The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 920 The Curse of the Harvest

A moment later, near the farmland outside Toyota Village.

Pei Wende, who had hidden his figure, strolled leisurely among the fields, but his eyes always stayed on the dense rice.

Just like Pei Wende's previous speculation, the rice planted in this field just arrived at the harvest season.

Golden ears of wheat hang on the stalks, showing the fruit of the harvest.

"Have you found anything?"

Silently appearing behind Pei Wende, Xiaoqing, who hid her body in the exclusive cave, asked.

At this moment, Xiaoqing is in a superimposed state of reality and fantasy, and outsiders can't see her figure at all, let alone hear her voice.

This is Xiaoqing's special ability after obtaining the exclusive cave.

Compared with turning into a green snake and walking with Pei Wende, Xiaoqing in this state is obviously more secretive.

Of course, Xiaoqing herself doesn't like this shadow-like existence.

Compared to now when her main body is hidden in another dimension, Xiaoqing enjoys the life of traveling with Pei Wende and bickering with each other more.

"This farmland is really tricky..."

He didn't directly answer Xiaoqing's question, but Pei Wende walked slowly to a field of wheat ears and squatted down gently, then stretched out his hand to signal for the other person to come over and have a look.

"What's the trick?"

Curiously leaning over from behind Pei Wende, Xiao Qing didn't notice anything strange.

"The soil here... is reddish brown."

Just like the previous road leading to Toyota Village, the soil under this farmland is also a striking reddish brown.

Although Pei Wende is not an expert in agriculture, he also knows that this is absolutely impossible to be the color of normal soil.

Or rather, normal reddish-brown soil is not very fertile.

It is not suitable for planting at all, and it is impossible to grow such a dense rice field.

Among the divisions of many soils, the most fertile is the black soil, which has a very high content of organic matter and presents a sticky black color.

When the fertility is exhausted, the color of the soil layer will become lighter and lighter.

In Pei Wende's limited cognition, the reddish-brown soil is usually a manifestation of the destruction of the soil layer structure and the exhaustion of fertility.

"What does this mean?"

Couldn't help raising her eyebrows slightly, Xiaoqing seemed to have noticed a little sign.

Because after being reminded by Pei Wende, Xiaoqing found that not only the color of these soils was a bit abnormal, but even the smell of these soils was obviously different.

As a snake that lives in the mountains and forests all year round, Xiaoqing can be sure that she has never seen soil similar to these reddish-brown soils.

[These soils... are polluted by the 'blood of ghosts and gods'! 】

At this moment, the shadow behind Pei Wende suddenly twisted, and Linglong's voice came to Xiaoqing and Pei Wende's hearts in a timely manner.

Although Linglong, who has a seven-aperture Linglong heart and knows all changes in everything, has remained silent for a long time, she has actually been paying attention to what is happening outside.

It's just that in most cases, Linglong just likes to quietly observe everything happening outside.

"Is that so?"

Hearing this, Pei Wende, who had expected it for a long time, sighed softly.

The next moment, Pei Wende held his right hand empty, gathering a spinning air blade out of thin air.

clap la la...

Where the air blade passed, the golden ears of wheat fell to the ground, and soon a piece of harvested farmland was formed right in front of Pei Wende.

However, something strange happened at this moment.

The ears of wheat that fell into the field were like ginseng fruit that melted into the ground, and disappeared from Pei Wende's field of vision the moment they hit the ground.

"This……"

Pupils constricted suddenly, and Xiaoqing, who had the incarnation of a mirage dragon, naturally saw the trickiness in it.

"Are these ears of wheat fake?"

Here, it may not be accurate to say that it is fake.

Because the rice really existed before it was harvested.

But at the moment of being harvested, the "foundation" that maintained the existence of these rice disappeared all of a sudden.

Since there was no so-called rice from the beginning, the only thing that was harvested was air.

This kind of performance between existence and non-existence, between reality and illusion, is a kind of magical power of "making the fake into the real".

"It's not just as simple as a fake..."

Staring silently in front of him, Pei Wende reminded softly.

Immediately afterwards, as if responding to Pei Wende's statement, the rice harvested by him before actually grew again.

The cut stalks wither automatically, the immature young shoots grow rapidly, and the golden ears of wheat sway in the wind...

In just the blink of an eye, the harvested rice fields re-grow with harvest rice, as if nothing had happened.

"This is the truth about the 'bump harvest' in the wheat field!"

Stretching out his hand to caress the swaying rice, Pei Wende could even feel the incomparably real touch.

"It's not that the time we came was coincidental enough to coincide with the harvest of these farmlands."

"On the contrary, the rice in these farmlands is in a state of harvest all the time, as if time is constant."

"No matter when we come, whether it's spring planting, autumn harvesting, or even the twelfth lunar month of winter..."

"What we see here is only this piece of rice that is always in a state of harvest."

There was a slight pause in the voice and hesitation. When Pei Wende said the last sentence, he corrected a certain wording in his words in time.

"There will always be a good harvest, but there will never be a real harvest..."

"It's a curse, an eternal curse on Toyoda Village."

Pei Wende was silent, Linglong was silent, even Xiaoqing who didn't care about all of this was silent.

——You can reach it at your fingertips, but you can never ask for it.

This is the harshest punishment in the world.

"Could this be the curse of the mountain ghost?"

After a long silence, Xiaoqing spoke again.

"The mountain god who doesn't exist in this land—is this her curse on Toyota Village?"

Shaking his head lightly, Pei Wende was noncommittal.

"Don't draw conclusions so early, after all, there are too few clues now."

"What happened in Toyota Village may be the curse of a powerful ghost, or it may be the spell of some kind of monster who plays with people's hearts..."

"We don't even know what happened here, and jumping to conclusions will only mislead the direction of future investigations."

The voice paused again, and Pei Wende said solemnly this time without any scruples.

"Besides, we all know about the existence of mountain ghosts from Lao Xiong and Ku Chan."

"If the instigator behind the scenes does have the ability to 'make fakes come true' similar to Mirage Dragon, then it is still unknown whether that mountain ghost really existed."

——Monthly ticket/recommendation ticket——

(End of this chapter)