This simplification is outrageous

In the past, hunters had the habit of making specimens of the prey they hunted for preservation.

So although this scene looks a little creepy, it is easy to explain.

Ordinary humans would be afraid of the corpses of the same kind, but for humans who have lived here for more than ten years, this fear is just a cloud.

Take the young man as an example. Not long ago, he had some cranium containers at home, but because his mother was in poor health, the fruit forest in the back did not collect food, so he exchanged these strange spirit skulls for some fruits.

In this small village, bartering is the most basic rule.

Except when encountering issues that threaten the safety of the whole village, everyone may unite. Otherwise, even in the same village, everyone basically has no communication at ordinary times.

This is why the boy said that the village is very indifferent!

It was also one of the reasons why he wanted to leave here.

……

Looking at the remains of the ghosts in the courtyard, Qiao Yuan guessed in his heart that if he hadn't been poisoned to death by eating the ghosts, these people might divide the ghosts and eat them.

Maybe this kind of thing happened in the early days, but Qiao Yuan didn't bother to confirm it.

The young man took the initiative to knock on the door ahead of time, acting as a first officer, went in and communicated for a while, and then waved to Qiao Yuan.

Then Qiao Yuan stepped into the adobe brick house and met the so-called village chief.

An old man who looked like he was only 50 years old.

According to the young man, the village chief was one of the people who entered this world with his mother. After more than ten years, his body has not deteriorated like the woman's.

Sure enough, as soon as he met Qiao Yuan, he recognized the identity of the awakened person.

The fourth-order awakened person, although their strength is very low, is already considered extraordinary. It is reasonable to break away from the ranks of ordinary people and become old without being affected by the environment.

It's just that Qiao Yuan was a little curious about how the other party was promoted in such a ghostly place.

The young man had already revealed part of Qiao Yuan's situation to the village chief, so the two sides were not surprised to meet each other.

"What do you want to ask?"

"Everything about this forbidden place!"

"Yes, but it must be traded with spiritual liquid!"

"Do you know about ectoplasm?"

"Hehe, don't you foreign awakened people have spiritual liquid?" The village chief sneered, and there was even a hint of hostility in his words.

Although Qiao Yuan didn't know why this happened.

Wait... Could it be that he was promoted by exchanging spiritual liquid little by little in this way?

It seems that this is really possible.

The spiritual liquid was useless to him, so Qiao Yuan readily took out a bottle of spiritual liquid to pay.

This move made the village head look a little surprised, obviously thinking that he was missing.

……

This is a place of death, surrounded by strange spirits, and no one can leave here. In the past ten years, he has met many awakened people, the highest one even reached the sixth level, but even so, he died before leaving here. on the way.

So entering here is no different from prison!

"The situation is like this. If you are willing to join the village, I can lead everyone to build a house for you, or you can choose an empty house yourself. Although the outside world is very dangerous, the village is safe." The village chief said lightly.

"It's over?" Qiao Yuan couldn't believe his ears.

"Ah."

"you sure?"

"Ah."

"..."

"Guixiang, go out for a while and stay away from here." Qiao Yuan signaled Guixiang to leave the room.

Yang Guixiang: "..."

"Village Chief, brother Qiao Yuan is a good man, please don't make things difficult for him, I can pick fruits in the woods behind for you..." the boy said in a pleading tone.

Seeing Qiao Yuan urging him to leave, he reluctantly backed out.

……

"As this honest boy said, I am a good person and I don't know how to fight very much, so I will ask one last time, how to get out of here!" Qiao Yuan said with a cold expression.

"You can't leave here!" the village chief said firmly.

"It seems that you are going to force me to do it!"

"I, Qiao Yuan, hate two kinds of people the most in my life. The first is people who don't tell the truth to me, and the second... is people who eavesdrop on me!"

As soon as the words fell, Qiao Yuan's figure suddenly disappeared, and then appeared behind the earthen house, and slammed his right fist at a man who was eavesdropping.

The man's face changed drastically, and he hurriedly dodged, but he didn't dodge. Under the impact of Qiao Yuan's fist, he flew upside down, hit the wall hard, and then bounced back to the ground.

Holding his chest, he stood up with difficulty. Seeing Qiao Yuan's fist come down again, the man hurriedly knelt down and shouted: "Friend, don't do it, I'm here to help you!"

"Help me for what?" Qiao Yuan looked down at the man on the ground.

"Just like you, I am a person who entered this village by mistake, but I have been here for half a year. My name is Wu Jie, a sixth-level awakener."

