While Ji Yuan was still feeling weak and dizzy from sitting up, a voice suddenly came from outside the temple.
"Brother Shilin!!! Brother Shilin!!!"
The people in the temple became excited.
"It's Xiaodong!! Xiaodong is back!"
Sure enough, Wang Dong's figure quickly ran into the mountain temple from outside and was immediately surrounded by Zhang Shilin and others who looked nervous.
"Xiaodong, why are you alone? Are Lao Jin and the others okay? Where's the scholar? Did you hear the roar of the giant insect just now?"
Zhang Shilin asked a series of questions, eager to get answers from Wang Dong.
Wang Dong just looked like he was breathing heavily, with an unnatural expression on his face. He did not take the bowl of water handed to him by others. He glanced at Zhang Shilin and then looked away. He slowed down his breath before starting to answer the question.
"Old Jin and his team are with Mr. Lu, and digging for the mountain king ginseng is going smoothly, but..."
"But what? Hey Xiaodong, you are usually the most talkative, but now you are hesitant!!!"
"Don't interrupt!"
Zhang Shilin roared and looked at Wang Dong, whose face was a little pale.
"Xiaodong, go on."
"Well, the mountain ginseng was on a slope. We just dug it out and heard a tiger roar in the distance. It was so scary that Lao Jin, Lu Shusheng and Liu Quan were so scared that they lost their footing and slipped down!"
Hearing what Wang Dong said with his head slightly lowered, Zhang Shilin and others became very anxious.
"What? Sliding down?"
"How are Lao Jin and Liu Quan?" "Are they well?"
"Xiaodong, please tell me!!!"
Zhang Shilin became anxious and grabbed Wang Dong's arm and asked him.
This shaking seemed to wake Wang Dong up, and he spoke more fluently.
"The slope is not high, nor is it very steep. Lao Jin and the others are not seriously injured, except that they sprained their ankles badly. Lao Jin asked me to come back and find two or three people to help carry them back. Li Gui is taking care of them over there."
"What are you waiting for? Let's go!"
"Yes, yes, yes!" "Count me in!"
Since they didn't encounter a big beast, everyone felt more at ease and expressed their willingness to help.
The same is true for Zhang Shilin.
"This time I will bring Xiao Du, A Hua and Xiao Dong back to help. The others will stay in the mountain temple to look after the good things."
As they were talking, Zhang Shilin and a few people nearby had already taken out a few torches and lit them.
Ji Yuan's hands and feet were cold, and waves of tingling sensation ran straight to his scalp.
He recognized the voice of the young peddler, but apart from his voice, Ji Yuan did not hear the sound of his footsteps when he came.
Moreover, when Ji Yuan looked at that place with his gray eyes, he saw two images of Wang Dong in his blurry vision. One was normal, and the other had his neck strangely twisted to one side, and would twitch from time to time.
This scene gave Ji Yuan goosebumps that couldn't be relieved at all.
But Zhang Shilin and others nearby were completely unaware of this.
This is no longer a human being!
Recalling the tiger's roar before, Ji Yuan suddenly understood something.
He was naturally scared to death, but when he heard that Zhang Shilin was going to take people with him to follow this evil ghost out, he was so anxious that he didn't care about anything else. Besides not wanting Zhang Shilin to die, he also felt that it would be dangerous if there were only five people left in the temple.
Here, Zhang Shilin and his men lit torches and were about to run out in a hurry.
"Let's go, Xiaodong, you lead the way, we..."
“Wait!!!”
Suddenly an unfamiliar voice rang out, startling everyone. They nervously looked in the direction of the sound and found that it was the beggar. He had sat down beside the mountain god statue at some point and was leaning against the statue looking towards the direction of the temple gate.
Ji Yuan's voice at this time was different from his physical condition, his pronunciation was clear and strong.
"Zhang Shilin, there's something wrong with Wang Dong, you can't follow him!"
In Ji Yuan's eyes, his own voice caused Wang Dong to turn his head very stiffly, which was so irritating that the back of Ji Yuan's head felt numb.
"That beggar, what nonsense are you talking about? Brother Shilin, let's go quickly, Lao Jin and the others are still waiting!!"
"okay."
Whether he believed in his companions or a rotten beggar, there was no need to think too much, so Zhang Shilin stepped out of the temple gate.
"Stop!! Wang Dong is dead!!!"
This roar immediately made Zhang Shilin and others stop and subconsciously look at Wang Dong, who was standing outside the temple looking at them, with the shadow of the night covering his face.
"Brother Shilin, let's go quickly. Lao Jin and the others are waiting for us. Don't listen to the nonsense of this rotten beggar. Aren't I fine here?"
Wang Dong took a step closer, and the torchlight illuminated half of his face, and he saw a smile that was trying hard to open under his pale skin...
Very discordant, very wrong!!
Every traveling merchant felt a chill running up his spine, and those who were about to leave subconsciously retracted their feet.
Zhang Shilin swallowed his saliva, looked at Wang Dong and then at the beggar.
"Xiaodong, are you really okay?"
But before Wang Dong could say anything, Ji Yuan, who was sitting in the temple, immediately spoke in a cold voice.
"You are an accomplice to the tiger. You are an accomplice to the tiger. Wang Dong is already an accomplice, just like that Lu Shusheng before. He is going to lead you to the tiger and eat you! If you follow him, you will never come back!"
"Ghost!!"
Zhang Shilin and the others were so frightened that they took several steps back. Thinking back to the tiger's roar before and some things that were not right after Wang Dong came back, the traveling merchants all felt their scalps tingling.
"Brother Shilin, don't believe him. Lao Jin and the others are still waiting."
Wang Dong walked towards the temple gate, but his voice was emotionless.
"Xiaodong, don't come over here yet!!"
Zhang Shilin had already raised the torch in front of him, and Wang Dong stopped.
He looked at the people at the temple gate, and the people at the temple gate also stared at him. There was silence for a while, and the scene that followed scared everyone so much that they almost suffocated. Wang Dong suddenly became blurred, and in the blink of an eye he turned into smoke and floated out of the temple.
"Bang-dang..."
An axe fell to the ground and two peddlers collapsed in fear.
“Ghost, ghost!!” “Ah!!!” “Oh my god!!”
"Enter the temple!! Enter the temple!!!"
"Yes, yes, yes, hurry into the temple!!! Take the good stuff, take the good stuff!!"
The remaining eight peddlers fled back to the mountain god temple in panic, and all subconsciously approached the mountain god statue and the beggar.
Zhang Shilin's breathing was still a little disordered. He looked at the darkness outside the temple and then at Ji Yuan.
"This, this master, you..."
Before Zhang Shilin could finish speaking, Ji Yuan raised his hand to stop him. Ji Yuan's face looked very bad and his lips were trembling slightly, but the environment was a little dim so others could not see clearly.
“Rustle…rustle…”
The wind became stronger and the grass and trees swayed wildly in the forest.
In my ears, I could hear waves of steady and powerful footsteps approaching from afar, and the sound of a wild beast grinning and hissing came from outside the temple, occasionally mixed with low growls.
Ji Yuan swallowed his saliva and looked outside the temple nervously. In these few seconds, his back was already wet.
"Don't talk... it's coming..."