Chapter 4 After the drought snakes had watered the millet field, the water they carried was even more...
After watering the millet field, the water they carried was barely enough for the three of them to use.
The temperature is ridiculously high.
At the beginning, the three of them loved to be clean and took a shower every day relying on their good health. But now they dare not take a shower anymore. They just wipe themselves briefly, which is enough. With this temperature, the sweat will be almost dried up as soon as it comes out.
The three men were talking quietly in the yard after watering the fields.
The door was wide open and the path outside could be seen. Ye Lu saw at a glance a tall and strong middle-aged man who was obviously a good farmer.
"Lu Wazi, the village elders are calling you over for something!" The man saw several people in the yard from a distance and raised his hand to greet them.
Ye Lu squinted his eyes for a long time before he could vaguely see the person coming.
"Seventh uncle?" The person who came was Ye Lu's seventh uncle He Qi. He was an uncle in the clan. Ye Lu's biological uncle was his cousin, so when he spoke, he spoke with the attitude of an elder.
He Qi walked straight in, looked around, and found that the yard was well tidy. He nodded with satisfaction. Well, Lu Wazi has gradually learned how to clean the house. Shitou probably feels relieved about his nephew.
After reading it, He Qi finally expressed his opinion.
"What's the matter?" Ye Lu paused and spoke hesitantly.
He Qi was very calm and soothed: "Don't worry, the magicians are here. And the village elders, it's because you went to Qiang City a few days ago that the village elders wanted to ask you."
Ye Lu became even more confused. What happened in the village that required his intervention?
Ye Lu had also seen himself when he was fetching water before. Although he looked good now, he could be seen from his appearance that he was just a young man who was about to reach adulthood. He definitely had no say in the village, so he had to come forward in this situation.
Ye Lu subconsciously looked at the Ghost Scholar and the others.
The ghost scholar also frowned.
He Qi's expression became calmer, and he said: "If you want your friend to go, you can go together. Every family in the village has to send a few people anyway. The adults in your family are not here, and you are the head of the family, so you can bring someone with you." The village said that they acknowledged the ghost scholar and the playboy to stay in the village, which meant they really acknowledged it, and everything was according to the village rules.
"I know."
Hearing this, He Qi nodded with satisfaction.
When he walked out of the door, He Qi seemed to have thought of something and suddenly turned around, just in time to see Ye Lu's confused expression. He paused and spoke as if to remind him, "No matter what you encounter at the meeting, just say it directly."
Ye Lu nodded again.
He Qi then left.
Ye Lu originally planned to take only the ghost scholar to the meeting. Xi Mingren was not interested in these things. But for some reason, Ye Lu looked at Xi Mingren and suddenly subconsciously grabbed the back of his collar.
The playful man turned around and said: "?"
"You come too!" Ye Lu said briefly, he still felt it was weird, it would be better if the person who played the game could go as well.
The whole family of three could just go, so he had a plan in mind no matter what.
Ye Lu followed the route to the village ancestral hall according to his memory of the places where meetings were often held. The deep red ancestral hall was the tallest building in the village. It was made entirely of wood, with a dark red door with a hint of black on the edge. There were even some plant patterns on the pasted walls.
Ye Lu subconsciously stared at the pattern for a while, and always felt that the pattern was like the millet he had seen before.
As soon as he entered the door, Ye Lu felt a unique pressure that made him hold his breath. It was dark and bloody. Ye Lu subconsciously looked at the roof. This building must be made of strange flesh and blood. There was also a unique feeling of vitality. It was probably the yellow-level strange plant - the green millet.
The pressure as soon as I entered the door should be another kind of weird thing.
Ye Lu was not quite sure, but he could clearly sense the difference between the two. Fortunately, the pressure only lasted for a brief moment, as if it was just to distinguish something. After the pressure was gone, the three of them had the same idea in their minds, that they had passed.
As soon as you enter the inner door.
What Ye Lu saw were dozens of people, gathered in twos and threes, leaning against a few people in the center with more or less different auras. Most of these people were in high spirits, and the few with average spirits also exuded oppression.
Ye Lu's eyes quickly swept over the two middle-aged men, one fat and one thin, who were wearing long robes and had a strange aura. Next to them was a strong middle-aged woman with a majestic figure. She was wearing armor and everyone around her was a little afraid of her.
They were the two sorcerers in the village, Stone Sorcerer and He Sorcerer, and the guard captain Helan.
Most people in the room were dressed very simply. Even the captain of the guard, Helan, was only wearing thicker clothes. Helan was frowning and kept saying something.
The other two sorcerers, including Uncle He San and several village elders were listening with serious expressions.
"Lu Wazi is here." No one knew who in the crowd suddenly shouted. For a moment, the conversation stopped. Helan subconsciously looked outside and met the gaze of Ye Lu and the other two.
Helan didn't seem to care at all that Ye Lu brought two people in. She subconsciously became gentler to Ye Lu at first, and then gestured for Ye Lu to come over with a serious expression.
The crowd automatically made way for them, and Ye Lu followed the crowd to the center. At this time, Ye Lu noticed that there was a small table in front of these people that was very dark in color. The table was empty, and there was a dead snake on it.
The color of this snake was very strange, just like the yellowish earth dug out from the soil. Just looking at it made one feel dry in the mouth. The scales were very rough, and the breath was extremely strange. Ye Lu paused for a moment, then turned his head to look at Helan. He was waiting for Helan's words, so naturally, Ye Lu ignored the abnormality of the man behind him.
