In the deep mountains and old forests...... There are even mass graves!?

The unexpected sight made Jiang Yao stunned for a moment, and what frightened him was not only the gloomy graves and dry bones in front of him, but also a certain piece of information that he heard from Wu Lao Liu's mouth in his impression:

"When I was locked up in the basement, I overheard the monsters who were guarding the chat, saying that although there was a mass grave outside the 'forbidden land', there was a 'demon' in the depths, and if some low-level demons and people strayed there, they would want to come out again!"

"Forbidden Land" ...... Mass grave ...... Could it be that my current location is near the "forbidden land" where the "demon" is hidden!?

Thinking of this, Jiang Yao couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine, it was bad enough for the third watch to be trapped in the deep mountains and old forests in the middle of the night, if he really encountered any "demons" in this "forbidden land" that even monsters didn't dare to enter, even if he didn't dare to enter the "forbidden land", no matter how much he died, it would not be enough to compensate.

Jiang Yao thought about it, and finally planned to retreat to the dense forest temporarily, but before he could re-enter the forest, he suddenly found that a pair of fluorescent beast pupils appeared in the dark dense forest at some point, and they were peeking in his direction.

When did the beast follow?

Jiang Yao's face was pale, running into the forest in this situation was tantamount to a sheep falling into the mouth of a tiger, and in a hurry, he could only run back to the mass grave again, and desperately climbed up the hill along the dense grave, hoping to find another exit at the other end of the hill.

"Smack...... Bang ......

The muddy hills were full of potholes, and many dry bones were turned out of the mound by wild beasts, gnawed and scattered aside, and it was impossible to tell whether they were human or demon bones; But thankfully, until Jiang Yao climbed to the top of the hill, the group of beasts showed no signs of chasing.

"Whew...... Whew......"

Jiang Yao gasped in embarrassment, he once again took out the 'Gu Pill' in his arms for self-defense, and looked back behind him vigilantly. Hunger and nervousness continued to consume his physical and mental strength, and he even felt that his legs were a little weak, and the whole person was in a bad state.

"It's good that I didn't catch up...... Get...... Gotta find a way out quickly...... Uh-huh——!?"

Just thinking about it, Jiang Yao's feet were suddenly tripped by something, and under the unstable center of gravity, he suddenly staggered and fell forward, and his body pressed hard against something hard.

"Ka Cha ......"

A crisp sound suddenly came from under Jiang Yao's body, which made Jiang Yao's chest ache. Jiang Yao grinned and covered his chest, trying to get up, but when he opened his eyes, he almost scared him so much that he had a heart attack.

I saw a shriveled corpse pressing under him, and a hideous skeletal face was facing Jiang Yao, and he was almost about to have a "close contact" with Jiang Yao.

"——!!Uhh

Jiang Yao suddenly felt nauseous, and hurriedly got up from the dry corpse, and only then did he see clearly what was going on around him at this time.

The remote slope was much more empty than the dense mounds of earth before, and what was even more frightening was that a pile of sealed soil not far ahead had been artificially dug up, and a strange coffin with the lid lifted was being exposed to the moonlight, and the dense charms depicted with cinnabar on the coffin added a bit of strange color to the coffin.

"Inside this coffin...... Is it empty?!"

Jiang Yao looked at the inside of the empty coffin, and thought of something at the same time as he was surprised, and hurriedly looked at the human corpse that was crushed by him at his feet.

I saw that the flesh and blood of this dried corpse had shrunk, and the hair on its head had been left under the cold wind, leaving only a crumpled skin wrapped around the skeleton, almost no different from the skeleton;

"Could it be that someone robbed the grave and threw the body out of the coffin? No, no...... It's still strange that the climate here can't form a dry corpse, and this person's clothes are obviously new, and the age is not clear......"

Jiang Yao muttered quietly, the unreasonable status quo in front of him made him suspicious for a while, and he didn't notice it at all at this time, a black shadow suddenly appeared behind him, slowly approaching him step by step.

The waning moon hanging high in the sky once again poked out half of his face from the clouds, and in the misty moonlight, Jiang Yao suddenly found that a ghostly shadow was faintly reflected around him.

"Who!?"

Jiang Yao came back to his senses suddenly, and the moment he noticed something strange behind him, he didn't even bother to take a closer look, so he squeezed the 'Gu Dan' in his hand again and waved it towards the figure behind him!

"Smack!"

The fist was suddenly frozen in mid-air, Jiang Yao only felt that his wrist seemed to be firmly clamped by someone, and just as he was shocked, a mocking and familiar voice suddenly sounded from the front.

"It seems that your wings have grown stiff, and even I dare to attack. ”

Jiang Yao was stunned for a moment, and he hurriedly looked up at the figure in front of him. I saw that reflected in the moonlight was the expressionless face of the glutton.

