"Little guy, do you think the mountain god really wants to marry my sister?"

While walking on the road, Li Erhu suddenly raised his head and asked with a heavy heart.

“…”

Lin Zhongtian, who was standing on his shoulder, couldn't help but roll his eyes.

This guy was quite smart when he encountered wild animals in the mountains.

How come you become so stupid when you come out of the mountains and see people that you are willing to believe such talk?

Lin Zhongtian didn't bother to pay attention to Li Erhu. His big black eyes looked around, taking in the situation in the village.

There were two main reasons why he followed Li Erhu down the mountain. One was to see the situation of humans in this world, and the other was to find an opportunity to see if he could steal a corpse from the village.

In his understanding, since humans have appeared in this world, it must be the world of humans.

It is somewhat inconvenient to walk in the human world with the body of an animal.

If possible, Lin Zhongtian would definitely change into a human body.

But he didn't want to kill anyone for this, so a fresh corpse became his best option.

It’s a pity that along the way, no villager was holding a funeral.

This couldn't help but make Lin Zhongtian feel a little disappointed.

As they approached the house, Lin Zhongtian suddenly jumped off Li Erhu's shoulders.

Li Erhu was stunned at first, but after he reacted he hurriedly chased after him.

"Hey, where are you going?!"

Li Erhu shouted as he chased after the little squirrel.

But in just a few seconds, the little squirrel completely disappeared from his sight.

Li Erhu was a little panicked and looked everywhere quickly, but he couldn't find the little squirrel after searching for a long time. He had no choice but to give up and returned home dejectedly.

Lin Zhongtian himself actually doesn't care about Li Erhu's psychological activities and his subsequent experiences.

He had already used that 60-pound pork leg to repay the other person for bringing him into the world.

As for whether this pig leg will be stolen by others, that depends on Li Erhu's own fate.

Of course, if he could replace his body with a human one sooner, he wouldn't mind personally punishing the temple keeper who cheated people by pretending to be the mountain god.

During this period of time, Lin Zhongtian has visited the entire village and has a general understanding of the situation in Qiugang Village.

This is a village that is almost isolated from the world. The entire village is located in a valley with towering mountains on both sides. There are only two narrow mountain roads leading to the world outside the valley.

This also makes it extremely difficult for Qiugang Village to communicate and interact with the outside world.

The vast majority of villagers have lived here their entire lives and have never stepped out of the valley.

But even in such a village, there is a private school that specializes in teaching young children to read and write.

Lin Zhongtian sneaked in to take a look and found that although the books in the private school were very old, they were very well preserved. It was obvious that they were treated as treasures and were carefully cared for.

At first, Lin Zhongtian was very surprised.

But when I think back on Li Erhu's words and actions, I feel it is reasonable.

Although this guy is a hunter begging for food in the mountains, his words and deeds are not vulgar.

Now that I think about it, I must have studied in this private school.

I don’t know if it’s because of the isolation from the outside world, but along the way, Lin Zhongtian found that the people in this village were very simple and honest, the neighborly relations were very good, and most of the villagers had smiles on their faces.

This atmosphere made Lin Zhongtian think of the Peach Blossom Spring described by Tao Yuanming.

No wonder Fu Youzhi deceived Li Erhu so easily.

After touring the village, Lin Zhongtian came to the ridge of the field outside the village.

The arable land area in this valley is not large, but it is more than enough to support the more than 30 households in the village. In addition, there are rich animal and plant resources in the mountains and forests on both sides. As long as there are no major natural disasters, there is no need to worry about food and clothing.

This is probably one of the reasons why the neighborhood relations in Qiugang Village are good.

Running on the fields of the village, Lin Zhongtian turned on his white-eye vision and carefully observed the surrounding situation.

In his opinion, in order to save the limited arable land in the valley, a village like this that has been settled in the valley for a long time should place the cemeteries of their ancestors far away from the village, and most likely in the mountains outside the village.

Sure enough, not long after, Lin Zhongtian found a cemetery in a forest.

There are a total of five tombstones in the cemetery. Judging from the names on the tombstones, it should be the family cemetery of a family with the surname Liu.

Lin Zhongtian used his white-eye-like vision to investigate and found that there was not a single usable corpse in the five graves.

The first three tombs are the oldest. The coffins buried deep underground have long since decayed, and the corpses inside have long been eaten by insects and ants, leaving only a few tattered shrouds and rotten bones.

The situation of the two graves behind was better, but not much better.

Even the most intact corpses have now become mummies.

Such a corpse is naturally unusable, and even if it is repaired with gray fog, it is estimated that it will not be repaired properly.

There was no choice, Lin Zhongtian had to give up this goal and start looking for the next cemetery.

The search lasted seven or eight hours, from the afternoon of the first day to the morning of the second day.

Almost all the cemeteries we encountered during this period were where people were buried together in the form of clans.

This saved Lin Zhongtian a lot of effort.

But unfortunately, after a whole night of hard work, Lin Zhongtian only proved one thing in the end -

That is, a corpse that has been dead for many days cannot be possessed by another body at all!

Because the prerequisite for him to transfer consciousness is a fully functioning brain.

The brain is controlled through the gray mist filaments, thereby receiving all the senses and signals of this body.

As long as the brain is intact, physical defects can be compensated by gray fog.

But none of the corpses that Lin Zhongtian found had an intact brain. Either the brain had already atrophied, or it had turned into a paste-like mixture of something unclear.

No body could contain his gray ball of consciousness.

Thinking of this, Lin Zhongtian couldn't help but sigh.

It seems that he can only take over the bodies of living people or the corpses of those who have died recently.

The option of taking over a living person's body had just come to his mind when Lin Zhongtian decisively threw it out of his mind.

Although his mentality has gone beyond the scope of human beings, he still subconsciously does not want to do such a thing.

After thinking about it, Lin Zhongtian decided to take it slow.

Anyway, he lacks everything now, except time.

It depends on fate...

Thinking this, Lin Zhongtian turned and ran towards Qiugang Village.

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After about three minutes, Lin Zhongtian returned to Qiugang Village.

As soon as he entered the village, he found that there were fewer people in the village. He thought they all went to work in the fields, but after walking a few steps, he realized that everyone was gathered at Li Erhu's house.

The yard, which was not very big to begin with, was now filled with people.

Everyone gathered in twos or three, discussing something in low voices.

What happened here?

Lin Zhongtian became very interested. He climbed up to the roof in two or three steps, stepped on the tiles and jumped lightly onto the window sill of Li Erhu's house.

Before he landed, Lin Zhongtian heard bursts of quarrels coming from the house.

Looking through the gap in the window, Li Erhu was sitting on the edge of the bed with his upper body naked, with his shoulders held down by a tall man, looking at the crowd in front of him with an angry face.

Beside him, there were two men staring at him.

Once Li Erhu wanted to get up, they would help push him back.

Following Li Erhu's gaze, he saw three white-bearded old men standing beside a crying woman, whispering something.

The old man in the lead was leaning on a cane and spoke in a lecturing tone. He was obviously a highly respected elder in the village.