In order for a yokai to hide in the crowd, it must become exactly like a human.

It's not just about appearances, it's about everything else.

So they will wear human clothes, they will eat human food, they will play human games, they will live in human houses.

But youkai can't build a house by themselves, and they can't get used to living in an ordinary house for humans, so they will use some way to turn a place suitable for them to live in an ordinary place in the eyes of humans.

It's like the fantasy where Ning Caichen first met Nie Xiaoqian.

It's like the love nest built by the White Lady for Xu Xian.

However, a little different from the legends, the place where the monster chooses and 'builds' is not only a place to confuse people and eat and sleep, but also a place to cultivate.

So the criteria for them to choose a place to live are usually the most suitable place for cultivation, and likewise, the place where they can use their surroundings to create the most security for themselves.

My mom is a mountain ghost.

There are not many places suitable for mountain ghosts to live, and graves are one of them.

But not all graves are suitable, they have to be a certain age, they have to have a dead body in the grave, not the burial ground where the ashes are stored after cremation today. Most importantly, the owner of the tomb must have no descendants.

So fifty years ago, she chose this tomb at a glance, and before she knew it, she turned it into a house.

It was a turbulent time, and people were so hard and numb that no one noticed when there were fewer graves and more small buildings around the cemetery.

By the time someone finally noticed the existence of this lonely building, it had been there for at least a decade, so even if someone thought it strange, they wouldn't think much of it.

Right now, I'm standing in the middle of this tomb.

This is a burial chamber made of blue bricks.

Like its transformed building, the brick cracks around it have been infested by pervasive moss and weeds, so it is barely visible in its original form.

Some residual pigment and chalk can be faintly seen. The paintings and the scale of the tomb show that the owner of the tomb was a wealthy or high-status person during his lifetime.

It is not surprising that there are such tombs in Wentou Village.

Although it is located in the middle of nowhere, it has become a place where some people with identity but have committed crimes choose to escape disasters.

Some have been hiding all their lives and have never been able to leave here again, such as the Qing Dynasty prince who was tortured to death in the mouth of the old aunt.

It is not known who is buried in this tomb.

But one thing is for sure, that man is still intact in the stone coffin in front of me.

Because the coffin has never been opened, there is a very good wooden seal on it.

But the lid on the coffin is not intact.

This is one of the interesting things about the coffin, because it has a big hole in it.

It was not man-made, but when it was first built, a hole six or seven inches square was deliberately carved into this heavy stone cover, so that the coffin looked like a skylight.

Through this hole, you can see the coffin inside.

It is black, exposed to the air for many years, and the lid of the coffin is covered with a thick layer of bacteria, making it look very fragile.

As if it would fall apart at the slightest touch, it was all supported by the stone coffin outside to support the integrity of its surface, and under the hole, all the way to the place where the wooden seal was made, there was a line of Liti characters painted with red paint:

The person who opened the coffin died.

It was these four words that made me subconsciously withdraw far away even though my legs hurt badly, after seeing them clearly at a glance.

I just feel that no matter how far away I am, the mottled color that has been corroded by time still looks shockingly hideous.

At the same time, I became more and more curious about what kind of person would be lying in the coffin.

Although the tomb is large, there are almost no funerary goods inside, as if the owner of the tomb was buried in a hurry after death.

Therefore, the inscription on the coffin inevitably seems redundant, and who would bother to steal a poor tomb with nothing but a corpse.

Unless there is something good hidden in the coffin.

But if so, wouldn't it be easier to attract the attention of tomb robbers?

Just as I was thinking about it, the footsteps of the young man came to my side from far to near.

Looking at the coffin as I did, after a while, he said lightly: "This is a general's tomb. ”

"The General's Tomb?" I was stunned.

Although Wentou Village has a long history, it is not uncommon for there to be a relatively large ancient tomb, but the general's tomb, I was a little surprised.

Except for the one in Beiwen Mountain, what kind of general would be buried here, and be buried so shabby?

Seeing the confusion in my eyes, the young man raised his eyebrows, and said again: "It's quite unexpected, isn't it?" Would it be more surprising if I said that the general was a woman?"

“...... Female general?"

Indeed, this sentence surprised me more than the general's tomb.

Among the female generals in ancient history, Liang Hongyu is one, Mu Guiying is one, Hua Mulan is one, and Fan Lihua is one. For someone who doesn't know much about history, there are only a few names I can think of.

