The banging sound of the door closing one after another, the croaking of chickens and the barking of dogs mixed with panicked screams, were all hidden behind the door.
In the blink of an eye, the entire village became a dead city.
Lu Wenjuan's house was at the westernmost edge of the village. When everyone ran over, they glanced back.
I saw the heavy rain kicked up the smoke and dust on the ground, and it was foggy everywhere.
The terrain here is not flat, rolling, like a hill that is not steep. Those two-story buildings with different decorations are located in it, high and low. Covered by the fog again, at first glance, it looks like a magnified tomb mountain.
Despite being mentally prepared, seeing this scene suddenly is still horrifying.
After just staying at the door for a while, Lu Wenjuan urged sharply, "Come in!"
She stretched out her hand to grab the person, and Zhou Xu's five pointed fingers clenched her "Ow" and grabbed five red marks on the spot.
"Auntie, can you be gentle? I'm made of meat!" Zhou Xu gasped.
In fact, he was not much more courageous than Xia Qiao, but because of the large number of people on the field, he was not afraid of Lu Wenjuan at all.
Lu Wenjuan was stunned by his "Auntie" call. After a few seconds, she said, "Don't look at it! If you don't come in, those things will grow out! Come in quickly!"
She didn't say it was okay, but with such a reminder, Wen Shi and Xie Wen stopped at the end.
Not only the two of them, Zhang Lan's sister and brother and Lao Mao also stopped, and they waited at the door.
Zhou Xu and Xia Qiao were not timid, and could not hold back their curiosity, they used Lao Mao as a cover to probe their brains behind.
"How long will it take?" Xie Wen even turned around and asked Lu Wenjuan.
"… "
wait till death.
Lu Wenjuan cursed in her heart, and she was about to vomit blood.
But in the next second, her face turned pale.
Because suddenly there was some kind of strange sound in the empty city-like village, crunching, mixed with the rustling rain, it looked wet and strange.
Everyone suddenly held their breath and listened carefully.
"It seems to be over there." Zhang Lan frowned for a while, then pointed to the woodland not far away.
But soon she denied it herself: "No, here."
She moved her fingers closer and pointed to a small building opposite. Then, she adjusted the direction while listening, moving her fingers little by little...
Finally, he stopped at the door of Lu Wenjuan's house.
The moment they stopped, everyone's expressions changed.
Because at this time, the crunching movement could no longer be stopped, as if something was curled up under the ground, trying to break out through only a thin layer of cement shell.
At this moment, Zhou Xu suddenly heard a beating sound.
He is a person who can easily get distracted, so he was instantly distracted. He turned his head to find the source of the sound, and found that the door of the room on the east side of Lu Wenjuan was open, and the curtains were also open. From his angle, he could see a person standing outside the window glass.
The beating sound just now should have come from that person.
The other party put his face close to the glass, Bai Shengsheng's face was a little blurry under the water vapor, he could only feel that he rolled his eyes, as if he was looking at the situation in the room.
"Is that your neighbor, have something to do with you?" Zhou Xu stared at that place and patted Lu Wenjuan.
Lu Wenjuan turned her head blankly and glanced over there.
The next moment, the people outside the window suddenly opened their mouths to them.
That mouth was huge, and the moment it opened, it seemed that the top half of his head was thrown backwards.
"My day!!!" Zhou Xu cursed.
Immediately afterwards, he felt dizzy for a while, as if the spirit had been sucked in by something.
He started retching while holding on to the door frame.
At the last moment before bending over, he saw countless gaps in the ground at the door, and some black weeds grew out of the gaps, tangled in knots, and stuck to the ground wet by the rain.
He buried his head and vomited a few times before he suddenly realized that it wasn't weeds at all!
is hair.
Hair first grew on the ground, then a face like a white disc, and then limbs.
The reason why we don't talk about hands and feet but limbs is because they are more like wild cats and wild dogs or spiders with fewer legs than hands and feet, but with a human face.
They lie on the ground and move their limbs together, making rustling noises. If it stood upright against the wall, it would be exactly the same as the "neighbor" Zhou Xu saw.
The moment Lu Wenjuan saw this thing, she jumped up in fright, and recklessly pulled Wen Shi and the others into the room, then shut the door tightly, and pulled the curtains in each room.
Across a layer of door panels, you can hear more and more rustling crawling sounds outside...
It seems that in an instant, this kind of thing grows all over the village and crawls everywhere.
However, this movement did not last long. In just a few minutes, the entire village returned to silence. At least it sounded like rain.
When smelling, he opened the curtains and looked out, and found that the scene outside the window became exactly the same as the inside of the house, which was the result of him opening the door in the middle of the night - the outside became a dead place again.
Now don't talk about Lu Wenjuan, and even they don't want to go out.
"What exactly was that just now?" Xia Qiao was shocked, and after thinking about it, he said, "Why do I feel like I've seen it before?"
Lu Wenjuan said faintly, "That's an evil ghost."
