Holy Bone

Chapter 437 The clue of Wuer's family, the ear of the desert

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Seeing that everyone was focusing on him, Jin An wanted to change the subject, so he made an excuse:

"You two old gentlemen, the camel meat on this table, you didn't just slaughter a camel, did you?"

"You slaughtered camels and gave them to us to eat, so what will happen to your future life?"

"I haven't seen any desert plants along the way. It's not easy for you to raise a camel. You gave us everything to eat and drink. So what will you eat and drink in the future?"

The fat old man Sikelti, who was pouring wine for someone, turned around and grinned at Jin An behind him, showing his uneven old teeth, and said with a smile: "We are guests from afar, we have stayed in the desert for too long, the desert In addition to the sand, there is only dullness and boredom. It is rare to have so many distinguished guests from afar today, and it is rare to be so lively. We don’t ask for money, we just want to have fun.”

As he spoke, he sighed: "We know that we don't have a few years to live, so those who make money or not make money have long been dismissed. Anyway, no matter how much money we make, we won't be able to take it with us when we die. The guests don't understand what we're doing. It should be, we have lived in this desert for generations, from more than 100 people in our ancestors, to only thirteen bad old men, in a few years we will all die, and there will be no one in this laughing corpse village Come again, so it is useless for us to keep more camels and water, we have long been tired of living in this vast desert, and don't want to make any more troubles."

"Thank you, Daoist Jin'an for your concern. We old men appreciate the kindness of Daoist Jin'an." The fat old man Xikelti gave Jin'an a last grateful look, and poured him a bowl of wine by the way, urging Jin'an to hurry up. Eat meat, don't be too polite with him.

Jin An originally wanted to distract everyone's attention, but he didn't expect to get burned in the end.

He looked at the phoenix who was fleeing from camel meat like a poisonous scorpion.

Then he looked at Young Master Yiyun who was smiling like a fool of two hundred catties.

Then he quietly pushed away the wine bowl without changing his expression: "When I came here just now, I heard Mr. Pasha mention the Black Rain Country, and now I hear Mr. Xikelti mention that our ancestors lived in this laughing corpse farm for generations. , I hope the two old gentlemen will tell you the reason for this?"

Seeing Jin An being so polite, the fat old man and the tall thin old man said in trepidation, "Daoist Jin An is too polite."

"Hey, it's actually not complicated, so there's nothing to hide."

"We don't know much about what happened back then, and we heard it from our parents' word of mouth when we were young... Back then, the Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom led an army into the depths of the desert to search for the Kingdom of the Immortal God, all the way through the holy mountain of the Guchi Kingdom , Guchi country, encountered a catastrophe on the way to Wuershi, and many people died."

"...The ancestors didn't say what the specific catastrophe was, but they just said some nonsense that be careful that walls have ears, that disasters come from the mouth, and that you don't want to involve your descendants..."

"Every time you ask a few more words, you will be scolded, so it has become a taboo not to mention it..."

The fat old man continued to talk about the events of the year: "Since the catastrophe that killed many people, the morale of the army has plummeted, and everyone is no longer willing to stay away from home and risk their lives for the personal selfishness of the Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom." Dangerously enter the depths of the desert without rain and water, looking for the undead kingdom that does not exist at all..."

"...The lord of the Black Rain Country, in order to revive the morale and win over the hearts of the people, later built a stockade to store the soldiers who died in battle, and named it 'Laughing Corpse Village'... The lord promised that he would not abandon every soldier, He will definitely bring every soldier back to his hometown, whether it is the living or the dead, the lord will not leave anyone behind, so there is this laughing corpse village, and some wounded and female slaves are left to take care of the remains .”

"The desert is very large and boring. When the army marches in the desert, they will also bring some female slaves with them. The guests come from the outside world. The military prostitutes must know better than us... Our ancestors stayed in the laughing The wounded soldiers in the corpse farm have been waiting for the king to find the kingdom of the undead gods and bring them back, and then take them home, but this has been waiting for year after year, and the king has never brought people back. The ancestors had children with those female slaves, and the children grew up and gave birth to children..."

"But as the land is barren and can't support so many people, the number of people in this laughing corpse village has gradually decreased from a few hundred people in the past, until no more girls can be born, and only ten people will die in our generation. Three old men who are sitting and eating waiting to die... Once we die, this laughing corpse village will be completely dead."

