coobybook Chapter 212: Lost, Return, Unresolved Issues
Chapter 212: Lost, Return, Unresolved Issues
The fourth day after leaving Yanjia Village.
The road became slightly smoother.
This road was indeed peaceful. Apart from being a little difficult to walk on, there were no major dangers. If Yanjia Village wanted to connect with the outside world, they only needed to remove the weeds and trees along the way, pave gravel and cooked soil, and open up a post road that led directly to the outside world.
noon.
The group stopped at a natural waterfall.
The Gu Girl, Cai Wei, the Magician, and the Swordsman took off their clothes and swam in the pool under the waterfall.
Very enjoyable.
Although there are differences between men and women.
If it was at the beginning, the two girls would definitely refuse, but now... they can only say that they are used to it. When a group of seven people are walking in the forest, they always have to go to the toilet and wash up. The spring light that should be revealed has been revealed long ago. Although they still care, it would be too tiring to be on guard all the time, so they simply let it go.
Sons and daughters of the world don't stick to trivial matters.
"Brother Changxiao, don't you want to come down and play?"
The swordsman looked at Li Changxiao who was sitting on the shore and greeted him.
Li Chang smiled and shook his head.
The sun was blazing.
The old Taoist took out the yellow paper he carried with him, ground the ink with water on the ink stick, dipped the brush in ink, and wrote something on the paper.
Li Changxiao knew that the old Taoist priest wrote down everything he saw and heard in Yanjia Village and made it into a book. The old Taoist priest said that everyone will die eventually, and he is not young anymore, so he wanted to leave something behind.
Li Changxiao lay flat on the ground, enjoying a moment of peace, then walked over and patted the old Taoist priest on the shoulder. Then he turned and left, leaving only his back.
The old Taoist priest realized it later and looked back, only to see that the white clothes had been covered by leaves and weeds.
At this time.
Cai Wei swam to the shore, her proud figure not concealed at all. The magician did not dare to look at her openly, so he dived into the water to take a peek.
The same is true for swordsmen.
The witch sneered and mocked, then swam to the shore and put on her clothes and socks in front of several people.
Cai Wei looked around, was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Where's he?"
"Gone." replied the old Taoist priest.
Cai Wei's expression changed. She wasn't surprised at all, but felt a little regretful.
She has a cold and arrogant personality, but along the way, she was the one who paid the most attention to Li Changxiao, starting from the time when he killed the dragon.
She realized that this swordsman was mysterious and powerful... At first, she secretly competed with him in her heart, trying to guess the other party's swordsmanship level by observing the other party's clues.
But the more I observed, the less I could see through it; the less I could see through it, the more I observed. So... when the swordsman left without a word, an indescribable emotion arose in my heart.
But it was quickly suppressed.
After the break.
They continued to move north, trying to leave this area as soon as possible.
However, Li Changxiao was alone and returned south along the same route.
……
Yanjia Village.
The village chief Yan Lai Yu personally arranged the funeral of Yan Ci Sheng. He secretly gathered the villagers at night and told them one by one that this incident was not Ci Sheng's fault and that everyone should not distance themselves from Ci Sheng because of it.
Everyone praised the village chief for being sensible and knowing right from wrong, and said he was doing a good job.
Upon hearing this, the village chief laughed out loud and felt very pleased.
He asked several young men in the village to help prepare for the banquet.
Yanjia Village practices well burial, where the corpses are thrown into the well. The well is cold and gloomy, but in autumn and winter every year, ground water will gush out and take the people to paradise.
After Yan Cisheng buried his mother, he wore mourning clothes and stood alone by the well, unwilling to leave for a long time, which made the people passing by nod their heads secretly.
that's it.
Except there was one more man crying in the well.
Everything is normal in Yanjia Village.
only…
one night.
It was late at night, pitch dark, and every household had gone to bed.
Several men pushed open the door, walked lightly and silently, and moved back and forth in Yanjia Village.
Finally, they climbed in through the window of the village chief's house.
The village chief was sitting on the wooden bed, his legs apart, his hands on his knees, his back straight, as if he had known someone was coming.
He didn't turn on the light.
Only a few thin rays of moonlight shone into the room through the window, and I could vaguely see his face, which was plain yet somewhat majestic.
There were seven men in front of him, both old and young. The youngest looked to be only in his twenties, while the oldest seemed to be in his forties or fifties.
They all knelt on one knee, their expressions shrouded in shadows as the moonlight could not illuminate them.
"Village chief, they have arrived at Lianhe Mountain." said a young-looking man.
Another person said: "Village Chief, if we don't take action now, they will go far away, and then..."
The village chief Yan Laiyu waved his hand and said coldly: "It doesn't matter, they can't get away. Do they really think that the three strange beasts trapped Yanjia Village?"
"The mountains are connected, with no way in or out. The siege is not just talk. If they walk for a few more days, they will probably find that they are lost. The intersection in the north looks flat, but it is actually the easiest place to get lost."