This word was a bit special to Wen Shi. He moved his fingers as he pulled the curtains, then turned his head and glanced at Lu Wenjuan.
He heard Xie Wen say in a low voice, "Wrong, that's Aunt Hui."
"Hui Gu?" When Xia Qiao heard the word, she felt a little familiar, but she couldn't remember it immediately.
Fortunately, when I smelled it, I mentioned: "You have seen it before."
Xia Qiao just remembered that the night when Wen Shi first came to Shen's house, what the three drummers had turned into was called "Hui Gu". It's just that he didn't see this kind of thing again, so he forgot about it.
I just remember that when I heard it, I said that it was something that crawled out of the ground.
"Some pickled stuff." Zhang Yalin explained rather disgustedly: "According to the book, the more resentful the place, the easier it is to produce these things, so like a big cage, or even more troublesome places, sometimes Climb out a few or even dozens of them. If they die, there are still some, but they can't be cleaned up."
"It can't be said that, although they are indeed filth themselves. But sometimes, they can still be used for serious purposes." Zhang Lan added, "You can see that they are very good at finding people and things, of course, the premise is It can't hurt anyone."
Zhang Yalin showed an expression of disapproval, but since the other party was his sister, he did not open his mouth to refute.
Besides, except for the more old-fashioned people like himself, many judges in the world will not kill Hui Gu directly after they catch them. They will indeed use their nature to steal spirits and spirits to find cages or do some other favors. , and then get rid of them before they cause danger, or sell them to the spirit shop for disposal.
As long as you grasp that degree well, it's not a big problem.
But Zhang Yalin couldn't accept it all the time, maybe it was a bit of cleanliness.
Xia Qiao had no idea about the differences between the siblings. He only felt that Hui Gu's stuff made him very uncomfortable. Three or two were okay, but too much would make his scalp tingle.
And the posture just outside the door, let alone hundreds... It's almost all over the village.
"If you say that, isn't this village more serious than the caged vortex?" Xia Qiao murmured.
"Yes, so this cage is really a bit evil." Zhang Lan put the dizzy Zhou Xu on the sofa and lay down, and couldn't help muttering, "How can an ordinary person's cage look like this..."
Although this aunt is experienced in many battles, she has been going straight to the point.
Zhang Yalin grabbed a basin from the kitchen, stuffed it into Zhou Xu's arms, sat down on the sofa beside him, pointed at the basin gently, and said, "Puke it, don't punch me."
Zhou Xu's tongue was about to vomit, but nothing came out. He panted like a puppy for a while, then hugged the basin weakly, and said with dignity, "I had a cold before I came, otherwise it wouldn't be like this."
Apart from him, no one else reacted so much. Even Xiaqiao, who is less courageous than a chicken, stood up.
"You pull it down, you don't have a cold." Aunt Zhang scolded him, rubbed his head again and said, "Hey, blame me. For things like caged, I should still look for Dadong, not take you catch-"
Zhang Yalin cleared his throat vigorously, then glanced at Wen Shi's back, reminding his sister to pay more attention to her words.
Zhang Lan swallowed the word "lead the way" back and said, "It's still Xiao Hei's fault, forget it, otherwise I wouldn't—"
Zhang Yalin cleared her throat again, her aunt changed her tune again, and pointed at Zhou Xu and said, "Anyway, with your physique, you can't get into the cage if you don't get into the cage. The spiritual aspect is not stable for ordinary people, and it's too easy to get into trouble, I don't blame Sister Biling. Stop you. When you get out this way, I have to lead you to make amends for her. "
As soon as Zhou Xu heard this, he immediately jumped up: "My mother is exaggerating! I've been in the cage three times recently, haven't I been alive and kicking? Auntie, if you can't run out of me, just—"
Zhang Yalin rolled her eyes and cleared her throat for the third time.
"Don't clear your voice, it's not very pleasant." Xie Wen sat down on the sofa beside him, pushed the empty glass in front of him and said, "You might as well pour a glass of water and drink it."
Zhang Yalin: "…"
Compared with Zhang Lan, he is more like a lady from everyone. Apart from being released from the cage, he usually does not go out of the gate or go to the second door. He has only a handful of contacts with Xie Wen, not as many as Aunt Zhang anyway.
The only encounters were polite and distant, and it was rare to have such a close encounter, and it was demolished.
But Zhang Yalin is someone who has seen the world, so he won't fall off the stage so easily. He tensed his face and added: "It's been hot and humid recently, and I have pharyngitis."
Wen Shi by the window finally pulled down the curtain and turned to walk towards the sofa. Without raising his eyes, he said, "The pigs have chased after them, so what kind of inflammation is there in the throat?"
Zhang Yalin: "…"
If Xie Wen dismantled the platform by casually pulling a column, then this one was carrying explosives to blast it.
Maybe the words were too straight, Xie Wen laughed directly, tilted his head and coughed for a while.
Laugh fart.
Wen Shi glanced around, the longest sofa was occupied by Zhang Lan, Zhou Xu and Xia Qiao, one single sofa was occupied by Zhang Yalin, and the other Xie Wen sat.
