This Damned Thirst for Survival

Jiang Luo quickly ran back to Shentu Village with the stolen statue heart.

Shentu Village has changed. There are figures in twos and threes everywhere in the village, but these figures are not human beings, but paper figurines wearing human clothes.

The appearance of the paper figurines is so realistic that it can almost be mistaken for the real one.Looking around, the entire Shentu Village is full of such paper dolls, and there are not many living ones.

Jiang Luo ran quickly past the paper figurines, and his corner of the eye glanced over them.

The villagers who met once have all turned into paper dolls, including the village head, the parents of the little girl in red, and even two contestants who were replaced by paper dolls. More than 200 paper figurines.

After Jiang Luo set fire to the underground paper figurines, the paper figurines on the ground seemed to have lost their vitality and returned to their original state in an instant. In a village of more than 300 people, there were only dozens of living people left in a blink of an eye. The sudden shock shocked the contestants, and they quickly notified the staff.

Jiang Luo took a quick look around, then ran to the mountain to find Wen Renlian and the others.

Except for Kuang Zheng who went to the hospital with Lu Yiyi on his back, the rest of them were still waiting for him by the entrance of the cave. Counting an hour, they almost couldn't resist jumping into the cave.Fortunately, Jiang Luo came in time, Jiang Luo didn't bother to explain, "Find me a rock first, and block the entrance of this hole."

A group of people moved a huge boulder to block the entrance of the cave. Jiang Luo wiped off his sweat and looked up. Everyone's eyes were focused on his legs.

"What happened to you?" Ge Zhu pointed to his trousers, "Why are the trousers torn."

Jiang Luo looked down and saw that there was still half of the trouser leg left. He simply tore off the other half of the trouser leg and changed the overalls into knee-length shorts. problem occurs."

The group of people walked down the mountain quickly without further delay.

Under the mountain, the staff and the police have entered Shentu Village.

The paper figurines in the village looked at Ge Zhu and the others with horror, "These people...why have they all turned into paper figurines?"

Jiang Luo briefly explained the reason to them.

Zhuo Zhongqiu couldn't help but shuddered, "So the people who chatted with us were all paper figurines?"

Ge Zhu's face was livid, "The food we ate...was also made by paper dolls."

The staff members are dealing with the issue of Shentu Village. Their expressions are very serious. This time the incident obviously exceeded the expectations of the competition party. The staff members are too busy to manage the remaining contestants and determine the number of remaining contestants. After that, he and the police began to search Shentu Village on a large scale.

Jiang Luo and the others also went up to help, holding a small book to register the list of the remaining living people in Shentu Village.

The little girl in red that he and Lu Yi had met was on this list.

There are a total of 311 people in Shentu Village, but only 36 of them were alive at the end of the count.Among them, the beautiful girls who were sacrificed to the gods accounted for the vast majority, and the others were all paper figurines that had been replaced.

The village chief's son, Wang Qian, was also alive. When the village chief turned into a paper doll, he was eating with his parents.But while he was eating, his parents didn't move their chopsticks. Wang Qian was puzzled. When he looked up from the rice bowl, he saw two paper men in red and green looking at him with strange smiles.

Wang Qian's heart stopped suddenly, he couldn't speak, he let out a scream instinctively, and ran out of the house scrambling.

When I went out of the house, I saw that the villagers coming and going on the street turned into lifelike paper figurines.

When Jiang Luo went to count Wang Qian's information, Wang Qian was already a little delirious. He held the hot water poured for him by the staff, his lips trembled, his eyes were dull, and he kept repeating: "They have become paper people, they Turned into a paper man..."

The face of the staff who asked for the news was not very good. Jiang Luo turned the pen and nodded his chin, "What should I do?"

"Let's invite Master Chengde to calm the minds of these people later," the staff said with a worried look, "The difficulty of this level has exceeded our expectations."

Jiang Luo thought in his heart, you don't know that there is a living god statue underground.

He touched the oval stone heart on his body without any trace.

