Thriller Trainee

The night sky was the same as the first day they entered the dungeon, dark clouds and gloomy, with no moonlight visible.

Fortunately, it won't rain until tomorrow night, so there won't be any major problems on the first night, so we can take a break for the time being.

The night passed with some trepidation.

Everything that happened before dark was exactly the same as in the last reincarnation.

This time, in full view of everyone, Lao Qiang's body was not hung on the old locust tree, but rather smartly was hung on a different roof. Of course, the miserable circumstances of his death show no signs of changing.

Xu Su was stunned, "This corpse is so smart. Does he know if anyone is watching him?"

In this regard, Zongjiu basically confirmed his idea through this incident.

The team in the Tsuchiya was okay. Everyone had enough to eat and drink, which also diluted the previous nervousness.

Many times, people's confidence and courage have to be obtained from outside. Apart from anything else, the magician's omnipotent attitude, as if he doesn't take anything seriously, also gives them great confidence.

After Lao Qiang's incident is over, there are no events that require special attention tonight.

Zongjiu asked everyone to sleep well and conserve enough energy tomorrow. Not only must they rescue the woman, but they must also fight against the villagers. This is not an easy task.

Xu Sen raised his hand, "Then what exactly will we do tomorrow?"

Zong Jiu touched his chin, "Let's stay outside the house first. If we see the woman, we'll take her away first."

"Once you succeed, retreat to the woods immediately without delay."

Everyone has no objection to this action arrangement.

There are only two known breakthrough points, one is a woman and the other is the Yin Po in the temple.

No one knows what happened that night when the mission failed. All that can be done now is to collect clues quickly to avoid a tragedy like the previous reincarnation.

Early the next morning, before dawn, everyone got up.

Here I have to say that Zhuge An's Tai Chi Bagua Pan is really a good thing. It can attack and defend at the top, and it can ignite fire and estimate the time at the bottom.

At the seventh quarter of Yinshi, the trainees had finished their preparations and filed out of the earthen huts.

The old people who were guarding outside the earthen house and lit a fire imitated them all showed wary eyes when they came out one by one.

After what happened when Murato Sojiu was unwilling to help, the atmosphere between the two teams was now tense. The old people felt that the newcomers had no attitude and were not even willing to help. Now that they saw it, they were even more unwilling to show kindness and snorted coldly.

"Stay hidden. You go and guard around Wang Shou's house first."

Zong Jiu turned around and asked Zhuge An to lead the newcomers first, then turned around and walked towards the other group.

Anthony and others were the first to show bad looks.

"Why are you nervous? I'm not looking for you. I'm looking for senior No. 4."

Zongjiu deliberately bit the word "no. 4" very hard and nodded to Azan in black, "Senior, can I lend you a step?"

Azan in black silently accepted his proposal, turned and walked aside.

Originally, the Old People's Alliance was very loosely organized. Although Azan in black stood with them, he went his own way. The other party was not the kind of person who was petty and vengeful. He didn't take Zongjiu's affairs at the entrance of the village to heart, and the others were even less concerned.

[Ah, they actually want to talk alone! Damn it, why is the live broadcast camera of this instance public?]

[That is, we also want to know what topics the two big guys talked about in private, woo woo woo]

[I feel that S-level seniors are actually quite easy to talk to. I used to think that Azan in black, raising a ghost and shaving his head was scary. Who could have imagined that he turned out to be a good person! 】

After walking aside, Azan in black was the first to speak: "What do you want from me?"

Zongjiu, "It's not a big deal, I just have a guess."

"I heard my senior say before that the piece of Bodhisattva soil in front of the village entrance temple is extremely cold and cold?"

"good."

Azan in black nodded, "The villager once said that any transplanted plant cannot survive because the soil is too cold. But this coldness is not caused by the presence of supernatural beings. , but something inherently cold.”

Things that are naturally yin-cold are just as rare as things that are naturally pure yang. If he had not seen the Bodhisattva soil in Tongbai Village with his own eyes, Azan in black would not have been able to imagine that such pure soil existed in the world without a trace of other cold and cold soil.

"If I have to say..."

He vaguely mentioned, "It is indeed very similar to the methods of the immortal family. Because such soil cannot be born naturally in the world, even yellow spring soil will inevitably have flaws or impurities."

Of course, this conclusion was drawn more because Azan in black felt the feeling of Buddha's light shrouding him in the temple in Tongbai Village. Otherwise, he would not dare to jump to conclusions.

Zongjiu pondered, "Then what should we do if we want plants to grow on this kind of soil?"

The black-clothed Azan replied, "Unless it is a pure sun plant, it can grow without being affected by the cold."

