Hu Jiashu and I stood at the door for a while, and Hu Jiashu covered his nose and said, "Is that King Kong Xia Miao inside?"
After a while, a dying old man's voice came from inside: "I am, who are you? Come on, give me water, water..."
Hearing the sound, Hu Jiashu and I rushed in immediately, because from the sound, the old Miao King was about to die.
After entering, we found a water urn next to the house. The water in it was quite clear, so we used a nearby bamboo tube to get some water and brought it to the old Miao King's mouth. He raised his head and drank "gudong, gudong" for several times.
mouth.
After drinking he lay down again.
There was a set of quilts on the bamboo bed where the Miao King was sitting, but it was already wet with green moss, so the old Miao King slept in that quilt.
After his expression recovered a little and I was sure that he would not die for a while, I asked out of curiosity: "Why are you so miserable? Don't you even have anyone to take care of you? Where is your family?"
The old Miao King said: "They all went to work in the fields, leaving me alone at home. In our village, you can't have enough to eat even if you work hard, and if you don't work, there will be no food to eat, so they left me alone."
There’s nothing I can do about it.”
The old Miao king spoke Chinese very well, and there were no big obstacles for us to communicate.
I directly asked the old Miao King: "Is there a person named Yan Xiuxiu here?"
Hearing the name Yan Xiuxiu, the old Miao King began to look a little panicked. I continued to ask: "Where is Yan Xiuxiu?"
The old Miao King did not speak, but fell into contradictory thoughts.
At this time, I was thinking about a question. No one in this village is powerful. The old Miao kings all look like this. What kind of person can use Yan Xiuxiu to blackmail Kong Lingfan? With Kong Lingfan's strength, he should
Can we walk sideways in this village?
It seems that this village is not as simple as it seems.
After waiting for a while, the old Miao King still didn't speak, so I asked again: "Since you don't know what to say about Yan Xiuxiu, let me ask you, do you know Wen Qingliang and whether he has mastered something?"
Big secret?"
The old Miao King said: "I don't know this. I only know that he is a big shot who stayed here. Several elders in our village are very afraid of that big shot!"
Old elder!?
I asked who those people were.
The old Miao King said: "They are the only few old Gu masters left in our village. Now our entire village is actually controlled by a few of them. And I, the Miao King, are no different from ordinary villagers. We are all like that."
Among the slaves of a few elders, in this village, only those elders can have enough to eat."
I asked those elders what kind of people they were.
The old Miao King said: "I don't know, but they are very powerful anyway. They never showed up before the village was cursed, but they appeared soon after the village was cursed. From that time on, they began to control our entire Xiapu Miao Village. I
My grandfather, father, and I are all under their control."
"To say that we are the Miao kings is better to say that we are just their puppets."
After hearing what the old Miao King said, I asked Hu Jiashu if their East China Branch knew what was going on.
Hu Jiashu shook his head and said: "I really don't know about this. I got news that all the powerful people in Xiapu Miao Village are dead. I haven't heard of any powerful people."
"Since the incident in Xiapu Miao Village, our East China Branch's support failed to produce any results, so we gave up here decisively and never sent anyone to investigate again, so we really don't know what is going on here."
I nodded.
Hu Jiashu continued: "Are those old elders like the hermit sects of some Taoist sects, who usually hide in seclusion and not be exposed to the world?"
I nodded to express my agreement with Hu Jiashu.
The old Miao King continued: "About Yan Xiuxiu, I shouldn't have said anything about this matter, but I am already dying, so it's okay for me to tell you that Yan Xiuxiu is Kong Lingfan's childhood sweetheart."
"Kong Lingfan's ancestor is a famous person in our Xiapu Miao Village, because his family can raise a kind of poison. That kind of poison is very powerful. Unfortunately, people who raise that kind of poison have a short life, so anyone who raises that kind of poison must
First have children, and then raise them. After the person who raised the Gu dies, they will seal the body and wait for the children to grow up. After there are descendants, they will raise the Gu."
"Some of those chosen among the descendants will choose to escape, while those who cannot escape can only accept the reality."
"Since our village was cursed, the number of children in Kong Lingfan's family has dropped sharply. Originally, there were more than ten people in each generation, but in Kong Lingfan's generation, there is only one left."
"When Kong Lingfan was very young, his father died early because of raising Gu, and his mother wanted to escape from the village with Kong Lingfan because she didn't want Kong Lingfan to take this old road. She did escape, but she didn't.
The village cursed her and she died within a few years. Later, the elders in the village found someone to bring Kong Lingfan back and took good care of her."
"They loved Kong Lingfan very much. In order to make Kong Lingfan listen to them, they chose a little girl from outside the village to be Kong Lingfan's playmate. It's strange to say that Kong Lingfan was crying all the time, but he didn't cry when he saw the little girl.