After separating from Chi You, this stone heart never beat again.But Jiang Luo can be sure that the beating heart he felt and the picture he saw before are definitely not his hallucinations.

Jiang Luo didn't intend to reveal the existence of this heart to anyone, he decided to hide it privately.

If this heart can really let him see Chi You's past, then Jiang Luo can't let go no matter what.He wants to know what happened to Chi You more than anyone else, wants to know Chi You's secrets, and Chi You's weaknesses.

Such a thought is enough for him to risk his heart.

Later, the judges and teachers also came to the scene.Jiang Luo saw Feng Li in the crowd at a glance, and Feng Li's eyes scanned the crowd. After seeing him, he scanned Jiang Luo up and down, and his expression eased a little.

It has to be said that the sense of peace these judges and teachers bring to the contestants and staff is unparalleled.After they arrived, the scene gradually calmed down.Soon, the contestants were gathered and prepared to focus on answering.

Jiang Luo sorted out his thoughts, omitted the part where Chi You participated, and wrote the experience of Shentu Village on paper.

Shentu Village is located in a remote place. There are locust trees in front of the village, surrounded by hills on both sides, and there are many graveyards but barren. It is a so-called place for gathering shade.

There is a god statue enshrined here, but the god statue has self-awareness. The god statue wants to change from a dead thing to a living thing, so it confuses the villagers to come to worship and weave a false dream about longevity for the villagers.

But the idol not only needs the sacrifice of the girl, he also needs the ghost.Under the guidance of the god statue, the villagers either hanged themselves or drowned, and the souls that could not be reincarnated became the nourishment for the god statue to come back to life.

The hanged ghost that Jiang Luo saw on the big pagoda tree in front of the village was also one of the villagers who was coaxed by the statue to hang himself.

Jiang Luo wrote three full pages before finishing everything.

Once the contestants have filled out their answers, there's nothing else to do.Jiang Luo and Wen Renlian squatted next to each other and smoked a cigarette. On the way, they saw the judge teacher from Chi's family furiously come out to find the staff.

The judges of the Chi family were full of anger, and as a respected senior in the circle, they shattered to the ground with roars.

Jiang Luo turned his head and asked Wen Renlian beside him, "Why did he lose his temper so much?"

"In this competition, two contestants have turned into paper figurines," Wen Ren shook the cigarette ash. "One is He Zhi, and the other is from the Chi family."

Jiang Luo raised his eyebrows, "Chi You's collateral?"

Wen Renlian nodded and sighed, "This is the first time I've seen a dead person from Chi You's family."

Jiang Luo didn't expect that the person who died was a member of the Chi family's collateral lineage. He looked at the chaotic scene, vaguely, and wondered if the death of Chi You's collateral lineage had something to do with Chi You?

In the hallucination, the words spoken by the young Chi You rang in his ears: the Chi family perishes, the curse disappears, and the metaphysics world falls together.

A bright script of the Great Demon King.

Does he want to be a tyrant in the metaphysics world?

The judge teacher of the Chi family didn't make a fuss for long, and returned to the judge's room with a dark face.

The other five judges are looking at the contestants' answers.

Each answer needs to be graded by six teachers one by one.The National College Student Natural Science Contest, except that the content is different from ordinary competitions, is very similar to other competitions. In order to make the results fair, the six judges and teachers all have the same judgment criteria, and the scoring system is based on a perfect score. A scoring gap of more than three points.

After seeing the members of the Chi family coming in, the judge teacher of the Qi family was the first to ask concerned: "Brother Zhongye, how are you doing? Have you found your child?"

There were dark clouds on Chi Zhongye's face, "Something happened to him."

The judges of the Qi family asked in surprise, "What happened?"

Chi Zhongye sat on his seat with a sullen face, and the judges of the Qi family wanted to ask again, Feng Li frowned, tapped the table twice with his finger bones, "Let's get down to business first."

The judges of the Qi family responded with a good voice, and said in a low voice: "Brother Zhongye, there are many cases where contestants have accidents in the competition. You are uncomfortable, but don't make any accidents now, or you will not look good."

