Be pampered at the Dream Hunting Ground

Gu Xiaofeng called out softly: "Xiong Si."

The new dead ghost slowly turned around, and it turned out to be Xiong Si, whom they had secretly seen last time.

Xiong Si had a gash from his forehead to the bridge of his nose, and his shoulders and chest were also split open. He was covered in blood from head to toe, and his death was quite miserable.

Xiong Si didn't recognize them, seeing their confused faces.

Gu Xiaofeng asked: "Who killed you?"

Xiong four pointed behind the door.

Gu Xiaofeng glanced towards the door: "Why did you kill you?"

Xiong Si opened his mouth towards them, and a large amount of blood gushed out of his mouth immediately.

Gu Xiaofeng noticed that there was no tongue in Xiong's four big mouths.

The shape of a ghost depends on its appearance just before death.

Xiong Si was hacked to death after his tongue was cut off.

This is so that Xiong Si can't tell what he knows even if he is a ghost.

Gu Xiaofeng: "Can you write?"

Xiong Si shook his head.

There are not many people who have read books in this era. Xiong Si sells the pass, and he also memorizes the words on the pass by rote, without the ability to write.

If you can't get useful information from Xiong Si, you can only read it yourself.

Gu Xiaofeng pointed to the front door panel: "Take us in and have a look."

After hearing Gu Xiaofeng's words, Xiong Si turned around and fled towards the cave.

Jiang Lou stretched out his hand, and grabbed Xiong Si in the air. Xiong Si was trapped by an invisible force, and instantly became a wooden stake at the mercy of others, unable to take another step forward, and then moved back to the door.

Xiong Si: "?"

Jiang Lou attached his consciousness to the ghost, and used his consciousness to control Xiong Si to pass through the secret door.

"..." Gu Xiaofeng knew that Jiang Lou, like himself, could see ghosts and even catch ghosts, but he didn't expect that he could control ghosts in the air, so he quickly used his mental power to attach his own consciousness to Xiong Si's body. Four senses to check the situation behind the door.

As they guessed, there is a courtyard behind the door.

There is a straw shed in the corner of the yard, and there are four large casserole pots under the grass shed. Each casserole pot is stewed with meat. When the breeze blows, the meat is fragrant.

There was a blood-stained sack in the corner of the yard. There was a bulge in the sack, and there should be a round thing inside.

An old woman was chopping wood nearby, adding a piece of wood to the fire under the casserole from time to time.

Xiong Si went into the courtyard, saw the old woman, and refused to go forward no matter what she said.

The old woman couldn't see him, but the bloody murderous aura on her body was enough to make ghosts dare not approach him.

Xiong Si stood in the middle of the yard, looked at the old woman, then at the several casserole pots, and then at the blood-stained sack, covered his face and squatted on the ground crying bitterly.

Gu Xiaofeng's consciousness was attached to Xiong Si's body, and his forehead throbbed with pain from his crying.

Jiang Lou beside him rubbed his temples uncomfortably.

Although Xiong Si didn't die well, the hostility was firmly suppressed by the old woman's murderous spirit, and he couldn't make trouble. They couldn't use Xiong Si to make further troubles.

Gu Xiaofeng tilted his head towards Jiang Lou: "We have to find a way to lure her away."

Jiang Lou: "Someone is here."

Gu Xiaofeng heard the hurried footsteps through Xiong Si, and immediately shut up.

A brass bell hung on the opposite door rang.

The old woman stood up straight, looked at the swaying copper bell for a while, put down the axe, added a piece of wood under each pot, and made the fire even hotter, before walking towards the opposite door.

After the old woman entered the room, she closed the door with a bang, and then locked it from the inside before leaving.

Gu Xiaofeng immediately withdrew his consciousness from Xiong Si's body, flipped the switch, opened the hidden door, entered the backyard, and went straight to those big casserole pots.

Xiong Si felt that the power restraining him had disappeared, so he quickly got up from the ground and fled towards the cave.

Gu Xiaofeng picked up the iron spoon set aside and stirred it in the pot.

The meat and bones were stewed separately in two pots.

The bone was chopped into small pieces, and it was impossible to tell what kind of bone it was.

But Gu Xiaofeng quickly found the hands that had sunk in another casserole.

This hand has a big palm and thick joints, it should be Xiong Si's hand.

Gu Xiaofeng suppressed his nausea, rummaged through the pot for a while, and found his other hand.

At the same time, Jiang Lou took the tongs and lifted the mouth of the sack, revealing Xiong Si's bloody head inside.

Jiang Lou put the tongs back to its original position and looked at Gu Xiaofeng.

