Sir, do you have a survival guide?

Chapter 78

Ziyi feels unwell recently, but she doesn't know why.She didn't dare to tell Lu Yun, because Lu Yun was a patient in the first place and was in poor health all the year round. She didn't want to make Lu Yun worry again.

Recently, one after another, two monsters appeared in the usually peaceful Cuizhu Village with the arrival of outsiders. In the past few days, there was always a fire from the sky, which burned Busha Mozhu, and Ziyi stood beside them. From the window of the new home, looking at the scorched earth outside, the look is gloomy:

"Ayun, when will your friend leave?"

"They came here to rest the soil." Lu Yun walked over, hugged Ziyi in his arms, touched Ziyi's long hair, and said, "At least, let's get the soil again."

"What if I tell you that Xi Rang is not here?" Zi Yi whispered.

"What are you talking about?" Lu Yun asked.

"That time I knew you were outside." Ziyi lightly covered Lu Yun's hand on her waist, feeling the warmth under the palm, and said, "I gave him Xiyang."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I do not know."

Ziyi suddenly panicked, but she didn't know where the inexplicable panic came from. She held her husband's hand tightly, tears streaming down her face, as if Lu Yun would not leave her.

"I don't know, I don't know, I really don't know."

At dawn the next day, Feng Shuang took to the street.

The villagers here are still doing their own things as usual, even those villagers who participated in catching monsters yesterday, they looked the same when they saw him, and some even came forward to greet him.

Although he knew that these villagers did not know the truth about the monster, Feng Shuang was still dissatisfied with their reaction, so he could only take a deep breath to suppress his anger, took out a piece of talisman from his bosom, and prepared to use this talisman to find Xia Yunyi .

The talisman paper was quickly folded into a thousand paper cranes under Feng Shuang's dexterous fingers. Feng Shuang covered it with his spiritual power, and the yellow paper crane moved quickly in Feng Shuang's palm, and then rose into the air.

"Wow--"

A little boy wearing a red turban couldn't help opening his mouth wide when he saw this scene. He looked at the little paper crane in Feng Shuang's palm with sparkling eyes, ran over under Feng Shuang's suspicious gaze, tilted his head and asked,

"Brother, this paper crane can fly."

"This is a talisman bird that can convey information."

"Will it obey your orders?"

"of course."

"Can you give it to me?" The boy looked expectant.

Facing the child, Feng Shuang's expression softened a little. After releasing the paper crane, he saw the little boy's love for the paper crane, and suddenly his heart moved. He took out another paper talisman from his bosom and tore it like a villain. ,explain:

"Give this to you."

The little boy watched the little paper figurine dancing in his hand with novelty, his face turned into a flower with a smile.

Seeing that the boy was satisfied, Feng Shuang smiled, "Why don't you play with them?"

"Who?" The boy watched the little paper figurine twist around in surprise, a little absent-minded.

"It's them..."

Feng Shuang turned his head and was suddenly stunned. When he looked up, he saw a little boy wearing a red turban in the distance, and except for the turban, the rest of the little boy was exactly the same as the little boy in front of him. Play with other people passing the ball.

"Do you have a twin brother?"

As Feng Shuang asked, she lowered her head, only to find that the child who had just stood beside her was gone.

After staying in place for a quarter of an hour, Feng Shuang took back her talisman bird and found Shen Wuya and Xia Yunyi.At this time, Shen Wuya and Xia Yunyi were packing up the little girl's bones that had been dug up before, and they put the body back into a small coffin.Feng Shuang asked Xia Yunyi:

"Did Lu Yun and his wife never go out?"

"Yeah." Xia Yunyi said, "The two of them told me before that they never went out."

"What do you know?" Shen Wuya asked.

Feng Shuang told Shen Wuya what happened to her.

After hearing this, Shen Wuya turned his head and said to Xia Yunyi, "You can walk with me before it gets dark."

"Do you need my help?" Feng Shuang asked.

Shen Wuya was silent for a while, and acquiesced.

After the three of them reached a consensus, they walked up the mountain, but they kept turning until it was dark. Even with Feng Shuang's constant guidance according to the direction the monster had given him, the three of them still didn't go out.

Later, when it got dark and the weather gradually cooled down, Xia Yunyi couldn't continue walking, so they returned to the village.

Early the next morning, Shen Wuya and the others continued to come to the bamboo forest. After walking for a while, they found that some of the bamboos that they tied red strings to the bamboo leaves before had disappeared, and the remaining few were scattered in disorder. route.

"I think, I know what's going on." Shen Wuya said, his eyes were a little sad.

Feng Shuang remained silent, he looked down at the compass in his hand, this time the direction the compass pointed was the direction of the village.

On the way back, Shen Wuya didn't speak for a long time. Later, after seeing the village, he stood there and remained silent for a long time before continuing to walk. While walking, he said:

"Eastern Jin Dynasty's "Huayang Guozhi · Nanzhong Zhi" has a cloud: "Han Xing then Shibin. There is a king of bamboo, who thrives in Dunshui. There is a woman who walks by the water. There are three big bamboos that flow into the woman's feet. He refused to go. Hearing the voice of a son, he took it and returned it. He broke it and got a son. He grew up with talent and martial arts, and then Xiong Yidi. The family took bamboo as the surname. Donated the broken bamboos in the wild to form a bamboo forest, which is now the Bamboo King Temple Bamboo forest is also.'"

