Aggrieved Fish Sprite

There was no light around, and no one saw the foreign object that suddenly appeared on Mo Li's face except Meng Qi who was close.

Those black lumps are—

scales?How can there be scales on the human face?

Meng Qi was shocked. When he wanted to identify it carefully, those suspected scales disappeared again.

Mo Li lifted a stone and rescued a woman from under the ruins. She was covered in ashes, and the color of the original dress could hardly be seen clearly. Her forehead was still bleeding.

But the man was buried under a pile of rubble, motionless.

It was pitch black all around, and when the smoke and dust settled, there was a smell of blood.

Meng Qi prevented the woman from digging bricks with her bare hands as if she was self-harming, because the person lying under the rubble was no longer breathing, and there was an even worse scene next to it, a corpse had been smashed to pieces by heavy objects.

Mo Carp's eyesight is not affected by the night, he can clearly see the limbs protruding from the rubble.

——covered with a thick layer of ash, it turned into a stiff gray-white, not like a human body at all, but scattered stone carvings, no one can see that they had life.

There were terrified screams in my ears.

It is the pain of the wounded, and the weeping of the living.

Mo Li took a step back in confusion, and this time he stepped on something soft, not rubble and gravel, but now it is no different from rubble and gravel, a "human being" that a martial arts master who is keen on breath can't feel. ", naturally not a living person.

"Doctor, where's your luggage? There's a medicine box in there..."

Meng Qi's voice seemed to come from a long distance away.

"... just fell into the crack."

Mo Li regained his composure, and then he felt that except for the woman he rescued just now, everyone else was dead, and the nearest injured person was also a hundred paces away.

He subconsciously walked in that direction.

While walking, I was thinking chaotically, the teacher's previous guess was wrong.

The death of Longmai destroyed the entire Qiuling County.

On top of this ruin, countless auras floated, and even though the mind was in a state of confusion, the strength of the ink carp was also passively increasing.Negative emotions of anger and despair are contained in the aura, and they are also unreservedly instilled in the ink carp.

This is the aura belonging to the dragon veins of Mount Silang.

This dragon vein did not give birth to self-awareness.

——But it didn't want to die, it struggled to live, but it failed in the end.

"What the hell happened?" Mo Li murmured.

Although Meng Qi was also startled by the strange phenomenon of his internal strength going up and down, it was common for him to be emotionally unstable, so he didn't notice the extra anger and murderous intent that accompanied the improvement of his skill.

Until he saw Mo Li take out a Ningshen Pill and ate it himself.

I... ate it?

Meng Qi once again suspected that there was something wrong with his eyes. Was it Ningshen Pill?The smell is very similar, regardless of the appearance, the pills all look similar.

Before he could finish thinking, he saw Mo Li handing him the second Ningshen Pill.

"I'm afraid you'll have another attack. I took two pills with me. Now I lost my bag. This is the last one."

"..."

Although I can't figure it out, it's important to take the medicine first.Meng Qi felt that his mood was getting more and more anxious. He didn't want to get sick at this time, but couldn't help but wonder if the doctor would be sick like himself?I lose my mind when I have this disease, and the doctor's disease will cause strange changes in the skin on my face?

... There shouldn't be such a strange disease!But if the doctor's condition is not a disease, what is it?

Meng Qi suddenly remembered the two words Mo Li had said.

monster.

Meng Qi felt that Ningshen Pills could not solve the problem, how could there really be monsters in this world?In the storybook, those monsters who use spells and have all kinds of magic weapons, but will be subdued by monks and priests in the end.

Meng Qi helped Mo Li move a comatose person out of the ruins, and when he watched Mo Li's head injury and gradually died because he could not be treated, he felt silent that the monster's speculation was nonsense.

If there is magic, why not cast it to save everyone?

If there is magic, what else can you learn to distort the yellow?

Mo Li didn't know what Meng Qi was thinking, he rescued one person after another, but very few people were seriously injured, he had never seen so many people die in front of his eyes, and he was helpless, even as a genius doctor Disciple, even if you have the strength to compete for the title of number one master in the world, you still can't do anything.

At this time, those who survived by chance had regained their senses. Some of them ran desperately towards their own homes, and then tried their best to dig up the rubble, trying to find their relatives, while some collapsed and sat on the ground crying.

