Yin walkers, one of the most mysterious professions in the Xuanmen, these people live by detaining souls, and can also be regarded as a kind of trader, catching and selling the resentful spirits wandering in the world to the underworld, in exchange for Yangshou, Taoism, Fulu and some of the things they need.

When they are not working, they look like ordinary people, at most they are focused on yin qi, and only when they are working, they will show their fangs. It's not that they tend to hide, it's a characteristic of their profession, and it can also be seen as a preferential treatment given to them by their employers.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that I suspect that it is one of them who has just come.

He fled with his front foot, and I chased him out with my back foot and saw no one, and the easiest thing to do was to walk in the shadow.

Some people may say, since the three of us are not at the end of our lives, and we have not refused to be reincarnated, how can they come to the door?

That's because you don't know them, and sometimes they take on private jobs.

For example, clean up a well-known demon and ghost and get Fu Lu in his hands. Or a part-time killer, taking away the souls of some people and selling them, as long as you can give them a reward to make them happy, there's nothing wrong with it.

Although I wasn't sure where the other party came from, I didn't dare to take it lightly: "Okay, you guys go to sleep, I'll keep vigil." ”

I sat on the edge of the kang, leaning against the wall, took out my mobile phone and wanted to flip through the headlines, who knew that there was no network signal in this broken ravine, so I could only play and jump when I was bored, and I played for a night, and the good ones didn't kill again.

Although it is still unclear what is sacred to us for, we must not be choked on food. When I got up in the morning and ate some bread, I told Ji Ling to go to An Shaman's house to stay temporarily, and then without a moment's delay, I took the poplar tree to the deep valley where the toad cellar was located.

All the way is barren mountains and wilderness, dense red pine forests cover the sky and the sun, and from time to time there are hares, roe deer and other things.

This should be put in normal times, I must catch a roe deer barbecue, but at this moment, there is no way to go in the deep mountains and dense forests, so I can only grope forward in the forest with one foot deep and one foot shallow, not to mention barbecue, and I have no interest in even talking.

Through this dense forest, the terrain in front of you suddenly opens up, and there is a river between the two mountains, such as the river crossing the gate of heaven, which is very atmospheric.

I knew I was going in the right direction, and I was going down the river in a day's or so to reach the Toad Cellar.

But what makes me wonder is that along the way, no trace of the foreign exploration team has been found, is it not the same road?

I opened my senses and probed carefully, and there was nothing in front of me except a black blind man hibernating in a hole in an old tree.

I had no choice but to go down the river, the river surface has long been frozen, although the cold wind is cold, the snow is not thick, and it is much easier to walk.

Just before it was dark, a tall north mountain appeared in front of us in the bend, the high mountain blocked the north wind, it was a good place to camp, I patted the poplar tree to cheer him up: "Hurry up, we will camp there tonight." ”

The so-called Wangshan ran a dead horse, the mountain looked not far away, but when it arrived at the bottom of the mountain, it was already dark.

Fortunately, the moonlight is good, and we see things as usual by the moonlight.

However, just as I left the river and was about to find a sheltered place to light a bonfire, a path appeared in front of me, winding from the river to the bottom of the mountain.

We looked at each other, raised our vigilance, and moved along the road.

In about a quarter of an hour, in the spacious place under the root of the mountain ahead, a dozen or so wooden houses and thatched huts were unorganized in the moonlight.

It's just that at this time, none of the lights in the house are on, and the wind has stopped at this time, and in the silence of the winter night, this dead silence makes people panic.

Poplar asked me in a low voice, "This is an abandoned village, right?" ”

I shook my head: "It's a hunting village, let's enjoy it tonight." ”

The hunting village is a place where mountain hunters temporarily rest and stay when they go into the mountains to hunt, and most of the houses are stocked with dry firewood and grain, and perhaps they can also find dried meat and tea.

After a long day of trekking, even we were tired.

If you can make a pot of hot tea and have a fire kang, then this day is really beautiful.

"Let's go, don't hang your face, didn't you bring that girl? Are you willing to let her go on an adventure? ”

Poplar pursed his lips and did not respond.

The two of us entered the village one after the other.

But when I got to the entrance of the village, a hundred and ten meters away from the first wooden house, I stopped and raised my hand to signal the poplar tree to stop.

Yang Shu frowned: "What's the matter?" ”

"Something is wrong, there is death!"

", why didn't I find out?"

I glared at him sharply, then drew my three-edged thorn and walked slowly towards the cabin.

Death qi is the unique aura emitted by living beings after death, unlike yin qi and corpse qi, this aura will only exist for a short period of time, if the corpse is removed, it will gradually dissipate, and if the corpse is still there, it will slowly transform into corpse qi.

In other words, there had been death in that wooden house before dark.

But I don't know if it's a man or a beast who dies, and it's normal to slaughter wild boars and roe deer in the hunting village, and these things are not good to take out of the mountains alive, so they can only be slaughtered and carried out.

This is a wooden house made of pine logs, with a lonely pestle on the side of the road, simple, but also sheltered from the wind and snow.

There are messy footprints on the snow in front of the house, and there must have been people coming in and out recently.

I asked the poplar to be on guard, and I stepped forward and slowly pushed the door open.

