[Twilight] Clear Sky in Volturi

"I'm afraid this girl is from outside!" Breathing out the dry smoke, although the old man was asking Xiao Ru, he was sure of it.He looked at Xiaoru, then at Alec beside her, and said, "Look at the girl and the young man beside you, are they not ordinary people?"

Xiaoru and Alec looked at each other.

"Don't be surprised, old man, I met a Taoist priest when I was a child, and learned some skills of a three-legged cat. This is a human ability." The old man put away the dry gun, and said with nostalgia and sadness.

"Then does the old man know what happened here, why..." Xiaoru asked with some doubts, but before she could speak, the old man shook her head and stopped her words.

The old man motioned her to look around. Wherever Xiaoru's eyes went, the eyes in the cracks in the doors of the surrounding houses instantly hid.

"This is not a place to talk. If girls are interested and want to know something, they can go home with the old man and have a chat." After speaking, the old man tapped the tip of the gun, turned and left.

Xiaoru and Alec looked at each other, and then followed.

As the old man walked more and more remote, and when he met acquaintances on the road, most of them would show disgusted eyes to the old man, which made Xiaoru even more confused.

When we came to the edge of the village, a wooden house yard appeared in front of us. There was a well on the right side of the yard. Next to the well was a clump of depressions where some vegetables were planted. On the right side of the yard was a wooden table and four stone benches.Looking up again, there is a gossip mirror hanging on the door of the wooden house.

Just as Xiaoru and Alec sat down in the yard, the old man came to Xiaoru with a pot of water and three earthenware bowls from the house, brought her a bowl of water, and said to Alec, "This young man ,up to you."

Acrylic nodded, and looked at Xiaoru again without speaking.

Xiao Ru looked around, raised his head and asked, "Grandpa, is it convenient to tell us what happened now?"

The old man picked up the dry gun on the table, took a sip, and said with a vicissitudes of life: "This story starts more than 50 years ago. At that time, the old man and I were still in the prime of life. People say that a general of the Han Dynasty was once buried in our mountain. But although this general was brave and skilled in martial arts, he was greedy for money, lustful and cruel. It is said that he had a wife from Miaojiang who was proficient in witchcraft, because Unable to bear her husband's betrayal and cruelty, she killed her in the end, and then used herself as a reference to seal her in this deep mountain with witchcraft. Until more than 50 years ago..."

"More than 50 years ago...at that time...China seemed to be in a famine age?" Xiaoru frowned, recalling the history of middle school in the early three years.

"Yes, alas, it's all caused by that famine and human greed!" The old man said sadly.

"How do you say that?"

"Alas!" The old man sighed, and continued: "More than 50 years ago, not long after the war ended in China, the whole country repaid the debts of the Soviet Union. The solution! I heard the legends of the older generation, and they all wanted to find the general’s tomb and steal something to make a living. Unexpectedly, although the tomb was found, the owner of the tomb became ghostly because the seal was broken during the tomb robbery. Spilling, and because of the witchcraft of the general's wife, the general's body would not rot for a thousand years, the seal was broken, and it was nourished by the flesh and blood of the tomb robbers. At the right time and place, the general turned into a thousand-year-old zombie and came out to cause disaster. Quite a few of the older generation and the younger generation were afflicted by corpses, and most of them didn’t live long.”

"Later, a Maoshan Taoist priest came. Seeing the strangeness of this place, he took a lot of effort to seal it after investigating. So far, the older generation and the younger generation have kept this matter secret. In addition, most of the people in those days passed away one after another. Gradually, this matter gradually became unknown.” The old man took another puff of cigarette, “Old man, I also had some wisdom at that time. I left, but the old man's mother was not willing, so the old man stayed and the Taoist left."

"Then lately..." Xiao Ru said with difficulty.

