Rong Fei activated his magical power to see through walls, and saw only that the townsman looked slightly human. The whole body is covered by a thin layer of silk, but even with this layer of silk, the whole body still gives Rong Fei a skinny feeling, as if what is covered under the silk is a body without flesh and blood. skeleton.
The exposed skin of the townspeople was gray-white, wrinkled and disgusting.
What's even more strange is that the townspeople's withered, toothless mouths open and close as if they are talking, but no sound comes out of their mouths, while the six Jixian Division detectives seem to have heard something and nod in a serious manner.
Rong Fei withdrew his magical power, and the townspeople returned to their normal appearance. At the same time, the voices of conversations with the people of Ji Xian Division were also heard.
"You must be hungry after being busy for most of the night. Unfortunately, there is nothing to eat at this time. I do have some wild fruits picked from the mountains. Let's use them to satisfy our hunger."
As he spoke, the townspeople pulled out a package from nowhere and handed it over like a magic trick.
A policeman took the package and opened it. When he saw that there were some wild fruits that looked delicious, he quickly thanked him.
Rong Fei immediately started to look through the wall to see Chao Yeguo.
In the clip he just recalled, there was a scene where he was induced by the townspeople to eat wild fruits, which made Rong Fei doubt that there was something wrong with these wild fruits.
Rong Fei had already prepared for the worst in his heart, but felt relieved after seeing Ye Guo's true appearance.
The package that the townspeople handed to the policeman was indeed not a wild fruit, but it was not something disgusting either. Instead, it was a pile of crystal white small mushrooms with bloody stripes on the umbrella cover.
The police officers said goodbye to the townspeople, then walked into the small courtyard next door talking and laughing, and closed the door from the inside.
Everything seemed very natural, as if the detectives had lived in that yard for a long time and it was their home.
Rong Fei quietly climbed up the wall and watched the detectives eating mushrooms, talking and laughing as they entered the house. Not long after, snoring could be heard coming from the house.
To the naked eye, the small courtyard and the house looked ordinary, but under the magical power of seeing through the wall, their true colors were revealed. Just like the room Rong Fei woke up in, they were all broken walls, broken doors and broken windows.
Rong Fei climbed over the wall, went to the window and looked inside, and saw six policemen sleeping soundly on the door panels, tables, and the mud-covered ground.
There are also many thread-like objects in the house, but so far there is no danger.
Rong Fei resisted the urge to wake up his six subordinates and squatted under the window to think.
From the moment we entered this town, everything became weird and confusing.
What are those ubiquitous filaments?
When he first activated his magical power of seeing through walls, Rong Fei saw that the chest of the town citizen was still rising and falling slightly, so he was probably still alive. But why did he become like a human, a ghost, not a ghost?
And where is the masked monk who was following him at this moment? Did he make the screams he heard before, was he killed, or did he see some horrific scene?
The doubts came one after another, making Rong Fei feel a little helpless for a while.
This was the first time Rong Fei had encountered this clueless situation in his life.
After climbing over the wall and returning to the courtyard next door, Rong Fei looked at the familiar layout in the small courtyard and couldn't help but sigh, but then he realized a problem.
It stands to reason that I am completely awake at this time, but why do I still see fantasy in my eyes?
After activating his magical ability to see through walls, the small courtyard in front of him immediately turned into a dilapidated appearance.
After taking back the magical power, it became the familiar courtyard in Fencheng again.
What is the principle?
Puzzled, Rong Fei carefully recalled all the events and details that happened from the time he discovered the traces of the masked monk to the time he entered the town.
aroma!
wild fruit!
At present, it seems that these two things are responsible.
Ever since he passed the archway and smelled the strange fragrance, Rong Fei should have been at the mercy of the illusion. As for the small mushroom disguised as a wild fruit, it may be a more powerful hallucinogen.
Because when he smelled the strange fragrance, Rong Fei was just fascinated by the illusion he saw and became a little confused. After eating the mushroom, Rong Fei began to forget his past memories and believed the misleading words of the townspeople.
Thinking of this, Rong Fei quickly covered his nose with his left hand smeared with Qingling Powder and sniffed hard.
I thought I was completely awake, so I just applied it on the palm of my left hand just in case.
The floral scent was inhaled into the nose, and then the cool feeling began to spread throughout the body, and Rong Fei's vision began to become blurred and distorted. My stomach was also churning violently, with waves of nausea.
vomit!
Rong Fei bent over and vomited out a puddle of filth, including undigested mushroom residue.
He straightened up and looked around, and all he saw was a ruined scene and filaments spreading wantonly. Rong Fei still felt uneasy and recalled all the memories of his past and present lives, including Liu Yong, Qi Xiutai, Ji Rouer, Guo Muhuai, Guo Xiao, Yu Qingzhi... and so on.
After all the people, events, and time were completely checked and there were no gaps, only then could I confirm that I was 100% awake.
"It's so amazing. I caught it without even realizing it. And it's a double control method. First, it uses a strange scent to deceive the five senses, and then uses a small mushroom to blur the memory, and then the townspeople make up a new identity. It's such a painstaking effort, What are the people behind the scenes planning to do? Maybe we can guess something from the townspeople, but..."
