Enchanter

Chapter [-] Chinese Medicine

"Three taels? Three taels, do you know how many graves I need to run? Do you know how much I will risk my life? You know..."

"Okay, okay, so much nonsense, at worst, I will give you three catties of tea when I go back." The skeleton stretched and stood up from the chair, yawning, and ignored Lao Jiu: "Yin Hui, let's Go out and see if everyone in the village has come out."

Yin Hui nodded, although the old nine was full of grievances, but they actually ignored him and walked out, so he couldn't continue to mess around here.So he also got down from the bed, grabbed the smoke pot with distress, smelled the strong smell of tobacco from the smoke pot, smiled wryly, and finally put it away carefully.

"It's so early in the morning, why didn't anyone come out?" Yin Hui asked curiously looking at the empty street.

"Yeah, I'm also surprised." Skeleton came out of the room in a hale and hearty way, his face was full of red. It can be seen that what he said just now that he didn't have any cigarettes until the third watch was a lie. Only now will he be so energetic.

"Go, take a look ahead." Ghosting took the initiative to walk in front, and then walked ahead along this deserted street.

The ground was a muddy path, and it was extremely muddy when they stepped on it. It was uncomfortable for them to take the risk of being sunken, but they didn't say much, because the ghost walked in front without complaint, and they couldn't complain. complain.

Today is a cloudy and rainy day, and the sky is dark, as if a person is angry.But God didn't squeeze out any raindrops, which made them wonder if God was constipated or something.

Their footsteps were very light, and the sound they made was very small, very faint rustling, as if they were as fragile as raindrops on the beach. The surroundings were very quiet, and there was no sound even in the house, which made them feel very bad.

"It's strange, why is there no one?" Gui Ying walked in front and felt uneasy, thinking like this, his eyes were anxiously searching in each house.But even though some doors were opened, the room was dark. Even if there was some light, he could still see everything in the room clearly, but it didn't work at all, as there was no one in the room.

Ghosting looked back at them suspiciously, asked for their opinions, and asked, "What should I do? Should I shout twice?"

Lao Jiu nodded proactively and called out, "My fellow countryman, is anyone here?"

Swish, Swish.

They got no response other than their footsteps answering them.

"Strange, what's going on here?" He looked at the empty thatched cottage with a disbelieving expression on his face, feeling a creepy feeling in his heart.

Squeak, squeak, squeak.

Suddenly, there was a messy sound in the room they were in, as if something fell from a high place to the ground, knocked over, and then it was a mess again.

Ghost frowned, then quickly hid beside the open door, and gestured to Yin Hui and the others to hide on the other side and listen to his orders at any time.

The three nodded and took their guns in their hands. This gloomy ghost village made them very uneasy. Perhaps the sound was just a decoy, a decoy that attracted them into it. Once they were captured, a dangerous attack would be launched. Attack, for the safety of their lives, they had to do so.

The ghost stretched out a finger, and at the same time made a mouth shape of one, then stretched out two fingers, and finally made a mouth shape of two. When stretching out three, the ghost body suddenly jumped in , Shan Daofeng and Skull also quickly surrounded the door to cover the ghost.

But to their disappointment, when their eyes finally settled in the room, they found the ghost standing blankly in the corner of the room, looking at the dying cat on the table with disgust.

His neck was stained red with blood, as if he had been cut by some sharp weapon. His body moved on it with difficulty, making heart-stopping meowing sounds. The dirty table slowly flowed down to the grass, and the dry weeds were stained scarlet with blood, which looked a bit obscure.

"Was it this cat just now?" Shan Daofeng asked curiously with his eyes wide open.

"That's right." Ghosting pointed to the lamp altar lying next to the cat.

"Is there no one?" Yin Hui called out in disbelief, "My fellow, is there anyone?"

No one answered, only the cat's heavy panting and miserable meowing. Every time he took a breath, thick blood flowed from the cut of his neck, and the ground it sprayed was dirty.

