Fang Fan saw a woman sitting on the edge of the bed hiding her face and crying, her voice was not loud, but it was very penetrating. The man's broad back blocked the sunlight from the window, and there was a heavy musty smell in the humble room, and the other man sat at the table of the Eight Immortals and kept smoking. Fang Fan sat up hard, and the woman noticed Fang Fan's movement and hurriedly stepped forward to support him.

"Come on, the child is awake."

Fang Fan looked at the woman when he heard the voice, it was his mother, and the back by the window must be his father.

"Fan'er, you're finally awake. Ay... It's okay, it's okay. ”

Father gently patted Fang Fan's shoulder with a long sigh. He didn't know how to explain all this to his children, and the illusion that he had worked so hard for years must be no longer able to hide it. The man at the table of the Eight Immortals knocked the smoke pot on the leg of the table, and the heel of the cloth shoe had been stepped on, so he pulled it, and the cloth shoe made a hissing sound on the ground. The man stood beside his father, glanced at Fang Fan, and then pulled his father out and sat on the steps at the door.

"Brother, let's send Fan'er away. Even if they knew, it wouldn't matter, but I wasn't afraid of it. ”

"I've survived so many years, what are you afraid of. What worries me the most is that all these years of suffering have been in vain, and if the seeds are planted now, they will die violently on the spot. ”

Mother helped Fang Fan out of the back room, Fang Fan's body was still very weak, his face was pale, and he was weak to speak. Only then did Fang Fan see that the man beside his father was the one who opened the door for him when he knocked on the door that day.

"Who are you?"

"He's your second uncle."

"Oh, hello second uncle. I've heard what you're saying, and I'm not going to leave. I'm coming back to find out what's going on here, and to get you out of here. ”

Fang Fan almost fainted again, and his mother quickly helped him to the bed again. Fang Fan woke up when the sun set in the afternoon, and his spirit recovered a lot.

"Fan'er, tell me what you saw that night?"

Fang Fan told them what was going on in the tavern, and the three of them were dumbfounded when they heard it.

"You can see it too?"

"I can see it, but I can also touch it."

The second uncle was suspicious, Fang Fan had never been planted, so he was a mortal, so why did he see those evil ghosts? The second uncle grabbed Fang Fan's hand, and the two fingers merged and landed on Fang Fan's wrist, his brows twisted together.

"Second child, how's the situation?"

"The pulse is too chaotic, there is a breath in it that is beating constantly, and the strength is very strong, as if it is about to rush out."

"Second uncle, I have been poisoned before. After that, I felt an inexplicable power in my body, and when that power exploded, my eyes were blood-red, just like your eyes. ”

"It's time to come. Mortal, don't use that power again. This power does not grow with your body, but is imposed on you halfway, and if it is long it will drag down your body, and then you will die of exhaustion. ”

"My aunt tattooed me a strict mantra, saying that it can restrain the power in my body."

"Does it work?"

"I don't know yet."

The room was silent, and several people looked at each other with sorrowful eyes, and the footsteps of the late night came quietly.

Zhang Ze and Mo Zhu were hiding in a bush outside the town, they had actually arrived in Luoyun Town a long time ago, but in order to wait until it was dark before acting.

"Can't we go out yet? My ass was about to be bitten out of a mountain by mosquitoes. ”

Zhang Ze complained bitterly.

"What's the hurry, wait, the vigil hasn't returned yet."

"What is a wraith?"

"There is a wraith vigil every night in Falling Cloud Town, which they conjured up from the people who died before to welcome the outsiders who broke into the town."

"When will you go back?"

"The second half of the night."

"The second half of the night? If you're going to die, I'd better find a place to make it easier first. ”

People have three urgencies, Zhang Ze found a dark corner to pee quickly. Suddenly, he felt a little cold in his ankle, at first he thought that he had accidentally urinated on his shoes, and then the wind blew a little cold, but then he felt something wrapped around his ankle. Zhang Ze settled his mind and didn't shout, he shook it hard and broke free from the thing wrapped around his ankle. But with some mucus still on his ankle, he returned to the grass.