"Although I don't quite understand it," Xia Yunyi asked suspiciously, "What you said just now means that people are related to bamboo?"

"Almost." Shen Wuya said, "This passage also means that people were born from bamboo."

"Man was born from bamboo? Is it just totem worship?"

"No matter how you say it, I only mean one thing, bamboo." Shen Wuya was a little tired, he said, "The bamboo that Cuizhu Village originally relied on for survival."

All doubts should start from the very beginning. The bamboo forest here has stopped growing for thousands of years, and there are not even bamboo shoots.Furthermore, the environment in the village, as Xia Yunyi said from the beginning, the humidity here is a bit too much, in fact, it is not suitable for normal people to live at all.

When he heard the girl's story from Ziyi's mouth, Shen Wuya knew that the matter was related to the book of life and death, and through the constant hints from the monster, he believed that the book of life and death should be the eyes of the girl.

"I've always wondered why the underworld didn't intervene in this matter at all, and after hearing what you and Feng Shuang saw and heard in the underworld, I guessed that the book of life and death might not be human. After digging, I found that the The child's body was in the bamboo forest, and the roots of the bamboo went through the eyes, and I thought, this bamboo forest might have won the book of life and death by accident."

Shen Wuya said.

"You said that people in the underworld can't control the life and death of plants, so the people in the underworld deliberately don't intervene and want outsiders to solve the problem, so they approached—"

Xia Yunyi looked at Feng Shuang on the other side, and said in surprise,

"So you found Feng Shuang?"

"It should mean that." Shen Wuya nodded, with a layer of worry in his eyes, "Only plants that have opened their spiritual intelligence and cultivated into other forms can be called demons, but the bamboo here is a little different."

"...the bamboo in the bamboo forest can teleport, isn't it a demon?"

"No, the bamboo forest can't be called a monster." Shen Wuya said, "They don't have independent intelligence, they just accidentally control the life and death of human beings."

Xia Yunyi: "..."

Not enough brains.

Seeing Xia Yunyi's dull face, Shen Wuya poked Xia Yunyi's forehead amusedly, and said:

"Don't think too much, you don't have a heart now, if you think too much, I'm afraid you don't have enough oxygen, what should you do if you're stupid."

Xia Yunyi: "Hehe."

What Shen Yunyi meant was that Zhulin controlled the book of life and death, and took over the lifespan of the villagers in Cuizhu Village without them being aware of it.Everyone in the green bamboo forest is actually the original green bamboo, and the human beings have exchanged with the bamboo.

"That's impossible, Ziyi looks normal." Xia Yunyi couldn't help retorting.

"The breakthrough is here. She is different from other villagers. Did you know that bamboo has the same root?"

Shen Wuya said, "The bamboo here has lived with the villagers of Cuizhu Village for hundreds of years, and they know the villagers in the village like relatives. I guess they just wanted to get closer to the villagers at first, but they didn't expect the way they became human beings. It's about replacing them, and it's a comprehensive replacement."

"Then Lu Yun is bamboo?"

"He's not. I'm sure of that. I'll check his pulse."

"But Ziyi...has a memory."

"I didn't want to believe it at first, but I found that as long as the bamboo forest is destroyed, Ziyi will feel unwell. Doesn't this explain the problem? Moreover, the reason why they have memories is because those memories were left before the disappearance of human beings. obsession."

Feng Shuang leaned over with a pale face, and asked, "So my uncle was replaced like this?"

"Yes, it's just that he didn't completely replace him, so he became like that."

For a moment, a heavy silence spread among the three of them.

"It can only be destroyed here."

Shen Wuya said, "If you leave this place alone, the situation will get worse and worse. The temperature and humidity here are getting abnormal day by day, and the bamboo is disappearing, which means that the replaced humans are disappearing, and Ziyi is slowly losing control. Moreover, Lu Yun's health is getting worse."

"Can you change it?"

Shen Wuya shook his head, cutting off this possibility: "It's been too long, if it was more than ten years ago, there was still a way, now... oh."

Whether it was Feng Shuang or Xia Yunyi who misread other people's faces several times before, the reason why they changed when they turned their heads was because the green bamboo's ability to imitate is no longer stable. All bamboos grow from the same root, so everyone can be counted as The above is a person, and under the guidance of that person, they transform into the appearance of the corresponding person, but because of the large number of people, when that person's consciousness is confused, they will also be confused, for example, several people have the same face .

This kind of chaos not only means that the situation of that person is not very good, but also means that the whole Cuizhu Village has begun to lose balance.

"Master Dao, didn't you say that you gave a paper man to a little boy? If my conclusion is correct, this paper man should be able to move around based on the roots, and you can manipulate it onto Zi Yi's body."

Feng Shuang opened his mouth, he was so confused that he didn't know what to say. After a long while, he made an unclear sound from his throat, and finally said:

"It's so cold in here."