"Master, what's wrong with you?"

Yuan Qi looked at the bones in the grass and said: "You see that the bones under this big tree have a puppet charm on their chests, it is obvious that this corpse is controlled by someone, as if someone deliberately put together the bones scattered on the ground, you see that these bones are very complete, reminiscent of a puppet show, as long as someone controls them behind the scenes, they can move freely, this is extremely dangerous." ”

"Master, let's get out of here quickly."

"It's too late, we only have one fight in the face of these feminine things, and maybe there is still a chance to survive. Deqing, hurry up and run the torches, the more the better, and get ready to fight. Yuan Qi stood in front of Zhao Deqing and watched the changes.

The forest was getting darker and darker, and suddenly the fog was everywhere. Yuan Qi faced Zhao Deqing behind him and said, "Quick! Put on your mask, this fog barrier is poisonous. Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing put on masks and stood in place to observe the bones lying in the grass. All around were lit with torches, swinging out in a five-element array, Yuan Qi sat in the middle of the five-element array, and Zhao Deqing stood aside to watch. In the hazy mist, the white bones that touched under the big tree slowly stood up, with a puppet charm on its chest, its skull was a 360-degree turn, and with a few hoarse roars, hundreds of corpses around it stood up one after another and hugged up, attacking Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing. Yuan Qi stepped over the Five Elements Array and jumped into the air, split both legs and kicked them, and jumped up again when he landed, kicking out with his feet continuously, only to see a corpse bone fly out and crash under a big tree, falling apart. A sharp claw stretched out and grabbed the clothes in front of Yuan Qi. Yuan Qi blocked the outstretched claws with one hand, slid down sideways and pushed out the bones behind him, so as to use his strength to hit the bones in front of him with one shoulder, kick out with one kick, and knock the skull off with one punch. Zhao Deqing rushed into the group of corpses, kicked out with his body tilted back, got up and blocked the attack of the claws with both fists, forced a heavy fist to hit his chest bone, kicked out, and saw the corpse bones in front of him crash into the corpses that hugged behind him, and immediately fell apart. Yuan Qi turned to Zhao Deqing behind him and said, "Quickly throw the torch to the teacher." Zhao Deqing pulled out the two torches inserted on the ground, Yuan Qi jumped into the air and took over the two torches, the torches left and right to resist the attack of the groups on both sides, the two torches rotated in front of Yuan Qi's body, turned around and retracted the torches, held them upside down behind him and stood up, a torch stretched out to the puppet corpse, inserted the torch into the mouth of the corpse, a pair of hands obliquely blocked the claws stretched out, retracted his fists and hit his chest, and removed the puppet talisman on the chest of the corpse, the smoke rose up, and the sound was like a dying **. The bones were on fire, burned to ashes, and scattered in the wind. Yuan Qi burned the puppet talisman and turned it into paper ashes and fell, and the surrounding bones were dying**, and the bones were scattered, and they were very messy in the grass.

At this time, the sky gradually darkened, and the forest was pitch black. Yuan Qi sat down, looked at Zhao Deqing who was standing next to him, and said, "Deqing, take the map." Zhao Deqing took the backpack next to him, took out his homemade map from the backpack, unfolded it and spread it on the ground, pressed the four corners with stones, and then stretched out his hand, saying, "Take out the compass." Zhao Deqing took out a compass from his backpack again. Yuan Qi took the compass, placed the compass in the middle of the map, looked at the compass in the middle of the map, and said, "We are above the place where the compass is placed," and then pointed to the southeast corner of the forest, and said, "Yimen Village is in that direction." "At this moment, a wolf howl was heard in the depths of the forest.

"Master, there are wolves here, what do you say?"

"Deqing, are you hungry?"

"We haven't eaten for a day, and you see I'm all on my chest."

"Look, isn't the food delivered to your door?"

"Master, what are you kidding, we are all at a critical juncture of life and death, and you are still making such jokes."

At this time, many blood-glittering eyes appeared in the depths of the night staring at the two of them. Zhao Deqing looked at those blood-shining eyes in the depths of the darkness, and said in a panic: "Master, what do you think is that?" Many pairs of blood-glittering eyes were looking at us. ”

"Deqing, those are wolves, don't mess with yourself, light torches, they are afraid of fire."

