After being dressed as the evil god

Dawu lowered his head under the eyes of the old grandmother: "No, grandma, I dare not make such a decision."

"I met them at the junction of the dense forest and the grass pond. They claimed to have fallen from the sky and traveled to many places. I thought, if their knowledge is so extensive, they may know what to do... "

The old grandmother's serious face slowly relaxed, she was dazed for a while, and said: "That's okay..."

Dawu was silent for a moment, and reached out to touch the old grandmother's bowl. The porridge was already cold, so he poured the rest of the porridge to himself, drank it up in one gulp, and added another half bowl of warm milk porridge to the old grandmother.

"But... we have to wait until this time is over." The old grandmother came back to her senses and said.

"I've made a note, don't worry, go to rest earlier. I will find a way." Dawu said.

The old grandmother didn't think there was any way, she agreed, just being considerate of her own mind.Dawu can see it, but he will not give up, hope is earned.

The light in the grandmother's room dimmed, and the old grandmother watched Dawu kindly and tenderly tidy up the bowls and pots on the table, changed the medicine for her arm again, and sent her to the warm bedroom.

Dawu is a good boy.However, the wood that makes the house cannot grow back on the tree, and the broken stones cannot be put back together.Many choices in this world, once made, there is no room for regret.But Dawu has such a heart, which is a very precious thing and should not be extinguished from the very beginning.

……

It is a quick thing for the sky to turn from yellow to dark purple. The night seems to have a kind of magic power. When the living beings are embraced by the night, they become silent.

The lamps with their long shadows were extinguished one by one, except for the night watchmen who carried lamps on the wall in the middle of the village and took turns patrolling.

Bai Hong and Ding Qin hadn't slept yet, they didn't need sleep anymore, they just stopped their activities after sunset and meditated instead of sleep in order to cater to the routine of most creatures in this world.But they haven't meditated yet tonight, and this valley village looks normal on the surface, but it hides a lot of secrets.Even the matter that Grova asked them to help find his sister, after thinking about it carefully, there is a lot of weirdness.

If Grova's sister is missing, there must be an explanation whether it is life or death.If you are not sure whether you are still alive, you should go to the woods to search and rescue.But looking at the appearance in the stockade, he wasn't too nervous to find someone.If you haven't found it after searching for a long time, and now you decide to give up, then you should give a result.

Being lost in the forest is not a trivial matter. Apart from the ironclad crocodile that Dawu and the others dealt with, there are still many dangers hidden in this swamp. If you are not walking on the road that has been developed by "Feeler", you will not know the dangers you see. How many times is it doubled.Grova came to ask the two to help find his sister. His anxiety was real, but he didn't have any worries, which was unreasonable.

Now everyone's answers to Grova's questioning are vague, and there is no sadness. Grova himself seems to have a different feeling for judging people, because of the attitude of the people around him, he also thinks that his sister should be fine, no wonder he Although anxious about this, there is not much worry.That being the case, what is going on with his sister has to be pondered...

Ding Qin was sitting on the stone steps in front of the house, with her head half raised, as if looking at the dense galaxy in the sky.

The moonlight sprinkled all over the place, and the water was cool all over the steps.The Chang Gung star shines brightly in the southwest sky.

The moon moves and the stars turn, and the moon is half full tonight, like a slightly tilted round lamp, holding a grayish-blue faint moon shadow on the lamp, indicating that the moon seems to be full and full.The Chang Gung star and the moon are getting closer and closer, and finally touch the cup of the moon, like a pearl falling from the middle of the moon.

As if it really got the light poured out from the moon lamp, the Chang Geng star suddenly lit up.

Ding Qin suddenly felt as if two drops of cool dew had been dripped into her eyes. She blinked, and the world in front of her eyes suddenly changed.

Blood energy——she saw the blood energy that she couldn't see after falling into the valley. They just wrapped the village well and didn't go beyond the side wall.Although there is blood, it does not have the evil spirit that often accompanies it, which makes this layer of blood not terrible. It casts a thin layer of red on the whole village, which is strange and blurred.Although this layer of thin red is light, it intercepts the calamity outside, and it does not touch the people in the village at all, and those patrolling people are often accompanied by a thin layer of blood, even if they leave the village. It will not be contaminated by robbery.