Rong Fei pinched his chin and murmured in a low voice.
After a while, Rong Fei already had a plan in mind.
First, he went to the next door, and after confirming again that the six detectives were not in danger, he quietly climbed over the wall to the adjacent yard on the other side.
The same ruins, the same overgrown weeds, Rong Fei searched the entire yard and confirmed that no one had lived here for at least half a year.
But strangely, Rong Fei found rotten rice in the rice vat in the house, and a small pile of firewood next to the kitchen. Finally, he also found several copper coins covered with green rust in the house.
Rong Fei climbed over the wall and went to the next yard, and then the next yard...
After checking four connected courtyards in succession, the situation was roughly the same.
It seems that the owners of these courtyards left in a hurry, not even having time to take away the most important things such as food and money.
But there were no signs of disaster here, so why did they leave in such a hurry?
Or maybe they are all already...dead?
Although the town is not big, there are about a hundred households, which means there are about a hundred courtyards.
If Rong Fei had only relied on himself to conduct door-to-door inspections, he might not have been able to complete the inspections even at dawn. So Rong Fei took out the remaining half of the Xuanbing Creation Pill and activated his magical power of seeing through the wall.
But this time it was not watching, but listening.
The supernatural powers seen through the wall are similar to the abilities of the second baby in the Calabash Brothers: clairvoyance and wind-proof ears. Although Rong Fei is not yet able to see a thousand miles away, he thinks that as he becomes more proficient in using magical powers, he will be able to do it one day.
Rong Fei has used Clairvoyance a lot, but he has rarely used Shunfeng Ear, just because he hasn't figured out how to control the distance and range yet. The first two times he used it, he absorbed all the sounds around him. , almost made Rong Fei deaf.
On the other hand, the surroundings were quiet at this time without much noise, which was perfect for collecting information.
Taking a deep breath, closing his eyes, and activating his magical power, Rong Fei was the first to hear the howling wind.
The sound of the wind was like a storm blowing in the twelfth lunar month of winter. It made his eardrums swell and cause unbearable pain.
Meditate...concentrate...
After holding on for about two breaths, Rong Fei immediately withdrew his magical power, panting heavily and smearing the Xuanbing Creation Pills on both sides of his temples. As the medicine penetrates, the pain in the head is no longer so uncomfortable, but the eardrums still hurt badly.
Rong Fei was also helpless. The eardrum was at the deepest part of the ear canal, and although there was only half of the Xuanbing Creation Pill left, he still couldn't get it in. There is no way to recover without contact with nature, but you can’t just harden up like this.
After weighing it up, Rong Fei cruelly broke the remaining Xuan Bing Creation Pill in half. First, he put a quarter of the pill back into the jade vase, then broke the remaining quarter in half, then balled it into two small balls that were smaller than a soybean, and stuffed one into each ear canal.
Block the ears with your fingers, shake the pill deep into the ear canal and touch the injured eardrum. A cold and refreshing feeling immediately spreads. The eardrum no longer hurts, and the brain, which is still a little dizzy, also Fully awake.
The effect is remarkable, but the cost is also huge.
According to this extravagant use method, Rong Fei will soon be out of medicine. But without the Xuan Bing Creation Pill, Ge Yuan Dong Jian, the magical power that was most helpful to him at present, no longer dared to use it casually.
After feeling distressed for a moment, Rong Fei took advantage of the good properties of the medicine and quickly activated his magical power again, focusing on listening attentively.
The howling wind and the chirping of insects and birds were like bombs exploding in my ears.
One moment my eardrums were in severe pain, and the next moment I was healed by the elixir and felt cool and comfortable.
Under such torture from the two worlds of ice and fire, Rong Fei activated his ability to see across the wall for ten breaths at a time. He quickly withdrew his magical power until he realized that the elixir was about to expire.
"call!"
Rong Fei let out a sigh of relief.
Ten breaths was short, but it was just enough for him to hear clearly the sounds in all the courtyards in the town.
The few townspeople I had seen before were not dead, but their flesh and blood seemed to have been sucked by something, causing them to become skinny and bones like walking corpses.
But the most basic vital signs are still there, such as heartbeat and breathing.
It was through the faint to almost nonexistent heartbeat and breathing that Rong Fei could tell which courtyards were occupied by townspeople and which courtyards were empty.
But the strange thing is that just now Rongfei heard sixteen apparently normal heartbeats.
The loudest among them is Rong Fei's own heartbeat, then the slightly weaker ones are the six Jixiansi detectives sleeping in the courtyard not far away, and the seven furthest ones should be Hou Chunhua who is guarding the entrance of the town. Chunhua and the others.
The total number of these people is exactly fourteen people from the Ji Xian Division. Who are the other two normal heartbeats?
There was no time to make random guesses here. After Rong Fei checked that the Talisman Sword, Soft Armor, and Qingling Powder were all correct, he touched the place closest to what he just heard.
