You may not believe it, but that night, Qiu Xuan was in the woods in the back mountain, in the eyes of the surrounding matchmakers and villagers, and peeled the bark of the tree for two hours.

It wasn't that she had noticed anything suspicious or was deliberately delaying time, but to tell the truth, she had meant to do so, but after trying to peel off a whole piece of bark with the clumsy machete, she lost her temper completely.

Those villagers brought her here, and there was no black-hearted factory owner to escort her to do hard labor, these people not only turned a blind eye to Qiu Xuan's action of peeling off a single bark for an hour, but instead moved in twos and threes by themselves. Qiu Xuan took advantage of the opportunity to cut down the tree and glanced to the side, and saw that they were also peeling the bark.

The villagers seemed to be much more skilled than she was, wielding their knives and arms as if they were accustomed to it, but in a few strokes, a full bark was peeled off from the trunk a few inches upwards. The first to finish carried the bark on his shoulder, and then stood aside and watched the other villagers work, not speaking or helping to cooperate.

Everyone after that was like this, and when it was the last man's turn, he put away his knife and walked over to stand with the crowd.

The situation became that all the villagers stood on the side with the infiltrating matchmaker and watched Qiu Xuan chop the bark of the tree.

Qiu Xuan: ...... Tut.

She took the rough machete again and moved cautiously for a while, either cutting too much or cutting it somewhere. Originally, he was ready for the villagers to be impatient and angry, but he didn't expect that after nearly half an hour, no one spoke.

Qiu Xuan couldn't help but look back again at the expressionless people standing in a row, each wearing the kind of crude gas masks with weird graffiti on their faces, and their hands were empty, just hanging down and standing straight.

Normally, when a person does not have anything in his hand and stands, unless he is a specially trained soldier or police officer, he or she will not choose to stand straight and stiff. Those villagers, their temperament and demeanor are not upright and powerful, but more like a kind of dummy with stiff joints.

Qiu Xuan glanced at it, thought about it, left the poor tree that had been cut into pits, and stood up as if he was leaving. No one stopped her, and the gas mask at the head didn't say anything, and walked straight to the modified motorcycle with his own bark on his shoulder.

Looks like it's going to the next stop.

She raised her hands in a stretching gesture, then crouched back down to cut down the tree.

Villager: "......"

Although according to the current situation, the "tree cutting" link will not trigger death, even if she is impatient and wants to leave, no one will stop her at all.

It's just that each of the villagers took the bark, although I don't know what it was used for, so it should be right to get insurance first.

It's better than dying because of the lack of key props.

So, Qiu Xuan squatted in the night, from the beginning because of the exposure to the floating darkness in front of her, the cold hair stood under the watchful eye of the matchmaker, to the numb mentality. With a machete, he peeled the bark for an hour, and then spent another hour cutting off the heart of the tree.

At this moment, she was extremely nostalgic for her physical fitness that had been transformed by a desperate situation, and in just over two hours, the tiger's mouth holding the knife had already cracked a small opening, not to mention the blood blisters on the fingers of her palms.

Qiu Xuan bared her teeth and tied the clanderly bark that had been peeled off to her shoulders like a villager, while trying to carry the trunk. And this time, the gas masks finally stopped pretending to be deaf and dumb, and several people came up and worked together to erect the trunk of the tree she had cut down and tied it to two modified motorcycles. They confiscated Qiu Xuan's machete and put her in the car like a tree trunk, and the convoy was back in the darkness of the night.

……

"Wake up."

Qiu Xuan opened her eyes, and unsurprisingly saw a familiar face again.

She sat up from her bunk, glanced around, and was once again surprised to find that the floor was all empty. "I have a question, why am I the last one to wake up every time? Also, I didn't call your name this time. ”

"This time a man next door died." Qin Jiuyuan sat on the floor next to him, and when he heard this, he paused, and it seemed that the expression on his face was still very serious.