This blood energy seems to be protecting the village and the people in the village, but at the outermost edge of the blood energy, it blends in with the aura of disaster. It seems to be infected and swallowed, and the blood energy surges like a living thing , seems to be fighting against the robbery, but the effect is very limited.According to this situation, this layer of blood energy will be melted away by the calamity energy in a short time.

Ding Qin seemed to hear a roar of a beast in a trance, generous and strong, she subconsciously followed the sound, and above the center of the village, there seemed to be a strange beast floating in the blood, with a slim body and four legs, like a sheep or a deer, with a single horn on its forehead.The strange beast looked down at the village, and let out a mournful cry, but no one could hear it, and suddenly lost its blood.

Ding Qin was trying to see more clearly, when suddenly her eyes flickered, the village changed back to its original appearance, quiet and peaceful, with blood and strange beasts, as if it was just a dream she took a nap on the stone steps.

"What's the matter?" Bai Hong noticed her abnormal movement and asked aloud.

"It's nothing, I..." Ding Qin said in a daze.She subconsciously looked up at the night sky, the Chang Geng star had left the moon, and the light was no longer as bright as before.

She stopped suddenly.

……

Day two.

The water vapor in the valley was heavy, and there was a thick fog before dawn, which could not be dispersed even after the sun rose.

Dawu came early in the morning and told the two guests that they could stay in the village, but they were not allowed to enter some places casually.He took the two of them for a rough turn around the village. The village surrounded by clouds and mist is wild and mysterious, with a unique beauty.The fog is the same as the night, it seems to be able to swallow the sound, as if the distance is stretched very long, the sounds of people's activities in the early morning are separated by a layer.

After Dawu took the two of them around, he also got to know the people in the village. It doesn't need to be too familiar, so that people who didn't have time to get the news last night know that there are two more beautiful girls in the village as guests.Dawu's status in the village is probably not low. People in the village will raise their heads and say hello when they see him. The attitude is not only friendly, but also respectful.

But not everyone is like that.

When he came to a high house near the center of the village, Dawu stopped and told them: "Don't get closer here, don't go in."

Before Ding Qin and Bai Hong could respond, a person came out from the back of the tall house. This was a dark-skinned and strong man. He first turned his gaze around the three of them, leading them like a wolf staring at its prey. Looking aggressive, he nodded to Dawu: "Is this the guest you brought back?"

"They are guests in the village." Dawu turned around halfway, just blocking Ding Qin behind him.

The man stared at Dawu for a few moments, then said coldly: "Got it." After he finished speaking, he turned around and went back. His attitude seemed to be a little bit annoyed with Dawu, but not to the extent of an enemy.

Dawu waited for him to leave, then took Ding Qin and Bai Hong to other places in the village. The attitude of the man just now didn't seem to have affected him in any way, he seemed to be used to it.

Ding Qin and Bai Hong didn't say anything, but they were a little vigilant in their hearts. The man who looked at them just now was not friendly.Because the two of them are rare outsiders who come to this village, all the people they meet along the way will inevitably look at them. The eyes of those people may be curious or vigilant, but they are all normal attitudes towards strangers, but the eyes of that person just now , seems to imply something else.

Except for the slightly problematic people and things encountered in this high house, the rest of the village can be called a paradise.

People are busy, some are twisting ropes to make baskets, some are cutting grass and collecting firewood, and some have already raised the smoke, and started their morning meal for the day in the smell of firewood.

If he hadn't seen that layer of blood with his own eyes, who would know that there are problems hidden under such a peaceful and peaceful scene?

After Dawu took the two of them for a stroll and returned to their temporary house, he glanced at a big banyan tree next to him, bid farewell to them and left.At this time, the fog has thinned, and the sun has slightly melted.Ding Qin turned her head and waved to the back of the banyan tree, and Grova ran out with a basket.

"Here, here you are, eat!" He said in unprofessional Mandarin.

