[Houyi] How to fall in love with the sun

After several days of gloom, the weather finally cleared up. The sun seemed to have rested enough, and all eight suns emerged from the clouds.Xie Xiaofei rushed to Bagua Village early in the morning. What happened last night kept him up all night. It seemed that there was a voice telling him that he was racing against time.

The sun was so hot that it could light a fire. Everyone in Bagua Village hid at home, for fear that they would be burned off when they went out.Xie Xiaofei came to the village head's house under the scorching sun wearing a straw hat.

The head of Bagua Village was very surprised when he saw Xie Xiaofei visiting again: "Hero...what's the matter?"

Xie Xiaofei entered the door, took off his straw hat, his face was flushed red from the sun: "It's a major matter that concerns the lives of all of you in the village."

The village head froze and remained silent.

"After you and I came back from the gossip table yesterday, who else has been there?" Xie Xiaofei took the herbal tea from the village head's wife and thanked him.

"No...is there no one there?" The village chief frowned. "Except for offering sacrifices, there are few people going to the gossip table. What... does this have to do with the lives of the whole village?"

Xie Xiaofei hesitated for a moment, and said: "The gossip platform has formed a ghost, and the six missing women in your village may have something to do with it."

The village chief's expression changed slightly: "For a long time, there have been no rumors of spirits and monsters in this village. I don't know how heroes can meet..."

"You don't believe me?" Xie Xiaofei snorted, "Before yesterday, only six spirits took shape on the gossip stage, they were parasitic in women's bodies, and they were born by wombs, and just after we went, there were three more spirits that were already born." Parasitic!"

The village chief's face was pale, and the village chief's wife who had been silent beside him accidentally broke the teacup in her hand.Xie Xiaofei looked at the flustered appearance of the two, and wondered in his heart: "What do you... know?"

The village chief's wife had red eyes, and quickly picked up the broken teacup on the ground, and went back to the house in silence.The one-year-old grandson of the village chief poked his head out of the room upon hearing the sound, staring intently at Xie Xiaofei.His skin is white, his lips are red, and his small facial features are put together. He should have a cute appearance, but it makes people feel weird.

Seeing this, the village chief's wife hurriedly pulled the child back into the house. The village chief's words brought Xie Xiaofei back to his senses: "Heroes mean... those spirits are the children born by women?"

Xie Xiaofei nodded: "That's right, and the disappearance of those women... I suspect that the baby swallowed the mother in order to form as soon as possible."

The village head stared blankly, his hands trembling: "How...how is it possible..."

"Village Chief!" Xie Xiaofei interrupted him with a sigh, "I don't want this to be true either, so we're going to investigate. You take me to the homes of those missing women before we can make up our minds .”

The village chief promised again and again: "Let's go now, let's go now..."

Xie Xiaofei asked him to go back to the house to get the straw hat, while he waited for him at the door.Suddenly remembering that the three hexagram paintings that disappeared yesterday must have been parasitic, he was going to tell the village chief to remember to find out who else had been to the Bagua table yesterday.Unexpectedly, when he turned around, he saw the village head's grandson leaning against the door, staring at Xie Xiaofei with gloomy eyes.

"I've been waiting for a hero for a long time." The village head quickly ran out with a straw hat, blocking the child's sight.

"It's okay, let's go quickly." I wanted to look back carefully, but found that the child had disappeared.

Xie Xiaofei felt that he was a little dazed. After being frightened by these nine infants all night, he would feel eerie and strange to look at any child at random. "Tell me about the six women."

The village chief was a little bit embarrassed: "The first one who disappeared was a 16-year-old girl who was not married...she was pregnant. The child disappeared the next day after giving birth. The villagers thought...she He killed himself with shame."

"How did you find out that she didn't commit suicide, but disappeared?"

The village chief sighed: "You want to see the dead body. I have searched for it in a radius of hundreds of miles, but there is no trace."

Xie Xiaofei frowned: "What about the others?"

"The second and third are two old women. They are about [-] years old. They are quite happy to have a baby. Who knows... who knows that they will be gone the next day after giving birth. The last three are just married. The bride of a man also disappears the day after giving birth."

"When was the first woman to disappear?"

The village chief's eyes were full of sadness and loneliness: "One year, seven months and two days."

How do you remember it so clearly?Xie Xiaofei was puzzled, and asked again: "What about the last one?"

"Seven days."

Xie Xiaofei's expression changed: "Let's go to her house to see."

The name of the missing woman was Xiaocui, and her husband was crying at home holding the child.The visit of the village chief and Xie Xiaofei brought the young man back to his senses.

"Xiao Cui has been gone for seven days." His eyes were red and his expression was haggard. "Village chief, hero, where do you think Xiao Cui has gone? She is still alive, isn't she?"

The village chief's eyes were also red: "I must be alive, I must be alive! Don't worry..."

"Then why can't I find her!" The man covered his head in grief, "Where did she go?"

