At this time, Qi Lu lowered his body again, because he saw that the middle-aged man's corpse was covered with brown mud on his hands, and the clothes on his body also had many mud stains of the same color, giving people the feeling that his body was buried in the grave and then dug up.

"Strange thing, really strange thing!" Qi Lu couldn't help but exclaim.

Ding Xiaolan asked, "What's the strange thing?" ”

"Do you remember the innocent man who was killed by Sailei on our first day of departure?"

"Remember, what's wrong?" Ding Xiaolan looked at Qi Lu's thoughtful face, as if she understood something, she brewed in her heart, and cried out again, "Do you want to say that the man is related to the dead man in front of you?" ”

"Yes." Qi Lu took out a cigarette and smoked it, and then pretended to be relaxed and said: "I have examined the man's body, and there is the same dirt in his fingernails as this middle-aged man. ”

After saying that, he took out the paper bag in his pocket with his hand, trying to compare it with the dirt in front of him to verify whether his judgment was wrong, but he couldn't find it. Only then did he remember that he had been tossing in the river for a long time, and the paper and soil had already soaked and flowed down the river.

"Forget it, it's not important, what's even more terrifying is that when I examined the body, I found that he was already dead, and the time of death was roughly the same as that of this middle-aged man."

"Then why didn't you tell me then!" Ding Xiaolan screamed hoarsely, feeling that she was completely distrusted.

"If I had said it at the time, not only would I have made the people think I was lying to the public, but it would also have scared you so much that you didn't dare to go to Guta Village."

"Why do we have such weird things?"

"I don't know." Qi Lu was stunned for a moment and said, "I just hope that there won't be more strange things to harass us." ”

When he said this, Qi Lu suddenly thought of something again, he walked into the back room quickly and kicked open the bedroom door. Although the facts were as he expected, Qi Lu was still extremely shocked.

There was the corpse of the boss lying on the bed, and the corpse of the proprietress was the aunt who cooked for Qi Lu. This is not a strange place, what makes Qi Lu terrifying is that the room is in a dilapidated state, grass has grown on the ground, and thick cobwebs are everywhere on the walls. As for the bed where the boss and his wife slept on, the bed frame had long since rotted, and the quilt covering them was also moldy.

Qi Lu endured the creepy stench emanating from the house, walked to the bed to check the bodies of the boss and his wife, and found that the cause of their death was no different from the time of death of the middle-aged man.

He found something even stranger, that is, the skin of the boss's limbs was covered with subtle tear marks, and in some places there were wrinkle-like skin marks.

Generally speaking, after 12 hours of death, the body of the corpse begins to stiffen, and after 48 hours, the corpse becomes soft and swollen. There is only one reason for the formation of such lines and skin marks, and that is that the corpse will tear the muscles and wrinkle the skin after 12-48 hours of moving on its own. And this time happened to be the time when Qi Lu and the three of them had a conversation with the inn yesterday.

Could it be that someone deliberately manipulated the limbs of the corpse to cause such a phenomenon? Qi Lu shook his head in denial after thinking about it carefully, because since someone was fiddling with the corpse, there was no way to make the entire limb covered with this kind of skin marks.

"Zombies!" This terrible answer suddenly popped up in Qi Lu's mind, but then Qi Lu also vetoed this answer, because when he met them yesterday, the sun had not yet set, and no matter how powerful the zombies were, they would not dare to come out to do evil at this time.

"Qi Lu!" Ding Xiaolan had already followed, standing at the door and calling him in a trembling voice. Her face was frighteningly pale, beads of sweat rolled down her head, and she motioned with trembling hands for him to come out and take a look.

Qi Lu walked out of the door and was shocked again, because the corridor outside the house was still smooth before he entered the bedroom, and now it became as deserted as the bedroom.

Sensing that something was wrong, he walked down the hall with a calm face, and saw the same situation, and then went up to the second floor to see that every room, including the one they slept in last night, was just as dilapidated and deserted, and even some of the corners were covered with moss.

It was just a matter of an instant, and the whole inn changed, is this really a ghost shop? Qi Lu asked himself, and at the same time he couldn't forgive himself. Because this is really a ghost shop, I actually stayed all night and didn't find anything abnormal. In other words, if these so-called ghosts wanted to harm them, I am afraid that he and Ding Xiaolan would have died a long time ago.

If they don't have the intention of harming themselves, why do they come to confuse themselves, and what is the purpose of doing so? Qi Lu couldn't think of an answer, but he was already vaguely aware in his heart that their mission journey would never be smooth sailing.

At this time, Qi Lu saw the panicked look on Ding Xiaolan's face who was following closely, his teeth were already fighting involuntarily, and he hurriedly calmed down and gently hugged her in his arms to comfort her.