"Something seems to have been wrapped around my ankle just now."

"Huh? Let me see. ”

Zhang Ze stretched out his ankle, where is this still an ankle, it is clearly a white radish magnified dozens of times. Zhang Ze himself was frightened, but he didn't feel the slightest. Mo Zhu took out the dagger, and the delicate patterns on the dagger shimmered strangely in the moonlight.

"What are you doing?"

"Shut up, don't scream for a while, no matter how much it hurts."

As soon as the words fell, Mo Zhu took the dagger and pierced Zhang Ze's ankle. The sharp pain in his heart hit, Zhang Ze felt that he was almost fainting, he clenched his teeth tightly and said nothing. When Mo Zhu pulled out the dagger, black blood and gas gushed out of the wound. Zhang Ze felt the pain gradually disappear, and he relaxed this time, with a bloody taste in his mouth.

"Alright. It's good to bleed, otherwise you'll be fodder. ”

"What was the situation?"

"Did you feel the mucus on your ankle after you broke free just now?"

"yes."

"That's corpse water, every tree here was made by a person from a town after he died, and you just didn't pee on the tree."

"I'm used to it, isn't it?"

"You deserve to be pestered."

"Then aren't we squatting in the cemetery now?"

"That's right."

Zhang Ze looked at the calm Mo Zhu, thinking that this guy was a pervert. Zhang Ze subconsciously moved in front of the grass to avoid being entangled by those trees again.

"Don't be afraid, this is the only place in the entire Falling Cloud Town where the spirits won't come."

Mo Zhu looked at his watch, it was already two o'clock in the morning.

"Let's go to town."

The two of them came out of the grass, Zhang Ze bandaged his ankles briefly, and there was no longer blood, and they walked slowly along a road, looking at the houses on both sides as they walked. Zhang Ze felt an indescribable awkwardness in his heart, he found that the houses here seemed to be staring at him, he deliberately walked from left to right, and then from right to left. The feeling is still there, like those eyes growing on me.

"Are you sick? Left down, right one. ”

"Do you feel it?"

"What does it feel?"

"Someone has been watching us."

While they were talking, the courtyard door of the house next to them suddenly opened, and a woman carrying a bucket happened to see Zhang Ze and Mo Zhu who were talking.

"Have you seen my scoop?"

Zhang Ze was just about to step forward to talk when he was pulled away by Mo Zhu, Mo Zhu gave Zhang Ze a look and signaled him not to speak. Mo Zhu pulled him with his head down and walked forward quickly, and when they reached the root of the wall, the two stopped.

"Why did you pull me just now?"

"Have you ever seen someone come out in the middle of the night with a bucket to find a scoop?"

"What do you mean?"

Mo Zhu looked in the direction of the woman, Zhang Ze looked, the woman was still there with a bucket looking for socks, but at this time she was bent over and turned her back to them. Zhang Ze didn't feel anything strange, he didn't understand why Mo Zhu was making such a fuss. The night is getting quieter and quieter, Zhang Ze seems to be able to hear the rustle of the bucket in the woman's hand on the ground, and Mo Zhu behind him looks very relaxed at this time, he stands against the wall with his hands on his shoulders, but the wind in the night blew the two of them cold for a while.

Just as Zhang Ze was secretly laughing at Mo Zhu in his heart, suddenly the woman bent over and stood in a straddle position, looking in their direction from between her legs. Zhang Ze gasped, what scared him was that the facial features on the woman's face turned out to be upward (according to common sense, the facial features should be downward, because of the bending down and bowing her head). At this time, the woman's neck became like a giant python, pushing the weird and unbearable head and rushing towards him and Mo Zhu. Besides, Zhang Ze and Fang Fan had dealt with many bizarre cases together, and they were scared, but they calmed down immediately. Zhang Ze saw the opportunity, raised his foot and kicked violently, and the head and neck hit the stone wall next to him together. The head monster screamed and rushed towards Zhang Ze again, Zhang Ze turned over and flashed. Mo Zhu behind him didn't have time to take precautions, but he was headbutted in the chest.