"Damn, what's going on?" Suddenly, Lao Jiu seemed to have discovered something, and slowly squatted down, pushing away the straw on the ground where the cat's blood dripped, and looked at the straw dripping on the ground. Blood, poked it with a bong, and a small white worm emerged from the piled up blood, which looked like a maggot.

"What is this?" Ghost asked, frowning.

"Maggots?" Yin Hui also asked curiously.

"I don't know." Lao Jiu shook his head, and his voice was crisp: "But I think the worm seems to come out of its blood, which means that the worm is parasitic in its blood vessels." He stood up, carefully Watch the cat to see if there are still those white maggots coming out of the cat's wound.

But before they could take any action, the cat suddenly seemed to be stimulated by something, and jumped up from the ground frantically, and the broken head was thrown back.

Only then did everyone notice that the cat's neck and body were only connected by a thin layer of skin, that is to say, his blood vessels, respiratory tract and esophagus were all broken, and it stands to reason that it was impossible to survive.

But why is this cat still alive?Is it even possible to make such an action?And judging from the neat wound, it should be man-made with a sharp weapon. Who is so cruel?

boom.

With such a bounce, the cat hit the roof of the low thatched house, and then there was a sound of skin being torn, followed by two bumping sounds.

His head was separated from his body, and his head and body fell to the ground one after another.

His body didn't move, but the cat's eyes blinked, glowing with a faint green light, staring at them firmly.The mouth would open and close, but it couldn't make a sound, because his lungs were far away from his airway, and it would never have the strength to rush to its throat.

"Who are you guys!" At this moment, there was an explosion-like sound at the door, which made Lao Jiu tremble a bit, but the Ghost Shadow Skeleton and Shan Daofeng were not frightened by it. , but quickly reacted, the gun in his hand was pointed at the door in an instant, click, the sound of gun parts colliding kept ringing.

"Ah!" The old man standing at the door screamed when he saw these black muzzles pointing at himself, then knelt down on the ground, his face was pale, and even his voice stuttered: "Ah, I ... I am... I will give you all the money, and you... I will take the money for you."

It was just a fellow villager, Guiying and the others put away their guns, and Yin Hui explained to him kindly: "Old man, we just saw a dead cat in your room, so we took the liberty to come in, originally we wanted to Just begging for saliva, but since it's inconvenient for you, let's go."

Yin Hui glanced at Ghosting and the others, and signaled them to go out by themselves.

"Cat? What kind of cat?" The old man stared at them curiously: "We don't have cats in our house, how could there be cats?"

The old man's eyes looked around the room, and finally he was surprised to find that the cat's head was lying quietly on the ground, even blinking with green light, which made people look creepy.

"What... what's going on here?" He asked incredulously, "This cat's head fell off, why is it still blinking?"

After hearing from the villagers that the cat did not belong to their family, several people became more interested, and stopped the steps they had just taken. Maybe they could find some clues from this cat?

"My fellow, are you sure this cat doesn't belong to your family?" Yin Hui asked with big bright eyes.

"No, we don't have a cat at home." Maybe Yin Hui and the others don't look like bad guys. His sense of fear just now disappeared a lot. He walked up curiously and looked at the strange-headed cat. After looking at it for a long time, I muttered: "I only know that a chicken can still jump after its head is cut off, but I have never heard of a cat that can still jump after its head is removed."

As soon as the words fell, the cat's head suddenly jumped up high, as if some force was acting on him, and then, it flew to the old man's neck, screamed, and bit the old man's neck .

Ah!

The old man let out a hasty scream, and was thrown to the ground by the cat's head. With a bang, the old man's head smashed into a bamboo and wooden chair, and he passed out.

"Damn it." Lao Jiu cursed, then stretched out his foot and kicked the cat on the head.

After a burst of explosions, the cat's head hit the bamboo wall, completely shattered, and its brains smeared all over the bamboo wall.

