Lord of Deception

After Yu Ziqing thought for a moment, he immediately ended the process of thinking about the matryoshka dolls.

I once imagined that this place would be a sweat mine, with fat overseers wielding barbed whips, forcing trafficked people to do dangerous and hard mining work without enough food, so that The death rate is too high, so we have to keep buying people from Renyazi.

Unfortunately, it turned out to be completely different from what he thought, and the water here was much deeper than he thought.

Ordinary villagers who look extraordinary.

It just so happens that they are sitting on a precious resource, and the proportion is ridiculously high.

And no one came to capture this place and take away the mine.

Forget it, it's better to listen to the old sheep's advice honestly, don't meddle in other people's business, and it's best not to be too curious. Wait until your body is well, then replenish some supplies, and leave here before spring.

Following Erhan all the way, we entered one of the earthen cave dwellings we had seen for the first time. The space inside was much larger and emptier than expected.

Bursts of orange-red halo came out from the depths, and the heat seemed to be controlled by an invisible force. Taking a few steps forward, the temperature climbed straight up. Yu Ziqing followed Erhan for less than ten steps, and he started to feel... Sweat.

"Erhan, go ahead, I'll wait here..."

Give in decisively.

"Ah..." Erhan looked confused and pointed inside: "Why don't you follow me to have a look?"

"Forget it, you go put your things away first, I'll wait for you here."

Erhan was a little confused, so he continued walking inward with the tray. After about ten steps, the heat distorted the air, making his body look a little distorted. After a few more steps, he could only see one person. Blurred shadow.

Yu Ziqing clicked his tongue and said, "Heh, is this an ordinary person?"

Outrageous.

Have they really never done so-called spiritual practice?

A moment later, Erhan walked out from the depths of the blazing cave, his face not red and his heart not beating. Just looking at his expression, it looked like he regretted not secretly eating some yellow rice cakes that looked like fresh lava...

"Isn't that thing very precious?" Yu Ziqing couldn't help but ask.

"That is not ordinary precious." Erhan became interested instantly and licked his lips: "Only when the ore is exchanged with outsiders every year, everyone can get a little bit."

"Before that..." Yu Ziqing asked, feeling that he didn't know if he could ask this question, but he didn't feel at ease if he didn't know more about it and reserve more information.

"Oh, they are an exception. Grandpa said that starving to death is the most miserable way to die. Although they made a big mistake by eating white meat secretly, it was because they were too hungry. They must be starved to death. People who die will become starving ghosts.

Although I can no longer starve to death, I can no longer eat. I can only endure hunger all the time. Even if I go crazy with hunger, I will not die. "

Erhan paused for a moment, and his face showed a bit of panic about "I can't live, I can't die."

"My grandpa has a good heart, so he lets them be a dead ghost. At least they will be relieved if they die."

Speaking of this, Erhan seemed to have remembered something. He quickly walked out of the kiln and pointed at a large cave entrance on the northwest hillside. The cave entrance was surrounded by a fence and a large net made of rattan was buckled at the entrance.

"You can't go there, there are a lot of hungry ghosts inside, and those hungry ghosts are different from the ones we encountered before, they are all very vicious.

There used to be a river inside, where you could catch a lot of fish, and you could dig up a lot of bugs by the river. Unfortunately, you can’t go there now. I haven’t eaten bugs in a long time. "

Erhan licked his lips and his eyes shone when he mentioned food.

"Are you starving to death..." Yu Ziqing didn't know what he was thinking of, and his expression was a little subtle.

After walking around the village, they came to the entrance of a cave that was three feet high. They saw a short but strong woman carrying a three-foot-thick and two-foot-long wooden stake from the hole. walk out.

After the other party walked out of the hole, Yu Ziqing saw that on the other end of the wooden pile, there were clusters of large flowers, shaped like mushrooms.

Yu Ziqing estimated that this should be the main food in the village. After all, he didn't see anyone growing staple food here, nor did he see anyone growing vegetables.

Moreover, the thick brown wooden piles had been seen before. They should have chopped them for firewood.

Erhan took Yu Ziqing into the cave and walked downwards for about a stick of incense. They came to a huge underground space. Inside, one could see wooden piles standing on the ground, with large mushrooms clustered on the top. , like a canopy opening, exuding bursts of the unique fragrance of fungi.

What I know now is the content of Yu Ziqing’s next work.

Collect ingredients and go back to cook. If nothing else happens, this job will take at least three months, or even longer. This winter will be very long.

Yu Ziqing also hopes that everything can be stable, at least let him take good care of his body, and the ideal situation is that he can gain twenty or thirty pounds.

Erhan was wielding an ax to chop mushrooms on the side. The wooden pile looked thick, but the roots were more like soft wood and had very low hardness. This made Yu Ziqing breathe a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that he wouldn't be able to do it.

As soon as the demonstration was finished, Erhan suddenly stood up and looked warily into the depths of the mushroom forest.

Two breaths later, a wooden pile in the forest suddenly collapsed, and a writhing dark red giant fell from the umbrella above to the ground. This giant beast was thicker than a human waist, at least six or seven feet long, and shaped like a tree. The giant python is surrounded by rings. You can see its head, but it has obvious insect-like mouthparts.