Growa was avoiding Dawu, not because he was delivering food. There was no shortage of food in the village. Although he was not responsible for entertaining the guests, it was fine if he took the initiative to ask for the job.He came to find Ding Qin and Bai Hong, and still wanted them to help find his sister. Although he didn't know what happened, every time he asked the adults around them, their attitudes made Grova feel vaguely , they don't want to ask themselves.Although Grova didn't understand what was going on, he still felt ignorantly that he should avoid people when he asked two foreign guests for help.After all, he is a child, otherwise he should know that the more he hides his small thoughts, the easier it will be seen by others. It is normal to be curious about guests, so why not come to Ding Qin and Bai Hong openly .

He hid behind the tree when he saw Dawu just now, but according to Dawu's cultivation, how could he not find him hiding behind the tree?

Ding Qin patted his head: "Thank you."

Grova looked at them expectantly: "You guys can stay."

"Yes." Ding Qin smiled gently at him, "We will help you find your sister."

"I, together, can you?" Grova asked gesturing.

"No way." Ding Qin shook her head, seeing Grova's face full of disappointment, she knelt down and said to him, "The forest is very dangerous, you can't usually go there, right?"

Grova nodded, and gestured anxiously: "You guys are amazing! I know how to walk!" To the effect that Ding Qin and Baihong are amazing, and he knows the way in the woods.He can lead the way, Ding Qin and Bai Hong can protect him.

After the children in the village grow up to a certain age, they will be led by the team to walk through the valley repeatedly, until they memorize one road, and then change to another road.Although they are not allowed to enter the grass ponds and dense forests, they are afraid of anything. If something happens to them, these children remember those safe ways, so they have an extra possibility of survival.

"We are guests in the village." Ding Qin pointed to himself, then to Grova, "You are a child in the village. We cannot take you to dangerous places."

Grova could only nod.

While Ding Qin was coaxing him to leave, Bai Hong had already taken Growa's breath and cast a tracking spell.

"How is it?" Ding Qin raised her head and asked.

"Not outside." Bai Hong looked in one direction, "It's inside the stockade."

Sure enough, as they had guessed before, Grova's sister was not missing, but for some reason, Grova was kept from knowing.

"Go and have a look." Ding Qin said.

The two walked along the guidance of the tracking technique, and the destination was one of the few places Dawu had circled for them before that they could not enter casually.

This is a yard surrounded by bamboo and wood fences, green vines are climbing on the fence, and the delicate leaves are lined with small pink and yellow flowers, which is full of interest.The courtyard is deep, and late-ripening apricots are planted in it.At this season, the fruiting period of the apricot tree has already passed, and the apricot tree in the yard is still growing round and plump apricots, which are orange, yellow and red, which are very pleasing.The flourishing apricot trees cover a winding path, making it impossible to see the depths.The planting arrangement of these apricot trees faintly formed a formation. Although it looked like a path paved with cobblestones from the outside, if one didn't know that the formation would only walk along the path, they probably wouldn't be able to reach the real place.

The location pointed by the end point is deep in the courtyard. With the abilities of Ding Qin and Bai Hong, it is not difficult for them to sneak in quietly, but they did not do so.

Grova is still too young to hide his thoughts. I'm afraid Dawu already knew why he came to see them. hint.Tracking is not a difficult technique, and Dawu must have guessed that they can find them, so there is no point in hiding them at this time.

The two stood on the edge of the area for a while, and a middle-aged woman came out. Her head was wrapped in a cloth scarf, and the corners of her eyes stretched out fine lines. Although she didn't smile, she looked peaceful and amiable. Very good, with a light accent: "What are you two doing here?"

"Growa asked us to help him find his sister. The tracking technique guided us here, so let's take a look." Bai Hong said.

The middle-aged woman sighed: "This kid, Grova...his sister is fine, but she is sick and not in a good condition, so I don't want him to see her. After two more days of recuperation, his sister recovered from her illness and went back. "

"Can't we let them meet first?" Ding Qin asked, tilting her head.

"It's not necessary, she will be fine in two days, and then I won't worry about Grova anymore." The middle-aged woman said.She moved away from the door and said to the two: "Since you have found her, you can come and see her."

