Chang Tai skillfully took out the fire fold and lit the fire, and soon a warm bonfire was lit in the dilapidated temple. Xing Ruyi was already afraid of the cold, and just after a little rain on the road, his nose was itchy and he just wanted to sneeze.

She rubbed her arms and sat by the campfire, but her eyes wandered with Chang Tai: "Don't you think it's strange?" ”

"Huh?"

According to the description of the village uncle, the deceased's shoulders and head were torn off by something, but not much blood was found at the scene. Especially at the door, you can see the scratches left after placing the firewood, and you can also see the messy footprints, and under the footprints, there are also some scattered blood stains, but the strange thing is that there is no large area of splattered blood, and there is no statue in front of the statue, is this very unreasonable? ”

"It's really unreasonable." Chang Tai carefully examined the traces on the ground: "If it is an animal bite, there will definitely be a lot of blood stains left at the scene, even if it is trampled by people, it is impossible to cover it all." I also paid attention to the hay and firewood as I collected them, and there was indeed only a small amount of blood on the ground. ”

"If we knew that this scene was so strange, we should have gone to see the bodies of the father and son first, at least their wounds, and made a prediction in our hearts." Xing Ruyi held his chin, "What should I do now?" The rain outside seems to be getting heavier and heavier, so we shouldn't be trapped in this weird temple like that father and son. ”

"Scared?"

"It's false to say that you're not afraid, but if you say you're afraid, you're not so afraid." Xing Ruyi stretched his arm: "Brother Chang, your martial arts are so good, if there is any danger, you will protect me." ”

"Most of the time, I can only protect myself." Chang Tai picked up a handful of hay and returned to the campfire: "I've seen it, in this temple, except for the statue of the god, everything else is normal." ”

"Then wait, if that pair of woodcutters and father and son are really killed by some monster hiding in the rain, we may be able to meet this weather. Luckily, let's catch it. Bad luck, it's that we become like the woodcutter father and son. Then wait for Xiao Shengzi to bring someone over to continue the investigation. In this way, if it is really that kind of terrible monster, let's find a way to leave a message for future generations in this temple, so that they must not come to investigate, and do not approach this ruined temple again. ”

"What words? There's a monster here! ”

"I don't know, I'll talk about it when that thing comes." Xing Ruyi twisted his shoulders and dozed off slightly: "I knew that I would come to the temple today to guard the monsters, so I won't toss last night." ”

The toss that Xing Ruyi said was to study new skin care products in the shop, but when it fell into Chang Tai's ears, it obviously gave birth to something else. With a slight embarrassment, he took his gaze off Xing Ruyi's face and landed on the campfire at her feet.

While baking the fire and chatting, as the sky gets darker and darker, sleepiness slowly wells up. In a daze, Xing Ruyi heard some movement, she opened her sleepy eyes, and saw Chang Tai's sword stuck by the campfire.

"Brother Chang?"

Xing Ruyi dozed off and shouted sleepily.

I don't know when the rain outside stopped, leaving only the whining of the wind in the mountains and forests, and the smell of the wet soil that blew into the ruined temple.

"Brother Chang, where are you?"

"I'm here!" Chang Tai's voice came from outside the temple.

"Why did you go out in the middle of the night?" Xing Ruyi stood up from the bonfire, the bonfire at this time was much smaller, and a gust of wind blew, blowing coldly: "Even if you want to go out conveniently, you have to carry a sword." Who knows if there will be snakes in the grass. ”

"You just stay by the campfire and don't come out."

Xing Ruyi just wanted to move, but when he heard Chang Tai's words, he took his foot back again.

Chang Tai came back, his body was drenched, and there was a fishy smell of wet soil.

"Brother Chang, did you fall into a puddle?"

"Are you alright?" Chang Tai asked, looking at the punishment Ruyi.

"It's okay, I'm fine." Xing Ruyi looked at himself, there were no missing arms or legs, and the originally wet places on his clothes were also dried by the bonfire. There is also a coat on the ground next to it, which is Chang Tai's. It should be Chang Tai who saw that she was asleep, and was afraid that she would catch a cold, so he took off his coat and put it on her.

"While you were asleep, I heard a little kid crying, and his mouth was still crying out that it hurts." Chang Tai sat back by the campfire and began to describe what happened while Xing Ruyi was asleep: "At first, I thought it was a child from a nearby village who had gone missing and accidentally walked near the ruined temple. So I got up and went outside. That's when something strange happened. When I was in the temple, I heard the voice outside, not far from the ruined temple. But when I walked out of the ruined temple, I found that the voice had changed from the temple, and the child's cry had changed. Not only did he cry out in pain, but he also said that there were ghosts in this temple and wanted to eat him. ”

"There's a ghost in this temple?" Xing Ruyi glanced around: "But I don't feel any ghosts." ”

"Hell?"

