Chapter 267 People are like ants, and lives are like worthless!
Chapter 267 People are like ants, and their lives are like grass!
Author: Fobudu
Chapter 267 People are like ants, and their lives are like grass!
Wei An listened to every word, as if he was listening to folk tales.
But the next words of a middle-aged uncle caught his attention.
"Those people all disappeared at night. The strange thing is that at night, fog begins to form in Datong Town. It is such a cold fog that people can walk in the fog and disappear as they walk."
"Mist..."
Wei An frowned slightly, turned his head and asked: "Uncle, what you said is true. Have you ever seen that kind of fog?"
The middle-aged uncle slapped his thigh and exclaimed: "I'm not bragging, I've really seen it.
The night before yesterday, I happened to pass by Datong Town. When I entered Datong Town from the outside, it looked like there was no fog from a distance, but the further I walked into the town, the thicker the fog became. But when I walked out of the town, there was no fog outside.
Do you think it’s evil or not?”
Wei An could tell that the middle-aged uncle was not lying.
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster!
After finishing his morning drink, Wei An decided to go to Datong Town to take a look. For no other reason than the word "fog" alone aroused his alarm.
call!
The ninety-six miles away came in a blink of an eye.
Datong Town is actually not very big, with a population of only seven or eight thousand. The place is not wealthy, and there is not even a decent mansion in the whole town.
Wei An entered the town and walked on a dirt road full of potholes. The surrounding houses were in disorder and overgrown with weeds.
As they were walking, a group of sheep rushed out from the corner, bleating, followed by an old sheepherder in ragged clothes, smoking a cigarette and puffing away mist as they walked, leaving sheep dung on the ground wherever they passed.
At this moment, it was three o'clock in the morning.
"It's so deserted. Is there anyone in this town?"
Wei An had already walked through most of the street. Except for a few old people sitting at the door and sunbathing, he didn't see any young adults or children.
Not long after, Wei An discovered a small restaurant with a closed sign on the door, and an aunt inside was cleaning the dust with a feather duster.
"Auntie, the young monk is polite."
Wei An stepped forward, raised one palm and gave a salute.
The aunt stuck her head out, looked Wei An up and down, rolled her eyes, put her hands on her hips, and said angrily: "Where did you come from, a wild monk? Didn't you see that my restaurant is about to go bankrupt? Let's go, don't go there."
I can hardly support myself with this alms."
Wei An laughed and said, "Auntie, don't panic, I'm not here to ask for help."
After hearing this, the aunt's expression softened and asked: "Then what are you doing here?"
Wei An asked: "The young monk happened to pass by Datong Town, but found that there were almost no people in the town and it was deserted. Why is this?"
The aunt suddenly understood and replied: "Oh, you don't know, our Datong town has been hit by evil spirits. People have disappeared one after another in the town. Every living person has disappeared without a trace.
No, some people said that the missing people might have gone into the mountains to look for treasure, got lost and couldn't get out, so everyone ran into the mountains to look for them."
Wei An understood and said with a smile: "The young monk is proficient in some martial arts and may be able to help. Can you start from the beginning and explain it in detail?"
"Okay, I'll be idle anyway."
The aunt nodded and sat down, "About nine or ten days ago, there was a butcher selling pork in the east end of the town. Five of the seven members of the family suddenly lost their lives, leaving only one old and one young.
The family rarely left the town, and they did not go to visit relatives on the day of the accident. The five people were still sleeping at home before dark, but on the next day, they disappeared inexplicably.
Two days later, the butcher, an old man and a young man, and the neighbor's family of four, all six people disappeared!
These six people were even more evil. They must have been having dinner when they disappeared. They had just finished a third of the food on the table, and then they suddenly got up and left, and they went to nowhere."
Wei An interrupted: "Are there any signs of fighting at the scene?"
"No."
