Zhang Rui's words made me think that this case must be solved, but Nangong Fanxong said from the side: "I advise you not to have high expectations. Judging from the cases we have solved so far, Xiaorou's corpse poison
It is related to many cases, which means that Xiaorou is involved in many secrets of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance. Before her value of being exploited disappears, she will definitely receive special protection!"
"I think a scourge who was thrown into the lower world is at best a person who has not used the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance. You can only imagine how much he knows!"
I said: "Even if there is no news about Xiaorou, we still have to go out. We can't just watch that scourge continue to harm people."
Nangong Fanxong said: "That's natural."
I said a few words to Nangong Fan, and Zhang Rui immediately said: "I think Fellow Taoist Nangong is right, so if there is no news about Fellow Daoist Mai in this case, I hope that Fellow Daoist Chen will not blame us too much."
yes."
I said, no.
In the past few years since Mai Xiaorou left, I have become accustomed to news coming out and then disappearing, so I won't be angry because of these things.
After drinking tea here for a while, Zhang Rui asked someone to send some information to the teahouse. This information was not about the evil, but about the dead. Information about the recent deaths in the villages at the southern end of the Taihang Mountains.
There were more than a dozen people delivering the materials, each carrying a thick pile. As soon as those materials were placed on the tea table, I suddenly felt a little confused.
I looked at Zhang Rui and said, "If I want to read all this information one by one, it will take ten days and a half. There are so many villages in the Taihang Mountains, and there must be a lot of people dying of natural causes every day.
We have just finished reading this information, and new information will be sent to us, so when will it be the end!"
Zhang Rui also smiled and said: "But if we don't look at these information, how can we check it? We can't go from village to village. Won't it take more time to go around aimlessly like that?"
What Zhang Rui said makes sense.
I thought for a while and then said: "The scourge will definitely not stop after killing just one person. So you can ask someone to come over and investigate together. Find out which village recently, or several nearby villages, where people have died consecutively. If we find this information, we will first
Start by focusing on these information."
Zhang Rui nodded immediately, and then asked someone to get a map of the mountainous area at the southern end of the Taihang Mountains. Then he found more than ten people and moved the information to a larger room in the tea house, and then we started checking it here.
It took a full day, and according to the conditions I set, we drew three key places for investigation. The first place was Shigang Township, where there is a tea horse village. Three people died in a row in the past month.
Personally, one was a car accident and two were food poisoning.
The person in the car accident was fine, but there was something fishy about the two people who died from food poisoning, but it's not clear yet whether they were caused by the evil spirits.
The second place is called Xice Village, which is a separate village. Within a month, four people died, and all of them were car accidents. The most important thing is that it is still the same place, at a dangerous "U"-shaped bend.
, that corner was often involved in car accidents in previous years, but not as frequently as recently.
The third place is Hutou Township, where there are two very close villages, namely Shangxiantai and Xiaxiantai villages. Seven elderly people died of illness at home in one month in a row.
After identifying these three places, we rested all night, and in the early morning of the next day, we drove two cars directly to the south of Taihang Mountain.
Zhang Rui drove with Tang Qing in front, and I, Nangong Fanzong, Chai Min and Hu Jiashu followed in the same car.
We chose the order of cases according to the distance. We went to Tea Horse Village first. When we got here, I found that my curse did not resonate at all. We also checked the causes of death of those people.
I found out that it really has nothing to do with the disaster.
However, the investigation process took us some time. We wasted a whole day here, and it was already dark by the time we left here.
We took advantage of the darkness and went directly to the "U" shaped corner in Xice Village. When we got here, we didn't find the culprit, but we found an evil ghost looking for a substitute. The car accidents in recent days were all caused by that
It was the work of an evil spirit, so we took action to deal with him.
That's just a red ghost. It didn't take much effort for us to deal with him. I only needed a purple-level Soul Binding Talisman to deal with it.
Zhang Rui watched me directly use the purple talisman, and couldn't help but frown and said with a smile: "Fellow Daoist Chen, you are really generous. You also use the purple talisman to deal with a red ghost?"
Before I could say anything, Nangong Fanzong said from the side: "I just drew it in the past two days. I guess I can't wait to try out its power. He's so good at it!"
All my little thoughts were seen through by Nangong Fan.
After cleaning up the red ghosts here, we did not rush to Hutou Township immediately, but found a small hotel in the countryside to rest for the night.
The next morning we set off to Hutou Township. There are many legends about Hutou Township. There is a mountain here, which is shaped like an old man's head, so the village at the foot of the mountain is named Hutou.
