My apprentice is a little weird?

Chapter 187 Strange~

"I believe what you said, but..."

Li Qiaoer said softly, then looked at Zhang Hao who had been absent-minded.

"But why does he look like he doesn't care about Lu Shuang's life or death at all? As if he just lost a pet and made it a nonchalant statement? So absent-minded?"

Everyone looked at Zhang Hao with questioning eyes, and Wu Da added.

"Did you experience something, or saw something?"

Zhang Hao still looked a little absent-minded at this moment. He just looked at the statue in his arms and muttered something.

"I don't know...I seem to have seen something, but also I seem to have seen nothing?"

"What do you mean! What did you see! Is it the exit?"

The young master said this anxiously, and this was also what everyone was thinking.

"Blurred... everything was blurry... I was wrapped in the fog, and I seemed to see some strange things... I can't explain it, and when I came to my senses, it was already like this..."

Qin Xiangling narrowed her eyes slightly: "Have you found any clues, or a way out?"

Zhang Hao shook his head slightly...

"No……"

Silence at this moment...

Wu Da said in a deep voice: "We didn't get anything here either. The surrounding area is completely a dead land, with strange plants and some weird and morbid flowers and fruits everywhere."

Ding Yuan also echoed: "It's the same here, we have no harvest..."

Tie Niu pondered for a moment, and then told what he had seen and heard.

But it didn't mention the cause of death of the body or the strange juice.

After hearing this, everyone fell silent again...

Everyone was thinking about the meaning of that poem.

Li Qiao'er also frowned in thought, but her eyes also looked obscurely at the statue in Zhang Hao's arms, wanting to see if there were the same words engraved on it...

But unfortunately, it was dark and Zhang Hao was holding the statue very tightly for some reason, so she couldn't see clearly whether there was anything on it.

"Zhang Hao's behavior is very strange. I remember that when he first touched this statue, he was very resistant, but now... he feels like he is holding a treasure?"

'And then... Lu Shuang's disappearance must have something to do with him, but why is he acting so obvious and so nonchalant? It's as if he doesn't care about being misunderstood at all~ Is there something more important?'

Although she was puzzled, she did not ask.

"The problem is now clear. We can't find a way out. So should we choose to stay here or continue to spend time exploring?"

Tie Niu said loudly and then looked at everyone.

"There are no clues outside...then we can choose to search inside the village?"

"That makes sense. Miss Ling'er took a walk this morning. Did you learn anything?"

Ding Yuan asked Qin Xiangling without any hesitation, and now everyone's eyes were focused on her again.

Qin Xianglin looked normal.

"From what I've observed today, the people in this village seem to have the habit of sleeping for a long time. So many people gathered this morning just because they were curious about the outsiders coming to the village, so they came out of their houses, but many are still lying in bed."

"Although this village doesn't look big, it has a lot of houses. But strangely, many of them are empty. The doors are locked, and there are cobwebs inside, as if no one has lived there for a long time~"

"Also, the people here don't behave like farmers. First, their clothes don't match their usual movements, and second, there aren't any farm tools in their houses. We originally thought that it was the environment here that made it impossible to farm, but strangely, we found large tracts of abandoned farmland around the direction we were exploring?"

"This shows that the village used to cultivate land, but for some reason they gave it up."

She finished speaking in one breath, and the young master immediately praised her, "Miss Ling'er is really as perceptive as seeing through fire. She can even find this out~"

Then he added: "So what is the next direction of our investigation?"

Tie Niu groaned and rubbed his right foot unconsciously with his fingers.

"We can first figure out why we can't go out at night here, what the unknown darkness is, and what will happen when we enter the darkness."

"We still need to figure out the meaning of that poem. Maybe the answer lies in it~"

As he said this, a few images flashed through his mind. They were all the strange fruit on the chest of the corpse. Even though they were just illusions, the arousing fragrance seemed to come to him through the illusion.

It even made him feel a little dazed.

Li Qiaoer caught this point keenly, then moved her eyes slightly and looked at Zhang Hao.

At this moment, Zhang Hao was holding the statue in his hands, his mouth moving as he muttered something, and his expression was as vague as Tie Niu's now!

"How come they all have such expressions? Could it be that they have had similar experiences..."

While secretly alert in her heart, she glanced at the scholar and Shen Ming covertly.

"It seems that I will have to make a breakthrough from them tomorrow and ask them what happened~"

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Zhang Hao held the statue in his hands and participated in everyone's discussion without saying a word from beginning to end, just listening to their experiences silently.

When he heard that Tie Niu and his group had also encountered this statue, his fingers trembled slightly.

The poem that Tie Niu recited echoed in my ears.

"Kneel before me and ask for eternal life. Immortality is also vain. Sacrifice your life and die, and then you will be rewarded with strength. You can have whatever you ask for, and immortality is not in vain..."

"Sacrifice... power... longevity~"

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In the dead of night, Zhang Hao huddled in a corner alone. Wu Da was on duty, and his eyes occasionally glanced at Zhang Hao, full of vigilance.

Everyone had already noticed something was wrong when Zhang Hao came back, because he had been holding the statue from beginning to end and had no intention of letting go.

If you were afraid of the village chief when you first left the village and didn't dare to throw it away, then what about after you left the village? What about now?

He could have thrown this obviously problematic object away or kept it away from him, but Zhang Hao didn't, and kept holding it.

Everyone present knew the truth but they all tacitly didn't point it out, because they knew Zhang Hao wouldn't say it, and they also wanted to play the long game to catch a bigger fish~

While Wu Da was paying attention to Zhang Hao, he also didn't forget to pay attention to the outside world.

It was still pitch black outside the house and no light source could be seen.

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Zhang Hao had his back to the crowd, his pair of dark eyes open, filled with a few tiny dark brown bloodshot veins.

He kept muttering to himself.

"Longevity... Sacrifice..."

At this moment, the tiny vines wrapped around the statue began to grow slowly, then spread to the palm of Zhang Hao's hand and took root there.

The world in Zhang Hao's eyes suddenly changed at this moment.

The dark and cramped hut became a palace, and the dark and desperate night became blue~

He was standing in a magnificent palace wearing gorgeous clothes, holding a jade seal to rule over everything, and holding in his arms a beautiful woman as delicate and charming as a peach blossom.

He slowly closed his eyes, enjoying the person in his arms...

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