The man was shocked by Qiao Yuan's strength while talking. With his sixth-level strength, he couldn't resist even one punch. Could this man be at the seventh level?

"Tell me everything you know."

Wu Jie patted the dirt on his body, rubbed his aching chest, took a deep breath and said, "My name is Wu Jie, from XX city, half a year ago..."

"I'm not interested in your past, just tell me the way out here, and if there are any particularly powerful spirits around!" Qiao Yuan interrupted the meaningless words of the other party.

"The exit is in the fruit forest behind, but I can't find a way out!"

"..."

Just when Wu Jie was about to say something more, a noisy voice came from the village head's house.

……

"Village Chief, someone is dead, come and have a look."

"where?"

"Village entrance."

"..."

Inside the earthen house, the village head and another villager hurried to the scene.

Soon, near the entrance of the village, several figures gathered together, pointing at the corpse on the ground.

"How did this happen? How could Lao Wang die at the entrance of the village? Isn't our village a village protected by the gods?"

"I don't know either. I saw Lao Wang lying on the ground as soon as I finished my work. I stepped forward and saw that he was already out of breath!"

"You put it that way, I saw it in the morning too, but I thought he was sleeping..."

"Didn't Lao Wang go to the back to pick fruit this morning? His food reserves have bottomed out."

"..."

Amidst the discussion among the crowd, the village head rushed over, and after some inquiries, he learned what had happened.

Looking at the white-haired dead skin-like corpse on the ground, the village chief only said two words.

"It's Shou Ling!"

As soon as these words came out, there was a wave of waves in the crowd.

"How could it be it!"

"It hasn't been shot for several years!"

"And this is still in the village, how could it be..."

"..."

……

In the distance, the two Qiao Yuan who rushed over also heard what the villagers said.

"For more than ten years, this village has recorded many ghosts. Some ghosts just passed by, but some ghosts have been wandering around here. Shouling is the second most dangerous in the village's records."

"This ghost likes to eat human life! But it hasn't appeared for half a year, why does it appear again?"

Wu Jie was obviously also a little puzzled!

"..."

"Village chief, make up your mind!"

"That's right, that's what happened in the village. Is there any solution?"

"..."

The villagers asked each other anxiously.

After living for more than ten years, the rules they knew were broken for the first time!

People are killed in the village, and if the village is no longer safe, their lives will be threatened.

The village chief frowned, stared at the corpse repeatedly, and finally said in a low voice: "I can only worship the gods and pray for peace!"

Everyone was stunned and looked at each other again and again. They seemed to be a little resistant to enshrining the gods, but finally nodded in agreement with the village chief's arrangement.

"Village chief, when is the offering?" A villager asked cautiously.

"..."

The village chief turned his head and glanced at Qiao Yuan and the two who had rushed over, his lips parted slightly, but he didn't make a sound.

"Okay, we understand, let's prepare now."

All the villagers looked at each other and retreated.

……

"The village chief has a secret. I have been here for half a year. He must have something wrong. I always feel that he is hiding something from us!" Wu Jie affirmed.

"He also tricked you with spiritual liquid?" Qiao Yuan said.

Wu Jie hesitated for a moment and then nodded.

"Why don't you come back?" Qiao Yuan asked back.

One level six and one level four, in this place without laws, Qiao Yuan did not believe that Wu Jie's moral standards were so high.

It's a worthwhile deal to exchange some nonsense information or meaningless words for the spiritual fluid of the awakened people who strayed into this place.

But the village head was not killed for doing this, which was indeed a bit beyond Qiao Yuan's expectations.

"Every time I have this kind of thought, my sixth sense tells me not to offend the village chief, or I will die!" Wu Jie said seriously.

Oh?

Qiao Yuan showed a thoughtful expression.

There is a special power in this village, which can interfere with one's mental power and can also warn Wu Jie, and all of this seems to be inseparable from the village chief.

Even now, under Qiao Yuan's spiritual induction, all the villagers, including Wu Jie, are still withered bones.

Even though Qiao Yuan was convinced that he was being disturbed by some kind of force, the longer he stayed, the inexplicable doubts would still arise in his heart.

"Take me to the fruit forest behind." Qiao Yuan was eager to verify one thing.

Instruct the young man behind to go home without sending himself. Compared with ordinary people, the speed of the sixth-level awakened person can save him a lot of time.

"Okay, you follow me."

Wu Jie glanced at the village chief, then ran to the rear, followed by Qiao Yuan.

Facing the direction the two were going, the village chief just watched coldly and did not stop them.

Chapter 413 The Fruit on the Half Corpse

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