"You bastard, you dodged away without saying a word."

"Stop talking nonsense, let's do it quickly."

Mo Zhu took out the dagger from his waist, put his left hand on his chest, and waited for the most critical opportunity with his right hand. Suddenly, Mo Zhu ran towards the woman's body, and the woman's long neck pushed the person's head and chased after her. Mo Zhu jumped up, the woman's neck passed under Mo Zhu, Mo Zhu showed a confident smile, he suddenly accelerated the speed and strength of his fall, and rode on his neck. The head screamed again, and then rushed back towards Mo Zhu, at this time, Mo Zhu raised the dagger and plunged it into his neck, and the woman turned into a cloud of ashes after a few convulsions.

Zhang Ze ran over and looked at Mo Zhu.

"Explain."

"There's nothing to explain, it's much gentler than what I met when I came on that mission. In Luoyun Town, this is all commonplace. ”

"Then the people here are not afraid?"

"The people of Falling Cloud Town coexist with them, and it's all thanks to that nightmare. Let's go, we have to find Fang Fan's home quickly. ”

Mo Zhu led the way in front, he had been here once, and he still had some impressions of the terrain here. After walking through two streets and three alleys, Mo Zhu stopped.

"Don't move, there's a wraith up ahead."

"It's a ghost, it's a demon, I won't come to this place a second time."

The wrath spirit walked into another alley beside them, and Mo Zhu immediately covered Zhang Ze's nagging mouth, and only let go after confirming that it was safe.

"It's salty. Didn't you say that there would be no ghosts in the second half of the night? ”

"I'm afraid it's Fang Fan's reason, these spirits have strengthened their vigilance."

"So what do we do?"

"One step at a time."

When the ghost was gone, they came out of the alley, and Mo Zhu looked at his watch, it was about to dawn. Suddenly, Zhang Ze patted Mo Zhu's shoulder, and Zhang Ze was pointing to the grave bag in front of him.

"Fang Fan's tomb."

"This must be Fang Fan's house."

The two were relieved, and after some discussion, they decided to climb over the wall and wait for dawn. The two of them jumped, but they felt like something was bounced back. But the height of the jump just now is enough to climb over this wall, what is going on? Just when the two of them were worried, Mo Zhu saw a pair of dark blue eyes flashing in the alley they had just come out of, staring at them tightly, and they were walking towards them, closer and closer, closer and closer.

"Zhang Ze, run."

When Zhang Ze woke up, he found himself lying in the grass with a pool of blood around him, and he repeatedly checked his body and found no injuries. Zhang Ze got up, and suddenly felt soreness all over his body, he vaguely remembered that after Mo Zhu shouted to run last night, the two of them stumbled into the grass and hid, as for what was chasing them behind him, Zhang Ze couldn't remember it anymore. At this time, there was no trace of Mo Zhu, and he silently prayed that the blood was not Mo Zhu's.

Zhang Ze came to the door of Fang Fan's house last night, knocked lightly on the door knocker, and after a while, there was a coughing sound from the door, and then the door opened a crack.

"Who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for Fang Fan."

The second uncle looked at Zhang Ze repeatedly. The smell on Zhang Ze's body was as bad as, and the second uncle covered his nose and said.

"You've been to the cemetery?"

"Huh?"

"It's the woods in town."

"Oh, I did."

"Fang Fan is dead, you can go."

When the second uncle was about to close the door, Zhang Ze immediately stuck a piece of wood on the crack of the door, pushed the door hard and ran in. The second uncle grabbed Zhang Ze's shoulders with both hands like a vice, and after a night of exhaustion, Zhang Ze had no strength to fight back at this time, he stood still and let the second uncle deal with it.

