The two-mile road is not too far, but the road is overgrown with wild grass, which makes people more and more desolate, and the closer you get to the village, the more you can feel the atmosphere of human existence.

Because the acres of overgrown fields speak for themselves, the people of the village used to work and survive here, but now, the fields are still there, and they have disappeared.

Looking at all this, I felt a little emotional, and I couldn't help but ask Master, "Are they okay after they leave their hometown?" Will there still be their own land? ”

Master said, "The country wants to see them leave, after all, slaughtering one village can still control the impact, and slaughtering many villages, it is difficult to say. ”

"Hmm." I nodded heavily, but looking at this overgrown place, I couldn't help but feel melancholy.

I have never denied my sensitivity, which is also the fault that Master has pointed out to me a long time ago, that emotions are too big and are not good for cultivators, but sometimes Master has to admit that maybe such a sensitive person is the person with the strongest heart, at least the feelings are from sincerity, and after enlightenment, the mentality is firmer.

The surrounding is full of footsteps of 'Si Xi Suo', when you get here, you basically can't see the way, people are walking in the grass completely, the summer sun is very strong, the sun is a little trance, walking in the grass is definitely not a pleasant experience.

Yang Qinhuai, the son-in-law, couldn't bear it at first, and kept complaining there: "I said buddy, how long will it take to have a place to rest?" ”

When no one answered him, he lifted up his feet to show me; "Chengyi, I'm not complaining about anything, you see that my feet are not red and swollen from this grass."

I didn't raise my head, and said directly: "This is already very happy, you have sprinkled the secret formula of insect repellent and snake repellent on your body, otherwise this guy in the grass will make you choke." ”

Speaking of this, Yang Qinhuai really has an experience, there are really no insects to harass him along the way, originally summer is the season of frequent snake activities, this is really not encountered, in fact, he still thought that the taste of the powder was pungent at first!

"Well, haha, these things are really powerful! No wonder it is said that the master is in the folk! Chengyi, what about you? I didn't see you spilling medicine on you, did you? Qin Huai hurriedly changed the topic.

"Me? Got this? I handed him a bamboo tube, Qin Huai took it and sniffed it, shook it again, and asked me a little confused.

"What kind of guy is this? The secret weapon? ”

"Well, the secret weapon, the gift I got when I was 6 or 7 years old, is more effective than your powder." This was given to me by the snake exorcist back then, and I have kept it all these years, and he said that when he met a great guy, he would spill some of it, but I didn't have that chance.

Speaking of this, I think of the Tomb of the Hungry Ghost, if I had carried this at that time, if the candle dragon was still alive at that time, would this medicinal powder be useful?

In the years that followed, Master and I also talked about the Hungry Ghost Tomb, and Master said that the Hungry Ghost King had the characteristics of a candle dragon because he ate a candle dragon, and I thought about it, and sure enough, would this powder be useful?

However, if it's just if, it's been a long time since the Hungry Ghost Tomb happened, and I've mentioned several times what happened to what Master asked Yang Sheng to bring to Beijing, and Master beat me up with no result.

Is the matter of the Hungry Ghost Tomb out of nowhere?

"When you get to the village, there really is a village?" Just when I was thinking about things, Qin Huai suddenly screamed, startling me.

When I looked up, I turned a corner and came to the village, and I could see in the distance that the houses were not too densely gathered.

Originally, it was a joy to see a piece of house on a lonely road, but I don't know why, I had an indescribable feeling when I saw this village.

It felt like looking at a static painting, rather than the impact of reality, because there was a lack of life.

Except for Qin Huai's shouting, none of us made a sound, presumably the feeling of this village is a little weird, and those preserved ancient city ruins, there are things left by the precipitation of the years, and here, it is a life that has been cut off.

Now that we had seen the village, and it was not far away, we hurried and soon entered the village, and everywhere there was a bleak scene, houses covered with vines and squeezing out cracks.

Cracked, rickety gates.

The road that is almost submerged without a trace.

And the quiet, almost crazy atmosphere.

We walked and walked until we came to a larger room, and Yuan Yi shouted, "Just rest here, drink some water, and eat something." ”

As soon as his words fell, everyone subconsciously looked at my master, but my master didn't seem to want to have anything to do with this Yuan Yi, so he just lowered his head and said, "It's okay, listen to you." ”

Yuan Yi's face was not good-looking, but fortunately, the master also gave him face, and he didn't do it.

Actually, I can't quite understand that the Taoist priests who are in their own way, this department is so loose, no one can control anyone's life, why fight everywhere? Just like if you do something, as long as you do it seriously and complete it, why bother with what others do? Why do you have to put others down? If you can't press it down, you have to embarrass it everywhere? Isn't that adding to your own blockage?

Of course, I was just thinking about it, and Master had told me not to fight.

Since no one objected, Yuan Yi led everyone to the courtyard and pushed open the gate that had long been decayed.

As soon as the door opened, a puff of dust came to his face, and a few people who were choking in front coughed, but Yuan Yi didn't care, and stepped into the courtyard with one foot.

I also went in with him, and when I looked at the courtyard, I felt even more uncomfortable, because I saw that the former owner of this place, in the courtyard, had shrunk and dried up, and I don't know what was still in the sieve, and the dusty sieve had begun to decay.

I even saw a large water tank in the yard, and a basin next to the water tank, which was also covered with dust.

All this shows how hurriedly the host left the house.

"There's no way to get down in this yard, let's go in and sit." Yuan Yi said to himself, and walked into the room, but as soon as he entered the room, he screamed and stumbled out.

I didn't know what was going on, but when I looked up, a centipede the length of a man's small arm crawled out of the room, followed by a bat.

"There are a lot of things like this in this room, I didn't pay attention, and once I entered, it was really." Yuan Yi explained with an unsightly face, after all, being scared by bugs and bats seemed to him to be a very humiliating thing, although we felt nothing, any normal person, walking in this depressing village, would be afraid of a thing that came out coldly.

This is true even for Taoist priests, because Taoist priests are also ordinary people, but what they learn is different from ordinary people.

The bat was not caught, but the centipede was caught, Yang Sheng shouted that everything here has research value, it is all clues, and he resolutely does not let people kill it.

He carefully observed the insects, and the master also observed carefully, but Yang Sheng didn't see any results, and was still discussing with Zhao Jingyi.

But my master couldn't help but sigh!

Yang Sheng heard my master's 'huh', and couldn't help but look up and ask, "Master Jiang, are you also very good at biology?" I'm not an entomologist, but I know a lot of insects, and I really don't see anything famous about this centipede. ”

"Yes, I think I have learned a lot about zoology and entomology, but I don't see anything. In fact, it is not much different from ordinary centipedes, but this pattern is a little special, and I don't know if it is poisonous or not. Zhao Jingyi also said with her husband.

My master trampled on the centipede without raising his head, and then said: "When I used to stay in the ocean, I also studied biology, but I dare to say that such centipedes are not recorded in books, if you want to talk about the species, it is the most common centipede, but do you think it is wrong?" It's possible to grow that big, but here with fewer spiny centipedes." Pointing to the centipede's flattened head and first back plate, Master continued, "It should be golden-red here, right?" But it's turned a miserable white, are you wondering about that? ”

Yang Sheng clapped his hands and said: "Yes, I just can't figure this out, just now we temporarily defined it as a genetic mutation, is this right?" ”

"That's right, it's a mutation." Master said very seriously.