In the firelight, I saw that her face was unusually pale, and I asked worriedly, "Why do you eat so little?" Isn't it uncomfortable? Or is the wound painful? ”

Liu Xiaojiao shook her head and said in a low voice: "It's okay, I'm fine." All you have to do is fill your stomach! ”

As she spoke, she lay down on the bed again, rested, and in a few moments came the sound of sleeping breathing.

I yawned, touched my round belly, and lay down on the ground contentedly, thinking that I would be able to get a good night's sleep......

This sleep was so dim that the whole person's consciousness seemed to sink into the abyss, even if I beat the gong and drum, I am afraid that I will not be able to wake me up.

But in the end, I still didn't get enough sleep to wake up naturally, because I saw the little red snake in my dream, and then I felt a sharp pain in my chest.

The pain was so much worse than beating a gong or drum that I woke up in an instant.

When I opened my confused eyes, I immediately found that the little red snake that had gone out to forage for food didn't know when it would come back.

It was now perched on my chest, its head held high, its tongue forked and spitting, and a pair of snake eyes staring out the door, as if alert for something.

I struggled to get up from the ground and looked in the direction the little red snake was looking, and saw that it was already dark outside, and that there was nothing in the direction of it except the temple where the statue was enshrined in smoke and rain.

Little Red Snake doesn't know when it came back? It woke me up suddenly, something must have happened, but unfortunately it couldn't communicate with me like a ghost child......

While I was thinking about it, the little red snake suddenly landed on the ground and swam out of the door, and when it reached the door, it turned its head and looked at me, meaning that I should follow it.

I was amazed that it had been so abnormal for the first time since it had been parasitic in my body.

I turned my head to look at Liu Xiaojiao lying on the wooden bed, and found that she was still asleep and had not woken up. After a little hesitation, he followed the little red snake out of the room.

The rain outside had not stopped, and although the sky was bright, it looked groggy because of the rain and fog.

I lost my phone, and I don't know what time it is, because I can't tell what time it is just by looking at the sky.

The little red snake swam out of the room and led me straight towards the hall where the idol was enshrined, and I followed it until I reached the door until I entered the temple.

At this time, the speed of the little red snake suddenly increased, and it swooped towards a pillar not far away.

When I followed to look, I found a large purple and black centipede with the thickness of a thumb under the pillar, and the little red snake was biting the centipede's head and swallowing it slowly.

I look at the color and size of the centipede, isn't it the big centipede that I saw in the rice tank last night that bit the mouse to death? I poured water into the rice jar last night, but I didn't expect it to be soaked to death.

But think about it, how can centipedes be so easily immersed in water? As the so-called hundred-legged insect dies but does not stiffen, although it is not an amphibian animal, it is by no means afraid of water.

The centipede has a long history of origin, and it is said to have originated in the Silurian period, also known as the Silurian period.

Speaking of the Silurian period, many people may not know what era it was, it is the last epoch of the dry Paleozoic era, and it is also the third epoch of the Paleozoic era.

The Silurian Period, which began about 440 million years ago and ended 410 million years ago, was the era of the most intense crustal movement when the sea receded and the land rose.

Taken together, it is an ancient species with a long history.

Centipedes are afraid of daylight, are nocturnal, and prefer to survive in dark, warm, sheltered from rain and with good air circulation. For example, hilly areas and sandy areas.

After swallowing the centipede, the little red snake swam straight towards the bedroom where the old woman was.

I was amazed that the little red snake had found something, and followed it into the old woman's bedroom.

The bedroom was very dark, even the windows were sealed, and there was a vermilion coffin inside, which was extremely permeable no matter how you looked at it.

As it was last night, the old woman was not in the room.

It was too dark, so I went to the counter and found a candle to light it, and by the light of the fire, I glanced at it and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

There was something missing on the counter, and when I looked closely, I suddenly realized that the thigh-thick centipede statue had disappeared.

How could the centipede statue not be seen? Is it alive? Ran away on your own? Or did the old woman take it?

"Hiss!"

Just when I was in doubt, there was a sound of a little red snake swallowing and spitting behind me, and I turned around with a candle flame to see that the little red snake had climbed to the top of the big red coffin at some point.

Knock knock!

Seeing me look at it, the little red snake suddenly hit the lid of the coffin with its head a few times, making a noise.

"You want me to open the coffin?" I walked over, smelled the pungent smell of paint, and asked the little red snake uncertainly.

Unexpectedly, the little red snake listened to my words, nodded very humanely, and then jumped up and wrapped around my arm, as if urging me to act quickly.

I remembered what Liu Xiaojiao said to me last night, and I hesitated a little, and secretly thought: "Could it be that Liu Xiaojiao's Nizi really guessed correctly, the old woman was lying in the coffin?" ”

I didn't look closely at the big red coffin last night, but now that I look closely, I find that there are marks on the surface of the coffin as if it has been scraped by a nail rake.

And, in the candlelight, I saw that the lid of the coffin was exposed to a gap, which was not completely covered.

I wanted to get closer, but as soon as I got closer, I smelled a disgusting stench wafting from the crack in the coffin.

Smelling this stench, my face suddenly turned ugly, and my brow furrowed. Because this smell is not unfamiliar to me, it is the smell of corpses emitted when they are decomposing.