Seemingly speaking of sadness, the fat old man and the tall thin old man had tears in their eyes, raised their hands and wiped their tears with their sleeves, their eyes were red.

Jin An was thoughtful.

I am afraid that the reason for the sharp decline in the population of Xiaoshi Village is that apart from the barren land here, there is another bigger reason, the lack of fresh blood from outsiders, and the development of this place will definitely turn into intermarriage in the end.When a village is full of close relatives, the rate of congenital disabilities in children increases greatly, and death is not far away.

After the mood stabilized, the tall and thin old man Pasha sighed softly with his deeply wrinkled old face eroded by wind and sand, and this time he went on to say: "Actually, we don't need a few guests to say, we The old men also know that the king and other people who went deep into the desert to find the legendary kingdom of the undead god must have died in the depths of the desert... Otherwise, the king and the others would definitely come back and take away the living people in the laughing corpse village There are still dead people. Without the king and the army, the Black Rain Country would have long since ceased to exist... But we still took chances and couldn't help asking the guests about the news about the Black Rain Country. Reaction, knowing the meaning of the answer is no longer important."

It seems to be relieved, it seems to finally let go of the obsessions of several generations. When it comes to this, the tall and thin old man sighed heavily, saying that they are old, can't move around, and don't want to go anywhere. To die peacefully and die of old age in Xiaoshizhuang, and to accompany the ancestors through the last journey of life is also to keep the vows of the year.

If what the other party said is true, then it is really a touching story with Zi Tongpao.

But there is no assumption in this matter.

As long as you are not blind.

It can be seen that there is a problem with this laughing corpse village.

Jin An once again looked at the phoenix with a self-mutilated body covered in blood, far away from the camel flesh, pretending to be sad and saying: "This is really a sad story."

"We have traveled all the way. There is no rain or water in this desert. The desolation is not suitable for the growth of vegetation. We haven't even seen a Populus euphratica, Haloxylon grass, and Nitraria. What happened to the people and camels in Xiaoshi Village? feed?"

Faced with Jin An's curiosity, the tall and thin old man directly threw out an astonishing news: "Because we have found the Wuershi site!"

"Master Yan and the others also know about this. They arrived a few days earlier than you and have already gone to Wu'er's with us!"

"In order to find a way to survive, according to some ambiguous clues left by our ancestors, the ancestors have been looking around for a way to survive. For so many years, what is there in this desert, let alone figure out the surrounding terrain, through the slow exploration of the ancestors for generations, the nearby Knowing about [-]% to [-]% is still confident.”

"The ancestors also found the holy mountain of Guchi country, but the holy mountain of Guchi country was too dangerous, and the ancestors couldn't get out, so they could only follow the footsteps of their ancestors to the depths of the desert to find other ways to survive. His ruins."

"Thinking about it now, in the boundless desert, you can be lucky enough to find Wu'er with only the number of ancestors. Thank you, the desert gods, for not abandoning us people."

When it comes to gratitude, the tall and thin old man smiled happily, with black, yellow and yellow teeth in his mouth.

And the Lord Yan he was talking about was the big man sitting opposite him.

Seeing the tall and thin old man pulling towards himself and the others, the big man touched the fine iron ring on his finger again, glanced at the man in front of him, and nodded without anger or joy on his face: "Yes, we have indeed been there. Earless."

In this world, if you want to tell a lie well, you must be seven percent true and three percent false.

That's the most difficult way to tell the truth from the fake.

Unexpectedly, these suspicious veterans even threw out such important clues as Wuershi in order to lure them into the bait and seduce the deepest greed in human nature.

This really does not hesitate to spend money.

But if you think about it carefully, this is the only way to catch big fish like them. I don't know what these veterans are planning after spending so much time planning?
Jin'an was not in a hurry to inquire about Wuershi, but instead looked at Mr. Yan opposite him: "On the way here, I once met a man from the Western Regions who was swept up into the sky by a daytime sandstorm and fell to his death. I don't know if it was Mr. Yan's. people?"

He roughly described the appearance of the man from the Western Regions.

Lord Yan shook his head without joy or anger: "Not from my team."

Jin An smiled: "I'm just asking casually, Master Yan doesn't need to think too much."

I don't know how much of what he said is true or not.

"Can you tell me about the situation at Wu'er's side?" Jin An turned to look at the fat old man and the tall thin old man this time.

The position of the two old men at this time is a bit interesting.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional. After filling everyone's wine bowls with wine, the two stood at the door, one on the left and one on the right, blocking the door just in time, as if they were preventing them from escaping.

