man sanctified in death row vest

"Chang dark secret record?"

Although there are two words missing on the cover.

But when Zheng Xiu read the record about "cotton slough", he blinked and completed the words on the cover.

"Huh? The strong man knows the secret of 'Eternal Darkness'?"

The old man said in surprise.

Zheng Xiu shook his head, but did not answer.After reading the record about "cotton slough" with a strange expression, he turned to the first page and read the outline.

After reading it in one breath, Zheng Xiu roughly understood.

The person who wrote this book didn't really know about the existence of eternal darkness, or faced it directly.

Just as primitive people were afraid of the dark night in the ancient times without flames, the ancients were in awe of the unknown.

All fear comes from "unknown", from lack of firepower.

The more Zheng Xiu read, the more frightened he became.

"I'll solve the cotton slough for you. Zheng, like the alchemist back then, is a psychic."

"Monk, what nonsense are you talking about!" When the man heard this, he said angrily: "Jingwu said that being burned by the fire is purification! Besides, it is Cuihua who doesn't want to be separated from that bug! That's not human! Not human at all! It's a bug... If it wasn't for that bug, how could I watch Cuihua being burned to death... Woooooo... What did our old Zhang family do wrong, God treats our Cuihua like this Whoooooooo!"

Until two months later, the baby suddenly fell into a deep sleep, and dark green mold spots grew on his body.

The old man didn't answer, but asked suddenly.

The old man was overjoyed when he heard Zheng Xiu's request. They didn't have money, but they needed supplies. As the No. 15 generation of Jing Wu, he had a certain prestige in the town, and he could easily scrape together what Zheng Xiu needed.

"Grandpa, I haven't seen you for five years, why did you come back suddenly?"

"steamed stuffed bun?"

"That man is such a beast, how could he just watch his mother-in-law being burned to death! Why don't I just slap him to death!"

Zheng Xiu rolled his eyes, but soon he discovered something, Ruchen's fingers passed through the silk thread of the cotton slough without hindrance.

Zheng Xiu didn't explain, Ruchen scratched his head like an ant on a hot pan.Seeing Zheng Xiu raised his middle finger at him, he stretched out his hand and shook Zheng Xiu's finger: "Brother Zheng, what are you pointing at me for?"

Not long after Zheng Xiu and Ruchen left.

"Don't be noisy."

The baby Zheng Xiu had seen with his own eyes. If he hadn't used [Inspiration], on the surface, the baby would look the same as a normal baby, and it would be difficult to tell the difference.

The woman was still kneeling on the ground with "Ren Rong" in her arms, while her husband dared not step forward, obsequious.

"Don't worry, Mr. Zheng has no malicious intentions." Zheng Xiu showed a charming smile to Cuihua, and reached out his hand as quickly as lightning.

"It's okay, if you can't solve it, you can burn it again." Zheng Xiu said with neither joy nor sorrow, "It can be exchanged with him. Zheng hopes to get paid for this matter."

Xiao Zhao replied: "I remember. It is said that in ancient times there was a person named 'Zhu' who worshiped the scorching sun. One day he ran towards the scorching sun, ran and ran, ran over thousands of mountains and over thousands of rivers. , On a very high, very high mountain, chasing the sun."

After sitting down, the old man with a hunched back gradually straightened his back and his cloudy eyes became brighter, as if he had changed into another person in just a few seconds.

Farewell to Jingwu's family, the doors and windows of the folk houses in Jingtang Town are still closed.

Ruchen obediently followed behind Zheng Xiu, bouncing and jumping, looking very happy, but he smiled and smiled: "Brother Zheng, tell me, if we intervene in this matter, will it delay your rescue of Fengbei?" About the benefactor?"

Now you have to believe it or not.

Seeing this, Ruchen was taken aback for a moment, and wanted to curse at first, but when he saw the man kneeling on the ground crying bitterly, he couldn't curse anymore.

