Chapter 115

Chapter 112

Because I pushed the event process forward, more information was able to surface.

In Li Zhuiyuan's mind, the outline of the entire situation was gradually forming. Although still very thin, it had at least been built, no longer in the clouds and mist.

The graveyards on those three mountaintops correspond to three households, or three surnames. For now, we only know the Xue family is one of them; the other two families are temporarily unclear.

Ancestor worship during a specific time period will trigger some mechanism, just like Xue dad just received the immortal elder's dream entrustment.

But for some unknown reason, the triggering of this mechanism will also lead to the activation of another reverse mechanism, just like the "self-delivering" big fish.

Li Zhuiyuan thought, if I hadn't let Xue dad celebrate his birthday in advance, then this fish wouldn't have been sent today.

If it followed the normal process, on his big birthday a month later, Xue dad would go to worship the ancestor's grave, and then this fish would, on that day, continue to appear before Xue dad and on the Xue family's dining table, perhaps in the form of the neighbor fishing young man or through other reasonable means.

Two kinds of mechanisms are competing; more accurately, one side is polluting the operation of the other.

The operation logic of the original mechanism seems more like a descendants' inheritance of a seal, in the style of the Foolish Old Man Who Moved Mountains.

The purpose of the pollution is to hope the seal can be broken.

Reasonably speaking, Xue dad should be preparing to set off for Zhengmen Village at this moment.

But now, obviously, Xue dad doesn't want to go.

The earlier exploration team incident deepened Xue dad's fear of Zhengmen Village. Li Zhuiyuan's own arrangement of the immortal elder's dream entrustment also greatly weakened the true immortal elder's sanctity.

However, there is another possibility. If, according to the original plan, Liangliang brother comes back a month later and he and his dad go to worship the ancestor's grave together, then Qingxia will very likely go towards Liangliang.

Given Liangliang's knowledge and temperament, after receiving the immortal elder's dream entrustment, he has a high probability of accepting this mission to go to Zhengmen Village and a very high probability of contacting me and asking me to come and accompany him to complete this ancestral task.

Of course, a more extreme scenario is that Liangliang brother went alone, life or death unknown, and then I would hear the news and come to his hometown to investigate the mystery of Liangliang brother's disappearance.

In short, the only one who can involve me is Liangliang brother, while Xue dad is not qualified.

Currently, Li Zhuiyuan naturally doesn't want Xue dad to accompany him to Zhengmen Village. One reason is because he is Xue Liangliang's dad, and the other is because he is a burden.

Fortunately, he himself seems not to need to go, only the blood bowl is needed.

Blood food refers to killing livestock to take blood for sacrifice. A blood bowl refers to using one's own fresh blood as an offering, placed on the offering table.

The amount doesn't need to be large. Take a small bowl, cut the palm, and blood covering the bottom of the bowl is enough.

This amount of blood drawing is like a drizzle for our little black. Xue dad definitely has no problem either.

I have the method and materials to make black dog blood seal paste. I only need to ensure that the blood donor is alive when drawing blood to ensure this blood can be preserved for an extremely long time, then use it as a blood bowl.

By analogy with the Xue family's situation, do the other two families also need to go to Zhengmen Village to offer a blood bowl?

Is the purpose of that pollution to cause these three families to go extinct in advance? Or at least, to dirty their bodies along with their blood?

But here again there is a paradox that cannot be solved temporarily: since this dead thing is planning to break the seal and come out, why would it actively bite my hook?

Just drove away Granny Yu, who was full of confidence but whose hope of revival was pinched off by me in advance. Does the next one still want to continue making the same mistake?

"Xiao Yuan, Xiao Yuan?"

Xue dad's voice interrupted Li Zhuiyuan's thoughts. Looking up, the young man saw worry and panic in Xue dad's eyes.

"Um, Uncle Xue, what happened?"

"Xiao Yuan, tell Uncle, what were you just thinking?"

"I was thinking, this Zhengmen Village is very scary. Uncle Xue, you are right not to want to go. If it were me, I wouldn't dare to go either."

Hearing this, Xue dad let out a long sigh of relief. He was really afraid that the young man would develop an interest in Zhengmen Village like the previous batch of young college students.

"Yes, ah, we should live our lives properly and not mess with those things."

"That's right, I think so too."

But the problem is, you can't live your life properly anymore.

