In the darkness of the night, a bonfire is lit.

At the head of the fence of the nameless village continues to lie on their stomachs and watch the bustle. As the village head, the 'little old man' poked his head into a distance, and saw several piles of flames lit in the direction of the village's firewood house, and the firelight shrouded the surrounding distance of dozens of meters, illuminating the village itself.

"These lords are really unusual, what do they use to light the fire?" A villager armed with a bow and arrow muttered.

After the initial contact with the traversers, the mentality of the people in the village towards these foreign masters has undergone a certain change. It doesn't matter if there are few people on the other party, or if you feel that the other party is easy to bully, in short, it is not as afraid as when you first met, and even have some distractions. For example, at night, the people also hoped that the village would provide food, but the village did not provide fish and meat, only some sweet potatoes; When they lit a fire at night, they also wanted to sell the fire sickle for a good price.

Didn't you provide a good dinner, and the crowd didn't speak. As a fellow traveler, Stone rolled up his trousers and ran to the creek next to the village, where he stabbed a few live fish with a crude wooden spear. The two doctors in the team, Deng Zhihong of surgery and Yu Hongyang of internal medicine, are on duty in the health center, and now they can also identify and collect some wild fruits in the mountains and forests to come back for food.

Dinner was even more sumptuous than lunch.

As for the objects that were lit at night, the traversers didn't even want to ask the people in the village for them. Many of them smoked, and the lighters they carried with them became old-fashioned kerosene lighters. Just such a detail, when they can light a fire with a few dings, which is more convenient than using a fire sickle, many people in the village are even more surprised.

In crossing the crowd, Zhou Qingfeng did not have any special preferential treatment as an ordinary member. He stood behind the lit bonfire, letting the light of the fire sway and jump in his face—as night fell, there was a dead silence around the village, and the inky darkness invaded, and the human eye could only see the dozens of meters of the fire.

The population of the nameless village is small, and in order to reduce the difficulty of defense, the village has a small construction area, and only some minor buildings can be built outside the fence, and the firewood house is one of them. In the vicinity of the firewood house are open fields and thin fields, and a small river flows near the firewood house, and during the day, the crowd clears the surrounding weeds so as not to obstruct the view.

Zhou Qingfeng is very glad that he is not crossing alone, otherwise he would be alone and would still be spinning in the mountains and forests nine times out of ten. There is team cooperation and division of labor, which can give him quite intimate support. People in modern society have the habit of living in groups, which is nothing special at first glance, but once they encounter difficulties, it is instinct to hold together.

"Boy Zhou, your dinner." Xu Li came over with a wooden bowl in her hand.

There was grilled fish and sweet potatoes in the bowl, and a bunch of wild fruits, still without salt. Zhou Qingfeng grabbed the bunch of wild fruits that looked like grapes and asked, "What is this?" ”

"The two doctors said it was Schisandra, and they had already tried to make sure it wasn't poisonous anyway." Xu Li said.

Schisandra is sweet and sour, and it is very appetizing. Zhou Qingfeng ate all the food in the bowl in three clicks and two clicks, and drank a wild vegetable soup. The taste of the soup is not very good, it is said that there are dandelions in it, and the two doctors said that at this time, the medicinal soup that can improve the body's immunity, everyone does not talk nonsense, and obediently drinks it - life matters, no one wants to die of illness.

"Sister Xu, you have a fever and need to rest more." Zhou Qingfeng said as he handed back the wooden bowl.

"Sister is not stupid, sister doesn't want to be a waster." Xu Li chuckled twice, and scolded unhappily: "It's your kid who is damaged enough, and if you learn any spell, you will come to harm my sister and me." Anyway, if you want to be a scourge, you will scourge to the end, so I still don't have a man I can rely on. ”

Xu Li turned around and left angrily, but Zhou Qingfeng knew that she was not scolding herself, but Guo Jiaming. It took half a day for the suitor to change his mind, no longer focusing on taking care of the only woman in the team, but instead with a tone of 'everyone is equal and living in harmony'.

Small groups that can't stand internal contradictions. It is also a good thing that Xu Li can be self-reliant and self-reliant, and it is also good that other men in the team are happy to see this situation, and they will take care of her a little bit. Otherwise, there is a sick and delicate lady in the team, and there will be big trouble.

As night falls, the temperature in the mountains drops sharply, and the cold night breeze blows. Zhou Qingfeng deliberately stayed at a bonfire outside the firewood house, because no one in the team had enough clothes, and everyone was quite cold before opening the space-time island in the middle of the night.