The child was still in his infancy, and was lying on the kang and fell asleep at the moment.Its small face is slightly red, its mouth is slightly opened, and it looks cute.Xie Xiaofei couldn't connect such an ignorant and cute child with a man-eating monster. How could he say that this child killed its mother?He even began to doubt his own judgment, could it be that strange man who was uttering wild words last night?

The village chief also looked at him and shook his head, Xie Xiaofei didn't know how to speak anymore.

Only Xuanyuan Bow buzzing around his waist told him that his judgment was not wrong.Xie Xiaofei stretched out his hand to hold the bow, making it quiet: "Before Xiaocui was pregnant, did you go to any strange places?"

The man stopped crying and sobbed: "I have never been to other places. We have never left the village since we got married."

"Then..." Xie Xiaofei tentatively asked, "Have you been to the Bagua Taiwan?"

The man was obviously stunned, squinted his eyes and thought carefully for a while before saying, "I've been there, we went to worship in front of the Fuxi Emperor's Palace together after we got married, and the village head took us there at that time, saying that the newlyweds worshiped us. Seeking an heir, Xiaocui will be pregnant not long after she comes back."

The village head quickly said: "In our village, it is an essential etiquette for newlyweds to go to the Eight Diagrams Platform to worship."

Could it be that it was parasitized by the infant spirit at that time?Xie Xiaofei was not sure of his judgment, so he had to visit several other houses with the village head.And everything was exactly as he expected. They visited four families one after another. According to their family members, each mother went to the Bagua TV for various reasons, and all of them became pregnant shortly after that.There is only the last family left, the family of the 16-year-old girl who has not left the cabinet.

The village chief stopped Xie Xiaofei: "Hero, there is no need to go to this family."

Xie Xiaofei wondered: "Why?"

"They...their family is inconvenient..." the village head hesitated, "Besides, the hero has now come to the conclusion that those women only got pregnant after going to the Bagua Taiwan."

The attitude of the village chief was very strange, as if he was hiding something. "But if according to what the hero said, the babies ate their mothers," he stared at Xie Xiaofei with burning eyes, "then have you ever noticed anything wrong with these babies?"

It is indeed no different from ordinary children.Xie Xiaofei has nothing to say, and he doesn't have sharp eyes, so he can't believe that these children are the monsters formed by the gossip spirit. No matter how absurd this statement is, it can't convince everyone, and now even he himself can't tell the truth from the fake.

The village chief smiled and said, "I think the hero should go home and rest first, and find out later."

Kanli's second hexagram is missing, the gossip stage is overflowing with demonic energy, and the baby spirit parasite is missing. Everything seems to be inextricably linked, but no breakthrough can be found. The nine infants are too cunning to show any flaws.The only person who can give him a clue now is probably the weirdo who mentioned him last night.

Xie Xiaofei was about to find someone to inquire about the whereabouts of the strange man, but he saw the villagers rushing towards the river in a panic. "My little brother, what are you doing here?"

The little brother who was stopped glanced at him, and whispered: "I heard that someone died by the river!"

Xie Xiaofei was startled, and hurriedly followed.A bunch of people had already gathered by the river, all of them had expressions of fear and were talking about it.Squeezing in from the crowd, Xie Xiaofei was also shocked when he saw the scene.It was not so much a corpse as it was a mummy that had been drained of blood and flesh.The whole body is a pile of dry bones, covered with chapped and yellowed skin, sunken eye sockets, and still stained with blood that has not dried up. If it is not for the clothes on his body, it is impossible to tell who this person is.

But Xie Xiaofei recognized the clothes on his body.A worn-out blue-gray jacket, straw sandals with bare toes, and the food box he brought last night was scattered beside him.This person is the weirdo who revealed the secret to him last night!

Xie Xiaofei shivered, retreated from the crowd with a pale face, and hurriedly left Bagua Village.This is the warning that Jiuying gave him!The only person who revealed the truth to him died tragically the next day, and the village chief kept silent about these things. So many people died without any clues, and they turned into innocent babies. start...

The Xuanyuan bow at his waist vibrated almost like a whine, Xie Xiaofei pursed his lips, and returned home with the bow.

"Son, are you not feeling well?" Hou Yi Niang looked at him worriedly, and brought over a bowl of dark red herbal tea.

Xie Xiaofei looked at the color of the tea, and suddenly remembered the blood on the mummy, his chest surged, he vomited out with a "wow", and then lost consciousness and passed out.

When he woke up, he vaguely saw someone beside the bed, as if a doctor was checking his pulse.Xie Xiaofei wanted to get up, but he couldn't use his strength.

"Doctor, what's going on?" Hou Yi Niang worried.

The doctor's expression was tangled, his pulse-diagnosing hands trembled, and finally he said hesitantly: "Master Ling, this is... a happy pulse!"

Xie Xiaofei, who just woke up, passed out again.