He asked, "Why don't you call me by name?" ”

Qiu Xuan: "I don't even remember such a thing. ”

"Tut-tut." The man in front of him shook his head, and his face was full of "stinky scumbag deceived his feelings and didn't admit it", Qiu Xuan ...... Qiu Xuan didn't see it.

It was a male executioner in the next room who died on this day.

By the way, speaking of which, they have confirmed with the students separately in the past few days that the local aboriginal students, including the professor named Lu Sheng, will not fall asleep. "Falling asleep" is just a special requirement for executioners in this proving ground, and in a way, it also gives them a chance.

And the skinned schoolgirl who died on the first night was not because she was pulled into a dream, but because she went out at night because she didn't believe in evil and was curious.

- I don't know what I met in the dark in the end.

People gathered around the corpse that was produced tonight, and the skin on the corpse had also been peeled off, so everyone speculated that this person had not survived the dream at night. And Qiu Xuan probably made it clear at a glance that there were slight differences in the knife wound on the corpse, and he was not killed in a dream, but by someone.

Misha killed, she succeeded, and in order to avoid suspicion, she made a skinning appearance that was no different from a ghost killing.

The rebels died.

Behind the bald man's corpse, Qiu Xuan glanced at Misha from afar through the crowd, the performer's master wiping tears from his eyes and panicking because of the fact that "his protector is dead". Noticing her gaze, he blinked lightly in this direction.

Finally there is a good thing.

Qiu Xuan only stayed in the room for a while and then withdrew, in order to prevent nausea and nausea, oh, it should be said now, "morning sickness".

Sooner or later, the Xie family will be destroyed.

She rolled her eyes violently, returned to the bunk where there was still warmth before dawn, and slept for a while without dreams.

Daytime, morning.

"Where did you get yesterday?"

The thunder could not move, and the group once again set foot on the road to the back mountain. It's just that this time, many people are still in the shadow of yesterday's skinning ghost, and they are cautious and do not hesitate to bring all the weapons and props they hide in the bungalow into the space, for fear that today's nightmare will continue yesterday.

Qiu Xuan asked a few words, Ye Qing and several other female executioners had the same experience as herself, but most of them were stuck in the step of peeling the bark and cutting down the tree. It's not just that Qiu Xuan can't do this job because he has no experience, in fact, most people let him cut down a whole hugging tree for the first time, and he really can't do it for a while.

As for those male executioners, according to Shen Jingxue's speech, they are still worshipping in the church.

"So you're putting on the 'groom' perspective?" Qiu Xuan said, "Have you seen the bride's face clearly?" ”

Shen Jingxue: "There is an angle that I really see." ”

"It's beautiful, I can't describe it, it's just that kind of feeling of 'beautiful'. Because her whole face seemed to be hidden behind a layer of fog, she could only vaguely feel the concept of 'beautiful'. The rest is nothing, but I feel that everyone in the auditorium doesn't seem to be happy. ”

This is a bit strange, Qiu Xuan also took the perspective of the bride in the chapel when she first entered the memory. But whether it was the church at that time, or every dream after that, she never saw the appearance of the role of "groom".

Is it because the two dreams are not connected? But who does the couple who got married in the dream, and even the bride's perspective that he substitutes every time, belong to?

As she pondered, she saw a few people walking in front of her suddenly stop.

The team also stopped, and Chen Mingwu, who took the lead, stared at the woods on the side of the road for a while. Qiu Xuan withdrew from her thoughts and looked in the direction of the area, and then found that this was the place where the villagers had brought her over to cut down trees last night.

"Let's peel some bark and take it with us." Chen Ming said.

"Huh? Why do you have to hurry, it's so time-consuming! ”

"This thing is still physically demanding, what if I run into those skinners from yesterday again?"

"I think that's a key clue." Even if he was questioned in front of someone, Chen Ming's words were still calm, "This is the conclusion I came to through yesterday's 'dream', anyway, I'm going to try it here, if there are people who don't want to, then take the first step, don't force it." ”

Misha took the opportunity to step forward and twitch the ride, "You—can you take me with you...... I promise not to hold back! ”

Qiu Xuan: She looks really happy when she acts.