The aunt waved her hand, "The people from the Yamen have carefully inspected the scene. There is not a drop of blood or any trace of damage. Everything is in good condition, even valuable belongings are missing."
Wei An listened carefully, thoughtfully.
"Eleven people from two families were missing at once, and everyone in the town was a little panicked, but what happened next was even more sinister and terrifying."
The aunt's face was solemn, and she raised her hand, sometimes pointing to the south, and sometimes pointing to the west and north. "In the past few days, people disappeared every day. The missing people were all over the town. They were all in the same situation. People were still at home during the day.
, suddenly disappeared at night.
Alas, the people in the town are almost scared to death and dare not sleep at night. Now everyone is exhausted physically and mentally, panicked, and can no longer do business."
Wei An understood and pondered: "Well, everyone suddenly disappeared at night, and there was no movement. Oh, by the way, was it foggy at night?"
"Foggy?"
The aunt thought for a while, then suddenly patted her thigh and nodded: "Hey, it's true! I didn't pay attention to this unless you told me. These days, it starts to fog up as soon as it gets dark, and the fog is quite heavy."
Wei An pondered for a moment and asked his aunt for the specific addresses of the missing people. Then he turned around and quickly arrived at the east end of the town.
A dirty pork shop came into view.
The door was ajar, and Wei An walked straight in.
The butcher's house is quite big. In the front yard is a shop for killing pigs and selling meat. All seven members of the family live in the backyard. There is a well and a shady old locust tree in the yard.
At first glance, it looks like an ordinary person.
Wei An turned around and found nothing unusual. After that, he simply opened the transparent world and observed carefully. He looked at the houses, trees, wells, and underground several times.
Still, nothing was found.
Then, Wei An went to the neighbor's house next door, and immediately saw the dining table that the aunt mentioned. The scene was well preserved and no one had touched it. In front of the table, he could see four long benches and two small benches, and the number of bowls and chopsticks.
No more, no less, for six people.
The food on the table had long since rotted and grown mold, but it was not difficult to imagine six people sitting around the table eating. Before the meal was finished, something suddenly happened, and then all six people disappeared.
Wei An turned around and left, going to several other houses to check one by one.
The result was nothing!
"Interesting, I can't find any clues."
Wei An frowned slightly, his mind was churning, and after thinking about it, he listed three possible scenarios.
Possibility 1: All the missing people left on their own;
Possibility two: A master appears and kidnaps them;
Possibility three: non-man-made disaster.
Based on this, he adopted the elimination method and analyzed them one by one.
First, running away from home is often a small number of individual behaviors. Under normal circumstances, a person will not leave his home without any reason, let alone abandon his family at will;
Second, it may be that some evil master is out and about, hunting down mortals to practice evil skills, but it stands to reason that evil people are often more interested in young people or children, and will not even capture the elderly and infirm.
The probabilities of the first two possibilities are very small.
"Could it be..."
Wei An thought of something and couldn't help but tremble. Then he turned around and left Datong Town, disappearing in a flash.
It's evening in a blink of an eye.
A large number of people came from afar and returned to Datong Town with tired faces.
"We have searched all over the mountains for places where people can hide, but there is not even a shadow of a ghost."
"I've said it before, it's impossible for them to run into the mountains. There are many wild beasts in the mountains. Are they looking for death after they've been full?"
"If you ask me, this must have been done by human traffickers! Caota Niang's human traffickers!"
"Oh, my wife is gone. Do you think she disliked my poverty and ran away with another man?"
"Brother, don't think so wildly. Is your sister-in-law that kind of person? Will she leave you and your son alone?"
…
Everyone walked along, talking a lot, and then everyone went back to their homes to fill their stomachs.
The sky is getting dark.
Every household has its doors and windows closed.
Boom! Boom!
At this time, a patrol team appeared in the town. The members were all martial arts practitioners. They were strong and weak. They were divided into groups of three and beat gongs while patrolling.
Time passed little by little, and the night became darker.
Before I knew it, it started to fog!
