Ring of Seven [Online Version]

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Along the way, Lin Xu followed Cuiniang through the mountains and forests for a long time, until the sun was nearly three poles, and the fog completely dissipated.The desolate wild forest also reveals a little softness that Jiangnan should have.Cuiniang finally brought Lin Xu to a slightly crowded place.Although it is said to be a populated place, once you walk in, you realize that it is actually just a small mountain village, but because of the war, it has become a deserted village.There were dead bodies and rats gnawing on them, and there was a stench of decay.

Cuiniang didn't talk much along the way, but sometimes she pouted, as if holding back tears.Then look back at the road you've traveled.Lin Xu felt that she was watching her behind all the time, and he also followed her silently all the way.She looked at an abandoned tea beach in a deserted village and said, "Here, I'll look for something to eat and something to bring. But I'm starving to death."

Lin Xu wiped off the dust on the bench, and then put down his medicine box.He looked around, and besides the ruins, he could vaguely see some corpses lying in disarray not far away, and there was a hanged woman on a tree with a crooked neck.Being arched by the dog under the tree, it kept dangling back and forth.Cuiniang searched for a long time and finally came back cursing and said, "Damn it, Little Japan is really a bunch of beasts. They didn't even leave us a chicken or an egg."

Lin Xu rubbed his stomach, to be honest he hadn't eaten for almost two days.Suddenly Cui Niang's eyes lit up, and with a few strides she burrowed into a haystack.He actually picked out a rifle from the haystack, and the luckiest thing was that there were still bullets in the gun.Cuiniang looked at the gun as if she saw chicken stewed with fresh mushrooms. She handed the gun to Lin Xu and said, "Take it, aren't you a soldier? Let's get some wild game. Let's not stay here anymore, it's scary Yes. Anyway, I picked up this guy, it’s not a loss.”

Lin Xu took the gun, and after going to the court, he found that the gun could indeed be used, which made him somewhat at ease.He nodded and said, "I'll go to the back of the forest to catch some wild rabbits or something. But it's winter now, so I don't know if I can catch them."

Cuiniang hurriedly grabbed him and said: "Don't, don't go back! We can't go back. Go forward with me, and I'll see if it doesn't work. I'll see if I can pick up some fishing guys. This is near the river, and every family should have one." fishing."

Cuiniang's nagging again and again brought Lin Xu's resentment and doubts to the breaking point. He asked coldly, "What are you afraid of? What are you hiding? If you don't make it clear, I will Don't go!"

Cuiniang bit her lip and looked at Lin Xu, Lin Xu's heart softened after being stared at like this, he sighed and shook his head.Seeing him like this, Cuiniang said, "Let's go to the front first, don't let me talk about this next to a group of corpses. Even if I'm fighting backwards, I'm still a woman."

When Lin Xu heard what she said, he also felt that he had gone too far.He shook his head in embarrassment and said, "I'm a little emotional. Let's go forward first. I guess we can cross the boundary after a little bit more, and it will be a little better at that time."

Just when the two of them were about to get up and leave, Lin Xu found an eye staring at them from the ruins.He raised his rifle and shouted at the ruins: "Who is it, come out."

There was no sound in the ruins, Cui Niang hid behind Lin Xu, the two of them approached the ruins little by little, and finally a monkey suddenly jumped out of the ruins, feeling like a juggler followed.Maybe the juggler died, but this monkey was hiding here. It was very psychic, and knew that what Lin Xu was holding was dangerous.Make that harsh sound.

Cuiniang sighed and said, "Monkey, I thought it was a devil. Come on, let's eat it today, it is said that monkey brains are delicious."

Lin Xu didn't put down his gun, but he didn't shoot either.This monkey seemed to understand human speech, it felt that the woman was drooling at it, and knew it was a pot of vegetables.There were even more ear-piercing screams, making the already weird deserted village even more tense.Lin Xu felt that there was something alive hiding in this seemingly dead village, watching them from the haystacks and the debris.In fact, he always felt that there was a pair of cold eyes watching their every move.

