Chapter 60 The Strangeness

The people living in this village are extremely welcoming. Whenever they see Lin Yi and the others, they will definitely come over to ask for help.

But whenever Lin Yi wanted to ask about the village, the answers he got were surprisingly consistent -

Under the protection of the Holy Lady and the Chosen One, this village is safe.

Apart from this, Lin Yi did not get any valuable information from their mouths.

As for how the Saint and the Chosen One protected the village, they didn't explain it clearly and would always change the subject to prevaricate.

"I always feel that the reason these people are talking to us is because they want us to stay in this village."

Lin Xiaosheng said to Zhou Kai.

"I feel the same way." Zhou Kai nodded.

"The Saint and Brother Lei said that everything the people in the village did was to take back everything that originally belonged to humans. But..."

When he said this, Zhou Kai looked around.

"However, we have been walking around here for so long, and we have never seen their preparations for battle."

"And...Zhou Kai, do you think the people in this village are a little strange?" Lin Yi glanced at the person waving to him not far away.

Lin Yi responded politely, and then continued: "I didn't pay much attention to it before, but after walking around the village for a while, I felt that the people in the village were a little hunchbacked."

People in the village are hunched over, but different people have different degrees of hunched back.

Lin Yi didn't pay attention before. After all, living in this kind of environment, it is natural for him to feel tired and hunched over.

"Brother Lei and the others are a little better, it doesn't look obvious." Lin Yi continued.

"But the older the person, the more severe the hunchback."

"Including the saint we met before."

Recalling the time when the saint walked out of the ancestral hall, Lin Yi thought that the saint was hunched over and trembling when she walked because of her age.

"Do you remember the house we just passed by?" Zhou Kai glanced behind him.

"While you were talking to that family, I took a look inside the wooden shed."

"There's a guy lying face down on that board in the corner."

Everyone sleeps in a different position, and there's nothing strange about sleeping face down.

But the premise is that the bed underneath you is soft enough. If the place you lie on is just a hard board, sleeping face down will be quite uncomfortable.

"The man was lying motionless on the wooden board. If I hadn't been able to hear his heartbeat, I would have doubted whether the man was dead."

"Moreover, hunched back is due to the curvature of the spine. People with severe cases cannot sleep face down in bed."

"But that man did it, and when he was face down, there was a bulge on his back."

"Could it be caused by mutation?" Zhou Yun asked in a low voice.

"Just like those little kids."

"It's not impossible.." Lin Yi thought for a moment and looked up at the ancestral hall in the distance.

"Let's go to the ancestral hall again."

Lin Yi lowered his voice and whispered to Zhou Kai: "Go and eavesdrop on the saint in the ancestral hall. Maybe you can find something."

"I think so too." Zhou Kai's thoughts coincided with Lin Yi's.

They quickly arrived at the location of the ancestral hall. In order not to arouse suspicion, they did not get close and always stayed within the range that Zhou Kai's ability could cover.

Zhou Kai started to use his abilities. He listened very carefully, but after listening for a while, Zhou Kai shook his head.

"What's wrong?" Lin Yi asked.

"It seems like he fell asleep." Zhou Kai replied.

"The breathing sounds are the same as the person who was sleeping face down before."

"The Saint also sleeps face down?" When he heard this, Lin Yi felt more and more something was wrong.

"Could it be that...they have something on their backs?"

"The reason why you sleep face down is because you are worried that it will weigh down the things on your back?"

"If there is something on their backs, what could it be?" Zhou Yun was a little curious.

"..." Lin Yi thought for a while, feeling uneasy in his heart.

"Do you still remember the information that Uncle An found?"

Lin Yi looked around cautiously, and then whispered: "The word 'alien' used in the information does not only refer to the monsters in the city."

"The word 'alien' is a general term for all monsters."

Because the aliens Lin Yi and the others came into contact with were always Mantis, they ignored this problem.

Thinking about it now, I just feel a chill on my back.

"You mean... these people might be disguised as other types of aliens?!" Zhou Kai frowned.

He thought for a while, and his face became solemn: "I was careless."

Zhou Kai realized the seriousness of the matter - different types of heterogeneous heartbeats do not necessarily have the same frequency, so his method of relying on the heartbeat sound to determine whether the other party is a heterogeneous person may not work.

"But if the people in this village are also aliens, why don't they attack us?" Zhou Yun asked.

"Could it be that they, like the aliens in the city, will attack us only when we find out that they are not human?"

Lin Yi shook his head: "Probably not."

"As for the 'alien' thing, the aliens in the city will never take the initiative to mention it, unless the humans they raise reach a certain age or discover their true identity."

"Although I don't know why they are like this, they have always kept this way tacitly."

"But the people in this village took the initiative to talk about the 'aliens'. They even know the existence of 'abilities'-"

When he said this, Lin Yi suddenly noticed a problem.

"Zhou Kai, have you seen aliens here... are they the mantises in the city?" Lin Yi asked anxiously.

Zhou Kai shook his head: "Don't those aliens live in the city?"

"Their heartbeat frequency is different from that of humans. If they appear here, I can't help but hear it."

"No, I'm talking about the corpse of the mantis."

"Corpse?" Zhou Kai was stunned.

"If the people in this village have been fighting the mantises and have successfully rescued so many people, they must have killed the mantises."

"So, how do they deal with the bodies of the mantises?"

Lin Yi looked back at the village: "If it were me, the parts of the mantises could be used to make weapons."

"The hard shell can be made into armor to protect the body, and the sharp forearms can be made into knives."

"But, in this village, we didn't see anything related to mantises at all."

"Will they be dealt with in a centralized manner?" Zhou Kai asked with a frown.

"After all, we only visited part of this village. Maybe Uncle An and Lu Linhai have other discoveries."

Lin Yi didn't say anything. Although these were all his guesses, once he had doubts in his heart, the village in front of him became different.

"Let's go back and see if Uncle An and the others are back." Lin Yi thought for a while.

"If they don't find anything, we'd better leave here."

Just as they were about to return to Tian Wenlei's residence, a limping little boy suddenly came not far away.

The little boy had many small pimples on his face, which looked a little creepy.

After getting closer, the little boy stared at Zhou Yun and smiled foolishly, revealing a mouthful of crooked teeth.

"Mom..."

The little boy suddenly raised his hand, pointed at Zhou Yun and shouted, "Mom, I finally found you!"