The sky slowly got dark, the cold wind was blowing, and Qi Lu felt that he was about to swing. Just when the three of them were dazed, Lao Wu suddenly pointed ahead happily and said, "Where are you looking?" ”

Qi Lu looked and found that the trees in the woods had become scarce at some point, and his vision had become much wider, the road was covered with weeds and low bushes on both sides, and there was a black building on the side of the road in front of them, but it was too dark to see what kind of building it was.

The three of them quickened their pace and walked to the front of the building, only to find that it was a house made of wood, and Lao Wu was about to go up and knock on the door, but Qi Lu grabbed him and said, "The eaves are full of cobwebs, where will there be people living in the house." ”

"Then let's go in and rest for the night, I don't want to be eaten by tigers and leopards at night." Lao Wu stretched out his hand to push the dusty wooden door, and the rotten wooden door collapsed in response, stirring up a cloud of dust.

The three of them walked into the wooden house with their noses covered, and found that the ground was full of dust and dirt, and the few worn-out wooden benches were also rotten.

Fortunately, Qi Lu and Lao Wu were people who often slept in the wilderness, and they picked up some dry firewood and hay from outside and brought them into the house. Lao Wu took out a lighter and tried it, and was delighted to find that he could still light a fire, so he hurriedly lit a fire with grass and firewood, and the three of them gathered around the fire to make a fire.

Xu Xian's expression looked a little nervous, he kept looking at the wooden house, and finally said to Qi Lu worriedly: "This house reveals evil spirits, I don't think it is suitable to stay here for a long time." ”

"What are you afraid of, even if this is a demonic house, I will sleep until tomorrow morning before leaving." Qi Lu dismantled all the broken wooden benches and threw them in the fire, and then cheered Xu Xian up. "With the ability of the three of us, which demon can hurt us? Everyone is tired today, how can you rush tomorrow if you don't rest? ”

"That's all it can be." Xu Xian sat cross-legged, closed his eyes and rested like an old monk, Qi Lu also leaned on the corner of the wall and dozed off, only Lao Wu was not dirty, he fell asleep beside the fire.

In the middle of the night, Qi Lu was awakened by a strange noise outside the house, he quickly got up and came to the corner of the door to peek out, but saw nothing.

"Is it a hallucination?" Qi Lu yawned and was about to go to sleep when he suddenly heard a woman's sharp and miserable cry for help, and he couldn't help but be stunned. He quickly turned his head to look outside the house, and he was shocked by what he saw.

I saw a girl with a beautiful face but a disheveled hair suddenly run out of the wild grass. She was wearing ancient clothes, and her clothes had been torn by thorns, but she didn't care about the pain, but ran towards the wooden house without her life, crying for help while fleeing. But just as she was about to run to the wooden house, she stumbled and fell to the ground.

This fall seemed to exhaust all her strength, and she could no longer get up. But she was still crying and screaming and crawling desperately towards the hut, as if it were her shelter.

Qi Lu couldn't help but feel compassion, when he was about to go out to help her, his hand was grabbed, and when he looked back, he found that Lao Wu was standing behind him for some time, Xu Xian also woke up, presumably they also heard the movement outside.

Lao Wu said softly: "I made a low-level mistake again." ”

Qi Lu was stunned for a moment, but then he understood, because a resentment had quietly penetrated into his nose.

At this moment, there was another sound of messy footsteps in the grass, followed by several young men in ancient clothes like the fallen woman, who came to the woman's side and helped her up.

Old Wu glanced at Qi Lu and Xu Xian, and the three of them knowingly hid behind the door to observe the movements of strangers outside.

"I'm going in, I'm going to be in!" The woman who came first shouted loudly and pushed away the hand of the person who was helping her, and ran towards the wooden house, but before she could get close to the wooden house about a meter away, she was shaken to the ground. It was as if the hut was surrounded by an invisible barrier that prevented the strangers from entering.

Lao Wu said in a low voice: "They are not living people, they are all ghosts. Don't be fooled by the illusion, I guess they're setting up a game to lure us out. ”

"Well, you're right." Qi Lu nodded lightly and said, "I was careless just now, and I almost caught their way." ”

Xu Xian said disapprerovingly: "It is our duty to eradicate evil spirits, and I will go out now to destroy them." ”

"Don't worry!" Qi Lu hurriedly stopped his actions, "Let's see what the hell they do first." ”

At this time, a thin young man outside the house spoke, "Ah Xian, stop having illusions, let's wait for God's curse." ”

"I've had enough, I've had enough!" The fallen woman's voice whimpered, "When will this endless ordeal end?" ”

Suddenly a dull thunder sounded from the clouds in the sky, and the ghosts outside the house shrank in fright when they heard the thunder, but they did not run away, but snuggled up to each other to comfort each other.