Already."
"And that little girl is Yan Xiuxiu."
"Because of Yan Xiuxiu, Kong Lingfan gradually began to listen to the words of several elders. Originally, according to their family's custom, Kong Lingfan had to wait until Kong Lingfan had an heir before raising the life-extending Gu insect, but those elders seemed to be waiting
It was too late, so I forcibly planted the poison on Kong Lingfan three years ago."
Hearing this, I asked out of curiosity: "Are those elders the ancestors of Kong Lingfan or something like that?"
The old Miao King said: "It's possible, otherwise how would they know the Kong Lingfan family's method of raising voodoo? You must know that the method is secretly passed down by their family."
Just when the old Miao King was about to continue speaking, an inexplicable wind suddenly blew up outside. The wind was so strong that it made the bamboo door bang. The old Miao King did not dare to continue talking.
And I actually felt a corpse aura in that dark wind.
The corpse energy is very strong. It seems that there is a very powerful corpse in this village, but the corpse energy is fleeting. Is it an illusion? If it is a powerful corpse, it cannot only have a little corpse energy.
I turned around and asked Hu Jiashu if he felt corpse energy.
Hu Jiashu shook his head and asked me: "Zombie Qi, what kind of corpse Qi, I didn't notice it at all."
Is it really my misunderstanding?
When the strange wind disappeared, I said to the old Miao King: "Keep talking..."
But before I could finish my words, I was completely stunned, because the old Miao King died in that gust of wind just now.
He was already dead, and his soul returned to its place quickly.
I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, did this old Miao King end his life, or did he die an unexpected death?
Hu Jiashu also said "Eh": "Dead? How could it be? When we looked at him just now, there was no sign of death at all. Was it caused by the strange wind just now? If so, how could we
Didn't you notice at all?"
I also nodded and said: "Yes, although that strange wind came out of nowhere, it has no spiritual power. It doesn't look like..."
When I said this, I suddenly stopped, and Hu Jiashu asked me what was wrong.
I told the story about the corpse qi I felt just now, and then said: "If I wasn't delusional just now, then it must have been the corpse qi that killed the old Miao King just now. The old Miao King was already on the verge of death. It was very small.
The attack is enough to kill him, and it won't leave any wounds. Yes, it must be the corpse energy just now, there is no mistake!"
Hu Jiashu thought for a while and said: "It is indeed possible that my mental state is not as strong as yours. It is normal for you to feel things that I cannot detect. But can you be sure where the corpse energy comes from?"
I said: "I can't be sure, but I can make a good guess. The old Miao King was talking about Kong Lingfan and those elders, and then he was killed. His death must be related to those mysterious elders. Let's go
Walk around the village and try to find those elders."
Hu Jiashu nodded and said, "Okay!"
As for the old Miao King, we didn't care about him. His body was naturally discovered and buried by his relatives.
After leaving the old Miao King's room, before we even got down to the bamboo building, we found that the entire village was deserted. There were only a few people walking around on the street, but now half of them were gone.
I tried to use the power of my mind to investigate those dilapidated bamboo buildings, and found that there were no people in those bamboo buildings, not even a mouse.
"Crack!"
Suddenly I heard the sound of a window opening behind me. When I looked back, I found that the body of the old Miao King had disappeared from the bed, but the window was open.
I quickly rushed to the window to take a look, and at the same time I released the power of my mind, and found that the body of the old Miao King had run away on its own.
No, even if his body turned into a corpse, it wouldn't be able to turn into a corpse so quickly. Besides, I didn't detect corpse energy from the old Miao King's body with the power of my mind?
What's happening here?
Hu Jiashu and I quickly jumped out of the window and chased after him, but the old Miao King was really fast, so he ran to the back mountain with a "whoosh whoosh".
There was a turbid aura in the back mountain, and that aura could hinder my exploration of the power of the state of mind, so the body of the old Miao King fled to the back mountain, and we lost it.
We stopped outside the turbid atmosphere, and Hu Jiashu said in surprise: "The source of this turbid atmosphere seems to be the same as the source of the dilapidated barrier energy we encountered when we entered the village."
"It's very weird in here, let's not go in hastily."
At this time, I suddenly discovered a problem, that is, when we entered the stockade, we flew over and did not see any farmland or orchards near the stockade. So what do the people here make a living?
Also, the old Miao King said that his family went to work, but where did they go to work?
Is it in this strange turbid air?
I felt that the mystery of Xiapu Miao Village was in the turbid air. At this moment, the curse insect that I had put into the bamboo tube and carried with me suddenly started to stir in the bamboo tube. It hit the bamboo tube desperately and made a "snap" sound.
The voice, it is angry, angry at the things in the turbid air. (To be continued)