At this time, a wolf came out of the darkness, turned his head and stared at Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing, grinning and revealing the canine teeth on both sides, his tongue was spitting, and his angry howl seemed to be ready to attack at any time, and behind him there was a group of wolves squatting on the ground, spitting out their tongues and panting. Yuan Qi stood still and glared at the wolves, seeing who was more ferocious than whom. The wolf in front of him leaned forward and jumped up. Yuan Qi flashed sideways, and the torch in his hand hit straight up, hitting him to the ground. Yuan Qi pulled out the dagger he carried with him and plunged it straight into his throat, and the wolf fell in a pool of blood. Yuan Qi turned to face the wolves, and with a wolf howl, these wolves fled in all directions, and the crisis was resolved. At this time, Zhao Deqing stood behind Yuan Qi and was stunned. Yuan Qi turned around and said, "What are you doing standing stupidly, roasting wolf legs." Yuan Qi picked up dry firewood and started a fire. Zhao Deqing took the dagger in Yuan Qi's hand, scraped off the wolf skin, removed the internal organs, and grilled it on the fire, and came to eat a roasted whole wolf tonight. After a long time, Zhao Deqing cut off a wolf leg and handed it to Yuan Qi, and asked, "Master, you are really powerful, these wolves are extremely ferocious, if they attack them, then we will be torn apart by them." ”

"Wolves are social animals and are fierce and aggressive by nature, but when we encounter these wolves here, our lives are in danger at any time. Since these wolves belong to the group of animals, all the people who live in groups will have the head of the group, the first wolf out of the night is the head of the group, in this critical moment we must not retreat, only to face the difficulties, restrain the head of the group, the back of these wolves will not dare to act rashly, at this time to kill it, it will cause the situation of the group of dragons without a leader, rout and escape. ”

"Taught," Zhao Deqing cut off a wolf leg, tore off a piece of meat and stuffed it in his mouth.

"We have to hurry up, get out of here as soon as possible, and go southeast to that is Yimen Village."

After they had eaten their fill, they walked in the direction indicated by the map and compass with torches to the southeast of the forest, and disappeared into the darkness of the woods. By the time they walked out of the vast forest, it was midnight. Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing went up the mountain road, and the mountain road was paved with stone slabs in steps, and the stone steps were covered with moss. Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing walked slowly up the stairs and stood in front of a village. In front of the village, a stone monument was erected on the right side of the stone steps, and the stone monument was carved with several large characters of "Weimen Village".

"Master, this is Yimen Village."

Yuan Qi looked at this Yimen Village, there was a dead silence in the village, everything was so quiet, there were no lights on both sides, everything was so dark. Yuan Qi looked at the village and said, "This is a deserted village, Deqing, let's go, let's enter the village." "Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing walked into this village, and the houses on the left and right were empty, and no one lived here. The village is built on the hill and is obviously not that big, and the deserted village is lined and surrounded by green trees and overgrown weeds, and it is clear that no one has taken care of it for a long time.

"Master, where did you say all these people went?"

"The people's lives are getting richer and richer, maybe they are moving to the towns to live a better life."

"Master is right, many villages have disappeared like this one now."

Yuan Qi looked at the house in front of him, and walked along the house in front of him towards the old mansion behind this house, these houses in front of him were the old-fashioned blue-tiled adobe houses in the past. When Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing walked to the house, half of its earthen walls had collapsed. Yuan Qi looked up at the old house on the hill, and below the old house, behind the house was a small bamboo forest, with weeds or branches as a hindrance. Yuan Qi broke off the messy branches stretching on both sides, walked on the muddy path with torches, and slowly went up the mountain. This old mansion is on the mountainside, the highest terrain, standing here can overlook the whole picture of Yimen Village. Yuan Qi stood in front of the old mansion, and when Zhao Deqing behind him stepped forward and reached out to buckle the door, the door of his house opened a little, and there was no latch inserted inside. When Zhao Deqing pushed open the door of the house and walked in with Yuan Qi, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, it turned out that there was a large coffin in front of the hall in this courtyard, and its coffin had lost its original color after being washed and soaked by rainwater.

"Master, what do you think of these coffins?"

Yuan Qi stood in this courtyard and looked at this coffin in a daze, wondering what he was pondering at this time? Zhao Deqing looked at Yuan Qi who was in a daze next to him, stepped forward and pushed the lid of the coffin hard, and there were pillows, clothes and shoes, and something covered by a white cloth in the coffin? Zhao Deqing maintained a sense of curiosity, lifted the white cloth, and there was a very complete corpse inside, and a group of rats crawled up the coffin in groups, running around.

