Chapter 273: Scarecrow’s Killing, Qing Army Shaman

After devouring the mouse, the scarecrow's power and aura instantly increased.

At the same time, the puppet rules between heaven and earth also increased slightly, even closer to the rules of life.

Next, this new scarecrow began to get busy quickly, looking ahead and suddenly behind, killing and devouring all the birds, beasts, insects and snakes.

In just one night, dozens of acres of fields had been searched by it, killing countless birds, beasts, insects and snakes.

Wang Chao wandered in the puppet rules and could sense that part of the puppet rules were faintly embedded in part of the life rules, and had a vague connection with some birds, beasts, insects and snakes in the world.

Invisible illusory silk threads extended from the puppet rules and continued to extend to those birds, beasts, insects and snakes.

However, these invisible illusory silk threads seemed to be disconnected and connected with them, and were not completely integrated into their bodies.

Wang Chao had no way to control them, he could only slightly sense their location and some psychological fluctuations in their hearts.

Feeling this situation, Wang Chao couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

If the scarecrow, or the many puppets in the world, kills and devours enough lives.

Can those invisible illusory threads be completely integrated into those lives, and then turn them into puppets under his control?

In this way, can he rely on the puppet rules to control all lives in the world? Even turn the rules of life into rule puppets.

At that time, he will conform to the puppet rules and control the puppet rules, but at the same time he will be the master of the rules of life and control all life behaviors in the world.

Thinking of that situation, Wang Chao was excited, but also a little chilled.

Such a world is just a larger stage.

All lives in the world are puppets in his hands, and all developments in the world are just set scripts.

Comedy and tragedy are just a matter of his thoughts.

Is there any future for such a world?

However, he will not use it to control life in the world.

But he would not refuse to comprehend the mysterious operation of the rules of life.

In an instant, Wang Chao was completely immersed in the mysterious operation of the rules and no longer cared about the outside world.

The next day, the sky was just getting light, and the villagers of Xujiazhuangbao went to work early in the cool morning.

Xu Dashan hurriedly walked with a hoe on his shoulder, with a smile on his face.

In the years of famine in most places, the crops in their village this year ushered in a bumper harvest year, which was naturally a happy thing.

Xu Dashan came to the fields and looked around. He did not find any traces of flying birds such as sparrows. He couldn't help but think to himself that it seemed that this scarecrow was quite useful.

Xu Dashan couldn't help but look at the scarecrow.

Hmm. It seems something is wrong.

However, Xu Dashan frowned and thought about it, but he couldn't remember where the wrong place was.

He took two steps forward again and stepped into the world.

"Puff!"

Xu Dashan felt his feet go soft, as if he stepped on something.

He moved his feet away, looked down carefully, and faced the faint light in the east. He saw clearly what he had stepped on just now. It was a dead mouse, and it was a mouse that had been dead for a long time and had become a mummified corpse.

Xu Dashan was slightly stunned. Why didn't he find the dead mouse yesterday?

Did he not notice it?

Shaking his head, Xu Dashan gave up the exploration, kicked it out of the farmland, and began to bend over to work.

In this process, Xu Dashan discovered many things about animals and began to feel something was wrong.

When he walked a distance inward and was only more than ten meters away from the scarecrow, the scarecrow suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of Xu Dashan.

"Intruder!"

The next moment, the scarecrow appeared in front of Xu Dashan.

Looking at the scarecrow that suddenly appeared in front of him, Xu Dashan, who was bending over, couldn't help but be a little confused. Wasn't the scarecrow in front? How come it's already in front of him? Did he remember it wrongly?

No, he definitely didn't remember it wrongly. He just took a look and was sure that the scarecrow was still far away.

At this time, he finally remembered what he felt was wrong when he saw the scarecrow before.

The scarecrow he made was not there, but in another direction.

Just when Xu Dashan was stiff and wanted to slowly retreat and leave, he suddenly heard a hoarse and strange voice coming from the scarecrow in front of him.

"Intruder, leave the farmland"

In an instant, Xu Dashan froze on the spot, his lips trembling and unable to speak.

After a while, Xu Dashan gradually regained control of his body.

"Strange, strange, strange!"

With a loud shout, Xu Dashan turned around and ran out.

However, his panic-stricken escape immediately destroyed countless crops.

But at this moment, how could he care about so many things?

However, he couldn't care, but the scarecrow would not allow it, and two red lights suddenly lit up in his eyes.

"Destroy the crops, die, die, expel! Expel!"

Although the scarecrow in this world was affected by the strange spirit, it also had the intention to kill humans who destroyed the crops.

However, it did not violate the core rules that Lu Jun had engraved when the scarecrow was born.

Humans who break into the farmland can only be expelled, not killed.

This is to prevent the scarecrow from killing innocent people who accidentally break into the farmland.

After the puppet rules are projected into this world, the corresponding rules still exist.

However, after all, they are affected by the distortion of the strange spirit, and the constraints of the rules have become much weaker.

Like the wooden man puppet of the Huashan School, even with the help of the dynasty, the erosion of the strange spirit and rules is still unavoidable.

The same is true for the current scarecrow. The scarecrow with the strange spirit has a spirituality that is a combination of negative consciousness, and has a great desire for killing, flesh and blood.

There is even a tendency to forcibly distort the core rules.

As the scarecrow's strength increases, it may not distort the core rules in the future and kill all lives that break into the farmland.

However, even if it does not kill the intruders now, it will also violently expel them.

In an instant, the scarecrow came behind Xu Dashan, and countless straws shot out, instantly entangled Xu Dashan's body, and dragged the person who was holding him out of the farmland.

However, this may not cause much harm to the humans in the Celestial Empire. At most, it is an act of being disturbed by some illusions.

