Ye Mu opened his eyes with difficulty, and he found himself lying on top of an open field, charred dirt ground, dead trees, crows that made terrible noises, and the eerie villa in the distance...

The sky was pitch black, and there were no stars to be seen, and no moon to be found. As far as the eye can see, the mountains are full of white candles.

"Are you awake?" Dai Qing's surprised voice came from her ears.

"Hmm... Where is this? Ye Mu scratched his head.

"Let's go under the whirlpool..."Dai Qing frowned.

"What about the others?"

"I don't know, when I woke up, it was in this place."

Ye Mu touched his chest, the wound on his body had completely healed, he rubbed his eyes, and stood up with Dai Qing's support.

"Ye Mu, do you know what these candles are for?"

Ye Mu touched the long sword on his waist, exhaled lightly and said, "I don't know, I'll study it, you stand in place." ”

"Hmm." Dai Qing nodded, holding a silver gray pistol in his hand, standing vigilantly in place.

The two of them were surrounded by jagged white candles, and in the dark corner where there were no candles, they didn't know what kind of danger was hidden.

Ye Mu picked open the two candles under his feet with his long sword, lit a fireball with his fingertips, and cautiously walked towards a dark corner.

"Cake?" Ye Mu was stunned for a moment, and saw a pink strawberry cake in the dark corner.

"What?" Dai Qing blinked.

"There's a cake here..."Ye Mu leaned over and picked up the small pink cake on the ground, stretched out his finger and dipped it in some strawberry-flavored cream and licked it, smacking his lips and said, "It tastes good." ”

Dai Qing snorted lightly and reproached, "You eat indiscriminately again." ”

Ye Mu laughed twice, thought for a moment, and said to Dai Qing: "How much dry food is there?" When the dry food is finished and there is really nothing to eat, let's eat this cake. ”

"Where is there any dry food, soaking wet, black water, do you want to taste it?" Dai Qing twisted the backpack strap on her shoulder, and the black water droplets were squeezed out of the shoulder strap by her.

Ye Mu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't be, I'm in my stomach now, and I guess I've drunk a lot..."

"Do we still have plastic bags?"

"There's a little crisper bag left."

Ye Mu was a little surprised: "It's been a few months, and it hasn't been used up yet?" ”

"I don't usually need it." Dai Qing glanced at Ye Mu, took the cake and put it in the fresh-keeping bag.

Dai Qing's eyes inadvertently glanced at the corner where Ye Mu found the cake before, and suddenly his expression froze, and he pointed to the corner and asked, "Ye Mu, there were no candles in that location before, right?" ”

Ye Mu was also stunned, turned his head to look, and saw that a brand-new white candle was suddenly lit in the dark and lightless corner before.

"Interesting... There must have been no candles in this position before. Ye Mu raised his eyebrows, "And why did the cake suddenly appear in the wilderness?" ”

"Could it be that kind of situation, we are blinded by ghosts... Actually, it's not a cake, it's poop maggots or something..."Dai Qing's little brain began to give full play to her imagination.

"Stop, stop! I'll look at it in another place. Ye Mu immediately interrupted Dai Qing's brain, and then walked towards another dark place.

The cold wind gusted, and the white candles on the ground flickered, and several were blown out in an instant.

Ye Mu had just stepped into the darkness with his front feet, and a miserable white grimace suddenly appeared in front of him, this was a terrifying woman's face, her eyes were prominent, her gaze was fierce, and her long tongue was dragged out of her mouth.

The female ghost held a rusty kitchen knife in her hand, and slashed at Ye Mu without saying a word!

"Holy!" Ye Mu scolded angrily, drew his long sword and slashed towards the female ghost!

The female ghost let out a piercing and sharp scream, and her head was cut off by Ye Mu's sword, and when Ye Mu looked at it again, there was no shadow of a female ghost, and there was an empty piece in front of her, and a brand-new white candle appeared under her feet again.

"What's that?" Dai Qing's face turned pale, and she asked with palpitations.

