MTL - Cannon Fodder Counterattack Investigation System-Chapter 43

Zhou Ziruo woke up completely, grabbed and slapped Lu Lixiao, Lu Lixiao opened his eyes and frowned, "What are you doing?"

Zhou Ziruo ignored the displeasure in his tone, "There is a 'thing' outside the door!"

The reason why he said "things" instead of people was because his keen demon intuition made him feel the yin energy that humans absolutely do not have!

Lu Lixiao rolled over and got off the bed, Zhou Ziruo hurriedly jumped onto his shoulder.

When he came to the door, Lu Lixiao pressed his hand on the door panel and said in a low voice, "Just outside the door?"

Zhou Ziruo nodded repeatedly.

With a "creak" sound, Lu Lixiao opened the old door, but saw that there was only a dark living room outside the door, and there was no "thing" there. Behind the other locked door opposite the living room was the room of the second elder of the Duan family. Lu Lixiao walked over and stood in front of the door, folded his arms and meditated.

Zhou Ziruo whispered in his ear: "Could it be that the second elder has really recovered?"

"Probably not." Lu Lixiao picked up a yellow talisman pasted on the top of the door frame with his fingertips, "Although I don't know how this talisman got into the village, this talisman is enough to bring back ghosts with the level of spirit recovery." Repression is within this door."

"Then... have other ghosts come in? Are they eyeing us?" Duan Peng's house has been vacant for so many years. If it was a haunted village, it would have been rumored. Village Chief Su didn't dare to let them live in, so he just It could be for them.

Lu Lixiao said, "Probably so."

"I feel a bit like a water ghost! Because I heard the sound of water, like water dripping from a drowning person..." Zhou Ziruo tightly gripped the cloth on Lu Lixiao's shoulder.

Lu Lixiao raised his hand to caress his back, "Don't be afraid, just don't leave my side."

In the early morning of the second day, Lu Lixiao took Zhou Ziruo to Su Village's head's house for breakfast.

In order to entertain the guests, Village Chief Su went to the neighbors to beg for a few eggs, and cooked a big pot of rice porridge. Seeing that the poor in the village were spending money, Leng Mo forced Village Chief Su to collect two ingots of silver for their board and lodging fee.

At the breakfast table, Mu Qijun carefully peeled a white boiled egg, and put it into Leng Mo's bowl attentively, "Mo, I peeled it for you!"

Leng Mo was not used to being taken care of by others, so he said, "Let me peel one for you too."

"No, no!" Mu Qijun hurriedly stopped him, Leng Mo didn't know why.

Zhou Ziruo sits on Lu Lixiao's lap and enjoys the egg yolk delivered to his mouth while despising Mu Qijun. Of course, a dead fat chicken can't eat eggs, because he got out of an egg!

After Lu Lixiao finished feeding the egg yolk, he took a half bowl of porridge and fed it to Zhou Ziruo. While eating the porridge, Zhou Ziruo felt someone watching him, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Sujin holding the bowl and lowering her head.

Although it was only a momentary encounter, Zhou Ziruo could see the girlish novelty in Sujin's eyes.

Zhou Ziruo squinted his eyes, it turned out that this little girl was not as indifferent to the outside world as she showed, and her indifferent look when facing others might be largely pretended.

Is Su Jin's illness a heart disease? Autism?

After the meal, Lu Lixiao, Mu Qijun and Leng Mo split up to go to the village to inquire about news. Daohe Village is small and remote, and no outsiders pass by all year round. The news of the arrival of the three of them spread throughout the village last night. When the villagers learned that they were disciples of the Immortal Sect, they respected and feared them at the same time, and did not dare to speak to them at all.

Lu Lixiao walked around the village for an hour, and people asked a lot, but he didn't get any useful information. During the period, I also saw the head of Su village leading several young people in the village to help the widowed and lonely old people do physical work, which was very enjoyable.

As the sun was getting hotter, Lu Lixiao found a place to rest in the shade of a tree. At this moment, he heard chatter and laughter approaching from far away. It turned out that it was the women in the village who had just finished washing their clothes. They were chatting and returning home in groups. .

Seeing Lu Lixiao staring at those women, Zhou Ziruo called out in a low voice, "Brother Xiao?"

Lu Lixiao stepped forward and asked the women, "Is there a river near Daohe Village?"

The women in the mountains and fields had never seen such a handsome and tall young man as Lu Lixiao, and they were all a little embarrassed. One of the elderly women replied: "Going west from the village, there is a small river..."

Lu Lixiao thanked him and rushed to Xiaohe.

"Brother Xiao, aren't we inquiring about the news in the village?" Zhou Ziruo asked strangely.

Lu Lixiao said: "Let the village be handed over to Junior Brother Leng and the others."

"There are no people living by the river, what can we find?"

Lu Lixiao said, "Didn't you say that 'thing' looked like a water ghost last night?"

Zhou Ziruo let out an "ah" and suddenly realized.

Not long after, Lu Lixiao found the small river outside the village. It is not correct to say that it is a "small river". This river is much wider than imagined, and the water flow is a bit turbulent. Presumably the women in the village should wash their clothes in a place downstream where the water is calm.

Lu Lixiao walked a few steps along the river, and took out the piccolo Shuyu from his waist. The sound of the flute blew, and Zhou Ziruo carefully guarded his surroundings, but half a quarter passed, except for the sound of "squeaking" water, there was no other movement.

"...Isn't it a water ghost?" Zhou Ziruo whispered.

Lu Lixiao put away Shuyu, "Maybe he left this river."

"It's possible, it showed up at Uncle Duan Peng's house last night." Zhou Ziruo nodded.