But many doors and windows were secretly opened. Zheng Xiu and Ruchen were walking on the road. The eyes from inside made Zheng Xiu feel uncomfortable.

Until the third time, Zheng Xiu finally triggered [Opportunity] and threw a big success.

The old man was overjoyed when he heard the words: "Really?" But after the overjoy, the old man showed a sad face: "However, according to ancient records, the alchemists from that year were still burned."

【You pay attention! 】

"Yes, strong man." The old man smiled helplessly: "I once burned human velvet with my own hands, and I knew that the cotton sloughed very well. After burning human velvet, I couldn't get rid of the guilt and depression in my heart. So I trained Xiaozhao to become Jingtang Town No.16 generation Jingwu, the old man will go back to the field."

Xiao Zhao wiped off the dust on a stool with his hands, and turned a blind eye to the crow feathers in the room. After helping the old man to sit down, Xiao Zhao obediently knelt beside the old man's knees and asked, blinking his innocent eyes.

"No..." Zheng Xiu's pupils shrank, and he held his breath subconsciously: "It's spores."

The man who was furious at the beginning suddenly broke down while talking, covering his face and crying bitterly.

For things that cannot be explained by "common sense", they range from climate change and the alternation of day and night, to water turning into ice and fire turning into charcoal.The imaginative ancients recorded some strange anecdotes in this way through what they saw and heard, combined with certain subjective conjectures.

The woman only thought that the child was born with a cold, but the husband looked more and more strange, because the child only looked like cotton, not like him.

They looked at Zheng Xiu and Ruchen as if they were looking at two monsters.

Zheng Xiu waited for a while.

The old man sighed: "Because, about 20 years ago, there was a 'cotton slough' here."

The startled and terrified man opened his hands to block Zheng Xiu and Ruchen.

He remembered that Master Wait and so on said a word: There are eight kinds of eccentricities in the world, and strange people have only one stone.The implication is that everyone in the world is normal, but thaumaturgy behaves strangely in order to follow the strange "rules" and meet the "restrictions" of thaumaturgy, which is difficult for ordinary people to understand, so they are called strange people.

Follow the "silk" left by the cotton slough, and you should be able to touch the old nest of the cotton slough.

He made a list and stated his requirements.

leave.

Until the sixth strange baby appeared in the village, someone invited Jianghu alchemist, claiming to be a strange person born with psychics.The alchemist said that the child had caused something evil, and after burning all the children and pregnant women to death, the incident was finally over.

The creatures that look like babies on the surface have long been replaced by "cotton sloughs".

"What do you want to do to our Cuihua!"

Xiao Zhao helped Grandpa back into the house.

According to the book, "cotton slough" is invisible and colorless, difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

The invisible "silk thread" was like a spider's thread. After Zheng Xiu pulled it out, the silk thread stuck to Zheng Xiu's finger and extended downward.

The cotton slough that occurs once every hundred years reappears after 20 years.

failure.

"So that's how it is." Zheng Xiu wondered whether the alchemist who was the first to discover the cotton slough had also seen the same scene, and then came up with the method of burning the cotton slough to death.

After careful identification, the spot of light turned out to be umbrella-shaped, which reminded Zheng Xiu of a plant called "dandelion".

Before the founding of Dagan, on a starless night, there was a legend in an unknown village. There was a young and beautiful woman named "Mian" who was pregnant in October and gave birth to a "baby" that looked like mud. .

The house has been dusty for many years, full of cobwebs, apparently uninhabited all year round.

But after thinking about it, Zheng Xiu denied this possibility.If the alchemist could really see the "silk thread", he would naturally be able to follow the vines to find the hiding place of the cotton slough, how could he use this cruel method of killing one thousand enemies and self-defeating eight hundred.Psychics and psychics cannot be generalized, Zheng Xiu has to throw a big success to see deeply, presumably the level of psychic that alchemist back then was not as deep as Zheng Xiu is now.

