Those missing wooden figures were all hung from the rafters!
"Oh my god!" Xiaoshuai retracted into Mu Yu's clothes.
These wooden figures are so carved, especially after they are painted, that if you don't look at the wooden eyes, they are no different from real people.
Each wooden man has a hemp rope tied around his neck, hanging freely, more than four meters above the ground! The other end of the hemp rope is firmly tied to the beam, and the "squeaking" sound is caused by the friction between the hemp rope and the beam.
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At first glance, it looks like those wooden figures are really hanging from the rafters.
Mu Yu calmed down and felt that he would rather fight hundreds of rounds with the ghost sect members than see this weird scene. Even when he was in the underground palace of the Sand Eagle Demon King, he didn't face so many Yin zombies.
So nervous.
Because where the Inferi comes from is certain, according to Xiao Shuai, the Inferi is a bit cute, but this wooden man doesn't act according to common sense at all, and just hangs above his head in a daze, and sways slightly,
But Mu Yu didn't even notice it when he came in!
This house is an old-fashioned beam house with a very high roof and a wooden man hanging very high, more than four meters above the ground. When Mu Yu came in, he only looked around the room but did not notice anything unusual on the beams.
When he looked up, he saw a dozen people in shrouds shaking. This scene was really horrifying.
"Little mouse, you are too timid. It's useless for a few wooden men to scare you like this." Long Teng laughed.
"Is there anything delicious here? Of course I'm timid." Xiaoshuai muttered.
Xiaoshuai used to act very brave when he encountered the souls of the dead. That was because there were delicious things such as formations to attract them. The temptation of delicious food can make Xiaoshuai more courageous and fearless. However,
There was nothing to eat here, so Xiaoshuai couldn't muster the courage anymore.
Mu Yu was actually frightened, and he yelled: "Damn, is it a prank? Hang the wooden figures on the beams, and he will watch these wooden figures sleep when he sleeps at night. Won't he have nightmares?"
He thought he was very brave, and he had seen a lot of strange and strange things, such as dead people, corpses, and souls! But this was the first time he encountered such a strange thing like hanging a wooden man from the beam.
"It's strange, these people don't smell like wood anymore, didn't you notice, Mu Yu?" Long Teng said strangely.
After Ryuto reminded Mu Yu, he suddenly woke up. No wonder he didn't find the wooden man when he came in. It turned out to be this reason! The wooden man no longer had the characteristics of wood!
Muyu floated up and stopped beside these wooden figures. All the wooden figures were swaying slightly, but they did not collide with each other.
He touched the arm of a pale young woman. The statue of the young woman looked sickly, but it was still made of wood, but there was a strange vitality in the wood, as if it was coming to life.
This strange vitality masks the smell of wood, making them less like wood.
Mu Yu could clearly feel that the life force came from the hemp rope around their necks, but there was nothing weird connected to the other end of the hemp rope, which meant that there was something weird about the hemp rope itself.
Mu Yu took a closer look and found that it was not a hemp rope at all, but a yellow material that he had never seen before. It was not a plant, and there was life force flowing in it that he didn't know where it came from.
"There is no ladder in this room. How did a mortal in Chen Erzhuang lift them up?"
Mu Yu wandered around among all the wooden figures curiously, trying to find out anything unusual about these wooden figures. Unfortunately, there was nothing special about the wooden figures except that they were floating.
But at this moment, Mu Yu saw a familiar wooden man!
Old Xutou!
"Why is the old man's statue here?" Mu Yu was extremely surprised. If the wooden man's eyes were not colored, he would have thought that old Xu Tou himself was hung here!
Mu Yu originally thought that these wooden figures were carved at random, but now it seems that is not the case.
He looked at all the wooden figures again, and found that except for the pale young woman who had just touched them, the remaining wooden figures were all old men and women, and they looked like they had half stepped into the coffin.
The most important thing is that Mu Yu discovered that the old woman with age spots on her face that one of the guys had carved in the afternoon was missing!
"Wait a minute, aren't these people all about to die?" Mu Yu guessed in his heart, and then shook the coward who couldn't help complaining in his arms, "Xiao Shuai, do you think the old man who received us is still alive?
how long?"
A guy like Xiaoshuai is like the Lord of Hell. Whoever you say will die will basically not survive. However, Muyu warned him before, not to talk nonsense about who is going to die, so Xiaoshuai basically won't talk too much in this regard.
"Is that the old man who said I was a little mouse? He should die tomorrow evening. He is in very bad health and can only hold on until then." Xiaoshuai said dissatisfiedly, and he was still worried about old Xutou.
"What? What disease does he have?" Mu Yu didn't notice the problem in Old Xu Tou at first. At that time, he was only focused on unlocking the Heart-Losing Formation in Old Xu Tou's body and didn't care about other things. He thought that the vitality in Old Xu Tou's body was
It’s still very vigorous!
"It's not a disease. He should have lived well, at least ten years, right? But that formation is the heart-losing formation. Didn't you notice? It sucked the life force of that guy." Xiao Shuai.
said.
