"Chen Ye, hurry up."

Qiu Xuan held the knife to block Ye Qing's side, using her innate advantage that was gradually ignored by those skinners to buy time for Ye Qing. Ye Qing didn't talk too much nonsense, and his hand sped up and cut off the half-stripped bark.

The people around saw the scene of Qiu Xuan before, and those who chose to stay also draped the peeled bark on their bodies, and those who did not stay scolded and attacked to buy time for themselves, while trying or begging the already safe executioner to peel a piece of bark for them.

"Here, put it on!"

There were two people in the group who seemed to have known each other for a long time, and now one of them was handing the woman the bark he had just cut off. The woman was pleasantly surprised and decisively put the bark on her head, and with the experience of the previous car, she did not dodge or shy away from the oncoming boning tip and calmed down.

In the next second, the sharp tip of the knife plunged straight into her scalp, sliding through the thin bark and down the flesh.

"Little Frost!"

The companion beside the woman cried out bitterly. And with a slight sound of landing, the freshly steaming human skin that had been peeled off in an instant was snatched and torn apart by the demons who swarmed up.

"What's going on? Didn't you say that you would be fine if you put on the bark?! ”

It all happened so suddenly, and his companion stared at the woman's corpse lying on the ground with blood red and muscle tissue exposed, and he didn't react at all.

Chen Ming put on his own bark and glanced at this side without any emotion. "Who told her to be lazy."

"What do you mean!"

"If you want to block the attack for yourself, the bark will naturally have to be cut by yourself. What is obtained through 'cheating', of course, is not counted. ”

“…… You already knew that, didn't you? You already knew! The companion lowered her head and didn't want to believe that the people who had been with her for so many trials had died because of this kind of thing, she suddenly raised her head and glared at Chen Ming, her eyes were covered with bloodshot blood. She's going to die because of you! You're going to pay the price! ”

"Don't be stupid, I didn't know it at first, I only came to this conclusion after she died." Chen Ming sighed, "Besides, that woman was originally the one who chose to stay at the beginning, and she didn't run back on those hind feet, she had time to peel off a skin by herself, but because of your indulgence, you didn't do it, shouldn't you find the reason yourself?" But it's already happening, and I advise you to think about how you're going to survive at this time. ”

The companion froze in place, not knowing what he was thinking.

After confirming that Ye Qing was unharmed from the bark, Qiu Xuan glanced at this side when he heard this.

“…… Want to help? Ye Qing asked with some hesitation, Qiu Xuan looked at Chen Ming, who nodded at her.

"Guys, the people who have confirmed that they are safe can help them block it and buy them a little time. We're a testing ground for cooperation, and to help now is to help ourselves. Chen Ming said this, completely like the calm and outstanding leader in his memory.

At the same time, there are ambitions.

Qiu Xuan remembered that night when Chen Ming knelt in front of the Buddha statue and prayed, and silently walked up to an executioner who came back from the back foot to block her from cutting down the tree, and did not comment.

The chaos was figured out at the cost of the death of one executioner, and after half an hour, the remaining surviving executioners all floughed off the bark and saved themselves from the disaster. Once they were safe, they spent some more time releasing the students from the barrier one by one, forcing them to finish the bark themselves, and at this point, there were no more casualties in the crowd.

The skinning demons looked around each other in a dazed manner as they tore the last bark of the tree in the snatch. The two sunken eyes of the blood hole swept over the crowd without squinting, but they did not find their target, so they disappeared into the woods one by one with boning knives.

“…… What if we do it again, but this time we pick a ghost and put it on fake 'bark'? ”

Qiu Xuan crossed her arms and stared at the disappearing figures of the demons for a while, as if muttering to herself, these words were heard by Chen Ming, and the capable and decisive woman glanced back at her. "It's better not to try, I feel like something bad is going to happen."

She paused as she said and looked at Qiu Xuan. "By the way, there is one thing I have always wanted to ask you, which god gave you the red cloth in your hand before......"

Chen Ming's words were interrupted by a burst of hysteria that completely collapsed.

