When this grotesque thought flashed through Cao Min's mind, the candle on the table suddenly flickered a few times and went out. The room was filled with darkness again, and only the moonlight remained at the window, which was miserable and miserable, and it was not clear at all.

The candle was still emitting white smoke, Cao Min looked at the thin wisps of smoke, and his back suddenly slipped into sweat, and he didn't even dare to stand up and light the candle again. He always felt that the slightest movement could lead to something hidden in the dark, which was quietly peeking at him with a pair of hanging yellow eyes.

Suddenly, Cao Min heard the movement behind him: "Click...... Click...... Click......"

Something stepped on the ground and leaned towards him little by little. Cao Min's heart tightened, and he reached out to grab the sword on the table, but as soon as his fingers touched the hilt of the sword, there was a familiar call in his ears.

"Official, what time is this, why haven't you gone to bed yet?"

Cao Min's heart was completely put back into his stomach, and his tense shoulders relaxed, he turned around and said softly to Mrs. Cao, "If you think about something, you will sleep immediately." ”

"He who is blind in the dark does not light a lamp." Mrs. Cao lit the candle as she spoke, held the candlestick and shook it on Cao Min's face, and said, "The official has something on his mind?" ”

Cao Min was afraid of scaring her, and originally didn't want to tell her those things, but the more he didn't say it, the more worried she became, so after weighing it for a while, she finally told her about meeting the wooden harrier just now.

After saying that, Cao Min looked at his wife with worry, shook his head and sighed, "It's really pitiful, a few living people, in a moment, turned into human skin, I have been a county magistrate in Lucheng for so long, and I have never encountered such a strange thing." ”

Madame Cao seemed to have been swallowed by the soul, her eyes were staring at the candle flame motionless, and her face was frighteningly white, not much better than the moonlight in front of the window. When Cao Min saw her like this, he knew that she was frightened by herself, so she hurriedly held her hand and reproached softly, "Look, I said that you would be scared when you heard it, but you forced me to say, it's okay, it's scared, right?" ”

Hearing these comforting words, Mrs. Cao was still silent, Cao Min had no choice but to pull her towards the bed, and said with relief as she walked, "Okay, I'm sleeping too, it's not early, and Lord Zhao will come to me early tomorrow morning to discuss things." ”

"Official, you say, how does it suck people into a skin?" Mrs. Cao froze her steps and looked at him directly, and two candles reflected in her eyeballs, so Cao Min remembered that she had forgotten to blow out the candles, let go of her hand again, and turned back to the desk.

"I didn't see it either," Cao Min blew out the candle and turned back, "but I heard Lord Zhao say that this wooden harrier is a thousand-year-old evil thing, and it must have used evil magic to suck people dry, who knows?" But you don't have to worry too much, it was hit by Lord Zhao today, and in my opinion, it should have been shot in the eye, so now it should have been seriously injured, and it will not be able to harm people for a while. ”

As he spoke, he continued to pull Mrs. Cao towards the bed, but after taking two steps, Mrs. Cao stood still again, her tone was very straight, but the speed of her speech was much slower than usual, and every word she said seemed to take a lot of effort, "Official, you mean, that wooden harrier...... Missing an eye? ”

Cao Min looked puzzled, "That's right, Lord Zhao hit it in one eye." ”

As he said this, he saw that the expression on her face suddenly distorted, and her lips turned blue and white, and he couldn't stop trembling.

"Official," she glanced over Cao Min's shoulder, glanced out of the window, and quickly retracted her gaze, but there was already a cry in her voice, "When I was sitting in front of the window waiting for you, I saw a wooden harrier falling on the locust tree outside. I thought whose kite was stuck in a branch, so I didn't care. But when I heard you talk about it, I remembered that the wooden harrier seemed to be ...... It seems that there is only one eye......"

Cao Min shook his body and turned his head to look at the leafy locust tree outside the window, its yellow-green leaves intertwined, as if a huge hand pressed down from the sky. The moonlight peeked through the cracks in the leaves, and fell densely in front of the window, turning into a net.

"No...... There was nothing ...... on the treetops" Seeing that there was not a huge wooden harrier on the treetops as Mrs. said, Cao Min breathed a sigh of relief.

But before his heart had fallen into his stomach, there was a sudden "rustling" sound behind him, and something was rubbing against the ground and moving towards them. Listening to the sound, the thing seemed to be under the bed, but the light was too dim, Cao Min could only hear it, but he couldn't see what it was.

"Official......" Mrs. Cao also heard this voice, "it is under the bed, it is hiding under the bed......"

"Let's go."

Cao Min wanted to be calmer, he pulled Mrs. Cao's sleeve and ran in the direction of the door, but before he could run a few steps, Mrs. Cao tripped over the skirt and fell to the ground, and she couldn't get up after climbing several times.

"Quick, ma'am."

Cao Min leaned over to take her hand, but Mrs. Cao's legs were so weak that she didn't obey the call, especially after hearing the "rustling" sound behind her closer, she was even more powerless, as if she had been pulled out of her bones.

A huge shadow shrouded behind the two of them, and the "rustling" sound stopped.

Cao Min was anxious, but at this moment, his sweat-soaked palm slipped and took off Mrs. Cao's palm.

"Zheng...... Zheng ......"

The sound of a bamboo whistle came from behind him, hollow and straight, as if coming from the ground.

Mrs. Cao's eyes reflected a tear, her lips trembled twice, and she suddenly shouted at Cao Min with a hissing voice, "Official, you go quickly." ”

The next moment, before Cao Min could react, she pushed her arms on the ground, turned around, and pounced on the figure who had been completely exposed to the moonlight.

She smelled a stale smell in her nose, and she knew that it must have been buried for a long, long time, and someone dug it up when it was almost rotten.

"Ma'am." Cao Min roared and stretched out his hand to pull her.

"Leave me alone, let's ......"

Before the words fell, Mrs. Cao saw that the bright red pupil in the only remaining eye of the wooden harrier moved slightly, overflowing with something like a red line.

It was certainly not a red thread, it was aimed at the center of Madame Cao's eyebrows, and its head was split into three petals, like a rabbit's mouth when chewing.

With a "poof", the red thread sucked into Mrs. Cao's skin, and she felt that all the water in her body seemed to gush out at once, and the skin was so tight that it seemed to break all the bones.

"Official, go."

At the moment before her body was sucked dry, she was still urging Cao Min to leave, although it was only a faint low hum, and she couldn't tell what she was talking about.

But Cao Min understood, he looked at her one last time, turned around, and rushed out of the door.

The Wood Harrier did not chase it out.