And each of them can't be buried in a place like Wentou Village, so which female general will be buried in this tomb?

"Who is she?" and immediately asked.

Hades didn't answer immediately.

He walked forward to the coffin and looked thoughtfully at the words on the coffin.

After a while, he raised his hand and patted lightly on the sarcophagus, and he said: "Back then, when a woman disguised herself as a man and entered the barracks, she made many military exploits on the battlefield, and this general was known as a legend in the desert.

In the final battle with the Turkic army in Rouran, she won a complete victory, and then ordered her class to return to the court, because the Son of Heaven, who had heard her name for a long time, could not wait to see this female general with his own eyes.

However, no one expected that after Tianzi saw her resume her appearance as a woman, he would have a thought about her.

Therefore, the holy decree that she was originally going to be the official secretary of the military department suddenly became a holy decree to make her a concubine of Wude Hui and enter the palace immediately.

This oracle was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky for the young female general.

Because she has a sweetheart, and has already made a private agreement with that person in the army for life, she plans to marry as soon as she returns to her hometown.

The general decided to confess this matter to the Son of Heaven, and hoped to exchange his military exploits for the fulfillment of the Son of Heaven.

Unexpectedly, when the Son of Heaven found out, instead of taking back the holy oracle, he soon after, sent her sweetheart to the frontier on a trumped-up charge, and used a cup of poisoned wine to separate them forever.

On the day of the bad news, the general was filled with grief and anger, and escaped from the place where the Son of Heaven placed her under house arrest overnight.

Since then, it seems that she has been touched, and no one knows her whereabouts.

However, although this move was exchanged for the general's freedom, the resulting crime of bullying the king made all the general's exploits turn into a 'legend' in the storyteller's mouth.

Since then, it is Ye Fei Ye, and it is difficult for anyone to judge whether the history about her is true or false.

No one knew that shortly after she escaped from Beijing, she died in this mountain village and was buried in this unknown land. And, only this soil, this tomb, and a few people know that she has been living in a kind of fear before and after her death.

No one knew what the female general was afraid of.

I only know that from before she died to after her death, that fear was always with her.

In the end, that fear turned into these four words, and from the moment she was buried in the ground, she has been with her to this day. ”

Speaking of this, there was a pause in his voice, and he stroked the mottled lines of words one by one: "Hearing this, should you have guessed it, this female general, who is she?"

The young man's voice was faint, and he simply but also finished the life of the female general in the coffin.

From the very beginning, I felt that the 'story' he was talking about, and the female general closest to him between the lines was Mulan.

As the story says, it is a character who is both real and legendary.

Even her surname has yet to be discussed, and her ending after returning to Beijing is even more mysterious. Some people say that she was taken by the Son of Heaven, some people say that she married a certain officer who lived and died together in the barracks, some people say that after the war, she returned to her hometown as Mulan said in her speech, and some people say that she was called back by the Holy Decree because of her high merits, and the Son of Heaven had already killed her when she was recalled by the Holy Decree.

"She's Mulan?"

"The general's name is Mulan, but her surname has been forgotten by time. ”

"Then she ......"

I was about to ask something more, when suddenly a sharp pain hit my leg, and the pain made me close my eyes and fall to the ground.

I was attracted by the sudden grave and the coffin just now, and I forgot the pain on my body for a while, but I didn't expect it to happen again, and it would get worse like this.

I didn't feel anything but pain for a while, and after a while, I heard the voice of the young man asking me, "What's wrong with you?"

I gritted my teeth and endured it for a long time before I got through the pain.

Without bothering to answer, I hurriedly took off my shoes and rolled up my trousers as quickly as I could.

But unexpectedly, neither the legs nor the feet looked out of the ordinary.

Except for the bruise on my right leg that hit me in the car, I couldn't tell the cause of the bone-cracking pain from the appearance, so I was stunned for a moment, and I said, "I don't know what's going on, my toes hurt so much when I ran over just now, and the pain is almost to my knees." I thought it was my foot injury, but apparently it wasn't ......."

Before I finished speaking, I saw him walk up to me and stretch out his hand and touch my leg directly, and I subconsciously retracted my leg violently.

This action made his eyes flash, and he lowered his eyes to look at me: "What, are you afraid of me?"

I looked at him and opened my mouth, feeling a little hard in my throat.

I couldn't answer for a while.

I'm afraid? I was there when I first got in the car with him.

