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Chapter 358 Acupuncture
The herd of cattle rushed out of the teahouse with a "thump, thump, thump".

But he hesitated and dared not come in.

The lead one, exceptionally large, swung its long, curved horns, peering into the teahouse before tentatively asking, "Sister Hei, has something happened?"

The woman looked down at the ten counting rods stuck in her body and thought to herself, "Can't you tell?"

My younger brothers are really stupid!
But the cows really couldn't tell.

Because although the counting rods pierced the woman's body, no blood was drawn.

The woman herself was puzzled: why did I stop bleeding when I was injured after my transformation?

After the oxen underwent a strange transformation, they suddenly gained sentience and were able to speak human language, thus learning about some things in the human world.

Big Black Bull then said, "Sister Black, you look more like a human acupuncturist..."

The woman almost cursed at it, but she held back. Not only did she hold back, but she also reluctantly admitted, "You're right, I was just getting acupuncture. Everything's fine here, you should leave..."

With a flick of his finger, Xu Yuan sent the remaining counting rods flying up and hovering above the heads of the cows!

The woman cried out, "No!"

The cows were baffled: Are you letting us go or not?
A pleading look appeared in the woman's round, large eyes.

Xu Yuan controlled the counting rods and said, "If you answer my questions truthfully, I will spare their lives."

Big Black Bull finally understood and let out a loud moo: "So you were threatening Sister Black!"

It exhaled two puffs of hot red air from its nostrils, pawed at the ground a few times with its hind hooves, and then suddenly charged towards Xu Yuan with its head down.

boom!
Lord Xu pressed it to the ground with one hand.

The big black bull roared angrily, its eyes bloodshot, its muscles bulging and as hard as rock.

It was the largest in the village, and its strength was undoubtedly the greatest as well.

Even a century-old tree, if pushed to its limit, would be overturned.

But Lord Xu held down its horns with one hand, rendering it unable to move.

After practicing the "Dragon Transformation Technique," his physique became incredibly powerful.

The power balance between the ox and the dragon is obvious.

The woman's eyes widened even more.

She originally thought that in terms of strength, my younger brother "Black One" would never lose.

But how could this bad guy in front of me be so strong?

He's not even human.

Xu Yuan held down the big black ox, and the counting rod that had been above the big black ox's head slowly flew over again, directly touching the big black ox's forehead!

"No! Please don't!" Sister Hei pleaded repeatedly, "I'll talk, I'll tell you everything!"

Xu Yuan raised the counting rods, then flicked his wrist—the big black ox tumbled and crashed out with a thunderous roar.

It was indeed tough and thick-skinned, and without any injury, it rolled over and got up.

He was clearly very dissatisfied, but he didn't dare to come up again.

Blackie said to the cows, "Don't move!"

Only then did he tell Xu Yuan about the process of his transformation.

A few days ago, after the last round of plowing before the Lunar New Year, Blackie went home with her owner.

She was truly exhausted.

So they walked very slowly, and along the way they used their tongues to pick up some wild grass and flowers and ate them to temporarily satisfy their hunger.

In the village, the irrigation ditches run along the ridges of the fields.

The owner walked ahead without noticing, but Sister Hei suddenly saw a bean plant emerge from the ditch like a water snake.

Blackie was so hungry that she used her tongue to roll up and eat the whole bean plant, vine and beans.

But after eating it, she felt her body getting heavier and heavier.

They're moving slower and slower.

Even when I heard my master's scolding and the sound of the whip cracking, I felt drowsy and unreal.

In the end, the owner had to drag her back to the cowshed.

The hostess had already prepared the hay.

It contains some roasted soybeans.

In the past, this smell would have been pleasantly fragrant to her.

But this time she had no appetite at all. She went into the cowshed, lay down, and fell asleep.

When she woke up again, it was already midnight, and she had become a monster!

With a thought, Xu Yuan extended the animal sinew rope, intending to pass it through her nostrils.

Blackie was extremely resistant: "I don't want to be led by the nose anymore."

Xu Yuan pursed his lips: "Okay. But you have to behave yourself and don't forget to try to escape."

"Okay, I promise. As long as I don't pierce my nose, anything is fine."

Xu Yuan then took the counting rods from her.

This oddball is big, but it's only of a third-rate caliber.

Those black cows outside are not even worthy of being called "class".

Lord Xu wasn't afraid of them causing any trouble.

"Take me to the place where the green bean plant is growing water."

"it is good."

Blackie obediently took Xu Yuan there.

I didn't intend to hide it, nor did I intend to run away.

In her naive mind, there are no concepts of conspiracy, scheming, or betrayal.

When we arrived at the destination, it was just an ordinary field ridge and an ordinary ditch.

But when Xu Yuan looked around, he saw that a large area of ​​rice seedlings below the paddy field had all withered and died.

It was as if something had sucked all its life force away.

Xu Yuan pointed upstream of the ditch and said to Sister Hei, "Go and block the water."

"Okay." She obediently went and worked hard to lift a large rock, blocking the ditch with a loud crash.

They also grabbed a handful of yellow mud, mixed it with some dry grass, and used it to seal up the cracks.

After finishing, she looked at the results with satisfaction and felt that she was a really good worker!

The water in the ditch quickly dried up, and Xu Yuan observed carefully and soon discovered some clues.

The sinew rope extended down, burrowed into the mud, and was pulled upwards—

He picked up a piece of dark red, dried silk netting.

It's like a dried-up network of blood vessels!

Although it had completely withered, this thing still exuded a faint trace of decay.

The direction in which the vascular network extends is precisely that of that withered field of seedlings.

Xu Yuan then instructed Sister Hei: "Follow these things, dig up this field. Be careful not to break it. I need to see clearly how they are distributed underground."

"Oh," Sister Hei replied again, and without needing any prompting, encouragement, or even praise, she began digging.

For a full hour, Sister Hei meticulously and carefully dug up the entire field.

Xu Yuan finally found the true source of these vascular-like evil things.

A seed shaped like a human heart.

The inside is empty, leaving only the outer layer.

Its surface is covered with a layer of grayish-white fuzz—much like the white fur on those ancient zombies!

Xu Yuan frowned. This thing first grew a network of blood vessels, then sucked dry a patch of seedlings, and then grew a bean, which was eaten by Sister Hei?
They turned Blackie into a weirdo.

What is the purpose of going to such great lengths?

Blackie is just a third-rate weirdo, and not crazy at all.

They haven't killed a single person yet.

Xu Yuan didn't know anything about this kind of evil spirit. After thinking for a moment, he packed these things in a fishy-smelling cloth and took them back to Zhou Leizi for advice.

"The villagers, take me to see them."

Sister Hei continued to work hard without complaint, leading Xu Yuan to the largest cowshed in the village, where more than a dozen people were locked up. Each person had a nose ring on their nose and a bridle on their head, and they were tied up inside.

"There are six other sheds," Sister Hei confessed truthfully.

Xu Yuan glanced at it, his heart skipped a beat, and he immediately asked, "Where's the child?"

The cowshed was full of adults; there wasn't a single child!
(End of this chapter)