Chen Ming nodded slightly, acquiescing to the addition of this "newcomer" who had just lost the guide.

"I think it's doable, too." Qiu Xuan said, "It just so happens that it should be much more convenient to peel the bark now than at night, and it can also be verified from this to why those people want to come to the back mountain." ”

Ye Qing also agreed.

So the four of them stayed behind, and the team was once again divided into two groups, with a relatively average number of half and half people. Some of the people who left thought it was nonsense, and some thought that the two were not related and wasted time, and the thoughts of the people who stayed were almost the same as Qiu Xuan.

"Listening to your dreams seem to be exciting, we are bored, just horseback riding, socializing, worshipping and so on. I really envy you. Shen Jingxue squatted there without any image to speak of, holding a knife to buckle the bark, and she didn't know if she was saying this with a lack of fighting or something. There were several female executioners in the team who stayed behind who were glaring at him, probably scolding in their hearts why they didn't kill this stinky man in their dreams.

Qiu Xuan also thought so, didn't say anything at the moment, and sped up in his hand to peel off the bark.

Maybe it's because she has a hands-on experience, or maybe it's because her physical fitness is back, her handicraft work this time is completed quickly and well (?). ）。

Originally, I weighed the near-perfect bark twice, looked at the hard work of the people around me, and wanted to help, but then after thinking about it, I still stopped where I was and didn't do it.

There were several pairs of allied executioners next to each other to help each other finish it qiu xuan squatted beside ye qing to teach her which direction to knife more conveniently, at this moment, there were several noises in the woods in the back mountain deep in.

A few people were like a great enemy in an instant, and a executioner took the lead in erecting a protective barrier and drove several students inside, and saw that the people who ran in this direction and rushed to the front were actually the people who were one step ahead of them.

"Those, those skinners, here they are again!"

Everyone was instantly alert, Qiu Xuan pursed her lower lip, and with a lift of her hand, she draped her bark on her body, and at the same time, the Zimu knife was also unsheathed.

Behind the crowd, sure enough, there was a dense group of skin-peeling demons with blood-red bodies with hand-held boning knives.

"Who the hell opened the pool of blood again? Said be careful, if you have to blow up, just blow it up? Next time, it will be okay to change to someone with a lucky bonus to position it! ”

"This time it has nothing to do with the pool of blood, as soon as we people get to the place, the hole that was blocked last time will open again! Blood is coming out again, and you can't stop it! ”

"What then? As long as these ghosts are there, won't they be able to go down to the tomb for the rest of their lives? ”

"Solve the immediate problem first, and then think about it later!"

This time, they had a little experience, and first drew some of their strength to strengthen a relatively strong barrier for the students. As for whether this barrier can be supported in the back, it is uncertain.

Qiu Xuan stood between the skinners with two knives in his hand, and hesitated for a second.

She stood there and paused for three seconds, a time that was extremely dangerous for a scene where the skin was peeling open without paying attention. Ye Qing looked like she was about to yell at her, but in the next second, the tip of a sharp boning knife stabbed straight at Qiu Xuan's scalp.

"Don't move yet."

Qiu Xuan stood in place and whispered to Qin Jiuyuan, who rushed over to the side. She held the knife in one hand, ready to retreat, and watched as the sharp tip of the knife poked into the tip of her scalp.

There is no pain.

Peeling off and down the surface of the sharp knife was the bark that she had temporarily held on her head.

The evil ghost who peeled off the "skin" was so surprised that he threw his sharp knife and tried to pierce the bark on his body, and then a familiar scene unfolded. Its diminutive stature was quickly torn apart by its swarming kind, and the bark was broken into pieces in the snatching.

And Qiu Xuan, holding the knife, stood in place, and countless skinners rushed in front of and behind her, but none of them came to attack her. It's as if for them, Qiu Xuan's "skin" is gone, so this person no longer has meaning in their eyes.

The executioners who chose to stay and cut down the trees around them were pleasantly surprised to see this scene. Those who did not stay before were full of remorse.

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