When Qi Lu's eyes inadvertently crossed Ding Xiaolan's pretty face and turned to the corridor, he suddenly found that there were murals and something like that on the wall of the corridor. This was a vision that he hadn't discovered yesterday, and he quickly let go of the hand that was holding Ding Xiaolan's delicate body, walked to the wall, and bowed down to check it.

These are ancient murals, although the pictures have changed color over time, the tone is dull, and some places have peeled off and it is difficult to make out the contents of the murals, but Qi Lu still recognizes these murals in the style of Chinese Song Dynasty paintings.

It's just that the content of the murals makes Qi Lu a little confused, they are not the murals that he has seen in the ordinary, they all depict strange-shaped creatures, maybe this is not a creature, or maybe it is some kind of monster and evil god.

Some of them have six pairs of wings on their backs, and although they look like people, they have the head of a tiger and a leopard; Although some have webbed hands and feet, their skin is pitted and without any scales, and they look like amphibious monsters living in the ocean; Other monsters resemble mushrooms but have a long elephant trunk on their heads and bat-like wings

A common feature of these monsters is that they are extremely ugly, and their ugliness simply exceeds the imagination of the human brain, even if he looks at their appearance more, Qi Lu has a feeling of wanting to vomit.

The most unique of these paintings is that all the monsters Qi Lu had just seen gathered in a unique palace in the shape of a temple and knelt on the ground, and the god or demon they were worshipping was the master of the god or demon because the portrait part of the picture had fallen off, Qi Lu could only see him standing on a throne shaped like a Buddhist lotus platform with half a foot. In other aspects, Qi Lu couldn't see any more clues.

Qi Lu also saw that there were many engravings between the murals, and the difference between these engravings and the murals was that they were not depicted on the wall, but carved with tools such as chisels.

Among these scattered inscriptions, Qi Lu saw a familiar pattern, which was an inscription in the shape of a flower. Qi Lu looked at this mark for a long time and was silent, because this mark was extremely similar to the tattoo pattern on Zhao Gongming's arm.

The inn fell silent, and a mysterious aura was silently enveloping it, as if a dark cloud was hanging over a ruined ruin that no one visited, only in the fabled ruins.

For a long time, Qi Lu heard Ding Xiaolan behind him say to him: "I'm so afraid, those common clips in ghost movies appeared alive today." Demons set up a charming game at night, leaving you in a gorgeous house that becomes a deserted house during the day, or you find yourself sleeping on a grave. ”

"Don't be cranky, when we first met them yesterday, the sun hadn't set yet, and ghosts couldn't have appeared during the day."

"So what are they? Definitely not people. ”

Qi Lu didn't know how to answer, zombie? Or something else? Qi Lu didn't have an answer in his heart, but the only thing he could be sure of was that these things had no ill will towards them, otherwise he would not have been able to see the sun this morning.

"Let's go, let's get out of this hellish place and go to Guta Village!" Qi Lu said resolutely.

"You still want to go, maybe there's something even more terrible in that village."

"I want to see what the hell Yang Peng is doing, even if it is the Longtan Tiger's Den, I will also break in!" Qi Lu's courage is not big, but he has a stubborn personality, that is, the stranger the thing, the more he wants to know the mystery, even if he loses his life.

Qi Lu was not like this before, when did he develop his character, maybe it was because he met that person. As soon as he thought of the person who was also a teacher and friend, Qi Lu's heart ached faintly.

But Qi Lu knew that one day, he would reunite with this person in the world, that was his fate, a grievance complex that could never be avoided.

Qi Lu sighed lightly, put away the troubled thoughts in his heart, picked up the backpack again and walked forward with a firm will. Although Ding Xiaolan was a hundred unwilling in her heart, seeing that Qi Lu was so persistent, she had no choice but to follow closely behind.

Walking out of the store, Ding Xiaolan didn't expect Qi Lu to turn around and laugh at her.

"What are you laughing at?" Ding Xiaolan was stunned and suspected that Qi Lu had gone insane.

"Actually, it's good that they're ghosts, at least I saved 5,000 yuan in accommodation fees!"

Ding Xiaolan couldn't cry or laugh when she heard it, she couldn't do anything about his virtue.

Qi Lu and the two of them gradually moved away on the way to Guta Village, but what they didn't know was that the treacherous inn behind them suddenly rose with thick smoke, and as the fog completely enveloped the inn, the fog and the inn disappeared in the misty sunlight, as if this inn had never existed.

Under the shade of the tree, a cold voice sounded softly: "Soon, you will soon reach Guta Village, there are more surprises waiting for you there." ”