jdhmnovel Chapter 554: Jishanli
Chapter 554: Jishanli
Everyone walked into the village.
He Niaoniao accidentally stepped on a door frame that had turned half into charcoal. She stumbled and her gold-embroidered shoes were stained with some sticky brown substance. She bent down to take a closer look, but her pupils suddenly contracted - it was a mixture of melted maltose and dried black blood.
Looking to the side, half a burnt maltose stick was still stuck on the collapsed earth wall.
Seeing this, Jie Xinyu took a deep breath. It seemed too early for He Niaoniao now. Although she knew Changqing meant well, she still couldn't help feeling a little worried.
Taking two steps forward, Jie Xinyu hugged He Niaoniao's head to calm down her gradually distorted face.
As for Li Mengyu's spiritual consciousness, he had already seen everything. At this moment, the little guy showed a very strange calmness. Chang Qing saw endless anger through his eyes.
Chang Qing patted Li Mengyu gently, walked forward, looked at the ruins, and said, "The ninth day of last month was the White Dew Festival."
Changqing's fingertips stroked the colorful silk on the wall that was full of burnt holes. On the silk was the crooked embroidery with the words "a good harvest".
Chang Qing made a gesture and pointed to a dry well three meters away. The skeleton of a young child floated up in the well, with the bony finger bones still tightly grasping the other half of the maltose stick.
Xie Xinyu hurriedly covered He Niao Niao's eyes to prevent her from looking. Li Mengyu stared at the corpse in a daze, his breathing suddenly stagnated! His fists were clenched white.
After stumbling a few steps, Li Mengyu sat on the ground. The child was actually drowned alive. The child looked only a few years older than him, but he had not yet grown up, so he left in a hurry...
"The demon tribe of the Southern Region!"
A sound of gnashing teeth came out from Li Mengyu's mouth, and he punched the ground with a physical strength beyond that of a great martial artist. The ground shook, and broken soil fell down, raising a cloud of yellow dust. However, it accidentally broke the soil layer, revealing the buried bones and a cold black-blue light.
There was a skeleton of a woman in the soil with four small dark holes on her head, which was the cause of death. Chang Qing placed the child's body into the skeleton's arms, took the scale in his hand, controlled the spiritual light, wrapped the two of them in a straw mat, went deep into the ground, and buried them in peace.
Several people fixed their eyes on the scale in their hands. Facing the sunlight, the scale became transparent, resembling a fish but not a fish, and the patterns on it became apparent.
There was even a hint of demonic aura. Jiao Cang raised his eyelids and murmured, "It smells like a mermaid. It seems that we now know the origin of that demon team."
Although Jiao Cang is also a member of the demon clan, he has his own pride. In his eyes, demons are no different from humans, and fighting between life and death has nothing to do with him. He only recognizes Chang Qing, and wherever his brother goes, he will go!
The immortal fire rose and refined the scale into ashes.
When I left the courtyard, it was already dusk. The twilight fell on the collapsed archway, and the three words "Jishanli" were broken into several pieces of bluestone.
"Jishanli? It's a nice name, but it doesn't have a good ending. Is accumulating good deeds really useful?"
The words echoed in the empty and lifeless village, and the breeze made it seem even more desolate.
Changqing bent down and picked up half of the blood-stained rattle. The drum surface was broken and covered with cobwebs, and a child's milk tooth was left in the cavity.
There was a gurgling sound coming from a dry well in the distance. The wooden barrel tied to the well rope had long since rotted away, but dark red ice crystals could still be seen condensed at the bottom of the barrel - the well water must have pickled hundreds of corpses.
This time, He Niaoniao broke free from Li Xuexinyu's hand, came to the well, pursed her lips tightly, and gently lifted it up. The dry well rose from the ground, and the well water turned dark red, turning into blood rain that dripped down.
Li Mengyu also used his magical powers to dig out pits, where corpses fell and were covered with soil, forming small graves. There were no tombstones and even their names were unknown.
His fingers brushed over the rattle, and Chang Qing frowned slightly: "Is this a sacrifice?"
Chang Qing vaguely remembered that the mermaids had a custom of throwing the killed enemies into the water to brew. The blood would then carry resentment and the breath of life, and was a top-grade product for regulating the breath. Seeing this scene, Chang Qing understood. His eyes fell on the wall of the well placed aside, and he soon found a formation with weak demonic power in it. It seemed that the demons had made marks in advance, with the idea of a long-term attack deep behind enemy lines.
Xie Xinyu also noticed this and said coldly, "These monsters are using humans as lamp oil!"
After saying this, he was about to take action to destroy the formation and eliminate the trouble forever, but Changqing pushed his finger back and said, "Keep it, just in time to give a backup gift to the friends in the South China Sea who are coming soon."
Chang Qing had a blank expression on his face, but his hands were constantly flashing with inspiration.
The moonlight spread over the remnant. Changqing stood on the big locust tree in the center of the village, breathing steadily, holding Jiaocang in one hand and gently tapping the tree trunk with the other.
Under the tree, a bonfire suddenly started. No one knew what was added to it, but it burned very vigorously, making crackling sounds. Jie Xinyu and the other two gathered around the fire to regulate their breathing.
At midnight, a rain cloud floated over the sky and slowly moved towards this place. When I saw the bright bonfire in the distance, I was a little surprised.
"Sure enough, someone else came here again. I thought the formation had been triggered."
"There are still humans who dare to be active here? They are quite brave!" An extremely long tongue licked the lips and spoke in the language of a demon.
"That's good, it's a good opportunity to have some meat. I was worried that there would be no one around within a hundred miles. It's a coincidence that they came."
"Hmm? Are they cultivators? One is in Yundan realm, one is in Yanluo realm, one is in Tuojing realm, and there is also a mortal. Weird~"
"It should be a monk passing by. It's a good idea. The flesh and blood of a monk is much more delicious than that of ordinary humans!"
Several dark shadows looked at the few people, their eyes full of greed.
"Could this be a trick?" the dark shadow in the corner suddenly said.
"No, my mermaid clan is very sensitive to auras. There is no aura of other humans here, even in the void. It seems to be a lone monk group."
This was a voice full of temptation. After the words were spoken, the other black shadows said no more.
The mermaid clan is female-dominated. Female mermaids are rare and have a very high status. Male mermaids are numerous and have poor natural qualifications, so they are lowly. In the mermaid clan, female mermaids have absolute say. I think the female mermaid is the boss of this mermaid team.
When these mermaids fixed their gaze on the fire again, they saw a figure above the fire. The person below was cutting slices of roasted meat with a knife, eating with relish in his mouth with laughter.
Oil and water dripped into the bonfire, causing the flames to burst into flames again, and the object roasted on the fire was none other than a mermaid with a human body and a fish tail.
This is a naked provocation. Mermaids are being used as food and fuel, which is a huge shame for them.
"court death!!"
The rain clouds suddenly exploded, and countless raindrops fell. Among them, seven figures appeared. The terrifying demonic power around the black shadows fluctuated, and the scattered raindrops did not dare to get close under the pressure.