Zhao Deqing turned to face Yuan Qi, who was standing behind him, and said in surprise: "Master, come and see." ”

Yuan Qi stepped forward and was immediately shocked, and immediately said, "Quick! Fast! Exit this old house. ”

Yuan Qi and Zhao Deqing exited the old mansion in a panic, and after walking out of the mansion, Yuan Qi said: "There are people and ghosts here, and the danger has just begun. After Yuan Qi walked down the mountain, he pushed open the courtyard doors of many houses, the courtyard of this house was the same as the old house, and there was a large coffin in the courtyard facing the hall, and there was a very complete skeleton when the lid of the coffin was opened. Zhao Deqing was really a little puzzled, and said, "Master, is there a custom of not burying in this village?" ”

"Perhaps, for example, the hanging coffins in many places follow this ancient custom, but I saw murderous opportunities in this crowded village, and it was murderous everywhere. Let me ask you, even if this ancient custom is followed, who would want to place the unburied dead in their compound, facing the hall? Isn't this a longevity or bad luck? We immediately returned to the old mansion and remembered the words of the teacher, no matter what happened tonight, we must not mess with ourselves. ”

"I made a note of it."

The two of them returned, entered the old house, closed the lid of the coffin that had been pushed open in the courtyard, entered the hall, and spread straw on the ground. Yuan Qi sat down, sat down quietly, and closed his eyes gently. Zhao Deqing sat next to Yuan Qizhi, put his hands on his knees, and sat quietly. At this time, there was a singing voice in the back mountain, which was so mournful and long, like a person's miserable cry, which echoed faintly in the valley.

"Master, listen, singing in the middle of the night," Zhao Deqing suddenly opened his eyes and listened to the long and miserable singing.

"Deqing, this is an evil sound that messes with the mind, the heart is clear and unmixed, and if there is no desire, it is empty, close your eyes and concentrate on it." Yuan Qi was silent for a while and said, "Go and raise the fire." Zhao Deqing then went to pick up some dry firewood and put it in the hall, and the fire was raised. Zhao Deqing and Yuan Qi continued to meditate in front of the bonfire, and the wind was blowing outside the hall, the weeds on the ground were swaying from side to side, and the wind was blowing the branches. The doors of the two halls slammed against each other, blowing the flames that had risen and danced, and their howls approached the old mansion. Yuan Qi stood up, looked at the dancing fire, listened to the howling sound that came, looked at the door that kept slapping, and said: "The demon wind is chaotic, the killing machine is everywhere, the people and ghosts are mixed, the murderer is coming to win in danger, if I Yuan Qi does not die, there will be a blessing in the future." ”

"Master."

Yuan Qi faced Zhao Deqing and said: "Deqing, what should come will come after all, a fight of life and death can win in danger, are you ready?" ”

"Master, the disciple is ready," Zhao Deqing at this time plucked up his courage and said.

At this moment, a dead body with messy hair and a ragged head stood in front of the gate, its face was dark and bruised, and half of its face was already rotting to reveal white bones, its eyes were rolling, white maggots wriggled and fell on its face, and a piercing howl was terrifying, and the hairs stood on end, and the back of the spine was cold. Yuan Qi walked out and stood, and the corpse slowly approached. Yuan Qi jumped into the air and swept his legs in the air. The corpse grabbed Yuan Qi's leg with one claw and threw it out, and the flying body crashed into the earthen wall, collapsing and falling out of the earthen wall on one side. Zhao Deqing picked up the thick and long wooden pillar that fell next to him with both hands and knocked it down heavily, the head of the corpse was hit hard but to no avail, and the wooden pillar was broken. A claw grabbed the wooden pillar and threw it out. When it fell, the broken wooden pillar pressed on Zhao Deqing's body, causing Zhao Deqing to spit blood. Yuan Qi flew up, dodged its claws, punched him head-on, and then jumped down with a punch and hit the back of the head. The corpse grabbed Yuan Qi and lifted it and fell, and Yuan Qi fell into the rising flames, and his sparks splashed everywhere. Yuan Qi got up and faced Zhao Deqing behind him, and shouted, "Hurry up." ”

"Master."

"Leave me alone, let's go." The corpse came head-on, the claws flew out, Yuan Qi blocked a kick with both hands and flew out, and the dead corpse forced to grab Yuan Qi and lift it up and fall down, and his body fell heavily to the ground. Yuan Qi got up and shouted, "Hurry up." ”

"Master, I'm not leaving."

"Do you want both of us to die here? Let's go! ”