Chapter 34 Chapter Thirty-Four

The development of the matter was just as Zhao Guai expected. The next day, the patriarch agreed to Zhao Guai's intervention and helped the villagers hunt Xue Xinhong together.Zhao Guai's arrogance is not unreasonable, these mountain people are definitely not Zhao Guai's opponents if they want to play tricks, but everyone doesn't understand what he does, and even suspect that he wants to use this opportunity to escape. As night fell, everyone in the village was gathered together except for the young, old and women.This was the first time Wu Qi saw so many people gathering in the village, but what accompanied these people was a strange smell, a familiar smell, so familiar that Wu Qi felt terrified.

Wu Qi had already felt this smell when they first arrived at the village, and now that everyone is gathering, this smell becomes more and more obvious, that's right!This is exactly the kind of smell on Mr. Zhou's body. Wu Qi couldn't believe it before, but now when the smell became so obvious, he was very sure of his judgment.At this time, my heart was surging: Is it possible that Mr. Zhou's strange disease is related to this place? Zhao Guai led everyone around the entire village in a big circle, followed by pinching his fingers, and finally asked the patriarch for instructions, divided everyone into eight groups, and searched according to the eight places where the evildoer was most likely to appear. And he himself asked to add Wu Qi, plus a dozen mountain people, and the group went directly to the back mountain in the north.

There were more than a dozen villagers guarding him, and the patriarch did not suspect him, so he was not worried that Zhao Guai and Wu Qi would take the opportunity to escape, but Wu Qi was quite puzzled, what did Zhao Guai call him for for no reason?Is it possible to use some stitches to catch this thing? Zhao Guaiding's location is very biased, in the north direction of the village, and the location of the village is halfway up the mountain, neither up nor down.The jungle vegetation here is too dense. Once you leave the village without houses, you can hardly tell the direction. Moreover, the dense forest around the village is full of various traps. Choosing to escape in such a place is simply looking for death, Wu Qi now finally understood why Mo Yi was so sure they couldn't escape.

The people in the village were familiar with this, and soon a group of people detoured to the back mountain. Zhao Guai used the compass to find the direction in the north of the village. It was a very low but very dangerous steep slope, a straight line distance from the village. It's not far away, and even in some places in the village, you can directly see the hillside through the dense forest. I really don't understand why these villagers don't take a straight line, but have to take a big detour and take these roads full of traps. Zhao Guai felt strange, so he asked bluntly. The villagers replied that there was a small basin-like depression behind the mountain. There were wars in this area in ancient times. At that time, the victorious side buried all the soldiers who died in the battle. After arriving at the back mountain, a large number of captives were slaughtered to be buried by the soldiers. The straight road leading directly to the back mountain was full of all kinds of strange poisons because of the heavy yin, and it had been abandoned for many years, and no one left.

Zhao Guai frowned immediately when he heard this, raised his eyes and looked at the weird steep slope in front of him, wondering if he felt that the aura here was so gloomy, that there was a large number of massacres, so that the blood letter red Appearing here is nine out of ten!This steep slope is located in the north direction of the village, and its location is obviously higher than the terrain of the village, as if it was specially designed to block those Yin Qi. As we walked forward, the dense forest became more and more sparse, and bursts of moonlight actually penetrated in. After walking for a while, a huge circle-shaped field suddenly appeared in front of us. It was so dark that it was as big as two football fields. , Under the hazy moonlight, one can clearly see the dead leaves and dead bodies all over the enclosure, and the surrounding area exudes bursts of unpleasant stench.

This place seems to be a dead place, not a single blade of grass grows, but what is shocking is that there is a towering towering tree in front of it, standing alone in the center of the dead place, with luxuriant branches and leaves, like a ghost.In this deep mountain, there are many mountains and forests, and it is not normal to have such a bare dead land, but there are still trees in the dead land that can grow so lush and huge, which is even more unbelievable!Under the hazy night, the giant tree seemed to be still and seemed to be moving, and against the piles of dead bones all around, it looked even more extremely strange.

What's even more strange is that on the luxuriant branches of this strange tree, there are many huge gourd-shaped objects densely hung. Those objects are so dark that only one outline can be seen clearly under the moonlight. Like huge cocoons.When a gust of wind blew, those objects swayed from side to side, crumbling, and it felt more like a curled up dead body hanging from a branch. The faces of the group changed immediately, they shrank back almost reflexively, and buried their bodies in the grass, not daring to go any further, Zhao Guai said, "I found it!" , I can't see a sense of ease after I'm done.

Zhao Guai lowered his voice and asked the people in the village: "This is where I came out. What kind of place is this for you? Why is there a lonely tree?" An older person in the crowd replied softly: "This is our legend. This was also a forest in the past. Later, someone massacred a large number of people here, and the blood stained the ground here. As a result, the blood All the trees and grasses in the place where the river passed by died overnight, and there is only one small locust tree left, which has grown so big now. This is the result of evildoers accumulating grievances, God bless you!"

Hearing this, Zhao Guai's face immediately changed, and he blurted out, "Could it be the ghost-blood demon locust tree? It's actually here!" As soon as he spoke, Wu Qi asked: "This is the tree that breeds that kind of strange bees? Then around here...!" Before he finished speaking, Zhao Guai stretched out his hand to stop him gently, reached out and took out the flashlight he was carrying, carefully Protruding out from the ground, the light beam swept around the strange tree.I saw under the light of the flashlight, those huge gourd-like hanging objects stood out in front of my eyes, and they were clearly honeycombs one by one!