Lu Lixiao said, "But from what I've learned, water ghosts shouldn't be too far away from the river where they lost their lives. After all, this river is a long way from Daohe Village, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless," Lu Lixiao squinted his eyes, "it's not just a water ghost."

Zhou Ziruo was about to ask "what do you mean", when suddenly a faint cry for help came from his ears! As a disciple of the Immortal Sect, Lu Lixiao's hearing is no worse than Zhou Ziruo's. The two of them looked upstream at the same time, and saw a small figure in the center of the river more than ten feet away, struggling ups and downs in the water, caught by the river. Take it and hit it on a big reef!

Lu Lixiao pushed aside Zhou Ziruo who was on his shoulders, flew up, stepped against the current of the river, grabbed the figure out of the water with a precise grasp, and flew down to the bank.

Zhou Ziruo ran over, only to realize that the child who fell into the water was the first one who threw a stone at Sujin yesterday. The little kid was terribly frightened, crying non-stop, grabbing Lu Lixiao's clothes tightly and refusing to let go, Ren Lu Lixiao is omnipotent on weekdays, but he can't do anything except snot and tears The little boy who came out was completely helpless. Fortunately, not long after, the mother of the little boy came to find him.

The woman was washing clothes downstream, but she didn't notice that the child sneaked up to play upstream, and hurriedly found her son and learned that her son was almost drowned, her face turned pale with fright, and she almost kowtowed to Lu Lixiao to thank her.

Lu Lixiao declined, "It's just a matter of raising your hands, and the water flow is not too fast, so accidents won't happen easily."

The woman held her son and wiped her tears and said, "Hero, you don't know something. Once this river falls, you will die! If you hadn't saved my Douzi today, I'm afraid...!"

"Oh?" Lu Lixiao and Zhou Ziruo heard the clue, "Is there any mystery about this river?"

The woman said: "In the beginning, this river was an ordinary river. It is not that no one in the village fell into it before, but few people were drowned! Until, until ten years ago..." The woman's voice suddenly became quieter. "Ten years ago, the village chief's wife fell into it and drowned... Since then, no one who fell into this river can come up. Everyone secretly said...It was the village chief's wife who turned into a water ghost, Pull everyone who falls into the river..."

Lu Lixiao said: "The village chief Xia Guansu is loyal and kind, presumably his wife is also a gentle and wise person, how could he harm the villagers who fell into the water?"

The woman said: "We didn't believe it at first, until A Hong, a young man in the village, almost fell into the water when he was crossing the river a few years ago. He ran back to the village like crazy and said that there was a woman with disheveled hair under the water who wanted to pull him down...A Hong is a villager. The most honest person! Never lie!...Everyone dares to talk about this in private, not to tell the village chief, after all, the village chief treats us well...The village chief's wife was indeed a very good person when she was alive, but This person has become a ghost, who knows if he will be infected with evil nature... plus the matter of girl Jin..."

"Miss Sujin? Did anything happen to her?" Lu Lixiao asked. Hearing Sujin, Zhou Ziruo became more focused.

Village Chief Su manages the village well, gets along very well with every household in the village, and is very loved by the villagers. It seems that these words have been held back in the hearts of the villagers for a long time. Today, when there is a gap, the woman said it all at once.

"Girl Jin didn't look like this before! Three years ago, girl Jin suddenly had those marks on her face, and her hair gradually turned white. Everyone secretly speculated that their mother and daughter were bewitched!"

"Three years ago..." Lu Lixiao whispered.

Once the woman chattered, she couldn't stop, "Girl Jin used to be the most lovable little girl in the village. She was white and clean, exactly the same as her aunt when she was a child..."

"Auntie?" Lu Lixiao heard a question, "Cun Chief Su only has two brothers, but also sisters?"

"Yes, there are four brothers and sisters in the village chief's family, and the youngest sister is named Suwan." Speaking of this, the woman sighed, "Suwan also had a hard life. After getting married at the age of sixteen, she never returned home. I heard that Sick and died outside..."

"The youngest sister of Village Chief Su married out of the village?"

The woman frowned slightly, "It's strange to talk about this, Su Wan didn't hold a wedding banquet in the village back then, and I remember that no one from Su's family went away for a few days, but suddenly they heard They said that Suwan got married... Maybe her husband's family was rich and looked down on our small mountain village, so they took her away without making a sound..."

"Do you remember when that happened?" Lu Lixiao asked.

The woman thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "It seems... about thirty years ago! Suwan married for two years, and I will marry the one in our family, and I will give birth to his sister Dou Zi in the next year... Alas, if Suwan has a child in her husband's family, who is probably about the same age as Miaoer in our family..."

The woman took her son back to the village, and Lu Lixiao walked slowly downstream along the river with a deep expression on his face.

Zhou Ziruo leaned on his shoulder and asked, "Brother Xiao, did the village chief's wife become a water ghost?"

Lu Lixiao shook his head, "The rumors of the villagers in the mountains and fields are rumored. It's hard to tell whether it's true or not. If you just slipped into the water, you won't turn into a water ghost. I just checked with Shuyu just now. There is no evil thing in the bottom of the water that can turn a dead person into a ghost."

The "something" last night has nothing to do with the death of the village chief's wife.

Zhou Ziruo began to think about Sujin.

Su Jin was not born with that appearance, but suddenly became ugly three years ago, there must be something wrong with it.

Lu Lixiao stopped suddenly, Zhou Ziruo interrupted his thoughts and said, "What's wrong?"

"Do you still remember when you met Village Chief Su yesterday, he said that Uncle Duan Peng had returned to the village 30 years ago?"

"It seems that there is such a thing..." Zhou Ziruo recalled.

Lu Lixiao said: "What a coincidence... Village Chief Su's younger sister, Su Wan, hastily married out of the village 30 years ago, could it have something to do with Uncle Duan Peng?"