Even if you avoid the first, you can't avoid the fifteenth. Once the mechanism completely collapses, and that thing comes out, the legacy people under the mechanism will all be cleared and destroyed.

Li Zhuiyuan has decided to use some forceful means later, draw some blood from Xue dad, and then I will be responsible for getting the thing done.

"Uncle Xue, does your family have a genealogy?"

"Yes, how? Do you want to see it?"

"Um, I like to look at genealogies."

"Since you want to see it, then I'll go get it for you later."

"Thank you, Uncle Xue."

"Hahaha, eat, eat!"

Outside, the fool was still laughing.

Li Zhuiyuan walked out of the room and came to the courtyard.

The fool is roughly around thirty, with disheveled hair and a dirty face. Others were bare-chested, but he was still wearing a dirty, ragged cotton coat, his hair messy like a dog's nest.

At this time, he was taking out candy from his pocket and handing it to the children who came to eat today.

Parents didn't allow them to take it, thinking the fool was not clean, but the children didn't care about that. They took it and ran, tearing open the candy wrapper and putting it into their mouths.

The fool followed them running, playing happily.

The neighbor young man who delivered the fish, even though he came alone, still had to show off and describe to him how big a fish he caught today, and the fool was no exception.

"Fool, you have fish soup to drink today. I caught a big fish, this big."

The fool, who had been laughing, suddenly froze upon hearing this, then showed panic. While backing away, he waved his hands and shouted:

"Big fish, cannot eat, big fish, cannot eat!"

"What cannot eat? You don't like to drink fish soup?"

"Fish soup, dirty! That soup, dirty! Fish, dirty!"

The neighbor young man got angry and corrected him: "You fart, that's what I just caught this morning, fresh!"

The fool slipped while backing away and fell to the ground, yet he still kept shouting:

"Zheng family ate dirty, Zeng family ate dirty, Xue family also to be dirty!"

"What Zheng family, Zeng family?" The neighbor young man was somewhat puzzled. "What nonsense are you talking about."

Li Zhuiyuan asked a woman who came to eat beside him: "Auntie, are there families surnamed Zheng or surnamed Zeng in this town?"

The woman shook her head: "No, ah."

Several elderly people beside her also shook their heads:

"Never heard of."

"Our town has many surnames, but I've never heard of someone surnamed Zheng or surnamed Zeng."

"Right, I've never heard of it either."

Li Zhuiyuan walked to the fool's front. The fool at first saw a big child walking towards him and thought he was coming to play with him. The panic on his face gradually dissipated, replaced by joy and expectation.

But when Li Zhuiyuan approached, the fool showed a more terrifying expression. He hugged his head with his left hand in a dodging posture, pointed at Li Zhuiyuan with his right hand, and screamed:

"Ah, you are not human, ah! Ah, you are not human, ah!"

Li Zhuiyuan walked to his front, a kind, pure, and puzzled expression on his face,

He asked:

"If I'm not human, then who am I, ah?"

The fool retracted the hand he had been pointing with, blocked his own face, and lowered his head to say:

"You are a monster wearing human skin, you are a monster wearing human skin."

"Hahahaha!"

"Hahahaha!"

Everyone present laughed.

Li Zhuiyuan also emitted laughter. The fool shrank at the wall root. Standing in front of him, Li Zhuiyuan had his back to the crowd, so others couldn't see. Although the young man was laughing, a touch of solemnity and profundity that didn't match his age flowed in his eyes.

"What, the fish is lost!" From the room, Xue mom's shouting voice came.

Hearing this, the people in the courtyard all went into the room to check the situation. Such a big fish, how could it be lost? Ordinary cats and dogs couldn't even move it if they wanted to steal it.

The fool, hearing this, actually laughed happily: "Fish lost good, don't eat fish, don't eat big fish!"

But because Li Zhuiyuan was still standing in front of him, the fool's voice gradually quieted down, and panic reappeared.

Li Zhuiyuan: "The fish, I handled it. Because it's dirty."

The fool carefully nodded, his face turned to the young man, only daring to look sideways: "Right, don't eat fish, dirty."

"Fool, what is your name?"

"Hehe, fool, fool......"

He wasn't originally called a fool, but was called it too much, so he is a fool.

"Fool, do you still have candy?"

The fool tremblingly reached into his pocket, felt around, then shook his head: "No, no candy left......"

"I'll take you to buy candy to eat, okay?"

"Buy candy to eat?"