There is also a legend in the village. It is said that there once lived a Taoist monk here. The Taoist priest was very good in Taoism. However, his Taoism was not used to eliminate demons and protect the Taoism. Instead, he used his Taoism to bully the villagers and became the bully of Hutou Township.
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The whole Hutou Township was disturbed by that Taoist priest.
Later, the Taoist priest went too far, robbing women of the people, and doing whatever it took to take human lives.
This incident alarmed the government, and they sent officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress him. However, the Taoist priest used his Taoist skills to hide in Hutou Mountain. The officers and soldiers searched for him for half a year but could not find him. Some officers and soldiers died inexplicably in the mountain.
Later, an expert came here and said that the Taoist priest was too powerful and it was difficult to deal with him. He had to invite gods to do it. So the local people raised money and built a platform to invite gods. The expert did this and invited gods.
, and then dealt with the evil Taoist.
After the evil Taoist priest died, the villagers of Hutou Township hated the Taoist priest so much that they hung his body near the Immortal Platform to be exposed in the sun. But on the night of the seventh day, a crimson glow suddenly rose in the sky, waiting for dawn
Later, when people went there to look, they found that the evil priest’s body was missing!
Some people say that the evil Taoist turned into a corpse and escaped, while others say that the body of the evil Taoist was taken away by the Tengu because that night happened to be the Tengu eclipse of the moon, that is, there was a lunar eclipse.
Later, the village was renamed Sentai Village, and then the two surnames in Sentai Village were divided into two, becoming Upper Sentai and Lower Sentai.
Listening to these legends, we have high hopes for those two villages. After all, this is the last of the three key areas we drew. If there is no harvest here, we will go back and check the information again.
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As soon as we entered Hutou Village, we saw the mountain that looked like a tiger's head. In fact, it didn't look much like it. Only when we stood at a specific angle, and then imagined the shape of the tiger's head in our minds, and then looked at it carefully for a while, could we finally figure it out.
It can be seen that the mountain is in the shape of a tiger's head.
This is somewhat different from what I imagined in Hutoushan.
Seeing that I was a little disappointed, Nangong Fanzong said: "Do you think I really put a tiger head over there for you?"
I waved my hand and smiled without saying anything.
We didn’t stay longer in Hutou Village and went directly to Xiaxiantai. Xiaxiantai is at the foot of the mountain, and Shangxiantai is on the mountain. The two villages are very vivid.
The main surname of people in Xiaxiantai Village is Liang, while the main surname of people in Shangxiantai Village is Cao.
It turned out that they were from the same village, but later they separated due to some conflicts.
After arriving in Sendai, I went to check out the homes where elderly people had passed away. Most of them had just finished funerals, and the shoes they wore still had white cloth sewn on the uppers.
Paper money scattered during funerals can be seen everywhere in the village. When we first arrived and looked at the paper money flying in the wind, we thought we had entered a ghost village.
After some investigation into those families, we found that the deaths of those old people were indeed very strange. Although they were all old, they were usually very healthy, and some could even work in the fields.
Yes, something is really wrong.
But after he was sent to the hospital, the doctor said it was a sudden illness such as cerebral thrombosis or myocardial infarction, so the family didn't take it seriously.
However, several old people in the village died in succession, which really made the people in Upper Sendai and Lower Sendai a little panicked.
Moreover, during our exploration in Sendai, we also heard a special legend in a family's home.
The person who told us the legend was an old woman whose wife had just died. She was in her 70s, her surname was Cao, and her natal family was from Shangxiantai Village.
She told us that before liberation, Shangxiasendai Village had always been hostile and never intermarryed because it was said that intermarriage between men and women in the two villages would give birth to monsters, and then the monsters would kill all the people in both villages.
So at that time, anyone with two surnames who had an affair would be dragged away and beaten to death. There was a place called Maowiling Ridge on the back mountain of Shangxiantai Village, which was specially used to punish the two surnames Cao and Liang who had an affair.
A place for people.
It is said that at night, you can hear the sound of cats crying there, which is very miserable and extremely scary.
Hearing this legend made us even more convinced that there was something wrong with this place!
Even if we don't encounter evil spirits here, we will encounter other powerful ones. My intuition tells me that if we don't deal with the matter of Upper and Lower Sendai, these two villages will probably become deserted villages.
But those were all things before the liberation. After the liberation, there was not so much talk about it. People in the two villages also often intermarry. Many families also lived a prosperous life, and the children they gave birth to were also very healthy.
No monsters were born, so the legend fell apart and became a rumor.
Not many people know this legend now.
After hearing this legend, we planned to go to Shangsendai to check out the situation first, and then go to Maowei Ridge.
Maybe we will make special discoveries there. (To be continued)