Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 168: Once upon a time there was a river and a village beside the river
Tang Zheng's question was so direct that Ning Mo's expression changed.
Although many years have passed, the scenes in Mohe Village are still as vivid as if they happened yesterday.
Ning Mo calmed down and said, "It turns out that there is a small village called Mohe Village. The villagers are all ordinary people. There is not a single warrior who has lit up the Palace of Life. They have lived in the border with harsh conditions for generations, cultivating barren land... The population of the village is getting smaller and smaller from generation to generation..."
"Yeah." Tang Zheng nodded and motioned for him to continue.
"In fact, on the military map, Mohe Village is a village that is not even marked... Young Master Tang should understand what this means, right?"
"No one cares whether they live or die." Tang Zheng nodded again.
"That's right. Generally, large villages with signs will have certain protection measures before large-scale military operations. However, villages without signs can only leave it to fate. However, this Mohe Village is different..."
"Because of mass death?"
"If it was just a mass death, it wouldn't have attracted the military's attention. At the time, what really caught the military's attention was that... the water source coming from the direction of Mohe Village was found to be highly toxic by military doctors!"
"..." Tang Zheng raised his head and glanced at Ning Mo, "Is this the reason for their collective death?"
"We didn't know at the time, because after the military doctor examined the horses that died of poisoning, he said that this poison should be harmless to the human body. But when we went upstream to investigate , we found that everyone in Mohe Village had died..."
"Half-demon in human form?" Xu Qingyan raised the possibility.
"We initially thought that all the people living in Mohe Village were half-demons. Although a few hundred people is already a large number for half-demons, it is not completely impossible... But after the military doctor arrived, he was very sure that they were all human beings from our territory and had nothing to do with the demons!"
Daji, who had been standing aside listening to their conversation, couldn't help but shiver.
The highly toxic substance flowing down from upstream was definitely harmless to the human body, but it killed hundreds of people in a village?
I thought they were affected by this poison because of their inhuman physical characteristics, but now I find out that they are genuine people?
It doesn't make sense!
Too many things don't make sense.
Tang Zheng laughed : "And then?"
"Don't you think there's something fishy?" Ning Mo was very curious about Tang Zheng's reaction. You know, at that time even the battle-hardened soldiers in their camp turned pale, and rumors were flying all over the camp.
"What's so strange about this? And...if there's nothing strange here, how could he come back to life later?" Tang Zheng waved his hand, motioning him to continue.
In the world where Tang Zheng lived in his previous life, highly targeted genetic poisons were already very mature. Eleven people eating at the same table could eat a certain poison and nothing would happen, but only one person would be poisoned. So, for him, this kind of thing was too normal.
What's more, this is the Xingyao Continent, a mysterious alien world. What Ning Mo said did not surprise Tang Zheng too much.
On the contrary, he is more concerned with resurrection from the dead!
Even in his previous life when technology was highly developed, resurrection from the dead was impossible.
Some scientists say that the human brain is equivalent to a hard drive with a restart and recovery system, just like the reset system installed in Internet cafes. Once the entire human body functions and the "power supply" to the brain is interrupted, all the memories and data in it will be erased.
Even if there is a way to regenerate the body, it does not mean that the person is truly alive.
Tang Zheng now wants to know, is the resurrection from the dead in Xingyao Continent just the resurrection of the body, or the resurrection of the entire soul?
"Well, it was a truce at the time, so the unusual movement in the rear attracted military doctors from several nearby military camps to come, including a military doctor from Tianyi Valley who served in the Red Tassel Army... In addition, there were also experienced border chiefs, paleontologists, and so on... I don't know how many people came."
"So many people? What results were found?" Tang Zheng picked up the teacup again and asked.
"Too many. Military doctors discovered that the people in this Mohe Village were born with closed palaces - that is, they cannot light up their life palaces in their lifetime. Some people also discovered that there are some creatures in this place that are not found in other places... Finally, some scholars discovered that this Mohe Village was actually a main star polar region thousands of years ago!"
"The abandoned polar region of the main star?" Tang Zheng touched his chin and said with a smile.
Tang Zheng was no stranger to the main star's polar regions. Not to mention the far ones, there was a companion polar region of the sun and the moon near Wulong Town.
Moreover, it was found by the Star-Pointing Needle that he created during the battle with Luo Fei.
I don’t know how the main star’s polar region is being developed now.
"Young Master Tang also knows about the polar region of the main star?" Ning Mo seemed to be preparing to explain the polar region of the main star. When he saw that Tang Zheng knew about it, he simply stopped explaining and continued, "It is said to be the polar region of the main star, but those scholars cannot tell what the polar region of the main star is, because too many years have passed, and the fluctuations of the star power have become very chaotic..."