Zheng Xiu was expressionless and clenched his fists.

To be honest, Zheng Xiu also read some ancient folk books like this before he was imprisoned. , it is difficult for Zheng Xiu to treat these strange stories as real.

Zheng Xiu frowned: "20 years ago?"

"You guys, why do you believe so deeply in the ancient books?"

Grass!
Why in the end!
If it is said that he came into contact with this matter at the beginning because of Ruchen's persistence and conscience, when Zheng Xiu learned that Mian Slough reappeared after 20 years, his mentality was vaguely different.

"As expected of Brother Zheng!" Ruchen smiled and gave Zheng Xiu a thumbs up.

Great success.

Therefore, this phenomenon was later called "cotton sloughing".

Perhaps Brother Zheng's rule in performing surgery is to scratch his forehead?While thinking, Ruchen habitually touched his bald head.

Other residents of the town are not safe.

This ancient book also contains many strange and strange creatures, called ghosts and monsters, such as carp with human face, tiger with eight-legged spider body, world-wandering fish, and sun-chaser.

The green light spots were not dense, so Zheng Xiu took a few glances and seized the time to look for clues.

A voice in his heart kept telling himself that all this had nothing to do with him.But Zheng Xiu couldn't explain this unique time node with the word "coincidence".

"Step aside."

It was 20 years ago again.

"This is?"

Under the spirit vision, Zheng Xiu found a green spot of light floating in the sky above Jingtang Town. Countless spots of light danced with the wind, sometimes going up and sometimes going down.

Zheng Xiu stroked his fingers to the center of his eyebrows, and a dice moistened with faint black air emerged from the center of his eyebrows.

Such appalling "stories" are recorded in ancient books in obscure words.

Cotton slough is one of them.

20 years ago.

The baby's eyebrows resembled cotton, and the woman was eager to think about her baby, thinking that her baby had transformed into a new life, so she named it the word "slough".

What's even more strange is that on top of the dust, there is a thick layer of black crow feathers. The crow feathers are brand new, as if they have just been plucked from the crow.

Zheng Xiu shook his head and waved his hands: "No."

The old man touched Xiaozhao's head, showing embarrassment: "The strong man doesn't know something. Jingtang Town is located in a remote place and rarely communicates with the outside world. Living in the town does not use a large number of coins and gold and silver, but Bartering things, if a strong man is looking for money, I'm afraid..."

Ordinary and successful [Inspiration] cannot be seen clearly, but under the "concentration", Zheng Xiu's vision suddenly changed, and the outlines of the figures, the ground and the eaves were dyed with a layer of brilliant black light and shadow at the same time.

Suddenly, Zheng Xiu thought of a strange question.With such a cruel solution to cotton sloughing, no matter how ignorant a normal person is, it is impossible for a normal person to believe in an old book and directly choose to burn pregnant women and children to death.

"Human antler" just looks like a baby, but in fact, it is a kind of insect called "cotton slough".

"Go! Follow!"

The appearance of the slough seems to be the same as that of a normal child, except that it is very quiet, does not cry or make trouble, and grows very quickly.

People are not people.

Zheng Xiu shook his head: "I didn't intend to delay for too long. In fact, I probably thought of a way when I checked the baby just now. Now that I read Jing Wu's complete "Eternal Dark Secret Record", I am even more sure. If it goes well, it should be in the dark. This matter can be resolved before. The worst result is nothing more than a failure, and they will do it according to their own local methods. Moreover, when I am looking for cotton sloughs, they collect materials for me, which can also save a lot Time kills two birds with one stone."

Zheng Xiu held down the monk's bald head and resumed breathing.The cotton slough will only find pregnant women to parasitize, devouring the babies in the pregnant women's womb to replace them.Such a well-regulated breeding method made Zheng Xiu understand that the "spores" in the sky that only the vision can see are harmless to other people except pregnant women, otherwise the ancients would have noticed the strangeness long ago.

