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The monkey's cry just now obviously attracted the attention of others.After such a delay, Ye Mu has already heard the sound of approaching footsteps.He stooped down again, and quickly walked in another direction under the cover of the shadow of the house.

The owner of the footsteps was not slow to catch up, Ye Mu heard the hurried footsteps of that person running.He strode around the corner before the man could get close.

When the villager came after him and turned the corner, there was no one in sight.The burly middle-aged man looked around suspiciously with a pitchfork in his hand, and talked to the villagers in the nearby courtyard who heard the sound and came out to check, and walked away in a vain manner.

Ye Mu hid in a certain family's house, looking at the situation outside from the crack of the window.Looking at the man thoughtfully, it seemed that he was not reconciled, and wandered around for a while, before giving up and leaving.

With him restraining his whereabouts, this man too quickly determined the direction of his departure.This kind of vigilance is not common among ordinary villagers.Ye Mu took note of his physical features carefully.

After the man left, Ye Mu changed to another secluded place and summoned Zhufeng.

After being called out, the fiery red horse was about to bark a few times as usual when Ye Mu patted his neck lightly.Realizing that the environment was wrong, Zhufeng looked around, stopped his voice vigilantly, paced lightly on the spot, shook his mane, probed over, and arched Ye Mu's hand affectionately.Immediately afterwards, he seemed to smell something, snorted suspiciously, and stretched his head to sniff Ye Mu's arms.

Ye Mu pushed away the horse's head approaching with one hand, and took out the red fruit in a glass bottle from his bosom with the other hand, and asked, "Zhufeng, do you know what kind of fruit this is?"

The red horse looked at the glass bottle and whispered "Yu Yu".

[Current] Chasing the Wind: Does the master not recognize it?This is lark fruit.

Bailing fruit.The name already revealed enough information.

Ye Mu didn't have this thing in his package or warehouse, no wonder he didn't recognize it.But the purpose of this item, as long as it is a player of "Wolf Smoke", almost everyone does not know.After all, it is an indispensable item in the Wanling system, which is a major feature of the game.

As the online time elapses or the player's crime value increases, the spiritual objects that signed the contract will gradually reduce their favorability.When the favorability is zero, the natal spirit cannot be used, and the companion spirit will automatically cancel the contract.Lark fruit is the only item in the game that can be used to feed spirits and directly increase the favorability of spirits.

Considering the difference between the game and the real world, Ye Mu asked about the specific situation carefully.According to Zhufeng, this fruit can increase the strength of spirits, even if ordinary animals eat it, it will be beneficial.Didn't notice anything special about it.

He promised to help Zhufeng get a few more larkspur fruits when he had the opportunity, but Ye Mu recalled it, and he had a plan in mind.

The fruit was apparently stolen by the monkey from the villagers, and judging from its freshness, it was picked not long ago.Judging from the surrounding environment, it should be artificially planted.I just don't know if this artificial planting is just a coincidence or intentional.

The lark fruit reminded him of another thing.He rarely used the All Souls system in the game, so when he summoned Jialuo, he didn't think of the favorability interface.Right now, it seems that it's best to try to call out and check it out, so as not to add another companion like Qing Guang without knowing it.

Ye Mu tried to think about the combination of several keywords, and saw a list of messages flashed on the information bar.

Native Spirit: Jialuo Race: Dapeng Favorability: 45

Companion Spirit: Qingguang Race: Butterfly Spirit Favorability: 0

Companions: none

Companions: none

The bright and bold blue favorability number "0" looks particularly eye-catching.

——Perhaps, this is the reason why Qingguang didn't care much about this accompanying contract.

Although I don't know why the contract is still not automatically terminated when the favorability is 0, but as one of the six spirits, it must not be difficult for Qingguang to use this system rule to terminate the contract.

Ye Mu originally regarded the contractual relationship with Qingguang as a transaction, and after figuring out the key points, he put the matter aside for the time being.He continued to set off to investigate the situation in the village, this time focusing on the vegetable fields in the yards, and he found something strange.Some people are very concerned about the vegetable fields in the yard, not only locking the yard door tightly, even if there is no one in the yard, there must be people sitting by the indoor windows, and they will look into the yard from time to time.After Ye Mu diverted the attention of others, he took the opportunity to sneak in and take a look. He found a plant with immature green larkspur hanging in the field.

In addition, in the middle of the village, there is a large piece of abrupt clearing that seems to have been purposely cleared. In the middle of a thick wooden stake stands a human figure made of numerous white bones and colorful coarse cloth. The huge skull of some kind of creature, and a necklace made of skulls hung around the neck of the human figure, exuding a sinister and weird atmosphere.From time to time, the villagers who passed by stopped to worship this unpleasant witch image, muttering their blessings in their mouths, with a devout and fanatical expression.Ye Mu took a few glances at the witch statue, only to feel an inexplicable familiarity, but searched his memory but found nothing.