If words could be engraved on the face, then Chi Zhongye's head would definitely have the words "bullying the weak and fearing the hard".There was no need for the judges of the Qi family to persuade him. After Feng Li finished speaking, he cheered up and forced a smile, "Don't worry, let's show these answer sheets first."

After half an hour, the results of the contestants will be counted.

But what is surprising is that this year's No.1 has two people with the same results.

One is Jiang Luo, and the other is Liao Si, a descendant of the Liao family, a corpse exorcist in western Hunan.

Zhuo Zhengyu worried: "What should I do?"

"The answers from both of them are clear and well-organized," Master Cheng De pondered, "Call these two students over to have a look?"

"Why bother?" Chi Zhongye interjected, "Isn't this kid named Jiang Luo a disciple of Feng Tianshi? For such a powerful figure as Tianshi, the disciple must be hiding his secrets. Let him be number one."

Master Cheng De looked at Feng Li, "What does the Heavenly Master think?"

Feng Li's face was calm, he looked down at the two answer sheets of Jiang Luo and Liao Si on the table, and calculated them with his fingers without any trace. After the calculation result was good, he said slowly: "Go and call them. bring it on."

Jiang Luo and Liao Si soon came to the judging room.

After learning that the scores were the same, Jiang Luo glanced at Liao Si.

He learned of the underground secrets of Shentu Village because of his own exploration. He was curious, how did Liao Si know this?

The judges also asked this question, and Liao Si smiled slightly, "Every teacher also knows that I am a descendant of the corpse exorcist in Xiangxi. I drove the corpses in Shentu Village to find these clues for me."

This is indeed a flawless reason.

Liao Si coughed and continued weakly: "I am not in good health, so I can only use this method. Fortunately, I am lucky to get such good results."

Zhuo Zhengyu felt that this matter was a bit difficult to handle, so he simply handed over the problem to the two of them, "You have the same score now, but No.1 can only have one person. How about this, what else can you say that was not written on the answer sheet Is it a bonus point? As long as you add one point more than the opponent, you will win."

Jiang Luo thought for a moment, and Liao Si said in a warm voice: "I found that there are two guardians beside the statue, one is a living dead person, and the other is a man wearing a fox mask."

Jiang Luo immediately turned his head and looked at Liao Si coldly.

Liao Si noticed his gaze, smiled embarrassedly at Jiang Luo, and said softly, "Jiang Luo, that living dead man came to look for you and Lu Yi, did you forget?"

Jiang Luo didn't write about the statue's left and right guardians in the answer sheet, and the same was true for other people in Baihua University.They didn't reveal the existence of the dead ghost in the answer sheet, but Jiang Luo never expected that Liao Si would say this here.

"Living dead?" Zhuo Zhengyu frowned, and said slightly sternly, "Jiang Luo, is there such a thing?"

Jiang Luo looked at Liao Si fixedly, and suddenly laughed slowly.

Liao Si suddenly had a bad feeling.

The corners of Jiang Luo's lips were raised, not stained with any haze, and the contagious power of his smile made others relax, wanting to laugh along with him, "Student Liao Si, what is a living dead?"

He also pursed his lips in embarrassment and smiled, "I'm sorry, you also know that I used to be a bit of a fool... I don't like studying very much, and I haven't heard of the word 'living dead'."

"If a living dead came to me and Lu Yi, why didn't classmate Liao tell me?" He sighed regretfully, his brows and eyes full of pity, "I haven't seen what a living dead looks like."

Liao Si twitched his eyebrows.

The atmosphere in the judge's room changed subtly. Zhuo Zhengyu looked at Liao Si with suspicion.

Liao Siben became curious about Jiang Luo because of Chi You's sentence "Jiang Luo can't do it", and wanted to test Jiang Luo, but who knew that the other party hadn't been tricked, so he made him feel ashamed instead.

But Liao Si is not an ordinary person, he said without changing his face: "It should be that the night is too late, I misread."