"Get up, let's go!"

The scope of the fire is getting bigger and bigger, and it quickly spread to this area.

People raised their heads in a daze, their faces illuminated by the fire were dull.

"Do you want to die?" Meng Qi said loudly.

Some people staggered to their feet, while others wanted to run for their lives, but they couldn't walk fast because of their injuries.

Mo Li grabbed a random person and asked, "Where is the well?"

The man turned his head numbly and stretched out his hand to point, but there were ruins all around him, and the original street could not be recognized at all.

"Don't look for it, it's all buried, even if you can dig out the mouth of the well, the water in the well has flowed out along the cracks in the ground!" Meng Qi stopped Mo Li, and advised, "Take out the immobile people first. "

The choking smoke drifted over, and everyone couldn't care about anything else, they ran out in twos and threes.

"Don't go that way! Two streets away are full of fire, and if you get caught in it, you will die!"

Using lightness skills, Meng Qi stepped on a half-fallen tree and looked ahead.

Mo Li followed and took a look, with a serious expression.

There are flames everywhere, half of the county is in flames, the wind is strong tonight, and Qiuling County is rich, the houses and buildings are all wood except for bricks and tiles. After the earthquake, the former became rubble, but the wood is still intact. Burns extremely fast now.

"Go to the south gate, there is a road over there!"

The ink carp closed its eyes and left the tree top.

He knew that many people were buried under the rubble, and they might be rescued, but he was unable to go into the flames to rescue them all, so he could only try his best to take away the living people here.

The crowd suffered such a drastic change, they were confused and subconsciously ran in the direction pointed by Meng Qi and Mo Li.

Some only care about themselves, and others try to carry someone who cannot stand on their backs.

During the period, I saw the old man who refused to leave the ruins of the house, and the woman who was crying bitterly holding the dead body of her child.

As a doctor, Mo Li couldn't save many people at all.

Those who were smashed below the waist, spitting blood and frothing at the mouth, seriously injured and incurable... before they die, the fire will burn over. Those painful faces and voices begging others for help made the fleeing people burst into tears. It's raining, I can't bear to watch it anymore.

"Doctor, stop and let me do it." Meng Qi felt something was wrong with Mo Li.

A person who does not want to kill, has been forced to send away more than a dozen lives along the way.

"I'm fine." Mo Li paused, and then said, "I just never thought that such a day would come."

Those brilliant medical skills are useless, and so are all their martial arts. The only thing they can do is to rely on them to make others die without pain.

The fire burned more and more fiercely, and half of the sky was illuminated.

What about the rain?Can it rain?

Before the earthquake, there was a faint sound of thunder.The ink carp wanted to enter the state where the consciousness had been separated from before, but it couldn't do it at all. The abundant spiritual energy was like a flood, spreading between the heaven and the earth. The ink carp tried to guide the spiritual energy, which immediately caused a frenzy.

"Boom."

Thunder came again, still thunder.

They had already left the south gate, and there was a wilderness outside. There was no grass in the ice and snow, so the fire should not come over.

People looked at the night sky hopefully, but there was no sign of rain, only thunder.

Donglei and Xiaxue are all visions, and they still symbolize grievances.

"A sin!"

An old woman wailed, she spoke in a dialect indistinctly, but Meng Qi couldn't understand, so he went to see Mo Li.

"...She was talking about the gold mine. It is said that the Si family killed all the people who opened the mine to cover up the truth."

"It is said?" Meng Qi was keenly aware of the strangeness in it.

If it is from other places, it is natural to say "it is said" when talking about such rumors. After all, there is no evidence and no truth.But this is Qiuling County, if so many people died, how could the people of Qiuling County not know it at all?

Furthermore, what the Si family did is too much. Killing people can indeed kill people, but isn't there a whole family of coolies in mining?Could it be that none of them could speak aloud?

"It's all the fault of the Si family!"

People sitting on the ground lost their homes, loved ones, and everything. They were full of anger and just wanted to find a way to vent.

"Go to Sijiabao! Find them to pay for their lives!"

The crowd was excited, together with the cries of the wounded and the cries of the children, it was chaotic.

The ink carp just looked at them, without any intention to stop them.

"doctor?"

"They can't go, the road to the mountain is broken."

