village? White ghosts can't reincarnate like people. If we can find records, when will Xialin Village start to have no records? The soul is reincarnated. Is that the time when the White Walkers appeared? If we cooperate with the county records that Liu Canjun is looking for, maybe we can find clues? "
This time, Wen Guying showed a thoughtful expression and said, "It is indeed a method, but the relationship between the Four Gods Palace and the underworld is not so good, so the City God probably won't see me."
This sounds like it's probably not ordinary, but rather a grudge.
Jin Rong also said: "The reincarnation of the underworld is its own system, and it has never dealt with Xuanmen monks."
This road is also broken.
Li Chuan thought for a while and said, "Is there a magic weapon that can detect changes in spiritual energy?"
"There are quite a few of these, and Brother Jin and I can sense changes in spiritual power, so we plan to explore the surroundings carefully," Wen Guying said about his next plan, and added: "It may take a long time, and it may take a long time." It’s quite boring, Brother Li can find a place to rest first, and when we find the clues, we can ask Brother Li to take action.”
Li Chuan was also about to take a rest and immediately agreed.
But he didn't want to be in the village, it always felt cold and unlucky.
When he happened to go up the mountain, he saw a stream beside the village, so after he spoke to Wen Jin, he asked the other three to take him to the stream and found a stone to sit on.
The sound of water gurgling.
Li Chuan took out the fishing rod and fishing basket from the Bishui Ring, sent his second son to pick up a few earthworms, and then started fishing.
The next three immersed half of their bodies in the water, feeling very comfortable.
Gong Er looked east and west, and suddenly said: "Brother, I think there is something wrong with this place."
"what is the problem?"
"Logically speaking, there should be many monsters in such a big mountain forest, but we didn't encounter any monsters along the way. Isn't it strange?" Gong Er replied.
It's quite strange.
Li Chuan took out the Mingxian Pendant and tapped it with his finger. There was a burst of white light and there were no evil monsters within a hundred miles. He looked at the male and the three men and said, "You guys get in the carriage and drive in third gear and go hundreds of miles away." Wait, come back after a cup of tea."
The next person felt something was wrong: "Brother, there are ghosts here. It's not safe for you to be here alone."
Li Chuan felt that what Pang San said was right, so he said to Gong Er: "Fly to the tree, look where they are now, and then find one of them over."
Gong Er acted according to his words.
Not long after, Gong Er brought Wen Guying over.
Wen Guying took the Mingxian Pendant in his hand and looked at it, "This magic weapon is pretty good, but there are restrictions on it, so you can only respond passively. If you remove the restrictions and use spiritual power to drive it, you may be able to directly locate the monster. But this Inhibition is good for you, being able to achieve it with a tap.”
Li Chuan understood that this restriction might have been set by Gong Wuguang for him.
Wen Guying said: "Although my spiritual mind can cover the entire mountain range, I still have to explore it inch by inch. At this time, it is better to use this Mingxian Pendant." He returned the jade pendant to Li Chuan, and then said to Gong Er Pang San said: "Now it's time for Junior Brother Xigong and Junior Brother Pang to make a trip. Don't worry, I will lock your position."
The man next to me replied three times that it was not hard, then he got on the carriage, turned on the third gear, and disappeared in an instant.
After disappearing, Li Chuan counted ten times in his heart, and then tapped the Mingxian Pendant with his fingers.
There is no light.
There is no demon.
"Can Daozhang Wen sense the location of the second and third brothers?" Li Chuan asked.
"Okay," Wen Guying's mind was locked on Gong Erpansan, "They landed smoothly in the southeast direction and were not injured." He added: "The spiritual energy here is rich, and it was once the place where immortals ascended. Blessed land..."
"Is this abnormal?" Li Chuan asked.
"Of course," Wen Guying replied, "I will check it carefully with my spiritual mind. Maybe I can find clues."
After a while, Jin Rong also came over.
Li Chuan asked: "Did Brother Jin discover anything?"
Jin Rong shook his head.
"I didn't find anything," Wen Guying opened his eyes and said, "But just as Brother Li discovered, I searched for a long time with my spiritual mind. There are no intelligent animals or plants here."
"This is wrong." Jin Rong said.
Then Jin Rong and Wen Guying began to discuss why this happened.
Li Chuan listened for a while, but couldn't understand anymore, so he swung his fishing rod and concentrated on catching fish.
The sun is getting brighter and brighter, and the water in the stream is sparkling.
Li Chuan felt the fishing rod move and took the bait. It must be a big fish. He raised the rod and clatter... The plump mandarin fish jumped out of a perfect semicircle and returned to the stream.
Li Chuan lowered his head to look at the fishing rod, but the bait was gone.
The sound of wheels came, and then the voice of Gong Er was heard, "Big brother, big brother, how are you? Are there no monsters?"
Turning around, he saw Gong Er standing on the carriage, looking very proud.
"Yes, there are no monsters." Li Chuan said immediately.
"Is this a clue?" Gong Er asked.
"It's a clue." Wen Guying also confirmed Gong Er's speculation.
"I'm just telling you," Gong Er jumped down, "I originally wanted to ask the local monsters. It must have been the strange ghost who ate all the monsters." Thinking of this, he told the third brother, "Third brother , remember not to be alone, the white ghosts will eat the monsters."
Then Gong Er and Pang San began to discuss how to fight the White Walkers if they encountered them.
"I don't know if our magic weapon is useful against the White Walkers."
"Do White Walkers sleep?"
"Open defense first..."
Li Chuan listened, he put the bait again and lowered the rod.
While waiting for the fish to take the bait, something suddenly occurred to me and I asked: "Will the White Walkers take over the bodies of animals? The bodies of monsters have been taken over by White Walkers, so they are not monsters and cannot be detected?"
His thoughts gradually drifted away, "Or take advantage of animals first, such as people eating fish, fish eating grass, grass eating..."
The fishing rod moved again.
It must be a big fish.
Lift the pole!
A toad the size of a palm.
sigh.
"Brother Li makes sense," Wen Guying said with a smile in his voice, "Brother Jin and I will go catch some animals and show them to Brother Li."
"Let's take a look at this toad first. It's so ugly, it must be a White Walker." Li Chuan took one of the toad's hind legs, took out the magic mirror, and looked at the sun.
It was completely blank and seemed to have no soul.
The brain capacity is too small, so there is no soul? Something seemed to move in the mirror. If I looked closely, I saw it was a thin, feather-like insect.
Li Chuan grasped the toad's legs tightly, stretched his arms straight, and tried to stay as far away from his body as possible, "This is a White Walker."
(End of chapter)