"Oh, wherever there are ghosts, there will always be an eerie feeling, which is the feeling of the wind as described by others. It's cold in this temple, and it's really weird, but it doesn't have the sense of horror that the wind blows. ”

Chang Tai thought that Xing Ruyi was joking, shook his head, and didn't take it to heart. ”

"Brother Chang, what are you laughing at, what I said is true. Have you forgotten what happened a while ago? Forgot about my cow tears? I tell you, these eyes of mine can really see ghosts. ”

"Do you see that now?"

As soon as he was reminded by Xingruyi, Chang Tai really remembered the incident that happened a while ago.

Ghosts, he's seen them too.

"Do you still have cow tears on you?"

"I was in a hurry to go out, and I didn't bring it. If you don't have cow tears, you can't see it, but if you can't see it, it doesn't mean that I can't see it. Xing Ruyi pointed to his eyes: "I have yin and yang eyes, have you forgotten?" ”

"I didn't forget." Chang Tai stared at Xing Ruyi's eyes: "These eyes of yours, can only see ghosts when they turn red." ”

"How do you know?"

"Last time I saw it. Will there be a problem with the discoloration of your eyes? I mean, won't hurt your eyes. ”

"I don't know, but I asked the fox, and the fox said it was normal, as long as I didn't feel uncomfortable." Xing Ruyi said, taking a deep breath and letting all his thoughts sink as much as possible. When everything around her was quiet, she felt the power in her body begin to awaken, stir, and even become active.

When I opened my eyes again, the surrounding scenery was clearer than what I had seen before.

"How, do you see?"

"I didn't see the ghosts of small children." Xing Ruyi turned around and subconsciously looked at the broken goddess statue in the ruined temple who didn't know what it was. "It's so strange, this idol obviously has no head, but for some reason, when I look at her like this, I always have a hairy feeling, like the feeling that goosebumps are going to grow all over my body."

"Goosebumps all over your body?" Chang Tai looked at his arm that had rolled up his sleeves, "What kind of feeling is that?" ”

"It's like you know that this goddess statue has no head, but you can feel that she is staring at you." Xing Ruyi circled around the goddess statue: "Brother Chang, do you dare to break this goddess statue, I always feel that she is a little weird." ”

"You stand back." Although Chang Tai has seen ghosts, he is not afraid of these things. He took a deep breath, secretly exercised his skills, picked up the sword that had been stuck in the ground before, and slashed it towards the statue of the goddess.

"Click!"

The mud fetus outside the goddess statue was cut by Chang Tai with a sharp sword, and the mud fetus was actually hollow, and in this hollow goddess statue was hidden the body of a young child.

"Brother Chang, be careful."

Xing Ruyi picked up a burning firewood as a torch to help shine it, and Chang Tai reached out and took out the young child in the mud womb of the goddess statue.

The child was about four or five years old, and because he had been trapped in the mud of the goddess statue, the overall state of the body was well preserved. The child was dressed in the same clothes as is common to children in the mountains, and there were no obvious external injuries. When it was discovered, it was curled up in a mud tire, and it looked very well-behaved.

"This child seems to have been put into a mud womb alive." After careful examination, Xing Ruyi said to Chang Tai: "There are no obvious external injuries on the child's body, and there are some unknown drug residues left at the corners of his mouth, we can boldly speculate." The child was artificially placed in this position and placed in a mud fetus after being fed some kind of drowsiness drug. After the mud tires are all sealed, the child eventually dies due to the lack of oxygen inside the mud tires. The child had slight signs of struggle, but because the space in the mud tire was too small, his struggle did not help. If the child was murdered, then the person who made the statue is the murderer of the child. ”

"The woodcutter's case has not yet been sorted out, and another child has been discovered, and there are really a lot of secrets hidden in this mountain."

"Speaking of secrets, Brother Chang, you haven't told me yet, what you experienced outside just now, how did you get on your body - it stinks even more after you do it."

Xing Ruyi sniffed lightly, and quickly fanned it with his hand: "What kind of smell is this!" ”

"I found something, but I didn't catch up, I don't know if it has anything to do with the tragedy that happened in the temple." Before Chang Tai finished speaking, Xing Ruyi covered his mouth. Because a hand stretched out from the darkness behind Chang Tai and quietly rested on his shoulder.

Chang Tai also noticed it, he clenched the sword in his hand and was about to stab back, but his mouth was covered by the other hand behind his back, and then the whole person was quickly dragged backwards by the invisible person.