Lanke Chess Edge

The monks of Xianxia Island flew away with the Dharma light, and Ji Yuan and Chang Yi were left behind in this mountain range.

Ji Yuan looked around the wilderness, although it had been burned by Xiaguang Lihuo, the mountain did not have too many scorched marks, but a subtle scorched smell inevitably diffused, for people like them who are more spiritually aware , the more pungent it smells, on the contrary, ordinary people may not feel anything when they smell it.

Looking at the ground veins again, although the gap is still there, the ground force has disappeared, and now it is a deep rift valley, which is no different from ordinary natural features.

"It's a pity that the mountain god here, this mountain range is not too small. Originally, the mountain god's Taoism should not be too bad. The rupture of the ground vein must have seriously injured his vitality, and then he was taken advantage of by the monster..."

Sighing, he said that the relationship between the mountain god of this mountain and the offshoot of Xianxia Island is not bad, and he tried to notify the other party as soon as possible after the accident, but he did not expect to usher in disaster for both parties.

"Let's go, let's take a look around the mountain first."

After Ji Yuan finished speaking, he and Chang Yi rode the clouds together, flew to the sky, and then patrolled the mountains.

Most of the area in the center of the mountain range is fragmented due to the fighting skills between immortals, demons, and demons, and the outer area is better. However, Ji Yuan scanned the mountains and saw countless animal corpses. caused the death of a large number of animals.

The problem that Ji Yuan was worried about was obviously not non-existent. Although the two of them scanned the air with their magic eyes at the moment, they didn't find any traces of evil spirits, but there were endless animal corpses everywhere in the mountains.

It wasn't until they flew to the outside for a while, and finally reached the edge of this mountain range that stretched for hundreds of miles, that living creatures finally began to appear, and they could see the habitat of herbivores and carnivores.

On the clouds in the sky, Chang Yi looked a little more relaxed, and said to Ji Yuan.

"Mr. Ji, it seems that the evil spirit of the earth veins did not spread too far before, otherwise ordinary animals would not be able to survive."

"Well, let's go and have a look, I don't know if the world here is chaotic or not."

"This Chang is not clear."

The two exchanged a few words, and then drove the cloud towards the direction of the human kingdom farther away, but the speed was not fast, because during this period, they had to observe the changes in the aura below and the trend of the earth veins.

In terms of time, at least a month has passed since the beginning of the series of incidents, from the time when the monks from the branch of Xianxia Island set up formations at the cracks in the ground veins, to being attacked by monsters, and then to Xianxia Island rushing to help.

Taking advantage of the flying speed of Xianxia Island, it took more than ten days to get here from Dazhen, but it also takes time for Xianxia Island to cross the East China Sea. With the previous situation, more than a month is a reasonable estimate.

During this period, although the violent eruption did not erupt as violently as when it was detonated by a demon, most of them were trapped in the mountains, but Ji Yuan didn't think it would really leak out.

...

One and a half months ago, the northwest of Dongtuyunzhou was also the northwest of Yuanzhao Kingdom.

It was a sunny morning, but suddenly the ground began to shake, countless people panicked, and some even ran and hid inside the house.

Until an old man or a knowledgeable person yelled: "The earth dragon turned over---!"

And yelled for everyone to escape from the house, otherwise they might be crushed to death by the collapsed house.

But in the end it was a false alarm. After all, the mountain range is still a little far away. Although there is an obvious tremor here, it will not cause too much disaster. Even the earth embryo house is almost fine. Several dilapidated houses collapsed.

Two or three days after the earthquake, most people have forgotten about the earthquake and continued to live their slightly difficult days.

It was the third day after the earthquake, and it was sunny and sunny.

Liao Daqiu and Lao Zhang from the same village carried a rake and drove the ox cart along the road outside the village. The old cow at the front of the cart looked very thin, but the pace of walking was still very steady, dragging the cart smoothly We are advancing on some potholed village roads.

Lao Liao and Lao Zhang sat on the cart, and the former used the bullwhip to scratch the side of the old scalper from time to time, and the old scalper knew which way to turn.

Soon, a river appeared in sight, Lao Liao looked at it and sighed.

"Hey... this world..."

Lao Zhang, who was sitting with him, looked in the direction of Lao Liao, and saw two corpses by the river, both of them were facing upwards, their faces were pale, their skin and flesh were swollen several times, and they looked like they were wearing armor. Probably two pawns.

Because it was not very far from the river, the two of them could see the person lying by the river very clearly, and after confirming that the body was correct, there was no need to run to save the person.

"I don't know if he drowned or died of war?"

Lao Zhang sighed with emotion, while Lao Liao shook his head and didn't want to talk about this topic. He twitched the cow's buttocks and turned the cart into a small road. In front of him were several farmlands piled up with straw.

Liao Daqiu looked back at the corpse on the river beach, and then at his companion Lao Zhang.

"Old Zhang... When we collect the straw and go back, or..."

Lao Zhang also knew what Liao Daqiu wanted to say, so he nodded helplessly.

"Okay, we'll load the straw into the cart later, and we'll go to the river to collect the bodies of the two soldiers and carry them into the cart, and then take them to the old place."

"Hey, let's do it!"

While talking, the two old farmers stopped the ox cart, and then went into the field to work. These straw poles can be used as firewood for cooking and cooking. Occasionally, they can be used as emergency forage for cattle mixed with other materials to feed cattle.

I have been busy for more than an hour, picking up grass and tying grass before putting it on the bullock cart. At this moment, thick hay has been piled up on the cart, and there are still a lot of straw in the field, but the rest will not be taken away, but It will be set on fire, so that the crops will grow better during the planting season.

"Okay, let's go, let's go back."

"Um."

