In the end of the world, I have an open land system

Chapter 44 The Cursed Land

The three of them slept until dawn, and Ye Xiaoxue woke up with a heavy head.

Sanbao also woke up and sat on the bed next door with a dazed look on his face.

"Morning Sambo!"

"Xiaoxue, I fell asleep during the night watch."

Ye Xiaoxue scratched her head and said embarrassedly, "I didn't get up to watch the night either."

"Roar..." Guan Jingyuan's roar sounded from next door.

Ye Xiaoxue quickly opened the wooden door and walked over.

At this time, Guan Jingyuan also opened the wooden door, walked out with a huge body sideways, and said anxiously: "Yu Rong is gone."

Ye Xiaoxue was stunned for a moment, how could she not be there, could it be that she "tricked the corpse".

"I fell asleep last night, and I couldn't hear any movement at all. I don't know if Yurong left by herself or was stolen."

(Leaves by himself) How could Guan Jingyuan say it so naturally.

Ye Xiaoxue said: "It must have been stolen by someone. I, Sanbao, and you, Brother Guan, both slept very soundly. When I woke up, I felt heavy headed. We must have been plotted against by someone, but I don't know what the other party's purpose is." .”

It's a pity that it rained overnight and wiped out all traces of the pagoda's exterior.

It is really puzzling that only the corpse was stolen at night. What's more frightening is that the three of them didn't notice it at all.

"I'm going to find Yurong!" Guan Jingyuan ran down the mountain like crazy.

Ye Xiaoxue stopped Guan Jingyuan and said, "Brother Guan, calm down, let's discuss it together. That person only stole Miss Yurong, but didn't hurt the three of us. There must be a reason."

Guan Jingyuan stopped in Baiyu Square, frantically grabbed the hair on his head, and turned around in circles in agitation.

"Now the Holy Maiden Mountain is lifeless, there are no people or animals. Sambo, your perception is very good. If you are within the range of the Holy Maiden Mountain, can you feel the breath of other people?"

Guan Jingyuan stopped his movements when he heard this. He had seen the ability of the little brother Sanbao. When crossing mountains and ridges, he could even know how many large animals were on the opposite mountain, so he could give himself an early warning.

Sanbao pursed his lips, nodded, closed his eyes, stood quietly on the spot, and let his consciousness out, as if there was a ruler in his heart guiding him, ten meters, one hundred meters, and his consciousness even went thousands of meters away. extend farther afield.

In addition to the sound of rain falling in his consciousness, the closest thing was the heartbeat and breathing of Ye Xiaoxue and Guan Jingyuan. He could even hear the sound of their blood flowing.

Suddenly he turned his head to one side and turned towards the top of the mountain.

In his consciousness, apart from the plants, the whole Hibiscus Village is dead, and so is the Saintess Mountain, but there is a trace of breath on the top of the mountain, as for whether it is a human or an animal, he can't feel it.

"On the mountain." Sambo said.

After hearing this, Guan Jingyuan galloped up like the wind.

There are no steps to the top of the mountain, only a narrow path, which winds around the Saintess Mountain and reaches the top of the mountain.

From yesterday to now, when we came to the Holy Maiden Mountain, there was no continuous heavy rain, only drizzle. Ye Xiaoxue and Sanbao put on raincoats and chased Guan Jingyuan up the mountain together.

Climbing to a third of the position, Ye Xiaoxue felt her heart was about to jump out of her chest, and her physical strength dropped drastically. She felt that her physical strength was slowly draining, as if it was getting more and more difficult as she went up.

Sanbao and Guan Jingyuan were not much better than Ye Xiaoxue, and the big rock who was sitting beside him was panting.

"I haven't felt tired after climbing mountains and wading in the past few days. Why is it so uncomfortable to climb this section of the mountain road now?"

Guan Jingyuan: "The Saintess Mountain is about 1000 meters high, and there will be no hypoxia! Why do I feel like I can't breathe?"

Ye Xiaoxue shook her head, expressing that she didn't know, it was important to save some effort to climb the mountain.

Everyone knows that once you step into Mujinzhuang and Shengnvshan, there are strange things everywhere, but now you have to climb up to see what's going on.

Everyone walked slower and slower, and finally it was the speed of a turtle crawling.

After climbing for about three hours, I reached the top of the mountain, and the half-hour journey took several times.

The three of them came to the top of the mountain and saw the small wooden house hidden in the woods from a distance. Every piece of wood in the small wooden house was painted bright red, and it was hard not to notice it.

In front of the wooden house is a piece of flat land with vegetables and flowers planted on it.

The dishes are ordinary macaroni, beans, eggplants, etc., and the flowers are mostly bluegrass and roses.

If the cabin hadn't been painted red, it would have been an ordinary farmhouse, but the dazzling red always reminded the three of them that it formed a sharp contrast like Mujinzhuang.

This place is full of vitality, but Hibiscus Village is lifeless.

"You are finally here, much faster than I thought!"

People's voices sounded from the wooden house, Guan Jingyuan was overjoyed, strode forward to the door and said, "Are you from Mujinzhuang, or from Shengnvshan?"

