The nine-tailed white fox shook its body and turned into the boy in white clothes last night again.
"Hey, I heard those two people called you Tianju, your name is Tianju, right? Tianju, you guys are so bold, I feel so scared when I come to this place.
Let me tell you, there is no living person here, they are all dead. They will come out at night and live a normal life like before. You don’t know, that scene makes me feel numb as a fox half-immortal.
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Hey, hey, why don't you just spend the night outside tonight, and don't come in again, it's so late at night, it's not safe, I'm still sure to protect you if you go outside, hey, Tianju, Zhang Tianju!"
I tried my best to ignore this chirping fox, but he still didn't give up. Seeing that I ignored him, he yelled at me loudly.
"Yes, yes, why don't you say that you are a half-immortal? Why do you just say that?"
The nine-tailed white fox scratched his head and said with an embarrassed look: "No, no one has spoken to me for almost a thousand years. There are too many refugees. After all, what I said is also true. This
The village is very ghostly.
You don’t know, I’ve been here to play in the past hundred years that I’ve been hanging around here. There’s no one here during the day, but it’s late at night. A group of people come out, set up stalls, go shopping, etc., etc.
It's just a ghost village.
Let me tell you, you kid, please don’t die for me. I still hope you can get me out. I have been wandering here in Wuling Mountain for a thousand years. If I go, I will be suffocated to death. You don’t know...
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"I rely on you to shut up." I waved the broom in my hand and said helplessly.
"You're quarreling with me and I won't help you get out!" I threatened him.
When the nine-tailed white fox heard this, he immediately shut his mouth and sat aside to watch me clean the house.
By the time Liu Qizhen and Li Menglan came back, it was already dark.
I found a large old iron basin in the house and lit a fire in the iron basin, which added a touch of warmth to the cold room.
The wind outside the house blew for a long time.
Since it was expected that there would be no peace in Wuling Village tonight, Liu Qizhen and I made an appointment to keep a vigil. I would stay up until midnight, and Liu Qizhen would keep up the rest of the night. Li Menglan was a girl after all, so we had no intention of letting her keep up the night.
I was sitting in the living room warming myself by the fire. In the room inside, Liu Qizhen and Li Menglan were resting, and the nine-tailed white fox was wagging its tail and muttering.
"That woman's mental strength is so strong that it's not a problem to stay awake for seven or eight days. I don't know why you two are so stupid. You still keep separate nights. You can't just ask that woman to keep watch. How stupid are you?
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I tried my best to ignore the voice of the nine-tailed white fox and stared out the window intently. I always felt like something would happen tonight, and I felt uneasy.
At midnight, it was 12 o'clock, and in another hour it would be Liu Qizhen's turn to change my shift. I was a little sleepy, but I still managed to cheer up.
I threw a few dry firewood into the brazier, which gradually made the flames that were about to extinguish grow stronger again.
The nine-tailed white fox was sleeping on my lap and seemed to smell quite good. Seeing his careless appearance, I felt less suspicious of him.
I thought, with the way he looked, he must be the one who was deceived.
I sighed, took out a coat from my backpack and put it on the nine-tailed white fox.
The wind outside the door seemed to have stopped, and there was no more draft at the door. I stood up, stretched, yawned, and walked to the window to take a look at the scenery outside.
The moon outside is really bright, and I can see the scenery outside very clearly.
Suddenly...a white figure flashed past.
I was startled, moved to the side, and carefully observed the outside of the house.
A group of people suddenly appeared in the quiet Wuling Village. Those people set up stalls and seemed to be selling things. Many people suddenly appeared in the originally empty streets. Those people were all dressed in ancient costumes, including men, women, old and young, and were shopping.
The street is just like a normal ancient night market.
If their faces were not pale and expressionless, and if the streets that should have been filled with the sounds of bargaining and shouting were not unusually quiet, I might have mistaken this place for an ancient night market.
The last survivor of Wuling Village was said to have made a deal with the mountain god with his life, flesh and blood, turning Wuling Village into a ghost village where no one would accept anything.