People searched for prestige and found a female executioner on her knees and crying.

"What's wrong?"

"It's over, it's over...... It's all over, who would have thought that peeling bark would be of this use! She knelt there alone and had an emotional breakdown, and after a few inquiries, she intermittently explained that people probably understood the previous situation.

It turned out that when this girl fell asleep yesterday, the villagers took her to cut down the tree, and she couldn't get the point of cutting for a while, and she couldn't stand the creepiness of those gas masks and infiltrating matchmakers staring at her in the dark, so she had the idea of giving up. What she didn't expect was that the villagers acquiesced to her approach, and no one forced her to peel the bark, so at that time, the girl was ecstatic and got on the motorcycle again empty-handed.

"It's all over, I'm going to die, I'm going to die tonight!" She cried bitterly, "Just like the woman who killed the chicken that day!" They're going to skin me and I'm going to die! ”

The executioners present were all silent, indeed, judging from the current situation, the "next stop" of the convoy in the dream was to go to the tomb buried under the back mountain. And according to today's situation, the villagers must know how to deal with those skinning monsters, so they will collectively cut down the trees first. The fact that this girl didn't cut down the tree meant that tonight, or tomorrow night, she would die at the hands of the skinners in the pool of blood.

"I don't want to die, I don't want to ...... That's right, that's right, I just don't dream, I just don't fall asleep, I don't fall asleep! She said as if she was soothing herself, and she was talking to herself a little nervously. Anyway, there are only three days left until the wedding, and I can live without sleeping for three days...... Yes, yes, I can live, live......"

"If you don't sleep for more than two days, your existence will be obliterated." Qiu Xuan still opened her mouth to pierce her last illusion, "Do you remember the man named Jiang Li before, he died like this." I do have an idea, but I'm not sure, it's just a proposal. You can try to go into the temple today to worship the gods. ”

Chen Ming's pupils constricted and glanced at her, as if he didn't understand why she could so easily tell the method of getting the red cloth in front of everyone.

"Afu." Chen Ming's face was not very good-looking, and Qiu Xuan glanced at her and smiled meaninglessly.

"As long as you are pious enough, and then say two more prayers symbolically, then the 'gods' in the temple will give you a life amulet, which is the red cloth I gave." Facing the eyes of the girl kneeling on the ground as if grasping a life-saving straw, Qiu Xuan continued. "Normally, you are a woman, and in the 'reality' of the day, what you see should be the male Buddha. I'm not sure if it's useful to worship the idol during the day, but you can try, after all, you're at your end now. ”

Normally, in the "real world", female executioners see male Buddhas.

Only in the case of dreams, what is seen is the opposite, it is a female evil god.

And if the male executioner is the exact opposite, he sees a woman in reality and a man in a dream.

This law is only conjectured by Qiu Xuan according to the situation of most people so far, and it may not be completely correct. And now, because there are only two people who got the red cloth of the key clues, Qiu Xuan and Chen Ming, the number of people is too small, so she can't be sure whether what the woman gave is right, or the man is right.

Or both are true.

She was in dire need of someone to verify it right now, so it didn't hurt to tell them about it.

"You don't have to worry about that." Qiu Xuan stood beside Chen Ming, who had a gloomy face, and whispered. "Sooner or later, they will find out how to get the cloth. But you're still getting the head start, after all, your red cloth has already been sent to make a wedding dress, haven't you? ”

Chen Ming looked back at her, his face was full of inexplicable emotions.

……

The group once again came to the land in the back mountain, and they were silent with each other and only made eye contact, and no one was willing to stand up and be the first to come up with an idea.

I managed to survive the skinners, but who knows if I'll find something else if I dig so deep?

"Let's jump straight down."

In the crowd, Shen Jingxue snorted, compared to the solemnity on the faces of the rest of the people, he was as relaxed as if he was traveling with a large army.

"Jump? Where to jump? ”

"Aren't there only two holes in the ground?" Shen Jingxue spread out her hands, "One of them was blown up for the first time, and it has been verified that taking this road is a dead end, and now there is only one left to jump." ”

The hole he said was the second pool of blood that had been opened.