If it were the people of the Celestial Empire, they would have the status of heaven and earth, and even the illusion interference could be blocked, and they would just be tied up and thrown out of the field.

However, this act, which did not cause much harm to the humans in the Celestial Empire, was fatal to the humans in the late Ming Dynasty.

In an instant, a large amount of strange energy invaded Xu Dashan's body.

Xu Dashan felt cold all over, as if he had fallen into an ice cave for thousands of years, and his flesh and blood were frozen.

At the same time, there were countless strange illusions that instantly overwhelmed his mind.

"Ah~! Hoho, hoho"

Xu Dashan opened his mouth in pain, wanting to ask for help, but could only make a slight hoho sound, and his breathing and heartbeat gradually weakened.

Finally, when he was about to reach the end of the field, Xu Dashan's breathing and heartbeat stopped.

The scarecrow dragging Xu Dashan paused for a moment, and the position of his eyes began to flash red light continuously.

Finally, the straw that bound Xu Dashan instantly grew and extended, like strands of iron wire, piercing into Xu Dashan's body.

Well, before he died, he was a human life that needed to be expelled.

But after his death, it was just a corpse, but it was not within the protection and expulsion of the core rules, and it could be swallowed to increase strength.

"Gugu."

Accompanied by a sucking and swallowing sound, Xu Dashan's body quickly shrank, and finally turned into a skinny dry corpse.

And the power aura on the scarecrow rose rapidly.

In the end, Xu Dashan's body was full of straw, filled with extremely strong strange power.

Finally, after extracting Xu Dashan's spirit, the scarecrow wanted to take back the straw in Xu Dashan's body.

However, at this moment, the straw actually had a little resistance to it, or rejection.

When devouring Xu Dashan's spirit, the straw inserted into his body was also constantly washed by Xu Dashan's spirit, carrying some of his spiritual imprints, and there were some differences between it and the scarecrow.

And it was this difference that caused a little rejection between the two sides.

The scarecrow tilted his head and looked at Xu Dashan in front of him.

After a long while, the scarecrow's eyes suddenly lit up, and the blood-red light was dazzling.

The next moment, the straws that were entangled with Xu Dashan broke the connection with the scarecrow and sank into Xu Dashan's body.

Then, countless strange spirits and the power of puppet rules began to gather towards Xu Dashan.

Gradually, Xu Dashan's body began to transform into wood and straw.

At the same time, the straw grew rapidly, tangled and woven, and soon turned into a new scarecrow wearing Xu Dashan's clothes.

The remaining soul of Xu Dashan also merged into the scarecrow at this time, making it extremely spiritual, but also extremely resentful.

Why was I killed? Why didn't anyone come to save me?

I am in so much pain

Since I am dead, then come and accompany me.

Die, die, die.

At this moment, the scarecrow transformed by Xu Dashan was full of hatred for life and humans.

At noon, Xu Dashan's family discovered that something was wrong. Xu Dashan had not returned.

When they came to the field to look for him, the final result was self-evident. There were more scarecrows in the field.

Even those extra scarecrows began to spread to the surrounding fields, occupying one field after another.

In this way, more and more people began to suffer.

Eventually, the scarecrow's behavior was discovered.

For a moment, everyone fled in panic and reported to the government.

However, facing the strange scarecrow, the government was helpless.

It is said that in the direction of Shanhaiguan, there are beings that can suppress or even kill the strange.

Unfortunately, they don't have such people here.

In the end, they could only block this area. As for the people who lost their land, they were not considered.

Until June of the seventh year of Chongzhen in 1632, Huang Taiji attacked Lin Danhan for the second time, and attacked Xuanfu, Datong. An army of nearly a thousand people came nearby.

Looking at the golden rice fields in the distance, where the heavy rice ears bent the stalks, the Qing army leader could not help but be overjoyed.

Just looking at the appearance of the rice fields in the distance, how could they harvest 10,000 stones of grain?

As for why such crops were not harvested, they did not think too much.

No matter why they were not harvested, the crops here belonged to them now.

Of course, they naturally could not harvest them themselves.

At the first time, they sent people to capture many people and drove them to harvest the grain.

Although some nearby people knew that there were strange scarecrows in the fields, they also reported it to the Qing army.

However, how could the proud Qing army care about their words?

You know, the underworld of the late Ming Dynasty has covered a large area outside the Great Wall.

And the strange power of the underworld, although it also has great erosion and lethality to life.

But at the same time, it can also really hurt the weird.

So, when they face the weird, they are not powerless to resist.

However, after entering the pass and being away from the underworld, this ability will be greatly reduced.

But even so, it is still possible to resist or even suppress some weirdness.

Therefore, after hearing the villagers' stories, they led their troops to the rice fields with disdain, ready to strangle the scarecrow.

The moment they stepped into the field, a nearby scarecrow locked onto them, turned around instantly, and his weird eyes glowed with scarlet light, and a hoarse weird voice came into their ears.

"Intruders, die!"

The moment the voice fell, the scarecrow had already arrived in front of the Qing army, and the straw shot out rapidly, instantly piercing through several Qing soldiers at the head.

Obviously, as they continue to devour humans, distort the core rules with weird energy and a large amount of negative consciousness, these scarecrows no longer completely follow the rules except for guarding the farmland.

Now, any life that enters the farmland will attract their pursuit.

"Ah~! Help!"

After the scarecrow suddenly appeared and killed several Qing soldiers in an instant, the Qing army that broke into the farmland immediately caused a chaos.

However, they were well-trained after all, and soon calmed down and quickly formed a formation.

"Supreme gods, you are our protectors, please protect us from evil, please give us the power to break evil."

A shaman at the back of the team quickly raised his hands and prayed.

The next moment, a stream of gray-black strange air emanated from his body and instantly enveloped the soldiers in front.