Mo Li knew that these people were stunned by fear and anger, and they couldn't be persuaded unless they were stunned. He squatted beside him to stop the bleeding of a child with an injured arm, without raising his head.

The child was held in the arms of a woman, who wept and remained silent.

The ink carp patted the child's head, and then searched for other injured people in the crowd.

There was no medicine, and the wounds could not be cleaned. Most of the people who escaped were empty-handed, and some didn't even wear shoes, shivering from the cold.

There are people who lose their minds, and naturally there are people who want to live. They found a sheltered hillside, and took the risk to find something to light a fire to keep warm. It's just that the burning county town in the distance makes people who are forced to get close to the fire , trembling and crying.

The ink carp quickly attracted the attention of others.

"Are you a doctor?"

The man who spoke was Kong Wuli, and there was a group of people around him, who seemed to be very prestigious.

Mo Li didn't answer, but continued to pick gravel from the wound of a comatose person.

"I'm Zheng San from Qiuling County. That's my brother. Thank you for saving his life."

Hearing the word "catch fast", Mo Li raised his head and glanced at the man.

The person that Detective Zheng quickly pointed to was lying not far from Meng Qi's feet. The four or five people with broken legs over there were all brought out from the fire.Now that he was free, Meng Qi conveniently set the bones for them.

Although he is not a doctor, people in Jianghu are familiar with external injuries, and dislocation and fractures are even more common.

"It's hard to say whether it can be saved. There is no medicine and no clean cloth to bandage the wound."

Everyone first crawled out of the ruins, and then escaped from the sea of ​​fire. They were all covered in ashes, and their clothes were not clean.

"I have asked people to find utensils to cook snow. It should be usable when the water boils. There is an abandoned pottery kiln nearby, and I should be able to find some usable things." Zheng Zheng has a good way of doing things. Arrangements, apart from the crying, this crude camp was barely alive.

"Wait until the fire is extinguished, and then go to the county town to see...if you can find anything useful."

Detective Zheng's tone was heavy, he knew this was a stopgap measure.

It's still the twelfth lunar month, and it's too early to leave spring. These individuals are trapped in the wilderness, with no food, drink, or anything to keep out the cold. How can they survive?

Someone next to him suggested: "Catcher Zheng, maybe we should all go to the mountains. The houses in Sijiabao are all built of stones. Maybe they haven't collapsed. The Si family has a lot of food, so it's not a big problem to survive the winter."

"Shut up, the Si family has private soldiers and weapons, shall I take you to die?"

As soon as Detective Zheng finished speaking, he saw the group of people who had rushed to Sijiabao come back.

Everyone was taken aback, and hurriedly asked about the situation.

"There is an extra cliff in front of me, I can't get past it!"

"Unless you take a detour to the west and take another mountain road!"

It was dark and cold, and the anger of these people was blown away by the cold wind, and they soon thought of the Si family's arrogance in the past, and they didn't even have a sickle and a hoe in their hands, so they had to come back temporarily.

Detective Zheng sighed quickly.

After he calmed down all these people, Detective Zheng suddenly found that the doctor had disappeared.

Besides, Mo Li got up immediately after treating the last wounded patient, and left with Meng Qi, who had been waiting beside him, in the direction of the depths of Mount Silang.

——Longmai will die, what if he dies?

Mo Li realized that he had to find out about this matter. Only by knowing what happened in Mount Silang could such a tragic scene be prevented from happening in Zhushan County.Furthermore, if you want to find enough herbs, you have to go into the mountains. Qiuling County has been burned, where can you find a medicine shop?

Meng Qi didn't ask where Mo Li was going, he believed that as long as he followed Mo Li, all the mysteries could be solved.

Thick smoke drifted over from Qiuling County in bursts, and in the dark night, the fire in Qiuling County could be seen from a distance of more than ten miles.

After walking a certain distance, Meng Qi suddenly said, "Doctor, someone is following us."

Mo Li naturally noticed it too, but the person who was following them didn't seem to know martial arts, his walking was deep and shallow, and he almost couldn't keep up, so he could only stay far behind.

Mo Li originally thought that the man would give up and return to the camp, but after such a long walk, the man was still stumbling after him.

In desperation, the ink carp could only stop.

Meng Qi watched the figure gradually appear, his eyes full of scrutiny.