The two turned around in the bullock cart, and soon returned to the river beach. The two corpses were still lying there. This time the bullock cart didn't pass by directly, but was driven to the river by Liao Daqiu.

"Why……"

Both of them sighed slightly, and began to use a rake to completely lift the corpse ashore. Because of previous experience, they were especially careful in this movement, for fear of scratching the corpse, and the ground would be stained with blood.

Now that the weather is still cold, the corpses did not stink. The two of them put the two corpses on the straw pile of the cart after a lot of effort and their clothes were wet, and then they got on the cart and drove away. The cow leaves.

More than a quarter of an hour later, the ox cart approached the outside of Maotan Village where Lao Zhang and Lao Liao lived.

"Old Zhang, please watch over here, I'll call someone."

"Got it, let's go!"

Lao Zhang huddled himself in the haystack. His clothes were a little wet before, so he didn't feel hot after finishing his work, but now he was a little cold.

Liao Daqiu got out of the car alone and ran towards the village. He talked to acquaintances along the way, and then went to the village chief's house to call for someone.

About half a quarter of an hour later, Liao Daqiu came back with four or five men, not empty-handed, some with shovels, some with rakes, and some with broken mats.

"Hey, Uncle Liao, let's not do this kind of thing in the future, okay? The corpse of a foreigner, let it go..."

A younger man was carrying a hoe, and subconsciously smacked his nose before he got close to the cart. He was afraid of the smell of corpses.

"Xiao Liu, what you old Liao said at the beginning is also reasonable. No matter how far away we are, we can't control the corpses on the side of the road outside the village and on the river beach. Let's help if we can. Besides, our village also uses river water. The county The doctor said that accumulating corpses would turn into an epidemic, which is both good deeds and self-help."

"Yes, yes, count me as a mouthful..."

The young man didn't say anything else, and followed everyone to the other side. The group of people unloaded the straw first, and then drove the ox cart to the side in another direction.

Not long after, they came to a place similar to a mass grave. There were small graves everywhere, some with simple wooden signs as tombstones, and some without.

Liao Daqiu was also a little emotional. The source of this grave was traced back to him. Of course, he could not kill people. This grave area is full of unknown corpses who died near Maotan Village. It was Lao Liao who first proposed to help They were buried.

In this troubled world, such dead bodies on the side of the road can be found everywhere.

Not only for the sake of his hometown, but also to sympathize with the dead. Seven or eight years ago, Liao Daqiu started with the village chief's house and went door-to-door with acquaintances to discuss the matter. Finally, this cemetery was established.

It has to be said that most people are selfish, but even in difficult times, there are still good people.

Several people first worshiped at a small half-person-high land temple outside the cemetery, praying for the care of the land master, and then began to work quickly.

They were all peasants digging in the ground to eat. They had enough strength to dig a hole. Several people took turns to dig, and soon dug a big hole, and the corpses were also rolled up by the broken mat.

Without turning over the corpse, several people carried the corpse together and put it into the pit.

"There is an injustice and a debtor. We are not the ones who harmed you. We just couldn't bear to expose your corpses to the wilderness, so we found a place to bury you. It would be nice to have earth to cover your body after death these days. We have no spare energy to sacrifice to you." Rest in peace, you all!"

Liao Daqiu rambled on for a while, and then started filling the soil with everyone. This kind of burial work is not as complicated as a formal funeral.

Soon, with the joint efforts of several people, a small grave was completed. Liao Daqiu and the old village head squeezed the soil with a shovel to tamp it down.

When they went back, everyone felt relaxed. Even the young man who complained before, even though he had said a few words before, now felt a sense of accomplishment for having done something good.

"Hey, Lao Zhang, we still have to fix the straw."

"That's not right!"

"By the way, Uncle Li, I heard that there is a plague in the neighboring county?"

"Hey, don't tell me, I've heard about it. Last time I went to the county to buy, I met my wife's family. That person is a doctor. He told me that the neighboring county has recently had an epidemic."

The old village head looked at them with a hoe on his shoulder, and then at Liao Daqiu.

"So it is very necessary for us to bury the corpses with Lao Liao. I heard that the plague is the poisonous miasma from these corpses. It is the resentment that the dead cannot be buried!"

"Hiss... Uncle Li, please stop talking..."

"Hahahaha, you young man is so timid?"

"Hahahaha... that is to say, Xiao Liu, you can't marry a wife like this!"

"Go, who said I'm timid!"

A group of people chatted with each other, and went back to the village happily. Although life was sad, it was much better than those roadside corpses.

Gradually, the sky darkened and the night became darker. The cemetery outside the village was gradually filled with will-o'-the-wisps, and the earth temple next to it was filled with a faint yellow light.

In this peaceful night, a weasel suddenly appeared in the wilderness far away, and then rushed towards the cemetery at high speed, and finally stopped in front of the Earth Temple.

"Squeak... squeak..."

The weasels kept squeaking in front of the Earth Temple, their voices were high and low, sometimes sharp and sometimes like crying.

"What? The ghost of the plague? It's so powerful that the Yin Division can't suppress it!? It's spread?"

With the sound of astonishment, a crooked old man walked out of the earth temple, looking at the weasel with a look of surprise.

"Squeak... squeak..."

"You... that's all, you go!"

Hearing what the land lord said, the weasel stood up and bowed to him, then turned around and flew away, disappearing into the wilderness.

The Earth Lord sighed, and turned to look at the cemetery, with wildfires floating around.

In the chaotic era, the underworld is weak, and even the lonely ghosts have no spare capacity to fully contain them. The land of this cemetery has already reported to the city god in charge, but after all these years, it can only be maintained as it is now.

"Hey, plague ghost... how many people will die this time..."