After the special effect disappears, Zheng Xiu will lose it again.

Two cotton-padded jackets to keep out the cold, fire bags, dry firewood, and coarse grains.

Ruchen looked at the submissive husband, suddenly revealed a ferocious face, said something murderous, then returned to normal, turned to look at Zheng Xiu, and was as pure and calm as a white moonlight, Ruchen touched his bald head and said in wonder: "Zheng Xiu Brother, how do you find that bug called cotton slough?"

After Zheng Xiu said something pointedly, he walked towards the woman.

When he looked down, Zheng Xiu found that the "Ren Rong" in the woman's arms was connected with "silk threads".

At the same time, in the village where Mian was located, another pregnant woman also gave birth to a mud child.

I don't know how many years ago, the ancients imagined that the world is divided into two sides, one side is "eternal world" and the other side is "eternal darkness", and the two sides are not connected to each other.But once strange things happen in the world, they speculate that there are evil things coming out of the darkness to harm the world.

In other words, it is due to the "ignorance" and "weakness" of human beings.

The cotton slough is called the "hundred-year bug" because it occurs every hundred years, mostly in remote places.

Since ancient times, to solve the "cotton slough", the only way to prevent the further reproduction of the cotton slough is to burn all the "human antlers" and pregnant women pregnant with cotton slough.

Zheng Xiu knew time was tight and didn't want to waste time, so there was no nonsense at the moment, so Ruchen followed.

Hearing Zheng Xiu talking to himself, Ruchen asked quickly.

"Xiao Zhao, do you still remember 'The Sunstrider Said'?"

At the end of the record about "cotton slough", the author speculates based on the words left by the strange alchemists that the cotton slough is a kind of "worm" from the dark. When it reaches a hundred years, it will sneak into the belly of a pregnant woman and eat the baby in the womb. and replace it.When a pregnant woman gives birth, the newborn cotton slough will escape in the form of "silt". After a period of development, it will send the human-shaped "human antler" to the pregnant woman's home, continue to absorb nutrients, and split into more "human antler" ".

Mian and her husband were shocked. The mud seemed to have a spirit, and disappeared into the night through the crack of the door.

Ruchen laughed dumbly: "You are really strange! You were the one who wanted to burn your wife, and you are the one who jumped out now! Since you can watch your wife being burned to death, isn't it ridiculous to be so hypocritical now?" ?”

Zheng Xiu pulled out one, and there was no abnormality in the antler, and he still didn't cry or make a fuss.Speaking of which, Zheng Xiu's initial feeling was not wrong. The baby's "crying" sound was not like a crying sound, but more like a "crying", which was not a sound that a human baby could make at all.

The old man nodded and said with a smile: "Well, just remember, what happened later?"

Zheng Xiu and Ruchen returned to the open space where the "purification ceremony" was held, the flames burned out, leaving only a mess.

"I didn't point to you."

Mian has been unhappy since then, but ten days later, Mian heard the baby crying at home, and finally found the baby in a closed box.

It can grow to the size of a three-month child in one month.

"You still want money?" Xiao Zhao interjected with a sudden increase in tone.

Cotton sloughs start off like an infectious disease.

Another day, Mian heard a baby crying again in another room at home, and when he opened it, it was another baby.

Ruchen looked at Zheng Xiu's weird movements, but he couldn't see Zheng Xiu's weird thing, he wondered if Brother Zheng's scalp was itchy, and was about to care about him, but saw Zheng Xiu's firm eyes, he didn't seem to be playing, so he obediently Shut your mouth and wait and see.

"Follow the vine."

"Later, the candle melted."

The old man smiled and said, "The candle was melted by the scorching sun because it was too close..."

After saying this, the old man closed his eyes.

for a long time.

The old man's eyes opened again: "It's too close to the constant darkness, it's the same!"