"You don't have to search along the north road. You may encounter them in the east, west, south, etc. You can kill them when you find them."
A man who looked to be about fifty years old thought for a moment and said, "Then how about Sixteen..."
"Kill them all together." The village chief said coldly.
The man's pupils shrank slightly, and he replied heavily: "Yes!"
The village chief seemed to have thought of something, "By the way, are there any monks among them?"
One of them shook his head, "It doesn't seem so, but I can't guarantee it."
Upon hearing this, the village chief nodded.
A man who looked to be about thirty years old asked, "Village Chief, they haven't touched the real secret, why... still want to..."
Upon hearing this, the village chief Yan Laiyu sneered and said, "I didn't touch it, but I wanted to touch it. From that moment on, the ending was already determined."
The village chief got out of bed and walked slowly around the seven people.
He thought for a moment and said, "Do this well and don't let me down. If you do it well..."
The village chief's voice was like the whisper of a devil, "You... can go to Zhaozi Tower and bring a girl home."
The words fell.
The seven people's pupils shrank.
They lowered their voices and replied in unison with one word: "Yes!"
……
at the same time.
In those mountains.
The thin old Taoist priest suddenly stopped and frowned.
He took out a compass from the cloth bag behind him, and the needle on it was spinning wildly.
He was horrified and immediately took steps to look up at the sky, down at the earth, across the mountains, and up at the peaks.
"us…"
"be lost!"
His tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed as he accepted this reality.
After the white-robed swordsman left, they continued to advance for another whole day.
Walk to a place with mountains.
The previous step was fine.
The next step... is getting lost.
Weird and terrifying...If it weren't for the skinny old Taoist priest who had learned a lot of skills in exploring the terrain and feng shui, he wouldn't even have noticed it.
"Old Taoist, what are you talking about? Aren't we walking well? Look, the road ahead is quite flat. How come we got lost?" the Gu girl retorted.
Everyone looked over at the same time.
There was a look of suspicion on their faces.
The old Taoist shook his head solemnly, "Whether we are lost or not, we will know as we walk. The terrain here is much more complicated than I imagined. If we are unlucky..."
"I'm afraid I'll be trapped here to death... If it really comes to this..."
The old Taoist said no more. If he really couldn't get out, he might end up living as a wild man in the mountains for the rest of his life, or even worse.
Cai Wei frowned slightly, and her heart sank slightly when she realized that the old Taoist priest was not joking.
She thought for a moment and asked, "If what you said is true, what will happen to the swordsman who left yesterday?"
The old Taoist thought for a moment and replied, "If he goes forward, his situation should be similar to ours, but if he goes back... he won't get lost."
"The step we just took is like stepping into a maze. It is useless to retreat. The only thing we can do is to find another exit from the maze!"
Yan Shiliu was a little skeptical when he heard this. "Old Taoist, how did I go out before? Why didn't I get lost?"
The old Taoist priest looked at Yan Shiliu and said, "Have you ever heard of a fish that slipped through the net? I was confused at first, but now I understand a little bit."
"Do you remember the turbulent river we came from?"
"Remember." Yan Shiliu nodded.
The magician and the swordsman also looked over.
The old Taoist said: "When I crossed the river that day, I was looking at the river and the mountains. I was surprised at the time. There was a little discord between the river and the mountains."
"I just figured it out. It turns out that the mountains and rivers here are integrated into one. It is a situation where there is no way in or out."
"But... all rivers in the world are under the control of the River Mother. If it were a remote small river, it would be fine, but the turbulent Yangtze River runs through three counties and cities, and feeds millions of people."
"Because the river returns to the mother river, there is a small loophole in the mountain terrain with no entrance or exit, so... you can only go out at Sixteen."
Hear the words.
Yan Shiliu was greatly shocked and felt ominous in his heart. The same was true for Cai Wei, the Gu Girl, the Magician, and the Swordsman. Listening to the old Taoist's well-reasoned and logical words, it seemed to be true.
The majestic mountains and rivers here are like an ant observing the sky to anyone. From the outside, you cannot see anything. Only by getting involved in person can you understand a little bit.
The old Taoist priest figured all of this out instantly after he took that step just now.
Previously, they had escaped the net and were not covered by the mountain, but not now.
……
And at the same time.
Everything that happened to Yan Shiliu and others.
Li Changxiao didn't know this. The reason he accompanied them and walked along the northern road for several days was to send them out of the troubled place and away from Yanjia Village.
Then he walked back alone.
Talk about something that needs to be solved.
Solved together.
At nightfall.
There are the calls of monkeys in the distance and the chirping of cicadas nearby, interweaving into one another.
It was hot.
Li Changxiao took a sip.
Go to sleep.
Snoring gradually began to sound.
It added a different rhythm to the noisy nocturne.
He already knew all the truth about Yanjia Village.
All that's missing is that last bit of evidence.
(This chapter is nearly 3000 words long. The truth about Yanjia Village should be revealed tomorrow. Please give me some small gifts. I love you (??w??)??.)