Chapter 9: Shadows in the Night

Xizhu has been dependent on his grandmother since he was a child, and he has always taken family affection very seriously, if he takes the risk to save people this time, what if there is a mistake, what can grandma do, but after all, Da Fat is his partner who has played since he was a child, and he can't watch him being pushed into the fire pit by others.

After thinking about it, he still couldn't sleep, and he felt that the night was getting deeper, and a ray of moonlight shone into Xizhu's room through the window, listening to the insects at night, and the whole Dazhu Village seemed very quiet.

Occasionally, I can hear a faint noise, it seems that the fat parents have not fallen asleep, of course, if something like this happens to anyone's house, I am afraid that it will be sleepless all night.

But in the dead of night, Xizhu, who seemed to have fallen asleep, suddenly reached out and took out the copper coin from the shoe next to the bed.

Looking at the lines of the copper coin under the moonlight, Xizhu's brows became deeper and deeper.

"Alas~"

After thinking for a long time, he quickly put away the copper coin, rolled over into the quilt, and forced himself to fall asleep, but after turning it over, he sat up from the bed again, and tightly squeezed the copper coin from his shoe in his hand.

The interval between the copper coins is almost good, and even if it can't be used smoothly, it may not be so smooth, but it's always okay to barely use it last time.

Having made up his mind, Xizhu gently got up from the bed, and cautiously walked out of the room, looking in the direction of Grandma's room.

At this time, the room was quiet, thinking that Grandma had already fallen asleep, he carefully pushed open the outer door of the house, and then closed it gently, Xizhu, who had done all this, took a deep breath, but just as he was about to leave, a cough suddenly came from the room behind him.

Xizhu was stunned, he looked back at the room in the moonlight, and his heart was inexplicably tight.

Grandma's health is not very good, she often coughs at night, Xizhu stands in the room for a long time, and the decision she finally made seems to have shaken a little.

After a long time, he gritted his teeth and knelt on the ground: "Grandma, I will definitely come back, and I will take the big fat with me when the time comes!"

But his voice was getting smaller and smaller, as if he didn't have the confidence he had at the beginning, and finally he got up from the ground, gritted his teeth again and chose to turn around and leave.

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The way to Qi County will pass through a large bamboo forest, when the bamboo into the bamboo forest, soon like a ghost in the night quickly towards Qi County.

At first, he originally wanted to call the thin monkey and the little dog together, but then he thought that the big fat had been arrested, and he must not let the thin monkey and the little dog take risks, and at this juncture, the two guys must have been watched by the family a long time ago.

On the other hand, all he relied on this time were the copper coins under his feet, which had a limited effect, and it was not convenient to have more people.

He wanted to gamble, but it was a dangerous gamble.

Passing through the bamboo forest, I saw that the road leading to Qi County in front seemed to be clearly visible in the moonlight, but when I got to some dark places, I only had to smear and move forward, and in order to speed up the speed, Xizhu was copied all the way to the nearest path.

But those mountain paths are rarely walked, and the thorns and bumps on the side of the road make it even more difficult to walk, but fortunately, Xizhu often moves in these places, and with his past experience, he is like walking on flat ground in places where ordinary people often find it difficult to get off their feet.

After a few hours passed, he felt the night and walked forward for a long time, and finally saw the outline of Qi County in the distance.

Qi County is a remote county in the south of Luoguo, belonging to the largest border city in southern Xinjiang, in the history books of Luoguo can be traced back to this place was also a barren land, and later because many people in southern Xinjiang moved here to gradually form a scale.

Xizhu looked at Qi County in front of him, and saw that there were still some sporadic lights flickering in the dark night of the county, like a guiding light to lead people back in the night.

But this last little stretch of the road was very dark and dark, as if it was darker than the mountain road when he drove it!

"Hope...... All the best!"

Xizhu took a deep breath, and the overnight rush didn't seem to make him feel a trace of tiredness, but from his tone, he could also tell that he was very nervous at this time, and even when he touched the Xu clan mansion alone, he was not so worried now.

But since he has come here, he naturally won't give up, just listen to the muttered words fall, and Xizhu will no longer stay and go straight ahead.

Although the lights of Qi County are still on, but the road in front of Xizhu is getting darker and darker, he looked up at the moon in the sky, not long ago it was still a full moon, but I don't know when a few dark clouds appeared to block the moonlight.

In such an environment, the speed of Xizhu finally slowed down, and at this moment, a cool breeze blew out of nowhere, and the cool night breeze also made Xizhu stunned.

Xizhu frowned, he had always been not afraid of heaven and earth, and he gradually began to feel a trace of inexplicable uneasiness in his heart, perhaps it was because of this atmosphere that a burst of sound suddenly sounded in his ears.

"Knock...... Boom...... Boom!"

It seemed to be knocking on something, and it was as if someone was hiding in the shadows and whispering.

"Who!"

