Through observations during the first meeting and what Granny Ji said, Yi Chen temporarily concluded that it was harmless and that he could try to communicate with Granny Ji to obtain key investigative information.
However, there is still one problem that needs to be resolved before communication - gold.
Yi Chen looked upwards, but he didn't see any gold sliding down from above.
"Strange, given Jin's personality, he should have followed immediately."
Just then,
Granny Chicken said as she stroked the golden round chicken in her arms:
"Your friend was sent to the next door. She probably doesn't like to communicate with people, but prefers to kill... Why don't you let her help me clean up the villagers who have been captured during this period of time?"
"Villagers?"
“I asked the children to set up many traps around here. If any villagers come here, they will fall into them if they are not careful.
This is only limited to some stupid viviparous villagers.
I still won't do anything to the church members. They are quite dangerous."
"A lot of villagers are missing in your area. Aren't you afraid of being discovered?"
"A large number? No, the viviparous villagers I captured don't even account for 1% of the total number. Moreover, these villagers are waste materials that the church despises. The church doesn't care about their death or disappearance at all."
"Um… "
Yi Chen nodded slightly. It seemed that the following conversation with Grandma Ji would indeed give him enough useful information.
At this time,
The wrinkled forehead of Granny Ji began to undergo strange changes. The originally normal wrinkle lines gradually evolved into dozens or even hundreds of "small lines".
The eye slit to be exact.
Immediately afterwards, the inside of the eye slits began to move and opened one after another.
Yellow and black chicken eyes are all over Grandma Chicken's forehead, and each one blinks at a different frequency.
At this moment,
The little grape inside the body also immediately became excited, "Wow! Bunches of chicken grapes! I want to eat them so much. They must be delicious if they are strung on bamboo sticks and boiled in water."
Once this guy's usefulness is exhausted, I'll eat him! 』
Yi Chen did not respond, but just quietly observed the changes in Grandma Ji.
These eyes of the hen seem to be able to establish a visual connection with the chickens outside.
After the eyes moved, all the chickens' eyes closed.
“It seems that no one from the church has followed us… We can have a good communication now.
However, the time of our communication must be controlled within ten minutes, otherwise the cult will still be suspicious of your whereabouts and may come to me.
Long story short~
The reason for calling you here is simple. We hope that you can clear out all the infected people in Shebolt Village, especially those church members who deliberately led us to become infected.
If you would like to help,
I will provide as much information as I can, and have my children help in secret."
"Wait... What do you mean by deliberately leading you to get sick? Are people in the church spreading pathogens?"
Granny Chicken changed the subject and said, "It's not about spreading pathogens, but about leading us to break the rules."
"Breaking the rules? Can you be more specific?" This is consistent with Yi Chen's initial guess.
“A gentleman like you should be well aware of the rules of our village.
The rules are very strict on birth control in the village, which to some extent also restricts the development of the village's main animal husbandry.
However, we also rely on such rules to greatly reduce the probability of villagers getting sick, and everyone is barely able to live well.
But a few months ago, a group of people came calling themselves the New Life Church.
They claim to have a brand new set of rules that will not only eliminate diseases but also ignore fertility restrictions and promote the development of animal husbandry in the village.
They somehow persuaded the village chief to build a church on the hillside east of the village."
On the small hill in the east, Yi Chen carefully wrote down this important information.
"At first, the villagers did not believe in such outsiders. But under the persuasion of the village chief, a group of young villagers began to go to the church, and their mindsets completely changed after they came back.
A female villager who had been unable to conceive for many years became pregnant shortly after returning from the church.
It only took one month to complete normal childbirth, and a healthy and lively baby was born without following the rules of childbirth time.
There was also an elderly couple who were older than me. After going to the church, they seemed to regain their youthful vigor and vitality, and they also became pregnant soon after.
There was even a white pig that was taken to the church. It became pregnant without any contact and gave birth to more than 20 healthy and normal piglets in less than half a month.
These signs were regarded as miracles by the villagers.
Gradually, more and more villagers stopped following the rules and began to go to church to be baptized... When they came back, they began to let their livestock mate and reproduce.
But I always scoffed at this and regarded this group of outsiders as a cult.
Of course, there are a small number of people in the village who share the same idea as me and are unwilling to have any contact with the church.
Until one day, when I, an old man with troubled sleep, accidentally discovered that the village chief was pouring a basin of turbid liquid containing dead babies into the only well in the village in the early hours of the morning.
Before we could escape from the village, the village chief began the final cleanup.
He didn’t force-feed us well water or tie us up and take us to church… He simply beheaded those we deemed hopeless and stubborn enough to refuse to accept a new identity.
The village chief grabbed my hair and dragged me to the backyard.
Under the gaze of the ‘children’, his head was chopped off…”
When it comes to this,
The smiling old chicken tilted her head upward, revealing a clearly visible wound on her neck.
“When I regained consciousness, I had been dragged to an open space outside the village by the children, and my head was reattached.
The forest was filled with a gray mist that I had never seen before. It was like a fluid and felt very friendly to the touch... I knew very well that it was this gray fluid that brought me back to life.
Since then, I have been able to communicate directly with the children, using their help to avoid villagers out on patrol and rare and dangerous members of the church.
Later, I found this sturdy tree, reached a symbiotic agreement with it, and built a chicken coop for my children and me underneath it.
I can rest assured that I can just kill the sick people in the village and the people from the church."
"Um."
Yi Chen nodded slightly.
While listening to Grandma Ji telling the story, he also looked into her eyes the whole time. Although he did not notice anything unusual, Yi Chen still had some doubts.
First, there is a 'significant gap' in this story.
The death and rebirth of Granny Chicken just skipped over the most important forest graying and high wall formation... What happened during this period is very important for the subsequent investigation.
Moreover, Granny Ji has never had any contact with the cult, and relevant information still needs further investigation.
Moreover, the explanation that Granny Chicken survived by chance was a bit far-fetched, and no reason was given for her staying here.
"I have a question.
Since the village has changed beyond all recognition, why does my mother-in-law insist on staying here
With your current abilities, you should be able to take your children out of the inner area surrounded by the tree wall by digging, or even get away from this forest and find a safer place to stay.
Why would they sacrifice these children and go against the church
Or even take greater risks to seek cooperation with us?"
Granny Chicken still had a smile on her face. She stroked the golden-feathered chicken in her arms and said:
“Because, when I was dragged to the backyard by the village chief and his men, I was not the first one to be beheaded.
I have a good child at home... The village chief chopped off the child's head in front of me. I, an old man, no longer care about life or death. The only thing I care about is this child."
As she spoke, all the eyes on Granny Chicken's forehead opened, her expression became more and more ferocious, and she actually gave off a terrifying aura close to that of a seriously ill person.
The golden-feathered chicken in the palm of my hand also began to get agitated.
The golden chicken feathers slowly parted,
A human face was reflected in its 'round' body... Or rather, it was not a chicken at all, but a human head, and the golden feathers were hair.
A girl's head,
No emotion can be seen in the cloudy eyes.
This is the only relative in Grandma Ji’s family, her niece who just turned nine years old.