Ding Qin and Bai Hong followed her into the courtyard, and the middle-aged woman led them along the gravel path not far away, then walked out from the edge of the path, and entered the apricot grove from the shaded land without a path.Although I don't know where the gravel path leads, it certainly won't be the place that the Xinglin Formation really wants to protect.

The middle-aged woman led the two of them back and forth through the formation, not afraid that the two of them would write down the path.This kind of formation will change the path. If you don't understand the changes in the formation, you will only be trapped next time you use the path you wrote down this time to walk in.

"Is this a place dedicated to taking care of patients?" Ding Qin asked.

"Yes, I know some medical skills. If someone in the village is sick, come to me." The middle-aged woman said.

While talking, the three of them walked out of Xinglin and came to a small courtyard.The small courtyard was kept clean, and there was a burst of medicinal fragrance.A young boy was sitting in the yard grinding medicine, and when he saw a middle-aged woman, he muttered something in "feeler" language.

The middle-aged woman walked over to look at the medicine he was grinding, then turned her head and pointed to a room for Ding Qin and Bai Hong: "Gemawa is in that room, she can speak official words. I have something to do, you go in by yourself. "

Seeing Ding Qin and Bai Hong nodding their heads, she lowered her head to guide the young man grinding the medicine.

It was a very small room, not so much a single room, but a small space separated by bamboo and wood partitions, in which there was only room for a low couch, a small table, and a low stool , on a small table stood a lamp, a jug and a basket of apricots.A small window was opened near the wall, and a small pot of wild flowers was placed in the window, its leaves and petals stretching wantonly in the morning sun.

Gemawa stood by the window with her head turned towards the door.She had heard the movement at the door before, and knew that these two people were looking for her.

The room is so small that it can be seen clearly at a glance, Ding Qin didn't deliberately look at it, her eyes only paused indistinctly on the lamp on the table, then looked at Gemawa, smiled friendlyly at her, and said: "You good."

Bai Hong tilted his head to look at her. Gemawa is not tall, but she is very strong. There are signs of cultivation on her body. If you only look at her figure, she is a strong and plump girl, but she is not fat. She has round arms and waist The legs are full of powerful muscles.But her complexion didn't match such a healthy figure - her complexion was too pale, even the color of her lips was very pale, which was a sign of weak Qi and blood.

She was indeed an invalid, and her arm was wrapped in a white cotton cloth.Bai Hong sniffed, the smell of ointment in the air was used to treat trauma.

The end point of the tracking technique issued through Growa's breath is falling on her, and she is indeed Growa's sister.

"Who are you?" Gemawa asked.

"We passed by here by chance, and now we are guests in the village." Ding Qin took out the animal tooth bell that Growa gave them, and explained to Gemawa the reason for coming to her.

Gemawa's expression was a little touched, and she sighed: "I'm sorry to trouble you, I'll be home in two days."

"Growa thought you were missing in the woods outside, and has been very worried. You seem to be in good condition now, why don't you go back?" Ding Qin asked.

"I'll go back after two days when I'm fully recovered. Don't let him know that I'm sick." Gemawa said.

She was serious, she was not forced, and the reason for not going back was the same as the middle-aged woman said, but this explanation was too far-fetched.Because he was sick and afraid that his younger brother would worry, so he kept his younger brother from seeing him, even if he thought his sister was missing, how could there be such an arrangement?Wouldn't it be worse to be missing than to be sick?

But Ding Qin didn't press the question.Gemawa wasn't the only one who didn't want Grova to see her, all the adults in the village thought so.They should not be targeting Glova, but targeting every child in the village.There could only be one reason for them to do this: Gemawa's "illness" hides some kind of secret, and they don't want Grova to find out, so they can't come back until she recovers.This is a secret that all the adults in the village know, but they don't want the children in the village to know.As outsiders, Ding Qin and Bai Hong would not be willing to let them know.

"Did you suffer from a trauma? Did you encounter a monster while going out?" Bai Hong asked, his upturned eyes fell on Gemawa's arm wrapped in fine cotton.

