Zhao Xun opened his mouth and his first reaction was to bandage Melanda's wound.
Meranda's face was full of gratitude, and her eyes swept over everyone in the room, finally falling on Xia Yiqian.
He said in an awkward tone: "Thank you all for helping me today. If it weren't for you, I might have died."
The person she wanted to thank the most was Xia Yiqian, but Xia Yiqian and Xuan Yi were both squatting beside the thing that rolled out of the statue, studying it carefully, and no one responded.
The atmosphere here was a little awkward, and Zhao Xun quickly spoke to ease the atmosphere, "It's okay, it's okay, we are all from the same camp, and it's my duty to save you."
Li Songtian was also standing not far away, acting condescendingly and nodding slightly.
"Master Xuan should take it as his responsibility to benefit the world. No need to thank me."
Xia Yiqian squatted on the ground, staring at the dark brown thing rolling out of the statue in a daze, and didn't hear the sound from the other side at all.
To be precise, it was not a lump of stuff, but the dried corpse of a child about ten years old.
What's even more coincidental is that she knows this child.
That was the cause of her deep sleep.
Xia Yiqian still doesn’t know how many years she has been sleeping.
Before she fell asleep, people disappeared one after another in the village at the foot of Qingyun Mountain, and then they would be found somewhere on the mountain a few days later.
However, what everyone found were not living people, but mummies that had been drained of blood.
At that time, Xia Yiqian had been in Qingyun Temple for more than a thousand years. In order to gain faith points and become a human being, she often helped the people at the foot of the mountain in the hope of gaining that meager faith.
Because she had lived so long and her appearance had never changed, everyone at the foot of the mountain knew she was not human.
After a series of people disappeared and turned into mummies, gossip began to spread about her.
At the time, Xia Yiqian was so focused on cultivating and becoming a human that she didn't really mind the rumors. The innocent are innocent; this really wasn't her doing.
But just at that time, someone spread the rumor that she was a zombie that had lived for thousands of years.
In order to advance quickly, zombies must suck blood. She captured and killed those people in an instant just for the sake of practicing.
People from several villages gathered together and ran to Qingyun Temple, demanding that she be handed over and burned to death.
The old lady in the lead stood up and told her to hand over her little grandson, otherwise she would not only be killed but also have her soul torn apart.
But the old lady forgot that when her grandson was three years old, he accidentally fell into the river, and it was Xia Yiqian who passed by and rescued him from the river.
If she wanted to kill him, he wouldn't even live to be ten years old.
That incident caused a big stir. It was easy to deal with it in Qingyun Temple, but if high-level Taoist priests from other Taoist temples intervened, Xia Yiqian might really be burned to death.
The master of Qingyun Temple at that time had no choice but to let Xia Yiqian sleep to appease the people's resentment.
And the old lady's grandson was exactly this mummy.
Why did he appear in the statue? What happened back then?
Xia Yiqian couldn't figure out who had harmed her, nor did she know how the matter was finally resolved. She only remembered that before she fell asleep and lost consciousness, she faintly heard a lot of noisy sounds outside the coffin, and nothing else.
Taoist Xuanyi squatted on the ground, looking at Xia Yiqian who was staring at the mummy on the ground in a trance. He pursed his lips and asked awkwardly, "What did you find?"
Xia Yiqian frowned slightly, "He died because his blood was sucked dry."
Taoist Xuanyi was surprised. "A normal person will turn into a mummy after a long time of death. How did you determine the cause of his death?"
Xia Yiqian raised her eyes and looked at Taoist Xuanyi calmly, "There are teeth marks on his neck."
Moreover, as a professional vampire zombie, even if she had never drunk human blood, how could she not see the cause of the child's death?
Taoist Xuanyi looked at the neck of the mummy and found two things similar to tooth marks on his neck, but because it was too dried out, only two shallow pits could be seen.
How did she discover such a small detail?
Xia Yiqian recognized the identity of the mummy and felt a little confused. He didn't look at the mummy on the ground anymore, but turned to ask Melanda, "What happened just now?"
Melanda had recovered a little by this time, but whenever she recalled what had just happened, her heart began to pound and her scalp went numb.
“When I was checking the house, I noticed blood dripping from the eyes of the idol. I thought it was unusual, so I went to check.
But I didn't expect that my body was suddenly pulled by a strange force, as if it was going to pull me into the statue.
And there was a little boy's voice that kept echoing in my head.
He said: 'Stay, for me'."
When everyone in the room heard his recollection, their faces instantly turned ugly. It was obvious that he was trying to catch a substitute!
Some dead ghosts carry resentment with them and are imprisoned somewhere for some reason and unable to leave. They will go to great lengths to find an innocent soul to replace him, which is what people call catching a scapegoat.
If a living person is successfully captured, he will surely die!
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