Gu Xiaofeng held his breath to prevent himself from smelling the meaty smell that made him feel uncomfortable. When he saw Jiang Lou looking at him, he didn't speak. He pounded the meat in the pot to remove the traces of being turned over, and put down the big iron spoon. , turned around and walked back to the cave, waited for Jiang Lou, who was following behind, to enter the cave, closed the secret door, and made sure that he would not smell meat again, and then took a long breath.

"Only Xiong Si and no little girl, this is unreasonable."

Jiang Lou let out a "hmm" and frowned slightly.

Those pots were stewed with human flesh. Apparently, the village head didn't buy any animals from outside. The meat they gave to the 'Mountain God' was human flesh.

The village head picked up many children from outside and brought them back to raise, but killed his own villagers to make offerings to the 'mountain god'. This operation is incomprehensible.

People who die of illness can easily bring disease to the living, especially in ancient times when medicine was not yet developed, infectious diseases wiped out entire villages in minutes.

People in this era can't avoid the plague, and those who died of illness must be buried as soon as possible.

But the little girl was really buried?

Xiong Si was still working for Feng Village two days ago, and in the blink of an eye, several big pots were stewed.

Gu Xiaofeng would not think that the village head of Fengcun Village would take the risk of taking the sick child back to the village, and after her death, he would properly handle her funeral.

The two retreated to the cave, took Xiong Si who was huddled in the cave, and continued to walk forward. After a few hundred meters, a door appeared on the wall, and there was also a door opening mechanism next to the door.

According to the example of Xiong Si and Zhao Po, this is also a secret door, but it is not known who the owner is.

The cave continues to go forward for more than ten meters, which is the entrance of the cave.

Outside the entrance of the cave is a straight and steep mountain wall, and there is a closed valley at the foot. There are more than [-] floors from the entrance to the bottom of the valley.

Looking down from the hole, you can see the accumulation of bones.

Those bones were incomplete, scattered at the bottom of the valley in a mess, overlapping, I don't know how many there are, and I can't tell whether they are human or animal.

From a height of more than twenty floors, one could smell the stench coming up from the bottom of the valley.

Gu Xiaofeng thought of the minced Xiong Si in the big casserole, his psychological discomfort made him frowned, and backed away from the hole.

Returning to the door of the door, Jiang Lou arrested Xiong Si again, attached his consciousness to Xiong Si, and then manipulated Xiong Si to pass through the door.

Gu Xiaofeng also attached a ray of consciousness to it.

Behind the door is a wing room. Although the furnishings in the wing room are old, in this day and age, they are things that people with better conditions can only have. In the middle of the room is a vermilion carrying box half a person's height.

The handle of the box is tied with a red ribbon.

It seems that it is a tribute prepared for the mountain god.

There were two people outside the door chatting one after another.

Listen to them, these two people are responsible for guarding the tribute.

Everyone in Fengcun Village knows the importance of paying tribute to the mountain god, and no one has the idea of ​​paying tribute, and the outsiders are all 'accompanied' by the villagers throughout the process, and have no chance to get in touch with the tribute.

But there are still immature children in the village, and some children get angry and can cause any disaster.

In order to prevent accidents, let people look at the tribute, there is nothing wrong with it.

But the content of the conversation between these two people is obviously not to guard against the brat, but to guard against the escape of the tribute.

Gu Xiaofeng and Jiang Lou glanced at each other, and thought of something tacitly.

A tribute that can run must have legs.

The texture of the lifting box is very thick, and the human eyes cannot clearly see the tributes in the lifting box, but Xiong Si can pass through the wooden board of the lifting box and enter the lifting box.

The inside of the carrying box was so dark that you couldn't see your fingers, but the darkness had no effect on the ghosts.

The girl I met that day was tied hands and feet, stuffed with a cloth ball in her mouth, and sat in a carrying box with her eyes closed. Her face was still grim, but she was indeed a living person.

Therefore, the tribute to the 'Mountain God' every month must be alive in addition to meat.

Burning, killing and looting everywhere, trying to find a live animal and bring it back to Fengcun safely, is as difficult as climbing the sky.

Gu Xiaofeng didn't know if the living tribute could be anything, or it was limited to children.

But looking at the meat next door and seeing this little girl again, it is easy to explain why the village chief would "kindly" pick up so many children and bring them back to raise in this age when there is not enough to eat.

Years of wars, raging massacres and plundering of villages, piled up unburied corpses everywhere, and the decay of corpses breeds various viruses, which spread and cause plagues everywhere.

In order to survive, countless people left their hometowns and wandered around. They had nothing to eat, let alone bark and soil, and even swallowed dead human flesh.

In such an environment, not many children can survive, and even fewer children can be brought back.

'Mountain God' needs to be fed every month, and two at a time.

There are still seven or eight foreign children raised in the village, but this "stored food" is not really rich.

