Taking away my family's luck? I won't stand it!

Chapter 209 The missing villagers of Taohua Village

The people who were traveling with Manager Liu also squatted down and began to check the soil on the ground.

When they saw that the soil in their hands was exactly as Manager Liu had described, everyone's face showed excitement.

"This place is sparsely populated and rarely visited. Although it is full of dangers, it also gives us an opportunity. I am sure there must be ginseng that is more than 500 years old here."

"We have been walking for a whole day and it is already dark. Why don't we rest here for one night and then go out to look for ginseng the next morning with the first rays of sunshine." Seeing that he had found a place, Shopkeeper Liu was no longer in a hurry to go in and look for it.

It's already dark now, and if we go in and continue searching, something might get wrong.

It is pitch black all around, the visual range is very limited, and people will lose the ability to distinguish directions.

Shopkeeper Liu's words were greatly agreed by the others, and they also planned to go in and look for ginseng early the next morning.

Just as Manager Liu and the others were sitting on the ground to rest, the man in black who had been following them moved.

They saw the stiff man in black come to the cave entrance and sit down to meditate.

There is a strange aura all over his body.

One of them tightened his clothes with both hands and shuddered. "Have you seen them eat?"

The person who spoke was a slightly fat man with a big face, thick lips, thick eyebrows, and a rough voice.

"I haven't seen it. They don't even go to the toilet. It's really strange. They don't eat, drink or defecate for more than half a month. It's really weird." The man with a matchmaker's mole on his face secretly looked back at the group of people in black, turned his head quickly, squeezed next to Manager Liu, and warmed himself by the fire with his eyes squinted.

The weather changes so quickly. It gets cold when God says it will.

Shopkeeper Liu picked up a piece of dead wood and threw it into the fire, then looked up at the man in black.

He said calmly, "They are warriors. They have their own way of eating, drinking, defecating and urinating."

"Besides, it's possible that they took turns eating and satisfying their physiological needs while we were sleeping?"

The man with a matchmaker mole on his face nodded in understanding. "That's really possible. Hiss! Why is the weather getting colder? It was still scorching summer when we came here half a month ago. How come it feels so cold now?"

The man leaned closer to the fire again.

Even though he was closer to the fire, the man did not feel warm, but felt even colder.

"I also feel that the weather is getting colder and colder, but I see that the trees on the mountain are not withered or yellow, so I think it is still summer.

This is so strange, it shouldn’t be cold this time of year.”

The others looked around in confusion at the densely packed trees with lush green leaves.

Shopkeeper Liu also felt strange. Since they followed the men in black into the forest, he felt colder and colder as they went deeper.

But when he thought of the ginseng that was more than 500 years old, Manager Liu felt warm in his heart again.

"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's cook something to get by for the night. We'll go in and look for ginseng tomorrow morning."

The others quickly shut up and nodded.

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town.

A group of people wearing coarse linen clothes were walking through the streets.

Even if they are wearing coarse linen clothes, it is difficult to conceal their natural temperament. If you look closely, you can see that their walking posture is steady and seems leisurely but has a strong aura.

A few people looked around, lowered their heads and walked into the deserted alley.

A masked man was already standing in the alley.

When Lingqi saw them, he immediately bowed.

"Master Imperial Master."

Yue Yuan nodded, "Have you discovered anything recently?"

Ling Qi quickly handed the letter to Yue Yuan. "This is something we've noticed recently. Villagers are disappearing every day in Taohua Village. For days, the villagers have searched the mountains to no avail. Finally, they found the missing people hanging from a tree, their internal organs missing."

The missing villager was found hanged on a tree and was an old man from Taohua Village.

This old man is in his seventies, and his favorite thing is to catch insects and walk his bird in the mountains.

The insects growing on the trees are the favorite food of the starlings raised by the old man.

Every now and then, the old man would take his starlings to the mountains to catch insects.

What a coincidence today.

The old man took the starling to look for insects on the trees. The starling was only half full when it suddenly discovered that a tree was covered with insects.

The starling pounced on the tree and happily pecked at the insects. The old man stood under the tree and looked at the insects in front of him, feeling more and more that something was wrong.

Looking up, I saw that the trees were full of villagers who had been missing for many days.

This is not a bug, it is clearly a maggot!!!

The old man's voice echoed throughout the mountains. He no longer cared about his beloved starling, but ran down the mountain and called for people to come up.

The villagers took a lot of effort to move the bodies hanging from the trees neatly.

These corpses are very strange. The expressions on their faces should be painful after being disemboweled, but could they be smiling happily?

What is most puzzling is that there is already rotting flesh on these corpses, but there is no stench from the corpses.

The villagers were afraid to spread the news about this strange phenomenon, for fear that they would be the next person to go missing.

They hurriedly buried the dead villagers on the spot...

After they left...

"I also learned that the owner of Lanzhitang disappeared half a month ago. Also missing were Master Zhang, Master Li, Master Sun, and Master Geng from the town."

After hearing this, Yue Yuan pondered for a moment and asked, "Did they go anywhere before they disappeared?"

"Lihua Village, they said they were going to the mountains behind Lihua Village to look for 500-year-old ginseng."

"According to the medicine boy at Lanzhitang, Manager Liu got a map from outside half a month ago and hurried back to pack up and leave."

Hearing about Lihua Village, Xiao Ci's face showed an anxious look. Just as he was about to ask, he was pulled back by Lu Jiu beside him.

Yue Yuan nodded calmly, "I understand. You can go back first."

Lingqi nodded and left the alley.

"Let's go! Let's go to Lihua Village."

Yue Yuan's usual expression was now filled with anxiety.

Xiao Ci looked worried, "From what Lingqi said, Manager Liu and his men disappeared in the mountains behind Lihua Village. I don't know if the Yuan family has gone up the mountain to hunt recently. What if they encountered..." those people.

Before Xiao Ci could finish his words, Yue Yuan interrupted him with a frown.

"No, don't forget the jade pendant Yaoyao gave us. It protected us all the way back to the capital. Nothing will happen to the Yuan family."

Xiao Ci touched the jade pendant in his arms, and the anxious feeling in his heart instantly dissipated.

"Well, I believe Yaoyao."

However, there was a nervous look on his face.

I haven't seen him for almost a year, and I don't know if sister Yaoyao still remembers him.