It's like being bitten by a cat or dog and seeing blood, and you will be afraid, not to mention witnessing him bite open my veins and suck my blood.

But then it got better, and there was such a reaction at this time, which was purely a conditioned reflex.

Seeing that I was silent, the young man didn't say anything about this question, but just looked at my lap for a moment, and then pressed his hand down on my leg again, and said, "Don't worry, I won't eat you, I'll just take a look." ”

No emotion could be heard in his smooth voice.

My face flushed slightly, and I didn't move any further, watching him honestly.

His legs were held in his palms, and they became a little stiff, and his palms were bitterly cold.

The temperature made the gnawing pain in my bones feel better, and he held my leg with one hand, and the other hand followed the toe of my toe to my calf, inch by inch.

"Are you a vampire?"

In the silence, somehow the question was suddenly asked.

The moment he glanced up at me, I was so nervous that I almost bit my tongue.

He paused and continued to squeeze up my leg, "Because I drank your blood?"

I nodded, thought for a moment, and shook my head again.

"You're thinking too much. He said with a smile on his face.

"Then why are you sucking my blood?" I asked again.

"Why do you think I'm a vampire?" he asked.

I was stunned.

Why do you think he's a vampire?

Thinking back to the scene, I said, "Vampires become stronger when they suck human blood." Looking at the situation, I think you probably did the same......

He smacked his hands again.

looked at me, trying to say something, but pursed his lips again.

The silence made me feel so uneasy that when he did it again, I felt as if my bones were starting to hurt a little bit again.

I involuntarily retracted my legs, and when I saw his gaze sweeping towards me, I hung my head a little weakly.

"I'm not a vampire, and I'm not sucking your blood to fuel power. ”

After a few moments, he finally gave an answer, which surprised me a little.

I subconsciously touched the wound on my wrist and asked, "What is that for?"

"It's for inhibition. ”

"What do you mean......

Why would he have to suppress his power in that case?

"That mist is the yin left behind by the people who have died in this land over the years. They are all gathered together, and you can see how heavy the evil aura is. Over the years, I have fed on evil qi in Hades' Well, but if I inhale so much evil qi at the same time, even I will be a little unbearable. Fortunately, with you by your side, virgin blood is the same as black dog blood, which has a certain restraining effect on evil qi, so ......"

"Enough is enough, you know......" Before he could finish speaking, I blushed and waved my hand at him.

I didn't expect my own blood to play such a role.

But he was also too blunt.

I don't know if it's because he's lived too long, so he's forgotten about it, and casually saying things like virgins is how embarrassing it is for a woman who hasn't even been in love.

It's not that I'm conservative, but he's not the same for me.

When a man says such a thing to a woman lightly, it only shows that he does not regard this woman as a woman.

So it's more or less frustrating. This is especially true for me, an old girl who still has a little ill heart for him.

However, the lost time did not last long.

When I noticed the change in my legs after a few compressions, I suddenly stopped thinking about anything else.

I saw something oozing from my leg from the inside out, like a bruise.

It was said to be a bruise, but it was very different from the bruise that was knocked out of the right leg.

It was a large area of red to black color. At first it was just a few fingerprints, then it got deeper and deeper, and it became more and more obvious. When the young man kneaded my whole leg for the fourth time, the whole leg looked like a huge fruit that began to rot when it was ripe.

"This ...... What's the matter, is my leg rotten??" Seeing this, I couldn't help but immediately look up and ask Xiang Gongzi.

"It's not. Without a fifth kneading, he gently lowered my completely changed leg to the ground: "To be exact, the bones are rotting." ”

This sentence made my head buzz.

No matter how stupid I am, I understand what this means, and I can't take my eyes off him, I can't take my eyes off him: "I remember that when I was in the car, I just hit my right leg, although it was quite heavy, but why did both legs be like this??"

"It's not the result of a crash. ”

“...... That's it?"

"You didn't listen to you before you let me go first, and I didn't have any more strength to warn you, you were in an absolute suspense at that time. The woman holding the baby, I think you should know who she is, she is the corpse of the two lives that your aunt mentioned to you. ”

"Yes, I know ......"