"Xiao Zhou, give." After Xu Li left, Stone ran over. He handed it over with a wooden spear in his hand. This fellow traveler is now the backbone of the team, and if it weren't for him, the rest of the team would have suffered. "One for each person, the ghost is really going to come later, but you must bear it."

Stone used to carry a folding knife with him, and all the tools and weapons in his hands were made from his folding knife. Zhou Qingfeng took the wooden spear and weighed it in his hand, the wooden spear didn't know what wood was made of, the weight was not light, the spearhead was roasted with fire, it was jet black, "Stone, thank you." ”

Although they are teachers in the same school, Zhou Qingfeng is not familiar with Shi Stone. Modern society is indifferent, but now twelve people are getting closer to each other in order to survive.

Stone was busy, with a dirty face. was praised by Zhou Qingfeng, he grinned and waved his hand and left, but after taking a few steps, he fled back with a whining, shouting, "Such a big ghost ran out, are you blind?" ”

The sudden voice in the night frightened Zhou Qingfeng's heart, and he grabbed the wooden spear and stood up. He looked from the direction from which Stone had fled, and saw something black crawling on the ground, and when he looked closely, a terrifying corpse with cracked lips and teeth, protruding eyes, and festering skin had climbed ashore from the direction of the village river, approaching with traces of water.

This thing climbed up from the water silently, and as soon as it appeared, Stone was frightened and ran away. Zhou Qingfeng still wanted to settle down, but he smelled a strong corpse smell coming to his face, and the middle man wanted to vomit. The brains of the two of them suddenly buzzed, and their minds of resistance were smoked away by the stench, and they ran backwards together in a panic. Zhou Qingfeng even threw away the wooden spear in his hand.

The two of them ran back more than ten meters, and they heard Gu Qianshan, who was guarding the firewood roof, yell, "You two bastards, if Lao Tzu has a gun, he will shoot you." Give me a way to go back and find a way to block it. The other groups should not panic and pay attention to their respective warning areas so as not to be attacked by the enemy from other directions. Reserves, support Zhou Qingfeng's side. ”

Gu Qianshan's arrangement did not make Zhou Qingfeng stop immediately, he shouted heart-rending at the firewood house: "That ghost corpse stinks, people can't stand up at all, and the smoke is smoked to death." ”

In order to facilitate the command, Gu Qianshan stood on the top of the firewood house. Hearing Zhou Qingfeng say that it stinks, he also realized that his side lacked experience, and he was blind when he encountered specific problems. It's just that it won't work if you don't go up now, he scolded Zhou Qingfeng and Shi Dong again that they were not allowed to retreat, they had to go up, and then lowered his head and shouted to Xu Li, who was panicked in the firewood house: "Get a few pieces of cloth dipped in water and cover the nose of the person in front." ”

How many pieces of cloth do you get? Xu Li looked at the empty firewood house, there was nowhere to provide her with fabric. It's just that now the enemy is present, the people outside can't stand it, and the people in the firewood house are also dead. She gritted her teeth and sneered a few times, tore the corners of her clothes and soaked them in water, and then ran out to give them to Zhou Qingfeng and the others.

When they ran outside, they saw the gray-faced Zhou Qingfeng and Shi Dong finally stopped running away. The two of them grabbed a torch out of nowhere, and hurried in the direction where the ghost was crawling. The two doctors who were in reserve hurriedly came with wooden spears and stood side by side with Zhou Qingfeng and Shi Stone.

Through the gap between the four men, Xu Li saw the crawling ghost. Rotting and blackened faces, bare pus-drenched limbs, and a disgusting stench of corpses. All this made people's scalp tingle, especially the smell of corpses surging in the wind, she immediately regurgitated, her chest was suffocated, it was difficult to breathe, and she was nauseous and bent over and vomited.

It's just that after spitting out, Xu Li couldn't retreat, she covered her mouth and nose first, and then ran up and shouted at Zhou Qingfeng and the others: "Hold on, I'll cover your nose for you." ”

Dozens of meters away at the head of the village wall, several villagers were screaming in fear, even from a distance they were trembling. Someone cried with teeth: "It's the mount of the King of the Mountain, it's the water ghost." It has come to eat our people again, and it has come again to ask us to make offerings. ”

The villagers' performance was not much better than that of Zhou Qingfeng and others, they even panicked with fear, and many of them had wandering eyes and were about to collapse. However, as the village head, the 'little old man' viciously copied a rusty knife and scolded: "No one is allowed to run, this time it is the turn of the mother-in-law to feed the water ghost?" It's the daughter-in-law of the Sizhu family, we've raised her for a few months, and it's time for her to hit the road. ”

