Strange Tale

Instinctively turning his head away, Si Ren saw a figure covered in blood rushing out of the room.Si Ren wanted to run over to see what happened, but was stopped by Zhang Hu.

"What are you doing?!" Si Ren asked loudly, anxiously and angrily.

"You can't go there! It's too dangerous!" Zhang Hu held Si Ren tightly to prevent him from moving.

"You..." Si Ren cast a magic spell to bounce Zhang Hu away, "How can you refuse to save him?!"

At the same time, many villagers started to run back to their homes. Si Ren didn't care to ask why they were doing this, and jumped into the yard a few times to catch the person who was about to fall to the ground, who was still spraying blood, "How are you?!"

The man clutched his neck and was speechless, suddenly another strange cry came from behind, and Si Ren turned his head to look over.I saw an old lady with disheveled hair and mouth full of blood rushing towards her with her teeth and claws.

Si Ren's reaction was quick, he immediately dragged the person in his arms back a few steps to escape.The old lady flinched.Si Ren moved a few steps to the side, and she turned around in a daze, stretched out her bloody hands and walked towards Si Ren persistently step by step.

"Xiao Ren! Leave that person behind!" Zhang Hu shouted from outside the yard.

But Si Ren ignored him, not only did not leave the person in his hand, but he wrapped his arms around the person firmly and opened a barrier with the other.Then he called out "Little Lin", and Qilin immediately ran over and set another barrier on the creepy old lady to control her.

"What did you do to my mother?!" A middle-aged man in his 40s jumped out and rushed towards Qilin.

"We won't hurt her, you go away!"

Si Ren yelled, but it was useless, so he had to call Zhang Hu again.

Zhang Hu chased over and dragged the middle-aged man back, "This mage is my friend, you trust him!"

The man struggled a few times but failed to shake off, Zhang Hu persuaded him a few more words, and finally he stopped moving.

Si Ren closed the barrier and began to carefully examine the injured person.It was a young man in his early twenties. He had been bitten with two big holes in his neck. The blood spurted everywhere and couldn't be stopped. He couldn't say a word and was dying.Si Ren raised his head and glanced at the old lady in the barrier. She was standing still on the edge of the barrier with both hands, growling in a low voice, staring fiercely at the direction where Si Ren and the injured young man were. The face is hideous.She didn't seem to know that she hadn't taken half a step.

what to do?I'm afraid this person can't be saved. Do you want to try again... That's right!

Just as Si Ren thought of a way to save people, there was a ping-pong-pong sound in the nearby yard, and someone rushed out of the house yelling and screaming.Si Ren stood up and saw people from the whole village rushing to the yard one after another, then to the street, and finally they all surrounded the courtyard where he was.

Almost all of them were the walking corpses before, but now they not only moved quickly, but even their originally sluggish eyes seemed to have a target.Almost all of them were followed by their sane family members, but it seemed that no one dared to move forward. They could only follow them cautiously at a certain distance with a sad face.

It seems that it is too late to save people, and the most urgent thing is to save ourselves.

"Huan'er!" Si Ren hurriedly called Huan'er to his side first.Then he dragged the people on the ground and leaned towards Qilin, "Can you still hold on?"

"No...problem." Qilin answered with difficulty.

Si Ren sat cross-legged on the ground and set up a larger-scale barrier.But his barrier can stop demons and goblins, but not ordinary people. The ordinary villagers following those crazy walking corpses make Si Ren very worried: if they come in and attack him, they can easily break the barrier. What will happen is hard to predict.

Just as he didn't know what to do, a familiar sound came from the sky, and Si Ren raised his head: it was Long Jiu who came back, and he had a "person" in his hand.You don't need to look closely, just by looking at the figure, you can tell that it is the monster who calls himself Mr. Ji.

Always so timely!Si Ren was so excited that he was about to shed tears.

Si Ren closed the barrier, and Long Jiu fell beside him, "You're making a lot of fun."

"Still making sarcastic remarks!" Si Ren stood up.

Long Jiu pushed Mr. Ji, "Stop them soon?!"

Mr. Ji staggered a step forward, and there was a strange growl in his body, and the out-of-control walking corpses actually stopped in response, neither moving forward nor barking their claws.Including the old lady who went crazy at first.

Qilin put away the barrier and sat down on the ground.

Si Ren breathed a sigh of relief, and then saw: that Mr. Ji was holding his throat with both hands, his face was full of horror, his previously pale face had turned gray and black, he seemed to be enduring some extreme pain.

"What's wrong with him?" Si Ren couldn't see that he was injured.

Long Jiu smiled, "Tell him that the blood of more than 2000 years is not drunk randomly, but I don't believe it."

"what?"

"He arrested people to drink their blood. I traded myself and him for those two people."

"What about those two people?"

"Already escaped."

"You said he arrested people to drink their blood?"