"After absorbing her husband's body in the coffin and soaking it in the corpse water for so long, this woman's evil aura is no longer comparable to ordinary ghosts. This was especially true of the disemboweled-out infant corpse in her hand. The body of a boy who died young, and the body of a resentful yin who has lived for a long time, how can the things refined from this be eliminated by simple cremation. Instead, the fire burned out a greater yang evil, and the yin evil coexisted, which was a ferocity I had never seen in the well of Hades all these years. That's why I told you to leave at that time, because once you get close to her at a certain distance, the evil aura on her body is beyond your human body to bear, even if you have the blood of a mountain ghost. ”

"So ......"

"So, the moment she approached you, your feet closest to the ground began to be corroded by her evil energy.

And the terrible thing about this corrosion is that it is not on the surface, but directly affects the bone marrow.

Luckily, you came in time for your period, otherwise, just a few moments later, your legs would have fallen off your body.

Once you get to that point, even if you get lucky enough to get into this house, you'll have to die. ”

I don't know if it's psychological, but after listening to the words of the young man, when I looked at my legs again, the spots on them suddenly made me feel a little unbearable.

So much so that the whole person trembled uncontrollably in an instant. I clenched my hands that were soaked in cold sweat hard, and raised my head with some difficulty to look at the young man: "What's the matter, it suddenly hurts to death, are my two legs going to be wasted......"

He did not reply, but only pondered for a moment, then straightened up, walked straight to the coffin, and reached into the hole in the stone cover.

After a few moments, he grabbed something from it and turned back, and wiped it on my lap.

I'm excited.

I wanted to close my feet, but I didn't dare to accept it.

The thing in his hand was nothing else, it was the black hairy fungus I had just seen, which was covered in the lid of the coffin.

Those black, densely packed, like a layer of fluff covering the surface of the coffin.

It was painful to die, but now he is wiping it and disgusting to death.

For a moment, I just felt like I was going up and down in a pan of oil and an ice cave, and nothing more than that.

"What are you doing...... finally I couldn't help but ask him.

"Fight poison with poison. ”

If he hadn't answered calmly, I would have thought he was joking with me.

But I've been in this pain, and I don't think he will have any leisure to joke with me, but this treatment method is really miserable, but I have to bear it, so I can only sigh and close my eyes, and let him go.

I don't know how long it took like this.

As the nausea in my stomach subsided, I felt a sharp pain in my leg that was like a bone cut, and it gradually eased.

I opened my eyes and looked up into my lap, and at first glance I saw the black patch, and my stomach churned again.

"How long will it last?" I asked, dumbfounded.

The young man looked at me: "Do you want to keep your two legs?"

I couldn't answer, because as soon as I opened my mouth, I vomited.

The vomit was all black water, and the smell was incomparable, even more disgusting than the fungus on the leg.

So I was so disgusted that I vomited again, and then I was disgusted again.

In this cycle, I felt that my heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, and lungs were about to be vomited, and then I found that there was hardly any part of my body that was not uncomfortable, except for the two legs that had heart-rending headaches, and they didn't hurt.

All that was left was a faint swelling of soreness, wrapped in the black mush, and continued to disgust me.

It's good that the leg has been saved, and it is not so difficult to continue to endure the rest.

Thinking so, I was groggily closing my eyes and trying to rest, when suddenly it seemed to be an illusion, and I heard the voice of the young man say, "Thank you." ”

I was stunned. When I opened my eyes, I met his dark eyes.

It's so beautiful that I can't help but feel a little bit in my eyes in such a tired and disgusting state.

"What did you just say?" I asked him, swallowing my dry throat.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, but did not answer, but only pinched a piece of wood in his hand, and threw the crumbs into the black water that I had spat out.

As he sprinkled it, a puff of green smoke burned from the black water, and soon the black water was evaporated and disappeared, resulting in a faint fragrance that slowly spread through the air.

It smells so good.

Thinking about it, I was about to close my eyes again, when I saw the eyes of the young man suddenly fall on my face again, and said again: "Thank you." ”

"You...... Why thank me?" I was confused.

He smiled and said nothing.

The silence that came from this made me suddenly feel a little restless.

With that gone, I cleared my throat and sat up straight, trying to find something to say to break the silence.

But before he could speak, he heard a thin cry, and from some direction, he drifted in through the stone wall of the tomb:

"Have you ever seen a man ......"

"Tell him I'm hurting ......"

"It's painful......"

Suddenly, my leg hurt again.

Suddenly, my whole body shrunk into a ball.

And the sarcophagus behind me, at the same time, suddenly hissed from within.

Then, with a click, something seemed to crack.