095. Curse

Zhu Lezhi is a little girl. In the past three months, the only men around her were Qingling and Miaoyuan, plus a thousand-year-old evil spirit. Of course, it is impossible for her to be pregnant.

But at this moment they were in a small village in the mountains. In a flash, the three of them thought of the same thing, and when they exchanged glances, they saw that each other understood.

Qing Ling sighed: "Gu... This thing is alive. No wonder such a big village has no Yin Qi and is so weird."

The alien race's Gu are divided into living Gu and ghost Gu. Living Gu are ordinary Gu worms, while ghost Gu are fed with all kinds of things, such as human corpses and ghosts. Qingling's physique, which is easily psychic, rarely fails in front of these living Gu worms.

He could only sense the danger, but he didn't know where it came from.

Zhu Lezhi was still at the door, but she was squatting this time. She didn't dare to get too close to Qingling and Miaoyuan. After all, she was infected after just a little contact with that Aji. She didn't know if she could be infected with this thing just by touching it.

In fact, the three of them could be considered to have met by chance, and it cannot be said that they supported each other, but thanks to the fact that they had walked together on this bizarre and treacherous road for a period of time, even though they all had some secrets from each other, at the critical moment of life and death they would strangely develop a habit of preferring the poor to the good rather than the bad to the bad.

"I'll go find that kid." Miao Yuan said as he walked towards the door.

"Hey, I told you not to get too close to me." Zhu Lezhi didn't get up either, but moved to the side like a mushroom. After thinking for a while, he whispered, "Maybe everyone in this village is that guy's accomplice. Why don't we wait for Shang--"

Before she finished speaking, she changed her tone: "Well, forget it, let's go together to see what this kid wants to do. He wants to kill people for money in this remote place?"

They couldn't figure out why Aji did this, especially after they found out that the Gu was a raw one and didn't need to be raised by humans. So why would he target strangers passing by? Is it really just a simple desire to kill people and make money?

But there might not be a stranger coming into this mountain for hundreds of years, and it is even more uncertain whether they have money. If they live by robbing, the people in this village would have starved to death long ago.

This time, Qing Ling suspected that he might not only attract evil spirits, but also evil people. The village was left here. The plan was to stay for one night before going into the mountains, but it had to be complicated. He sighed again. For a moment, he felt that it was meaningless to stay with a living person who could breathe, so he whispered, "Let's test it first."

Zhu Lezhi tilted his head and said, "Hurry up, the fingers on both my hands are out of control, and it seems the same goes for my feet."

Qing Ling had lived in the mountains in his early years and had seen many insects. He couldn't say he was afraid of them, but he just felt disgusted. However, this alien race that could make Gu had probably not appeared for too long. Not only him, but even Zhu Lezhi didn't know much about it. He only heard that these Gu should have a mother Gu, which was the natal Gu of the person who made the Gu. If the natal Gu was killed, the child Gu would also die.

Qing Ling is such a person. He should not be able to cure the poison in Zhu Lezhi's body, so he might as well remove the source of the poison and get rid of the person who put the poison in him. He is cold-blooded and indifferent in his bones. Once he decides to take action, he will do it cleanly and neatly, but at the same time, he can empathize with some people to an excessive degree and never hesitates to show his pity and regret.

The two extremes are cleverly combined in him.

Things in the martial world are the affairs of the martial world. Qingling stopped Miaoyuan who was about to capture Aji, and instead took out red paper and a pen and cut out a small scarlet paper man. He had used this trick before, but this time he used red paper. Looking closely at the paper, there were actually traces of black lines inside. It was a magic weapon that was refined with resentment, called the Red Evil. It had no good use, but was very useful for casting curses.

Miao Yuan was a man who would kill evil without blinking an eye, and Zhu Lezhi was even less of a pushover. The two of them immediately surrounded him. Seeing that the young master's technique was slow but fluent, they guessed that it was because he was not very familiar with it. After cutting out two identical little paper figures, Qing Ling drew obscure and ancient ghost paintings on the backs of the two little paper figures, and then took out a long and thin needle and neatly poked two holes in the two overlapping little paper figures.

There were ink-colored runes painted on the scarlet paper man, and two pitch-black holes were poked on his face, giving off an eerie and chilling feeling.

Zhu Lezhi thought it was quite interesting, "Is this a curse?"

"Well, it doesn't matter if we don't know his birth date. He is right in front of us." Qingling said lightly.

But the two people next to him knew that Qingling didn't know this move before. He had secretly learned a lot of things during this period of time. Moreover, if Qingling knew the birth date of the boy just now, he might have more tricks to deal with him.