Lin Xu didn't pull the trigger. He put down his rifle and said, "This monkey is a Chinese monkey after all, and it has a special spirituality. Let's let it go. I'll catch wild rabbits later."

To Lin Xu's surprise, Cui Niang did not protest, but her voice trembled. She approached Lin Xu suspiciously and whispered, "Then let's go quickly. I think something is wrong here."

Lin Xu asked: "You said there is something wrong with this village?"

Cuiniang frowned beautifully and said, "Yes, this village is abnormal, didn't you notice it? All the dead were women, and there was no dead body of a man."

Lin Xu immediately looked up and looked around, and found that all the corpses lying on the ground were women's corpses, not even a man's, which was very abnormal.There have been many massacres in history, some killing and looting, and some killing all men.Take away every woman who can bear children.And it is really unreasonable to just kill women.

Lin Xu asked suspiciously: "Then where are those men? The woman who watched him was killed and hasn't come out yet? That's not right."

Cuiniang held tightly the hatchet she picked up from the side just now, and said next to Lin Xu, "Don't talk about it, in this year of war and chaos, nothing strange happens. Let's go, anyway, this place is too evil."

Lin Xu stopped talking, put the rifle on her back, and Cuiniang found an unused fire pocket from the corner, and the two of them walked straight through this weird village full of corpses, but the weird monkey didn't Instead of running away, he kept following, keeping a distance of about three meters.Sometimes they let out one or two strange roars, but more often they followed Lin Xu and the other along the ruined walls. From Lin Xu's point of view, this kind of monkey seemed to be avoiding the sun.

When Lin Xu and Cuiniang quickly withdrew from the deserted village, the surrounding scenery became more and more desolate. Not to mention wild rabbits, they didn't even see a bird.But they know that they have been walking along the Qinhuai River. The Qinhuai River is the mother river of Nanjing. It is connected by the inner river and the outer river. The inner river runs through the entire Nanjing city.It was originally praised as "the peach leaves reflect the red flowers, and there is no wind and it is graceful".But now this place is extremely desolate, not to mention fishing boats and peach blossoms.Even wild vegetables cannot be dug.

Lin Xu just followed Cui Niang along the way, and Cui Niang made a pergola with her hands from time to time, looked at the sun, and then thought for a while and led Lin Xu to continue on the road.She said that they would first go to a place called Danliyu at the foot of Huanggu Mountain, where someone would come to meet them.In short, they just want to get there alive no matter what.

They soon came to a body of water, because it was in the south, even though it was winter, there were still fish, and they were not small.Lin Xu found a pole, and Cui Niang took out a purse from her bag with a few embroidery needles pinned to it. She took out one and bent it, and then drew out a thread to tie it to the bamboo pole. Lin Xu took the earthworm After crushing it, it is rolled into a ball and buckled on the needle to start fishing.

Cuiniang lit a fire, because there was nothing to eat fish in winter, and she just bit on the bait without thinking about it, so fishing was easier than Lin Xu hunting wild rabbits.Lin Xu hastily scraped off the internal organs and scales of the fish and put them on the fire grill to roast.Soon the fragrance spread.

At this time, both of them were screaming with hungry stomachs, and neither of them thought the other was worthless.The fish was just cooked, and I started to eat it with white eyes. I swallowed the fish whole and didn't care that the fishbone in the fish might get stuck in my throat. This is really very hungry.

After eating almost, Lin Xu burped, and Cui Niang realized that she was a woman, and began to tear open the fish and pick out the bones delicately.Instead of spitting like before.

Lin Xu picked up the fishing rod and went to catch some more, then cleaned the internal organs and wrapped them with dead leaves and put them in the box. At this time, the monkey who had been following them was also hiding in the distance with the smell of fish, scratching its ears and cheeks.Lin Xu burst out laughing, seeing that the monkey was really spiritual, so he threw a big fish he just caught to the monkey.

The monkey tentatively pushed it twice with its hand, and then chewed it after seeing that there was no danger. Lin Xu unexpectedly found that the monkey's eating was somewhat similar to Cuiniang's.Thinking of this, he couldn't help but secretly laughed.Seeing him snickering, Cui Niang threw a fish bone over and asked, "What are you laughing at? Isn't it just getting along with a monkey?"