The fool's eyes showed hesitation. Obviously, he was weighing the candy and the monster wearing human skin.

"Besides candy, anything you want to eat or drink in the store, I will buy it for you. How about it?"

The fool's mouth curved up. Both hands were placed in front, constantly fiddling with his fingers, and he timidly said:

"Really...... really?"

Li Zhuiyuan said as a matter of course: "Definitely true. Monsters only eat people, they won't lie to people."

"Hehehe......" The fool nodded, "Right, monsters only eat people, they won't lie to people."

"Then you and I go. I'll take you to the store."

Li Zhuiyuan walked forward. When he reached the door, he discovered the fool was still hesitating behind him, a posture of wanting to follow but being very timid.

The young man lowered his voice: "Follow, or I'll eat you."

"Coming! Coming!"

The fool shivered and immediately followed.

Li Zhuiyuan brought him out of the courtyard. As for Runsheng...... he had to continue staying in the room to explain how such a big fish disappeared.

When they came to the small shop, Li Zhuiyuan let the fool pick things. The fool carefully grabbed a small handful of candy, just five or six pieces, still looking at the young man with probing eyes, as if afraid of taking too many.

"Big aunt, you can estimate and calculate the account yourself."

After finishing, Li Zhuiyuan just took the plate full of candies and poured them into the fool's pocket.

"Hehehe, hehehe!"

The fool looked at the pockets full of candies and jumped up happily. This time, many candies fell to the ground. He bent down again to pick them up, and as he picked, more continued to fall out of his pocket.

"Hehehe, so many candies, can't pick them all up, can't pick them all up, can't pick them all up!"

Some children nearby had already leaned over, but because of Li Zhuiyuan, this outsider, they felt embarrassed to come forward.

The fool actively greeted them: "Pick candies, pick candies, so many, can't pick them all up, can't pick them all up!"

The children looked towards Li Zhuiyuan. They had seen earlier that the one buying candies was this young man.

"Pick them up, ba. The fool invites you to eat."

Hearing this, the children immediately came up to pick them together, and the fool was even happier.

"Big aunt, do you still have candies?"

"Yes, wait, I'll open the bag."

"No need, just give me the whole bag. Also, give me a big bag. These, these, and those, pack them all for me."

"You......"

Li Zhuiyuan took out a small stack of big unity bills from his pocket.

"Ai! Good, I'll pack them for you."

The fool's candies, except for those in his pocket, were all picked up by the children.

Li Zhuiyuan handed him a big bag of snacks, then brought the fool to a quiet place.

Along the way, whenever someone deliberately asked the fool what good food he had in his hand, the fool would open his pocket himself and let them take it.

When he encountered children and the elderly, the fool would also proactively throw it.

When they arrived at the quiet place Li Zhuiyuan wanted, the originally bulging big bag only had a shallow layer left.

The last time that college student exploration team came, they should have given him a considerable guiding fee, but he had already spent it all. However, Li Zhuiyuan doesn't think he did anything wrong, because he is genuinely a fool. As a fool, he cannot keep money.

The two sat side by side. Li Zhuiyuan didn't rush to talk but said a sentence:

"Actually, I also don't want to be this monster."

Some words seem only to be able to be said to the fool.

The fool looked at Li Zhuiyuan very flatteringly, then took out a pack of instant noodles from the bag. When tearing the packaging too hard, the noodle cake fell to the ground.

The fool picked it up, hurriedly took a bite, then very carefully handed the noodle cake to Li Zhuiyuan.

"I don't eat."

The fool retracted the noodle cake and continued to eat, constantly emitting crisp sounds from his mouth.

Li Zhuiyuan asked: "Can you see the Zeng family and the Zheng family?"

The fool didn't speak, continued to eat the noodle cake, as if he didn't hear.

Li Zhuiyuan raised his voice: "Speak."

The fool was startled and choked.

Li Zhuiyuan had to pick up a bottle of soda, open the pull tab for him, and hand it over.

The fool took it and "gurgle gurgle" drank a can of soda in one breath, followed by a long burp.

"You can see the Zeng family and the Zheng family. Those two families, a while ago, ate the big fish."

"Right, ate big fish, they ate, they ate."

"Have you seen other strangers? One male, one female, very young, carrying backpacks. The female is very white, and the male likes to hold his waist when walking."

The fool again continued to eat the noodle cake.

"If you don't answer, I'll eat you."

