Chapter 534
Chapter 534 Thousands
"Among the several missions, it is safest to stay in the small house with Wang Yuanji. The Zhou guy has bad intentions and assigned us the most dangerous task."
Mei Xiangu complained in her voice transmission, and Tian Lin comforted her:
"As long as these evil spirits remain fearful of the so-called officials, we will be safe in the old village."
As they were talking, the two of them had already seen the small courtyard where the old village chief was from afar.
The so-called small courtyard was not small. There were already more than a dozen coffins lined up next to the corpse well.
As if it was an illusion, Tian Lin discovered that the young people standing beside the coffin in the courtyard had malicious smiles on their faces.
"Sir, the mummies are all in the coffins. Would you like to take a look?"
The old village chief was lining up the crowd and pointing at the black coffins in front of him.
"There's something strange about these villagers. Are they going to kill someone with someone else's knife?"
Mei Xiangu whispered to Tian Lin, "If things go wrong later, I will throw out the Goddess Tree to stop them. You and I will run to the old night watchman's house and let Zhou Ting take the blame."
Tian Lin nodded without comment, and then said to Laocun Zhengdao:
"We have nothing to eat or drink since we got up so early in the morning. Since you are the host and you woke us up so early in the morning, don't you have anything to entertain us?"
The old villager was stunned again, and Mei Xiangu beside him also looked at Tian Lin in surprise.
She couldn't help but ask Tian Lin in a voice transmission: "Are you crazy? How can you seek food from evil spirits? If an evil spirit gives you food, do you really dare to eat it?"
Tian Lin replied in a voice transmission: "If they could poison, they would have prepared the poison long ago and would not have resorted to such a stunt. Besides, I requested the food in a hurry, so they might not have prepared poison."
He said this to evade Mei Xiangu. It sounds reasonable, but it involves a huge risk.
However, Tian Lin has the entries to rely on, so he is not afraid of any risks.
Even if the evil spirit really poisoned him, it would be fine if he ate it.
"What the officer said makes sense. Someone, come and bring me my flower tea."
The old village chief was just opening his mouth when soon an old woman came over with a tea tray.
There was a teapot with beautiful patterns on the tea tray, and two cups.
The old woman filled two teacups, and in an instant a cold air emerged from the tea, as if to freeze people into ice.
Tian Lin lifted the lid of the teapot and took a look to confirm that there were tea leaves in the teapot. However, the tea leaves had died with the owner and had been in such a gloomy place for too long, and had already become a drink for ghosts.
Mei Xiangu refused to drink the tea, so she just waved her hand when the old woman handed her the tea.
The old villager looked at Tian Lin with a smile and said, "Sir, the tea is here now. Please have some tea, Sir!"
After hearing this, Tian Lin picked up the teacup and drank it all.
A large amount of negative energy entered the body, even bringing with it a lot of resentment.
However, these negative and resentful energies did not cause any harm to Tian Lin. Instead, they all transformed into spiritual energy and filled Tian Lin's Dantian.
"Haha, this is much better than spiritual liquid. I wonder if the old village chief has any stock in his house?"
Mei Xiangu thought that Tian Lin was speaking in a sarcastic way, and Laocunzheng also guessed that Tian Lin was trying to delay time.
He waved his hand and said to the old woman, "Go and pack me and all the tea in the village for the official to enjoy slowly in the future!"
As long as Tian Lin dies here, he naturally cannot take the tea away.
Besides, to these evil spirits, these teas are not that precious.
The old villager was trying to save time. Seeing Tian Lin finish his small pot of tea, he said, "The tea has been prepared for you. You can drink it later if you like. The sun is shining brightly now. It's a good time to open the coffin and examine the body." Tian Lin looked up at the sunlight in the sky and said meaningfully, "It is indeed a bright sun. I don't know how long it will last."
I don't know if the old village chief understood what he meant, he also said meaningfully: "Of course you can hang him as long as you want, you have to wait until the official finishes the autopsy before sunset.
After hearing this, Tian Lin stopped wasting time and followed Lao Cunzheng to the first coffin.
Mei Xiangu stood far away, looking as if she was ready to throw the Goddess Tree away at any time.
There was a loud "whoosh" sound, and the coffin was finally opened, with a large amount of corpse gas gushing out of the coffin.
In the distance, Fairy Mei's face changed and she almost raised her hand that was holding the Goddess Tree.
In fact, it was not unexpected that corpse gas came out of the coffin.
But the strong smell of corpse in the coffin was very unexpected.
Fairy Mei, who was far away, could only see that Tian Lin's clothes began to grow hair rapidly and visibly. In the blink of an eye, Tian Lin was covered in mildew and white hair, as if he had become a zombie.
At this time, just when Mei Xiangu was about to throw away the Goddess Tree, Tian Lin in the white hair said, "What a dried corpse! I guess Muramasa has been keeping it for quite some time, right?"
As Tian Lin spoke, the hair on his body began to shrink and disappear rapidly.
Fairy Mei, who witnessed it with her own eyes, was stunned, and the old village chief and the evil spirit were obviously stunned as well.
"Yes, it took me several months to make this mummy, but it's not the best quality mummy."
Tian Lin frowned slightly, staring at the Hanba in the coffin with his eyes closed, red face and fangs, in a daze.
This kind of drought demon is not the most powerful one?
And what months?
I’m afraid it will take hundreds or even thousands of years for this drought demon to grow up?
"This mummy is good. Let's take a look at the next one."
There were no talismans on the mummies in the coffins, and Tian Lin didn't know why they were lying in the coffins without reviving themselves.
But he knew that he couldn't let these mummies smell the scent of living people for too long.
Without waiting for the old villager to speak, Tian Lin took it upon himself to close the coffin lid with a bang.
One man and one evil spirit, then opened the coffins one after another.
There were flying zombies and drought demons in the coffin, all of which were filled with strong corpse odor.
Tian Lin had to bear so much corpse qi by himself. If he hadn't had the skills, he would have turned into a zombie from inhaling too much corpse qi.
"A dozen mummies—"
After looking at the last coffin, Tian Lin said, "Are these the only mummies left in the village?"
Tian Lin finished speaking, but the old villager shook his head and said, "In this village, every family has a mummified corpse in their corpse well. In addition to the one here, there are hundreds of other places that I haven't seen yet."
Tian Lin raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and couldn't help asking, "Old Villager, do you know how much tax the county magistrate is asking for this time?"
Laocunzheng said: "Of course, we need 20 of the best mummies."
Tian Lin frowned. According to Wang Yuanji, the villagers in the village were killed by the soldiers because they failed to collect all the mummies.
But now it seems that there are clearly thousands of mummies in this village, far more than the number of twenty.
Could it be that in just one day, many disciples of the Daoist sect mistakenly entered this village and were turned into mummies? Otherwise, how could there be thousands of them?
In other words, the so-called thousands of people were not gathered in just one day. Rather, the disciples of the Daoist Sect and the Xiangxi Sect mistakenly entered this place when they were doing tasks in the secret realm before the locust plague, and were eventually turned into mummies by the villagers.
Tian Lin couldn't guess it for a moment. Just when he asked whether he wanted to continue looking at the next mummy, the night watchman sounded and it was dark.
(End of this chapter)