"No, I believe in the judgment of the descendants of the exorcist," Jiang Luo said, "Student Liao, when the living dead came to me and Lu Yi, were Lu Yi and I really there? What about the others? Are they there? Maybe I didn't recognize one of them as the living dead, but it's impossible and impossible for the others to recognize them all."

But of course, people from Baihua University would not say that they had seen the living dead. Liao Si wiped the sweat from his forehead, and suddenly coughed earth-shatteringly.

He coughed, and Jiang Luo didn't feel comfortable asking him any more.He advanced and retreated authentically: "Forget it, this is just a trivial matter. Student Liao, you have to pay attention to your body."

Liao Si said weakly, "Thank you, Student Jiang, for your concern."

People in poor health will always arouse sympathy from others, but after this experience, the judges who were soft on Liao Si also hardened their hearts.Zhuo Zhengyu looked at Jiang Luo, "Jiang Luo, do you have any extra points that you haven't written yet?"

Jiang Luo thought for a while, "There are two more things I haven't written down."

Master Cheng De kindly encouraged: "Good boy, what is it?"

Jiang Luo smiled cautiously, "People in the village will become paper dolls because I burned a forest of paper dolls underground. In addition, I also found a female poisonous tail in a pond underground. The blood of the scorpion."

Liao Si was taken aback, and looked at Jiang Luo in disbelief.

It's the owner's stuff, how dare he just say that!

It's also good that the teacher's expression was as shocked as he was, which kept Liao Si from revealing himself.Zhuo Zhengyu gasped even more, and asked, "What? A pond of blood from a female poison-tailed scorpion?!"

Jiang Luo nodded affirmatively.

The judges and teachers looked at each other, and Master Chengde said softly: "Okay, you go out first."

Jiang Luo and Liao Si walked out of the room side by side. Liao Si smiled wryly and said, "Jiang Luo, birds died for food, and people died for wealth. Sorry, I also want Yuan Tianzhu."

"It's okay," Jiang Luo smiled instead, his attitude seemed the same as before, "I understand."

After 10 minutes, the results came out.Unsurprisingly, Jiang Luo became No. 1. Amidst the sound of congratulations, the group got into the car. After four hours of bumpy rides, they finally settled down in a simple hotel in a small town.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and night was about to fall.There was no air conditioner in the hotel, and Jiang Luo was sweating all over. Taking advantage of the hot water, he took a good shower and thoroughly washed away the dust from the previous two days.After he came out of the bathroom, Feng Li sent someone to call him.

Jiang Luo casually put on some clothes, and went to find Feng Li covered in damp.

Knocking on the door, Feng Li's cold voice sounded: "Come in."

Jiang Luo pushed open the door and walked in.As soon as he entered, he felt a coolness hit his face, which was more comfortable and low temperature than turning on the air conditioner.Jiang Luo squinted his eyes in comfort, looked around the room, and saw an upside-down white porcelain bowl in the corner.

At the bottom of the white porcelain bowl is a horizontal chopstick. At the junction of the mouth of the bowl and the ground, there is white mist and cold air overflowing from it, like a piece of ice that is continuously cooling down.

Ever since he came to this world, Jiang Luo has been familiar with this unscientific method, but seeing it now is still a novelty.Feng Li saw his eyes and said calmly, "Is your room hot?"

Jiang Luo nodded, "Not only is it hot, it's also dry and dry."

"I'll ask your senior brother to help you get a bowl of ice water in the room," Feng Li said, "Come here, sit down and talk."

Jiang Luo sat in front of the desk, Feng Li was about to speak, but saw his dripping wet hair, frowned and said, "Why don't you dry your hair?"

"I came to see you before I had time," Jiang Luo said indifferently, "It will dry after a while."

Feng Li didn't like it, so he got up and found a dry towel and put it on Jiang Luo's head. Jiang Luo pulled the towel to his shoulders, looked sideways, and found that Feng Li was still standing beside him and did not leave.

