On the unfolded picture scroll, there are five gods flying through the clouds and fog. Below their feet are mountains shrouded in light clouds and mist.

Many villagers have also been to the village chief's house, have seen this painting, saw Yan Guangyao put it out specially, and looked at each other, not knowing what mystery he was talking about in the painting.

"What to do? He found out." An Xingyu whispered.

Lu Yanli shook his head: "Wait and see what happens." So what if they find out, these villagers can just show them the way.

Xie Ziqing was confused and didn't know what they were talking about, but seeing the solemn faces of the two, he couldn't help but stare at the painting.

However, no matter how he looked at it, it was just a relatively ordinary landscape painting, five gods, the landscape below, what else?

An Xingyu reminded him: "Turn it upside down."

in turn?

Xie Ziqing didn't understand what the reverse was, but An Xingyu had reminded him of this, and he would be too stupid to say that he didn't understand.He nodded with a serious face, turned around, spread his legs and looked down from between his legs.

An Xingyu: "Cough...it's not the other way around." He made a gesture, "Try to reverse the left and right sides of the painting."

Xie Ziqing stood up with a dazed look on his face.

left and right?

He tried to construct a picture in his mind, but failed.Like Xie Ziqing, the other villagers couldn't understand what Yan Guangyao was trying to trick.

Only Lu Yanli and An Xingyu knew.

In their eyes, the painting was turned left and right, and the flying clothes of the five immortals, the clouds and mountains under their feet clearly formed a map.And this map is the topographic map of the entire Shangxian Village.

With the forbidden area as the center, the red cloak of the fox fairy in the middle extends down to become a blood-red river surrounding the village. The two green-clothed snake fairy and hedgehog fairy on the left and right are shaped like twin fish, and the drape is connected end to end.

The image of the yellow fairy weasel on the far left is an old man with white hair and a childlike face, holding a cane, but the crutch is held upside down, and the curved handle of the cane points to somewhere in the landscape below.

The image of the gray fairy mouse on the far right is a young man in gray clothes, with a small stature.If you turn his image left and right, his eyes are fixed on the tail of the fox fairy in the middle.

The white fairy hedgehog lowered its eyes, turned over, stretched its gaze, and landed on the tail exposed by the skirt of the fox fairy beside him.

The rest of them also flipped over, and after turning their eyes into a substantially straight line, they all fell on the tail of the fox fairy.Extend the fox fairy's sight line, as the direction, and the point where the tail indicates the direction meets, and it is falling somewhere in the forbidden area.

Inexplicably, a word came to An Xingyu's mind.

This word was also said out loud by Yan Guangyao.

"Everyone should have seen it before, but you didn't notice the secret inside." Yan Guangyao turned the scroll over, facing the sunlight, and the not-so-thick paper showed the flipped image.

Now the villagers recognized each and every one of them.

"Isn't this a forbidden place?"

"Why is this a bit like a map?"

……

Yan Guangyao held up the scroll and said loudly: "Yes, this is the map. The previous village head had been hanging it in the room, looking at it every day. He didn't hide it because he hoped that someone would find out the secret. But no one Proposed. I also discovered it by accident."

"It turns out that the portrait hanging in the village chief's room is a treasure map!"

The word immediately sparked an uproar.

Treasure Map?

Where is the treasure?what is it

The villagers talked a lot, and they all looked at Yan Guangyao with hopeful eyes.

At this moment, no one doubted that Yan Guangyao was too young anymore, and everyone wanted to know what he was going to say next.

Xie Ziqing quietly asked: "Is it really a treasure map?"

Lu Yanli shook his head: "Who knows?"

He originally wanted to trick Luo Ying into letting her try it, but now it seems that it is not bad to have so many villagers.

Even if there are treasures... Heh, if you lose your life, why do you care about treasures?

The same is true for Xie Ziqing, things from this world are difficult to bring to another world, and even if he takes them, he can't take them away.

Yan Guangyao was still talking: "Of course, now is not the time to talk about treasures. The village is now facing a huge crisis, and the location shown in this treasure map happens to be in the forbidden area. So I suggest that everyone enter the forbidden area in advance !"

The villagers looked at each other, and one of them hesitated: "But, Lao Qian said, we can't go in early."

Lao Qian was the previous village chief.

