ninety thousand miles

Chapter 83
Early the next morning, the three of Li Chuan left for Xialin Village after breakfast.

Xialin Village is not far away. They took a small carriage and arrived at the foot of the mountain in half an hour. In order not to miss the clue, they got out of the car and walked up.

Fortunately, Li Chuan took the third person with him, and Li Chuan sat on the crab shell, feeling very lucky.

Gong Er was very excited, he didn't sit on the crab shell, he walked in front of Li Chuan, looking for clues seriously.Look left, look west, and fly to the tree from time to time, overlooking the surroundings.

His harvest is also quite rich.

Got into a fight with an owl; plucked out the squirrel's food storage; nearly got bitten by a blind snake; got into a litter of bobcats...

Wen Guying and Jin Rong have been discussing what to do next. They are professionals, and from time to time some words that Li Chuan can't understand will pop up. After listening for a while, Li Chuan feels that he needs to speak up anyway When the time comes, they will talk, so they let go of their mood and enjoy the surrounding scenery.

It may have rained at night, so the ground is a bit wet, and the puddles that can be seen everywhere are glowing with colorful lights; the air is also humid, with some earthy smell and a little grassy aroma.

After walking halfway up the mountain, Wen Guying stopped, and said, "Xialin Village is ahead."

Li Chuan looked in the direction Wen Guying pointed, and saw a small path interspersed with grass, leaves and bushes in front of him, which was obviously walked by people.

They walked along the path, and not long after, they saw sparse houses.Entering the village, the utensils still remain the same as before, hoes on the haystacks, bowls on wooden tables, and some live chickens and ducks walking around in the open space.

Wen Guying and Jin Rong searched the entire village. Wen Guying returned the sword to the sky and looked down from above.

Wen Guying wasn't discouraged, if he could find the problem once he came here, his junior brother wouldn't need to kill people to confirm the existence of the ghosts.

Wen Guying said: "There are two directions to look for. If according to my previous speculation, the short-term boundary layer during the ascension continued for some reason, then there must be a place here that is particularly full of aura, and I found this place. That’s fine. The other direction is, how the White Ghosts occupy the bodies of the villagers of Xialin Village, there must be some kind of ritual, but there are no Xialin Villagers alive now.”

"Can you summon the soul?" Li Chuan put forward an idea, "According to Brother Guan, you will become a different ghost at the age of 20. If there is a ceremony, it must be at the age of 20. Everyone lives in the same village. Meeting sooner or later, this kind of thing can’t be hidden, so we recruited eighteen or nineteen-year-old souls and asked them carefully, such as whether they will have any special behaviors on their 20th birthday. Then we will know ?”

Wen Guying nodded, "I thought so too. I tried it just now, but there was no response."

"So..." Li Chuan was not very discouraged after hearing this, and he said: "There is no rush, Liu Canjun went back to check the case files and county records last night, you said, it is impossible for everyone in Xialin Village to be 20 Do you marry after the age of 20? If there are people who marry outside and are under [-] years old, ask her husband's family if anything strange happened when she was [-] years old, maybe there will be clues ?”

"This is indeed a solution," Wen Guying heard, and praised Li Chuan, saying: "Brother Li always has a lot of wonderful ideas."

Li Chuan felt that it was not that he had a lot of whimsical ideas, but that he dared to say whatever he had, regardless of whether it was useful or mentally retarded.

So he had another idea and said: "Can we go to the local city god to find the records of the soul reincarnation of Xialin Village? The ghosts can't reincarnate like humans, right? If we can find the records, when will Xialin Village start to have no records?" The reincarnation of the soul, is that the time when the ghosts appeared? Combined with the county records that Liu Canjun searched for, maybe we can find clues?"

This time, Wen Guying showed a thoughtful expression, and said: "It is indeed a solution, but the relationship between the Sishen Palace and the underworld is average, and the City God probably won't see me."

This sounds probably not ordinary, but a vendetta.

Jin Rong also said: "Reincarnation in the underworld is its own system, and it has never dealt with Taoist monks."

This way is also broken.

Li Chuan thought about it again, and said, "Is there a magic weapon that can detect changes in spiritual energy?"

"There are quite a few of these, and Brother Jin and I can both sense changes in spiritual power, so we plan to check around carefully." Wen Guying said the next plan, and said: "It may take a long time, and it may take a long time. It's rather boring, Brother Li can find a place to rest for a while, and when we find the clues, then ask Brother Li to go out."

Li Chuan was also about to take a break, so he immediately agreed.

But he didn't want to be in the village, he always felt chilly and unlucky.

Just when he was going up the mountain, he saw a small stream beside the village, so after talking to Wen Jin, he asked Pang San to take him to the stream and found a rock to sit down on.

The sound of water gurgling.

Li Chuan took out the fishing rod and basket from the clear water ring, sent Gong Er to pick some earthworms, and then started fishing.

Pang San immersed half of his body in the water, very comfortable.

