Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 99 The Ancient Ballad
"Let's explain after a while, where is Lao Yan?" Kunbu asked anxiously when he saw that I was alone.

I told him the location of Lao Yan, and he asked me to take it over, and then follow the strong man who led the way to the place where I lived.

I quickly returned to the tunnel, and sure enough, I found that Lao Yan was no longer where he was. I yelled a few times, and saw Lao Yan coming out of the soil next to it...

"When did you know how to escape from the ground?" I was dumbfounded, no wonder those people didn't find him, and no one will find out after this.

Lao Yan glared at me: "What is the technique of escaping from the ground? This is a mechanism. You have walked all the way and didn't find that people can hide everywhere in this passage, just like the ancient caves for soldiers. I just saw that Akun and the others were killed. How about bringing it into the village?"

"Let's listen to Kumbu later." I squatted down and picked up Lao Yan, and after meeting Kumbu, I was taken to a small wooden house by the strong man.

I have just seen this wooden house, there should be people living in it, but judging from the current situation, the people living here should be arranged elsewhere. It seems that the corpse exorcist is also very confident, and he is sure that we can't do anything wrong .

After the strong man brought us in, he left without saying a word. Judging from his appearance, he should be very puzzled that the corpse exorcist left us.

The living place is not small, there are three rooms for the five of us, but none of us entered the room, we just made do in the main room.

"What's going on?" I asked impatiently.

Kumbu checked it carefully in the wooden house first, and then released a few bugs that I didn't know, and then slowly explained the cause and effect!

It turned out that they were guarding well in the bushes, waiting for us to go back, but unexpectedly something went wrong!

Speaking of which, this trouble was caused by me and Lao Yan. Yesterday, after I took the soul bell, the corpse chaser fled in a hurry, and went back to the village. I don’t know if it was because of unwillingness or what happened. Earlier, he even led several people to track down Lao Yan and me along the way.

When Kumbu saw something bad, he thought about hiding somewhere else with Ms. Qiu and the others. Seeing from the back, the exorcist seemed to be very relieved about the vicinity of the organ, and even skipped the bushes directly, so he stopped thinking about retreating. Just waited silently.

Who would have thought that in the afternoon, when the group of exorcising corpses came back in a panic, when they were about to go back to the village, he didn't know what to think, but he ordered someone to turn around inch by inch near the organ.Seeing that they couldn't dodge, Kunbu and the others had no choice but to fight hard, but they didn't know what kind of method they used, and everyone's methods couldn't be used. At the last moment, Miss Qiu took out a cold smoke from her body and sent out a signal.

"No, I don't think you seem to have a problem?" I stared at Kumbu suspiciously. If he was pulled out at first, I would still feel that his face was pale, but after a while, I found that he was not at all peaceful. No difference, and according to him, whose bloodstains belonged to it?

Kumbu also looked at us suspiciously: "Did you see the blood?"

Lao Yan and I nodded at the same time, and Kunbu's face suddenly changed. He opened the door and looked out, and when he was sure that there was no one around, he said solemnly: "It seems that the corpse driver is not so easy to fool, then I'm afraid the bloodstains will make you anxious so that you can step on their trap."

Lao Yan and I looked at each other, and there was no other explanation other than this reason. We might not have been in a hurry to find an agency if we hadn't seen the blood at that time. It's not easy to mess with. We'll think about it more or less before coming in.

Sure enough, when I went to find Kumbu and the others, the corpse exorcisers were already there waiting for us. If it weren't for Kumbu's tricks, our corpses would be cold now.

Having said that, I looked at Kumbu and asked what method he used to make the exorcist compromise?

"Originally, I could escape..." Kumbu said suddenly, and then he said blankly, but he found that this was the best chance to get close to the corpse driver, so he didn't resist.

The moment he entered the village, he released Gu worms, found the water source here and poisoned it.Originally, he planned to find an opportunity to investigate by himself, but I rushed in unexpectedly, otherwise he would not have negotiated terms with the exorcist so early, because before noon tomorrow, the whole village will collectively lose consciousness due to poisoning.

