At this time, it was close to midnight, except for the night watchman, everyone else had already fallen asleep, Bai Xiu simply got out of the tent, walked to the fire and beckoned to the two Fang family disciples: "Go to sleep, I'll just stay here." ”

They probably did feel a little sleepy, and said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry for you." ”

Bai Xiu sat down by the fire, and when the two of them also got into the tent, the surroundings instantly fell silent.

He looked at the crackling firewood, and a trace of strange emotions were uncontrollable in his heart—he didn't know if he was infected by Bai Che's words, and he suddenly had a premonition that something might happen tonight.

He sat there for about an hour, when sleepiness came upon him, when there was a knock at the door.

He instantly felt a thrill, and when he listened to it, he realized that he had heard it correctly, it was indeed a knock on the door.

The visitor did not seem to be in a hurry, and was very gentlemanly, knocking gently on the tin door with one finger in a very rhythmic manner.

Tuk, tuk, tuk –

Tuk, tuk, tuk –

The sound was so faint that the sleeper never woke up.

Bai Xiu wasn't afraid, but the knock on the door was too sudden and abnormal, after all, this place was not far from the door, and the sound insulation effect of the house was only so-so, since someone was approaching, it was impossible for him not to hear the footsteps.

The man appeared there as if out of thin air, knocking politely and patiently on the door.

Unfortunately, there was no cat's eye on the door, the door frame was relatively tight, and there were no windows on the first floor, and although the windows on the second floor were large enough, they were open with their backs to the door, and if he wanted to know what was going on outside the door, he could only open the door a crack.

He had a vague feeling that all this could not be a coincidence, and the design of the house itself was too strange, as if it was just to cover the approach of people outside the door.

After thinking about it, he slowly stood up and walked towards the wide iron door, his steps lighter, and the knock on the door became more and more distinct.

Tuk, tuk, tuk –

Tuk, tuk, tuk –

The other party did not notice his approach, and still knocked on the door unhurriedly.

Bai Xiu was suddenly stunned, the position of the person knocking on the door panel made him have a bad guess - that height is by no means the position that an adult is used to when knocking on the door, it is too short, could it be that the person who knocked on the door is a child?

Who?

Pine needles?

Many questions went back and forth in his mind, and finally he pinched the trick with his left hand, gently placed his right hand on the door lock, and then opened it without hesitation.

To his surprise, there was no one outside, only the path they had carved out, leading into the boundless darkness of the forest.

"What's wrong?"

It was also thanks to Bai Xiu, who did not act excessively under the fright, but just looked back quietly.

It's Anyun.

To be honest, they didn't even know each other, so he didn't know how to answer, so he simply concentrated on closing the door and locking it, and then he said: "It's nothing, did I wake you up?"

Bai Xiu noticed that An Yun's tent was close to the door, it seemed that not only Fang Chunjun believed in him very much, but even the three young masters of the Fang family were very relieved to let him stay in this key position - this person was probably not simple.

The two of them walked to the fire, and after adding a few branches each, they fell into a situation where they had nothing to say.

In the end, it was An Yun who broke the embarrassing atmosphere: "Those two guys are so lazy, it's really troublesome for you, or you go to sleep for a while, I'll just keep it." ”

Bai Xiu didn't believe in his ability, but the knock on the door just now was so weird that he couldn't leave with peace of mind, and couldn't help but shake his head: "I can't sleep anyway, I'll stay first, you go and rest." ”

It is estimated that An Yun was also a little embarrassed, and he smiled: "Then let's guard the two of us together, so that we can take care of it." ”

Bai Xiu nodded, still staring at the firelight in a daze, this kind of moment is always the most embarrassing, he suddenly had an urge to call Bai Che up, and only his second brother's character would be like a fish in water when dealing with strangers.

Fortunately, the knock on the door that was exactly the same as before soon saved him, and seeing An Yun's puzzled look, he raised his finger and walked quietly towards the door.

Tuk, tuk, tuk-

Bai Xiu noticed that the knock on the door seemed to have become a little hurried, as if the person had run out of patience.

He rushed to the door with an arrow and quickly opened the door, but the other party seemed to be playing with him, and now he was gone, and the door was still empty, not to mention the human figure, not even a ghost.

He gently closed and locked the door, and before he returned to the fire, An Yun had already understood: "It turns out that you were just looking to see if there was anyone outside." ”

Bai Xiu nodded, and said that the matter, An Yun pondered: "Do you suspect that the young man named Pine Needle is knocking on the door?"

"Nope. Bai Xiu denied this, and he had other speculations, "Maybe it's the same as when I first came in the afternoon, and there are people who are playing ghosts in the dark." ”

An Yun frowned and pondered, and finally gave his opinion: "If we go out and have a look, maybe he will hide nearby." ”

Bai Xiu had the same intentions, but he had a more detailed plan.

"Even if I don't know what the other party's purpose is, he will definitely continue to test before it is achieved, and we will do it when the knock on the door starts again, you look at the door, and I go out through the window on the second floor and go around behind him. ”

"The situation outside is unknown, it's too dangerous for you to go out, so I'd better go. ”

Bai Xiu couldn't help but smile when he heard An Yun's words: "Whoever goes to the two of us is not the same, I will leave it to you here, if you find something wrong, you must call Fang Ling and them up." ”

The two continued to listen intently, and the strange knock on the door didn't make them wait long, and it rang again at the door about ten minutes or so.

Tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk –

This time it was a little more urgent than the last time, Bai Xiu didn't pay too much attention, nodded at An Yun, slowly walked up to the second floor, and went into the room on the far left.

It was at this time that he realized that the window exit here was the closest to the gate, and he didn't know if it was a coincidence or something else.

It's just that he doesn't have much time to think about it at the moment, and he suspects that the knock outside the door is not just stopped because he opened the door, but that there is a certain pattern.

Thinking about it, he pushed open the window and stepped on the edge of the wall under the window and jumped down gently.

The house was surrounded by thorns, and an inexplicable thought popped into his head as the back of his bare hand was scratched multiple times.

Could it be that this is how the blood scabs on the pine needles came from - he had known about this place for a long time, and even frequented it.

But even so, the person hiding behind them couldn't be him, there must be another person.

Bai Xiu cautiously sneaked towards the door against the wall, and soon the sound of a gentle tap came from around the corner, and he held his breath and slowly probed the probe.

Tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk –

He was stunned for a moment, and it was not a person who made a knocking sound, but a cascading corpse that was stacked on top of each other, almost half of the iron door.

For a while, he didn't dare to make any sound, and at such a close distance, even he couldn't escape his fate.

However, accidents always happened at certain junctures, and as soon as he took a step back, a black shadow above his head struck him so quickly that he could not react before it fell to the ground, and then he felt a sharp pain in the back of his hand.

Someone bit him.

Yes, it wasn't a corpse, not even some other beast, but a man who bit the back of his hand because he touched the man's clothes.

However, Bai Xiu did not push the other party away, because he saw that the roof of the house was full of things, densely packed with corpses.

They had apparently spotted him too, and not only did those at the door squirm in this direction, but those above them also fell like a downpour.

Without thinking about it, he picked up the person on his body and fled into the nearby deep forest, which was covered with dense vegetation, but fortunately, the Demon Breaker Blade was sharp enough, and it only took him a few seconds to split a way out, and he rushed over with a rolling belt.

He had never been so embarrassed, but it was a pity that this action did not allow him to escape the menacing corpse swarm, and to make matters worse, his heart pounded violently, and the familiar feeling of colic almost caused him to fall to the ground.

"You're not alive. The man he grabbed spoke coldly.

The familiar voice made Bai Xiu secretly say Sure enough, in fact, he should have known just now, this is far less than the body of an adult, and its owner only has pine needles, but he really didn't expect that pine needles are not dead.

"What the hell is going on?"

"What's going on?" the pine needle broke free from his hand and stood in front of him, and said very unceremoniously, "Don't you know your own situation, what can you do!"

His old attitude is the same as before, Bai Xiu breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably, and had to admit that even if Pine Needle was only a half-old child, it still gave people a very reliable feeling.

Pine Needle took out a glass bottle from the woven bag in his hand, and without opening the cap, he threw it straight into the nearby woods.

There was a soft thud, and the bottle shattered against the stone, and a strange smell wafted away.

Bai Xiu's heart moved, this was exactly the taste of Wei Bing when he died, he remembered the speculation at that time, it seems that the pine needles are not only familiar with that house, but also with these corpses.

The swarm slowed down noticeably, presumably trying to discern their location, and eventually they pounced in the direction of the shattered bottle.

Pine Needle helped him up and said coldly: "Let's go, let's go over there." ”

He led Bai Xiu for a few minutes, stopped in a relatively open place, then pulled out a strip of cloth from his pocket to help Bai Xiu wrap the wound, and finally sat on the stone on the side and lowered his head, no longer moving.

Bai Xiu had a strange feeling in his heart, since he met this young man again, he had a special sense of closeness to him.

Thinking that he also sat down next to the pine needle, he asked softly, "Are you really alive?"

Pine Needle raised his head and glanced at him, pointed to his blood-covered clothes, and smiled mockingly: "After so much blood, how can there still be life." ”

"......" This is a bit beyond Bai Xiu's estimate, but it is very likely that Pine Needle is talking angrily and mocking him, he thought about it and changed his question, "I want to know what kind of position you risked your life to save me." ”

Indeed, although he did not know why the pine needles bit him, there was no doubt that the pine needles kept him away from the corpse worms, and it was the pine needles that led them elsewhere.

Who knew that the pine needle answered his question very happily this time: "Aren't you alive even if you die?"

"The Rhino ...... of the Three Corpses" Bai Xiu suddenly understood where that sense of closeness came from.

Pine Needle tilted his head noncommittally, and when he looked at him again, he asked him in turn: "The person rescued by the three corpses is also a living person, you didn't think about why those corpse worms still chased you just now?"

Thinking of their conversation in the wine brewing well, Bai Xiu's heart sank for no reason, but at this time he was more curious about another question: "Why are you pretending to commit suicide?"

He naturally wanted to hear the answer he wanted to hear, but unfortunately it backfired, and Pine Needle sneered, "Because I don't want any of you to know that I'm alive." ”

Bai Xiu subconsciously asked, "Who?"

"I don't know. Pine Needle stared at him and said the word without warning, "...... Tentacles, I only know that some of them are 'tentacles'. ”