Immediately, someone in the villagers howled and knelt down, knocking the wooden planks on the wall, "Uncle, please be kind, my daughter-in-law is pregnant with my seed." You can spare her, so that she can give birth to the baby in a few months. ”

But the 'little old man' said with a grim face: "Don't talk nonsense, pull your daughter-in-law out and talk about it." If the water ghost eats the old man outside and leaves, your daughter-in-law will naturally be able to live, but if the water ghost is not satisfied, it is your daughter-in-law's life is not good, and you still have to send her on the road. You see that those old men outside are not afraid, what are you afraid of? ”

The fence at the head of the village shouted to the heavens and the earth, and I was afraid to death. Zhou Qingfeng, who was facing the water ghost, was not afraid at the moment, but he was afraid that there was no way out. He only had a torch stained with resin in his hand, and he emboldened himself by waving it. He would hate himself for throwing away the wooden spear for Mao, so that he couldn't even distance himself from the water ghost.

The water ghost crawling on the ground is very large, it seems to be clumsy and not fast, but as soon as it gets close, it will suddenly jump up and pounce on it with a strong corpse stench. It is extremely powerful, and its swinging arms can easily block the wooden spear, like a nightmare in a nightmare, 10,000 times more terrifying than the ghosts in horror movies.

"Be careful."

"Pounced."

"I resisted it."

"Oops, this thing has so much strength!"

"Throw the torch on it, and the two of them grab a wooden spear against it."

"Oops, this thing broke my wooden spear."

As the water spirit leaped and pounced, two four-meter-long wooden spears became the last barrier to stop it. When the spearhead stabbed into the water ghost's chest, the huge impact pushed the two doctors holding the wooden spear back again and again. Zhou Qingfeng saw this posture, and hurriedly threw the torch in his hand towards the water ghost, and together with Deng Zhihong beside him, he hugged the wooden spear and pushed it forward.

Shi Dong on the other end did the same, and also threw the torch and hugged the wooden spear with Yu Hongyang. In the face of the fear of death, the four great men roared in unison, "Flip it, overturn it, poke this ghost thing on the ground, poke it to death, don't let it move." ”

The water ghost that was resisted hissed and roared, and the claws on its arm swung at the wooden spear that Zhou Qingfeng was holding repeatedly, and the sawdust on the spear shaft flew wildly, and the spearhead broke after a while. The wooden spear was a little shorter, and Zhou Qingfeng and Deng Zhihong, who pushed forward together, suddenly rushed forward two steps.

What is called being in a hurry, what is called being in a mess, and what is called being careless, Zhou Qingfeng and the four of them successfully deduced all the meanings of the above idioms. At the moment when Zhou Qingfeng and Deng Zhihong rushed forward, the water ghost opened his mouth and spit out, and a tongue more than two meters long flew out of his terrifying big mouth and licked it, and a fishy breath spewed out at the same time, making people scatter.

As soon as the water ghost's tongue came out, the four big men finally couldn't bear it. Seeing the foul-smelling thing throwing it in their faces with slime, they immediately turned around and ran, without the will to sacrifice themselves heroically. But as they walked, they suddenly saw a figure rushing past them with a wooden spear in the opposite direction.

It's Xu Li.

Xu Li wanted to cover her mouth and nose with a strip of cloth dipped in water for Zhou Qingfeng and the others, but the four big men kept moving around holding the wooden spear, and she was busy in vain. She picked up the wooden spear that Zhou Qingfeng threw back and wanted to help, but she ran into Zhou Qingfeng and the four of them running away, but she went up alone with Jiao Yu.

The water ghost's tongue flung out and found nothing, so it straightened up and slowly withdrew its flying tongue. At this moment, I saw the tip of a spear swish over, and it just happened to stab into the water ghost's open mouth - the wooden spear stabbed the water ghost's rotten tongue, pierced the water ghost's stinky throat, and pierced the water ghost's fragile back of the head.

Running backwards, Zhou Qingfeng and the others realized that they should stop Xu Li and drag her back so as not to be eaten by ghosts. But when I looked back, the difficult water ghost was stabbed by a wooden spear at such an instant, fluttered a few times, and lay on the ground without moving.

It's simple and direct, but it's terrifying!

The villagers on the fence at the head of the village were dumbfounded, they all felt that those old men outside had to be killed by at least a few water ghosts, who would have thought that the 'official wife' they ignored the most would actually make a meritorious service.

It's just that the water ghost is completely finished, but the 'little old man' has no joy on his face, but says in horror: "It's over, we're in big trouble." ”