When I came to this empty Saintess Mountain, it was rare to meet someone, and the three of them were very excited.

"Haha, the three of them are facing catastrophe, and they still care about who I am. I'm just a dying person, haha..."

The people in the room laughed sharply, and the three of them felt a little harsh.

"Are you coming in as guests?"

The wooden door opened, and the inside was dark and the whole picture could not be seen clearly. There was only a table, and an old woman in the shape of a skeleton sat opposite. She had short and thin white hair, a wrinkled face, a pair of cloudy eyes, and black lips.

A black robe covered his skeleton-like figure, and he held a black scepter in his claw-like right hand.

The three of them entered the house, but the old woman shouted: "Close the door!"

Guan Jingyuan turned his huge body and closed the door obediently.

"Hmm!" The old woman was not shocked by Guan Jingyuan's half-orc appearance, she nodded in satisfaction, turned around and threw some firewood into the fireplace behind. Inside the stove was a small casserole filled with water.

When the fire was lit, the furnishings in the room were clear at a glance. It seemed that there was nothing but this table and a fireplace.

"Old man, are you alone?"

"I am the last person in the cursed land here, and you will die in front of me. You are also poor people, why did you break in?"

The old woman turned around and said politely.

"What cursed place? This is the Holy Maiden Mountain, the place where the goddess lives, the auspicious land. We are here to find someone. She is from the Holy Maiden Mountain. You must know her. Her name is Zhuang Yurong." Guan Jingyuan waved his hand I almost took pictures of the mahogany beams of the wooden house, but fortunately I stopped in time.

"Zhuang Yurong! The goddess disappeared three years ago, and this place has changed from an auspicious place to a cursed place overnight..." The old woman raised her head and laughed loudly: "This place has become a dead place, and it will never return to the original place." It looks like..."

"I brought Yurong back, but I lost her yesterday."

"You...brought Yurong back..." The old woman walked up to Guan Jingyuan excitedly.

"Yurong died. I promised Yurong that I would bury her in my hometown, so I brought Yurong's body back."

"Yu Rong is dead, Yu Rong is dead..." the old woman murmured.

Ye Xiaoxue saw the old woman's disbelief and could only say, "We just arrived here yesterday, but someone stole Sister Yurong's body at night, so we searched everywhere."

"How could Yurong die? Goddesses can't die... The entire Saintess Mountain is cursed, and everyone is gone." The old woman was a little crazy, with a face of disbelief: "Do you have her relics?"

"No, Yurong didn't leave anything behind, she was alone. Since Yurong is not here, I'll look for it elsewhere."

Seeing that the old woman was going crazy, she obviously didn't know where Yu Rong was.

Guan Jingyuan held hope, but returned only disappointed.He had to find her quickly and said, "The one who stole Yurong, what if those people are frenzied, hungry, and cannibals?"

Ye Xiaoxue comforted the man who lost his sense of proportion, "Brother Guan, if that person likes to eat human flesh, why didn't he take us away? If you care about it, then chaos will arise."

"That's right! Look, even if you turn Mujinzhuang and Shengnvshan upside down and dig three feet, I will find him back."

Guan Jingyuan wanted to go over and open the door, but the old woman yelled and said, "What are you looking for, the three of you are dying, you might as well hide in my room."

"Old man, why do you say we are going to die?" Ye Xiaoxue asked.

The old lady said twice in a row that the three of them were going to die, Ye Xiaoxue had to take it seriously.

"In the past three years, many outsiders have broken in, and without exception, they all died in the Holy Maiden Mountain. No one can step out of the Holy Maiden Mountain."

"Why?" Ye Xiaoxue asked.

The old woman glared: "Why, because this land has been cursed."

"Well, anyone who comes in will be cursed!" Guan Jingyuan said, but he didn't care why he was cursed, he just wanted to find Zhuang Yurong.

The weird Hibiscus Village, the Holy Maiden Mountain, and the only survivor in this weird place.

But he didn't want to worry about it. He just wanted to bury Yurong safely. If... Yurong had been cremated at the beginning, this would not have happened. He was afraid that Yurong's body would be separated. She is such a pure girl. She shouldn't suffer that kind of inhuman crime again.

"I don't care if I've been cursed or not. I just want to fulfill Yurong's wish and let her be buried in her hometown after death, but I can't even do that."

Guan Jingyuan covered his face, a little depressed.

Ye Xiaoxue was not afraid of being cursed and said: "Curses are illusory things. I have survived the end of the world for so many years, and my life is very hard. It's just that Mujinzhuang and Shengnvshan are too big, and we have no clues. I don’t know where to start looking, and now I’m really like a headless chicken.”

Ye Xiaoxue looked at the old woman, trying to see some other expression on her face, but the old woman was still in a state of panic.

"There are some newborn calves again. Forget it. Since you don't believe me, I don't bother to say it." The old woman sat on the chair and said, "Since Yurong is missing here, she must be found, and she will never be found."

"Old man, if you don't look for it, how do you know you can't find it?"

