I stood up and looked around, "Village chief, have anyone like us ever been to the village before, or any exploration team, archaeological team, or something?" ”

Wang Fugui shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be there!" Yingying listened to the elders say that a group of iron ore explorers had come here before. That's right......"

Wang Fugui said: "A few years ago, a group of experts from the Cultural Relics Bureau came and said that they wanted to see the Songlong Monument, and after reading it, they said that this is a fake cultural relic. At that time, I was so angry that I didn't give them a good face, and just drove them away. ”

"Pseudo-artifacts?" I turned my head to look at the Songlong Monument, "How did that old Liu Tou die?" ”

Wang Fugui pointed to the big tree behind me: "The one who hanged himself was on the branch behind you." ”

I looked up at the branches behind me. As the faint sunlight peeked through the foliage to the ground, I could faintly see a wisp of yin air wrapped around the branches.

The old man's ghost is still attached to the tree?

I said quietly, "Is there anything strange going on in your village lately?" ”

"And huh?" Wang Fugui shouted, "A dead ghost is enough to kill a demon, if there is anything else, can you still live?" If I hadn't been the village chief, I would have run away with the people in the village, who would still be guarding the place where the dead ghosts don't move? ”

I frowned and said, "All the people in the village have run away?" ”

"After running for more than half of the time, there are only a few families left." Wang Fugui said, "Why don't you go to my house for some food first, and wait until you are full of food and drink......

I waved my hand and said, "You don't need to eat." Master Zhihui, you will divide half of your men and go to Lao Liutou's house with the village chief to spend the soul, and I will stay here to guard the Songlong Monument. ”

Zhihui thought for a while, and said to the monks behind him: "You all go over, and I will stay with Mr. Wu." ”

After I sent the people away, I immediately squatted in front of the Songlong Monument: "This monument is only half a section, help me dig it." ”

I, Ye Yan, and Monk Shi took out daggers together and dug down the edge of the Songlong Monument. It wasn't until about two feet down that a disc was revealed under the Songlong Monument, and the entire Songlong Monument was inserted in the center of the disk.

I pushed the Songlong Monument with my hand and shook it twice: "Can the Monument move?" ”

Ye Shen said in a low voice: "Zhaozi, do you think this stone tablet statue doesn't look like a key?" ”

Then I suddenly came to my senses: "If the stele is the key, isn't the disc down there the keyhole?" What's locked down here? ”

Ye Shen said in a deep voice: "Or, let's see if we can open the lock?" ”

"No way!" I shook my head and said, "Now that the matter in the village has not been resolved, if you open the Songlong Monument rashly, you may encounter some trouble." We'll talk about it when we've taken care of the affairs of the village. ”

I filled in the soil near the Songlong Monument and sat near the Songlong Monument until it got dark. Soon after nightfall, Ember raised a bonfire in the courtyard.

After a while, the sound of chanting came from the direction of Lao Liutou's courtyard. The ten monks chanted the scriptures at the same time, one after another, and finally it was like a thunderclap over the village.

Zhihui got up and said, "It's not good, there's something wrong over there, I have to go and see!" ”

"Don't move!" I raised my hand and said, "Aren't ten monks able to deal with a ghost?" ”

"This ......" When Zhihui was hesitating, Wang Fugui hurriedly ran over from outside: "Something happened!" Hurry up and check it out! ”

I said in a deep voice, "What's wrong?" ”

Wang Fugui said: "Those masters were fine when they entered the door, and they deliberately opened the coffin to see the corpse of Lao Liu Tou. However, in the evening, Lao Liutou's body was gone, and we searched for a long time but couldn't find it. Then ......"

Before Wang Fugui finished speaking, I saw a figure emerge from the gate of the courtyard. The other man looked sideways into the courtyard in the shadow of the battlement, and from our perspective we could only see his body, but we couldn't see the other person's face clearly.

Wang Fugui said in a trembling voice: "Who?" Who's out there? What for? ”

The man slowly turned around and stood behind the doorway, when a strip of white cloth suddenly appeared on his left shoulder. When the palm-wide white cloth flowed along the opponent's left shoulder like flowing water to the man's waist, the other party shouted loudly: "The three-foot white cloth hangs on the body, the two worlds of yin and yang, I can speak!" ”

"Old Liu's head!" Wang Fugui jumped up as if he had been burned by fire and hid behind us.

What Lao Liu Tou just said is the incision that the master of ceremonies often says, which means that he is wearing a white cloth to lead the dead into the underworld.

When I looked at the other party carefully, there was an extra slippery red cloth on the man's right shoulder: "The three-foot red cloth is on the body, I am not afraid of any demons and monsters!" ”

According to the usual practice, after the master of ceremonies finished these two incisions, he had to shout "Congratulations to the so-and-so grandfather and so-and-so prince on the road". Whose name does he want to call?

"Do it!" I lifted my leg and kicked a stick from the fire. After the firewood with the light of the fire slid out a red line of sparks in the air, it struck the old man, and the sparks that burst from the man's chest instantly illuminated most of the other man's faces.