Xi Mingren did not have the leisurely feeling he had when he first entered the ancestral hall. His eyes were fixed on the mud snake on the table, his expression was stiff, and the smile on the corners of his mouth was not even that upturned. People who knew him could tell at a glance that something was wrong.
"Lu Wazi, have you been to Qiang City? Is there drought in the city as well?" Helan stated his purpose concisely.
Ye Lu immediately recalled the Qiang City in his memory. Although Ye Lu had only stayed in Qiang City for a short time and his memories were still a little vague, most of them were experiences of buying cloth and other things in the city. However, he still remembered the more or less anxious expressions on the faces of the people in the city.
"Drought!" Ye Lu said with certainty.
"The owner of the cloth shop in the market had a very bad expression on his face. He kept talking to the waiter about the decreasing amount of water in his well. Also, this day was very strange, with less water and more mud. He was also discussing whether to stock up on some weird food and grain."
After Ye Lu finished speaking, he was stunned. Yes, Qiang City was very dry. When he thought about it carefully, the drought in his memory was very serious, but why didn't he care?
"It's true, no wonder the drought snake also came out!" The thinner sorcerer at the side spoke first. He was tall and spoke in a familiar tone when talking about Ye Lu. It was sorcerer He.
"Drought snakes come out with the drought. If it's just them, there's no need to panic. This kind of weirdness is at most the White Resentment level. We can still make some putty and use it as fertilizer. But we should be afraid that there is something else behind it." The fatter magician's surname is Shi. Most people in the village respectfully call him Shi Magician. He is considered to be invited by the village and has a lot of knowledge. Every year, the village only needs to give him some green millet as a reward.
The stone magician is not young anymore. He used to live comfortably in He Village and seemed to want to retire there.
The villagers of He Village were naturally very welcoming. In this world, a village with a sorcerer and a village without a sorcerer are two different things.
As soon as the stone mage finished speaking, the atmosphere fell into silence.
"Land snakes are easy to move and love flesh. A land snake as long as an arm can sometimes swallow the flesh of a half-grown adult. This also makes them the most common monsters raised by most powerful monsters."
Helan also listened to the end. This drought snake was discovered by the guard team this morning. Drought snakes are not allowed to enter the village. Once they enter the village, the drought will worsen and the water vapor will naturally be suppressed. If there are too many drought snakes, the fields will even turn into useless sand. This is what the villagers are superstitious about.
That's why Helan spoke so loudly to the village elders.
"Now what we are looking at is whether this drought snake crawled out because of the drought, or... because of some omen?" Helan said the following sentence slowly. When she said it, she slowly exhaled, and her brows were furrowed tightly.
No one spoke, and no one was sure.
No one dared to speak, and the two magicians were not sure at all.
Helan looked around, and then looked at his uncle He San, who had not spoken a word from the beginning until now. The old man was sitting very well, upright, with a cane in his hand, his eyes closed, and no words.
"Uncle, can you take a look?" Helan had no choice but to ask his elders.
Ye Lu listened from beginning to end, and couldn't help but look at the corpse of the drought snake. This was something he had never seen before. It should be a unique weirdness in this world. Ye Lu could also feel that this weirdness could aggravate the drought. It was a unique advantage. After watching for a while, Ye Lu even wanted to study the corpse.
This land snake should also be of the earth element, right?
Coincidentally, they are professionally matched, and Ye Lu really wants to see how it differs from the real earth-based weirdness.
Just as Ye Lu was thinking about something, suddenly, he felt someone tugging at the corner of his clothes. He subconsciously turned his head and met the extremely ugly expression of the ghost scholar and the playful man with cold sweat on his forehead. The playful man stared at the corpse of the dry snake on the table, the hair on his arms stood up, his teeth were clenched, and he was about to run away in the next second.
Ye Lu's heart sank instantly!
The Ximingren's talent is to foresee danger, and his instinct makes him extremely sensitive to danger. The last time the Ximingren lost his composure like this was in the world of Lingshan Living Buddha. At that time, the Ximingren had the same reaction when he saw the black jar containing the human-pig sacrifice. His face was covered in cold sweat and he was extremely panicked.
It turns out that the instinctive prediction of the playful person was correct.
That one copy almost killed all three of them.
This is what the playful people look like now.
Ye Lu began to sweat unconsciously on his back.
Ye Lu subconsciously touched his forehead, his hand full of cold sweat, and then looked at the ghost scholar next to him, whose expression was equally unhappy, and even getting uglier.
"Ah Xi, calm down, don't let your instincts control you!" Although Ye Lu was sweating coldly, as the person who makes the final decision in a three-person team, he was also the first one to calm down and quickly regained control of the rhythm, and was able to calm down the people around him.
Ye Lu also grabbed the wrist of the playful man, touching his body with warmth and speaking in a soothing tone. Soon, the playful man, who had clenched his teeth, calmed down at the familiar voice. Although the playful man's expression was still as frightened as ever, he could at least speak.
"Danger." The playful man squeezed out a few words from between his teeth, and his tone seemed to indicate that he had anticipated something terrifying.
"It's terrifying." The Ximing man stared at the corpse of the drought snake and said, "In the back, I saw that the land was dry and cracked, and a monster came out of the soil."
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