"Yes, he told me everything: the people in the village were made like this by him. He sucked their blood but didn't suck it dry, let them survive, and those people became what they are now. Then he threatened other people in the village. The people who go to other places will be captured by him. Every time he picks two favorites, the rest will be reserved for those who have undergone mutations, because they are already like him, and they will starve to death if they don’t drink the blood of the living. .Usually he brings these monsters to live in a cave in the woods. He promised their family that after half a year, he will cure those people's 'strange disease' and bring them back to normal. But he just admitted: he is lying Human. The mutated people must either continue to 'live' on human blood unconsciously as they are now, or they can only die."

The crowd behind booed.

Si Ren remembered a conversation he had with Father Martin in the Shiquan Pavilion of Yancheng.

……

"I say so, do you understand?"

"Hmm... It's okay. But when you say that, I think of some devils in our beliefs. For example, vampire zombies, have you heard of them?"

……

Si Ren had heard about the vampire zombie case before he came to Yancheng, but he didn't experience it himself, and he didn't know the details.I only vaguely remember that they only come out at night and are afraid of the sun.

So let's say: Mr. Ji accidentally fell into the cave where Mr. Ji lived and was caught by him?It must be that he wanted to suck the blood of Huaner and Xiaolin, but one was a ghost and he didn't suck anything, and the other turned into an animal again.

However, since there are still normal people in the village, why didn't I see anyone when Xiaojiu and I entered the village in the afternoon?Also, why are those zombies so dumb and stupid just now, why are they suddenly flexible and vicious now?

"uh-huh……"

Si Renzheng couldn't figure it out, the man who had been lying on the ground bleeding suddenly reached out and grabbed his ankle.

That person is dying, and he has to breathe his last breath.Si Ren quickly squatted down, temporarily sealing his three souls and seven souls to prevent them from leaving his body.At this time, Si Ren also suddenly understood: the reason why the zombies reacted so violently was because of this person in front of him.After he was bitten by the old lady, although he broke free, he bled too much.It was the smell of blood that woke up the other vampires and drew them here.What about the beginning?How could this man be easily bitten by that old lady?Why are the people captured by other villagers still okay?

Si Ren looked up at the middle-aged man who was about to rush over and was stopped by Zhang Hu, "Why was this young man bitten by Ling Tang?"

The middle-aged man lowered his head and hesitated for a while before saying: "I... thought it was the same as the previous few times. Mr. Ji picked out the one he wanted, and the rest can be given to my mother... so I am on him ...cut him and made him bleed..."

Sure enough: the smell of blood can wake up zombies.

Si Ren's eyes widened in shock at first, then he got up and turned half a circle, his eyes swept across the normal villagers, "You... all do this? You hurt the person you captured and then watched him being killed by yourself family sucked alive?"

People bowed their heads one after another.Si Ren's gaze finally fell on Zhang Hu, "What's the difference between you doing this and killing people?!"

Zhang Hu cried, "If it weren't for the fact that there is no other way..."

Si Ren suddenly turned his head and punched Mr. Ji in the stomach, "Why are you so harmful?!"

Mr. Ji, who was already unable to stand still, fell to the ground in pain, "Quick... quickly save me...cough cough...take me to...a hole in the woods, there is a coffin in there, put me in it... ..."

"What is this?" Si Ren picked up something from the ground.It fell from Mr. Ji's body the moment he fell.

Mr. Ji struggled to take a look, and suddenly reached out to snatch it, "Give it back to me!"

Si Ren dodged in time, and continued to hold the object in his hand—a cross with exquisite patterns.

Si Ren had seen that pattern before, and in Father Martin's church, the exact same cross had fallen from the girl who opened the dress shop.

"Give it back to me!" Mr. Ji shouted again hoarsely.

Si Ren held the cross tightly, "Tell me, where did you get it?"

"That's what I brought from the land of Ilib in the west! Kekekekeke... That's something from our family! The amulets that everyone in the Kit Eliano family has!"

"Hmph." Long Jiu, who hadn't spoken for a long time, sneered, "There are amulets in evil ways? It's ridiculous."

Si Ren took the cross in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully: yes, it is exactly the same as the one on the girl from the foreign clothes shop.

"I've seen something similar to this elsewhere." Si Ren shook the cross.

Mr. Ji was stunned, as if the pain on his body had completely disappeared for a moment, "Where is it?"

"You killed so many people, why should I tell you?"

"Please, tell me. My sister and I are the only two left in our family. After I became... like this, I never saw her again. Please, please... tell me..." Mr. Ji crawled over and begged bitterly, his voice already tinged with tears.

Si Ren hesitated: Anyway, he won't live for a few more hours, why not...

"Hahahaha!" A strange laugh not far away interrupted Si Ren, "I never thought we would meet again here!"

A path flashed out from the crowd, and everyone looked for their reputation: In the car that Si Ren and Long Jiu drove all the way, there were monks and monks under Hun Duo who had fought against each other in Xucheng and let them escape by chance. Taoist priests, and Ye Chang and Xu Hai, who were restricted by their hands and feet and restricted their mobility.