"If you insist on looking for it, you have to pay the price with your life. If you live in my cabin, you can live longer."

"How is that possible? As long as I find Sister Yurong and hold a funeral for her, I will go home." Ye Xiaoxue opened the wooden door and walked out of the wooden house first.

As for this mysterious old man, he couldn't ask any more questions, and if he asked, he said he was cursed.Ye Xiaoxue felt that it was more important to find someone first, as if she found someone, she might have the answer.

"If you want to find someone, I know a place!"

The three of them turned their heads to look at the wooden house, and saw the old woman standing at the door, wearing a black robe, whose expression could not be seen clearly in the darkness.

"In the cemetery at the back of the Holy Maiden Mountain, evil souls are always in a dark place. Only when the sun shines in can the evil dissipate."

"The planet is about to be destroyed by natural disasters, what kind of feudal superstitions do people have in their spare time?" Guan Jingyuan said and strode down the mountain.

In his heart, the one who can take Yurong away without knowing it should be a very powerful guy, and he wants to do a blanket search now.

But his footsteps still unknowingly walked towards the back mountain.

The three felt that going down the mountain was much easier than going up the mountain.

When we arrived at the back mountain, there was indeed a cemetery behind the pagoda, as the old woman said, with sarcophagi made of stones lined up densely.

When you get closer, there are some unnamed monuments without words.

"There are a lot of graves, and they are all newly built." Ye Xiaoxue found a problem: "Could it be that the people who disappeared from Mujinzhuang and Shengnvshan are all in the tombs."

Walking into the center of the tomb, I found that it was not a tablet with no words, but a tombstone with engraved characters.

"It's the tombstone with the surname Zhuang." Ye Xiaoxue pointed to a tombstone.

Guan Jingyuan walked over to look and said, "I also saw some tombstones with characters on them, all of which belonged to the Long family of Mu Jinzhuang, and the tombstone of Patriarch Long Anhua is also here."

Guan Jingyuan looked at the tomb next to him, and there were several familiar names there.

Going to the center of the inside, the tombs piled up bigger and bigger, and Sanbao stopped in front of a tombstone.Looking at the fresh footprints and the fresh marks on the sarcophagus, he stood still.

"What's the matter? Three Treasures." Ye Xiaoxue saw him walking over while staring at the tombstone in a daze.

Ye Xiaoxue was taken aback by the simple words "Zhuang Yurong's Tomb".

"Inside." Sambo said.

Both Ye Xiaoxue and Guan Jingyuan believed in the words of the Three Treasures, so Guan Jingyuan moved the stone away to reveal the coffin inside.

After moving all the stones away, Guan Jingyuan was a little nervous, in case...no.He fights in his heart.

"Brother Guan, let's open it and have a look." Ye Xiaoxue suggested.

Without further hesitation, the three of them worked together to lift the lid of the coffin.

The cover was slowly lifted, and lying inside was Zhuang Yurong whom Guan Jingyuan had been thinking about.

At this time, Zhuang Yurong was lying flat, dressed in white, with a peaceful and peaceful face, and beautiful facial features. The strange thing was that no one was dead after death, as if they were alive.

Guan Jingyuan picked up Zhuang Yurong, and the stiff body reminded him that she was already dead, waiting for her beloved to help her bury her in her hometown.

"Since we found Sister Yurong, let's cremate her and let her rest in peace."

Guan Jingyuan nodded, his expression had never been so gloomy, he picked up Zhuang Yurong's stiff body and returned to the Goddess Pagoda.

The funeral was very simple. The three of them built a small platform in Baiyu Square and set up firewood.

Ye Xiaoxue exchanged kerosene. Of course, she said she found it in the anteroom, which is also easy to explain. The Holy Maiden Mountain is not connected to electricity, and every household uses pine oil and kerosene, and the pagoda has always used kerosene.

Guan Jingyuan lit the firewood, a raging fire ignited, a tear ran down his face, his mood was grief and indignation.

"It's your fault that you didn't let Yurong rest in peace after she died. Seeing that you are old, I wanted to let you go, but I will never forgive you. Yurong, rest in peace! At least I will let you go Return the body to Shengnvshan intact." Guan Jingyuan muttered to himself.

Ye Xiaoxue couldn't hear what Guan Jingyuan said, and thought he was saying goodbye to Zhuang Yurong.

Sanbao was silent at the side, he seemed to understand a little bit, but when he thought deeply, a fog appeared in front of his head, and he couldn't figure it out.

Should he tell Xiaoxue, he couldn't figure out why he was struggling, subconsciously he didn't want Xiaoxue to be hurt.

Guan Jingyuan: Revenge is my own business, and I must not implicate the two little benefactors.

Ye Xiaoxue and Sanbao, as outsiders, would not participate if they could not participate in the grievances and enmities, but they are already in it. Although Ye Xiaoxue is young and has never experienced such weird things, she has a delicate mind, how can she not see it? The unusual state of Zhuang Yurong has a lot to do with the old man on the top of the mountain.

(End of this chapter)