"That's because he hasn't discovered the secret of the treasure map. Without the map, the forbidden area is of course a dangerous place for us. Now that we have a map, what are we afraid of?" Yan Guangyao said loudly.

"But……"

"It's nothing but, do you think the village is safe now?" Yan Guangyao said, "Lili doesn't want to protect us anymore, even if she calls Mrs. Li's granddaughter back now, it will take several days. Can you guarantee that nothing will happen?"

"But the curse in the village..."

"The curse also has a source. Are you willing to bear the curse for the rest of your life? If we don't solve the root cause of the curse, we will not be able to live a stable life for a day!"

His words are not unreasonable. The younger generation has basically never faced the horror of the forbidden area. Compared with it, the chaos in the village these days is more terrifying.In the past few days, almost all the people who died in the village were of the older generation, and there were very few people over the age of 50. They hardly spoke, and only stared at Yan Guangyao coldly.

"Confused! If you run over rashly now, you are going to die!" The oldest old man in the village survived by luck. He was deaf and couldn't hear clearly. He couldn't help but yelled on crutches.

"You don't know, you don't know what price we paid...to allow you to go out..." The old man trembled angrily, didn't catch his breath, and passed away.

"Old Uncle Zhang!" The middle-aged man next to him exclaimed, and rushed to help him. His wife was also in tears: "I can't control you young people anymore, but you can't take the whole village to die... I still have How many years to live..."

A group of young people who had just been encouraged by Yan Guangyao couldn't help but retreat.Yan Guangyao's eyes darkened, and he almost squeezed out words through his teeth: "Old Aunt Zhang, you should know the secret of ancestor worship better than us, right? Don't you know the truth about ancestor worship this year?"

Aunt Zhang's expression changed drastically, her lips trembling: "You, what did you say?"

Yan Guangyao said: "Do you dare to tell the truth about ancestor worship?"

A young villager was puzzled: "Didn't you just go up and worship?" Why did Yan Guangyao say it so seriously?

Yan Guangyao shook his head: "Ordinary ancestor worship is of course like this. But now, 60 years have passed, and 60 years of reincarnation, so this year's chaos will be much more serious than before, and this year's ancestor worship... "He didn't finish, but old Aunt Zhang had already understood the meaning in his eyes, her legs went limp, and she almost fell to the ground.

"How did you know?" After she finished asking this sentence, she fainted before she got an answer.

60 years of reincarnation... Lu Yanli took a deep breath.

Calculated by the chronology of the heavenly stems and earthly branches, 60 years is indeed a reincarnation.

So, this year's ancestor worship, what will there be? What happened 60 years ago?

This feeling of being kept in the dark made him very uncomfortable, but what made him even more curious was why did Yan Guangyao discover the secret in the portrait?

Yan Guangyao stood on the high platform, holding up the portrait, with a look of desperate madness on his face: "Now we can't stay in the village anymore! Just this afternoon, is there anyone going to the forbidden area together?"

A young man slowly raised his hand.

Then, another one.

One by one.

Almost all the young people who had only heard the curse from the mouths of the older generation raised their hands.

An Xingyu asked, "Will you go?"

"Go, of course." Lu Yanli also raised his hand, "We have to go if they don't."

Seeing this, An Xingyu and Xie Ziqing also raised their hands.

Suddenly, the raised right hand of one of them flew out, blood spattering.

He himself didn't seem to react, and after a while, there was a burst of screams from the crowd: "Ah——"

People rushed to flee.

Unexpectedly, at the other end of the square, a little girl in a red skirt slowly walked in.

"Li..." A person's eyes widened, and before he could say a word, his head flew high.

Scarlet blood poured on the person next to him. The person was so frightened that he didn't move. He watched a head fly to the ground and rolled around a few times.

A paper piercer ran up and picked up the head to play with.A small smile appeared on his pale face.

The whole square was silent for a few seconds.

Although everyone kept talking about Lili no longer protecting the village, they were caught off guard when the scene before them actually happened.

This, this is Lili?

Why did she become like this?

The little girl didn't have a trace of white in her eyes, and she had a ferocious face, but she even let out a laugh, she was young and cute, she walked in slowly, staring at everyone with a pair of pupilless eyes, making one's spine chill.

One step forward, the villagers step back.

Yan Guangyao shouted, "Run!"

Only then did the villagers come to their senses, and hurriedly fled from the other direction, pushing each other, and occasionally wailing in despair.

