Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 64 Each choice
Before County Lieutenant Xie had time to marvel at the magic of this formation, he saw Mr. Chen doing something again -

He pieced together the body of the basket girl and said with a kind smile, "My girl, it's done. Get up now."

Then I saw that the large and small pieces of the body were sticking together, forming a rough human figure, and then crawling up from the ground.

Many fierce soldiers turned pale and felt like vomiting, and County Lieutenant Xie's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

"It's okay, it's just some blood and flesh lost. When you add them back, it will be a beautiful corpse again." Mr. Chen comforted Xie Gui.

"What does it have to do with me?" Xie County Magistrate spat in annoyance, then turned to Dong Dangmen and said, "Let the common people start robbing tombs?"

"Where do we start?" Dong Dangmen pulled out an ancient compass from his sleeve and asked, "That grave mound?"

"Ah, isn't the tomb door right there?" County Lieutenant Xie was stunned.

"Stupid, that's fake." Mr. Chen sneered, "How could the entrance to the underground palace of a big shot be right in front of you?"

"That's right." Dong Dangmen stared at the needle on the compass and nodded, saying, "Even this tomb is fake. It's just a pile of soil dug out from the underground palace to mislead future generations."

"Where is the entrance?" County Lieutenant Xie was completely confused.

"Look for the acupoint by observing the Qi." Dong Dangmen checked the Feng Shui of the place while comparing it with the compass. "The high mountain is like a tent behind, and the inside of the tent is slightly slanted. The belt dances down like a rat's tail. This is the Greedy Wolf climbing the mountain."

He walked all the way to the foot of the mountain, then looked back at the dragon vein and said, "If it comes out straight and passes diagonally, then the cave also comes out straight and passes diagonally."

As he spoke, he walked several dozen feet towards the Bald Mountain opposite, then took off his blindfold, revealing only the white of his eye.

This kind of eyes is called "hidden eyes", which is a unique skill passed down by the Dong family. It can penetrate the ground and find pulses and qi.

He used the Tai Chi acupuncture technique to survey the ground with the 'hidden eye' and found a faint, hazy halo not far from his feet. It was visible at a glance but invisible at a closer look.

"This is where the real cave is." Dong Dangmen pointed to the ground and said confidently: "Dig down from here!"

"Get to work!" County Lieutenant Xie gave the order, and the soldiers used women and children as hostages and drove the men to start digging the ground.

Actually, using mana will make the mining faster. But how can we waste precious mana? It is more cost-effective to use the common people who don't spend money...

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West Mountain.

Ren Yuan and others were crawling among the rocks and grass, taking in the entire scene in front of the shrine. Their faces were as ugly as they could be.

When they saw the soldiers began to drive the people to dig the ground, they knew there was nothing to see for the time being, so they quietly retreated.

After retreating to a safe area, Tian Liangzi sighed and said, "A Yuan said that the man named Xie could kill us all. I thought he was only trying to boost others' morale and destroy his own prestige, but now I see that he was not lying at all."

"Yes, seeing that he can predict the opponent's attack in advance, he was besieged at such a fast speed, but he didn't make any mistakes. He must have opened the fourth orifice and reached the level of heaven and man's sympathy." A Yao also said with a rare serious expression:

"Besides, his sword and shield are both excellent magic weapons, but we don't have any of them. We are really at a disadvantage."

"The strength of that one-eyed dragon is probably even stronger than that of Xie." Tian Liangzi added, "His battle flag has some magical power..."

Ren Yuan secretly sighed after hearing this, it is indeed true that 'the rich rely on equipment, the poor rely on mutations'.

I originally thought that my group of people were quite powerful, but I didn't expect that they would be exposed in front of a real master.

'We have always been just a bunch of country freaks...' Ren Yuan finally understood his position clearly, but he was not discouraged at all. Instead, he became more motivated - call him stupid or arrogant, he always believed that as long as others could do it, he could do it too!

But at the moment, it was meaningless to fight against the enemy with an egg, so he said softly: "In this case, let's avoid the sharp edge for the time being?"

"..." Senior sister looked conflicted, hesitating to speak.

"Okay, you guys go quickly." Tian Liangzi nodded.

"What about you, uncle?" Ren Yuan asked.

"Of course I can't leave." Tianliangzi said as a matter of course.

"What can we do if we stay?" Ren Yuan said excitedly, "Besides risking our own life, we can't even save one more person!"