"Second uncle, stop."

Fang Fan shouted loudly, and the second uncle let go of his hand.

"Fan'er, this is?"

"This is my friend."

After three words, the misunderstanding was resolved.

"Zhang Ze, why are you here?"

"Can I not come? Your daughter-in-law is about to hang herself at home, you don't send a message, you can't get through on the phone, what if I don't come? ”

"I want to finish dealing with things here, and I can go back soon, who knows that there will be some episodes."

"Don't worry about these for now, I came with Mo Zhu, but he disappeared after last night, we have to find him first."

Fang Fan looked at his father and second uncle. Because the smell on Zhang Ze's body was too strong, the three people except Fang Fan all hid far away.

"Zhang Ze, you take a shower first, and we'll talk about it later."

After Zhang Ze went out, his father came to Fang Fan's side and said.

"Fan'er, what does this kid have to do with you?"

"Oh, you haven't seen him at my wedding. He is a friend of mine who has given his life to save me in several times of crisis, and he can be absolutely trusted. ”

"That's okay, that's okay."

After Zhang Ze came back, he was taken into the back room by Fang Fan. The back room is a kang, and his father, mother, and second uncle are all sitting on the kang, which makes Zhang Ze feel inexplicably nervous.

"Three sessions of triage?"

"Zhang Ze, don't be kidding. Tell me exactly what you had last night. ”

Zhang Ze told the experience of last night in detail, but he only recalled the pair of blue eyes in the alley, and he couldn't remember it anymore.

"It must be the Wraith, your friend should still be in the woods by now."

"No way, I searched several times and couldn't find it."

"We'll go again tonight."

Wanyou Island, Wang Di has been by Aunt Mei's side since he came back from Zhonghai City. Aunt Mei was soaked in a large medicine tank, and changing the medicinal soup three times a day was something Wang Di had to do. When the day their family was destroyed, the fates of Wang Di and Aunt Mei were closely linked, and the relationship between mother and daughter made Wang Di's dependence on Aunt Mei increasing day by day. She sometimes longs for that ordinary and quiet life, but when she smells the blood on her hands, she feels that she is not worthy of easy redemption, and if her parents know that they have become what they are now, I don't know how they will feel.

Long Feng's words seemed to deepen Wang Di's yearning for an ordinary new life, but there was a feeling of abandonment in his heart. The night that Long Feng brought her and Aunt Mei back to Wanyou Island was the most uneasy night since she was sensible, although it was an unknown wandering before, but that night gave her the feeling that although she didn't have to wander, she had to be at the mercy of others, and she would lose something more terrible than family affection - freedom.

Long Feng's transformation of Wang Di is irreversible, whether it is from the heart or from the body. The kindness since childhood has been worn out, replaced by the ruthlessness and ruthlessness added to the day after tomorrow, the fearlessness in the face of blood and the unscrupulous means to achieve the goal. For a while, she watched the flowers in the flower garden lose their color, and the surrounding environment was only black, white and gray in her eyes, did she become a dog? It wasn't until that mission that she knew that she could identify another kind besides black, white and gray, which was the color of blood. Wang Di was relieved a lot, she was glad that she didn't become a dog, but temporarily lost the color of her life.

In fact, Wang Di is still grateful to Long Feng in her heart, but this feeling of being abandoned made her difficult to accept for a while, and now it is difficult for her to live back to the life of an ordinary person, and Long Feng's attitude is so resolute, she decided to wait for Aunt Mei to recover, and then take Aunt Mei to leave Wanyou Island, leave Group K, and leave Long Feng. As for what the future holds, she didn't think about it, and the unknown and drifting seemed to be her innate labels.

"How's that for you?"

"Father-in-law, when Aunt Mei is well, we will leave here."

