Chapter 930 The Demonic Shadow of the Mountain Village
In the bathroom, the mist was thick and there was a strong smell of medicine.
Wang Chen was sitting in a vat about half a man's height, his whole body soaked and covered in dark brown liquid.
The charcoal fire under the barrel is burning brightly.
This large wooden barrel is wrapped in iron and is specially used for warriors' medicinal baths.
Many children of aristocratic families have been taking medicinal baths since childhood to strengthen their muscles and strengthen their bodies. The starting point of martial arts is much higher than that of ordinary people.
Being poor in literature and rich in military affairs is the most true portrayal of this world!
And the medicinal bath that Wang Chen soaked in was far more precious than those used by ordinary children of aristocratic families.
This barrel of medicinal liquid contains ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, rhinoceros horn, deer antlers, gastrodia elata, snow lotus and other medicinal materials from previous years, and is worth more than 500 taels of silver!
As the life energy circulates in Wang Chen's body, the rich and powerful medicinal power is continuously absorbed into the skin, flesh, muscles and bones, and is eventually stored as potential.
In the past, this process took an hour or two to fully absorb the potency of a bucket of medicinal solution.
But now Wang Chen has broken through the fifth-level martial arts realm, condensed the warrior's Dantian, and his ability to absorb medicinal power has increased dramatically.
Therefore, the soaking time is compressed into one stick of incense!
When the color of the liquid medicine in the vat turned light brown, Wang Chen suddenly jumped up high with water vapor all over his body, and then landed steadily on the ground.
The moment his feet hit the ground, the water droplets on his body evaporated instantly.
After taking out his clothes and uniforms from the storage space and putting them on, Wang Chen left his residence and rode his yellow gelding toward the outside of the city.
He ran west for dozens of miles and then turned into a narrow and rugged mountain road.
After running for another dozen miles, a mountain village appeared ahead.
Kaoshan Village.
Just this morning, Wang Chen received a mission assignment from the defense station.
In Kaoshan Village, which is seventy miles away from the county seat, there was a suspicion of evil, and he was asked to go investigate.
Wang Chen happily accepted the order.
As he rode his horse to the entrance of the village, Wang Chen noticed several villagers standing on the roadside.
They were very frightened by the arrival of Wang Chen, who was wearing bright clothes and angry horses, and they all backed away.
Wang Chen raised his eyebrows, held the reins to rein in the yellow gelding, and asked in a deep voice, "Is this a mountain village?"
He found this place based on the Linjiang County map issued by the Wei Station, but he was not sure that he had gone to the wrong place.
After all, the map distributed is relatively rudimentary.
The villagers looked at each other, and one of them bravely replied: "This is a mountain village. What do you do for me, sir?"
"Where is your Muramasa?"
Wang Chen said: "I was ordered to investigate the evil chaos in your village!"
"ah?"
Several villagers seemed to have woken up from a dream, bowing and bowing, and they were so flustered: "Young man, I will take the adults to see the village leader immediately."
Under the guidance of these villagers, Wang Chen quickly met the village leader of the backing village, also known as the village chief.
The village chief had gray hair and was very old. He could obviously identify the grade of the Feiyu suit Wang Chen was wearing, and he hurriedly saluted: "Xiaomin Zhang Ziwu, meet your lord!"
The village chief is usually held by a highly respected member of the village and is not an official in the official establishment. When he saw Wang Chen, a blood-clad guard Xiaoqi from the seventh rank, he was naturally frightened.
"No need to be polite."
Wang Chen stretched out his hand to help the other person up: "Take me to see what's going on."
"yes."
The old village chief immediately took Wang Chen to an adobe house at the west end of the village and said in a trembling voice: "This is Zhang Xiaoqi's family in this village. There are four people in total. At dusk yesterday, the neighbor's house found the door open.
Went in and took a look…”
It turned out that all four members of the family had suffered an accident. When the old village chief found out, he immediately sent someone to the county town overnight to report the incident.
After hearing this, Wang Chen nodded and entered the house.
The house was not big, with a total of two bedrooms separated. A middle-aged couple lay on the bed in one of them. Both of them were pale and staring with deathly eyes.
The other room was the residence of two children, and their deaths were even worse!
Wang Chen checked the bodies and found that there were two rows of blood holes on the necks of this family, as if they had been bitten by the canine teeth of some kind of animal, which looked quite visceral.
Vampires!
A name instantly appeared in Wang Chen's mind.
Vampires are a kind of low-level demon. Like all demons, they are good at disguising themselves and hiding among the common people. They survive by sucking human or animal blood.
Some vampires even secretly imprison and raise humans to satisfy their blood-sucking habits.
Wang Chen had received professional training from the Blood-Shirt Guards before and had a lot of knowledge about demons, so he could draw correct conclusions through comparative analysis.
He asked the old village chief: "Has this kind of situation happened in your village before?"
The old village chief nodded: "It happened once more than ten years ago. A family also died that time, and the adults from the county also came to see it."
But after reading it, there was nothing more to say.
However, after that incident, Kaoshan Village has been peaceful and without any incident, and everyone has long forgotten about it.
But the old village chief still remembered it clearly, with fear in his eyes: "It, they are back again!"
This Muramasa has lived for sixty or seventy years and has seen evil disasters more than once or twice. He knows how terrifying evil is!
Wang Chen thought for a while and asked, "How many households are there in your village?"
The old village chief swallowed his saliva and replied: "A total of one hundred and seventy-nine households, six hundred and eighty-three people, including Zhang Xiaoqi's family."
"Gather them all."
Wang Chen said in a deep voice: "I want to screen it again!"
"ah?"
The old village chief was a little dumbfounded: "You, can you do it alone?"
Wang Chen looked too young. Although he was wearing a flying fish suit, he was alone now. What if he faced the demon head-on and died in the village?
Wang Chen looked at the other party and said nothing - are you teaching me how to do things?
The old village chief was stunned for a moment: "Young people, please obey the order."
Clang clang clang!
The loud ringing of copper bells quickly broke the tranquility of this small mountain village.
Villagers who heard the noise rushed to the entrance of the village from their fields and homes, making the open space lively and noisy.
Wang Chen asked the old village chief to arrange people from the village protection team to maintain order, and then counted the names one by one.
Passed by him one by one.
In Wang Chen's hand, he held a talisman.
Demon identification talisman!
This talisman can be used to identify monsters. It was a gift from Wang Chen's master Wang Hui and asked him to carry it with him to guard against monsters.
It's just that there is a limit on the number of times the magic identification talisman can be used, and its "shelf life" is not long.
This kind of talisman contains weak spiritual energy, which will slowly disappear over time.
Since Wang Chen has storage space, you can avoid this problem by placing it inside.
Moreover, he has also studied magic identification talismans.
The villagers in Kaoshan Village passed the screening one by one, and Wang Chen didn't notice anything strange until the last person passed.
"There are still fifteen people left."
He said to the old village chief: "Where have these people gone?"
Wang Chen clearly remembered the number of villagers reported by the other party just now!