A pale white mist appeared, filling every street in the town and engulfing every building. It became thicker and thicker, to the point where you couldn't even see your fingers.
At this moment, the sky above Datong Town!
A figure emerged from behind a group of clouds. It was not Wei An. He looked down at the entire Datong Town with a look of disbelief on his face.
Just a moment ago, there was no fog at all in Datong Town below.
But just after a while, the whole town was shrouded in fog.
What is extremely strange is that the fog only appears in Datong Town, and there is no fog outside the town.
Before this happened, it was as if a sprayer leaked somewhere in the town, spraying out mist continuously and covering the whole town.
Wei An's figure swayed, and he suddenly dived downwards, as fast as a ghost, but quietly, without making any noise.
Arriving above Datong Town, Wei An suddenly stopped. At this time, the edge of mist was under his feet.
The mist swirls and rolls.
Under the transparent world, Wei An's gaze suddenly penetrated the fog and had a clear view.
"This mist is really an ordinary mist..."
The pale white mist is not poisonous and has no other extraordinary qualities. It is just a mist formed by water vapor, which is ordinary.
Even so, Wei An still didn't dare to be careless.
Soon!
The elemental shield is on!
Red markings are on!
With double protection in place, Wei An plunged into the mist, and then he swam back and forth in the mist like a fish in the sea.
Soon, he deduced based on the flow and diffusion direction of the fog and found the source of the fog.
The picture that comes into view is actually an old well!
The location of this old well is right next to the butcher’s yard, less than thirty meters away!
Hoo ho ho!
The old well was filled with mist, and large amounts of mist continued to come out.
Suddenly, a hand stretched out from the well!
The hand fell on the edge of the well, and then the other hand stretched out. He lifted both hands up, slowly revealing a head with disheveled hair, covering his face.
The next moment, the head rose up, revealing half of the body. He lifted his feet and climbed out of the old well.
That's obviously a person!
Judging from her figure, she is still a woman!
Wei An's eyes widened slightly, he held his breath and carefully observed the woman climbing out of the well. He couldn't help but have the feeling of seeing Sadako in his mind.
The woman looked around, as if to confirm if anyone was peeking at her, then she took steps and started walking. After not walking a few steps, she jumped up in vain, her jade feet tapped lightly on the roof, and floated forward lightly.
, silently, not disturbing anyone.
Wei An followed, and his movement skills were even better, so the woman in the well didn't notice him at all.
After a while, the woman stopped on the roof of a house and looked down.
Wei An had already seen that there were five people in this family, with an old man sleeping in the master bedroom, a couple sleeping in a side room, and a brother and sister sleeping in the small room next door.
The old man and the brother and sister were already asleep. The couple just lay on the bed and did not dare to sleep.
At this time, the woman made a move. She turned over, lightly opened the window that was obviously locked, entered the master bedroom, and jumped onto the old man's bed.
The old man was fast asleep and unaware of anything.
The next moment, the woman's mouth tore open and extended towards both sides, gradually turning into a bloody mouth, and then she slurred!
He actually swallowed the old man into his mouth!
The old man's upper body was in her mouth, and his legs were dangling outside.
Then, the old man seemed to wake up, and his legs began to struggle, kicking for air randomly, but the woman raised her neck and slipped, and the old man slid in completely, entering the huge mouth of the abyss.
After the woman swallowed the old man, her mouth quickly closed back, but her figure did not change at all. Her belly did not even bulge, and she maintained a perfect and graceful figure.
"Ah this..."
Wei An blinked, feeling indescribable shock in his heart, but what happened next opened his eyes even more.
After the woman devoured the old man, she opened her mouth again and spat out the old man's clothes and headscarf.
Then, her body trembled.
I saw her body changing, some parts became dry and suffocated, some parts swelled, deep wrinkles appeared on her skin, and her hair turned gray.
