It was getting dark.

After dinner, they each found a vacant lot, lay down with their heads up, and became a bed.

They are all rough men who eat mixed rice on the knife edge, and they are not so particular.

The sky should be a quilt, and the ground should be a bed, which is also a happy thing in life.

It was the middle of summer, but there was not a hint of heat outside the temple.

The mountain breeze gusted, which was very relieving of the heat.

A few winds rolled up on his body, and soon someone couldn't help but yawn out.

The yawn seemed contagious, and soon, drowsiness came over the crowd.

After adding some more firewood outside the temple, Orion also lay down on a piece of bluestone at the entrance of the temple.

After a while, there was a snoring sound.

Cao Jun stared at the firewood and couldn't sleep for a long time.

He knew that the pile of firewood was not used to protect against the cold, but to deter the wild beasts in the forest.

It's just that this back mountain is close to the county seat, is there a large predatory beast?

Before, he looked at Orion and asked him clearly.

At this time, he was in the lonely mountain and broken temple, and the thoughts in Cao Jun's mind were disturbed and chaotic, but he was silent staring at the fire.

After a while, another gust of mountain wind rushed in along the temple gate, and he was also sleepy when he was wrapped around Cao Jun.

Soon, Cao Jun couldn't hold on and lay down on the futon and fell asleep.

It was late at night.

I don't know how long I slept.

Cao Jun suddenly heard some unusual movements, and Leng Buding turned over and got up.

There were many people in the starlight outside the temple, and it seemed that two groups of people were talking.

Cao Jun's heart trembled, in the middle of the night, in the barren mountains and mountains, apart from them, where did anyone come from?

A wave of doubt arose in my heart.

Cao Jun pinched the iron gun, the gun was bold, and he planned to go out to see what was going on.

When passing by the bluestone at the entrance of the temple, Orion was still sleeping, snoring, Cao Jun glanced at him and kicked him in the lower body.

The latter just grinded his teeth and continued to sleep soundly.

"Hey...... Wake up. ”

Cao Jun kicked again.

Strangely, Orion was still asleep as before.

Even when he slept, he still held a short knife in his hand, and the edge of the knife was black, and he didn't know what was wrapped in it.

The more Cao Jun looked at it, the more wrong it became, and a chill appeared all over his body.

He jumped on the bluestone and shouted to the people outside the temple: "Everyone hurry up, something is wrong!" ”

After the voice shouted, the originally hazy vision began to become clear.

The two groups of people suddenly appeared in Cao Jun's sight.

The rest of the crowd quickly got up at this time, and under the leadership of several hunters, they walked towards the ravine behind the temple.

When Cao Jun saw it, he was even more puzzled.

He shouted at Liu Zhutou: "In the middle of the night, what are you doing here?" ”

The head of Liu Zhutou raised the knife in his hand nonchalantly, and shouted loudly: "Master, these people are urging that the beasts in the forest are rampant, if it is too late, the corpse will have been gnawed clean, let me wait overnight to rush over to collect the corpse." ”

Cao Jun's gaze finally moved to the group of people who suddenly appeared.

But it's a gang of hunters.

There were about five or six people, speaking the local dialect, who were negotiating with Liu Zhutou.

He was already suspicious, where did the group of people come out of the third watch in the middle of the night?

At this moment, when I saw it, my heart was like a thunderbolt, as if I had thought of something.

No, don't let these catchers follow them.

The new people, although they are dressed as hunters in the mountains, have unknown origins.

Who knows if it's a human or a ghost.

To be on the safe side, Cao Jun hurriedly stopped them and said, "It's late at night, it's not appropriate to act rashly, and I'll wait until dawn to talk about anything." ”

"Master, when it is dawn, it will be too late."

Cao Jun wanted to oppose it for a while, but he felt that something was extremely wrong.

The two groups argued for a while, and finally, under the leadership of the hunter who suddenly appeared, quickly walked towards the ravine behind the temple.

Seeing that he couldn't stop it, Cao Jun hurriedly jumped down from under the bluestone and followed the group until they reached the ravine behind the temple.

