Chapter 72 They’re long gone!
Chapter 72 – They’ve long since ceased to be human!
Son?
Hearing the old man’s words, Zhang Feixuan and Wang Qizheng revealed a surprised expression.
The ghostly creature that formed the ghostly creature . It was this old man’s son?
“You’re a mere mortal, and you still dare to raise a ghostly creature? Not afraid of a backlash are you!” Zhang Feixuan said with wide eyes.
Wang Qizheng shouted, “This is an evil path, no wonder we are fed human flesh, seeing that we are qi refiners, that human flesh must have been poisoned so that we can be devoured by this ghost, right? No wonder this village doesn’t look right, I guess it’s all evil ways, senior brother, kill them!”
This is not good enough.
Can something like ghosts still be bred?
Even if it can be raised, a mortal to raise ghosts, that is bold enough to be able to pack the sky ah.
The most critical thing is that he can actually still live, this village can actually still exist, it is simply unbelievable.
Song Yin, however, shook his head and blasted the ghosts apart with another punch, saying, “They are not evil.”
Not evil paths?
Then what is it?
“Immortal, do me a favor and let it go, my son is just a poor man, it has no choice!”
The old man grabbed the ground with his head and couldn’t help but shed tears in grief.
……
Ten years ago, this place wasn’t as desolate as it is now. The wide plains were able to grow food, and from time to time you could catch some small beasts for meat.
If the year is good, there may be a good harvest.
It wasn’t prosperous, but it was definitely filling.
All people want is three meals a day.
Everyone lives with something to look forward to.
Until one day, a man came and brought a batch of seeds.
This seed had great power, ripened four times a year, and was so productive that it could be used to produce a good harvest on the ground.
The only requirement is that people must be diligent and need to keep turning over the seeds and plowing the fields.
But this is a simple matter for farmers.
The village that planted the land first had a good year, so that the surrounding villages kept bringing in this kind of children, worshipping the monk as a god, and making offerings to the spirit statues and plaques in every house.
They thought that they could stop worrying about food, and that as long as they worked hard, they would be able to get a good harvest.
And so it was; they had a good harvest for three years, and every family had plenty of food, and they even started a side business, raising silkworms and weaving cloth, and raising livestock, and they were on their way to a prosperous future with no worries about food and clothing.
But the fourth year, the year four cooked food began to reduce the growth of each cooked than the previous time to be much less, at that time no one cared, only think the year is different.
To the fifth year, the grain production fell again, the people still do not realize, just think the year is not good, endure on the line.
In the sixth year, almost no food production, the people began to beg God, worship the spirit of the tablets, hoping that the year better.
In the seventh year, there was no harvest, and the arable land could no longer produce any food. No matter what kind of ways they used to cultivate the land and develop new land, it just did not produce any food.
No matter how they plowed the land or developed new land, no food was produced. Whether it was the seeds left behind by the Taoist or the seeds they had planted before, none of them produced any food, and all the beasts in the surrounding land were eliminated, and the livestock and silkworms they had raised were even gone a long time ago.
The whole land, as if it had no life force, for people, it was dead land.
In the eighth year, famine began, and the land gradually became chaotic, with some people starving to death and others fleeing.
But more, is the bandit rampage, this side of the land all the time in looting, in order to fight for that mouthful of food.
That year, a group of bandits entered their village.
……
“My eldest son, born strong, filial, work a handful of strength, who do not praise a good man. But the bandits came into the village, there were many people, he was no match for his strength, the bandit leader saw my son’s courage and strength, so he put forward a condition.” Said here, the old man sobbed uncontrollably: “He wants my son to accept a certificate of surrender, then let go of my village, but this certificate of surrender and where can come ah, my son, my son.”
The old man’s eyes pupil contraction, tone of voice fierce: “He killed my daughter-in-law just married, take the head for the certificate of nomination, followed them away!”
Saying this, his body softened, almost collapsing to the ground: “My daughter-in-law is virtuous and gentle, reasonable, and my son usually has a deep affection, how did he get his hands on her!”