Xizhu was startled, stopped abruptly, turned around and looked around, but saw that there was no one around, only the silhouette of the big tree in the distance under the night swaying slightly in the wind.

Seeing this strange scene, Xizhu's brows furrowed slightly, and he couldn't help but think of some strange things he heard from the elders in the village when he was a child.

In this world, there are always some things that are full of weirdness and magic, and the theory of ghosts and gods comes from this.

And when Xizhu retracted his gaze, he suddenly found that the surroundings seemed to become darker, and the path in the distance began to appear a little blurred.

Not only that, but the surroundings seemed to suddenly become quiet, and when the strange sound disappeared from Xizhu's mind, it had strangely disappeared along with the surrounding wind and the sound of birds, beasts and insects chirping at night.

"Gollum~"

Xizhu's throat couldn't help but squirm twice, and then he saw him forcibly embolden himself and said loudly: "Who the hell are you, if you don't dare to come out, then I'm going to leave?"

"Knock...... Boom...... Boom!"

As soon as Xizhu's voice fell, the strange sound sounded again, Xizhu's face changed, this time he heard it very clearly, but when he wanted to find the source of the sound in a panic, he found that the strange sound seemed to have no root and no source.

Xizhu was cold, and now he couldn't care so much, I saw that he suddenly looked up in the direction of Qi County, and then began to rush without warning!

"I'm going to save people, demons and monsters are weird......"

While running forward, Xizhu was still talking wildly in his mouth, saying that if he walked at night for a long time, he would always bump into something unclean, not to mention that he was still outside this wilderness.

But everything didn't seem to be as simple as Xizhu imagined, and when he began to run forward frantically, the strange sound seemed to turn into another wave of footsteps that seemed to start running as well, and it seemed to be chasing after him!

"I'm @#¥%!"

As Xi Zhu ran, he turned his head and the chatter in his mouth began to turn into a kind of abuse.

Maybe it's really like what the old guys said, whether it is to treat ghosts and gods, you should maintain enough awe, when Xizhu was babbling nonsense, suddenly he tripped over something under his feet, and he ran forward quickly and fell directly towards a bush next to him without being stable.

"Me!"

Xizhu only felt that his eyes were dark, and then a sharp pain instantly permeated his whole body.

Finally, a series of encounters made the fear in his heart begin to evolve into a trace of anger, and he suddenly struggled to raise his head when he fell to the ground, and shouted at the originally empty path: "Who the hell are you, get out of here!"

Perhaps in response to Xizhu's anger, he felt a cooler cold wind blowing, and a strange figure appeared on the originally empty path.

"You!"

Xizhu's pupils shrank suddenly, and when he looked closely, it didn't seem to be a real figure, but it looked like a black shadow, but the strange thing was that the black shadow was so obvious in the dark night.

"Knock...... Boom...... Boom!"

It was still the same strange sound, but the sound had become Xizhu's heartbeat at the moment, and he looked down at his feet, and his shadow had also become extremely dark.

"No, no, no...... It must be a hallucination!"

Xizhu muttered to himself, but there was already a trace of panic in that voice, and then he fell to the ground and began to struggle frantically to be afraid.

At this time, he was already in a cold sweat, but what was even more frightening was that when he was struggling frantically, the outline of the shadow in the distance began to move.

"I~"

Xizhu gritted his teeth, he knew that he had to leave here, he had to leave here quickly, and even a trace of regret had begun to appear in his heart, regretting when he had to choose such a time to appear here.

But coincidentally, when Xizhu was struggling frantically, the shoe on his left foot was hooked by those thorns, and his foot was pulled out first.

Suddenly, the night wind blew the surrounding grass and trees, and Xizhu fell to the ground again because of an instability.

A soft grunt of pain sounded, and Xizhu gasped for breath in his mouth, his hands instinctively covering the soles of his feet that had been cut by thorns, and his face showed an extremely uncomfortable look.

But after a long struggle, he suddenly seemed to notice something, and when he opened his eyes again, he found that his surroundings seemed to have changed strangely, and when he turned back sharply, he found that the black shadow had disappeared at some point.

The chirping of birds, beasts and insects at night followed as if nothing had ever happened.

At the same time, the dark clouds in the night sky had drifted by, and the bright moonlight once again illuminated the surroundings, and Xizhu rubbed his eyes, although the dark shadow had disappeared, the fear in his heart still did not subside.

Not so sure, he looked down at the soles of his feet again, because they had been cut by thorns, and there were already a wound on the soles of his feet, and there were six small moles next to the bloody wounds.

"It's weird, it's weird...."

Xizhu, who was muttering about coming back to his senses, suddenly remembered something again, and hurriedly got up from the ground to find the shoe that had fallen in the thorn bush despite his injury, because he had stepped on the copper coin in that shoe before.

Fortunately, the copper coin was still there, and Xizhu, who was still afraid for a while, quickly pressed the copper coin again, looked up and looked around, quickly put on his shoes, got up and continued to walk towards Qi County......