Chapter 140:
The plants on the surface were devoured in an instant, and they merged into the flames and shrank toward the tent with the dark flames.
Tang Xiao raised her head, her intuition beating violently like a drum—above the pitch-black night, there is a higher unconscious existence, overlooking her indifferently and empty.
If the spiritual power and the power of thunder and lightning did not affect it, then as she expected, at the moment when the fire of karma was sacrificed, the unreachable and treacherous existence suddenly reacted.
First is the tent. The tent, which was indifferent to all attacks, suddenly spread out a phantom under the light of the flames, and jumped a few times in the firelight!
"Karma!"
Tang Xiao snorted, black flames wrapped around the phantom, just about to touch the source, the phantom suddenly disappeared, and even Karma couldn't detect where it went.
At the same time, the ubiquitous feeling of depression and suffocation disappeared.
Everything was calm, there was snoring from the tent, and the voices of Wu Shi and several people talking.
The tent door was opened, Wu Shi stuck his head out, and was startled by the charred environment: "God, what happened?"
Tang Xiao pulled out the machete and wiped off the soil on the blade, "It's okay, go to sleep."
At least the premonition of danger has eased a lot, indicating that this night is temporarily safe.
Luo Er: "Success! How did the host do it?"
And the host doesn't seem to be surprised, only it has not recovered.
Idol is very interested: "You are really smart, you can find a way to restrain yourself from my words."
Tang Xiao: "Thank you."
"You're welcome, I won't say it anyway, you can think of it yourself."
Tang Xiao did not speak any more, and went back to the tent to meditate and rest.
To be honest, the "meme" information given by the doll egg did make her think of something...
Devil Fruits.
Extremely infectious and assimilated, unable to attack, out of the metaphysical existence of matter and energy. It can even pollute the entire interstellar human civilization, leading to the end of the world in a plane...
Isn't this some type of meme?
If it weren't for the weakening of the alliance field, the ability of the Devil Fruit would be weakened. It is also impossible for Tang Xiao to successfully fuse the Devil Fruit and temper the Karmic Fire.
In essence, part of the karmic fire is derived from the devil fruit: the spiritual power resists the assimilation of the devil fruit, and then gives birth to the karmic fire with the ability to devour the devil fruit.
However, there is no guarantee that Karma will work against all types of memes. Therefore, Tang Xiao will use the power of lightning and spiritual power first, and finally sacrifice his karma.
Luckily, she made it.
At least this night, the memes that hang over this village should not come again.
Mental power spreads out and investigates, those women and children who keep their eyes open all night in the cabin, don't know when to close their eyes and fall asleep.
…
The night passed and the dawn rose.
Some villagers came to the tent to look for someone, and everyone came out to see that it was a tall and thin woman.
The woman called herself Mengli and lived in the village. She hopes that everyone can leave as soon as possible, and the village does not welcome outsiders to stay overnight.
Wushi asked boldly: "If you don't welcome us, why didn't you come out and tell us when we entered the village last night to shout?"
Meng Li frowned and looked cold: "We have our customs, this is not something you need to understand. Since you have stayed here for one night, leave as soon as possible during the day. When the night falls again, the road will be difficult to walk."
The group should continue on their way, and they don't want to worry about Meng Li. Just as he was about to turn around to pack his luggage, Tang Xiao's voice suddenly sounded: "We are going to stay here for a few days, please make it easy."
Everyone: "???"
Seeing everyone put things down immediately, Meng Li was furious: "I advise you to leave now, or it will be too late to regret it!"
"Although we don't need a reason to rush the guests, we really can't do anything about it. As you can see, our team is all old, weak, sick and disabled."
Tang Xiao shrugged his shoulders, his voice was as calm as the wind, and he explained the "difficulties".
Rusa and Angie, who were designated as "old, weak, sick and disabled": ...the boss starts to get nervous again? Not just to cooperate.
Rusa coughed immediately, like an immobile old man.
"Also, we don't have enough food. If we continue on our way, we will starve to death on the road."
Tang Xiao spread his hands and said: "The people in this team are all tired and hungry, they really can't hurry, they can only rest temporarily in your village. If we have to leave, please leave Throw these people out to die, I definitely can't move them myself."
Everyone looked at each other's eight-pack abs, and looked at Tang Xiao, who was serious and miserable: ... Saying this, don't you feel guilty?
Meng Li obviously doesn't believe it, but she doesn't understand what Tang Xiao is doing, so she can only ask helplessly: "Then how do you want to leave?"