“But I know, if I don’t take it, not to mention my daughter-in-law, I’m afraid that all the women in this village will be taken away, there’s nothing to be done, there’s nothing to be done!”
“Later I heard, that group of bandits disappeared, but more of a monster out, encountered people will kill, swallowing flesh and blood. I thought it was just a rumor, but one day, that monster appeared at the entrance of the village, put down a pile of dried meat and left, the old man knew that it was my son, that must be my son!”
He inhaled his nose, looked at the ghosts and coalesced out of shape, choked: “No one wanted to eat, who do not know what the jerky is made, but can not stand hungry ah old age, hungry then hungry, but is the root of wild vegetables is also difficult to find, the village who do not want a mouthful of rice to eat, those children are starving out of the picture, the old man is really no way to get out of the way, on the jerky, so they ate on the. ”
“Starving ah.”
Wang Qizheng lifted his head and said in a complicated way, “I know what it’s like.”
Zhang Feixuan was about to say why he didn’t leave, but just as he opened his mouth, he shut up resentfully and just shook his folding fan.
Just he did not say, that old man himself said, “It is not that we have not thought of leaving, but the world is so big, where can we go, and there is no clue. Even if the heart is intolerant, want to walk away, but after eating the jerky, we can not get out of this village.”
“Those who eat jerky out of the village, as soon as they leave the village, there will be a cloudy wind surrounding them, and my son will come out and kill them and make new jerky, so no one dares to go out either, so they just live here.”
When the old man finished, he kowtowed heavily again, “Immortal, we mortals, there is really nothing we can do! Immortal, just let us go, it doesn’t matter if you killed my son, my son deserved it, but what about the people in this village!”
“And what about the people outside?”
Suddenly, Song Yin spoke out, causing the old man to freeze.
He blasted away the cohesively formed ghostly creature with another punch, and said to this old man, “It’s understandable to do anything to survive, but I can only understand it. Those jerky are just like you, uncontested, peaceful and calm, everyone is the same . If I let it live today, then it will harm more people like you.”
The old man was nearly lost in thought, and his tone was desperate: “Then we, there is no salvation?”
“Senior brother, why don’t you take them back to the mountain, it’s not like some more people can’t be fed.” Zhang Feixuan suggested at this time.
“I agree.” Wang Qizheng concurred.
It wouldn’t be good to go back to the Sumeru Vein, anyway, Senior Brother has already raised a group of mortals, it’s not like it’s impossible to raise another group.
With Song Yin’s current level of being able to harness the wind and fly, it would be quick to come and go.
Moreover, looking at this old man, he seemed to be a perfect human being who hadn’t been sucked up by anyone, and if this old man was like this, then this village should all be perfect human beings.
Just Song Yin seemed like he didn’t hear them, just staring at this old man, said, “Actually you already know it, right, if you kill this ghost, all the people in this village, can’t live.”
The old man slowly lowered his head and stopped speaking.
Bear!
A ball of white flame flared up from Song Yin’s hand, he looked up at the sky and faintly said, “Thinking that because the village is dark and you can’t see it that you can pretend you don’t know? Take a look!”
He waved the fire towards the sky, and the white flame flew directly into the sky and exploded, as if it was a firework that exploded into brilliant white light, illuminating everything in this village.
In the village, it wasn’t that there was no one, and those people weren’t hiding in.
Those children, at this time in the center of the village, such as beasts generally prostrate form, cloaked hair can not see the face, only a pair of red eyes, exposed skin is also like that ghosts.
Inside the house, those doors and windows, those original probe mortals still maintain the posture of the probe, the same cloaked hair, posture as a ghost.
What was even more frightening was that these existences were all staring at them.
That gaze gave Zhang Feixuan and Wang Qizheng the creeps.
They were obviously still in human form during the day
By night, they had changed?
They had walked all the way here while it was dark and were being stared at by these things all the time?
“Since my Dharma Eyes opened, I knew that they were already surrounded by ghostly aura, non-human and non-ghost, if you continue to be held up like this, sooner or later, there will be a day when you won’t even be able to hold up this village.”
Song Yin droned, “They’ve long since ceased to be human!”
(End of chapter)