"Yeah, it's not serious." Gemawa looked down at her arms, unable to see her expression clearly, she moved her shoulders, "It's almost healed. There are more and more monsters in the forest recently."

Bai Hong didn't ask any more questions, Ding Qin took the conversation and chatted with Ge Mawa for a few more words.

Gemawa hesitated before the two were about to say goodbye, and begged: "I'll be going back right away, these two days... Please help me comfort Grova, don't let him worry about my injury."

Seeing that the two agreed, Gemawa looked down at the animal tooth bell, her expression softened a lot, and she handed the bell back to Ding Qin: "Please save it for him for two days, and I will give it to him when I go back. This bell ...It was the animal teeth that Aniang hunted and polished herself, and he and I are alone, he is a treasure." But he was willing to give it to others in order to find Gemawa.

"I will keep it." Ding Qin replied.

On the way to leave, the same middle-aged woman led the two of them through the apricot forest.

Bai Hong suddenly said: "Your official language is very good."

The middle-aged woman smiled: "I went out to live for a long time when I was young, and then I came back to the village."

"Have you studied medicine outside?" Bai Hong asked again.

"Did you see those utensils?" The middle-aged woman smiled and admitted generously, "Yes, I learned a lot when I was traveling outside."

In addition to the unique medical equipment in the village, there are many medical skills inherited from outsiders in the courtyard.

The road of Xinglin Formation is not long, just at this moment, the road when they went out and the road when they came in have changed.The three of them didn't chat for long before they saw the fence with pink and yellow flower vines again.

After returning to her room, Ding Qin looked through the basket that Grova had brought earlier.There is no shortage of food in the village, but the difference between intention and carelessness can still be seen.A small stack of half-palm-sized noodle cakes, light yellow and soft, baked with fermented flour, wrapped in large leaves that have been washed.The berries are crushed and boiled into a thick purple-red sauce, which is served in small clay pots.Several hard-boiled eggs, three kinds of shredded or diced pickles, and a small vat of thick miscellaneous rice porridge, the porridge oil on the top is translucent milky white.

Ding Qin sighed slightly.How should I tell Glover?Tell him first that his sister's life is safe?

"If you want to find out the problems in the village early, why not use this as an entry point." Bai Hong said.

Ding Qin was taken aback.

"Ge Luowa is very smart and very sensitive. And his bloodline supernatural powers." Bai Hong stretched his legs and leaned on the chair and said, "No matter what the secrets in the village are, they don't want the children We know it, but we don't guard it as closely as we do."

Ding Qin understood what Bai Hong meant.As long as he showed some flaws when talking with Grova, he would be able to see the problem and find the apricot forest.But, do you want to use Grova...

"If you don't want to, you can take your time." Bai Hong said.

They were not in a hurry to find out anything. God said that this was an abandoned bureau, which meant that there was no danger and no impact. Finding out the truth was just to solve the confusion.

Ding Qin took a deep breath, nodded and said, "Let's take it slowly."

If Growa is used, no matter what the result is, it will break the environment that the people in the village want to maintain—the secrets that the adults want to hide will be exposed to the children.That's not necessarily a good thing.

"Let's go to the lake in the center of the village and have a look." Ding Qin said.

Growa and his sister are the only clues they have so far. If you don't start from here, it will inevitably be more difficult to explore the secrets in the village.They saw the lamp in the Xinglin courtyard, and the middle-aged woman admitted that she had been away from the village for a long time and learned a lot from outside.Ding Qin was spying on karma at high altitude before, and once saw a figure that had a strong karma connection with Changpu and Changpu's master, which made her inevitably think of the Lantern Sect.But the lamp is not a rare thing, and it is daytime now, the lamp is not lit, so they have no way of judging whether the middle-aged woman has really learned the methods of the lamp teaching, and whether this is related to the secrets in the village.