"Insects." Erhan cheered, and his body was carried by the strong wind, like a powerful arrow, and flew away, and in an instant he was fighting with the giant insect.

Yu Ziqing stood far away, following the sudden feeling in his heart, looking deeper.

On the stone wall in the distance, a guy with dry skin, sparse hair, and a shriveled and sunken belly, as if all his internal organs were gone, looking like a mummy, and covered in black, was lying there quietly.

He seemed to be integrated with the surrounding stone walls. When he saw Yu Ziqing's gaze, he raised his head slightly and slowly revealed his sharp teeth. His body was like a gecko, clinging to the stone wall and swimming slowly. come over.

His dark eyes also began to project the reflection of Yu Ziqing, and the solidified ferocious expression seemed to be filled with infinite malice at this moment, driving his limbs to interlace faster and faster, silently moving toward Yu Ziqing. Come clear.

"Starving ghost?"

Yu Ziqing was shocked. He had just heard Erhan say that there were starving ghosts nearby. He didn't expect to encounter them so soon.

Looking at Erhan who was rolled into a ball with insects in the distance, with only flesh in his eyes, Yu Ziqing suddenly understood that it was the giant insect that had discovered the starving ghost and suddenly fell down when it was disturbed.

But the moment his thoughts changed, Yu Ziqing looked again and immediately denied it.

No, not an ordinary starving ghost, but a hungry ghost.

Erhan, an ordinary person who could laugh loudly when fighting giant insects, didn't find the starving ghost, and he had no reason or ability to find it.

Only a hungry ghost can make Erhan sense him first without him noticing.

After making sure, Yu Ziqing slowly took out the rusty dagger, looked at the hungry ghost quietly, and murmured in a low voice.

"I don't want to kill you, don't seek death."

He didn't make any preparations, but the rust between the sword body and scabbard was like dust. It was blown gently by the wind and fell, leaving an undetectable black light, like overflowing water. , slowly overflowing from the gap.

Erhan, who was still fighting against the giant insects as the gravel flew around and the wooden piles collapsed, didn't feel anything.

But the hungry ghost, which was gradually approaching at a faster speed, seemed to feel a fatal crisis. His body, which seemed to be flying against the stone wall, suddenly stopped. The invisible and terrifying pressure pressed his limbs and torso against the stone wall, hard. A human figure was pressed against the stone wall. He was so frightened that he couldn't escape even if he wanted to scream.

Seeing that the opponent's body was getting thinner and thinner, and the luster in his eyes was getting weaker and weaker, Yu Ziqing looked at his abdomen, sighed secretly, and put away the dagger in his hand. The terrifying murderous intention that only a hungry ghost could feel, Then suddenly dissipated.

"Seeing that you have no internal organs, and no bloody aura on your body, you must have never harmed anyone or been stained with blood.

If you are irrational, you will definitely not be able to hold on now. This is too difficult, so why give up suddenly and turn to evil ways that harm others.

Once you take this step, there will be no turning back and no day of liberation.

Do you really want to do this? "

Yu Ziqing murmured, but the hungry ghost heard it clearly.

The hungry ghost's expression was sluggish, and he stayed there for a few breaths before suddenly waking up. There was a hint of complexity in his dark eyes, and he disappeared into the darkness in an instant.

Yu Ziqing put the dagger back into his arms and shook his head.

If what had just appeared was something else, Yu Ziqing would not even have thought of showing mercy, and would have immediately... called Erhan to save his life.

It's a pity that he is a miserable hungry ghost. He really doesn't want to kill him if he doesn't have to. When he first came to this world, he had an encounter with a hungry ghost and he was able to survive past the first month of this world. , also closely related to hungry ghosts.

"It doesn't matter if others come to bully me. You, a hungry ghost, dare to come to me and cause trouble. Are you out of your mind?"

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"It's okay if the people from Daqianlangyayuan came to bully us, but now cats and dogs dare to come and cause trouble for us?"

Not far from the mountain range where the Jinlan Mine is located, it is the place where Yu Ziqing once destroyed his body.

The remains of the fire have been blown away by the wind, and with the heavy snowfall in recent days, basically all traces of what happened here are gone. Only some fragments of the bones of the shepherds that have not been burnt to ashes still remain. Buried under heavy snow.

A black goat whose limbs were made of tendons and was as tall as a man was uttering curses while chewing the remaining bone fragments of the shepherds.

After a moment, the black goat's face was distorted, with a disgusted expression as if it had been eaten by Ollie, and with a groan, it spat out the chewed bones on the ground, and wisps of hot breath were fleeting on the bones.

There were also burnt black marks in the black goat's mouth.

The other person next to him, a thin figure wearing a black robe covering his face, let out a light sigh when he saw this.

"Such a strong and pure blazing sun energy is definitely not from Daqianlangyayuan. They look down upon those reckless men with blood like dragons and heat as hot as the sun. The wasteland has changed so much that those who come must be ascetics. If you lead the team yourself, you won't have those reckless men.

Furthermore, people from Langya Academy would not handle it so...roughly. "