Chapter 786 Xu Nian
This guess made my heart skip a beat. I thought to myself, if this is true, then this evil celestial phenomenon is really evil. Living in the same village with him is too risky.
I took a deep breath, then suddenly turned around and asked, "Is there a very strange person in your village?"
I described the general appearance of the evil celestial phenomenon and the soul-guiding old man. In fact, I have never seen the real bodies of the evil celestial phenomenon and the soul-guiding old man. The ones I saw before were substitute puppets, so I don't know what they look like. However, these two people are more evil than each other. If they really live in this Xu Village, then this young man should have seen them.
After listening to my description, the boy shook his head and said, "I've never seen that. After I was born, most people in our village have contracted strange diseases, and many people have died. At that time, every household that was not sick was very nervous. No matter whether it was day or night, the doors and windows were closed, and basically no one went out of the house or went out of the back door. I have lived in the village for sixteen years, and I know no more than ten people in this village. Oh, I'm talking about living people. I don't know any of those half-dead people, except... my relatives!"
At the end, his voice suddenly lowered, and he lowered his head, with a look of loss on his face.
I patted his shoulder to comfort him, but I thought to myself that it was not easy for this young man, who had lived in this small mountain village since he was a child, to be able to maintain his sanity in such a terrifying and evil atmosphere. This sanity was very suitable for cultivation.
"Is there anyone else in your family?" I suddenly asked, and after thinking for a while, I added, "Just... normal living people."
Hearing this, he shook his head and said with a look of loss, "No, but my parents are... alive."
I understood what he meant by alive, so I didn't continue to ask, but slowly stood up and stared at the direction of their village in a daze.
On the map that Senior Sister gave me, this Xu Village was specially marked out. Given Senior Sister's style of doing things, it is impossible for her to mark this place out for no reason. Moreover, I met Xie Tianxiang in the Hatching Yin Land before, and he also mentioned their village, so I can be sure that this is definitely the Xu Village where Xie Tianxiang lived.
But I can't be sure whether Xie Tianxiang is still in the village.
I pondered for a while, then asked the boy: "Why do you run out at night instead of staying at home? What's your wooden sword used for?"
"This?" He raised the wooden sword in his hand and said, "My father made this for me when I was a child. It's just an ordinary wooden sword, but this is the only memory he left me, so I have been carrying it with me. As for why I come out in the middle of the night..."
At this point he rubbed his stomach, then muttered embarrassedly: "I'm hungry, so I want to try my luck and see if I can find something to eat."
"Is there no food in your house?" I asked in surprise.
He nodded when I heard me say that, but then shook his head and said, "Yes, yes, but they are all wild vegetables. I can't feel full. I want to eat some dry food and meat..."
His words made me a little stunned. After a long while, I sighed and shook my head. I took out some compressed biscuits and the only remaining bag of vegetarian pig's trotters from my backpack, handed them to him, and said, "Try this." "
Is this meat?" His eyes lit up, but he didn't reach out to take it. He just stared at me: "Can I have it?"
"Of course, here, take it." I said with a smile.
He hesitated after hearing this. Although there was a trace of extreme desire in his eyes, he still did not reach out to take it. He just stammered, "As the saying goes, no merit, no reward. It's not good for me to ask for your things for no reason. How about this, we can exchange at equal value. I'll give you whatever you need?"
I was stunned after hearing his words, but then I laughed.
Although this 16-year-old boy had a trace of obvious immaturity in his eyes when he said these words, it was precisely because of this immaturity and sincerity that it was even more touching.
I smiled and said, "Then you can be my guide and take me around your village. These foods are your reward."
"Okay!" He took the fast food and compressed biscuits and started to eat them impatiently.
He must have not eaten meat for a long time. He was chewing meat with his mouth full of oil. He wanted to stuff the whole pig's trotter into his mouth.
But the later he ate, the slower he ate. I could see that he was a little reluctant to eat, so I asked him, "It's okay, eat. If you don't have enough, I can hunt some game for you."
"Forget it." He shook his head and said, "I don't dare to eat the game around here. I'm afraid that you are sick like me."
After he said that, I realized that I was in the deepest part of the 100,000 Mountains in Miaojiang. There were few people here, and poisonous insects and beasts were everywhere. It can be said that it was a real primitive forest.
But along the way, let alone large beasts, I didn't even see some small animals. I only heard the strange cries of unknown birds occasionally.
"Strange, why are there no animals around?" I looked in the direction of Xu Village and thought to myself, "Could it be because of this village? If so, then this Xu Village is too evil."
Animals are very intelligent. If they feel that there is something strange about this village, they will stay away. Of course, some mountain spirits and wild monsters are an exception. They may deliberately approach this place and even come to investigate.
"What's your name!" I asked the boy.
Maybe the compressed biscuits were too dry. The boy was choking and staring. When I asked him, he said vaguely, "Xu Nian."
"Your last name is Xu?" I was stunned: "What is your relationship with Master Xu?"
"Everyone in our village has the last name Xu, but they should have nothing to do with Master Xu." Xu Nian said indifferently, but I frowned. "
It seems that Xu Nian should be a descendant of the Xu family, but he should be a distant relative. As time goes by, he has become estranged from his original family, that is, the real Xu family, but he does have the blood of the Xu family in his body."
A few minutes later, Xu Nian had eaten all the pig's trotters and compressed biscuits. Maybe he was a little full, so he squatted beside the pond and drank water with his hands.
After drinking, he sat down on the ground, patted his stomach with a satisfied look, and said, "It smells so good. I haven't eaten such delicious food for a long time. Thank you."
After he finished speaking, he grinned at me, but I shook my head with a wry smile.
I would never eat compressed biscuits unless it was absolutely necessary, because they are not delicious. But in Xu Nian's case, they became delicious. This shows how hard this child's life is.
However, even if his life is so hard, he can still wear a sincere smile on his face. I have to say that this young man's character is indeed worthy of recognition.
"Can I see the injuries on your body?" I walked to his side, squatted down and asked.
He thought about it and nodded.
When he slowly took off his clothes, I saw the injuries on his body clearly, and my heart couldn't help but tremble again and again.
In fact, the injuries on his body were too terrible. The bones were exposed at the ribs, and the chest area was almost rotten.
I carefully looked at the injuries on his body, and then let him lie on the ground. He looked puzzled and asked, "What are you going to do?"
"I want to try to see if I can cure your disease." After I said that, I pulled out the Miao Dao from my waist, took a deep breath, and lightly scratched my wrist.
Xu Nian screamed in surprise, and then the red, boiling blood slowly flowed down my wrist and dripped onto Xu Nian's body.
Almost at the moment when the blood dripped onto Xu Nian's body, there was a "sizzle" sound, and then a black gas emanated from Xu Nian's body.