Immortal Immortal

The sound of frogs continued, and the drizzle lasted for several days before stopping. After this autumn rain, the mountain paths became muddy and difficult to walk.

But in the dark night, a carriage came from the end of the mountain road.

The waning moon was obscured by clouds, and the carriage did not hang a lantern, but it walked through the cracks of the mountains as if it were on flat ground.

It was impossible to see inside the carriage, the windows were boarded up, and the entrances and exits were covered with curtains. Only with the help of the moonlight that appeared and disappeared, I could see a burly groom behind the curtains.

The groom was motionless, and an unpleasant smell emanated from him. The smell was bloody, and seemed to be mixed with the unique weirdness of grease.

Li Mo stared at the coachman's back for a long time. The instinctive fear made the back of his neck feel cold. In addition, the carriage was cold and damp, and his thin body unconsciously wrapped himself in a cotton coat.

He looks no more than ten years old, with plain facial features, his skin is the color of wheat from a farmer's family, and his lips are slightly white.

Li Mo only has bright eyes that make him look special among poor people.

Suddenly, he heard several neighing sounds outside the car.

Based on Li Mo's understanding of livestock, they were definitely not horses or oxen, much less like donkeys and mules. He could only tell that they were walking on the ground with both feet.

Immediately, the suppressed sobs of children could be heard in the carriage.

Li Mo took out the dry food and swallowed it down his throat as usual, and subconsciously touched the hardwood carved peace and sound sign on his neck.

There were fourteen children in the carriage, all half their age.

Their exposed skin is generally discolored, and the older ones already have obvious signs of premature aging.

Zhao Zhu came to Li Mo's side, looked at the coachman, and asked cautiously: "Hei Wa, how long do you think it will be before we can reach Rong Town?"

Hei Wa is Li Mo's nickname. His parents are still alive, and he also has an older brother who inherited the carpentry family business, and an older sister who has been married for a long time.

"Zhuzi, don't be rash, don't think you're still in Niujia Village."

Li Mo patted Zhao Zhu's head, and then replied: "Counting the days, it should be there in two days."

After finishing speaking, he ignored Zhao Zhu and closed his eyes as if to rest his mind.

How could Li Mo not understand that Zhao Zhu was probably far away from home and missed his relatives, but he had no intention of turning back. He had never heard of any kid who went to Rong Town and would return home one day.

Even so, whenever there is a quota to go to Rong Town, the village still fights for it.

Li Mo wanted to take a nap for a while, but he couldn't sleep anyway. He was always in a state of excitement and his heart was beating wildly.

It’s not that he is homesick and timid, it’s mainly that he is about to come into contact with an unimaginable world.

Li Mo is not a native aborigine. In his previous life, he came from the technologically advanced Blue Star, but accidentally inherited the body of a drowned child.

He has been in this weird and inexplicable world for five years, and he has almost forgotten the feasting and feasting of his previous life.

Li Mo took the pulse of his left hand and couldn't help but thought to himself: "The heartbeat is forty-five beats per minute, which is slower than a week ago."

"If this continues, I will become immortal."

Seeing Li Mo tossing and turning, Zhao Zhu couldn't help but asked worriedly: "What's wrong, Hei Wa?"

"I'm fine."

Li Mo shook his head and said nothing more. It happened that the sun was rising outside the carriage, and he used the light to look at the group of children of similar age.

Among them, Ma Ergao is the oldest, already in his early sixteen years.

He looked a little timid, huddled in the corner with his hands around his knees, and his temples were stained with white spots, which were the white hair of premature aging.

Li Mo sighed.

The people in this world have extremely strange physiques.

Everything is normal before the child is eight years old, but once the child is over eight years old, the heart beat frequency will decrease year by year until it stops at the age of twenty.

Then the internal organs lose activity, and the skin turns gray like a corpse, accompanied by a series of symptoms such as premature aging and muscle atrophy.

It can be said that if people do not get married and have children before the age of twenty, they no longer have the ability to reproduce, because their bodies gradually turn into half corpses that are neither alive nor dead.

Of course, the benefits are more incredible than the drawbacks.

That is "immortality", and it is also the "deadly disease" that old people talk about.

Once the age exceeds twenty years old, the vitality characteristics of the body completely disappear, and there is no longer any erosion of disease. No matter how old you are, you will not die of depletion of life span.

Not even food needs to be taken.

In Li Mo's impression, there are several elderly people over 300 years old in the village.

Even though the old man's body bones were too fragile to move, he still lived day after day until he made a request for self-immolation.

The ancestral hall in Niujia Village is said to have an ancestor who lived for thousands of years.

The joints of the ancestor's body were completely fixed, and the flesh and blood were extremely rotten. Every time when the ancestors were worshiped, they would be carried out by young adults and used as a celebration.

Li Mo has always felt that immortality is a curse.

All he can do is watch his body wither away, his soul trapped in his body, and endure the torture of immortality forever.

Li Mo went to Rongzhen because he found that Rongzhen had a way to alleviate fatal diseases.

Every twenty years, a shop assistant from Rong Town would come to Niujia Village, but this time it was the shopkeeper who came back, apparently to recruit young apprentices.

Li Mo asked the old man about it.

I heard that Rong Town is rarely open to the outside world, and ordinary people will never have access to it. Only residents in the city can bring strangers into the city.

Although the old man kept secret about Rongzhen, he would still push his grandson to compete for apprenticeships in the shop.