As mentioned before, this probability is so rare that it can be ignored.

Zongjiu decided to ignore this topic for now.

"I still have a question. If a normal person eats this kind of soil for many years, will it have any impact?"

The black-clothed Azan frowned deeply, "Humans are yang, just like soil is yin. If you eat it for many years, it will inevitably cause serious damage to the yang body. If you add external force... it is very likely to achieve a semi-yin physique, and it is not impossible to force the yin and yang eyes to open." "I see." Zong Jiu let out a long breath, "Thank you for your answer. I wonder what you think of the human heart turning into a ghost after hearing these causes and conditions?" Zong Jiu had this guess a long time ago. First, he saw the pupils of the people in the village turn black from time to time, and each time it was only a moment and then quickly recovered. Secondly, when he and Yi Ruisi encountered ghosts in the corridor, the ghost obviously still had room for thinking, and did not directly degenerate into an irrational ghost. Finally, the human heart turning into a ghost is not an isolated case. Similar examples have been recorded in ancient and modern Chinese and foreign strange stories. But perhaps, as the black-clothed Azan said, the required conditions are too harsh. Now, the most demanding condition has been inadvertently met. "If you take Bodhisattva soil for a long time, and then supplement it with evil thoughts, it is indeed very possible."

The black-clothed Azan thought with a frown, "But that requires extremely terrible evil thoughts, not only terrible, but also huge."

He stopped talking halfway.

He had seen how evil the people in this village were. Just the fact that they like to eat human flesh is enough to make people shudder.

As for why the black-clothed Azan kept saying that the people in Tongbai Village had a habit of eating human flesh, rather than eating human flesh when they were forced to do so. It was because he found fresh human flesh soaked in blood in the water tanks of almost every household. Even if some villagers had surplus food, they also had water tanks for human flesh. And when he went to the butcher's house, he found that the butcher's firewood room was full of frozen corpses, and many of them had even the meat on the bones cleaned out, not willing to waste it at all.

The only thing to be thankful for is that there was no resentment on these corpses. They may be ordinary people who died of starvation on the roadside, whose bodies were picked up and whose flesh was cut off and hung for sale. They have not yet reached the point of killing people and cutting their flesh.

If they were killing people and cutting their flesh, the black-clothed Ajaan might have noticed it as soon as they entered the village, and there was no need to wait until now.

It can be seen that the people in the village are completely addicted to eating human flesh. Because there are still many trees in the woods behind the village with bark hanging on them, plus the edible Bodhisattva soil, they clearly have room for choice.

Even if the people in this village have this evil habit and the Bodhisattva soil is used as a catalyst, to be fair, the black-clothed Ajaan believes that the conditions for human hearts to turn into ghosts have not been met.

Zong Jiu did not argue with him about this topic, but instead said: "It does require more evidence or facts to prove it, but since there is this possibility, we should be prepared for the worst. What do you think, senior?"

The black-clothed Ajaan stretched his eyebrows, "This is natural."

If it is really as the worst guess, then the situation in this village will undoubtedly be much more difficult.

Black-robed Azan knows better than anyone how tricky it is to turn a human heart into a ghost. What's more terrifying is that it's not a one-shot process. Ghosts will always hide in the hearts of humans, and when they accumulate to a certain amount, they will break out of the body, devour their souls with endless evil thoughts, and become evil ghosts in human skin.

After getting the information he wanted, Zong Jiu rushed to the village chief's earth house in the north of the village without stopping.

In the last reincarnation, Wang Shou rushed out with injuries just after dawn. Since they knew the necessary information this time, of course they had to hurry up.

When Zong Jiu arrived in front of the earth house, Xu Sen, who was guarding the door, hurriedly reported to him in a low voice, "We haven't found any movement yet."

At this point, everyone felt strange.

According to the information, the woman should have sneaked into the house before dawn today, probably to see if her daughter was still there, but she met Wang Shou, and stabbed him with a hairpin in a hurry, and then she hurriedly escaped.

So everyone waited for the opportunity. The best solution was to stop the woman before she entered the adobe house, so as to avoid direct conflict with the villagers and leave room for buffering.

"Keep watching, it should be around this time."

Zong Jiu looked up at the sky and squatted in the corner.

More than a dozen people surrounded the village chief's house densely. As long as someone rushed out or went in, they would not escape their eyes.

About ten minutes later, footsteps suddenly came from the grove behind the adobe house.

All the trainees looked at each other and walked towards that side.

When they passed by, several trainees had already subdued the person.

In order to prevent the villagers from hearing the sound, they had no choice but to block the woman's mouth with a cloth strip and take her to a place far away from the adobe house.