Lao Yan and I looked at each other, both full of embarrassment, how dare we ruin his plan by coming?
"It doesn't count. If you don't come, I can't take Yazai and Miss Qiu away by myself. Anyway, they will still be poisoned tomorrow, so let's just wait slowly..." It is rare for Kumbu to explain so much at once, obviously A little tired, he sat on the ground sickly, as if he didn't want to ask any more questions.

"Did he make a compromise because you gave them the antidote?" Although I wanted to be sensible and stop asking, I really couldn't hold back.

Kunbu glanced at me, his eyes were a bit like looking at a fool, and sure enough, he said lightly: "We will stay here for a few more days, and I will detoxify them? Didn't the Soul Requiem Bell not be returned to him?" ?"

After saying this, he immediately closed his eyes. Although his face was still expressionless, I could clearly feel his meaning: Don't bother me again.

Fortunately, Lao Yan and I have already understood the situation, so we didn't continue to ask more questions. We just checked Miss Qiu's situation and found that they were just in a coma, so we felt even more strange.

But Kumbu didn't explain, so we had no choice but to keep our doubts in our hearts.

"Let's rest first, we'll talk about it after tonight." Lao Yan also found a place to lean against.

I also didn't have a good rest for two nights in a row. Now that everyone has gathered together, I have a backbone, which is a lot easier.Although there were still many doubts in my heart, I couldn't resist the drowsiness, so I leaned against Lao Yan and fell asleep.

Bang!
There was a loud noise, and I jumped up in fright: "What happened?"

Kumbu and Lao Yan were apparently also awakened by the loud noise, both of them looked confused as if they had just woken up from a dream.To be honest, I'm a little surprised. Logically speaking, we shouldn't sleep so soundly in an unfamiliar environment, but it seems that the three of us fell asleep last night, and didn't wake up until the loud noise came...

At this moment, there was another loud noise, and this time we heard it clearly. It was the sound of a giant tree knocking on a bronze bell, similar to that in a temple.

"Go out and have a look?" I suggested.

Laoyan and the others had no objections, so Kumbu closed the doors and windows, put a few Gu worms around Miss Qiu and the others, and then followed us out.

The village during the day gave me a very different feeling from last night. The village under the moonlight looked very harmonious yesterday, but now under the light of the rising sun, the village feels a little more lively to me.

Everyone in the village should have come out, because when we walked towards the end of the village along the bell, we saw that all the doors were wide open, but there was no one inside.

When we reached the end of the village, we made a detour and finally saw the villagers.

Most of them are naked from the upper body, and only the upper body of women is wearing clothes. They look like residents of ancient tribes.

These villagers gathered together and looked up at the two-meter-high platform in front of them. On it stood an old man who was over seventy years old, and the skin on his stomach was drooping and almost covered his thighs.He was holding on to a log, hitting the huge copper bell as tall as a person again and again, and at the same time, he was still shouting in his mouth, like talking or singing.

And every time he bumped into it, the people below would cheer in unison, as if some kind of ceremony was being held!
The emotions of the villagers were extremely high, and they didn't notice our arrival at all. Everyone folded their hands devoutly and drank in unison with the sound of the bell. The sound seemed to be transmitted through the village to the mountains outside.

The bell rang seven times in all, plus the two we heard earlier, that's nine.

At the ninth stroke, everyone knelt down, and the three of us looked unusually abrupt.At this time, Kumbu suddenly pulled us down and knelt down slowly. He followed everyone and worshiped reverently, even Lao Yan also looked respectful.

I don't know why, but I followed them and knelt down.Then I heard a ballad, which was not in Chinese, and I couldn’t understand the meaning, but I could faintly hear a sadness from the ballad, which formed a sharp contrast with the high-spirited atmosphere of the villagers...

(End of this chapter)