"I'll give it to you?" Xie Wen turned around and knew what he was thinking at a glance.
As a result, just as he was about to get up, he was rejected by Wen Shi.
"No." He whispered and sat on the arm of Xie Wen's sofa.
The armrests are wide and not too high, making it perfectly normal to temporarily serve as a seat. His original intention was to ask Zhang Lan why sister and brother were following them, but when he sat down, he felt that the position was a bit delicate.
But at this time, getting up and changing to standing will only be more subtle.
So when he smelled, he removed the puppet thread wrapped around his fingers and didn't move.
Compared to him, Zhang Yalin on the opposite side was obviously more unable to sit still. Most of the people the sister and brother had contacted before were euphemisms. It's rare to see something like this.
Zhang Yalin was embarrassed for a long time, then simply spread it out and said, "Our approach is a bit presumptuous, but we are really too curious."
"What are you curious about?" Wen Shi pulled the puppet thread and raised his head.
"I wonder why your strength is not bad, but your name can't be listed on the famous tree." Zhang Yalin thought about it and said, "I wonder where you are a genius."
When smelling: "… "
This man spoke too seriously, so he seemed a little sour. He wasn't used to it, so he replied sternly: "It's not a genius, I've been learning for many years."
This is not false in the first place, so when I heard it, I said it both truthfully and calmly.
"As for why there is no name." Wen Shi frowned and said, "Ask for your picture."
He really couldn't think of an excuse, so he threw the question back. But because of that frown, in the eyes of Zhang Yalin, who is used to being euphemistic and meandering, there is a sense of complaint and dissatisfaction.
Therefore, he understood that it was not that the apprentice of the Shen family had a deep mind and concealed it, but that there was a real problem with the drawing.
Given that the later restoration of the famous tree map was done by the Zhang family, Zhang Yalin was inexplicably at a disadvantage, and unknowingly took a disadvantage.
"By the way, I just saw that the puppet you released seems to be close to a snake?" Zhang Yalin said.
He is still very euphemistic, saying "close to", in fact, there are still some differences. For example, the Shen family's eldest apprentice's snake has no wings, and there is no fire all over its body. At most, its scales are a little red, like sparks that haven't been ignited.
The most important thing is that this time he saw it with his own eyes, the snake chain is entangled, but the chain is less than most puppet masters.
This is already very, very powerful. Among the people Zhang Yalin has met in his life, he can indeed rank first or second.
It's no wonder that the line of the Shen family can jump up and be side by side with him.
But compared to the person who really used the snake, it was still far behind.
With an eight-kilometer filter and a bit of rationality, Zhang Yalin saw a world of difference between the Shen family's eldest apprentice and an idol.
"I'm not afraid of your jokes. A few days ago, I heard Dadong and Xiaoxu describe your puppet, and I thought of someone subconsciously."
In order to ease the embarrassment of being followed, Zhang Yalin also asked Wen Shi and the others to put down their guard, and simply shook his heart and his mind. "You must know that the most common puppet used by the ancestor was the snake."
"Of course, although the judge has a slightly longer lifespan than ordinary people, he can't escape from life and death. Those are all people of the ancestor level. Like the other ancestors, they have long been a handful of loess, and people die like lights out. ." Zhang Yalin said in a gentle manner: "But I don't know if you are one of his descendants or reincarnations."
As a person who is full of gossip, Zhang Lan inserted a sentence at the right time: "When people get married, they will descendants..."
Zhang Yalin was silent for a second, then turned to look at her sister: "Of course I don't know."
"After thinking about it, I thought my reaction at that time was a bit ridiculous." Zhang Yalin turned back and said to Wen Shi, "But your strength is there, and my sister and I couldn't help but want to come and see, before I heard my sister tell you It's a bit of a misunderstanding, we want to take this opportunity to get in touch with you, if we can have more friends, of course it would be better."
Maybe it's to make friends, Zhang Yalin chose the most conservative angle, starting from his preferences—
He thought about the snake, and when he asked, "So do you admire that old ancestor too?"
The word "also" is very spiritual.
What's more spiritual is that Aunt Zhang habitually dismantles the younger brother, and added a sentence next to it: "I appreciate that the ancestor who has kept a few things as a treasure, please greet him in the morning and evening, and take it with you when you go out."
"… "
Hearing numbness when I smelled it.
On the contrary, Xie Wen suddenly said, "I'm very curious, what do you keep as a treasure from the ancestor of that... Tianzong Wizard?"
Although the word "old ancestor" is really inappropriate when used in front of the young-looking Wen Shi, changing it to "ancestor" means something else.
Especially from Xie Wen's mouth...
He twitched his earlobes when he smelled it.
I heard Zhang Lan selling his younger brother: "Dead branches, cotton thread, fingers."
When smelling: "… "
He glanced at his fingers silently, unable to hold back. He said to Zhang Yalin, "You have a grudge against him?"