"Why?"

I groaned unconsciously, my palms still resting on the cold, oozing wooden door. As the night grew darker, the wind whistled more and more intensely, and although the bright and warm room was opposite, I only felt that it was even more cold and biting.

"Holy Maiden, I will retire first."

As soon as the old man's voice fell, faint footsteps sounded in the room. And I woke up like a dream, threw the doorknob like an electric shock, and pulled Yao all the way to tiptoe all the way to the alley on the side of the wooden house.

There was no light in the gap between the two rows of low houses, and I clutched my lips tightly, and my eyes narrowed to the slowly opening door.

I saw a figure more than four feet tall walking backwards, and after a simple salute, he turned and walked into the prosperous darkness. Soon after the mysterious man left, a slender black shadow appeared at the door, and the outline should be Xuan, but she didn't make any superfluous movements, just stood in place and looked at the direction in which the person disappeared, and was reluctant to leave for a long time.

The faint light of the candle lamp could only illuminate the side of her face, and the white face carried a rare anxiety at this time.

"Ugh."

A sigh wafted in, mingled with the wind, and it was not even possible to determine if it was just an auditory hallucination.

Just as I leaned my head to see more details, she closed the door and went back inside. Suddenly, the orange-yellow light shooting from the doorway was cut off by Qi Qi, and the world fell into an eerie cold night again.

I slowly removed the hand covering Yao's face, and I couldn't calm down for a long time. But at the moment, there is no other choice but to go back.

Thinking of this, I straightened up, tried to calm my messy breathing, and pulled Yao up and walked to the door.

"I'll reply—"

Just before his finger poked out, the door was opened from the inside, and his frowning face was instantly revealed.

"Huh? How are you? ”

After realizing that there was someone at the door, Yu was also taken aback, and then she lowered her head and her eyes fell on Yao behind me,

"You brought her back? That's great! Come in, come in! ”

He shouted, dancing with joy for a while, and the entanglement of Fang Cai was swept away. But perhaps because she never learned how to disguise, the overall movements and expressions looked unnatural.

"Uh...... Why don't you give it up? ”

I cautiously reminded me, and then I realized that I had blocked the only entrance, and hurriedly retreated to the side.

The room had clearly been reorganized, the furniture had been shattered and collapsed was gone, and the scratches on the walls had been carefully smoothed, except for a few marks that were too deep to be repaired, were essentially the same as they had been seen when I first arrived.

The only difference is that there is an extra single bed in the empty space in the living room away from the window.

"Well, how did you get her back? Tell me about it! ”

She took one of Yao's small hands and stared at me with wide eyes, as if she didn't care at all about me sneaking out alone.

Although I feel a little strange, but at least there is one less trouble, and the only task left now is how to make up the experience during this period of time reasonably and fluently, and completely take out Wei Ming.

So, while figuring out the vocabulary, I slowed down my speech as much as I could,

"That...... Actually, it was just a misunderstanding, there was a group of people who lived in Wei Ming - ah no, it was Wei Fern, the villagers of Wei Fern, thinking that Yao had blasphemed their faith, you know, she wasn't ...... before"

I'm not a good liar, and I'm sweating hard when I accidentally leak my mouth. But just when I thought that she would notice the clues, she just stared at Yao's forehead without any movement, and at the same time her face gradually became solemn.

"Bah, Bah? Are you listening? ”

After finally hearing my shout, she looked at me as if she had just come back to her senses, and only after a few seconds did she smile awkwardly and replied,

"Ah, haha, I'm sorry, I'm a little sleepy. Or else! Let's all get some rest tonight! We'll talk after tomorrow's festival, huh? ”

I was completely stunned as I looked at the lame explanation, and there was only one thought in my mind - what kind of deal did that mysterious man make with him to turn a man who had been in the wild for so many years into a nerd?

"Good! Then it's settled, I'll go inside, good night! ”

Ke Yu didn't notice Yao's abnormality at all, or I didn't hide my doubts, but I walked to the edge of the bedroom as I spoke. When she was about to enter the door, she suddenly turned around and said,

"By the way, let's go to bed early, the three of us will go together tomorrow! Aren't you curious?! ”

I looked at the excitement of the contrived and only felt extremely depressed. And she didn't delay any longer, and after closing the door, she didn't make a sound.

"What the hell is going on......"

I whispered and looked back at Yao, who was sitting upright on the bench, her dull eyes staring vacantly at her toes together. I'm a little hairy, think about it carefully, she really hasn't said a word for so long since I met now, like a puppet at the mercy of others, if this is due to the fright at Wei Ming, it would be too exaggerated.

