"I'll think of another way when the time comes."

Ziyu's voice trembled a little, she suddenly glanced behind her, her body was frozen in the flying snowflakes, but her neck and back were still straight, like a proud swan.

"What's wrong?" Xu Chong followed her line of sight, and in his field of vision, there were only white snow flakes, crisscrossing and intertwining into a chaotic painting, "Ziyu, what do you see?" ”

Ziyu shook his head slightly, but there was still doubt in his voice, "It's nothing, I just seem to have heard something, no, it's going to molt at this time...... You can't go wrong with ......."

She turned her head, her eyebrows and eyelashes were stained with snowflakes, which made her whole person even more dusty, "No matter, let's go in quickly, the snow is getting heavier and heavier, and it will be even more difficult to pass if you delay any longer." ”

Listening to her words, Xu Chong didn't hesitate any longer, he nodded at her, pinned the sword to his waist, grabbed the stone wall with both hands, and jumped forward lightly, burrowing into the narrow gap. Ziyu followed, also into the gap, the two of them walked sideways, their steps were extremely fast, stepping on the snow, making a "creaking" sound.

"Wait a minute." After walking for about a quarter of an hour, Ziyu turned her head again, her hands propped up on the rocks, her chest rose and fell vigorously, and the white breath she exhaled confused Xu Chong's eyes.

"What is it?" Xu Chong listened to her chaotic breath and lowered his voice and asked, "Is it chasing it?" ”

"I smell it, but I can't see it." Ziyu seemed to be muttering to herself, and the back of her white neck was covered with fine beads of sweat, even in such cold weather.

"What to do? We're less than halfway there, do we go back or keep going? Xu Chong felt that at this moment, he could only listen to Ziyu, because he didn't know how the monster would attack, he looked back and forth: such a narrow gap, it looked like it was full of brains, even if it came in, what could it do?

"The smell of it is gone, keep walking." Ziyu said this unhurriedly, but his hand pushed towards Xu Chong's waist and urged, "Hurry up, don't stop." ”

Xu Chong continued to move forward as he said, but as he walked, he found that every step he took was full of hardships. The two stone walls clamped him tighter and tighter, not only could he no longer bend his knees, but even his sternum was squeezed, causing his breathing to become rapid.

The gap between the stone walls narrowed, just as he expected, and it was only open, and he even suspected that the two stone walls would be completely squeezed together at the end, leaving them with no chance of life.

"Ziyu, the front is getting narrower and narrower, and I can't move anymore, maybe it's too late to retreat now."

Xu Chong was about to turn back as he spoke, but before he could turn his head, his outstretched hand in front of him suddenly touched something, sharp and hard, cutting his fingers.

"Bones."

With years of experience in handling cases, these two words popped up in Xu Chong's mind at once, but before more ideas could pop up, the thing in front of him made a "bang" sound and fell on him.

Xu Chong guessed correctly, it was a pile of yellowed human bones, it was originally sandwiched in the stone wall, but now when he touched it, it fell down violently, and the skull, arms, ribs, and all kinds of small bones that had been shattered, all rushed towards Xu Chong and smashed on him, emitting a rotten smell.

"What is it?" Ziyu was taken aback and clenched Xu Chong's hand.

Xu Chong reluctantly smiled at her as if comforting, "It should be the person you said who was killed by the stone wall, although the person is dead, the corpse is left here, and it has turned into a dry skeleton in the wind and rain." Speaking of this, he licked his dry lips and said softly, "Ziyu, the front is getting narrower and narrower, I'm afraid that if we walk up for a while, we will be like him, trapped forever by the mountains and rocks, it's better to ......"

"I have a way." Ziyu's eyes were bright, like two stars on the dark sky.

"What can you do?" Xu Chong was stunned for a moment, he really didn't know what other way out they had besides withdrawing.

"Xu Chong, in fact, I ...... I'm ......."

Ziyu's voice was drowned out by a rustling sound, which came from the stone wall above their heads, as if something was crawling down, and occasionally some gravel fell from above, smashing on the shoulders of the two of them.

Xu Chong and Ziyu raised their heads at the same time, the snow was too big, fascinating the eyes of the two, so they couldn't see clearly what was on it. However, Ziyu had already guessed that her body trembled, let go of Xu Chong's hand, raised her head upward, and made a posture to face the battle.

"Be careful, it's coming."

When he heard this, a gust of wind passed through the stone wall and swept away the flying snowflakes, and Xu Chong finally saw it and saw the true face of the thing. Although he had made countless conjectures and nightmares in his heart, all he could imagine was nothing more than a monster with a blue face and fangs.

However, when he faced it in earnest, Xu Chong suddenly realized that his imagination as a human being was so poor.

It was a cicada that had shed half of its skin, about ten feet long, and two pairs of transparent membranous wings rubbed against the rocks, making a "rustling" sound.

The head of the giant cicada is wide and short, and the compound eyes are well-developed and prominent, like two raised mirrors. The whisker-like antennae divide into seven segments and gently shake in the cold wind.

Xu Chong knew that what he saw in Wanjia was it, the two compound eyes bigger than the palms of his hands were once regarded by him as a shining mirror, and now, the "mirror" is getting closer and closer to him, so close that he can clearly see the figures of himself and Ziyu reflected above. But his attention was not on them, he stared at the "mouth" of the giant cicada, the slender tube stretching and shrinking above, the sharp and cold light of the front end as if it could easily pierce his skull.

"Is this what it really is?" Xu Chong clenched his fists, "This is the nightmare that has haunted me for decades. ”

"This is a strange custom left by the ancients, since the Warring States period, there is such a saying, if you want to calm the dead, you must put cicadas in the mouth of the dead. Whether it is a high-ranking official or a common person, he must do this after death. ”

Ziyu bit his lower lip and let go again, "It's the cicada in the mouth of the dead." ”