Not far from the open space, there is an extraordinarily large courtyard. The high stone walls block all prying eyes. It can be seen from the map that there are many people inside, and there are two people at the closed courtyard door. Strong men stood on both sides, like guards.There was a man in the courtyard saying something with a very provocative voice, and every time the voice fell, some voices responded one after another.Ye Mu listened for a while outside the wall, but he was talking about the various benefits of "Natural Selection".Such as "Hundred Evils Don't Invade", "Fate Blesses" and so on.Combined with the villagers' reverence for the witch statue, Ye Mu understood that the people in this village are probably believers of the natural selection religion, but they don't know what the relationship between the natural selection religion and the demons is.

Finding yourself among a tribe of cannibals is not a wonderful experience.He continued to listen patiently, filtering out those meaningless exclamations and exaggerated descriptions, and the three words mentioned in the man's words caught his attention.

"Holy Son", "Holy Beast" and "Holy Fruit".

According to the man, the Holy Son was given by God, and he possessed a vision to convey the will of God and save people from suffering.The holy beast is the servant of the Son, protecting people from the killing of demons.The holy fruit is the fruit of the sky brought by the Holy Son. Even the dirty land can grow. If you plant it with a pious heart and offer the fruit as a sacrifice to heaven, the land that has been planted with the holy fruit can be replanted. Food is coming.

According to what the man said, this "holy son" was recalled because of the longing of heaven and man after guiding them to this "paradise", and would come again when the church encountered danger.Ye Mu doesn't believe this nonsense, but at this time, it may be difficult to detect the true face of this "holy son".The so-called "sacred fruit" Ye Mu pondered that it might be related to this "lark fruit", and the "sacred beast" guarding the village——

As it goes deeper into the village, the surrounding buildings gradually become dilapidated and ancient, losing the breath of human life.In these buildings, there is hardly a house that is still in good condition, and the ruined houses are scattered, forming a silent and huge ruin.Those wooden doors were either completely decayed or crumbled and piled up at the door. Through the empty windows, one could vaguely see the tattered curtains hanging in the room.The wild grasses that had grown wildly had all withered under the erosion of the demonic energy, maintaining the posture of growing at the last moment, stretching their teeth and claws between the earth and rocks on the wall, or stretching out their branches to the sky, burying the original road in large clumps .

Between the seemingly abandoned buildings and dead weeds, there is a path that was obviously trampled by people.After walking a certain distance, the terrain suddenly opened up, and an extraordinarily wide wasteland with no grass appeared in front of him. The soil under his feet changed from a faint black red to a thick black like ink.

There was some noise on the far side of the road, Ye Mu stopped, activated the illusion to hide in the distance, and saw several men pushing the wheelbarrows towards the wasteland, and the cars were full of huge oval-shaped dust The black stones made the wheels creak under the weight.

Those men stopped on the wasteland, dumped the stones and piled them together, and began to tightly bind some strange-shaped leather protective gear on their bodies, and covered their faces tightly with thick cloth, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and the forehead A cloth belt was tied on it.Immediately, they each carried a stone to the edge of the wasteland and put it down, keeping a distance from each other.After shouting to each other a few times, they pulled out their sharp knives and stabbed at the stone in unison. At the same time, they quickly pulled down the cloth band on their foreheads to cover their eyes.

The sharp knife pierced into the stone easily, and at the same time, there was an invisible wave in the air, and Ye Mu's eyes went dark, as if he heard the sharp wailing of countless lives dying.

He stabilized his mind and found that the surroundings were quiet, and those wailing sounds were just illusions.But then, in front of his eyes, the originally silent stones on the wasteland suddenly rolled up and exploded, and countless translucent bright red tentacles spewed out, instantly sweeping and flooding the entire wasteland, waving and whipping the ground. Then tremble faintly.This shaking wave lasted less than a minute before it was dead silent, but because of the astonishing momentum, it seemed that the time was extraordinarily long.

After the tentacle stopped moving, it lost its color at an extremely fast speed, turning gray and withered, like burnt charcoal or winter snow under the scorching sun, melting on the ground.The wasteland soon became empty again.Where the stones were originally piled up, a pile of scarlet flesh was left behind.Ye Mu recognized at a glance that this was exactly what was cooked by the many pots and stoves in the square that was similar to the cooking place of demons.At that time, he had looked at it carefully, but he really couldn't identify the source, but it turned out to be like this.

Those men piled the meatballs back on the trolley, and walked away along the way they came.Only then did Ye Mu appear, approaching the open space cautiously, and looked around.This clearing looks the same as before, nothing is left behind, but the color of the land seems to be a little darker.Ye Mu didn't stay here either, and walked into the path where those men came.

——He had a vague feeling that there were some important secrets hidden in this weird human village built next to the demon camp.