Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11243

Inside the earthen kang, mixed with the broken earthen bricks, was a male corpse wrapped in a torn mat.

The reason why it is called a male corpse is actually because it is speculated that this is the old man from Huansheng's family. If you just look at it with your eyes, you can't tell the gender of this corpse at all.

Because the body had been severely dehydrated for a long time, it did not rot, but was dehydrated. From head to toe, the skin had shrunk and all the flesh and blood under the skin was gone.

The head was a skull wrapped in a wrinkled, dried leather bag, with a tuft of dead person's hair on top that looked like dry corn silk.

His mouth was wide open, his eyes had a slit, and his eyeballs were white.

The bodies were similar, like a skeleton wrapped in wrinkled skin, but—

Many tentacles grew out of his body, like a black bean seed buried in the ground, and then began to take root and sprout.

Some of the tentacles were already quite long and densely packed, like ropes, one end of which was connected to the body of old man Huansheng, and the other end penetrated the earthen bed, the wall, the ground, and drilled into the ground...

Some roots have not yet grown into full growth, but they continue to sprout on the old man's body, and some are long and some are short.

It's not uncommon for potatoes to sprout.

It is also normal for trees to sprout.

But if a person had sprouts on his body, under the skin, on his head, on his neck, behind the ears, and even on his thighs, waist, and back, all over, densely packed with buds, can you imagine that feeling?

Even people like Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang, who had seen big scenes before, couldn't help but feel their scalps tingling at this moment.

As for Zhang San and the others behind him, they were so frightened when they saw the strangeness of the old man that their legs and feet went limp. Some of them covered their mouths and ran out of the house...

Even Zhang San didn't dare to stay in the room anymore and ran out.

Previously, they had accidentally dug up the earthen kang and found a dead body hidden inside. They were so scared that they quickly dropped their hoes and shovels and ran outside the yard, waiting for Yang Ruoqing and the others to come and deal with it.

If they had continued digging and looked more carefully, they would have definitely seen these granulations.

I guess a few people would be scared to death at that time...

His gaze returned to the house.

Although Zhang San and several other villagers were too scared to stay in the house, Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang still did not leave.

After a brief moment of shock, the two men first observed the situation in front of them. Then, Luo Fengtang stepped forward again and took out the short-handled dagger in his hand that he had brought with him to the battlefield and had used to take down countless enemy heads.

"Zizi!"

A few cold lights flashed, and the long roots entangled with old man Huansheng were instantly cut off.

Luo Fengtang kicked the earth pit over, and then used a shovel to shovel old man Huansheng out of the earthen kang.

When the old man was shoveled out and thrown to the ground, there was a dull thud, just like a super big potato or sweet potato being dug out of the soil and thrown aside.

At this time, Yang Ruoqing discovered that there were still many tentacles on the old man's back. She also imitated Luo Fengtang before. She pulled out the ancient sword Moye from her waist, and with a few swishes, a green light flashed, and she cut off the tentacles on the old man's back.

"What are these tentacles?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

It looks like... it doesn't look like the squid tentacles of alien creatures in science fiction movies, but these tentacles are obviously alive. They penetrated the old man, used him as food, and absorbed nutrients from his body.

Therefore, even though the old man died, he did not emit the stench of decay because he was controlled by these tentacles.

Luo Fengtang looked at the hole at the bottom after it was dug out and said, "These roots are the roots of the old maple tree."

Yang Ruoqing took a breath.

This old maple tree is so old that even the elderly people in the village can't tell when it was planted here. I guess the combined age of all the villagers is not as old as this old maple tree, right?

The saying "a big tree has deep roots" is not just a casual saying. It is very likely that with the old maple tree as the center, its roots will cover an area of ​​several meters in radius, or even further.

Huansheng's home is located under the old maple tree, so it is not surprising that the roots of the old maple tree extend to the bottom of his house.

However, the fact that the roots of this tree can penetrate dead bodies and absorb nutrients from them can be explained from a biological point of view.

However, when you see it with your own eyes, it still makes people terrified and sends chills down their spine.

"No wonder I heard the old man sighing by the old maple tree twice. There may be something mysterious going on." Yang Ruoqing said to herself.

"Also, Taoist Yuan's hexagram says that this old man is dead when he is alive, and alive when he is dead."

"I couldn't comprehend the meaning at that time, but now it seems that I understand it."

Dead, really dead. From the old man's perspective, he stopped breathing, his heart stopped beating, and his brain stopped thinking.

From a physiological point of view, he was indeed dead.

However, because of the roots of the old maple tree, it continuously absorbs nutrients from the old man's body to provide for the growth of the old maple tree. The old maple tree may not only absorb nutrients from the old man's body, but may also absorb the old man's spirit.

Because the physical body is where the seven spirits hide, the corruption of the physical body represents the collapse of the seven spirits.

If the physical body was eaten by the old maple tree, then the seven souls might also be eaten by the old maple tree. Since the old maple tree is alive, the old man is also "alive" in this way.

The moonlight outside the window had disappeared behind the dark clouds at some point. In this dark room, the only light came from the lantern in Yang Ruoqing's hand.

There were three people, she and Luo Fengtang were two standing, and one was lying on the ground.

In such an environment, Yang Ruoqing felt her scalp tingling when thinking about these questions.

Especially in this room, a gust of cold wind started to blow at some point, and the faint sound of an old man's sigh in the wind made Yang Ruoqing shiver.

At this time, after listening to Yang Ruoqing's analysis, Luo Fengtang silently took a mat to cover the old man on the ground, and bowed to the old man three times.

He turned around and held Yang Ruoqing's hand: "Leave it like this for now, and wait until tomorrow morning to deal with it."

Yang Ruoqing was protected by him, and the two of them quickly left the house.

Zhang San and his men all ran out of the yard in one breath. The men huddled together and encouraged each other.

When they saw Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang come out, they stood up straight, but they were still trembling when they spoke.

"Qing'er, Tang'er, what's going on?"

"Oh my god, that's scary!"

"I've never seen anything this horrible in my life..."

"..."

Yang Ruoqing said, "Brothers, you have worked hard tonight. Don't be afraid. The old man was just buried in the earthen kang. It just so happened that the roots of the old maple tree were too deep and entangled him. There is no other abnormality."

"what?"

"Who buried him in there? Was it Huansheng?"

"Damn it! Isn't this patricide? You should be beheaded!"