Chapter 913: Chapter 58: Old Six Pei’s Otherworld Journey (Part 2)_2

Of course, the Star Network Terminal couldn’t connect to the Star Network because there’s no signal.

It’s just that this ‘no signal’ is completely different from what he understands as ‘no signal’.

“Woo woo woo!!!”

Just as Pei Laoliu was pondering how to search for the so-called Cultivator’s treasure, Dahei suddenly growled lowly towards the outside.

At the same time, Pei Laoliu heard the sound of many people’s footsteps running closer, accompanied by a few terrified shouts.

“Another one is dead! Another one is dead!”

“Come quick! Come quick! Everyone together, don’t fall behind!”

“Wait for me! Wait for me!”

“…”

Then came the disorganized sound of footsteps, sounding like quite a number of people, at least dozens.

Pei Laoliu’s heart was stirred, there were living people here. Despite the accent laden with dialect, he could barely understand it, suggesting that the likelihood of this place being in Huaxia was greater.

In any case, having someone to communicate with was always good, at least he could inquire about the situation here.

“Creak~ Creak~”

He reached out to tug at the broken door of the small house, the iron lock long rusted beyond repair, wouldn’t budge at all.

In the end, because the wood was too rotten, Pei Laoliu accidentally used too much force and took the whole door down.

“Whoosh~ Whoosh~”

Blowing away the freely drifting dust, Pei Laoliu finally saw the scene outside for the first time.

As expected, the place he was in was indeed a mountain village.

Only his house seemed unique, sitting lonely in a mountain hollow, with weeds all around, clearly untended for a long time.

“Tap tap tap tap~”

The footsteps came from not far away.

Pei Laoliu glanced around, vaguely seeing figures moving through the gaps in the weeds.

“These should be the villagers here, let me go ask about the situation…”

He called Dahei, one person and one dog pushed through the wild grass, in no time they reached the small path outside the yard.

“Hurry hurry hurry! Go over and take a look! How many is it now?”

“The seventh! It’s Li Erma, I saw him this morning, heard he couldn’t find food in his house anymore, couldn’t resist going out, and ended up…”

“Alas, I don’t know what we’ve done wrong, angered the Mountain God, this is already the seventh, when will it end!”

“Yes, the food at my house is running low too, it’s not yet harvest time, if we can’t go into the mountains to find food, my whole family might starve to death!”

“…”

The crowd ran past Pei Laoliu, their voices carrying into his ears.

Maybe it was because Master Liu’s green Daring Clothes blended with the surrounding weeds, creating a camouflage.

Or perhaps everyone seemed to be in a hurry, no one noticed his presence.

Pei Laoliu heard a few words, his curiosity increased instead of diminishing.

From their tone, it seemed like recently, this village had been experiencing deaths, like this was already the seventh.

And during that encounter earlier, he also noticed another issue.

That was the clothes these people wore, they were all Huaxia’s ancient farmer attire.

Linen clothing, short sleeves, waistbands, shabby and without any trace of modernity.

This made him feel uneasy.

You know, even the most remote mountain areas nowadays, wouldn’t dress so primitively.

That style, that design, it was clearly the attire of ancient farmers!

Pei Laoliu’s heart sank slightly, knowing he’d likely stumbled into an extraordinary place…

He looked at the villagers running towards the other end of the mountain path, took a step to follow at the end of the group, intending to see what exactly happened there.

A large group of people arrived grandly at the edge of a mountain, stopping in front of a creek.

There were already forty to fifty people gathered here.

Judging by their attire, they seemed to be villagers from this village.

At this moment, all of them wore expressions of tense sorrow, not noticing that an old man in strange green clothes had appeared at the back of the crowd.

“What’s the situation? What’s the situation? Where’s the person? Where’s the person?”

People standing at the back couldn’t see inside, anxiously asking their companions.

“It’s Li Erma! Dead already! Just like the previous six, his whole body is stiff as if frozen, floated down from upstream of the creek!”

Someone in the front relayed the latest information back.

“This, this…could it really be the Mountain God’s wrath? Are we all going to starve to death then…?”

“Heh, starve to death? That’s wishful thinking, the Mountain God is just not allowing us into the mountains now, who knows when it might get impatient and come into the village to eat us all!”

“But, but…didn’t the Mountain God not eat those who died before…? Just froze them to death…”

“Frozen to death? You fool, didn’t you hear the village chief say? These people aren’t just frozen to death, all their blood’s gone!”

“The blood, the blood’s gone?”

Pei Laoliu heard the sound of someone swallowing hard, clearly they were terrified.

He didn’t mean to mock the person, as even he, an outsider, felt a bit uneasy just hearing those few words.

What kind of monster sucks human blood? Killing seven at once?

Even a seasoned wanderer like Master Liu, with his years in the martial world, couldn’t help but wonder.

After all, when he wandered the martial world telling fortunes, though he had opened coffins and moved graves, he was only dealing with the dead.

Such merciless monsters, he’d only ever read about in Zhang Xiaoman’s Alien Species Manual, never encountered in real life.

As for the Mountain God?

He absolutely did not believe it.

Never mind whether or not gods exist, even if they do, how could they harm humans so?

Saying it’s a monster like Alien Species fits better.

“Mountain God! Mountain God! Please have mercy, stop punishing us! We know we’re wrong!”

At this time, someone couldn’t bear the pressure anymore, “thud” kneeled down, continuously kowtowing towards the woods on the other bank of the creek.

As one kneels, others follow, soon many villagers were kneeling, incessantly kowtowing in that direction.

With their kneeling, Pei Laoliu’s field of view cleared up, immediately seeing the spot previously surrounded by the crowd, indeed there lay a corpse.

“It’s really frozen…?”

Having consumed Sun Essence, Pei Laoliu’s vision was very sharp, he saw many details on the corpse’s surface from a distance.

Just as those people said, the corpse was entirely a frozen purple hue, its skin looked extremely stiff.

There was a bit of frost between the cuffs and hair, it did not look recently deceased, instead more like it had been dead for a while and then removed from a freezer.

Master Liu was now a bit puzzled too.

According to his past martial world experience, he had never encountered such a situation, fortune tellers after all are not forensic pathologists, and wouldn’t deal with corpses.

The situation now appeared increasingly bizarre.

A common murderer wouldn’t make a corpse look like this, it seemed more like something done by one of those terrifying Alien Monsters.

Pei Laoliu exhaled, secretly lamenting his bad luck.

Not only did he inexplicably end up in this village, but he also stumbled into such an incident, who knows what might happen next.

Is it true, as that person said, that soon the so-called ‘Mountain God’ would start coming into the village to eat people?