Mu Yu frowned. At that time, he felt that the formation pattern that laid out the Lost Heart Formation was different, but he did not pay attention to it. Now it seems that he has overlooked something.
When I came to the statue of Old Xu Tou, I found that the wooden man in front of me seemed to be more and more lifelike, and even the chest——
The chest is heaving! Is the wooden man with old Xu’s head breathing?
"Is it coming back to life?" Mu Yu felt that things were getting more and more bizarre. He didn't notice any abnormality when he helped Old Xu Tou check his body.
"Wait, I seem to remember this phenomenon. Let me think about it..." Xiaoshuai stuck his head out, stretched out a paw, and gently poked "Old Xutou"'s arm, suddenly showing a surprised expression.
"What's wrong?" Mu Yu asked.
"I understand, this is no longer a formation technique, but a very special kind of voodoo technique. I remember seeing it somewhere. I can't explain it clearly. The Lost Heart Formation is only used to activate the voodoo technique. Gu technique and formation technique
It's different. After the Gu technique is activated, the Lost Heart Formation becomes dispensable. Oops! Even I made a mistake at that time!" Xiaoshuai was a little surprised.
"Poison?"
Mu Yu remembered hearing his master talk about this kind of thing before. This kind of thing is like cultivating worms in the human body. It is used to punish a person and make him obey and do things obediently. Otherwise, he will not be able to survive or die. But
Mu Yu didn't know exactly how. He had never experienced voodoo.
"This Gu technique is to transfer the vitality of Old Xutou to this wooden man." Xiaoshuai stretched out his hand and pulled the face of "Old Xutou" and said seriously.
"Are you saying that this wooden man will come to life, and then the old man will die?"
Mu Yu was quite angry in his heart. He was always grateful to kind people. Although the way Old Xu Tou spoke made people laugh, he was a warm and kind-hearted person. Mu Yu couldn't just watch him die inexplicably.
Xiaoshuai tilted his head and thought for a while and said: "I don't know. It feels like the function of this wooden man is to replace the old man and then to hide something. It's not particularly clear. I don't know how to remove this gu.
"
"Hide something? Wait! I feel something is wrong."
Mu Yu remembered. At that time, Old Xu Tou said that Mr. Zhao did not kill everyone, but said, "I will wait for the day you die to greet each of you and your descendants." Does this mean that he did not kill everyone?
Other people’s reasons?
In order to take the lives of villagers in another way?
Mr. Zhao died of old age naturally. He ran out just after he was sent to the Mass Burial Valley and took away all his descendants. And if that guy wants to take away other people and other people's descendants, he has to wait until they are dead.
OK?
Could it be that the guy couldn't collect the souls of those who died naturally, so he thought of another way to encourage these people to die quickly?
Mu Yu felt a chill in his heart. This approach was somewhat similar to that of the Ghost Sect members.
When he was still imprisoned in the valley, he followed Father Kumu out to treat the mortals who were infected with the plague. Later, he discovered that the plague was deliberately spread by the ghost sect in order to collect the souls of natural death to refine the Nine Body Seizing Formations.
, used to deal with the White Ape Demon King.
Does this guy who came out of nowhere and wanted to get the third heaven also want to collect the souls of natural death and refine something weird?
"No, we have to find a way to stop this. It seems that they carved these wooden figures to transfer the lives of the villagers to the wooden figures, creating the illusion that the villagers died of natural causes." Mu Yu clenched his fist.
"By the way, Mu Yu, and the coffin hanging from the beam in front, do you think we should go and see if there's anything weird about it?" Ryuteng reminded.
"Damn it, big earthworm! Do you have to fight against the coffin?" Xiao Shuai said cursingly. It looked like it didn't like those things very much.
But Mu Yu had already fallen down, closed the door of the room again, and then walked to the front yard.
Chen Erzhuang had already gone to organize a funeral for someone else, so the store door was closed. Mu Yu walked into the store from the yard and found that the store was very dark with no light at all.
The store was no different from yesterday, with the weird coffin still hanging from the rafters by ropes.
The shadow-splitting sword in Mu Yu's hand lit up with cyan light, making the whole room even more eerie. He carefully landed on the edge of the coffin, slowly slid open the coffin, and looked inside the coffin with the help of the blue light of the shadow-splitting sword.
——
There was an old man with wrinkles lying inside!
Mu Yu carefully looked at the old man in front of him. Naturally, he did not recognize this dead man, but when he turned his attention to the old man's right hand, he found that the old man only had four fingers!
"Wait a minute, he only has four fingers on his right hand. I remember Old Xu Tou said that Mr. Zhao also only has four fingers on his left hand. Is this Mr. Zhao?" Mu Yu exclaimed.
The light of the Shadow Sword shone on Old Zhao's face, making it even more gloomy green.
Mu Yu didn't understand why Mr. Zhao's body was here, but he suddenly heard a breath, and it came from Mr. Zhao!
"Damn it, isn't he dead yet?" The handsome little man screamed and burrowed into Mu Yu's clothes again.