Gong Er looked east and west, and suddenly said: "Brother, I think there is something wrong with this place."

"what is the problem?"

"In such a large forest, logically speaking, there should be many spirits and monsters, but we have not encountered a single monster along the way, isn't it strange?" Gong Er replied.

is quite strange.

Li Chuan took out the Mingxian Pei, tapped it with his finger, there was a burst of white light, and there were no evil monsters in a radius of a hundred miles. He looked at Gong Er and the three beside him, and said, "Sit in the carriage, drive the third gear, and go a hundred miles away." Stay, have a cup of tea time, and come back."

The next three felt that something was wrong: "Brother, there are strange ghosts here, it's not safe for you to be here alone."

Li Chuan felt that Pang San was right, so he said to Gong Er: "You fly to the tree, see where they are now, and then find one of them."

Gong Er acted according to his word.

Not long after, Gong Er brought Wen Guying over.

Wen Guying took Mingxian Pei in his hand and looked at it, "This magic weapon is not bad, but it has a restriction on it, so it can only respond passively. If you remove the restriction and drive it with divine thoughts, you may be able to directly lock the position of the monster. But Inhibition is a good thing for you, and it can be achieved by tapping."

Li Chuan understood that this restriction might have been set up by Gong Wuguang for him.

Wen Guying said: "Although my divine sense can cover the entire mountain range, it still needs to be inspected inch by inch. At this time, it is better to use this Mingxian pendant." He returned the jade pendant to Li Chuan, and then told the second Pang San said: "Now I have to work hard, Junior Brother Pang. You don't have to worry, I will lock your position."

Gong Er replied three times that it was not hard, then got into the carriage, opened the third gear, and disappeared in a flash.

After disappearing, Li Chuan counted ten times in his heart, and then tapped Ming Xianpei with his fingers.

There is no light.

There is no demon.

"Can Daoist Wen sense the location of the second and third brothers?" Li Chuan asked.

"Yes," Wen Guying's spiritual thoughts locked on Gong Er Pang San, "They landed smoothly in the southeast direction and were not injured." Blessed place..."

"Is this abnormal?" Li Chuan asked.

"Of course," Wen Guying replied, "I'll search carefully with my spiritual sense, maybe I can find clues."

After a while, Jin Rong also came over.

Li Chuan asked: "Brother Jin found anything?"

Jin Rong shook his head.

"I didn't find anything either." Wen Guying opened his eyes and said, "But just like Brother Li found out, I searched for a long time with my spiritual sense, and there are no animals or plants that have enlightened their minds here."

"This is not right." Jin Rong said.

Then Jin Rong and Wen Guying began to discuss why this happened.

After listening for a while, Li Chuan couldn't understand again, so he picked up the fishing rod and concentrated on fishing.

The sun is getting stronger and brighter, and the stream is sparkling.

Li Chuan felt the fishing rod move, and he took the bait. It must be a big fish. He raised the rod, and there was a splash... The plump mandarin fish jumped out of a perfect semicircle and returned to the stream.

Li Chuan looked down at the fishing rod, but the bait was gone.

Guda Guda, the sound of wheels came, and then I heard Gong Er's voice, "Big Brother, Big Brother, how are you? Are there no monsters?"

As soon as he turned his head, he saw Gong Er standing on the carriage, very airy.

"Yes, there are no monsters." Li Chuan said immediately.

"Is this a clue?" Gong Er asked.

"It's a clue." Wen Guying also affirmed Gonger's speculation.

"Let me just say it," Gong Er jumped down, "I wanted to ask the local monsters, but it must be the strange ghost who ate all the monsters." Thinking of this, he told the other three, "Third brother , remember not to be left alone, the White Walkers will eat monsters."

Then Gonger and Pangsan began to discuss how to fight if they encounter a different ghost.

"We don't know if our magic weapon is useful to the White Walkers."

"Do White Walkers sleep?"

"Defend first..."

Li Chuan listened, he put the bait again, and lowered the pole.

While waiting for the fish to take the bait, he suddenly thought of something and asked, "Will the ghosts take over the bodies of animals? The bodies of the monsters are taken by the ghosts, so they are not monsters, so they can't be detected?"

His thoughts gradually drifted away, "Or occupy animals first, such as humans eat fish, fish eat grass, grass eat..."

The fishing rod moved again.

Must be a big fish.

Lift the pole!

A palm-sized toad.

sigh.

"Brother Li makes a lot of sense," Wen Guying said with a smile in his voice, "Brother Jin and I will go catch some animals and show Brother Li."

"Look at this toad first, it's so ugly, it must be a different ghost." Li Chuan picked up one of the toad's hind legs, took out the demon mirror, and looked at the sunlight.

It was blank, as if it had no soul.

The brain is too small, so there is no soul?Something seemed to move in the mirror. When I looked closely, it was a fluffy feather-like bug.

Li Chuan grasped Toad's legs, stretched his arms straight, and kept as far away from his body as possible, "This is a strange ghost."

(End of this chapter)