When the crowd realized this, they all scolded, and Shen Jingxue leaned against the side with a nonchalant expression, watching with great interest as if these people changed from scolding him to scolding each other, as if this bad idea was not proposed by him.

In fact, Qiu Xuan thinks it is feasible.

This hole was originally calculated to be the location of the lower ear chamber, but it was unlucky to open a pool of blood that could give birth to skinning demons. Now that they have a natural protective shield because of the bark of the tree, it is only a matter of disgusting to go down from this hole into the ground.

"I'll get down." She was the first to raise her hand and wrap a rope around her waist with the expressions of "it's crazy" on the faces of some people.

"Are you alright?" Qin Jiuyuan asked in a low voice, Qiu Xuan knew that he was talking about vomiting, after all, it was going to go down through a piece of blood that was unpleasant to think about.

She raised her hand towards the other party, and in the palm of her hand was a heart purification charm opened by Shen Jingxue.

In fact, it's a pure heart talisman, but it's better to see a ghost of the Ann Fetus. Qiu Xuan pinched the pale yellow rune paper and his expression distorted for a moment, but he still endured his breath and stuck it on his forehead like a cool piece.

She didn't dare to tell Qin Jiuyuan, for fear that he would not be able to control it for a while, and directly rushed into the evil god temple to blow up the shrine. After all, who would have thought of this kind of thing, but she couldn't stand it even if she thought about it herself, not to mention the spirit, and the child was born out of thin air without knowing it.

This matter must be resolved as soon as possible.

"I'll go down too."

"Okay."

Qiu Xuan turned her head to look at Ye Qing, "Are you going, I suggest not for the time being, and you will go down when we come back from exploring the path." Of course, but if it were your own idea, I wouldn't stop it. ”

Ye Qing was silent for a while, but still said, "I'll wait for you here." ”

"Then I won't go down either." Shen Jingxue smiled inexplicably, "You have to come back alive." ”

In the end, in addition to Qiu Xuan and Qin Jiuyuan, among them, there were Chen Ming, Qiao Erji and an unfamiliar executioner, a total of five people. In order to avoid the situation last time, they didn't dare to let the students follow the path again, so they could only hope that this time they could successfully discover the tomb, and then send the students directly and safely to realize their dreams next time, and send them out of the village to end everything after they were done.

This time, too, the same formation was taken from the last time when the rope was tied into a string.

When tying the rope, Chen Ming glanced at Qiu Xuan. "Do you want to hit the head?"

"I ......"

Qin Jiuyuan: "She doesn't want it." ”

Qiu Xuan: "Yes, I don't want to." ”

Chen Ming: ...... Tut.

The final formation was lined up in the order of Chen Ming, the unfamiliar executioner, Qiao Erji, Qiu Xuan, and Qin Jiuyuan. Qiu Xuan is the penultimate one, and she can see the movements of the person in front of her clearly, at least she can have a reminder effect after the person in front of her suddenly disappears.

She thought so, and as she descended down the inner wall in a familiar motion once more, she seemed to vaguely see Giorgi in front of her, the man from the frontier world who was accustomed to future artillery, and with a movement of his wrist pulled out a small musket.

The kind that will explode.

"I advise you not to use this weapon here." Behind Jorgie, Qiu Xuan spoke quietly, almost startling the people who were about to get used to the dead silence around them. "Even if you don't know the form of this world, they always saw it when they blew up the thief hole before. In the event of an explosion and a collapse under such a layer of soil, even we will not survive. ”

Jorgie's descending back seemed to be frozen for a second, and after a while, he said sullenly: "I just took it out just in case, do you need to be so guarded?" ”

"Just in case? If you do run into something dirty, aren't you going to open fire? ”

"I'm too lazy to tell you."

He muttered, but then withdrew his musket. And the three people in front of Chen Ming didn't know if they heard their conversation or not, and they didn't squeak.

Qiu Xuan began to have the subtle feeling she had when she last fell.

n.