Since ancient times, there have been various requirements for living creatures that are offered as tribute or sacrificed, and some perverted ones even require virgin boys and girls.

But for cooked meat, the requirements are relatively much less.

Perhaps it was because of this that the little girl was packed alive and Xiong Si was boiled.

If the villagers were slaughtered and cooked every month, the people in Fengcun Village would not be in such a peaceful situation.

It is hard to find children living outside, but it is hard to find living adult hungry people.

A bite of food can lure people into the village.

Even if most of the refugees are skinny, no matter how thin they are, they can still remove a little bit of meat, and if they kill a few more people, they can always be stewed.

Besides, there are still people who come to buy a pass. If they meet an order, they will be tied up directly. It is not difficult, and there is no need to slaughter the villagers.

Bear IV should therefore be an exception.

As for why Xiong Si was killed, it should have something to do with the arrest warrant on the bulletin board in Sifang City.

Murder and kill.

As for Hui Niang, who was also on the bulletin board, she was not affected, it was probably related to Mrs. Zhao, and the possibility that Mrs. Zhao helped her conceal her identity was not ruled out.

Fengcun Village takes children as tribute to the "Mountain God". When these children enter Fengcun Village, they become sheep to be slaughtered.

The grass hag they met before, why did they want these children?

Want to rescue these puny lambs from the butcher's cage?

But who can make a baby corpse out of a fetus, how can there be kindness.

It's not kind, so what does the grass hag want these children to do?

Could it be that among these children, there is something she wants?

What does she want?

And what does this have to do with the massacre of Sifang City?

Gu Xiaofeng had a feeling of being led astray.

"Jiang Lou, something is not right."

Jiang Lou let out an 'hmm'.

Something is wrong.

He has excellent hearing and can hear the whispers of the villagers.

People in Fengcun Village just want to live their lives in troubled times, and have no ambition to go out and make troubles.

In addition, they do not worship the 'mountain god', but fear.

The 'Mountain God' really allowed them to live a stable life, so they carefully enshrined the 'Mountain God'.

Although the "Mountain God" can protect them from being burned, killed and looted, they cannot let them have enough food and clothing.

But they don't have much land, and their supplies are not rich enough to be self-sufficient. If they want to guarantee their daily life, they have to rely on the outside world.

Feng Village is close to Sifang City. They sell their handicrafts in Sifang City, and then buy salted rice in the city.

It can be seen that they lived by Sifang City.

The change of owner of the Sifang City will cause great inconvenience to their lives, and the destruction of the city means cutting off their way of life.

If the 'mountain god' wants to be supported by the villagers, it will not cut off the villagers' source of livelihood, and naturally they will not participate in the massacre of the city.

But the clues they come into contact with now make them attracted to the 'mountain god' step by step.

Apparently someone was deliberately leading them astray to the 'Mountain God'.

On the surface, it has nothing to do with the massacre of Sifang City, but the massacre of the city is imminent. At this time, someone deliberately drew their attention to the 'Mountain God'.

When Sifang City was slaughtered, Chen Liang was killed by Hui Niang in the City Lord's Mansion.

At that time, Sifang City was full of Wei troops who slaughtered the city residents.

Hui Niang was able to cross the street and enter the City Lord's Mansion at such a time without being killed in Sifang City, she must have been accompanied by someone of great status in the Wei army.

Then the clues related to Wei Jun should be in Hui Niang.

Although Hui Niang is now in Fengcun Village and seems to be very close to them, in fact, there is an invisible hand pushing some things that have nothing to do with Sifang City in front of them to divert their attention.

They have to deal with the 'mountain god' if they want to rescue the child who was used as a living sacrifice to the 'mountain god'.

And these things have nothing to do with Hui Niang who takes care of the children. Unknowingly, Hui Niang's line has been stripped away.

By the time they finished dealing with the 'Mountain God', they had already spent a lot of time. When they turned around, they might just have to watch Sifang City go through another massacre.

What a scheming.

But this is a hunting ground.

They are just refugees in this hunting ground, and they have not shown much ability.

They give people the impression that they are taller and stand out among a pile of shabby-dressed refugees.

In addition, the 'refugees' who seem to have healthy limbs and a fairly healthy body are definitely not powerful beings who can kill the 'Mountain God'.

In addition, they didn't know anyone in this hunting ground except Chen Liang.

And no one knew about the fact that they recognized Chen Liang.

It is also unlikely that their identities will be exploited.

So, why did the grass hag find them?

Could it be that the grass hags have special abilities, knowing that they do not belong to this world, but come from another world, so they use them?

Just as Gu Xiaofeng thought of this, a thought flashed across him to kill this guess.

It won't be that simple.

What would it be?