Everything in the house was unobstructed, in the middle was a granite heating pit, at the innermost end was a wooden bed, without bedding, with some hay, and on the wall hung some dry peppers, many of which had been torn off, and next to it hung a tattered bear skin.

There was a large wooden bucket in the corner, which should have stored water, and a blackened and yellow kettle was still sitting on the side.

I was slightly relieved to see that there were no bodies.

Maybe it was Orion who slaughtered something and left, causing me to have a false alarm.

I waved to the poplars: "Did you find anything?" ”

Poplar shook his head.

"Forget it, let's stay here, see if there are buds in the box under the bed, and if there is, let's cook some hot porridge."

The two of us entered the house, but before we could put our backpacks down, we were attracted by a strange smell in the fire pit in the middle.

Poplar complained: "Why don't you change places, what are you baking here, it stinks?" ”

The fire pit was covered in firewood ash, the granite on the side was stained with oil, and there were many pine branches split into sections next to it, and it was obvious that someone was barbeconing their prey here.

"Just open the window to let in the air, and when you get to someone's land, don't run around."

As I spoke, I went to the barrel and looked at it, and sure enough, there was still more than half a bucket of water.

There was no smell, so I poured a pot.

Although we carried mineral water, we didn't know that we would have to stay in the mountains for a few days, so we naturally had to save some money.

Walking back to the fire pit, I picked up the loose pine sticks and threw them into the pit.

But I didn't lose two pieces, but there was a click in the pit, which caught my attention, and there seemed to be a stone in the ash heap.

I took a pine branch and poked it twice, but I actually poked it in one fell swoop.

"What's that?" I simply picked it up, but as soon as I shook off the floating ash, my movements stopped suddenly.

On the branch, there is a skull!

It may not be accurate to say that it is a skull, but it should be said that it is a charred human head, with charred flesh attached to it, and the pine branch in my hand has pierced through its eye socket.

I subconsciously shook it and threw it into the ash heap, popping up a puff of ash smoke.

Yang Shu, who was turning over the box under the bed, turned his head and glanced at me: "Senior brother, if you don't hurry up and light the fire, where are you playing?" ”

I threw away the pine branch in my hand and stood up: "Don't turn over, look at what I'm playing." ”

Yang Shu was very trusted, put down what he was doing, came over, picked up the pine branch and played with it twice, and threw the pine branch out in fright.

"This ...... This is ......."

I said in a deep voice: "Barbecue head, look at it, there are gnawed tooth marks!" ”

Yang Shu suddenly got up: "What kind of demon is so bold!" ”

"There's still heat in the bottom ash, and I can't go far!"

As I spoke, I grabbed my backpack and threw it on my shoulders and strode out, poplars following closely behind, and we collected our breath, but did not slow down, and walked straight to the middle of the village in the form of ordinary people.

In the hunting village on a winter night, there was no sound except for our footsteps.

In a relatively large grass hut in the middle of the village, we finally found out the real source of the dead air, which was a cellar for the prey, and it was indeed full of meat at this time, but it was all human flesh!

The moment the cellar door opened, the corpse qi that soared into the sky rose up!

The corpses, which had been stripped naked, were neatly stacked on the wooden planks at the bottom of the cellar, and even the hair on the corpses had been washed and shaved clean, and there were seven of them, all of them adult men.

There are still some that can't be counted, because they have been chopped into pieces and neatly classified!

Seeing this scene, I almost didn't bite my back molars, these brutes have used this place as a long-term campsite.

I suppressed my anger and sneered: "These are frozen goods, just in case." The roast in the wooden house just now is probably blood food! ”

Trolls refer to freshly peeled human flesh as blood food.

The poplar tree was also so angry that he was about to explode: "These beasts, they are very particular about eating!" ”

"They must have gone hunting at night, and they will definitely be back before dawn. Let's just wait here, Lao Tzu wants to see which demon god dares to be so presumptuous in this prosperous world! ”

I pulled out the three-edged thorn and nailed it to the floor beneath my feet, the blade sinking into the wood until it reached the handle, making a muffled thud.

At the same time as this voice sounded, there was a sudden soft noise outside the window.

"Who!"

As I asked, I leapt to my feet and shot open the nailed window, and another triangular thorn came out of my hand and flew in front of the figure that was about to turn and flee.

The man was so frightened that he took a few steps back and almost crashed into my arms.

I held her up, frowned and asked, "Why are you here!" ”

Luckily, I reacted quickly, and the three-edged thorn reversed direction when she got out of her hand, otherwise the blow just now would have pierced her heart.

It was Ji Ling who came.

At this time, she didn't know whether she was cold or frightened, her little face was pale, and when she saw that my eyes were not good, she hurriedly lowered her head.

"I ...... I didn't find Grandma An, she didn't know where she went, and I didn't dare to be at home, so I had to chase you. ”

I snorted, turned and left.

Lying at least has to be reasonable, although we didn't go all the way, but she was a little girl, with limited foot strength, if she set off half an hour later than us, how could it be that we arrived on the front foot, and she caught up with the back foot?

But before I could take two steps, I suddenly noticed something strange in the wind behind me.

I turned around sharply and took Ji Ling, who was also following behind, but I saw that under the moonlight, the village was still cold, and the silver moon reflected the snow white, but there was no trace of people.