As a carpenter, Li's father had a high status in the village, and of course there was a quota. Li Mo happened to be at an age when the family was about to separate.

Li Mo didn't know about it at the time, but Li's father had already reported the candidate to the shopkeeper.

Li Mo also saw the true appearance of the shopkeeper surnamed Tian. Although his appearance was slightly strange, he was clearly over forty years old, and the corpse form he showed was insignificant compared to his age.

The driver driving the carriage was Shopkeeper Tian who came to Niujia Village alone.

To solve the fatal disease, Melting Town seems to be the only option left.

"pity……"

When Li Mo thought of this, he couldn't help but close his eyes tightly. His consciousness came to his chaotic mind, and a book appeared in it.

The material of the book is similar to cloth and paper, and the mist leaking out constantly transforms into fairy birds and rare animals. The three words "Book of Creation" are engraved on the cover.

The Book of Creation appeared in my mind inexplicably, and its origin is unknown.

Li Mo could see the extraordinary nature of the Book of Creation at a glance. Unfortunately, from the age of five to ten, he never found a way to open the Book of Creation.

Li Mo stared at the Book of Creation and fell into half sleep without realizing it. He could still hear Zhao Zhu's chattering in a daze.

Soon Zhao Zhu also fell into a deep sleep, with slight snoring echoing in his ears.

It was not until the carriage came to a standstill that Li Mo woke up instinctively, but he did not act rashly and continued to pretend to close his eyes.

He heard the sound of bones colliding outside the car, but it stopped abruptly after a few breaths.

"Cough cough cough."

The curtains were opened, and the sun shone into the carriage. All the children covered their eyes in discomfort.

"Everyone come out."

The child was on pins and needles and hurriedly got out from under the curtain, followed closely by Li Mo.

Shopkeeper Tian has a kind face, wearing a purple and black straight gown, and a green and white brocade belt with auspicious clouds around his waist.

The protruding belly was like a ten-month pregnancy, and it seemed that it was about to burst through the restraints of the ribs.

Shopkeeper Tian had many wounds on his skin. Although no blood flowed out, the white flesh did not look like it could be healed.

This is also the price of immortality, and it is difficult to fully recover from injuries.

The carriage stopped on the official road paved with gravel. Because the sky was slightly bright, the travelers and caravans on the official road seemed scattered.

They deliberately bypassed the carriage and did not dare to approach Shopkeeper Tian, ​​their eyes filled with fear.

Li Mo observed secretly and found that the animal's hoof prints stopped in front of the carriage, the reins were stained with blood, and the animal pulling the carriage seemed to have disappeared from the world.

Shopkeeper Tian's cuffs were also stained with a few drops of blood.

When he first came to the village, shopkeeper Tian didn't bring any livestock, and the carriage was parked ten miles outside the village.

Li Mo didn't dare to think carefully about what the reins were tied to before.

"Little kids, there is still a long way to go from Rong Town, so follow me closely. If you fall behind, you will have to walk back to Niujia Village by yourself."

Shopkeeper Tian had a smile on his face, but his wrinkled features looked like an old fox wearing human skin, which was creepy.

The child took a few steps back, only to see that Shopkeeper Tian had already left along the official road.

They hurriedly followed up, but luckily Shopkeeper Tian didn't walk very fast, so even a child would not fall behind if he could trot quickly.

Li Mo was at the back of the team.

His physical strength is not bad. In fact, when he first traveled through time, he thought exercise could delay death from illness.

So Li Mo ran around the entrance of the village every day. Although he did not become strong, his endurance was comparable to that of a seventeen or eighteen year old.

For most of the past hour, the team stumbled across the hill.

Only a girl named Li Qingfang sprained her ankle and had to be carried by Ma Ergao for most of the journey.

Li Mo paid attention to the passers-by with his peripheral vision and noticed that their transformation into corpses was worse than that of the villagers, but for some reason, it did not affect his actions at all.

There were also children from other villages heading to Rong Town, but judging from the dress of the leading boy, it seemed that Shopkeeper Hetian belonged to a different shop, and his walking posture was slightly uncoordinated.

As the sun gradually sets, a small town appears at the end of the official road.

Rong Town is not only located at the foot of the mountain, but even the mountain peaks are covered in patches of houses. However, due to the steep and rugged mountains, the houses are crooked and look extremely awkward.

Gray-black smoke surrounds the mountain top, and the mountain wind carries a slight rancid smell.

Outside the town was a stretch of continuous fields where farmers were planting crops. When they saw the field manager, they did not run away and continued to pull weeds.

The farmer's exposed face was covered with black spots, his gums had shrunk, his eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes, and the scattered wounds turned out to be rotten.

Li Mo's expression became dazed, and the Rongzhen in front of him had an illusion that he had seen in his dream.

At this time.

The dead book of creation suddenly gave birth to a strange phenomenon, and the immortal birds and precious beasts surrounding the book instantly turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

Then, the book of creation opened to the first page.

The pattern on the page is a living brain.

A large number of fragmented memories emerged in Li Mo's mind. It was a town that was somewhat similar to Rong Town.

The mountain peaks are suspended hundreds of meters in the air and are connected to the ground by iron chains. Taoist temples are neatly arranged, and light clouds and mist cover the mountains.

The Taoist priests who came and went raised birds and animals. They looked ordinary and had no signs of death or disease.

Li Mo looked stunned, because according to fragmented memories, Rongzhen was an immortal sect that mainly raised spiritual beasts seven thousand years ago.

It's called [Heart Beast].

Please collect the new book! ! !