Lin Xu didn't stop laughing. Seeing that it was getting late, he said, "It's getting late, let's continue on our way. We shouldn't meet devils now. Where is the place you mentioned?"

Cuiniang squatted on the side of the road, looking at the monkeys that were still eating fish, she asked in a low voice: "It's not far away, I think you are knowledgeable, let me ask you something... Do you believe that the world is full of people? Is there a ghost?"

Lin Xu didn't immediately deny it. He shook his head and thought for a moment and said, "I believe that there is karma in this world."

Cuiniang froze for a moment, then giggled, her voice sounded very mocking.She said: "Retribution? What is retribution? Everyone says that we grave robbers have a bad death and that we are wicked, but you think we are born to be gravediggers?"

Lin Xu was next to her, and Cuiniang said: "Actually, I didn't do this job from the beginning, I used to do it as Yaojie. Hehe, I didn't expect it, we have no hope at all. I was just trading in flesh and blood, and I killed people and stabbed a beast. He is a fucking pervert. He hit me every day and beat me with a whip dipped in salt water. If I continue like this, I will die in his hands sooner or later. You might as well just stab him to death."

Lin Xu noticed a deep hatred flashed in Cuiniang's eyes. Her eyes darkened and she said, "I escaped later and became a beggar. This life is no better than a dog. You are an official. I don’t know the way people like us live. I didn’t know if I could breathe when I opened my eyes the next day. Hehe, I met Brother Huzi later. Regarding the rules of the tomb robbery business, but he never let me fight, I just look out for him and cook for him. In the eyes of others, I am not his sister, but his woman. Actually... I have thought about it too..."

Cuiniang's voice became smaller and smaller, and then she stopped talking.Lin Xu knew that Cuiniang liked Huzi, but Huzi didn't know why he didn't want her. Could it be because she was a prostitute in the past?It's hard for Lin Xu to say, and it's hard to ask.All I can do is wait for Cui Niang to continue.

Cuiniang said: "We are just ordinary mountain people during the day, and at night Brother Huzi will go to the place where we stepped on during the day to fight. Sometimes we can bring some gold ingots, sometimes we don't get anything, and we bring gold ingots. Injuries all over the body. Although life was bitter and mean, we still lived like that. Until the devils came. We couldn’t live a life at all. We had to escape with everyone. This incident actually happened on the way to escape..."

As soon as Cui Niang finished speaking, she heard the monkey, which was quiet at first, suddenly start to make noise. It kept rolling and twitching, and then kicked its feet and spit out a lot of blood foam from its mouth. Lin Xu yelled that it was not good. : "Fish meat is poisonous?"

He hurriedly took out a few more fish he had caught, and found that these fish were very common crucian carp.And they eat a lot more than the monkey, why is it that they have nothing to do, but the monkey died?

Cuiniang looked closely at the monkey's death, and she gasped and said, "It's so strange, how the monkey's death looks so...poisoned to death by corpse poison."

Lin Xu threw away the fish meat and went to look at the monkey who had rolled his eyes. He found that the monkey's lips were black and purple, and his gums were bleeding non-stop, and his body had a very strange smell, which was not smelly but also sweet. It's like a big girl's hair oil.

Lin Xu saw that the monkey was dead in a blink of an eye, so he turned to look at the fish, and found that the raw fish was very normal, and the meat was still very elastic. So why did the monkey suddenly die of poison?

This made Cui Niang and Lin Xu very frightened, because after all they had eaten so much fish, the aroma that they hadn't been able to get enough of was now disgusting and repulsive.

Cuiniang shook her head and said, "This is a male monkey, you see it has a dick."

Lin Xu didn't know what she was doing with the monkey body at this moment, he ignored Cui Niang's words, but Cui Niang continued: "Lin Xu, tell me...does this have anything to do with the fact that there are no male corpses in that village? "

Lin Xu shuddered and asked, "What do you mean?"