"The evil spirit flew into the sky, and the world became dark."

"Upwards, it leads to the mysterious pole; downwards, it leads to the abyss of the deep."

"The sun and the moon lost their light, and the evil seam broke apart."

"The mountains, rivers, and sea breezes are all misty."

"Edict!"

The pair of dark hole-like eyes of the little paper man on the table seemed to become ferocious in an instant. It used its paper hands to support itself like a living person, slowly stood up, walked to the table step by step, and floated down like a fallen leaf. The moment it landed, it seemed to grow a little bigger with every step it took, and its body also underwent some subtle changes - it became more like a human.

When the paper man walked to the door, he had turned into the young man named Aji, except that his entire body, including his clothes, was scarlet, and strange black lines spread all over his body. He just walked through the door and out.

Zhu Lezhi was stunned. The Zhu family's ability lies in souls, just like she could extract Qiu Ping's soul and imprison it.

But Qingling's methods were truly unpredictable. She had never thought that a paper figure could become a living... person who was unknown whether dead or alive.

"Just wait." Qing Ling sat steadily, his features clear and calm, as if what he was doing was not something that would cost anyone's life.

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There are strangers in the village tonight.

In the brightly lit bamboo house, Aji was rocking in a rattan rocking chair. Not far from him, at a table sat an elderly man with sunken eye sockets, brown skin, and a few gray temples revealed by the cloth wrapped around his hair. However, there was an unspeakable fear hidden in his eyes.

"Dad, there are strangers in the village, but my sister hasn't come back yet." Aji crossed his legs, put his hands behind his head, and suddenly hooked a finger.

The man sitting behind the lamp moved his stiff face slightly, and a "hmm" sound came out of his throat again.

After receiving the response, Aji smiled even brighter. He said slowly, "No one can leave the village until Sister comes back. We can't ruin Sister's plans... She might come back to pick us up in a few days."

After saying that, Aji suddenly sat up, humming a tune as he took out a thin, worn, yellowed book. When he opened it, he saw some twisted and strange pictures inside, like all kinds of insects, and some patterns representing people - twisted people who had been transformed into various shapes.

"Use people... or use ghosts..." Ah Ji muttered, "Let's try these outsiders... There is a ghost among them, it should work."

The man with his back to him had a sad expression on his face, as if he was trying desperately to say something, but he couldn't even move the corners of his mouth, let alone anything else.

After watching for a while, Ah Ji lost his patience. He turned around and saw his father's expression. He frowned and said unhappily, "Why do you always have that look in your eyes? Don't you raise Gu yourself? But what else do you do besides raising Gu, father? In this village, we have nothing but mountains and trees. Our ancestors have lived like this for generations! You have walked out of the mountains before, but why did you come back?!"

The man was speechless and could only look at him quietly.

Aji finally became a little annoyed. He closed the book, but his movements were very careful, as if he was afraid of making the already tattered book even worse.

"He said... as long as the matter is done, they will come back... Sister will come back and take us all out of the mountains..."

Aji put the book on his stomach, closed his eyes and began to mutter to himself. He didn't need anyone to respond, and repeated the same words over and over again.

That was for himself.

The man sitting at the table had an expression of utmost fear on his face. It was clear that he could no longer make any extra expressions, but his eyes still revealed fear that was to the point of collapse. He stared straight at the door - where a scarlet figure was walking in.

"Aji", whose whole body was covered in blood, walked in stiffly. Almost instantly, he looked at Aji lying on the rocking chair.

A pair of eyes like black holes stared at him intently, and then approached silently little by little. Aji, who had no idea, suddenly felt his heart skip a beat - that was his natal Gu.

The natal Gu seemed to be afraid, reminding him that some unknown but terrifying danger was approaching.

Aji suddenly opened his eyes and met the sight of the creature with the same face as his, but with a scarlet face covered with black lines. For a moment, his mind went blank, and then he suddenly let out a cry of extreme fear: "Ah——!!"

Aji had never seen anything like this before. The scariest thing he had ever seen was the Gu made by his sister - those Gu had strange abilities and could even change a person's fate.

But his screams suddenly disappeared.

Because the scarlet man approached him and then merged into his body. Soon, scarlet flowed out of Aji's body from the inside out, and dark lines appeared. He was no longer under his control. Just like those people he controlled, he stood up stiffly from the recliner, and then walked out the door like a piece of paper that could be blown away by the wind.

On the other end, Qingling was nonchalantly manipulating the little paper figure that was left behind, his thin white fingers seemed to be fiddling with invisible silk threads.

Shang Changheng returned at this time.

As soon as he appeared in the house, he saw his little wife calmly... controlling life and death.