"Ah, my wife? What's wrong with you, my wife?" Suddenly, there was another old woman crying miserably at the door, and then a shabby old woman stumbled in from the door and glanced at her fainted wife. , rushed forward: "My wife, what's the matter with you, what's the matter with you."

The old man did not speak, his eyes were tightly closed, as if he was dead.But Yin Hui didn't think he was dead, because the old guy just bumped into the chair lightly, and the cat just bit her lightly, which didn't hurt her.There is only a faint tooth mark on his neck, which is not very clear.

"Ah? He's dead? He's dead? Wife, why are you so short-lived." The old woman actually hugged the old man's body and cried, crying for a long time.

At this time, many people heard the cry of the old woman and gathered in the dim thatched hut.The village was not big, so they heard the old woman's cries very clearly.

"What's going on? What's going on?" An old guy with a white beard came out of the crowd. He looked at the four strangers standing there, and then at the blood on the table, and the fainted man. The old man asked angrily, "What's going on?"

"My old man was killed by them, my old man was killed by them." The old woman's eyes were blood red, her voice was angry, and she pointed her finger at them, wishing to poke their eyes blind.

"We didn't kill him." Ghosting said calmly, he was not good at defending.

"Didn't kill him? Then where did the blood come from? Who are you, and why did you appear in our village?" The white-bearded old man looked at them and asked.

"That blood is the blood of a cat." Ghosting replied indifferently, "Let me see if he is okay." After speaking, Ghosting slowly knelt down to help the old man.

But the white-bearded old man rushed up, pointed at his nose and cursed: "Folks, they killed our villagers, we can't let them go, arrest them quickly."

"Catch it, grab it." People from more than a dozen households outside also shouted this slogan, but the voice sounded muddy, as if they had gone through thousands of years of vicissitudes.He suddenly noticed a problem, that is, why are the villagers in this village all elderly people?

He looked curiously at the villagers outside, not at all worried that they would cause harm to him, on the contrary, he was afraid that when they grabbed him, they would cause some damage due to excessive activities.

This is why they only shouted slogans and did not come up to arrest them.These few people are all strong and strong, and they still hold weapons in their hands. They are not opponents at all.

"Cough cough, cough cough!" Just as the white-bearded old man felt embarrassed that no one came up to catch them, the old man who fell just now coughed and slowly opened his eyes.

"Ah, old man, you are awake, you are awake." The old woman looked at the old man excitedly and shouted in surprise.

"En." The old man nodded, tried to stand up from the ground, touched the back of his head, then touched his neck, smiled and looked at the place where Lao Jiu kicked the cat's head just now, and saw brains all over the wall , and then nodded in relief: "Hehe, village chief, whose cat is that? Its head fell off, and it can still bite me."

Seeing that the old guy was fine, the old man with the white beard finally breathed a sigh of relief. He walked up to him in surprise, patted his body, saw that he had no adverse reactions, and said with a smile: "Haha, old Zhao, it's fine." It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. By the way, we almost had a misunderstanding with these people just now, I'm really sorry." After speaking, White Beard looked at them a few times.

Yin Hui nodded as a response.

"Why? Are you going to introduce these people?" White Beard asked with a smile.

"Oh, I don't know these people either." Lao Zhao shook his head: "I just saw them too."

"Oh? You just came here?" White Beard looked at them curiously.

At this moment, another old voice suddenly came from the door: "Ah, village chief, I found you, the hunter who came yesterday... Huh? Why are you here?"

Yin Hui and the others hurriedly turned their gazes away, only to realize that the owner of the voice was the old guy who took them in yesterday.

"Well, we woke up in the morning and saw no one in the village, so we wanted to go around, but we turned here unexpectedly." Yin Hui explained with a relaxed expression.

"Oh, then I'm relieved. I thought you were gone." The old man said with a smile.

"Hehe, I'm sorry to trouble you, old man." Yin Hui smiled and said politely, "But I still don't understand one thing. Why was there no one in the village just now?"