Tang Zheng nodded. In fact, at this moment, he thought of words like "nuclear explosion" and "radiation" instead of food poisoning. However, no one would know if he said these words, and it was estimated that there would not be similar items of mass destruction in this Xingyao Continent.
Ning Mo saw Tang Zheng nod, and continued: "For a while, more and more rumors spread about Mohe Village. The military immediately ordered the blockade of the village, ended the investigation, and burned and buried all the villagers who died of poisoning to prevent the outbreak of plague..."
"Well, it's close to the war zone, and it will be very troublesome if an epidemic occurs." Tang Zheng also agreed with the handling of the matter by the military generals at the time.
"Because many scholars were only halfway through their investigations, the military forcibly drove them away, which caused a lot of protests. However, the president of the war zone also directly ordered to end all investigations and seal the files, so they had no choice but to evacuate. If that were the case, Mohe Village might just be one of the hundreds of unsolved top-secrets in the military files... But during the evacuation... something happened!"
Tang Zheng propped up his chin, knowing that the point was about to come.
What about the resurrection from the dead? They are about to be incinerated and buried. If nothing happens at this time, then nothing will happen!
No matter how mysterious the Xingyao Continent is, Tang Zheng doesn't believe that a village could turn its ashes into living people after being cremated and buried!
"On the night before the cremation, it suddenly started to rain, so the cremation had to be postponed until the next morning... At that time, in a small village where everyone had died, there certainly wouldn't be many people left. We lived in another village half a day's journey away from Mohe Village. At night, we heard what seemed to be unknown howling sounds from Mohe Village, but because we thought there was a small team left there, we didn't pay much attention."
Speaking of this, a trace of sadness appeared on Ning Mo's face.
Needless to say, the team of soldiers left behind are probably in great danger.
"Go on, tell me what you saw when you went there the next day." Tang Zheng lowered his voice.
Ning Mo took a deep breath and said, "Dead... The team that stayed behind, a two-star warrior, twelve one-star warriors, fifteen war horses, and thirty militiamen who followed the team, all died!"
Tang Zheng and Xu Qingyan were obviously not surprised by this result, but the little fox girl Daji's face had turned completely pale.
"Did all those villagers come back to life?" Tang Zheng asked.
"Not only have they come back to life, they were originally just ordinary people, but now they have the strength almost equivalent to that of a one-star warrior. Moreover, their bodies seem to have been cleansed several times by the main star overnight. Both men and women, young and old, are extremely strong..."
"Are they sane?" Tang Zheng asked again.
"Sanity?" Ning Mo was stuck.
"That is... do they look like normal people, or are they just puppets controlled by some force?"
"..." Ning Mo was stumped by Tang Zheng's question, "I... I was so busy killing people that I didn't notice."
Tang Zheng stroked his forehead and said, "You were really a new recruit back then..."
Ning Mo also touched his head: "That's it."
Ning Mo described in detail the brutality of that unexpected battle. The villagers of Mohe Village who came back from the dead actually caused two entire battalions to suffer the loss of most of their lives before they were killed again.
This time, the captains of the two battalions and their superior, the deputy commander, did not delay any further and directly incinerated and buried them.
"Mohe Village, the polar region of the main star that was abandoned thousands of years ago... Lan Shaoze, a former star-loved person..." Tang Zheng nodded, sipping the fragrant tea in his cup while thinking, and laughed softly: "It seems that not just any cat or dog can be resurrected from the dead..."
Mohe Village and Lan Shaoze seem to have no intersection, but there is a subtle connection between them.
However, Tang Zheng is still unable to grasp what this subtle connection is.
"Star's remaining clouds..." Xu Qingyan, who had not said a word until now, uttered four words.
"The remaining clouds of the stars?" Tang Zheng and Ning Mo looked over at the same time.
"The only person I know of who came back from the dead was a baby that crawled out of a dead woman's belly..."
Hearing what they said, each one more bizarre than the last, the little fox girl couldn't bear it any longer. She looked at Tang Zheng for help, asking with her eyes if she could leave first.
Tang Zheng shook his head and said with a smile: "You'd better stay here. Otherwise, when you go back to your room... alone, turn off the lights... and see the wall..."
"Ah... stop talking, stop talking." Daji was frightened by Tang Zheng so much that her face turned pale and she threw herself into Tang Zheng's arms.
Using the little fox girl to adjust the atmosphere, Tang Zheng smiled and looked at Xu Qingyan: "You won't tell me that the dead woman is also a star-loved one just like Lan Shaoze?"
Xu Qingyan nodded: "However, it was not her who came back to life, but the seven-month-old baby in her belly!"
Daji's body was already trembling. Just imagine, in a dark night, a woman with long hair and a miserable face, the dead fetus in her belly suddenly moved, crawled out of the mother's body, and cried for the first time in her life in the empty dark night...
That scene was so "too beautiful" that I couldn't bear to look at it.