I only saw that the other person's face was covered with a layer of sallow skin, and the man fell to the ground with his head on his back. When Ye Shen and Monk Shi rushed to the door at the same time, the figure of the person suddenly seemed to be a drop of water seeping into the ground, and it was suddenly pressed to a position that was level with the ground.

"Be careful!" As soon as I reminded him, Monk Shi picked up a piece of waxy leather from the ground with a copper stick: "It's a human skin!" ”

Monk Shi hurried to the side of the fire in a few steps and spread the human skin on the ground. I touched the skin twice by the light of the fire: "This skin has been treated. Do you have a cobbler in your village? ”

"I didn't ...... No...... Wang Fugui trembled in fright, "That'...... That's not the skin of old Liu's head. Old Liu head bald......"

The human skin had been completely ripped off, and there was indeed hair sticking to the top of the head.

I looked back and said, "Who is this person?" ”

"I don't know...... I really don't know! The village chief was so frightened that he couldn't even speak, "I'...... I think...... I don't look like a villager. ”

As the other party spoke, the sound of chanting in the distance also stopped abruptly, and the whole village once again fell into a chilling silence.

Zhihui stepped forward, and luckily roared out a Buddha call: "Nan Wu Amitabha." ”

Zhihui rolled down the mountain like the sound of thunder and vibration, but there was no response from the mountainside. Zhihui exclaimed: "Something happened down there, I have to go down and take a look!" ”

I stretched out my hand to stop and said, "No! Wait! ”

"What are you waiting for?" Zhihui said angrily, "Yamashita is obviously in danger, what do you want to wait for?" You get out of the way for me, otherwise, I'm not kind to you! ”

"Wait a minute......" As soon as my words came out, Zhihui suddenly slapped me with a palm. I dodged sideways, but Zhihui turned his palm into a claw and grabbed me on the shoulder. There was no killing intent in the opponent's moves, it was all to force me aside, and I dodged sideways and signaled Ye Shen and Monk Shi not to participate in the battle at the same time.

Because of one of my gestures, the movement was only a step slower, and Zhihui's palm landed on my shoulder without slanting. I instinctively slammed outward, and Monk Shi, who didn't listen to my advice, swept a stick to Zhihui's armpit, and the latter tore off the backpack I was carrying on my back with one palm and blocked Monk Shi's copper stick.

Before I could stop it, the long stick and the backpack made a muffled sound, and the backpack that had been grabbed by Zhihui came out of his hand and smashed it in the direction of the fire.

"Magic Box!" One of the boxes was placed in the backpack.

Ye Shen and Monk Shi wanted to grab it at the same time to block the moment when the backpack landed, but the rucksack was torn to pieces by a volley of force from the inside out. Between the broken strips of cloth flying in all directions, the air flow that exploded from the backpack was like a hidden weapon and roared in all directions, and the two people who had already rushed to the front were blocked by the air flow at the same time.

By the time I got there, the box had fallen into a blazing campfire.

At this time, I could no longer care about the flaming fire snake in front of me, so I reached out and grabbed it into the fire.

Before my fingers touched the flames, I was dragged back by Ye Yan, and Monk Shi followed a stick and picked it up on the magic box. The magic box, which weighed several pounds, flipped into the sky under his long stick, rolling and whizzing and smashing into the trunk of the tree behind the stele.

I only heard a loud "bump", and the box was lifted back by the force of the rebound, rolled on the ground several times, and stopped near the Songlong Monument.

Before I could look at the box, the compass on the lid spun automatically. At the same time, there was also a sound of a mechanism rattling from the backpack behind the monk Zhihui. I turned around and shouted, "Throw your backpack away!" ”

Monk Zhihui didn't have time to think about anything else, so he reached out and took off his backpack. Unexpectedly, before he could take off his backpack, a wave of energy burst out of his backpack. The Zhihui monk and the magic box were close at hand, and there was no way to avoid it, and he was suddenly slapped into the air by the energy that burst out of the backpack, and rolled around a few times before falling to the ground.

"Wu ......" As soon as the monk Zhihui said a word, a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth.

I hurriedly held the other party: "Ye Yan, wound medicine!" ”

When Ye Ember put the wound medicine into the other party's mouth, the two magic boxes that fell on the ground rotated at the same time, and the two compasses clicked and rotated in front of us with a sound like counting seconds, and the three of us pulled out our blades at the same time and looked in the direction of the magic box. However, the two compasses only rotated a few times before stopping, and the direction of the compass pointer happened to be on the "Xun" position.

Tatsumi, wind?

As soon as these two words came out of my head, there was a sudden strong wind near the courtyard, and the bonfire, which had been piled up on the ground, was swept into the air in the middle of the howl, like a fire dragon dancing its horns and claws roaring towards us.

"Open-" Between my palms and palms, the Xuan Ming True Qi suddenly pressed into the flames in the air. Between the two volleys of force, the flames in the sky were extinguished in an instant, and the darkness all around us was plunged back into darkness.