"Oh, this one, we went to work in the fields early in the morning." White Beard hurriedly explained to them, then turned his gaze to the old guy who took them in, and cursed angrily: "Old Zhang, you I, the village head, don’t think much of me, the guests came yesterday, why did you tell me today? I almost misunderstood them.” The village head glared at Lao Zhang angrily.

"Village Chief, you can't blame me for this. It was already night when they came yesterday, so I let them live in my house." Old Zhang explained with an aggrieved expression.

"Well then, I'll trust you for now." He glared at Lao Zhang, and then said, "If you dare to do this again in the future, don't blame me for being rude to you."

"Hey, don't worry, the village chief, I will never do this again." Lao Zhang said with a smile.

"Haha, since we are guests, we should treat each other with courtesy. Every family should go back and prepare, bring out the best things in your house, and entertain our guests. It has been a long time since our village There are guests."

After the white beard finished speaking, he turned his gaze to the villagers, with a look of joy on his face.

The villagers also blushed, as if the cheetah had seen its prey... Bah, this metaphor is not appropriate at all, we are not the prey, okay?

But Yin Hui is full of doubts about everyone in this village, not for anything else, just because when old man Zhang didn't see them just now, he shouted that it was our hunter... But when he shouted here, he stopped shouting , He suspects that there should be an object behind the prey, and the prey is the prey.Did he mean the prey they were talking about?

He looked at Lao Zhang suspiciously, but found that he had a silly smile on his face, and he didn't look like a man with a plan.

"Guys, if you don't mind, just follow me to our house. I'm sure I will entertain you with good wine and good food. Our village just killed a pig a while ago, and you are lucky." The village chief Showing off his wealth with pride, he made a gesture of invitation.

Although he was very suspicious, it was better not to worry about it so much at this time, let's have breakfast first, he thought about it, it seemed that he hadn't eaten for a long time.

"Haha, this way please, quickly this way please." Seeing Yin Hui nodded and agreed, the village head was very excited and asked them to go ahead, and he left in a hurry after a few simple explanations.

Yin Hui really didn't expect that there would be a village head in a village with only a dozen families, but I guess the village head is just a shell, because he really can't play any role, what big things can be done in such a big village Son?

"This is my home, don't feel shabby." The old man walked to a relatively luxurious and sturdy house built of mud, and said happily.

Then, in order to show his knowledge and understanding, he went to the wooden door, knocked on it, and shouted: "Hey, old lady, open the door quickly, we have guests at home."

He knocked on the door superficially to be polite, but in his heart he wanted to show off. The door of my house is made of mahogany.

"Come here." An equally old but obviously weak voice came from the room, followed by the sound of chaotic footsteps. After the door creaked and opened, they saw an old man in shabby clothes exuding a smell. Strong Chinese herbal flavor.

"This is my wife, hehe." The village head happily introduced: "My wife, hurry up and prepare two dishes, this is a guest from our village."

"Hey, good." The old woman seemed to like outsiders very much, so she nodded excitedly in agreement, and staggered away with inconvenient steps.

"Please come in, please come in." The village chief walked in front, gave up his seat for them, and poured tea and water.Although the tea set was already in tatters and many parts were touched with porcelain, it was obviously a very important piece of furniture in their house, because the village chief would hold the porcelain-touched tea bowl from time to time.

"Where are you from?" The village chief poured everyone a glass of water, and then asked, "It must have come from the village on the other side of the mountain. Hehe, we heard that the life on the other side of the mountain is very good." , there is pork to eat all day long."

"Well, more or less." Yin Hui didn't seem to have much in common with the old guy, but simply answered a few words.If it wasn't for Yin Hui sitting here, Gui Ying and the others would have overturned the table and left.

Although their home is still clean, there is a smell of traditional Chinese medicine, which is disgusting, even more disgusting than the smell of rotting corpses.

The village chief seemed to see the reason for Shandaofeng's frown, and explained with a smile: "You must have smelled the smell of traditional Chinese medicine. I brewed it. My wife has congenital heart disease. I am the only one in the village. Chinese medicine, so..."