At this time, the smell of meat in the house is still rising, and those who drink heavily and eat meat are still tearing and biting the meat, eating it deliciously, and their mouths are full of oil.

They have been talking about it for a while, let alone eat five or six catties of meat, logically speaking, people should be full by now.

Unless it is a person with a particularly big appetite.

But these people are still eating meat non-stop, without the pain of being full.

On the table and on the ground, a lot of thick ribs and leg bones were lost. Those bones were gnawed clean, and even the bone marrow was sucked out.

In this slightly treacherous atmosphere, the tall and thin old man began to mysteriously talk about Wuershi.

"In the desert, there is a mysterious legend that there are two ears of the gods. Whoever finds the ears of the gods can hear the voice of the gods and become the person closest to the gods... This mysterious legend attracts countless people to yearn for."

"A long, long time ago, this place was not a complete desert. There were rivers, oases, beasts and vultures here... The melting snow from the snow mountains of Kunlun Mountain and Tianshan Mountains converged into a vast river, flowing from the desert basin to the outside. There are two gods' ears on the road of passage."

"Then one day, someone found the ear of the gods, called it a miracle, and then built a country on the miracle. No one knew the original name, and later people used to call them Wuershi. They claimed to be close to the gods. The ears can hear the voices from the north of the Tianshan Mountains, the voices from the south of the Tianshan Mountains, all the voices of the entire desert, and even the whispers of mysterious people from the kingdom of the undead... In order to hear more There are more voices of gods, they created the ear-cutting ceremony, cut off their ears to sacrifice to the gods, and they can hear more voices of gods from the ears of gods..."

"It is also for this reason that it was later renamed 'Wu Er'."

The tall and thin old man spoke mysteriously, but he never said what the ear of the gods looked like.

Jin An: "What does this god's ear look like?"

The night sky outside the door was dark, and the tall, thin old man standing at the door smiled mysteriously: "That's a huge human ear that grows on the desert, and it leads to the deep underground. No matter how many stones you throw into the hole, you will never hear it." The sound of the stone falling to the ground is bottomless."

Sinkhole?

An abyssal sinkhole that looks like the outline of a human ear?

This was Jin An's first reaction.

Jin An nodded thoughtfully: "Then the ear canal of this desert god is quite deep, like a bottomless pit."

Sitting next to Jin An, Mr. Yiyun raised his red mouth slightly, his face was as delicate as snow-white porcelain, and his skin was delicate and snow-white, which made his cold temperament a little lighter.

Seeing that Jin An turned his head to look, she put on a straight face on purpose, looking at Jin An inexplicably. He glanced at Brother Jiuwan, who was smashed to pieces, stopped aiming randomly, and continued to look at the two wrinkled wretches at the door. old man.

Jin An: "Since you have found the Wuershi ruins, you should have also found the tiankeng... Uh, God's Ear, right?"

Pasha and Sikelti nodded.

Jin An: "Did you hear the voice of the gods? Or the whispers of the mysterious people from the kingdom of the undead?"

The two shook their heads in distress.

The promise is obvious.

According to what the tall and thin old man said next, in the depths of the sinkhole in the ear of the desert, there is a water source that even the sun does not shine on. They have relied on that water source for so many years to survive.

This table of camel meat, if only the people from Mr. Yan's side would definitely not be able to finish it, but with the seven or eight people from the Western Regions who joined later, the whole table of camel meat could be finished.

When all the camel meat was eaten and the incomparably strong meaty smell disappeared, those people who had lost their minds and had been gluttonously eating came to their senses, holding their stomachs and saying that they were well fed.

I don't know what the hell the two old men were thinking. After eating all the camel meat on the table, they stopped serving the camel meat. The two looked at the night outside, looked at each other again, and went inside The person said with a smile on his face, "It's getting late now, and the travelers from far away should be tired too. We've already arranged for some sleeping rooms."

"However, the desert is barren and the nights are cold. There may not be enough beds and quilts, and even the number of rooms is not enough. Everyone has to squeeze together... Although the Xiaoshi Village is large, many rooms have not been occupied by people for many years. The thick dust is not suitable for people to live in. Master Yan and the others already have a place to sleep, so we have to feel wronged that Daoist Jin'an, Mr. Yiyun, and a few other guests from afar squeezed together."

Qi Bo, lying on his stomach and pretending to be drunk: "!!!"

(End of this chapter)