Going to the other side, the vermilion roof of the temple was looming under the shade of the woods.

After walking into the woods, they untied the cloth strips and formed a circle.

Not only Zong Jiu's team, but the other team also had the same goal as them. After seeing them subdue the woman, they followed them.

The woman was terrified and shouted, "Someone come! Someone come! You scoundrels!"

"Madam, we have no ill intentions."

Xu Sen hurried to appease them. But it was obvious that the other party was very excited. Not only was he excited, but he also tried to break through.

After the chaos lasted for almost an incense stick, the woman calmed down a little.

"You really didn't lie to me? Were you really not sent by that bastard Wang Shou?"

Seeing that her attitude finally relaxed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, "We are really not."

It seemed that the woman believed it and looked at the trainee suspiciously, "Then get out of the way first, I have to find my daughter."

When this topic came up, everyone was silent for a while.

"Your daughter was killed yesterday..."

After a while, someone was speaking, but Zong Jiu interrupted him directly.

"Auntie, we are asking you something. If you are willing to tell us, we will naturally send you back intact."

The woman sneered, "I knew you had bad intentions."

The white-haired young man pretended not to hear her accusation.

He stared closely into the woman's eyes, "How did the old woman who lived behind the old locust tree in the east of the village die three years ago?"

The woman's face changed slightly, "You, what are you talking about, I don't understand."

"Don't you understand?" Zong Jiu chuckled, "My daughter is six or seven years old and has been married for three or four years. How can she not understand?"

He continued: "In the past few days, there have been unexplained deaths of villagers in the village. You came from your mother's house alone, so it's not like you haven't heard about it. Others can say that the mother-in-law came back to ask for your life."

At this point, the emotional fluctuations on the woman's face became more obvious.

This time, other road trainees also saw something was wrong.

Because her expression was nothing other than dodge, mixed with obvious fear.

It was obvious that the woman was really afraid that the evil ghost in Zong Jiu's mouth would come to seek her life.

As soon as everyone saw it, they knew something was going on. This was obviously a reaction to doing something wrong.

She opened her mouth and said, "If that woman is really found, what's the use of telling you?"

This time it was Azan in black who spoke.

"If you have done nothing wrong, you are not afraid of ghosts knocking on your door. If you have done something wrong... there is no limit to the sea of ​​suffering. If you have a pious and repentant heart, maybe the ghosts will let you go."

These words seemed to give the woman reassurance, so after hesitating for a moment, she finally relaxed.

"...Three years ago, I had just married into this village with my daughter."

The woman was originally a widow from the next village. She was beautiful, but her husband died early unexpectedly, and she became a widow at a young age.

Her husband's family didn't have much money, and a widow couldn't find anything good in the village. Her parents' family couldn't take care of a married daughter, so life became increasingly difficult.

It happened that the son of the head of Tongbai Village was also a widower. His ex-wife died in childbirth after giving birth to a son for him. It happened that there happened to be a matchmaker in the two villages who paid for the matchmaking, and they created a connection. Wang Shou coveted the widow's beauty after meeting him once, and the two of them agreed half-heartedly.

However, after getting married, the woman's stomach was not good enough and she was unable to have children. Her status in her husband's family became lower and lower. She lived at the expense of the old village chief every day. Wang Shou often yelled and scolded her.

In Tongbai Village, the village chief's family had the final say. It happened to be the beginning of the famine that year, and the people were in dire straits, and she couldn't get any food at home.

"The old woman is also childless, and her husband passed away long ago. But she is old, so she lives alone in that old earthen house."

The old woman believes in Buddhism.

The woman said that before the Bodhisattva appeared in Tongbai Village three years ago, the old woman was the only one in the village who believed in Buddhism.

Before that, no one cared about the Bodhisattva soil in front of the temple. The temple was small and shabby, and its original appearance could not be seen. After all, Bodhisattva soil cannot grow plants, and there is a famine in the first place. Who would care about a piece of land that cannot even grow anything?

"Only the mother-in-law believed in Buddhism and took care of the Bodhisattva soil day after day, watering it day and night, and often went to the temple with a broom to clean it."

At this point, the woman hesitated, "Not only that, she also has a habit of eating Bodhisattva soil, and even only eats that soil a day."

"However, she was kind-hearted. During the famine, she would eat dirt herself, and the remaining food would be given to the villagers. However, her eating of dirt was later discovered by the villagers, so the villagers also took the dirt back and imitated her. ”

"The Bodhisattva soil originally only had a shallow layer, not much. She didn't have enough to eat when everyone in the village ate it. Because of this, she got into a quarrel with everyone, complaining that others wanted more food after eating the food she gave them. Fight for land with her."