Just as Gu Xiaofeng was about to think further, his thinking was disrupted by a sudden stabbing pain, his mind became blurred, and the blurred shadows in front of his eyes also disappeared, and he fell into complete darkness.

It was as if an invisible force was preventing him from contemplating further.

A cool and dry hand stroked his forehead, and then Jiang Lou's anxious voice came from next to his ear, "Xiaofeng, what's wrong with you?"

Gu Xiaofeng had a severe headache, and it was pitch black again, Jiang Lou's voice seemed to become very distant and ethereal.

The anxiety in Jiang Lou's tone dilutes the usual coolness in his voice, spreading anxiety and terror that confuse him.

Jiang Lou's voice was obviously ethereal as if it came from another world, but the emotion was so strong that he couldn't ignore it even in the chaos.

What is he worried about?What are you afraid of?

In Gu Xiaofeng's life, as long as he can remember, these two emotions are what he despises the most.

In his eyes, these are the two emotions that are the most useless and slow down.

He was glad that he never felt afraid, nor did he worry about anything.

When he does anything, including saving people, he thinks he should do it. When he needs to do something, he will do it with all his might. If he tries his best but fails to do it, he will not be like others uncomfortable.

When he ended Chen Liang's life with his own hands, he only felt that he had done what he had to do, and he didn't feel as much anger as other comrades in arms.

Of course, it's not just these two emotions that he doesn't have, he won't be greatly sad, nor will he be overjoyed.

Although things that fit his aesthetics can make him feel happy, things that make him unable to surpass them will make him unhappy.

For example, he likes Jiang Lou's eyes, but he is displeased that Jiang Lou is taller than his.

But other than that, he wouldn't have any more emotions.

He had done an analysis on himself, and although it wasn't really Xinruzhishui, he was still bouncing around the periphery of Xinruzhishui, and he might jump into the circle of Xinruzhishui one day, and since then he has neither joy nor sorrow.

His mentality has been maintained for more than 20 years. People in his life circle think that he is a monster. Except for Chen Liang who is around him all day long, everyone will maintain what they think is 'safe' with him. distance.

Jiang Lou is the second person who doesn't keep 'distance' from him.

After several contacts, he felt that Jiang Lou and he might be the same kind of people.

But in the chaos, what happened to the hand covering the forehead, and the voice?

Even if they were the same kind of people, where did he get such strong emotions?

Gu Xiaofeng shook his head, trying to get rid of these things that confused him, but he felt Jiang Lou's arms wrapped around his shoulders, holding him tightly in his arms.

"Xiaofeng, can you hear me?"

That voice was like strands of unbroken threads, passing through the haze shrouded in his heart, wrapping around the thick heart door knocker in the deepest part of his heart, and pulling it hard.

Thin silk, soft and fragile, resists the iron wall and bronze door that stands upright like a rock, but stubbornly refuses to back down, which seems ridiculous and unbearable.

Can't bear to watch the moment it breaks.

Gu Xiaofeng looked at the thin silk thread that was stretched to the extreme and would break at any time, but refused to give up, his eyes felt a little hot.

A familiar voice sounded from behind the heavy door.

"You...you...are you human?"

The little boy who was squatting on the ground digging the soil, who was harming the ginger planted by others, turned his head and saw a young boy not far away who was looking at him curiously. His mouth was wide open in astonishment, and the sickle in his hand fell to the ground with a snap. .

The little boy was also squatting on the ground, without an inch of fabric all over his body. His body was naked, and his loose jet black long hair fell down, covering most of his skinny body and key parts that were too fair.

On his head was a banana leaf that had been pulled from nowhere, and most of his face exposed under the banana leaf was too beautiful.

Even though he was used to seeing three thousand beauties in the imperial father's harem, he had never seen such delicate and beautiful eyebrows.

His five senses are very good, if someone approaches within a hundred steps, he will definitely notice.

But this little boy appeared silently a few steps away from him, and he didn't even know when the other party appeared.

quite a while.

The little boy closed his wide-open mouth and asked, "You...you...what are you?"

The author has something to say: First of all, thank you for your concern. The once-in-a-hundred-year flood has happened twice in ten days in our place. My house was flooded almost two floors (many houses in our place were completely washed away. , only one person left), lying on the bed, listening to the sound of the water at home, like lying on a boat, is simply a great experience in life.After the flood receded, the aftermath work was very tiring. Up to now, the walls of the house are still damp and cannot be completely dried (if you don’t dry it, you can’t redecorate it), and there is mold and mildew removal every three days, so it’s very sad, so I can’t stay still I decided to write the article, and then I stopped updating for so long. I would like to say sorry to the babies here, but I will finish writing this article, please rest assured.In addition, in order to prevent the epidemic from rebounding, babies should pay attention to safety. In crowded places, try to wear a mask and keep yourself safe.