Just when everyone was confused, Qi Lu said with a smile: "Please take the shovels and hoes at home, and you will know later." ”

Everyone has seen Qi Lu's ability to subdue the monster just now, and naturally he is also impressed, and when he says this, he is naturally convinced, and they all take tools from their respective homes and focus on him, ready to go with him to eradicate this monster that disturbs them.

Ding Xiaolan asked, "What do you want to do?" ”

"Hey, hey!" Qi Lu grinned and said, "Don't ask too much, I'll let you watch a good show." ”

"Fun?" Although Ding Xiaolan had doubts, she still followed Qi Lu to see where he was going to take everyone.

After a while, Qi Lu led everyone to the pit where he and Ding Xiaolan found the dead yesterday.

"Everyone, help me dig out all the stuff in the pit." After speaking, Qi Lu also took a hoe from the villagers and prepared to excavate.

"That's unacceptable!" Yang Yi stepped forward to stop Qi Lu's actions.

"Why?"

"This pit is unlucky, and digging it up is afraid that it will disturb evil spirits and bring disaster to the village."

Qi Lu was stunned, when he came, he estimated that someone would stop him from digging the pit, but he never expected that it would be the village chief himself.

"Yes, the village chief is right!"

"Xiao Yang, don't bother everyone."

Seeing that everyone was blocking one after another, Qi Lu became more and more confident in his heart. If the people who died in the pit had not died by accident, the people of Guta Village would not have stopped themselves from digging the pit. What's more, he had already inspected the corpses, but they were poisoned and died, which was clearly an unnatural death!

Although everyone said that this pit could not be dug, Qi Lu had an idea as soon as his eyes rolled, and he said to everyone with a grin: "It is precisely because there are evil things in the pit that I came to clear the evil and restore a quiet place in Guta Village." ”

"Okay, since Xiao Yang thinks that the monster is hiding in here, let's dig it out." Yang Yi took the lead in digging up the soil in the pit.

As the corpses in the pit were dug up one by one, Qi Lu's face became more and more ugly, and Ding Xiaolan was also surprised, not knowing what to do.

Because these are not the corpses of people they saw yesterday, but the corpses of animals like cows, sheep, pigs, etc.

After only one day's work, the corpse in the pit had changed, and the doubts in Qi Lu's heart were accumulating more and more, and he couldn't figure out what was going on.

Yang Yi said to him: "These are all livestock slaughtered during the sacrifice in the village in the past, they are contaminated with the bad luck and mildew of ghosts, you turn them out now, I am afraid that they will attract ghosts." ”

"It's okay." Qi Lu recited the incantation again, and then threw a few talismans into the pit. After doing these rituals, he said to everyone, "This pit was originally very resentful, but now that I have dissolved it, we can just bury the dead bodies of these animals again." ”

"Thank you Xiao Yang, I'm really tired of you." Yang Yi beckoned everyone to backfill the pit.

After the thing was done, everyone gradually dispersed, Qi Lu and Ding Xiaolan were about to go back to rest, but Yang Yi stopped him from behind.

"Uncle Yang, do you have anything else?"

"The matter of the key, you see ......" Yang Yi stopped when he wanted to speak.

"Uncle Yang, don't worry, in a few days, I will sweep away the demons in the village, and I will naturally hand over the key to you and fulfill my father's wish."

"That's good." Yang Yi said goodbye and left.

Looking at Yang Yi's figure walking farther and farther, Ding Xiaolan scolded in a trembling voice: "Human corpses can be turned into animal corpses, it seems that there are a lot of monsters in this village, if you don't return to China sooner, you have to say that you will stay for a few more days, your brain is sick?" "Blades

"You're right, the countryside is originally a place where ghosts and monsters can easily gather, not to mention that this kind of deep mountain and old forest is more likely to provoke evil spirits. When it's dark, those guys like to come out the most......" Before Qi Lu's words were finished, he heard Ding Xiaolan's scream.

"You want to scare my mother to death! Let's go back to sleep! ”

"Don't you think it's strange that no one asked us how we knew about the existence of this pit?"

"Hmph, they all regard you as a master of unpredictable prophets, who dares to be boring."

"If only things were as simple as you think. But I'll have an answer later. ”

Ding Xiaolan was about to ask what the answer was, when she saw that Qi Lu had already strode towards the entrance of the village, and hurriedly followed him closely, for fear that he would leave him in this ghost place.

When he was about to arrive at the door, Qi Lu turned around and stopped by a nearby pigsty. In the circle, a big black and white fat pig is sleeping.

Ding Xiaolan asked, "What's the matter, do you want to eat pork?" ”

Qi Lu smiled: "Do you know whose pig this is?" ”

"I don't know." Ding Xiaolan has only been here for a short time, and she has never been familiar with the environment in the village.

"Yang Ning's family." Qi Lu said: "Do you still remember the first day you came to Guta Village, when Yang Ning was feeding pigs here, and when he saw us, he came to ask? ”

"I remember." Ding Xiaolan also remembered, "But what do you want to say?" Is it related to pigs? ”

"I remember there were at least a few pigs in the pigsty that day, but now there is only one."

"Maybe the ancestors killed a few pigs today."

"No way, I saw four pigs when I passed by here in the morning when I went to the ancestral hall."