"Later, there was not enough Bodhisattva soil, so she starved to death in that old mud house."

Her eyes flickered, "It took more than ten years for the villagers to discover the corpse. By then, the body was already smelly."

"Although the people in the village did this unethically, when there is a famine, who cares? They all just want to survive. I treated the old woman badly because no one went to deliver food. Maybe it was Because of this, she felt resentful, and now...sigh."

The woman looked a little angry, "But then the village also raised funds to build a spiritual place for her. It would be too much to kill them all."

Many trainees showed expressions of sudden realization.

Only Zong Jiu and Azan in black still frowned.

"Okay, if you want me to tell you, I've already told you, so you can let me go now."

Zong Jiu said calmly, "Okay, let's go."

After saying that, he motioned to Xu Su and the others to loosen their shackles and follow him.

Although the latter were confused, they had become accustomed to obeying Zong Jiu's instructions in the past few days, so they followed the white-haired young man out of the woods without asking a question.

On the other hand, the old men in Anthony's group obviously wanted to get more information from this woman, so they did not intervene. Instead, they watched the newcomers leave with cold eyes.

It is worth mentioning that Azan in black muttered a few words in a low voice and left alone from the group of seniors.

Zongjiu had no intention of delaying and took the newlyweds directly to the temple at the back of the village.

Xu Sen asked in a low voice, "Brother Ninth, is there something wrong with what that woman just said?"

They did not hear the conversation between the old village chief and Yin Po in the temple like Zong Jiu did, and they could not distinguish the contradictions in the two people's stories. In fact, if no other clues had been collected before, what the woman said could generally satisfy all the questions.

"If the old woman turns into a ghost and comes back to take revenge on the village, it's not impossible."

Xu Su pondered, "Whether it's the timeline she mentioned or the problem of why the villagers are rushing to eat Bodhisattva soil, it can be solved, but..."

He thought of the scratch marks covering half the wall of the old earthen house, and felt that something was indescribably wrong. Xu Su couldn't tell what was wrong specifically.

"There are problems, of course there are problems."

Zongjiu shrugged, "She's lying, it's so obvious."

"As for why it is difficult for you to detect, it is because the lies she told are extremely clever. They are not false from beginning to end, but are half true and false."

[Fuck, I knew she was lying]

[Yes, that woman kept saying she cared about her daughter. Why didn’t she take her daughter with her when she ran away? 】

[Oh, it’s too difficult. I finally found some clues, but it turned out to be fake. There are no particularly clear clues in this copy yet. It really drives people crazy]

When the woman was speaking just now, Zong Jiu had been carefully observing her micro-expressions.

When a person lies, her micro-expression will change to a certain extent, not to mention that she has obviously concealed something extremely important.

"So my guess is that not only did she lie, but she may have been an accessory."

"Okay, we have this clue. Since the living can no longer provide more information, next... we have to find the dead to get information."

After hearing what he said, others remembered that the Yin woman in the temple once said that she would try to go to the Yin in the next few days.

Going down the yin means walking down the yin, also known as crossing the yin or going down the god. It roughly means walking from the yang world to the underworld.

There are two ways to walk in the underworld. One is for the walker to go down to the underworld alone, find the designated ghost, and then ask the ghost to come to her body for conversation and communication with the strangers who miss the deceased.

Another method is similar to observing the falling underworld, taking the living people down to the underworld together. However, this method is extremely difficult and risky. Unless you are a Taoist priest with high magic power, you will not try it.

Zong Jiu is very sure that the current situation in Tongbai Village is definitely not what the villagers said that the old woman Hua Chengli ghost came back to settle the score with them.

Since the old woman has not turned into a ghost, you can try to find out the old woman's soul by traveling through the underworld.

The people in the village were full of lies and bad things. It would be easier to ask the person involved directly than to ask anything.

Even Azan in black who followed them silently nodded, feeling that this method was very feasible and coincided with him.

Perhaps because they made too much noise before dawn, the village finally showed some signs of waking up.

In the distance, people in the village, carrying hoes in their hands, gathered in front of Wang Shou's earthen house and moved towards the woods.

Xu Sen was worried, "They seem to have been discovered, what should we do?"

"It's just dawn. Will the temple open so early?"

"Who knows, I just know that if you don't get the props, we might be in trouble here."

Unknowingly, the huge forest suddenly became quiet.

The trainees also realized that something was wrong. They all took out their life-saving tools at lightning speed and looked around cautiously.

In the intersecting gaps between leaves, there are layers of ghosts flashing and disappearing.

Not far away, trainees from another team were running quickly, and behind them, a large group of cursing villagers gathered.

Zong Jiu gave the order, "Run!"