As early as the moment the little girl appeared, Lu Yanli had already sensed that something was wrong, and dragged An Xingyu along to run away.Sure enough, there were screams from the villagers behind him.

"Why did Lili suddenly become like this?" An Xingyu said while running.

How could Lu Yanli know?He had an intuition that something was wrong with the little girl who had just walked up, but he couldn't tell, so he could only keep running away.

The wailing behind her was getting louder and louder.

Compared with Lu Yanli and An Xingyu who have been exercising all year round, Xie Ziqing's running speed is slower. The only advantage is that he has seen a lot of weird things, and he is much faster than the villagers.He followed the two people in front of him and kept running. As he ran, a bloody head suddenly fell in front of him, almost tripping him.

Xie Ziqing looked back subconsciously, and was immediately frightened out of his wits.

Not far behind the fleeing villagers, there were stumps and pieces of flesh hanging everywhere, and the blood on the ground rushed towards them as if they were alive.An older person stepped into the blood plasma, and in the next second, his whole body was submerged in a large amount of thick blood plasma.

The originally bright sky gradually darkened, and in the end, layers of thick dark clouds completely covered the sun, making it almost no different from nighttime.The cold wind whizzed past, blowing a stench after another.

Lu Yanli didn't look back, he just ran forward side by side with An Xingyu, returned to the village from the other exit of the square, and then ran to the forbidden area.There are fewer and fewer villagers behind, but they still insist on running away.

They could still be faintly heard crying.

Xie Ziqing looked back again.

The little girl was still walking unhurriedly. She was very small and didn't walk fast, but the distance between her and the villagers who were running wildly was still getting closer.

"Hahahaha……"

In the silent night, there are only the wailing of the villagers before their tragic death, and the silver-like laughter of the little girl.

Along the way, many white paper dolls jumped out, bouncing and playing in the pool of blood.

Remnants, organs, soaked sticky black hair, skin...all became their playthings.

Xie Ziqing felt chills for a while, didn't dare to look at it, and immediately ran with his head buried.

Ahead, Lu Yanli had already reached the entrance of the village, striding forward.

But what made him feel cold was that when he took a step forward, the sky and the sky were spinning in front of his eyes, and then he came back to his senses, the surroundings were dark and silent, and in front of him was...a familiar broken bridge.

A more pungent rancid smell than before came rushing from under the bridge.

"Catch me a fish... hurry up... hee hee hee..."

The little girl's crisp voice sounded from all directions.

The next second, he found himself standing on the edge of the broken bridge, with a fishing rod in his hand and a small bucket at his feet.

It was pitch black everywhere, except for the corpses under the broken bridge that surged up one after another like waves, and the entanglement of their pale and swollen limbs was still obvious even in the pitch-black water.

No... the river is not dark...

Lu Yanli tried his best to contain his physical discomfort.

This river... is a river of blood through and through.

He gathered himself together, hooked the "bait" skillfully, flicked the fishing rod, and the fishing line fell into the blood river.

The moment the bait fell, the corpses below rushed up like crazy. Even if they were dead, they were still scrambling and tearing at each other. Meat crumbs flew across the water. Huge waves surged up on the water surface, and the stench became stronger.

The same goes for the rest of the village.

Yan Guangyao ran desperately with the scroll.

As long as he runs to the forbidden area, as long as he reaches the forbidden area... he will be safe...

He almost ran with all his strength, and as soon as he ran out of the village, the three people in front of him all disappeared. Yan Guangyao had no time to be afraid, so he just kept running and finally turned into the forest. , His eyes went dark, and he returned to the village chief's house.

On the shrine, the statue of Mrs. Hu Santai has been overturned.

The wind blows, and the door closes.

Yan Guangyao felt a little lucky at the last second before falling into darkness.

He did not bring the scroll back.

At the moment when his eyes went dark, he threw the scroll out.

Someone will always find it.

Lu Yanli didn't know the situation of other people, so he thought they couldn't be any better than himself.In the next second, there was another person beside him.

It's An Xingyu.

He was also brought to this place.

"Catch fish together... hee hee hee hee... hurry up..."

An Xingyu was stunned for only a moment, and also sat down with Lu Yanli, and after a simple treatment, the fishing line was thrown into the water.

More turbulent waves surged, almost rushing to the bridge deck.

The two couldn't help worrying.