With a "bang", a bright light flashed, and Qi Lu was surprised to find that several cross-like wooden stakes appeared in the ground behind these ghosts, and these ghosts were involuntarily attached to the wooden frame as if they were firmly attracted by a magnet. A rope protrudes from the top of each wooden frame, holding them tightly around their necks.

"Forgive us!"

"God, save us!"

The ghosts let out a wail, and their faces were full of horror.

Countless whistling sounds burst through the air, golden arrows from all directions, piercing the bodies of these poor ghosts, and shooting them into a thousand holes. The ghosts slowly swallowed in the screams.

"It's a strange thing." Qi Lu sighed softly, it stands to reason that ghosts will only be punished in hell after they die, how can these lonely souls and wild ghosts be punished in this forest.

"Don't be silent, this is not true, it must be a bureau set up by the evil ghosts, who want to trick us into going out to rescue" Before the words were finished, Lao Wu's pupils suddenly expanded, and he gestured in a panic to signal everyone to look outside.

I saw that the corpses of the ghosts hanging on the wooden frame revealed their original forms at some point, and the woman who fell at the beginning was a big golden carp, and her companions were all shrimps, crabs and other monsters.

"Were they monsters when they were alive?" Qi Lu was stunned again. He looked back and saw that Lao Wu had the same confused look in his eyes as he was, while Xu Xian had an unusually sad expression on his face.

Qi Lu's heart couldn't help but move, and before he could whisper to Xu Xian, he heard the sound of rope breaking one after another outside the house, and when he looked back again, he found that the ropes that hung the corpses of those monsters were all broken, and they all fell to the ground, and the wooden frame disappeared in the blink of an eye.

There was silence outside, and not even the sound of the wind could be heard.

After a few minutes or so, there were several painful groans from the corpse, and the strange ghosts, who seemed to be completely dead, rose from the ground and regained their human form, and the wounds from the golden arrow healed on their own.

Qi Lu was startled, opened his eyes, and found that the demon spirits were already sitting around and talking in a whisper, and the content of the words seemed to be talking about the wooden house where he was resting.

"It's been a long time since I've smelled a raw person."

"Yes, it's strange, there's someone in the house today."

"Hurry up, or you will miss tonight, and I am afraid that you will suffer for another year!"

"Well, wait a little longer, I will not add to my iniquity."

……

When Qi Lu heard these brainless words they said, he was already curious, he turned his head and asked Lao Wu softly, "What should we do?" ”

"What else can I do, of course, stay in the house and wait for the sun to come out before making plans." Lao Wu glanced at him, and Xu Xian also nodded in agreement.

But Qi Lu didn't do it, he wanted to urgently know where these demon spirits outside came from, otherwise how could he sleep peacefully tonight. So he passed by the two of them and walked straight out the door.

"Hey, you messing with you, you're really going to have nothing to do!" Lao Wu cursed him, and had no choice but to follow him and walk out.

"Ah, it's been a long time since we've seen a living person, let's eat him!" The woman who appeared first saw Qi Lu and the three of them come out of the wooden house by themselves, and she immediately became overjoyed, and the bloody mouth had already appeared in the shape of a fish.

"Don't hurt innocent people!" A companion in a green shirt hurriedly stopped her movements, and when he saw Qi Lu and the three of them coming, he shouted, "Who are you and so dressed so strangely." ”

Qi Lu pursed his lips and smiled, thinking that of course you ancients would think that I was dressed strangely, so I would better ask them first and ask for directions by the way.

So he imitated the tone of the man in the green shirt and said, "We are passing merchants, from a remote place in the north of the country. I don't know who you are? ”

"We are all people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there is no way back if we linger here." The man in the green shirt suddenly lowered his face and said, "Everyone, we are ghosts, aren't you afraid?" ”

Qi Lu replied with a smile: "I haven't met a living person along the way, and it's a pleasant thing to chat with ghosts." ”

"You better go back the way you came, and don't lose your lives unjustly."

"Hehe, the heart is naturally far away from all evils, why am I afraid!"

Qi Lu's words were obviously a little ironic, and the woman's face immediately changed after hearing this, and her hand instantly turned into a sharp claw, and she rushed towards Qi Lu.

Qi Lu saw that he had angered her, he didn't panic at all, he recited a spell lightly in his mouth, and as soon as the woman's hand touched Qi Lu's body, she felt like she had touched a piece of burning charcoal, and she couldn't help wailing, and quickly retracted her hands.

Qi Lu's face also changed, and he shouted: "You wait for lonely souls and wild ghosts, don't go to reincarnate with peace of mind, you actually have a harmful heart, do you really want me to beat you to the point that you are willing to give up?" ”

"Mage spare your life!" These demon spirits suddenly knew that Qi Lu and the others were not ordinary passers-by, and their faces were so frightened that they trembled, and they quickly knelt down and kowtowed to ask for guilt, and the woman who attacked him had crimson cheeks and said in a low voice: "The slave family has no eyes, offended the real person, and I hope that you have a large number of them, and they will help us and other lonely souls." ”