The fool cried and started shouting: "Give me deliver a batch of goods. Give me deliver a batch of goods. Give me deliver a batch of goods."

Li Zhuiyuan pondered for a bit. He really connected with the fool's brain circuit and imagined that scene.

After discovering the phone couldn't connect, he asked the small shop big aunt if her home phone was broken. The small shop big aunt just used her way of making phone calls to prove it wasn't broken.

Without accident, yesterday the small shop big aunt should have made three delivery phone calls.

The fool likes to squat by the small shop to pick up candies, so he should have witnessed this process at that time.

These three Min'an Towns, he can really see them all!

"Did they say anything to you?"

The fool continued to eat the noodle cake.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't urge him to answer this time, because Yinmeng and Binbin, no matter how they found people to pass messages, wouldn't find a fool.

Similarly, it's the same for me. Even if I know the fool can see through the three Min'an Towns, I still dare not truly tell the fool anything and ask him to try to pass it to Binbin and the others.

Who knows how he will cut off the head and tail, and directly turn the meaning of a sentence upside down.

"In Zhengmen Village, is there a very, very big fish?"

The fool's action stopped, as if frozen.

But looking closely, one can see his eyeballs constantly turning.

Gradually, his face began to tremble, and subsequently, his whole body began to shake.

"In the village there is big fish, in the village there is big person, in the village many many people......"

"Fool, how many people entered the village last time?"

The fool stretched out both hands, his ten fingers constantly raising and straightening. He couldn't count this number.

Li Zhuiyuan asked again: "How many people finally left the village?"

The fool retracted all his other fingers, leaving only one right index finger, which he waved excitedly in front of Li Zhuiyuan.

"I want to go to Zhengmen Village. I have to ask you to take me there."

The fool shook his head madly.

"If you don't go, I will eat......" Li Zhuiyuan stopped.

He looked at the fool very seriously again.

The fool was somewhat scared by the young man's gaze. He tremblingly opened another pack of biscuits and put them into his mouth piece by piece.

Li Zhuiyuan stood up. The fool scaredly hurried to the side, and the biscuits in his hand also dropped two pieces on the ground.

Seeing this, the young man put away the Dragon King 礼 that he was about to set up and sat down again.

Li Zhuiyuan reached out and picked up a piece of biscuit from the ground. He blew off the mud on it, then touched it with his fingers. Only then did he put it into his mouth and take a bite, chewing while saying:

"I am a corpse fisher."

The fool picked up the remaining piece on the ground, put it into his own mouth, and mumbled:

"Hehe, I am guarding the village, the person eating meal."

"Fool, if that thing comes out of Zhengmen Village, then this town will become the second Zhengmen Village."

Hearing this, the fool stopped chewing in his mouth. He began unconsciously looking around, unable to see clearly while sitting. He simply stood up and looked around non-stop at those shops, those houses, that mountain, that water, those people.

Li Zhuiyuan put the remaining half piece of biscuit into his mouth, then clapped his hands:

"Fool, take me to Zhengmen Village, and let's fish that thing out, ba."

"Good."

……

Tan Wenbin put down his bowl and chopsticks.

Hu Yiwei beside him simply didn't eat a bite. His belly was now full of compressed biscuits, swelling.

After drinking the last half bowl of warm soup, Zeng YinYin stood up and said:

"Come, Yiwei, I'll take you upstairs to see Miaomiao."

Hu Yiwei stood up.

But his wrist was grabbed by Tan Wenbin.

Tan Wenbin looked at Zeng YinYin: "Why doesn't Miaomiao come down, but he goes up?"

Zeng YinYin counter-asked: "Not okay?"

Hu Yiwei also said: "Binbin, how about this? I'll go up and clearly ask and explain things to Miaomiao, then I'll drive back to Jinling with you."

"Brother Hu, are you just so sure Miaomiao is on the second floor?"

"What?"

"From the time we came to this house until now, have you heard Miaomiao's voice?"

Just as Tan Wenbin's words fell, a young girl's voice came from the second floor:

"Yiwei, I'm waiting for you on the second floor."

Hu Yiwei said excitedly: "It's Miaomiao!"

Tan Wenbin still grabbed Hu Yiwei's wrist and didn't let go: "Brother Hu, let Miaomiao come down. You are here to demand an explanation, not to apologize. You have to show your stance!"

"I......"

"Yiwei, if you don't come up again, then go, ba." Miaomiao's voice came from the second floor again. "Between us, there's actually nothing good to talk about."