How could there be a smell of corpses coming out of the coffin? Could it be that there are corpses inside?

But isn't this the old woman's longevity?

We saw her last night, even if she died last night, lying in the coffin, the body wouldn't have rotted so quickly and stinked?

Sure enough, there was something wrong with the old woman......

I turned my head, took a deep breath, and reached out to lift the lid of the coffin.

"Bang!"

The lid of the coffin fell to the ground beside him, and in an instant, a disgusting smell of corpses poured out of the coffin and spread throughout the room.

The smell was so bad that I had to cover my mouth and nose with my hands, and I almost threw up.

Holding the candle flame, he squinted into the coffin.

Under the faint firelight, I saw a person lying inside.

No! It should be a corpse, an old man's corpse, to be exact.

She was wearing a brand new gray monk's robe, and her face was covered with black corpse spots, wrinkles like rolling waves, and her appearance looked terrifying.

This person is the old woman I saw last night...... It's really her!

Even though I was mentally prepared, I couldn't help but be surprised when I saw that the person lying inside the coffin was the old woman guarding the temple.

How could she really be dead?

Judging by the strong smell of corpses, she has been dead for at least a long time.

No wonder......

No wonder the iron pot in the kitchen has rusted, the rats are nesting in the rice jar, and it turns out that the real old woman is already dead.

It's just that if this old woman has already died, then who did Liu Xiaojiao and I see last night?

Could it be her ghost?

Wrong! I've seen a lot of ghosts, and last night's old woman was obviously a tangible thing, and it was definitely not a ghost.

But if not a ghost, then who is she? Why do you want to be like an old woman?

Another point, if she had bad intentions, she should have made a move last night when Liu Xiaojiao and I were asleep, but when we woke up, nothing happened.

I was puzzled, looked closely at the body lying in the coffin, and suddenly noticed that something was wrong.

On the surface, the corpse showed no obvious signs of decay, but if it didn't, where did the disgusting rancid smell come from?

"Old woman, I'm sorry!"

To make this clear, I set the candle aside, folded my hands and said I was offended, reached into the coffin, and turned the old woman's body over.

Unexpectedly, as soon as his hand reached under the corpse, he felt a thick liquid, like corpse water.

Holding back my nausea, I turned the body over to its side, only to see a puddle of yellow paste at the bottom of the coffin underneath the body.

How to say this thing, it is like the juice in the passion fruit, with flattened particles that are formed, and like the egg fetus laid by a toad.

I say this because I see the flat particles still wriggling and moving in the viscous, thick liquid.

What surprised me the most was the corpse of the old woman, and when I turned her body over, I found that her back was cut with a knife more than half a meter long.

The wound was like the zipper of a garment, and by the candle flame, it could be seen that the wound was empty, and all the internal organs were gone.

At this point, I couldn't take it anymore and ran out of the temple and came to the floor to catch a breath of fresh air.

The smell just now was so bad, like poisonous gas, even if I smelled it for a long time, I felt a sense of faintness, let alone people who are not resistant to poison.

Rubbing the paste off my hands on the floor, I felt sick and had an incredible guess in my mind.

Perhaps the old woman we saw last night was real, and she was indeed dead at the time, but something was just manipulating her skin.

And that thing must have gotten into the old woman's body from a wound on the back of the corpse......

Could it be the centipede? Is it really a living thing?

I remembered that I saw the thigh-thick centipede on the counter last night, and my scalp couldn't help but go numb, if it was really alive, I still touched it with my hands last night!

No matter what controls the old woman's body, the other party must have become a demon.

"The land of right and wrong should not stay for a long time, you need to leave quickly!"

As soon as I thought of this, I didn't want to stay longer for a moment, so I hurriedly returned and called Liu Xiaojiao.

But what people never expected was that when I hurriedly rushed into the room, I found that Liu Xiaojiao, who was still asleep before, had disappeared at this time.

My first thought was that something had happened to her, and I rushed out to look for her, but after searching around the temple, I didn't find her.

At this time, the little red snake wrapped around my arm suddenly fell to the ground and went in a certain direction behind the temple, as if Liu Xiaojiao had been found.

Seeing this, I took out my dagger and hurriedly followed.

A man and a snake looked for Liu Xiaojiao's traces in the rain, and unknowingly climbed to the top of the highest Centipede Ridge.

At the top of Centipede Ridge is a huge rock, rarely weeded, and bare.

As soon as I climbed to the top with the little red snake, I heard the whirring wind, and there was a strong fishy smell in the air, and there seemed to be a powerful poison hiberning on it.

In fact, I've seen that thing!

It was a thigh-thick, blood-red centipede more than a meter long, its head was golden, and at this moment its front body was raised, and countless barb-like foot spines swayed in the air, making strange noises.

Isn't this huge centipede the one I saw on the counter in the old woman's room last night?

Sure enough, it's a living thing!

It's just that to my surprise, the blood-red carapace on the Centipede King's body at this time has broken several large holes, and green liquid has overflowed.

It was actually injured.

This centipede is obviously the king of Centipede Ridge, and has become a demon, controlling the old woman's skin, what can hurt it?

Just as I was puzzled, a bright cry suddenly came from under the cliff......