Chapter 3845 Village Rumors

Xiao Yi supported the old village chief and sat on a stone outside the village. The old village chief held a pipe in his mouth and took a long puff.

He sighed and exhaled a puff of smoke, looking at Xiao Yi in front of him.

"This matter started more than 50 years ago. In our village, there have always been rumors about giant pythons. We who live in the village are not old and confused. We will definitely not believe in things without evidence."

The old village chief was the same when he was young. He did not believe in such fictitious things, but something happened later, which changed his mind.

Once he and several young people in the village went up the mountain to collect herbs. When they stood on the mountainside, dark clouds began to appear in the sky, and soon the originally clear sky was covered.

It is also very common in such deep mountains that the sunny day is suddenly covered with dark clouds. Several people continued to collect herbs and had no intention of going down the mountain to go home.

Suddenly, there were lightning and thunder in the dark clouds, and the wind and thunder were raging. The old village chief had lived for so long, but he had never seen such strange weather. They found that all the lightning fell into the valley behind the village.

The young men were also brave. Even so, they were still not afraid, so they walked towards the valley to see what was going on. They had never seen such a situation before.

After crossing the top of the mountain, they saw that in the valley, all the lightning was concentrated in one position, and at this position, there were countless wild animals such as rabbits, pheasants, and wild boars that died.

One of them saw so many dead wild animals in the valley. It was originally an era of hunger, and a wild boar was enough to eat for several months. After seeing this scene, he didn't think much about it.

He turned over and went down to pick up the wild animals killed by lightning in the valley and took them home to feed his children and wife. Even in such bad weather, he didn't care.

The old man at that time was also very excited. Whoever picked it up would own it. His family had already run out of food and lived a life of eating bran and vegetables. If he could eat some meat to improve his life, it would be worth taking a risk.

But the old village chief was also very smart. He felt that this matter was not that simple. As the saying goes, there must be something wrong when things are abnormal. There is no such a good thing in the world. He hesitated for a moment, and the other people had already rushed to the valley.

Looking at the pairs of wild beast corpses, they were all killed by lightning not long ago. If they were taken back and washed, they could be eaten. This God really helped them a lot and saved their lives.

Just as several people were celebrating with the corpses of wild boars and pheasants, a purple lightning fell and hit the bodies of these people.

They fell to the ground and looked dead. The old village chief who was about to rush up stopped in time. If he rushed down, he would definitely have the same fate.

As expected, nothing comes for free. The old village chief still believes that those wild boars and pheasants are all sacrifices to the giant python underground. How can mortals touch these sacrifices? They will definitely be punished.

The old village chief planned to wait for the rain to stop and then carry the bodies of these people down the mountain. After all, they are still people in the village. They have to be taken back if they die and find a place to bury the bodies.

Where the bodies were piled up, with the fall of a muffled thunder, a purple mist appeared, wrapping all the bodies in it, and it was unclear what was going on.

Fearing that this strange thunder would fall on him, the old village chief found a cave nearby as a place to shelter from the rain, and stayed on the mountain for a whole night. He didn't even dare to close his eyes that night.

After night, gusts of wind came from the direction of the col from time to time. This sound made people feel creepy, as if it was a ghost crying. The old village chief could still hear it with his ears blocked.

The sound did not disappear until the next morning, when the sun rose. During this time, the old village chief did not dare to go and see what happened in the valley. When the sky cleared after dawn, the dark clouds retreated.

He came to the top of the mountain again and looked in the direction of the valley. There were still many corpses piled up yesterday, but that place suddenly disappeared. The dead people and animals seemed to have never existed.

With courage, the old village chief went to the place where the accident happened yesterday to check it out. There was a dark hole on the ground. After pulling apart the grass, he could not see where it led to.

He did not dare to go in alone, especially after what happened yesterday, so he ran back to the village. After talking to the villagers, more than a dozen young men followed him to the valley, and none of them believed what the old village chief said.

"Ah! I can remember the events of that day so clearly now. The cave I saw earlier disappeared, and the grass returned to normal. There was no cave at all."

Although the old village chief explained to the villagers, they saw nothing and thought that the old village chief was lying. Maybe those people had an accident with him.

The old village chief didn't want to take responsibility for the lie he made up. He couldn't explain it clearly, so he had to go back and wait for the village leader to deal with it.

"Those people died in front of me. Sometimes I can still dream about them. So if you plan to mine the jade veins on this mountain, you can't do it."

The old village chief also likes money. If he has money, he can leave this place where he lives and live in a better condition.

But he knew he couldn't take the money. If he took it, who knows what kind of disaster would happen. The place where the accident happened in the valley was exactly where the jade vein was.

The people in the village had known about the existence of this jade vein for a long time, but no one dared to touch it. Nowadays, young people have forgotten the old man's advice and put it behind their minds.

Following what the old man said, he thought about it. The old village chief didn't seem to be lying. The situation at that time might be different from what he said. After all, people will see illusions when they are panicking.

But the cave appeared and disappeared, which was the same as what Yuan Sheng encountered. Xiao Yi had to think, could this cave really be weird? He wanted to explore it himself to see what was inside.

"Don't worry, old man. We are not interested in the jade vein. We are just very curious about this rumor. Don't worry, we will not touch the jade vein."

"Don't touch? If you don't touch the jade vein, how can you make money? I know that you have invested a lot of money in this jade vein."

"Of course I have my own way. You just wait here. We will go out for a while and come back as soon as the matter is resolved. I will discuss something with you later."