Long Feng walked into the room while Wang Di was pondering, looking at Wang Di's thin shoulders, he felt a kind of father's distress for his daughter in his heart. Over the years, in order to make Wang Di a character in his own right, Long Feng has also gritted his teeth and made up his mind several times with cruelty, if he is not cruel to her, then it will be impossible for Wang Di to escape the enemy's knife in the future. As soon as he thought of this, Long Feng felt a lot more at ease, and he was worthy of Wang Tiancheng's spirit in the sky.

"Well, you take this well, and this money is enough for you to live the rest of your life. In the future, Wanyou Island will be your mother's home, and you will come back if you are wronged. But I don't allow you to ask about the grievances between the outside world and Wanyou Island, and there are also things about Fang Fan and Zhang Ze, so don't interfere in the future. ”

"I..."

"Needless to say, it's settled."

Long Feng interrupted Wang Di's words, he knew Wang Di's character, even so, she might still go against her will, and then she could only take one step at a time.

The sense of loss of being abandoned in Wang Di's heart has slowly dissipated, and a warm current has warmed the bottom of his heart at some point, and this feeling has never been over since he saw his parents burned to death that night.

"Father-in-law, if I leave, who will help you?"

"I have my own way."

Before leaving, Long Feng glanced at Aunt Mei who was still unconscious lying in the medicine tank. After returning to the tea room, Long Feng dialed a number.

"How's it going to get you done?"

"Don't worry, you're done."

"Well, wait for my news."

"Understood."

Luoyun Town, after dinner, Zhang Ze couldn't sit still. After listening to the second uncle talk about the spirit in the morning, he was very worried about Mo Zhu's safety, and now he was really in a hurry and couldn't get out.

"Second uncle, when can we go?"

"What's the hurry, you also seem to have been captured by the wraith?"

"But my friend's life and death are uncertain now, how can you let me sit still."

"Alright, you go out to help Fan'er and his father."

Zhang Ze walked to the courtyard and saw Fang Fan, father and son, preparing something there.

"What are you doing here?"

"Zhang Ze, you came just in time, you are holding these things."

Zhang Ze looked at the contents of the backpack, there were really a lot of things, there were knives, scissors, whetstones, needles, thin rubber tubes, and a large bag of glucose.

"Where did all this come from?"

"I brought this with me when I came."

"Then we will bring it with us when we go out to find Mo Zhu?"

"That's right."

At this time, Fang Fan's father was sharpening his knife, and a line of scripture was engraved on the knife.

"Uncle, what is this for?"

Zhang Ze pointed to the scriptures on the knife.

"Warding off evil spirits."

After everything was properly prepared, he waited for a while, and the second uncle estimated the time.

"Let's go, Zhang Ze, you take us to the woods last night."

A group of four people walked cautiously on the street, and the surroundings were very quiet, and they could clearly hear each other's footsteps. After a while, they arrived at the woods, and the blood stains in the morning had seeped into the ground, and the grass next to it still smelled of blood. The second uncle looked at the location of the trees around, and exchanged glances with Fang Fan's father, Fang Haotian, who took out a knife and slashed at one of the trees. The tree suddenly trembled spasmodically after it was cut down, and then an incredible scene happened, only to see the tree move a few meters to the side, and a deep path appeared in front of me. There were four people in a row, the second uncle walked in the front, followed by Fang Haotian, Zhang Ze, and Fang Fan. Zhang Ze refused to walk in the back, he was afraid that no one would know if he was suddenly arrested.

The path is getting wider and wider, but fortunately there is nothing unusual along the way, and at the end there is a clearing, there is a big tree in the center of the clearing, and a large hole is cracked in the middle of the trunk, and there is a person entwined by many rhizomes, and that person is Mo Zhu.

"Mo Zhu."

Zhang Ze immediately rushed over, but was pressed to the ground by the second uncle with one hand. No matter how hard Zhang Ze tried, he couldn't break free of the second uncle's hand, and the second uncle's strength was too great.