It was a woman, she didn't wear much, her face was blue from the cold, but she didn't tremble.

Suddenly seeing Meng Qi and Mo Li standing in front of her waiting for her, the woman subconsciously grabbed the dirty skirt, with bloodstains on her fingertips, then she seemed to have made a decision, she clenched her teeth resolutely, straight walked over.

"Do you want to know about the gold mines?"

These words were obviously beyond Mo Li's expectation, and he looked at the woman suspiciously.

"I... I am Qiuhong, I know about the Si family gold mine."

The name was a bit familiar, Meng Qi remembered it slowly, it seemed to be the girl from the brothel who ran out and shouted before the earthquake happened.

Meng Qi had the idea to continue listening, how could the brothel girl know about the gold mine in the deep mountain?

"I was sold to Qiuling County. At the same time, there were a group of strong men and coolies. We were originally refugees from Jiangzhou. We fled to Yongzhou due to the war. At first, we just wanted to find a place to make a living. I heard that Pingzhou There is a large piece of wasteland nearby, and tenants are needed, so my brother and I came here, unexpectedly..."

The woman choked up and said: "That was five years ago. I was sold into a dark brothel. It was the mother of Xiaoyulou who rescued me, but my brother has disappeared. In recent years, Qiuling County has gradually become prosperous, and the city is full of I eavesdropped on the conversation of the people who do business for the Si family shop, and I vaguely know that the Si family once had a special lucrative business. They all said that it was selling elixir, but how could it be possible to find rare elixir in the mountains every three days? Back then, there were at least a few hundred strong men like me and my elder brother, and dozens of women like me. There were not many old and weak people. Women can be sold into shady places, but what about strong men? There are hundreds of people, how could they disappear without a trace?"

Mo Li didn't speak, he and Meng Qi thought of the gold mine at the same time.

No wonder the Si family had no scruples when killing people to silence them, those laborers were kidnapped.

"Three months ago, there was a strange case in Qiuling County. A man went to the county government to beat the drums to sue the Si family, but after he was brought in, there was no news. It was only later that the Si family had a gold mine. "Qiu Hong's eyes were red, and she gritted her teeth and said, "I happened to take over the business of the county magistrate Wang Shiye during those days. Hard labor, the Si family bribed the county government to suppress this matter, but...it was a gold mine. Killing, the matter can't be covered... because the county government once wanted to use private teeth to buy and sell hard labor to take advantage of the Si family. After a long investigation, it was found that the matter was related to the Si family. The members of the family, and they were wiped out after finishing this matter, and there was no evidence at all, unless they ventured to the mountains to find the location of the gold mine. But Sijiabao is in the Silang Mountain, and the Si family has been in business for many years, so the county government can't intervene After a stalemate for a long time, the incident leaked out, and the imperial court sent General Dangkou to investigate the case."

"You want to avenge your brother?"

Mo Li secretly gave the woman a spirit energy, and Qiu Hong's complexion improved a little.

"If I don't avenge this revenge, how can I be willing? I heard from Master Wang that the Si family has cheated at least a thousand refugees. They drove these strong men to dig mines, and they were extremely harsh on them. They worked before dawn, beat, scolded and whipped them frequently , Food is worse than pigs and dogs, these coolies can hardly survive a year. If you think about it, my brother has already turned into a dry bone."

As she spoke, she couldn't make a sound.

It is rare in the world to be so devoid of conscience.

Mo Li suppressed the anger in his heart, and said slowly: "You said this, do you want us to take you to find the gold mine?"

Qiu Hong looked at Meng Qi, who had never spoken, and said with a wry smile: "I originally thought so. I saw that you are foreigners, know martial arts, and look extraordinary. When you heard that the mountain road was cut off, you still walked in this direction... ...Presumably it's not related to the gold mine, but also related to Sijiabao?"

"Aren't you afraid that we are from Sijiapu?"

"People from Sijiabao...will not save people in the ruins."

Qiu Hong took out a small rouge box from her body. There was a piece of oiled paper in the lid, which unfolded into a crude map.

Just a few lines, a few dots.

"This is Qiuling County. We were brought here from this direction... we took this road, and I was dazzled by people halfway along the way, so I always suspected that the location of the gold mine was near here. At least you have to enter the mountain from that position."