Tang Xiao didn't change his expression: "We can only ask the village to help us a little, and it doesn't need too much. The food for ten people for half a month is enough. Your village is so big, there must be a lot of work. Young man, it should be easy to gather food, right?"
Meng Li's face turned pale: "What nonsense are you talking about, so much food... How can you call it easy?"
"There's no way."
The negotiation failed, and Meng Li left angrily.
The rest of the people looked at each other, Barlow scratched his head, "God, do we have any tasks next?"
Picking up a branch, Tang Xiao drew a circle on the sand, and roughly drew the layout of the entire village, "Here is the topographic map of the entire village."
Then she circled: "We are here, from here out to these dead trees, you go check everything along the way. You are not allowed to speak to any villagers without my permission, Whether it's a woman, a child... or a man, understand?"
"Got it!"
The young people picked up the branches one after another, ran to the critical point specified by Tang Xiao to show the dividing line, and then began to carefully search for flowers and trees within the range.
Angie couldn't help but ask, "Why do we stay here? Is there anything unusual about this village?"
Tang Xiao did not answer and asked, "Did you sleep well last night?"
Sleep well, sweeter than pigs.
The words circled around her mouth, but Anji did not dare to say it, and said euphemistically: "Last night was calm, I could sleep well..."
“…Wait, what happened last night?”
An Ji didn't think much of it at first, in her inherent impression, Tang Xiao was also holding on when the sky fell, and the danger of the previous life was nothing. But at this time, seeing the expression of the cheap sister, she suddenly had an ominous premonition in her heart.
"Things may be a little tricky." Tang Xiao responded bluntly.
At this moment, the young people who were in charge of searching around came back one after another, and brought back some half-rotted clothes.
"These clothes are buried under the ground, and you can find one every ten steps."
Wushi showed Tang Xiao the dirt on the rotting clothes. These clothes were buried under the ground for a long time, and some of them even grew white flowers. The swollen green and black stems entangled the inside of the cloth, and the whole picture that was peeled off was extremely terrifying.
Of course, most of the flowers were burned by a fire last night, leaving only charred powder.
From the perspective of the size and style of the clothes, it should be the clothes worn by men, every one is.
"Another discovery. When we were near the critical line, we saw several women and children walking out of the village with baskets and axes, and they were walking very fast, as if Afraid of us...but we didn't see a man."
Although Wu Shi did not continue to say, but the doubt has been revealed.
Why are these men's clothes buried in the ground? Why didn't the women's husbands and children's fathers show up? Where have all the men in this village gone?
"Wushi, Lusa, Barlow... You and I, go outside the village to check the situation. The rest of the people are staying in place and have their weapons ready. There may be villagers attacking next, if necessary When Angie can use divine power, it must not hurt anyone."
Everyone realized something was wrong. Those who were not named by Tang Xiao hurriedly went to prepare the defensive fence, while An Ji was in disbelief and pointed at himself: "Leave me alone, am I alone?"
Wushi Rusa Tang Xiao will go to the jungle and leave her to guard the spring?
"You are an angel, and it is normal to lead others to defend."
Tang Xiao raised his eyebrows, as if he didn't understand what An Ji was afraid of.
Angie frantically winked her eyes: "I am indeed a god, but each **** is different... right?"
She tried to make Tang Xiao understand the meaning in her eyes: Big sister, our mana is not of the same magnitude! I really can't handle a danger that even you find difficult, ah ah ah!
"Don't forget the glory and dignity of the angels, God will bless you."
Tang Xiao patted Anji on the shoulder to show comfort, turned and led the three of them away.
Angie: No, the gods are fighting demons in Olympus, and they will not bless me at all. What glory do you want when your life is gone!
However, despite her crazy hints, the cheap sister left ruthlessly. In Qi Feng Leng Yu's camp, apart from a few muscular men with big chests and no brains, there was only Saibo, who knew nothing about the situation, and swooned over to try to gather information.
In the end, of course, she was fanned away by Anji, and she turned away in a daze.
On the other side, Tang Xiao stepped out of the village.
Where are the women and children who have just left the village, the deserted road leading to the outside world is empty. Several people were walking on the path, and even the most daring Wu Shi felt inexplicably trembling in his heart.
I don't know how long it took, Rusa suddenly snorted: "Envoy Tang Xiao, this road doesn't seem to be the same as yesterday."
But it's hard to say exactly what's different.
It was as if she had left the village, but walking on the road felt as if she was still pacing in the surrounded village.