Cuiniang shook her head and said, "I just think there may be a connection, but it's not necessarily true. Why are you looking at me, but to be honest, this monkey died too evil, and I'm sure he died of corpse poisoning However, corpse poison is generally those old corpses that died with extreme resentment, and fresh corpses cannot accumulate such powerful poison."

Lin Xu murmured: "Corpse poison?" He thought for a moment, then took out a scalpel from the medicine box, cut open the monkey's stomach on the spot, and immediately a more intense odor emanated from the monkey's abdominal cavity.Lin Xu said: "Since it is poisoned, let's look at its liver first. If there is any discoloration in the liver, it means that it is indeed poisoned, and you can tell the time based on the color, so you can know whether there is something wrong with the fish or not."

Cui Niang hummed to agree with him, and urged him to kill the knife quickly.Lin Xu cut open the monkey's liver with a knife, and found that there was no abnormality in the liver, it was very normal.Lin Xu looked up at Cuiniang suspiciously and said, "It's not poisoning..."

After speaking, he could only look at his stomach to see what the monkey had eaten.Because the least time to digest is three hours, and the longest protein even takes 8 hours.So you can see what it ate from the stomach.

Lin Xu cut it open with a knife, and found that the monkey who had closed his eyes suddenly let out a strange cry, and a strange light flashed in his eyes, and then bit Lin Xu hard. Lin Xu immediately withdrew his hand, but was still caught. The monkey's paw rubbed off a piece of flesh, and blood flowed out.Cuiniang saw that the dead monkey would react to this, and immediately shouted: "Ghost! There is a ghost!"

Lin Xu clapped his hands to stop him and said, "No, maybe its brain is not completely dead, so the conditional firing occurs. Don't be afraid." After speaking, he dissected the monkey's stomach with his other hand, and found that the stomach Stuffed with freshly eaten fish.Mixed with some very disgusting white scum.Lin Xu rummaged in its stomach with a scalpel, and suddenly found that there was a human finger in its stomach, which seemed to belong to a woman, because the nails were dyed red. (China has long had the habit of painting nails, and young girls will use red impatiens as a dye on their nails)

Lin Xu picked out the finger with a knife, and found that it was a woman's little finger, and it was the top section.Lin Xu said to Cuiniang, "Has this monkey ever eaten human flesh?"

Cuiniang said: "It's not surprising. There are only women's corpses there. It is so hungry that it will naturally eat the corpses."

They checked everything that should be checked, but there was nothing unusual.Only to dig a hole and bury the monkey's body.Then Lin Xu bandaged his hands and said, "Let's go, maybe we are worrying too much."

Cuiniang reluctantly nodded and continued walking with Lin Xu. Just as they turned to leave, they found a pair of black-haired hands desperately grabbing the disemboweled monkey corpse.They dragged the exposed large intestine and internal organs of the corpse all over the floor.

Lin Xu raised the gun without saying a word, just a burst of fire, but his hands were faster than Lin Xu's reaction, just a little bit short, he quickly let go of his hands and ran to the deserted village quickly.The monkey's body fell heavily on the ground, and its internal organs were still turning outwards.

Cuiniang turned her head away from looking at the monkey, wanted to chase that thing, Lin Xu grabbed her arm and said, "Stop chasing, let's go quickly. This place is not normal. The one just now should be a person... "

Cuiniang was stunned for a moment, but was pulled back by Lin Xu: "Human? Can a human have such claws?"

Lin Xu was dumbfounded by her question, and he said to himself: "Even a primate can't run like that..." Cuiniang was frightened by his words, so she didn't continue to ask, she picked up the Baggage: "Don't say anything, let's go, and don't bring any fish."

Cuiniang kicked the fish and their viscera into the Qinhuai River. The fish and their viscera sank into the lake, muddying the clear lake water, and then the tiny pieces floated on the river.

Lin Xu put the gun on his back and picked up the medical box on the ground.But he found that Cuiniang was staring at the river with a very complicated expression. She covered her mouth and said, "Corpse...these fish...oh my god...they eat corpses!"

Lin Xu asked her what happened to these fish?Cuiniang's face was getting paler and paler, and finally, with an uh sound, she spat out all the fish that she had eaten before.This made Lin Xu's stomach sick for a while, and he almost vomited along with him.