"I know, I know everything. But the couplet on the door of my Hebo Temple says 'May the weather be favorable and the people prosperous.'" Tianliangzi looked at the thousands of trembling people with a firm gaze and said, "I can't make big promises when everything is peaceful and then deny my promises at a time like this."

"Hahaha, well said." At this time, a bald old man wearing a green Taoist robe and with an immortal look suddenly crawled out from the ground and scared A Yao.

"Who is this old man?"

"You two little guys, you pulled out all my hair, and you don't even recognize me?" The old man took the willow cane in his hand and knocked her head. "Liu Zhongjun?" A Yao was stunned and said, "How can you transform into a human form?"

"What a joke! He has been practicing for four hundred years. Is it surprising that he can transform into a human form?" Tian Liangzi said, but looked at Liu Zhongjun worriedly.

Liu Zhongjun gave him a look and he stopped talking.

"Why is the old man here?" Ren Yuan asked at this time.

"My cultivation depends entirely on the people's support. How can I not come?" Liu Zhongjun smiled as a matter of course, "Otherwise I will be punished by the gods."

"Don't think this old man doesn't talk much, he's a brainwasher." Tian Liangzi smiled bitterly and said, "It's because of his influence that I've become more and more stubborn."

"But A'yao, you are no longer subject to incense and karma," Liu Zhongjun looked at A'yao and Ren Yuan kindly and said, "There is no need to stay and die. Go quickly with A'yuan."

"No, we are a bunch of country freaks, do we really need to be so conscious?" Although Ren Yuan was touched, he really didn't want to see the two elders die in vain, so he persuaded them with strong words: "And the key is that it is meaningless!"

"You also said that we are just crude country freaks, how can we understand what is meaningful and what is meaningless?" Tian Liangzi smiled and said, "Just do what you think is right!"

“Hehehe…” Liu Zhongjun gathered his beard and nodded, “Just to make myself feel at ease.”

"Okay, then, the two old seniors, let's say goodbye now." Ren Yuan's persuasion was fruitless, so he nodded helplessly and said goodbye to the two of them with a fist: "I will tell the villagers about your deeds."

"Yes, yes, this is very important." Tian Liangzi said happily, "We must let the villagers know that their incense was not burned in vain."

"Hehe..." Liu Zhongjun smiled kindly and waved at the two of them.

"Senior Sister, let's go." Ren Yuan looked at A Yao nervously, afraid that she would do something stupid too.

"Oh..." A Yao was obviously conflicted, but still nodded, bid farewell to the two old seniors, and followed Ren Yuan down the mountain.

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The two men rode on leopards, with A Yao holding a cat, and walked on the empty country road.

The atmosphere was more depressing than ever before, and even the civet cat kept quiet.

It was Ren Yuan who broke the long silence and cursed:
"Why the fuck, the further I walk, the more guilty I feel?!"

"What do you mean?" asked the civet cat.

"Just now when I was on the mountain, I wanted to leave, but when I really left, I felt bad because I felt I shouldn't have left those two old guys behind." Ren Yuan sighed depressedly, "And those fellow villagers..."

"In fact, I also enjoyed the incense offerings for a period of time before..." A Yao also said softly at this time: "I shouldn't refuse to pay."

"Then why are you still coming with me?" Ren Yuan asked.

"We can't let you go alone, how pitiful will Yuan be?" Senior Sister lowered her head with a bitter face, wishing she could be split in half. "But I also feel that if I leave like this, I will never forgive myself in this life."

"That's right." The civet cat nodded, put its paw on Ren Yuan's shoulder and said, "We'll be good brothers for life. If you don't want to be a good person, then we'll be good friends with you."

"What do you mean by not being a human being? Can you speak?" Ren Yuanbai glanced at it and sighed, "Okay, so I'm the only bad guy."

"No, no, Yuan, we will accompany you to be bad guys." A Yao quickly shook his head.

"Bad cat." The civet cat corrected.

"Hululu..." Chibao also nodded with a silly smile.

"Let us live with the guilt. Maybe one day we will get over it," A Yao comforted Ren Yuan.

"Guilt..." Ren Yuan spat, and after a long silence, he said in a muffled voice: "How about we go back?"

"Don't force yourself." Senior sister said hurriedly.

"Let's go back." Ren Yuan had already made up his mind. He let out a long breath and said, "This world of cannibalism is not worth living in!"

"Okay!" The senior sister immediately smiled and responded crisply.

Without waiting for orders, the red leopard made a sharp turn and quickly returned the same way.

ps. There is one more chapter to be updated.

(End of this chapter)