Originally, the road to the ghost village had been blocked by the ancestors. I don’t know why, but a slight landslide occurred in Wuling Mountain a year ago, which exposed a trail. It was later cleared and formed.
A long and narrow mountain road.
And this mountain road is the road leading to this ghost village. After this road was cleared, the first batch of people who came to visit Wuling Mountain all took this road and came to this ghost village and disappeared without even the bodies.
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This is why it attracted the attention of the Xuanling Group and sent us here.
I shook the nine-tailed white fox awake and asked him if it was him who turned Wuling Village into a ghost village. He was the only mountain god here.
Who knows, the nine-tailed white fox shook his head desperately.
"It's not me, how could I dare to do this? A thousand years ago, there was a mountain god here, a weasel. The one you call Huang Taixian was good in Taoism, but he practiced some evil spells. He made this village like this.
Yes, after I came here, I got rid of the cat that didn't look like a cat and the mouse that didn't look like a mouse, but I can't do anything about this village. After all, I'm a half-immortal and I really don't have the ability to control ghosts."
I frowned and looked out the window. A group of people wearing modern clothes walked into the night market. Their faces were pale and their expressions were dull.
These wandering souls should have had a lot of resentment when they were a thousand years old, but later, after a thousand years, the resentment faded away, but the souls could not be reincarnated in the underworld, and became lonely ghosts in Wuling Mountain.
, as time goes by, always staying in the place where he lived during his lifetime.
These people were originally poor people, but they could not enter the underworld after death.
I couldn't help but think of what my grandma said to me.
From now on, when doing things, just do it with a clear conscience.
I couldn't help but feel compassion, and I wanted to send these poor innocent people to the underworld to die.
About one o'clock, Liu Qizhen came to change shifts with me while rubbing his sleepy eyes.
He was obviously surprised when he saw the scene outside the window.
However, the purpose of our trip is to find the bodies of the missing people.
It would be fine if they died elsewhere in Wuling Mountain, but if they died in Wuling Village, I'm afraid those people would have turned into zombies by now.
Although the walking corpse is not more powerful than the rare zombie, it is not a fuel-efficient lamp either.
I've seen records about walking corpses in my grandfather's handbook.
When my grandfather was young, he went to help a wealthy family raise spirits. The graves of his family were gathered in the Yin place. The corpses inside absorbed the huge Yin energy to prevent the corpses from rotting, thus forming walking corpses.
The walking zombies are very strong and almost invulnerable. They walk with stiff and slow movements, but they are difficult to kill.
Liu Qizhen asked me to go in first and have a good rest. We will talk about finding the body in the morning tomorrow.
I nodded in agreement. I picked up the nine-tailed white fox and went inside to where Liu Qizhen had slept before and lay down. Maybe I was too tired, so I fell asleep after a while.
The next day, Liu Qizhen woke us up with a compass in his hand.
Today we plan to take a closer look at this village.
We went in separate ways, and I took the nine-tailed white fox to the west of the village.
It was just as windy and cold as when he first came in. The nine-tailed white fox curled his lips and started talking disobediently.
"This is a sinister wind. Too many people have died, and their ghosts are still lingering."
I asked him: "Didn't you say that you have been in Wuling Mountain and can't get out? Then do you know where the group of people who accidentally entered Wuling Village a year ago went?"
The nine-tailed white fox lay on my shoulder and seemed to think about it very seriously before saying: "I did see a group of people come in here, and the clothes I wore were made to imitate their appearance.
I remember it was getting dark at that time, and they entered the village. There were not so many ghosts in the village, but later I saw them coming in and never leaving. If I am right, that group of people
He should have gone to the square at the end of the village."
As soon as I heard this, I asked him how to get to the square. The nine-tailed white fox jumped down from my shoulder and walked in front to lead me. I followed him at a trot.
After walking around all the way, we finally came to a large open space. The terrain here was in the shape of a large circle, with a well in the middle. Next to the well lay a person, who seemed to be an old man.
Then I smelled a putrid smell.
The nine-tailed white fox had a meal.