Jiang Luo was surprised: "Master?"

Feng Li no longer cared about his wet hair, stretched out his slender hand, and reached for Jiang Luo's collar.

Gently pulling down the collar with one finger, the dark-haired young man's collarbone was exposed. Feng Li looked down, "The life-saving talisman is not used."

Hearing this, Jiang Luo twirled the black hair on one side of his shoulder to the other side so that Feng Li could study the life-saving talisman on his body, "Although it was dangerous, it was considered safe, not to the point of a close call."

Feng Li let go, and returned to his seat thoughtfully.

Jiang Luo yawned, "Master, what can you do for me?"

Feng Li came back to his senses, took out a box from the drawer, and put it in front of Jiang Luo, "This is the prize of the competition, Yuan Tianzhu."

Jiang Luo immediately felt relieved. He took the box in his hand, opened it, and found a transparent bead in the middle of the box, exuding a faint icy aura.

This familiar feeling was exactly the same as that of the Yuan Tianzhu in the owner's hand.

Jiang Luo held the bead in his hand, and the tentacle felt like touching a piece of ice.The texture is as fine as jade, and under the silvery white light, it seems to dissipate in the air at any time.

Jiang Luo stared at the bead intently, and fell in love with the color, "Master, what exactly is Yuan Tianzhu?"

Feng Li said: "I'll talk to you when I get back."

Jiang Luo came back to his senses, put Yuan Tianzhu back into the box, and smiled at Feng Li, "Okay."

Feng Li looked at the tiredness on his face and said, "Okay, let's go back."

Jiang Luo got up to say goodbye, and when the door was about to close, he looked up through the crack of the door.Feng Li sat in the desk, his whole body under the shadow.

His eyes are deep, his Tang suit, the bridge of his nose, and the lines of his side face are slightly darkened, like a plaster statue, motionless and engulfed by the dust of time.

There is an essential, soul-level aloofness and coldness leaking from him.

For a moment, Jiang Luo felt that the one sitting there was not Feng Li, but Chi You.

With a "click", the door was closed.

Jiang Luo stood there for a moment, then turned around slowly, and walked towards his room.

After a few steps, a thin layer of sweat appeared on the tip of his nose.

he thinks.

In the original book, why did Feng Li help Chi You practice revenge?

If Chi You's biggest goal is really to bring down the metaphysics world, how could Feng Li, as the new celestial master, help him?

unless.

Feng Li also became Chi You's puppet.

Or Chi You's new body.

With such a big guess coming to mind, Jiang Luo thought he would feel chills and toss and turn.But he should eat and sleep, and when he could visit the hospital the next day, he went to see Lu Yi with his companions.

Lu Yi was fine, but he was still held in the hospital for a day.One day passed, and he was a lively hero again.

Jiang Luo joked: "Lu Yi, your recovery ability is pretty good."

Lu Youdao: "How can it compare to a dead ghost?"

As soon as the words came out, he glanced around, and cautiously approached Jiang Luo and asked, "Jiang Luo, has the dead ghost been rescued?"

Jiang Luo said: "His name is Teng Bi now."

As soon as Lu heard this, he understood what it meant.It is the dead ghost who is friendly to them and treats them as friends, not the living dead Teng Bi.But now that the dead ghost has become Teng Bi, naturally he is no longer their friend.

Lu Yi fell all the way, and he didn't slow down until he packed his luggage and boarded the plane, and he sighed, "It's fate and nothing."

Jiang Luo slept with his eyes closed, "Okay, let's go to sleep."

In a remote deep-earth village.

In the middle of a deserted mountain, a boulder suddenly trembled twice, and after standing still for two seconds, the boulder trembled violently again.

With a loud bang, the boulder was finally trembling and fell to the ground, revealing a blocked black hole.

A man wrapped in shabby cloth and covered in dust and mud climbed out of the hole.

Holding a big knife in his hand, after climbing to the ground, he looked to the left and right in a little confusion.

"friend……"

But his nose could no longer smell any strangers.