Qi Lu was about to continue, when he saw Ding Xiaolan's body trembling slightly in the cold wind, so he asked with concern: "What's wrong with you, are you uncomfortable?" ”

"I ...... I thought of Sere. ”

As soon as he mentioned this name, Qi Lu was also feeling a faint pain in his heart, and he said softly: "Don't think about those unpleasant things, let's go back and rest." ”

When he got home, Qi Lu helped Ding Xiaolan to bed, and then returned to the room by himself, sat on a chair and looked out the window, his thoughts seemed to have drifted to 108,000 miles away.

The moon came out and appeared like a sickle in the unpredictable starry sky.

It took a long time for Qi Lu to come back from his contemplation, he stood up, cut off the wire in front of the window and put it in his pocket with pliers, and then opened the door and walked out.

Under the moonlight, Qi Lu was silent, holding his breath and walking on the sheep intestine path, with a huge black shadow in front of him.

After a while, Qi Lu came to this black shadow, this was the ancestral hall of Guta Village that he had come to in the morning. Qi Lu turned around and saw that no one was following, so he took out the wire specially made before going out just now, and used the method taught by Lao Wu to pry the iron lock open, and the figure flashed into the ancestral hall and quietly closed the door.

There was also a special smell wafting through the hall, the residual smell of firecrackers and offerings that had been lit during the day. With the moonlight shining in from the window, Qi Lu bypassed the many tablets in the front row, went straight to the statue of Hou Yi, took it off lightly, and retreated to the corner and squatted down.

Qi Lu turned on the flashlight and turned the light to the lowest. In the faint light of the flashlight, he saw a visible scratch on the front chest of the Hou Yi statue, which was scratched by someone with a fingernail.

This finger mark is very new, he saw this trace when he worshiped his ancestors during the day, and he realized that there may be some ulterior secrets hidden in it, because Yang Yi told him that the ancestral hall is only open a few times a year, and Hou Yi is their ancestor, and the statue is damaged by the villagers It is impossible not to repair it in time, so the origin of this finger mark is very suspicious.

There is also a trace of blood on the base of the Hou Yi statue, which seems to have been left on the statue at the same time as the finger marks. Qi Lu sniffed it with his nose and was basically sure that it was human blood.

It may be that someone tried to steal the statue and accidentally broke the statue and injured his hand at the same time, so he left a blood stain on the base. However, the statue was made only a few decades, the material is ordinary pineapple wood, and it can't be sold for a few bucks in the antique market, why would anyone want to steal it, is there any secret hidden in the statue?

In the dark, Qi Lu was puzzled by this seemingly ordinary statue, and began to wonder if he was a little suspicious, and didn't sleep in the middle of the night to ponder a trivial thing that was originally uneventful.

Qi Lu couldn't sleep, and Ding Xiaolan was also in bed with a lot of thoughts and couldn't sleep peacefully.

"Knock knock!" There was a knock on the door, Ding Xiaolan thought it was Qi Lu who came to chat with her, and quickly got out of bed to open the door.

But she was wrong, it was Gu Yuming who came in.

"Doctor Gu, is there anything wrong with you at such a late hour?"

"I'm here to bring you medicine." Gu Yuming raised the medicine jar in his hand.

"Thank you then." Ding Xiaolan took the medicine jar and smelled a pungent medicinal fragrance in her brain.

"Drink it while it's hot, the effect of the medicine won't be obvious when it's cold."

Ding Xiaolan was stunned for a moment in her heart, but when she saw Gu Yuming's kind expression, she hesitated and tasted it.

Gu Yuming's decoction does not have the bitter taste of ordinary Chinese medicine, but has a hint of cool sweetness.

"I'm afraid that you will find the medicine bitter, so I specially added licorice. Miss Ding, the taste is okay, right? ”

Ding Xiaolan put her mind at ease and began to drink the medicine in large gulps.

After drinking the medicine, Gu Yuming also laughed.

At this time, Ding Xiaolan realized that Gu Yuming's laughter was so terrifying, when she realized that the situation was not good, her whole body was soft and had no strength at all, she didn't even have a chance to call for help, and the person had collapsed to the ground like a dead pig and fell asleep.

Regarding the changes that happened in Ding Xiaolan's room, Qi Lu in the potential ancestral hall had no idea. He was still studying the statue, holding it in his hand and looking over and over again but couldn't find anything peculiar, so he tapped the statue up and down with his hands, listening to the dull sound, Qi Lu judged that it was solid, and there could be nothing hidden inside.

It seems that he is really making a big fuss, Qi Lu put the statue of Hou Yi back in its place, and then quietly left the ancestral hall. On the way back, Qi Lu checked the livestock in the village again before deciding to go home and sleep.

When Qi Lu took out the key and was about to open the door, he accidentally found that the door on Ding Xiaolan's side was hidden, and he couldn't help but secretly say: "It's strange, why hasn't she slept so late?" ”

"Beauty, did you sleep?"

There was silence in the room, and there was no answer.

Qi Lu's nerves tensed instantly, he hurriedly pushed open Ding Xiaolan's half-open door, and by the dim moonlight, he saw that Ding Xiaolan's bed was empty.

"Ding Xiaolan, where are you?" Qi Lu suddenly panicked, and hurriedly searched every corner of the room, but he didn't see her.

A gust of wind suddenly blew from behind, and before Qi Lu could turn around, he received a heavy blow to the head, and then he didn't know anything.