A shaky old man walked towards them with a cane. The man's face was covered with wrinkles, making his face as rough as tree bark. If any children saw it, they would be frightened to tears.
He looked at a few people with a smile, his face wrinkled due to exertion, "You are not from this village, are you?"
His eyes wandered around the three girls for a moment, then he looked away and continued to talk to Jiang.
Jiang then nodded, "Old man, we are disciples of the Immortal Sect. We are here to help the world and go down the mountain to slay demons. There must be a big demon hiding in your village!"
This sky-high resentment and demonic energy are too pungent for immortal cultivators.
The old man seemed to be used to their rhetoric and said with a smile, "If there is really a big demon hiding, then how come our village has never been haunted? How can you outsiders understand this village better than us?" He said He declined Jiang Suisui's request to slay the demon, and then invited a few people to stay at his home. "Everyone who comes here is a guest. I see you have had a hard time traveling, why don't you come and sit at my home? I'll prepare food for you all..."
The man smiled and narrowed his eyes to slits, inviting them warmly.
Jiang then looked at the people behind him and said, "Okay."
The old man's house looked larger than the houses of other villagers, and several people entered the house together.
"Come, drink tea first, drink tea first." The old man handed over the teapot and asked them to sit down.
Lu Mingzhu took the first sip. Seeing nothing strange, Muning also relaxed his vigilance. While drinking tea, he asked the old man the question they had been curious about for a long time.
"Old man, why are there mostly young people in the village and I haven't seen a single girl or woman?"
After hearing this, the old man sighed and said the reason with a sad face, "Our village is cursed! For many years, all the children born in the village were boys, and no girls were born. Many Taoist priests were found before. It’s no use trying to do it, and over time, only a group of men are left in this village!”
Several people looked at each other in shock after hearing this, unable to believe that there was such a weird thing.
No wonder the old man didn’t feel any urgency when he learned that they were disciples of the Immortal Sect and wanted to eliminate demons for him, even if they hired so many Taoist priests, let alone a group of young men like them who were still in their infancy? Jiang Sui always felt that something was wrong. He frowned and continued to ask, "Since you are cursed, there is a reason. There is so much resentment here, and the accumulated resentment must be very deep. What big things happened in your village?" ?"
Before the old man responded, a gray-faced child ran out of the room. The porcelain bowl he was holding slipped and fell to the ground with a crisp sound of breaking porcelain.
The old man walked up and slapped the kid on the head, "You kid, why are you getting into trouble?"
The child's eyes were round and he looked at Muning and his group, but remained silent.
Muning raised his eyebrows and looked at the child, feeling that something was strange.
The old man regained his enthusiasm and said to Muning and others, "This turtle grandson is ignorant and has shocked everyone."
Muning shook his head, "It doesn't matter."
……
The night was dark, and the old man enthusiastically prepared rooms and bedding for them. Jiang Sui, Lu Mingzhu, and Mu Ning, Li Nianxue, and Ye Xiyao lived in one room.
Muning looked at the three quilts on the kang and remained silent.
Ye Xiyao was not alert at all, and lay down on the bed, "I've been traveling all day and I'm exhausted."
Li Nianxue also said to Muning, "Ah Ning, it's been too hard running around these days. Get a good sleep today. If you have anything to do, we'll talk about it tomorrow."
Muning shook his head, "I always feel like there's something weird about this village. Didn't you feel the looks in the eyes of the surrounding villagers when we first came in?"
Li Nianxue shuddered and said with some fear, "It's like a hungry wolf looking at a piece of fat meat!"
The few men I met on the road had evil eyes, but the girls tended to be thoughtful, and they could always detect discomfort and malice keenly.
"What is there to be afraid of? We are all disciples of the Immortal Sect. We are not enough to deal with these unarmed villagers. You are too worried!" Ye Xiyao sat up. She did not take these people seriously. .
Muning seemed to feel that he was a little too worried, "Maybe I'm overthinking, let's go to bed first." The candle lights went out, and the room was dark.
The sound of wind outside the window, accompanied by the sound of paper windows flapping, was extremely abrupt in the silent night.
Muning put on his coat, picked up Bu Ran, and opened the door softly.
Sure enough, she saw Lu Mingzhu waiting for her outside the house.
They looked at each other wordlessly and left the room in tacit agreement.
"You also noticed something was wrong?" The two of them walked in the night, blending into the darkness.
"Ah."
A few barks of dogs could be heard from time to time in the quiet village, which was quite normal in the village.
But an intermittent and incomplete sound still attracted their attention.
They approached the source of the sound, which came from a dilapidated small house.
"Well--"
Is there a woman’s voice?!
Muning's heart thumped, and blood surged in her body. She suppressed the exploration in her heart and quietly rolled into the yard.
But Lu Mingzhu frowned, as if unwilling to step forward.
They walked around to the back of the small house. Muning poked a small piece of window paper and reached inside, but was blocked by a pair of strong hands behind him.
"What?" Muning looked at him confused.
"Are you sure you want to see it?" Lu Mingzhu raised his eyebrows.
"Nonsense! How else could we investigate this village?" Muning didn't understand when Lu Mingzhu became so coy? The man didn't say anything else. He pinched the back of Muning's neck and moved away from the window, signaling her to keep her voice down.
Almost at the same time, the door creaked open, and several men came out of the house, speaking boldly and obscenely, muttering dirty words.
"Damn, it's different when you're pregnant."
"Just keep your voice down and let the village chief know."
"What can he do to us?"
"..."
Muning knew what happened in the room almost instantly.
She suppressed the urge to beat up a few people and stared at the several tall and thick men as they blended into the night and disappeared, then she entered the house.
The scene in the room made her nauseous, and Muning's hands couldn't stop trembling, because the impact of the picture was so great that she almost cried.
Even in her previous life, she had never seen such a terrifying and disgusting scene...
There were flies flying all over the house, and many rats hid in the dark and stared at the person lying on the ground, as if they would surround her and eat her alive as long as she stopped naked person lying on the ground can vaguely tell that she is a woman from her messy hair. The wounds on her body can no longer be described as bruises, but large and small blood holes. You can imagine what she is like. What kind of torture she suffered? A straw mat covered her body, and her slightly bulging belly wondered whether she was pregnant or...
(End of this chapter)