The man in front of him walked extremely fast and had gradually disappeared into the ravine.

Cao Jun was even more anxious.

He tied the hem of his robe to his waist, and was about to chase after him, when an old man suddenly walked out of the ravine of Lengbuding.

The old man was well-dressed, with his hands behind his back as he walked, faintly like a scholar.

Three or two steps in front of Cao Jun.

He smiled kindly at Cao Jun and said, "Little monk, there are demons and evil in this mountain, it's best not to go out at night, go back quickly." ”

Cao Jun saw that the old man was dressed as a scholar, with three short beards on his chin, and his bare eyebrows and kind eyes, which made people feel a good impression when he saw it, and subconsciously felt that what the old man said made sense.

But the partners in front can't give up.

For a while, there was a bit of a dilemma.

The old man ignored Cao Jun and walked straight to Cao Jun's rear.

When the two crossed by, the old man suddenly sighed and patted Cao Jun on the shoulder, "The old man Yan Gong of Qinghe County, I met you half a day ago, I can't bear to be in trouble for the younger generations, listen to my advice, go back quickly!" ”

Cao Jun suddenly froze in place like a lightning strike, and kept muttering to himself, "Yan Gong Yan Gong, why is this name so familiar?" ”

In this way, after reading it a few times, everything in front of me is like a picture scroll that has been pierced.

The ravine is gone;

The old man was gone;

When Cao Jun opened his eyes, he found that he was still in the ruined temple.

The fire outside the temple had long since been extinguished.

Through the bright moonlight from outside the temple, I vaguely saw an animal that looked like a cat but not a cat, with a slender body and bright eyes, lying on the Buddha statue, staring at Cao Jun silently.

A burst of white sweat instantly appeared on Cao Jun's body.

"What is it?"

He stretched out his hand and waved, and the iron spear in his hand stabbed out, and there was a ding-dong! A deep layer of marks has been left on the Buddha statue.

But he didn't stab the thing,

The thing was very flexible, and after being frightened, it jumped off the Buddha statue, jumped to the ground in three or two, and soon left the ruined temple and disappeared without a trace.

Cao Jun stood up with the Buddha statue in his hands.

I only felt dizzy, as if I hadn't woken up, and yawned as I walked out.

"Something is wrong!"

"There are ghosts in this temple!"

Although the person woke up, everything in the dream just now was still vividly reflected in front of him.

"Yan Gong... Yan Gong, why is it so familiar? ”

Cao Jun rushed to the gate of the temple in twos and threes, and the hunter was still lying on the bluestone, but strangely there was no snoring.

The scattered crowd hunters who slept outside the temple disappeared, as if they had disappeared collectively.

"Wake up!"

Cao Jun kicked Orion, and the other party groaned for a long time before he staggered up.

"Master, why aren't you sleeping yet?"

The Orion kept rubbing his eyebrows, and he was quite respectful to Cao Jun.

Cao Jun suddenly posted it and whispered in the other party's ear: "There are ghosts in this temple!" ”

"What?"

Orion was taken aback, and his previous sleepiness quickly disappeared.

Cao Jun held the iron gun and pointed outward, "Look, the catch is almost gone." ”

Orion looked in the direction that Cao Jun pointed, and sure enough, none of the catchers who had been crowded around the fire were gone.

Now in the ruined temples in the back mountains, barren mountains and mountains, where have all the people gone?

"Master, now...... What to do? ”

As soon as this Orion thought about it, the whole person seemed to be soaked in cold water, and he completely sobered up.

He asked Cao Jun in a trembling tone, expecting the latter to come up with an idea.

The latter waved the iron spear in his hand and said categorically: "First raise the fire again, and wait for the dawn." ”

The hunter was still in a panic, but at this moment, seeing Cao Jun so calm, he thought of the rumors outside, this monk was alone, carrying Liu Qing's remains for hundreds of miles, and brought back to Qinghe County safe and sound.

Must be a capable person.

As long as you follow him, the sky will fall and you will naturally go to the top from a high one.

After thinking about it like this, he quickly calmed down.