Qiu Hong explained the map carefully, and then handed it over to Mo Li.

"I... can't enter the mountain, I can't keep up with you, and I don't know how to get over that cliff. I just hope that if the matter comes to fruition, you two will tell me that I will pay homage to the spirit of my deceased brother."

After Qiu Hong finished speaking, she planned to kneel down, but her body seemed to be blocked by some invisible thing, and she couldn't even pray, let alone kneel.

She quickly raised her head, and suddenly found that the two had gone far away.

"What you said is not difficult, go back, it's cool here."

Even though it was so far away, the gentle voice could clearly ring in her ears.

Just like what is said in the scriptures, the real masters in the Jianghu know the art of sound transmission.

With tears all over her face, Qiu Hong staggered towards the crude camp.

——If it is really retribution, it should be let this catastrophe swallow the heart and dog lungs of the people, why does it hurt the innocent?

Standing on the edge of the cliff, Meng Qi looked from a distance and found that it was a huge crack extending from the mountain to Qiuling County, and the width gradually decreased.

"From this point of view, the source of the earthquake should be Mount Silang."

Mo Li was still studying the map. He compared the map of Pingzhou in his mind with the scene he saw when his consciousness left his body just now, and suddenly found that one of the dots suspected to be a gold mine seemed to have collapsed particularly badly. It is also the meeting point of several cracks.

"How is it?" Seeing Mo Li's expression, Meng Qi knew that he had guessed.

Mo Li was about to speak when he suddenly felt his feet shaking again.

After an earthquake, there is often a lingering power, but this time the movement was not too big.

"Why do I feel that something is wrong ahead?" Meng Qi stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction that Mo Li was aiming at.

The overflowing spiritual energy is sinking, and the source of the gathering is over there. Meng Qi doesn't know the mystery inside, but instinctively feels that it is not good.

Mo Li didn't have time to explain anything, and immediately said: "Let's go!"

The width of the cliff, the two of them crossed in a single leap.

Along the way, I saw remnants of scenery everywhere in the mountains, streams diverted, and trees fell down.

Fallen stones piled up everywhere, half the valley disappeared, and the cliffs above disappeared.

The two raised their internal strength and hurried on the road with all their strength, and soon reached the depths of Mount Silang, where the aura became more and more intense.

"Wait, something is wrong on the ground." Meng Qi stopped, looked towards the front of the mountain road, and murmured, "The snow is gone."

"After the earthquake, the snow fell and was covered by rocks..."

In the middle of speaking, Mo Li suddenly stopped and looked down at his feet.

There is a light green that pops up along the edge of the gravel.

"...It doesn't seem so cold here?" Meng Qi asked uncertainly, because martial arts masters don't feel cold and heat, so they don't feel the temperature of the outside world so clearly.

Mo Li stood numbly for a while, he thought of what Master Li of Zhushan County said, natural disasters and man-made disasters, dragon veins appear in the world.

Then the river is full of fish, and the mountains are full of elixir.

Is that really the Dragon Vein?If the dragon's veins are dying gradually, unlike the fierce struggle of the dragon's veins in Mount Silang, what will happen after the dragon's veins die?

Mo Li didn't know, he saw green grass scattered on the ground in the distance.

After the aura sank, the dead mountain seemed to be revived.

Life and death are actually linked together.

A drop of water fell on Mo Li's face, and he wiped it with his hand, only to find that it was raining.

The rain came as soon as it was said, and it fell heavily, and in a blink of an eye there was a stream of water on the ground.

After walking for a while, Mo Li didn't find any gold mines, but instead saw the ruins of Sijiabao.

The whole stone bunker collapsed.

The front of the bunker was originally an open space, covered with horses and other objects cut from sharp wood, but now it is in a mess, and some have even been lifted to the distant hillside.

Several huge cracks extend from here.

Mo Li walked slowly on the hillside, and then he saw a strange tree stump.

The tree stump was low and unnoticed at all, and now spiritual energy flowed into this dead tree in a steady stream, and green shoots were drawn out from under the tree roots, growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"This is?"

Meng Qi stared at the stump with a dazed expression.

Because the new branches of this tree are very strange, not only grow horizontally, but also look like a long snake from a distance.

Mo Li thought blankly, no, it could also be a dragon.