Chen Xiaobao frowned and immediately stepped down.
This thing was stepped on, but it was still struggling and biting. Its head cracked open, and it grew mouthparts, and it bit Chen Xiaobao's foot.
Chen Xiaobao quickly retracted his foot, picked up the thing with his Miao Dao, and threw it directly into the still burning fire.
It struggled in the fire for a while, and then was engulfed by the flames.
"So, what is that?"
Tou Ren Li was also stunned. He had never seen such a long worm before, and it crawled out of Li Dayong's body. It was obviously not a good thing.
"This is probably the truth about the mountain god!"
Chen Xiaobao looked at Li Tou Ren with sharp eyes and said, "You are from Miaojiang, don't you know what this is? This looks like some kind of poisonous insect!"
"cup?"
Tou Ren Li was greatly surprised. Although they were Miao people from Yunnan and Guizhou, they had heard countless legends about the盅 since childhood, but only a few of them had actually seen one.
"Yes, this insect looks very much like a盅虫 that was refined using盅术. There should be someone in your Lijiazhai who knows盅术, right?" Chen Xiaobao was thoughtful and had already made some guesses.
Could it be that the so-called mountain god in Lijiazhai is some creature controlled by poisonous insects?
Li Dayong was obviously some kind of experimental subject. After being parasitized by the deliberate worm, this thing not only became almost invulnerable to swords and guns, but also its strength and speed were significantly improved.
Combat effectiveness has been greatly improved.
Those missing people before might not have been eaten by some mountain gods, but were taken away for experiments. Chen Xiaobao had a vague feeling that he was not far from the truth.
"There used to be a Granny Li in Lijia Village. She was a Miao doctor in the village. It was said that she was very good at raising Gu. But before the mountain god appeared, she went into the mountains to collect herbs and disappeared!"
Headman Li hesitated for a while and muttered.
"Grandma Li?"
Chen Xiaobao frowned. This Granny Li might also be a key figure, but unfortunately, she has been missing for many years and now there are basically no useful clues.
"Yes, it's Granny Li!" Headman Li nodded quickly, "Brother Chen, we don't want to harm you, it's just that there is really no way out in Lijia Village. If we don't do this, everyone in the village will die. Please spare us!"
"This is your reason for harming people, but it doesn't mean that you can harm people with a clear conscience and get away with it!" Chen Xiaobao said coldly, "Tell me everything about the mountain god!"
"Let my father go!"
At this moment, Li Sangyi suddenly appeared with several young hunters, and all of their hunting rifles were pointed at Chen Xiaobao.
"Release our leader!"
Several other young hunters also shouted.
"You can't even deal with that monster, and you still want to deal with me?" Chen Xiaobao sneered and said coldly, "If I can kill that monster, I can kill you too. You'd better not ask for trouble!"
After Chen Xiaobao said this, several hunters hesitated.
What Chen Xiaobao said made sense. They couldn't even deal with the monster, so how could they fight Chen Xiaobao?
"Put your guns down, put your guns down!" Chief Li shouted hurriedly, "Sang Yi, put your guns down quickly. The curse of our Li Village may only be lifted by Brother Chen!"
If Chen Xiaobao can get rid of the monster transformed by Li Dayong, maybe he can also deal with the mountain god. The opportunity for Lijiazhai to get rid of the influence of the mountain god may be right in front of them.
“Father!”
Li Sangyi looked unwilling, but seeing that Touren Li was determined, he had no choice but to put down his shotgun.
Other young hunters followed suit and lowered their guns.
As the monsters were eliminated, more and more villagers reappeared. Even Bai Xiaoli and the others heard the noise and bravely rushed over.
"Mr. Chen, let me start from the beginning!"
Headman Li sighed and began to reveal the secrets of the mountain god.
It turned out that twenty or thirty years ago, a meteorite fell from the sky and landed on the back mountain. Less than a month later, a mysterious expedition team came from outside the mountain.
The expedition team went into the mountains for nearly a month and then left.
After they left, the village returned to its former tranquility. A few years passed, and first Granny Li, who had gone into the mountains to collect herbs, suddenly disappeared. Then, within two years, legends about the mountain god began to circulate in the village.
"No one knows where the legend of the mountain god came from, but it just spread. More and more people in the village knew about it, and people started to disappear!"
"At the beginning, there were few people who went missing, only two or three people a year. In those years, the roads in the mountains had not been repaired, and the people in the village relied on farming and hunting for a living. There were many wild animals in the mountains, so it was normal for two or three people to go missing a year. Later, more and more people went missing, and the people in the village realized something was wrong!"
Headman Li sighed and slowly said, "After that, in order to reduce the number of missing people in the village, we promoted tourism to the outside world and entertained those hikers who like to travel across mountains and rivers. You will know what happened next!"
That is to say, the disappearance of people continued for many years.
And the starting point of the matter was a meteorite falling from the sky.
Chen Xiaobao believed that this incident was most likely related to the initial expedition team.
"Do you know where that expedition team came from?" Chen Xiaobao suddenly asked.
"I don't know. I was young at the time and served as a guide for the expedition team. I felt that they were from big cities, but some of them didn't talk to us!"
Headman Li hesitated for a moment and said, "I once accidentally heard those people talking in a low voice. Maybe I remembered it wrongly, but I suspect that they were speaking Fusang language!"
"Fuso people?"
Chen Xiaobao's eyes flashed, and he suddenly thought of a possibility, "Those Japanese people might be studying the art of盅, or using the art of盅 to do some kind of research!"
"It might be the Japanese, but it's been so long that I can't remember clearly!" said Mr. Li, shaking his head.
Chen Xiaobao stared and thought, if the members of the expedition team were Japanese, judging from the subsequent situation, those Japanese did not leave at all. They might have built a base near Lijiazhai and conducted research there.
As for those missing people, they may not have been eaten by the so-called mountain gods, but were taken away by these Fuso people for research.
If that's the case, then it all makes sense.
The question now is, where did those Fuso people hide to conduct their experiments?
"Master Li, is there any air-raid shelter nearby?"
Chen Xiaobao asked.
"It seems like there is, but I'm not sure where exactly it is. It should have been abandoned long ago!" Headman Li thought about it carefully and shook his head. After all, more than half a century has passed since the era of digging deep holes and storing grain, and some of the facilities at that time have long been abandoned.
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