The first thousand four hundred and sixty-three chapters protect the light
The old cow was quickly escorted by the skeleton to a skeleton horse.
On the skeleton horse sat a man wearing a black cloak.
She raised her head slightly, revealing a bone-white chin and green eyes in her pupils, "Jiejie, what did you just remind them?"
Lao Niu was led to kneel down, "Yes, it's me!"
He asked the question in his mind, "As a human being, why did you do such an unconscionable thing?!"
"Loss of conscience?" The skeleton smiled, "No, no, ordinary people, I'm helping them."
"Help them?" Lao Niu was surprised. This skeleton had no shame and was still so shameless. "What can you help them with?"
"Help them get rid of the slavery of monsters, help humans become stronger and evolve into a higher level of existence." The skeleton said boldly.
"What, what do you mean?!"
Lao Niu had already thought of some kind of answer, but he was shocked by his inner thoughts, so he thought it was impossible.
However, nothing is impossible in front of a madman.
"What I mean is to kill them and turn them into ghosts. From then on, they will live as long as heaven and the monsters will not be able to do anything to them!" the skeleton said with a smile.
Lao Niu was frightened, "How could you... do this! Turning into a ghost doesn't count as becoming stronger."
"Admit it, old man, only by becoming ghosts can people protect those who are alive."
The skeleton chuckled, "We are in darkness, guarding the light."
"Be in darkness, protect the light!"
"Be in darkness, protect the light!"
The skeleton soldiers shouted slogans and escorted the common people over one after another and asked them to kneel in front of the skeleton.
The skeleton looked at them and said loudly: "Remember, I am the one who killed you today. If you are angry, please hate them as much as you want. The more hate you have, the better."
Only with hatred, only with obsession, only with unfinished business in this world, will people become ghosts.
"Please remember, what I do today is only for the future of mankind."
"Although you have died today, the rebirth of mankind will come with your death!"
After that, the skeleton waved his hand!
Those skeleton soldiers raised their swords and dropped their swords, and the heads of countless people rolled to the ground, even some children.
"Stop!" Lao Niu tried to struggle, "They are still children."
"Their parents are dead. If they stay in this world, they will only live worse than death." The skeleton said with a smile.
She got off her horse, walked up to Lao Niu, and gently touched Lao Niu's chin with her fingers as white as jade.
"Who else is in your family?" the skeleton asked.
Lao Niu didn't answer, but looked at her angrily and cowardly.
The skeleton in front of me is an unreasonable lunatic!
"If you tell me, maybe I can give you some mercy." The skeleton said with a smile.
The old cow's Adam's apple moved.
He was shaken when he thought of his wife, who had been bedridden all year round, and his son, who had been attacked by a monster and injured a leg and had never been able to marry a wife.
"I have a wife and a son." Lao Niu said.
"Very good, do you miss them?" the skeleton asked again.
The old cow nodded.
"They are in this village?"
Lao Niu shook his head, "I am from Donghuang, and my wife and son are both in Donghuang."
"Oh?" The skeleton was slightly surprised.
She looked Lao Niu up and down and said, "You are already a lot older, why did you come to the Central Plains alone?"
"I, I want to save some wife money for my son, he, he had a leg injured by a monster." Lao Niu said.
The skeleton suddenly said, "So, it seems that you are a good father. You must want to return to your hometown safely and take care of them, right?"
She is deliberately stimulating Lao Niu's attachment to his family.
Lao Niu nodded again.
"Very good." The skeleton chuckled, "I decided to be lenient with you. After you become a ghost, you can choose to return to your hometown without following me."
"What!" Lao Niu was startled. As soon as he struggled to stand up, he was pushed to the ground by the skeleton.
"You, beast, you can't do this, you..."
The roar of the old cow stopped suddenly, and blood streaked across the air.
With the death of Lao Niu, the village also became quiet, with only the blazing fire.
The skeleton led the people to stand in front of the fire, waiting for the dead to turn into ghosts or go directly to reincarnation.
Just before dawn, a skeleton and a ghost came back and said, "Sir, that kid ran away somewhere and I didn't catch up with him."
"Ignore him." The skeleton turned the horse's head and asked his men to collect the newly born ghosts.
She glanced at the old cow standing blankly next to her body, chuckled and said, "Let's go to the next village."
They left quickly and cleanly.
When Tai Molong carefully climbed out from the valley beside the bear demon and limped to the village, he saw only ruins with green smoke rising from them.
In front of the ruins, there were many corpses.
Mrs. Molong was stunned.
Among these bones are many living people who had sought treatment from him, laughed at him, and cried to him.
Now they fell there coldly, their bodies and heads missing, silently guarding the misery of last night to the prefect.
A gust of wind blew and A Tai woke up.
"Uncle Niu, Uncle Niu!"
Atai hurriedly ran to the corpses, rummaged through them one by one, and finally found the dead old cow.
A Tai swayed a few times and knelt down.
He could not have imagined that the farewell he said yesterday would actually be a farewell forever.
After a long time, Atai shook his head and said, "No, Uncle Niu, you can't die. Your family is still waiting for you."
He got up and went to find a straw mat among the ruins and wrapped the old cow's body.
He remembered that Bai Gaoxing had said that his friend, the shopkeeper Yu of Youqi Inn, had a mirror in his hand.
As long as there are corpses and the bones are reflected in the mirror, they can be brought back to life.
Auntai wants to take Lao Niu's body back and ask shopkeeper Yu to revive him with a mirror.
After settling the old cow, Ah-Dai found a shovel, dug a hole, collected the bones of all the people in the village, and buried them.
"I don't know who the murderer is, but I believe he will definitely receive retribution!" Atai said while standing on the mass grave.
Finally, he found some food to take with him and walked towards Peony City carrying the bones of the old cow.
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In Peony City, Yaoqi Inn.
Bai was happy, Rakshasa Bird was talking to Lao Huang, leaning against the counter.
"The shopkeeper said it." Lao Huang lowered his voice, "Let you be careful of the witch academy, the ghost-hunting master, and the people in the Netherworld."
"Hiss." Bai Gaoxing couldn't help but sigh, "I never expected that this Northern Wilderness King could be so cunning."
"Isn't it surprising?" Rakshasa Bird said.
Bai happily nodded, "It's quite unexpected. I've always felt that people at the level of the Sihuang King disdain to use conspiracy."
"I think it was the illusion given to you by King Donghuang, right?"
Rakshasa laughed, "The King of the East Wilderness has lowered the IQ of the King of the Four Wildernesses, which is why you have such illusions."
After saying that, she subconsciously shrank her head.
"Don't worry, you said King Donghuang's IQ is not high, she won't bother to strike you with lightning." Bai Gaoxing said, "Unless you say she..."
Bai Gaoxing didn't say the last word, "You understand."
"We understand." The two nodded.
"By the way." Lao Huang remembered something, "You asked me to investigate. There are clues about the massacres in other villages outside Peony City."
"What should I say?" Bai Gaoxing looked at him.
"It's too horrible to watch." Old Huang handed the list to Bai Gaoxing, "People from no less than twenty villages have been massacred, all overnight, no injuries can be found, almost all of them were killed in their sleep.
Among them, Hedong City had the most number of villages massacred."