If it continues like this, if another person comes, the waves created by the corpses below will roll them down.

To their uneasiness, half a minute later, Xie Ziqing, who still had a look of fear on his face, also appeared on the bridge.

"What should we do? We can't escape..." Xie Ziqing turned pale with fright the moment he saw the surrounding scenery clearly. He held the fishing rod in his hand and looked at the other two for help.

The fishing rod in Lu Yanli's hand moved.

Some "fish" took the bait.

He didn't know why, and he didn't feel lucky. Some kind of strong intuition welling up from the bottom of his heart made him not catch that fish, but waited quietly.

After a while, the fish swam away.

At the same time, all three of them heard the howling of beasts from the forest.

It's hard to describe the roar coming into the ear, it has completely out of the range of the beast.Xie Ziqing looked blankly at the source of the sound, and soon he was dragged aside by Lu Yanli, who lowered his face: "You come first, hurry up!"

Xie Ziqing glanced at him gratefully, without thinking too much, immediately squatted beside An Xingyu to fish.

An Xingyu seemed to understand something.

After a while, the fishing rod in his hand also floated.He gently pulled up, and when the fish floated to the surface, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he let go of his hand.

His "fish" also swam away.

In the forest, a dog, half as tall as two people, with half body of white bones and half body of carrion, walked out slowly.

The reason why it is called a dog is because it can still barely see the shadow of a dog. It walked out of the forest little by little, and looked directly at the three of them from the black sockets where the eyeballs had fallen.

"What should I do? Did you catch it?" Xie Ziqing was so frightened that he was out of his wits, and hurriedly asked An Xingyu.

An Xingyu gritted his teeth: "No."

While speaking, Xie Ziqing's fishing rod moved.

He was overjoyed: "If you don't have one, come and help me quickly, I've caught it!" After that, he pulled it up vigorously.

An Xingyu reached out to help him, and Lu Yanli did the same.As soon as the latter took over, the first two immediately relaxed a lot. The three of them worked together, and a pale and swollen body leaped out of the river and landed on the bridge.

Before Xie Ziqing noticed something was wrong, he panted and wiped off the sweat on his forehead. Lu Yanli took out a jade pendant from his pocket and put it beside the corpse.

The dog approached little by little.

"Hey? Brother Lu, what are you doing?" Xie Ziqing didn't notice that something was wrong, and planned to continue fishing by the river, "It seems that I'm lucky today, please help me later. Otherwise, we will end up facing that dog sooner or later."

As he spoke, his eyes suddenly widened.

A scene that Xie Ziqing could not understand no matter what appeared before his eyes.

That one corpse on the bridge...turned into two?

Why?How could this be?

An Xingyu's eyes also widened.

Lu Yanli didn't intend to explain, and soon, he reproduced the third corpse.

Only now did Xie Ziqing realize that something was wrong.

"Wait a minute, these corpses." He asked hesitantly, his voice was dry, "Didn't you feel that it seems...it seems..."

The dog had come up close and bowed his head.

With a strong push, Lu Yanli pushed one of the replicas out, and rolled down under the stench and scorching breath of the beast.

It sniffed and began to eat.

When it took the first bite, Xie Ziqing screamed, his thigh was bitten off by something invisible, blood spattered everywhere.

He finally knew why the corpse looked wrong.

Because, that is himself.

There was another scream, and half of his body was bitten off.

He was completely silent and couldn't cry out again.

An Xingyu closed his eyes and couldn't bear to look more, but the dog obviously couldn't be satisfied by eating a dead body. He asked Lu Yanli amidst the sound of chewing: "What shall we do now?"

Lu Yanli said: "We can only feed it first, and then find a way to escape." He turned his head and glanced at An Xingyu, there was something in his eyes that the latter couldn't understand, he thought Lu Yanli was going to say something, but the other party still didn't say anything explain.

"As soon as possible."

"Okay." An Xingyu nodded.

He really wanted to ask what Lu Yanli was holding, but this situation was not the time to explain it, so he had to stand aside and look around vigilantly. Then, he dragged the copied corpses a little further away, trying to delay it as much as possible. time.

Lu Yanli moved quickly, estimating when the dog would eat, and quickly copied one corpse after another.

I don't know where the Pisces jade pendant came from, and the reason for its special function is also unknown.However, Lu Yanli has tested that a large number of copies in a short period of time will temporarily consume part of its energy. When the energy is exhausted, it needs to be left for a period of time before it can be used.