"Stinky boy, don't be frizzy."

The second uncle pulled Zhang Ze up, picked up a big stone from the side and threw it at the big tree, and suddenly the rhizomes around the big tree wrapped around the stone and dragged it into the ground as if it was alive. Zhang Ze gasped and looked at the second uncle gratefully.

"Don't alarm those rhizomes."

Fang Haotian took a knife and chopped some wood, his knife skills stunned Zhang Ze again, the appearance of flowing clouds reminded him of the stunts in the movie, and after a while, Fang Haotian made four pairs of shoes, this shoe has a peculiar shape, a large bottom, and a strap on it, which can be put on the foot, so that the increased force area is not easy to be felt by those rhizomes. After the four of them put on it, they walked up cautiously, these rhizomes seemed to be hard, but they didn't expect to feel soft when they walked up, as if they were walking on a water balloon. The four of them arrived in front of the big tree, and in just one day, Mo Zhu lost two laps of weight than before.

"Quick, the tree is sucking his spirit."

Fang Haotian took a knife and slashed it hard, but no matter how hard he used, he also cut the rhizome that was constantly entwining Mo Zhu. Suddenly, Zhang Ze remembered Mo Zhu's dagger, he touched Mo Zhu's waist and looked for it. The pattern on the dagger glows in the moonlight. Zhang Ze pulled out the dagger and slashed at the rhizome, and sure enough, it was cut off easily, Fang Haotian and the second uncle looked at the dagger in Zhang Ze's hand at the same time.

"Where did it come from?"

"His."

The two of them stopped talking, and everyone lifted Mo Zhu out and put it on Fang Fan's body, and the rhizome under his feet felt a sudden weight, and became a little restless.

"Jump."

The voice came from above, Fang Fan looked up and saw that the second uncle was jumping out of the encirclement of the rhizome with Zhang Ze, and his father grabbed Fang Fan's belt behind him and jumped out with a strong lift.

"This kind of power is really unusual. The parabola we just jumped on must be 50 meters. ”

Fang Haotian and the second uncle ignored Zhang Ze's surprise and looked at Mo Zhu, who had just been saved.

"It's not a big deal, just rest for a while."

Everyone's hanging hearts were put down, and Fang Haotian stretched out his hand to Zhang Ze.

"Bring it."

"What?"

"Dagger."

"It's his."

Zhang Ze pointed at Mo Zhu and argued.

"This is from Falling Cloud Town. This friend of yours must be the one who stole the seeds in town a few years ago. ”

Suddenly, there was a burst of laughter from the deep path, and everyone was on guard, and the blood in Fang Fan's body was gradually boiling.

"Fang Haotian, you finally showed up, I didn't expect you to give me such a big gift."

A man in a long robe appeared in front of everyone, and behind him stood four spirits.

"Fang Shuo, after so many years, you still refuse to let me go."

"Spare you? How can I explain to the people in the town if I let you go? Back then, you sent your son away in disregard of the rules of the town, which led to the weakening of the power to suppress the nightmare, the sudden attack of fierce ghosts, and how many people in the town died tragically because of your selfishness, do you think I will let you go easily? ”

"It was my fault back then, but what parent in the world doesn't want their children to have an easier life."

"Don't talk nonsense."

Suddenly, the ghost spirit behind Fang Shuo flashed in front of Fang Fan, and a burst of dark energy Fang Fan was shocked and flew out, and in an instant, he was entangled in the rhizome, and his hands climbed upwards vigorously, but to no avail, the three of them were just about to rush out to save Fang Fan, but they were controlled by other spirits and couldn't move.

"Fang Haotian, today I will let you see with your own eyes how your son died."

Fang Shuo's laughter resounded in the sky, Fang Fan struggled in the entanglement of the rhizomes, and the three of them had nothing else to do but shout helplessly.