"Gluttony...... Why are you here?"

Seeing the red-haired man who suddenly appeared in front of him, Jiang Yao was overjoyed, but his gluttonous face didn't seem to be very good-looking, only to hear him snort coldly, and then let go of Jiang Yao's wrist, and some kind of dissatisfaction seemed to be hidden in his red pupils.

"Hmph, and ask me why I'm here, I should have asked you. Gluttony stared at Jiang Yao and said coldly. "I remember that I told you to stay in the house honestly, right?

"I'm sorry...... However, there is a reason why I escaped from the village......"

Jiang Yao hurriedly explained, and told Tao Tao about finding the jawbone from the house, as well as the subsequent escape with Wu Lao Liu.

"That's the thing, those long right guards not only put me under house arrest, but it seems that there are some hidden secrets behind the scenes......"

"So, you listened to that guy named Wu Lao Liu, and instead took my words as wind in your ears?"

"If the Changyou clan really intended to harm people, they wouldn't have come to save you when that living corpse attacked you, and they wouldn't have spent mana to help you expel the nightmare. I'm relieved to keep you there because I'm sure you'll be safer there. Why, do you trust that dead fat man who doesn't know the details more than I judge?"

"No, I'm just ......"

"Just what?" Tao Tao interrupted Jiang Yao's words, and what came out of his deep red eyes was a coldness that Jiang Yao had never seen before.

"Or ...... The reason why you choose to trust him is because he is a 'human', and you trust your kindred more than me, an ominous beast?"

"......" Jiang Yao was stunned, he didn't expect that the always indifferent and free gluttony would say such aggressive words, which made Jiang Yao have a strange feeling towards him in a short moment, and he didn't even know how to react for a while;

"Whew...... Rustling ......

The bleak mountain breeze blew across the silent dirt slopes, and the glow of the waning moon was obscured by the surging clouds. On this gloomy mass grave, two figures stood one after the other, and even the air gradually condensed with the cold wind.

“…… I've never looked at you like a 'monster'. ”

Jiang Yao's voice sounded softly from behind the glutton, and he was the first to break the silence.

"For me, you are the benefactor who has saved me several times, and you are also my partner, which has nothing to do with what ethnicity or identity you are. ”

"......" Tao Tao seemed to be stunned for a moment, he slowly turned around, and looked at Jiang Yao's pair of worried but determined inky eyes in surprise.

"I was going to come to meet you this time, but I almost lost my life...... It's that I'm too self-righteous, I'm sorry......"

Jiang Yao said, a little reluctant to lower his gaze, his voice became softer and softer, and if he didn't look away at this time, he would find that the gluttonous expression in front of him seemed to be vaguely in a trance for a moment, and an extremely complex emotion quietly spread in the depths of his red eyes.

【…… Hehehe, silly boy, in my opinion, you are you, what kind of race you are, what kind of identity you are, it has nothing to do with it......]

A long-standing and nostalgic voice echoed in the depths of his memory, stirring a forbidden scar in his gluttonous heart, with the torn pain, stabbing his chest like an ice pick. It's just that the gluttonous expression has not changed significantly, and even the complex emotions in the pupils have disappeared in an instant.

"Hmph...... You're still a little self-aware. After half a ring, the gluttony finally sighed and shook his head slightly. "Why are you still stunned here, do you want to spend the night on this grave mountain?"

"Ahh......h

"By the way, speaking of which...... What's the situation with this corpse?" Jiang Yao suddenly remembered that there was a strange dried corpse lying under his feet, and hurriedly asked.

"What else can it be, being sucked dry. Tao Tao glanced at the corpse on the ground, and then moved his gaze to the green wood coffin covered with cinnabar symbols not far away, and there was no surprise on his face. "Do you see that 'Cinnabar Town Evil Coffin'? This unlucky guy on the ground was killed by something in the coffin. ”

"'Cinnabar Town Evil Coffin'......?ah, I remember! It's the ...... that the villagers of Changyou used to seal the headless living corpse before" Jiang Yao suddenly remembered what he had heard from the mouth of the patriarch of Changyou, and suddenly realized. "So, this man who turned into a dried corpse is actually the guy who opened the 'Cinnabar Town Evil Coffin' and released the living corpse?

Jiang Yao was surprised, and when he looked down at the corpse on the ground again, he suddenly found a black object emerging from the corner of the corpse's pocket.

"What is this?"

Jiang Yao frowned, leaned over and pulled out the object from the corpse's pocket, and found that it seemed to be a wallet, but when he opened the wallet and saw the document sandwiched in it, his face changed suddenly.

"This ...... Who is this person!?"