"Miaomiao, I have some words I must say to you."

Hu Yiwei began to try to break free from Tan Wenbin's hand: "Binbin, let go quickly. I'll go and finish talking with Miaomiao and then come down, it will be very quick."

"You......"

Just at this time, Tan Wenbin heard a sound beside the coffin, and at the same time, a chill invaded his body.

Binbin's body immediately stiffened and lost strength, unable even to speak.

Fuck, this guy entered the old man's body!

Hu Yiwei finally pried open Tan Wenbin's hand.

Zeng YinYin said: "Come, Yiwei, follow me up. Miaomiao is a bit emotional. Don't say anything that stimulates her later."

"I know, Sister Yin."

Zeng YinYin led Hu Yiwei to the hall and up the wooden stairs.

She pushed open the second floor door, stood to the side, signaling Hu Yiwei to enter first.

Hu Yiwei frowned slightly because he smelled a strong lamp oil smell, very oppressive and stuffy.

But he still didn't hesitate too much and stepped in.

Zeng YinYin didn't plan to go in. She grabbed the door frame and closed the door.

Then, with a smile on her face, she slowly went downstairs.

……

"Miaomiao! My Miaomiao! My Miaomiao, ah!"

Inside, there was an offering table. On the table, besides several candles, was a big fish cut in half vertically, as if being offered there.

Under the weak candlelight, Hu Yiwei hugged a woman...... more accurately, he was hugging a mummy, crying in pain.

The mummy's face still maintained its original appearance and could be seen to be a girl around the same age as Hu Yiwei, but from her neck down, she was already so thin as to be shapeless. Even saying she was as skinny as a stick is inappropriate; her bones had clearly shrunk severely.

It was like using matches to build a person's trunk and limbs, and finally building a normal human head on top.

And behind Zeng Miaomiao, there was another mummy. This mummy could no longer be distinguished as male or female, because even the head had shrunk, which instead made it in extreme disharmony, presenting a kind of overall harmony.

Beside this mummy, a crutch was placed.

This one should be the Zeng family's grandma.

Hu Yiwei still had feelings for Zeng Miaomiao. Seeing his former lover become like this, he was truly heartbroken.

It's just that Zeng Miaomiao's eyes were closed, her mouth couldn't open, and she possibly couldn't even perceive anything.

"What exactly did you guys do to Miaomiao? Why did she become like this? Why!" Hu Yiwei shouted almost madly.

But just after shouting this sentence, Hu Yiwei only felt his whole body numb and fell to the ground.

His brain was still very clear. Now he realized that there was probably poison in this lamp oil.

"Pa da pa da......"

The fish, only half a body, began flapping on the offering table and finally fell beside Hu Yiwei, the landing splashing a piece of oil.

Hu Yiwei forcefully opened his eyes. It turned out this was not the smell of lamp oil, it was fish oil.

"Vomit!"

Zeng Miaomiao's mouth suddenly opened, and strips of small fish surged out from inside. As the small fish flowed out, Zeng Miaomiao's originally still normal head began to shrink rapidly, turning into a mummy at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Hu Yiwei's eyes turned red, but he simply couldn't move.

These small fish all flapped towards Hu Yiwei. They were clearly small fish, but their mouths seemed to have sharp teeth. Hu Yiwei felt his whole body being torn and bitten.

At this time, this fish, which was only half a body left, opened its mouth and actually emitted Zeng Miaomiao's voice:

"Yiwei, don't you want to talk with me? Speak, ah, Yiwei, why don't you speak?"

Terrifying despair was swallowing him step by step.

……

Zeng YinYin walked down the stairs and returned to the kitchen, carefully looking at Tan Wenbin, who was still sitting there motionless with his head lowered.

She put a finger into her mouth and contained it, smilingly saying:

"Tonight, just use him. That brother-in-law of mine is really good-looking but not useful, not comfortable enough, and you can't perform well either. What do you think, my man?"

He should be able to be used for three or four days. After using him up, throw him up there as an offering, and then we'll find a new person."

After waiting for a while and seeing Tan Wenbin not speaking, Zeng YinYin asked somewhat strangely:

"What do you think, ah? Say something, ba?"

Tan Wenbin slowly lifted his head. Zeng YinYin's face also changed.

Because on Tan Wenbin's forehead, a piece of talisman paper of unknown origin was stuck.

"You are thinking of eating farts!"

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