Baby with Daoist Monarch System-Chapter 575 - 228: The Serpent Massacre

"Look, the main door seems to be unlocked."

The crowd looked at Old Zhao’s house door, and indeed it was not locked.

"Let’s go, enter and take a look, just in case something really happened."

"Okay."

"Alright."

After deciding, the crowd pushed open Old Zhao’s house door.

Upon entering, they saw the kitchen door half-open, through which a pair of completely blackened legs were visible.

"Look!!"

The crowd looked in the direction of the finger, their eyes instantly widening.

At that moment, a gust of wind blew by, and the other half of the door swung open fully, revealing a pitch-black corpse before their eyes.

"Ah!!!"

"A... a corpse!"

"It’s Old Zhao’s corpse!!"

Once the crowd recognized it, they scrambled out in a panic.

They were just ordinary villagers and had never encountered anything so shocking. They’ve seen corpses before, but a completely blackened corpse, gruesomely dead in a kitchen was truly unheard of.

All of a sudden, cries and screams rose within the village, and before long, everyone remaining, those who hadn’t gone out to farm, knew about Old Zhao’s tragic death in the kitchen.

Suddenly, panic spread, and all the villagers gathered at the entrance of the ancestral hall.

The Stone Village’s village chief, Tian Yong, was presiding over the situation.

Tian Yong stood inside the ancestral hall, noticing half the villagers were missing, he asked, "Why are there so few people? Did everyone go out farming?"

"I don’t know, since early morning the village seemed much emptier, we thought they were scared to farm after hearing about Old Zhao getting bitten by a snake yesterday."

"Even if they’re scared to farm, this concerns the whole village, how can they not come?" Tian Yong said indignantly, "Go, call all those who are left..."

Before he finished speaking, a young figure ran into the ancestral hall from outside, with a terrified expression as if he had witnessed something horrifying.

"Vill... vill... village chief, it’s... it’s... not good..."

"What kind of behavior is that, so flustered." Tian Yong said, handing him a cup of water.

The young man accepted the water from Tian Yong with shaking hands, drank it, and only after a while did he slowly calm down.

Yet, it was obvious his legs were still trembling.

"Village Chief, everyone who didn’t come to the hall today has died at home!"

The words plunged the ancestral hall into silence, a pin-drop could be heard; disbelief was etched on everyone’s face.

Tian Yong’s already severe demeanor became more so upon hearing the news, "This joke isn’t funny at all."

The young man hastily waved his hands, "I’m not lying."

"Just now, I went to fetch them to the hall, knocked on the doors forever without a response, thinking something happened, I climbed over the wall to check, and found them dead inside."

"The death was miserable, their entire bodies turned green, eyes, blood vessels protruding, facial features distorted, appearing extremely painful."

"Then, I checked all the houses of those who didn’t go to the hall, found... everyone was dead!!!"

As he spoke, the young man’s voice trembled, his pupils dilated, shaking his head incessantly as if trying to forget everything he saw.

Tian Yong stared fixedly at the young man, searching for traces of lies on his face, only to find none.

Thus, Tian Yong had no choice but to believe it.

"I’ll go take a look, you all stay inside the hall, don’t go anywhere."

Without waiting for a response, Tian Yong walked out of the ancestral hall alone.

The young man remained inside; all the villagers looked at him, hoping he would deny what he said, but unfortunately, this was the truth.

Tian Yong came out of the ancestral hall and quickly arrived at the first house, climbed over the wall, walked to the bedroom, and saw a man and a woman, blackened all over, eyes bulging, dead on the bed.

Faced with this scene, Tian Yong’s stomach churned, and he ran directly to the courtyard, vomiting uncontrollably.

It took quite a while for him to recover and unwilling to accept defeat, continued to the next house.

The result.

Whoever hadn’t gone to the ancestral hall ended up miserably dead in their home, deaths so tragic it was chilling.

Upon checking the last house, Tian Yong collapsed on the ground, tears streaming.

Tian Yong returned to the ancestral hall, dejected, seeing the villagers’ horrified expressions, he was utterly numb.

"Village Chief, how is it?"

"Is it really true that half the villagers are dead?"

"Village Chief, this has to be a joke!!!"

The villagers didn’t believe what was said before, pinning their hopes on Village Chief Tian Yong.

Tian Yong waved his hand weakly, saying, "I just checked the houses of those who didn’t come, not a single person is alive!!"

After saying these words, Tian Yong collapsed on the ground, unable to muster the strength to stand again.

Sitting around inside the ancestral hall, the villagers heard Village Chief Tian Yong confirm it; they were still in disbelief.

"Ah! What are we to do, this kind of thing is actually true!!"

"How can someone do this! Kill half the village in one night??"

"Might it be the snake Old Zhao brought back from the field embankment yesterday?"

At the mention of the snake, everyone recalled.

Last night Old Zhao mentioned he was bitten by a snake on the field embankment, this story quickly spread to everyone.

Now with half the village dead, perhaps it was the work of this poisonous snake.

"If it’s really the poisonous snake, what can we do? Our Stone Village has no defense against poisonous snakes!!"

"Indeed, unlike the neighboring Great Wilderness Border Village, with specialized planting of the Seven-leafed One-flowered Plant for snake defense."