A few people died before the reservoir, An Xingyu dragged their bodies over, and when the bridge deck finally reached three bodies.Lu Yanli tugged An Xingyu, the two looked at each other, and immediately ran away.

The village is already a scene of purgatory at this time.

The bloody wind was raging, countless pale paper-tied figurines were jumping and playing, and human screams and wailing could be heard from almost every household.

Lu Yanli didn't even look at it, he just ran as fast as he could.To An Xingyu's surprise, he was still on the phone while running, not knowing who he was calling.

"Who are you talking to?" An Xingyu kicked away a paper man who was biting his trouser leg, sweat dripped from his forehead.

Lu Yanli said, "Lin Chu."

"What?! Lin Chu?" An Xingyu was shocked.

"She's not dead." That's all Lu Yanli explained.

As expected and disturbing, the call didn't go through.

Called again, still the same, I don't know which side is the reason.He turned to Luo Ying.

"Listen, An Xingyu, that painting is very important. Without that painting, we might never be able to get rid of the curse." Lu Yanli smiled wryly, "We have to find that painting and go to the forbidden area."

Although An Xingyu had guessed the result, but the lack of some clues made it impossible for him to fully deduce the entire logic line. He murmured, "Why?"

"Didn't you notice? In an ordinary village, there is usually a common surname, and they are all related by blood. But this village is not like this. Almost every household has no relationship with them. They have different surnames and look like foxes. Besides, there is nothing in common.”

Without changing his expression, Lu Yanli walked around the bloody human intestine that had fallen from the branch in front of him, and continued: "There is no ancestral hall or genealogy in the village. I have asked many families in the past few days, and they are all outsiders."

"They are all... outsiders like us. After participating in the ancestor worship, they will become villagers of Shangxian Village and will bear part of the curse."

Therefore, none of the villagers expressed their rejection of outsiders. They were warm and hospitable and hoped to keep these few outsiders.

But An Xingyu and the others had to participate in the ancestor worship. After the ancestor worship, he would inevitably bear the curse.

As for the specific content of the curse, he is not clear.

"60 years is a reincarnation. I haven't found out what happened. The only villagers who know the inside story are probably dead. It's hard to say it wasn't intentional." The more urgent the time, the faster Lu Yanli's mind turned, "60 years ago What happened, I don’t know if there is any record in the village, but now... let’s go to the forbidden area first, check those tombstones, maybe we can find something.”

Although there were many tombstones, he believed that with the memory of himself, An Xingyu and Lin Chu, he could quickly find out some clues.

An Xingyu recited the prestige of the omniscient God in his heart, and nodded repeatedly: "Okay! Let's escape as soon as possible."

I don't know if it was because Lili was massacring other people in the village, but they escaped to the entrance of the village smoothly.

Luo Ying rushed over from a distance.

She had already witnessed the chaos in the village. The phone call made by Lu Yanli just happened to be connected. Although it was cut off within a few seconds, combined with the changes in the weather outside, it was enough for her to understand that the village had undergone tremendous changes.

"Quick! Come out!" Luo Ying screamed.

And Lu Yanli had already seen the picture scroll that had fallen outside the entrance of the village.

"Scroll!" he yelled.

Luo Ying followed his gaze, and instantly understood what an important scroll seemed to be, and immediately turned around to pick it up.

At the same time, a small pale hand passed through Lu Yanli's chest from behind.

Suddenly, Lu Yanli felt a pain in his heart, looked down, and saw a small hole in his chest.

Blood dripped down, Lu Yanli's eyes widened, unable to take another step, he fell forward slowly.

Behind her, the girl in red stood quietly, holding a beating red heart in her hand, blood dripping down.

An Xingyu had already stepped out of the village entrance, he subconsciously turned around and stared blankly at the scene in front of him.

Lu Yanli... is dead?

This jade pendant...

Just now, taking advantage of the moment Luo Ying turned around, Lu Yanli threw the Pisces jade pendant to him.

In the last few seconds, he silently said a few words to him.

An Xingyu's usually calm mind was a little confused, he subconsciously clenched the jade pendant, stuffed it into his pocket, and didn't tell Luo Ying.

Luo Ying picked up the scroll and hurried over, her gaze swept over the young man in front of her, and she immediately focused on his calf.

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