"It's all a crime!" The old man said, tapping the end of his dry gun on the table, "A month and a half ago, there were a group of idlers in the village who didn't do any work. I don't know where I heard about the general's tomb, and they opened the tomb again." Gradually, the whole village knew about these things. Some old people who knew the inside story couldn't persuade them, so they found the younger generation who had gone out and left the village, and some unrelated people stayed There is no other way to do this, it is said that old leaves return to their roots, but... alas!"

"What happened next?" Xiaoru asked.

"Later, the old people who stayed behind talked about the corpse of the thousand-year-old general in the general's tomb, but they were told by the younger generation in the village that they were superstitious and that old people would never die. Despite the persuasion of the old people, they found that tomb again, hehe... More than 50 years ago The tragedy happened again, but the old man was powerless. I don’t know when it will be my turn. Now all the capable people in the village have moved away, leaving only those who have nowhere to go.” The old man said sadly.

"Then the 16 cases you mentioned, do you mean that 15 cases have happened before today?" Xiao Ru frowned tightly.

"Yeah, these people don't see people in life, and they don't see corpses in death. The only thing is that every time it happens late at night, when they are discovered, there is only a pool of blood and a smell of rotting corpses."

"Then what happened in the middle of the night, didn't those people make any movement?" Alec asked beside him.

"Ah! Every three days or so, the villagers in the village fall into a deep sleep around 3 o'clock in the evening. No matter how lightly they sleep, by that night..."

"Then did that Taoist priest leave any method to tell you what to do if that thing comes out again?" Xiaoru asked with a frown.

The old man nodded, then shook his head again.

"Is there anything inconvenient to say?" Xiaoru asked.

"There are ways, but it's almost impossible."

"how do I say this?"

"At the beginning, the Taoist said that in order to completely eliminate that thing, he needed the Fire Spirit Orb. It's just that it was something from the fairy family in the legend... Now in this world..."

Xiaoru was a little surprised, and fell into deep thought, are there spirit beads in this world?Does that mean that there may be those in this world... No, Aunt Luo Xiang has helped her find out before. Those stories and legends that she is familiar with in this world do not exist at all... The Lingzhu...

"Grandpa, did that Taoist priest reveal the whereabouts of the Fire Spirit Orb?" Xiao Ru asked.

The old man shook his head in embarrassment.

Xiaoru looked at Alec, made up his mind, tugged his sleeves in private, then looked at the old man and said, "Grandpa, thank you for your story. I think I need to go back and deal with some things, so I'll take my leave first." .”

When Xiaoru and the others walked out of the yard, the words of the old man came from behind: "Girl, if you have a way, pity the people in this village, please help us!"

Xiaoru paused and said softly, "I will."

Alec held her hand, he knew that this was the divinity of her descendant Nuwa, after all... But it doesn't matter, he will always walk with her.

In the rented house...

"Alec, I think..." Xiaoru looked up at Alec.

"I understand." Alec touched Xiaoru's hair.

"Yeah!" Xiaoru smiled and took a step forward, hugging Alec's waist, rubbing her face against Alec's chest.

Alec kissed the top of Xiaoru's hair and hugged her, "Everything is mine, no matter what you do, I will be with you."

"Thank you, Alec!" Xiaoru closed her eyes and murmured, "Fortunately, you are by my side, giving me courage!"

...at night...

Xiao Ru crossed her legs and made a knot with her hands, using the Holy Spirit Orb in her body. This was passed down from her grandmother to her mother in her previous life, and her mother sealed it in her body, otherwise she really would not be able to sense the existence of the Fire Spirit Orb.

"I found it." Xiaoru opened her eyes happily, and looked at Alec again, "Alec, it seems that we need to go to Sichuan. I sensed that the Fire Lingzhu is in a deep mountain in the northeast. I calculated it again. Now, the Fire Lingzhu is probably in a remote mountain in Sichuan Province."

"Are you going to look for it?" Alec asked, "I'll accompany you."

"Okay!" Xiao Ru nodded happily, "Let's go quickly! This way we can find the Fire Lingzhu sooner and come back to deal with the thousand-year-old zombies. Save the innocent people in this village."

"Ok!"