The sky was getting dark, and Su Qiubai and Anya were in the room, waiting for the night to fall.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open, and their temporary landlord, the middle-aged man, walked in with two plates, a little rudimentary meal, and two steamed buns.

Putting the plate on the table, the middle-aged man said, "How many days are you going to stay?" ”

Su Qiubai replied: "It depends on how well we collect materials, but I will pay you on time." ”

The middle-aged man's face was hidden in the dark, and he couldn't see his expression clearly, so he only heard him say: "Then you go to find it quickly, and if you find it, you can leave." ”

With that, he left the room.

Su Qiubai and Anya glanced at each other and said, "Why did he persuade us to leave?" If you want to harm us, shouldn't you find a way to keep us? ”

Anya hesitated and said, "Could it be ...... Is he a good guy? ”

Su Qiubai thought for a while and said, "Don't trust anyone lightly, let's be careful." ”

At two o'clock in the morning, Su Qiubai quietly opened the door, probed the surrounding environment with his divine sense, and saw that the people around him were asleep, so he whispered to Anya and asked her to follow.

The two of them walked silently through the village, and in the cold moonlight, the dilapidated village looked more and more eerie, like a dormant monster that could open its huge mouth and swallow them at any moment.

"Xiaobai, where are we going to start?" Anya asked in a whisper.

Su Qiubai thought for a while, "Generally, in this kind of ancient village, there should be an ancestral hall or something like that, and there may be something useful there." ”

With a goal in mind, the two quickened their pace, but although the village was in tatters, it was not small, and after walking around it for a while, they realized that something was wrong.

"Are we going around in circles?" Su Qiubai asked.

"It seems, is it a ghost hitting the wall?" Anya said suspiciously.

Su Qiubai immediately bit his index finger and dripped blood on the ground, and after a while, he said, "If it was a ghost hitting the wall, it should have been cracked by me just now, now let's look for it again." ”

The two of them went around for a while, and after realizing that they were still going around in circles, they suddenly knew that this was not a ghost hitting the wall.

"Has our purpose been discovered?" Anya asked a little nervously.

Su Qiubai frowned and shook his head, "No, we didn't go out all day, and there was no suspicious behavior." Unless they kill people no matter what they do. ”

Anya suddenly said: "No, you told the villager that we are from the Mining Bureau, but we have been staying in the room since we came in the morning, and we have not gone out to find any materials, isn't this suspicious?" They must have found something! ”

Su Qiubai thought about it, if it was really because of this, someone found something suspicious, then it would be too careless to blame them.

"Anyway, let's get out of here first. Or let's go back and see if we can get back to the villager's house. Su Qiubai said.

But when they began to walk back, they found that they didn't remember the way back at all, and they walked for a long time, but they still didn't get out of the circle just now.

Su Qiubai suddenly remembered that when he was in the Qiyun Mountain Range, he had been trapped by the illusion several times, which showed that the people of the Momu clan were proficient in this technique, so it was likely that a similar formation was also set up in this village.

If it is really a formation, then the key to cracking must also be in the formation. When did they enter the illusion? Su Qiubai recalled that when they came out of the middle-aged man's house, the surrounding qiē looked normal, and all they had been paying attention to was the movement around them, and they didn't pay attention to the houses and other scenery at all, and there must be a boundary between reality and fantasy, if you think about it carefully, you may be able to remember.

Su Qiubai thought, suddenly looked up at the moon, walked forward for a distance, and finally found something wrong.

"Have you noticed that the position of the moon never changes, and if it were normal, the position of the moon would change a little bit as we moved?" Su Qiubai said.

Hearing this, Anya also raised her head, glanced at the moon, and suddenly asked, "What time is it today?" ”

Su Qiubai thought about it and was about to answer, when she suddenly understood what she meant.

Because this day should be the ninth day of the first month, but the moon overhead is almost round, which is clearly about the fifteenth moon.

"Was the moon like this when we went out just now?" Su Qiubai asked.

Anya nodded, "I looked up when I came out, and it was like this. ”

"That's right, the problem is in the man's house. We were hit before we could get out, and if nothing happened, we'd still be trapped in our room. Su Qiubai said.

Anya glanced around and said, "In that case, I don't think we need to be so careful." Have you ever thought that he must think that we are afraid to go to these houses, so will the solution be there? ”

Su Qiubai also felt that it made sense when he heard this, and directly turned around and entered the nearest courtyard.