Cuiniang reached out to Lin Xu, Lin Xu found that her hands were trembling, Lin Xu asked: "Are you all right, what's wrong? These fish..."

As soon as she finished saying the word fish, Cui Niang turned her head and retched violently again, but there was really nothing to vomit, only white water.

Cuiniang said: "These fish... are disgusting. There are corpses all over the bottom of the river! Who the hell is so wicked!"

Lin Xu didn't understand, Cui Niang pointed to the village and said, "Do you know why there are no men in that village?"

Lin Xu shook her head, Cui Niang suppressed the nausea in her heart, she said: "Actually, all the men and women in this village are dead, and no one is alive. It is a real ghost village."

Lin Xu couldn't help but glanced back. The village seemed very hidden among the dense tree trunks, and now it looked even more unreal.Lin Xu repeated: "Ghost village? You mean the dead man's body is actually in the river? They eat the dead man's body?"

Cuiniang shook her head and said: "That's right, the man's corpse is indeed in the river, those fish eat the corpse, but it's just a corpse, men's yang energy is stronger than women's, so if they resent, they will It becomes a 魑. After a woman dies, she will become a slut if she becomes too angry. They are the ghosts on the ground and in the water. They cannot be reincarnated."

Lin Xu couldn't understand Cui Niang's fragmented explanation, so he simply sighed and comforted: "It's a bit disgusting. After all, it's a fish that eats dead human flesh. No wonder you are like this. But a dead person is a piece of meat, and a fish eats bait." , we eat fish to survive.”

But unexpectedly, Cui Niang shook her head like a rattle again, pointing to those fish meat foams and said: "These fish eat the corpses of men, but their souls belong to those women. Look at the eyes of those fish, isn't it The eyes of a fish are obviously human eyeballs.

Lin Xu asked puzzledly: "How do you know that it belongs to those women? It's just that the eyeballs are human-like."

Cuiniang scolded: "Hey! Why did I come across a solid wood like you? Didn't I say that after death, a woman turns into a ghost, and the ghost turns into a ghost, who lives in the water and gathers Yin energy. Convenience is their nest. So these fish are actually the wronged souls of those women, and... and the ghosts of men are... the monkey just now. They are Yang ghosts, I dare say there are many monkeys here, these Monkeys are actually not monkeys. They are mandrills. Men’s souls are attached to monkeys, like puppets. These monkeys have the memory and thinking ability of those dead people. That’s why he has been following us. He still retains more or less humans Actions."

Lin Xu still didn't understand, and Cui Niang didn't bother to spread the word to him, she just said: "This village has been tampered with, but I don't know if the tampered with is human, but the man's body sank into the river Become the bait of the soul of a woman, and the corpse of a woman is dumped in the village, becoming the food of the soul of a man. This... This is actually a kind of sorcery, the purpose of this sorcery is to stimulate the yin energy, even if it is an ordinary corpse Put it here, you can cheat corpses in less than a minute. This place has been designed as a gathering pool."

Lin Xu asked, "What do you mean?"

Before Cui Niang could explain further, she heard screams coming from all around, and the fish in the Qinhuai River began to splash water non-stop.Cuiniang said: "Not good! Run away! That thing is approaching again!"

After speaking, he stumbled and pulled Lin Xu to run. When Lin Xu ran, he glanced at Cui Niang, and found that Cui Niang unexpectedly showed a very vicious smile at some point. laugh.And the whole face was as pale as lime.Lin Xu was so frightened that he threw away Cuiniang. Cuiniang was startled by his actions. At this moment, he found that Cuiniang was not abnormal, but her face was indeed a little pale, but it was definitely not the ghostly paleness.He clutched his temples, Cui Niang didn't do anything when she saw him like this and pulled him.Lin Xu finally regained his composure. He grabbed Cuiniang's hand and continued on his way. The strange village and the ghosts who preyed on each other's bodies gradually disappeared among the shadows of the trees. , getting farther and farther away.But Lin Xu felt that cold feeling of being peeped has not disappeared at all.Instead, it became more and more intense.