In the blink of an eye, she changed from a young woman with a proud figure to an old man with loose skin and wrinkles.
It was exactly the same old man who was eaten by her.
Before it was over, the woman picked up her clothes, put them on, tied up her hair with a scarf, then got out of bed, and even coughed on purpose.
"Dad, what's wrong?"
In the side room, the couple heard a movement, and the middle-aged man immediately asked.
The woman who turned into an elderly woman replied in an elderly voice: "I'm thirsty. I'll get up and drink a glass of water."
The middle-aged man was a filial son. He immediately got out of bed and walked to the main room. He brought a kettle and a bowl and walked into the master bedroom. He saw the old man sitting by the bed and poured a bowl of water and handed it to him.
"Dad, please drink some water." The middle-aged man said, completely unaware that there was something wrong with the old man in front of him.
The old man took the bowl, looked at the middle-aged man, then gently put down the bowl, stood up, and in vain stretched out his right hand to strangle the middle-aged man's neck.
The middle-aged man lifted his feet off the ground and looked at the old man in astonishment, making a whining sound in his throat.
But in the next moment, the old man's mouth quickly tore open and widened to an exaggerated size, and he stuffed the middle-aged man's head into his mouth.
Suddenly, the old man stopped eating and turned his eyes sideways.
At some point, a young man appeared next to him, wearing a monk's robe, looking at him with interest.
The old man turned pale with shock, stared straight at Wei An, and froze on the spot.
"Woooooo~~~"
The middle-aged man whose head was in the old man's mouth suddenly burst out with a strong desire to survive and struggled wildly.
The old man looked at Wei An and thought it was neither eating nor not eating. After a long moment, he vomited the middle-aged man out and threw it on the ground.
Bang!
The middle-aged man hit his head on the wall and fainted.
"Da Lang, what's wrong?"
From the side room, the voice of my daughter-in-law came.
The old man replied: "It's okay, I knocked over the kettle."
After that, the daughter-in-law stopped responding.
The old man stared at Wei An for a moment and said, "Who are you?"
Wei An smiled lightly and said, "I'm sorry to disturb your meal, little monk Xu Zhu."
"Xu Zhu, Master Xu Zhu!!"
The old man's expression changed drastically, and his muscles all over his body bulged rapidly. Then he jumped up, opened the window at an extremely fast speed, and fled out.
His body changed again, and he soon turned into the original woman, using the cover of the thick fog to run around on the street.
Soon, she ran back to the old well and stopped suddenly.
The woman looked up and couldn't help but stare.
Wei An was sitting by the old well, with his legs crossed and resting, as if he had been waiting for a long time.
Seeing this scene, the woman's body trembled slightly, with a look of fear on her face.
"Is this well your home base?" At this time, Wei An spoke.
The woman was silent for a moment and replied: "So, I came to this town to look for food and temporarily lived under the well."
Wei Anxin said that sure enough, he had seen the bottom of the well, and there was no "Crystal Palace" as he imagined. The water in the well was clear, and the bottom was full of sand.
Women lurk at the bottom of wells during the day and come out to eat people at night.
Her identity is about to be revealed, a demon!
What's amazing is that from Wei An's perspective of the world, her body structure is the same as that of a human being. Even when she becomes an old person, her outer contours are only adjusted, and she remains a human body from beginning to end.
Wei An asked: "May I ask the girl her name?"
The woman blinked, shook her head and said, "I don't remember. I may have been a human before, but I'm not now. According to you, I should have been a bloodline warrior before, but after losing control, I turned into a man-eating monster."
"Amnesia?"
Wei An nodded and asked, "Do all bloodline warriors lose their memory after losing control and turning into monsters?"
The woman shook her head again and said: "I don't know, because I don't know other monsters. I suddenly woke up half a month ago, and when I woke up, I was in a ravine.
I don’t remember who I am, where I am, or how I ended up in that ravine before. I just feel endless hunger, and I really want to eat people, that’s all.”