The courtyard was very quiet, and there was no smell of any living people. They already knew that this place was an illusion, so they didn't care about anything, and pushed the door and walked into the house.

As soon as they entered, their eyes lit up, and what appeared in front of them was the villager's house, the room where they had been living.

"What are you doing so late?" A voice suddenly rang out.

The two were startled, and hurriedly looked back, only to see the middle-aged man standing at the door, staring at them coldly.

Su Qiubai suddenly felt a chill in his back, how long had he been standing there? Could it be that when he was trapped in the illusion just now, he was watching from the sidelines? Thinking of this, he felt more and more afraid, if that person wanted to harm them at that time, I am afraid that he would have succeeded at this moment.

Anya explained: "It's easier to find materials at night, so ......"

"Don't make up nonsense," the middle-aged man interrupted her, "you lie so badly that I didn't believe it at all." ”

Anya was speechless for a moment and looked at Su Qiubai on the side.

"You're the police?" The middle-aged man asked again.

Su Qiubai shook his head, hesitating how to explain to him. It's definitely not okay to say that you are a policeman or a journalist, the people in this village obviously don't like exposure, plus the bad things they may have done, if the police come, the final result is probably to be killed. But if he is told the truth, then the outcome may be uncertain, but presumably he will not reveal much information about the village.

But on second thought, if he made up other excuses, it would arouse this man's disgust, and when the time came, he would not get the information he wanted. So he said, "Actually, we're here to look up something, something thousands of years ago. Have you ever heard of the Moms? ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, his face suddenly changed, and he said in a lost voice: "What did you say? ”

Seeing his reaction, Su Qiubai was even more sure that this village had something to do with the Mohm tribe, in order to minimize the hostility of the middle-aged people, he said: "Don't be nervous, we are students of the History Department of Jianghai University, and recently our tutor asked us to do a project, which is about the lost peoples in ancient times, we checked a lot of information, and found that the information of this Mom tribe has not been studied, so we found it all the way here." ”

Hearing that the two of them were students, the man's face softened a little, but he was still not very friendly.

"I haven't heard of any Mohm, you're in the wrong place." The man coldly refused.

Su Qiubai still insisted: "We saw a stone tablet at the entrance of the village yesterday, which was exactly the same as a mythical beast of the Momo tribe, so we affirmed the connection between this village and the Momo tribe. Uncle, you can sue us, and in return, I can pay you. ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he said angrily: "I don't want your money!" Don't think you can buy everything with money! I tell you that today I agree to bring you back, but also to save your lives, and if you are interested, leave as soon as it is dawn. ”

Su Qiubai noticed the point of his words, and asked, "Save us?" What do you mean? ”

The middle-aged man knew that he was speechless, so he said angrily: "Don't ask, leave quickly after dawn, otherwise don't blame me for not reminding you if something happens!" ”

After saying that, the middle-aged man shook his hand and left the room of the two.

After he left, Su Qiubai said to Anya: "It seems that you guessed correctly, even if he is not a good person, at least he is not a bad person." ”

Anya nodded and said, "I think the formation just now may be that he wants to protect us, so in this way, this village is not full of bad people." ”

"But it's still very dangerous here, just an ordinary villager can trap us while we are not paying attention, and if more people are alarmed, the consequences may be even more severe." Su Qiubai said.

Anya lay down on a bed with only a straw mat, and sighed helplessly: "What should we do......"

Su Qiubai smiled: "It's not okay to outwit, or we'll come hard." Put your sword around their necks early tomorrow morning, and force them to sue us about the Mom clan. ”

Anya laughed and said, "If you have the ability, you can do this, don't cry if you are killed by the whole village." ”

As soon as Anya's words fell, Su Qiubai's heart suddenly moved, and said: "Wait, I suddenly remembered that in the messages that Sha Wen told me before, Tasin was a violent leader, so would his people be dissatisfied with his rule?" If that's the case, let's tell them the truth, and they might be willing to help us. ”

Anya thought for a while, shook her head and said, "I don't think it's appropriate, judging from the news I heard in Huangsha Town, most of the people in this village are not good, if they know that there is a big demon king who has been released by you, or their former leader, what do you think they will do?" ”

Su Qiubai had no choice but to sigh when he heard this, and said, "Forget it, let's sleep first, and wait until dawn." ”