"Well, why don't you sleep in the back room, after all, it's cold outside, you can too-"

Before the words of concern could utter, Yao stiffened as if she had received an order, and then walked into the room with erratic steps. Seeing her manipulating every joint like a crude machine, I was not just a numb scalp, this kind of movement, this kind of expression, I didn't look like a living person at all!

I remembered what I saw in the church, and I gasped unconsciously.

"Delusion, it may be a delusion......"

Fooling myself, I wanted to give myself a good breath, but my hands trembled so much that I didn't obey the call at all.

In order to confirm again, and for peace of mind, I crept to Yao's bedroom, stretching my neck and looking in.

The door was not closed, there was no light, and in the darkness, I could only vaguely see that the bedding had not moved, and Yao was lying straight in the center, her hands close to her sides, and her legs were bent in a strange arc. I swallowed, cold sweat unconsciously covered my forehead, and my vision blurred by panic couldn't even tell if the scene was reality.

But just as I was about to leave quickly, I accidentally stepped on the uncleaned sand and made a faint friction sound. Suddenly, goosebumps spread all the way along the back ridge. I jerked my head up and found that Yao had opened her eyes, and her jet-black pupils were squeezed around the edge of her sockets, stabbing at her like a sword with an inexplicably threatening gaze.

"That...... I'll close the door for you. ”

I hurriedly reached out and closed the door with force, and then withdrew a few meters with trepidation, and only after making sure that there was no sound of Yao walking in the room did I dare to crawl on thin ice to the narrow bed at the end of the corridor.

"Lean ......"

I cursed in a low voice, the sudden rise in pressure that made it almost impossible to breathe, and I pulled open the thick quilt, and I twisted into it like a maggot, and then turned my face in the direction of Yao's room, not daring to move easily.

In this way, in the alternation of fear and sleepiness, I kept such a tight position and fell asleep.

The next day, before the dawn sun dawned, and the jungle was still shrouded in a precarious mist, I felt my shoulders gently shake, and the chaotic and meaningless dreams gradually dissipated.

"Hmm...... Who'......"

I waved my hands in a daze, and the blur in front of me slowly faded like ripples, but when I saw the strange face in front of me, I couldn't help but cry out,

"Why! What are you doing?! ”

The remaining sleepiness shattered like lightning, and I sprang out of the curled futon in an instant, and retreated vigilantly to the head of the bed.

After the goal was achieved, the half-bent over also put away her grimace contentedly, laughed and walked back to the living room. Following her footsteps, I noticed that Yao had already woken up and sat on a wooden chair.

"Damn! You are ————"

As the memory recovered, the angry scolding that was about to brush the toothed tongue was also swallowed. I crawled out of bed in a trance, and for a moment I didn't know how to face these two people with their own ghosts.

"Didn't I tell you to wake up early! Look at Sister Yao, how well-behaved. ”

She caressed Yao's cheeks with great maternal affection, and complained to me with some resentment.

"......"

I was about to excuse myself, but when I turned my head and saw the still dark forest sea outside the window, I still sighed helplessly and asked,

"It's too early."

After hearing this, Ke Yu explained to me with a serious face,

"Hey, the priest said that early morning is the most concentrated time of the day, and ......"

Suddenly, she seemed to remember something, and her face became extremely ugly in an instant, and the words that she had only said halfway were replaced by prevarications with a weak heart.

"No, it's nothing, just get up."

As soon as the words fell, the silence of the early morning took advantage of the void, dragging all the faint sounds into the vast darkness.

I watched the slightly frightened look in her eyes, and guessed what was causing her mood to turn so quickly - I am afraid that the reward offered by the mysterious man last night was too rich for Lai to react to now - today was the day she was involved in a murder.

As for the reward that can make her lose her mind, I can only think of one possibility - that is Jue!

No matter what the mysterious man talked to him about last night and how it went, he must have mentioned information about Jue, and he promised him the same as me that he would let them meet again after the matter was completed.

It's just that......

I looked down and pondered, but the clues in my mind ended up tangled in a mess. Because at present, Wei Ming is probably the only one who knows about Jue's existence, and he probably won't tell this kind of information casually.

So that one was Wei Ming's subordinate last night? Did he want her to kill herself?

After waking up in this unknown and chaotic world, there has always been very little time left for me to consider and reason, as if there is an invisible force lurking behind, always when I stop, unleash the long-awaited killing machine, roaring and forcing me into another desperate situation.

Of course, this time, it will not be an exception.

"Everyone."

A clear and monotonous voice came from the door, and Yao, who had been sitting for a long time, immediately shook her feet when she heard it, and the three pairs of eyes in the room looked at the door together, waiting for the man in the holy white robe to say the next long-awaited order,

"It's time to hit the road."