"There's something fishy."
I took out the Shura Sword that Liu Qizhen gave me from behind and went forward. I picked up the old man's clothes with the Shura Sword and found that she was already a dried corpse. She just had her back to me, so I didn't notice it.
That's all.
There are still houses around this square, and I plan to check them one by one.
The nine-tailed white fox follows me.
I walked to a house with the strongest putrid smell and kicked the door open.
The old wooden door couldn't bear my strength and fell down. What I saw was a group of rotting corpses.
The corpses were wearing all kinds of clothes, but seeing this scene, I was relieved.
Fortunately, it was not corroded by Yin Qi and turned into a walking corpse.
The power of the walking dead is not small. Although it is not as powerful as the zombies, it is not a simple character either.
I held it in my hands and went forward to take a look. The body was basically in a state of decay. However, it had been a year and it was still so damp. I didn't understand this.
I exited the room, and the nine-tailed white fox raised its paws and said.
"These corpses probably raised a king."
For a moment, I seemed to be struck by thunder, and I stayed where I was, feeling a little uneasy.
"King Yang? Are you saying that there is a possibility of a corpse here?" I was anxious.
I have encountered a corpse ghost before, the one in Qingyi in the Juanqinzhai of the Forbidden City.
But I feel that the ghoul in Wuling Village is very different from the ghoul in Juanqinzhai.
The ghouls in Juanqinzhai have three souls and are a bit ghostly. In addition, Qingyi herself was sprayed as a ghoul, and she still suppressed herself from eating human flesh and blood.
But the one in Wuling Village is different.
It seems to regard everyone who died here a year ago as its own food. Although it is not as fresh as living people, it is worse than nothing.
I think I may have encountered a difficult problem this time.
The nine-tailed white fox glanced at me and jumped on my shoulder. At this time, Liu Qizhen had followed the compass' deduction and arrived at the square. When he saw me standing in a daze in front of the house full of corpse smell, he immediately walked up
Come and say.
"Tianju, I feel that this place is very unusual." He glanced at the corpse and frowned.
I don’t know how to answer: “Where is Li Menglan?”
Liu Qizhen said: "I don't know, but with her skills, there is no need to worry about her."
The voice of the nine-tailed white fox rang in my mind: "That woman's skills are indeed powerful, but I don't dare to act arbitrarily in Wuling Village. You can just forget it. I have been practicing for thousands of years."
My heart sank for a moment, and I felt a little at a loss, just like when I first met Qisha Ming. That feeling of bewilderment was because my grandma gave me guidance.
When I was dealing with the Seven Evils, I had a lot of people around me.
They are all sincere to me and don't hide anything from me.
Unlike now, Liu Qizhen and Li Menglan were obviously hiding something from me. Even Mr. Gu, who recruited me into the Xuanling Group, I began to doubt what his purpose was.
"Ah!" Suddenly, a soprano scream seemed to spread throughout Wuling Village. Liu Qizhen and I were both startled, and we immediately ran after the sound.
The voice seemed to be from Li Menglan.
As for Li Menglan, she looked at the room full of heads and fell to the ground in shock, unable to recover for a long time.
When Liu Qizhen and I arrived, we both took a deep breath and saw that there were many human heads hanging on the beams in an earthen house. The heads were all fresh, as if they had just been chopped off, dripping with blood.
At this time, the nine-tailed white fox suddenly slapped my head with its paw. I swallowed the exclamation that reached my mouth in pain, and the voice of the nine-tailed white fox sounded in my mind again.
"Idiot, that's an illusion. Just take a look and see if there are still heads."
I raised my head again, only to find that there was nothing on the beam.
At this time, Li Menglan and Liu Qizhen also reacted, their expressions a little uncomfortable.
The nine-tailed white fox answered my doubts.
"Perhaps everyone here has seen the tragic side.
The only person who survived in Wuling Village at that time begged the mountain god to gain part of the mountain god's abilities. He brought over all the officers and soldiers who had participated in the incident, beheaded them, and hung them in this house. And this room was probably the one who survived.