In the phantom she saw last night, the strange beast that was suspected to be a totem was above the center of the village, and the center of the village happened to be the lake that gathered the water from the entire valley.Dawu took the two of them to the lake this morning, but because of the time, they just passed by like a superficial touch.The village does not prohibit the two from approaching the lake, but there are other requirements: "You can fetch water from the lake, use it for drinking water, cleaning, etc., but you must take the water out before you can use it. Wash in the lake, and you can’t throw anything into the lake, even a stone. There are fish in the lake, but you can’t catch them.” When Dawu said these words again, he was very serious, “This is the holy lake in our hearts. It is the most important place, so you must not do disrespectful things, otherwise, it will not be a matter of expulsion from the village, and you will become our eternal enemies."

This lake is not too big. Several small streams flow into the lake from different directions. These streams come from the marshes on the outer edge of the valley, and all of them flow into the lake. You can only see them in and out, but there is no water around the lake. The traces of flooding, the water that flowed into the lake did not know where it went, the lake seemed to maintain such a height forever, and the water did not see the water fall and the water rise.

The water from the swamp is not so clean, but after it flows into the lake, it becomes very clean, transparent and flawless, and you can clearly see the pebbles and algae at the bottom of the lake. Like a fine jasper.

The sky is blue and transparent, with a few wisps of thin clouds floating leisurely, and the lakeside is open, and there are no strange places.If what Ding Qin saw last night is true, then the anomaly must exist in the lake.

But the lake water does not cover the sight any more than the air, as long as the eyes can reach it, one can directly see the bottom of the lake clearly.

This in itself is an anomaly. How can an ordinary lake see nowhere for the water to flow, neither rise nor fall, and be stirred by streams, yet be as smooth as a mirror, with little clarity?

Bai Hong bent down and scooped up some lake water, put it in his mouth to taste, it was cool and sweet, comparable to the best spring water.The action of scooping up the lake water caused a few ripples on the surface of the lake, and soon calmed down.

Ding Qin stared at the ripples that quickly disappeared, and suddenly her eyes froze.

"What's wrong?" Bai Hong asked.

"When the lake water fluctuates..." Ding Qin also squatted down, scooped out a little lake water, and stared at the ripples.

The ripples dissipated quickly, calming down faster than normal ripples, but Ding Qin still caught the fleeting blood on the ripples.

"...blood." Bai Hong also noticed this time, and she raised her eyebrows.

After the lake water left the lake, it became pure and sweet. Bai Hong had already tasted it himself, and there was no trace of blood in it. They were only hidden in the lake, and the lake water scooped out did not bring out blood.But when the blood energy was in the lake, it was hidden so well that it would only be slightly exposed when the lake water fluctuated.It seems that the strange calm of this lake is a means of concealment.

It seems that the more the calmness of the lake is broken, the more secrets in the lake will be exposed.However, Dawu had warned him not to do any means that could cause large fluctuations in the lake water.If you don't want to fall out with the village...

Ding Qin stared at the lake surface, the water surface has returned to calm, and the flash of blood on it has disappeared.But she still grasped what she saw at that moment - just like the blood that hangs over the village, the blood in the lake is also uniquely blood, but without any trace of resentment or viciousness.

"What do you want to do?" Bai Hong didn't make the decision for her.

"Let's go and have a look in the woods." Ding Qin turned around and murmured, "Since I promised Grova to help him find his sister in the woods, I must go and have a look."

Bai Hong smiled: "Then let's go to the woods and have a look."

When she and Ding Qin walked out of the village, they were not stopped. People's eyes followed, some were curious, and some had spread the news.

It is not easy to use hands on the open grass pond, until you have passed the boundary line between the grass pond and the woodland, and gradually deepened to the place where the trees will hide your body five feet apart, and there are rustling sounds all around. .

This sound is often heard in the woods, and it is the sound of the animals that live in this swamp.They have their own way of survival, and people often only hear the sound, but cannot see the figure.

Animals are not the only ones who can make this kind of sound.

The two girls seemed unaware that they had deviated from the path opened by the "Feeler" and entered a more dangerous and darker place in the forest.There was a smile on Baihong's face, and there was a deep meaning in his raised eyes.

They were brought into the village by Dawu. Dawu was respected in the village, but he was not the only one in the village.In this village, there is a hidden disharmony.

No matter what the other side wants to do, it's not easy to do it in the stockade.Only by going outside can those people have a chance to do it, and they can grasp new clues.