"That's right!" Zhao Guai was taken aback. They have all experienced the power of these strange bees. Once the strange bees here are disturbed, if there are so many beehives, if the bee swarms inside all come out, everyone present People are afraid that they will be wrapped into a bee ball in an instant, and even if they are not poisoned to death, they will die from pain. Zhao Guai cursed secretly: Damn this blood letter red really chooses a place for refuge! The scene in front of them made all the villagers present feel frightened. They probably lived here for so long and had never been to this place before.A young man among them said: "I'll go back to the village and call people to make some preparations. We can't deal with these golden ghosts!"

Zhao Guai frowned and said, "No way! I think it's the time when the yin aura is at its peak. When there are too many people, it's not only easy to startle these demon bees, but also when the yang aura is strong, Xue Xinhong will be able to detect it immediately. Now, if it gets out of this forest, it will be very difficult to catch it in the future!" It was difficult for everyone to hear this. Although they didn't trust Zhao Guai very much, the strange dead place that most people in the village didn't know was easily found by this person in front of them. They were still a little impressed. Encouraged by the elders, everyone agreed to do what Zhao Guai wanted. Zhao Guai knew very well in his heart that the villagers had reservations about what they said, but they couldn't fool a veteran like him.The origin of this ghost blood demon locust tree is far from as simple as what the villagers said, and since it is called a demon locust tree, it is naturally a strange tree, and there is no way that only the golden ghost bee exists in danger. After thinking for a moment, he asked everyone to turn off their torches, spread out, and then cautiously moved closer to Yaohuai.The branches and leaves of the ghost blood demon locust tree are quite luxuriant, and it looks like a huge umbrella in the open dead place. The beehives hang above everyone's heads, making people feel frightened.Wu Qisu knew that Zhao Guai was someone who didn't take life seriously, but at this moment he was holding more than a dozen lives. If there was a slight mistake, this would be the burial place for everyone present, and it would become a veritable place of death. He would never take a risk for himself, and really couldn't figure out why Zhao Guai was so crazy. While hesitating, Zhao Guai fiddled with his compass again, then turned around twice under the tree, pointed to the top of his head, and signaled that he had to climb up to check the situation.The crowd didn't understand what he meant, but they didn't stop them. After a short period of running-in, they already understood Zhao Guai's temper and way of doing things. They didn't need to ask any more questions, they could just do as he wanted. Climb to such a weird demon tree, It's definitely not for the shade, this guy can't climb a tree and fly away! The trunk of this ghost blood demon locust tree is very long, and you have to climb more than ten meters to get into the dense branches and leaves. Although Zhao Guai is over half a hundred years old, he still has the skills of his youth, and his figure is thin In the night, it was like a huge horse monkey, hugging the big tree trunk as thick as a bucket, and it climbed to the top in a short while, submerged in the dense branches and leaves.The people under the tree immediately put themselves on the defensive, as if they were afraid that some monster would suddenly emerge from the branches and leaves. Everyone's heartstrings were tense at this moment, and then they simply lay down on the ground full of dead leaves and waited. That Zhao Guai got into the branch area of ​​the ghost blood demon locust tree, and he had already disappeared. Several people waited for a long time, but there was still no movement, as if he had been swallowed by the demon tree. , at this moment, he is not only waiting for Zhao Guai, but also waiting for the danger that may emerge from the darkness at any time, but at this time, he can neither use fire light nor shout hello, this kind of anxious waiting is really exciting. uncomfortable.As the mountain wind blew, the branches of the demon tree twisted unnaturally a few times, the leaves rustled, and from time to time a few dead leaves rustled down, floating in the night sky like human hands. Wu Qi wasn't too worried. With Zhao Guai's skill and experience, even if he was in danger, he still had the ability to scream and escape.Could this guy be looking for this opportunity to escape?But the surrounding area was empty, and the vigilance of the few people was so high right now that any disturbance could not escape their eyes and ears. It was impossible for a living person to jump off a tree more than ten meters high without noticing it.But there was no movement for a long time, and Wu Qi felt terrified. Something really went wrong at this time, and neither he nor the people present could deal with it. Suddenly, Wu Qi felt a swishing sound from above his head, and the branches and leaves shook a little, and the broken branches mixed with the leaves fell down like toppled.Everyone was on guard immediately, and retreated from under the tree vigilantly, everyone had their sabers in their hands. At this moment, there was only a "creak" sound, and a black and swarthy thing fell straight down and hit the ground heavily.When everyone saw this, they immediately fell down, rolled a few times on the spot, got up and prepared to escape.Wu Qi retreated a little slower, almost being hit by this thing, and when the thing fell directly less than one meter in front of his eyes, his first reaction was that it was over, and in just a moment, he almost heard those strange things. The bee made a murderous sound. But unexpectedly, the thing fell to the ground, and there was no reaction at all, unlike the situation shown by the beehive that fell in the college entrance examination.Wu Qi was a little strange, thinking to himself, could this be an empty beehive?Those strange bees have long lived here? Before he had time to rejoice, he felt a little strange again. The thing was very close to him. He just took a casual subconscious look and saw the appearance of the thing. He was shocked: this black thing is not at all What a hive, this is actually a dead person!