Ye Mu squinted his eyes slightly, and said softly: "I don't know what the hell it is, but I probably know the rules of the game here, and there are still some details that need to be experimented." ”

With that, he walked towards a dark clearing with no light.

As soon as the words fell, a hideous-looking pig-headed monster suddenly appeared in front of Ye Mu, the pig-headed monster didn't seem to notice Ye Mu behind him, and squatted on the ground to eat a piece of blood-stained ribs.

Ye Mu's eyes lit up, and the long sword was cut down in an instant, instantly cutting off the two thighs of the pig-headed monster.

The pig-headed monster let out a hysterical scream, and it turned around with difficulty, its two thick arms flapping wildly on the ground.

Ye Mu looked at the furious and painful pig-headed monster in front of him, and said playfully: "Come, look here." ”dm

The pig-headed monster roared angrily, his five fingers digging deep into the dirt, and slowly crawled towards Ye Mu. Blood flowed from beneath him, and the candle on the ground was crushed into a lump of white wax cake by its muscout body.

Ye Mu frowned slightly, no longer hesitated, and a fireball was thrown towards the pig-headed monster.

The scorching fireball ignited the monster, and it wasn't long before the pig-headed monster burned to death in the flames.

Ye Mu turned around, and the monster corpse behind him had disappeared, replaced by brand-new white candles.

Dai Qing's mouth opened wide in surprise: "These monsters, when they die, they will turn into candles?" ”

"I don't think so." Ye Mu shook his head: "I feel that these candles are like a kind of enchantment, and the place where there is no candle flame is like another world, where all kinds of monsters are hidden, well... And maybe food. ”

Dai Qing nodded, and then wondered: "If you have these conclusions, you should have been able to come to them in the second test, so why do you have to try again?" ”

"I want to see if these monsters can get out of the darkness and into the candle flame." Ye Mu frowned and said: "The truth is beyond my expectations, when I walked into the darkness, it was like pulling the monsters sealed in the darkness to the world where I was, and the candle flame could no longer contain them. ”

Dai Qing leaned over and observed the candles under his feet, and analyzed: "In other words, the darkness is our forbidden area, and it is also the only way for us to obtain food and supplies, but if we accidentally release the monsters in the darkness, they are likely to destroy the candles here and create more darkness..."

The corners of Ye Mu's mouth rose slightly, gently touched Dai Qing's little head, and said with a smile: "Our Dai Qing is still the smartest, and I don't need to explain too much." ”

Dai Qing squinted her beautiful eyes like a crescent moon: "Then where are we going now?" ”

"We have to go and meet with the other partners, but we'd better go to that villa first, a gust of wind just now blew out a lot of candles, if it suddenly rains in this strange place..."Ye Mu raised his eyebrows, and the next words were self-evident.

As soon as she heard about entering the villa, Dai Qing couldn't help but shudder, in her memory, casually entering these messy houses, she had never encountered anything good...

At the beginning, the villa of the perverted research man left an indelible memory for Dai Qing, so much so that now when he sees this kind of building of unknown origin, Dai Qing will be very vigilant.

Ye Mu saw the girl's concerns and comforted: "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger... We don't have any other clues now, so let's go to the villa and have a look. ”

Dai Qing nodded and said, "Listen to you." ”

The two of them walked towards the villa by candlelight, looking left and right, searching for various clues.

Ye Mu took Dai Qing's little hand and said thoughtfully: "The explored area will release monsters or food, once the monster is killed or the food is taken away by us, a new candle will be lit in the explored dark area." ”

"Just now I saw that some candles burned out, and no new candles appeared, but there were also places where new candles appeared." Dai Qing added her findings: "The burned candle will disappear on its own, and the wax block on the ground will not remain for too long. ”

"In other words, we are only safe by the light of the candle."

Along the way, the candles were scattered, but they finally came to the bottom of the villa.

The villa is similar to the ancient Chinese style, not so much a villa as an ancient house, the gate of the ancient house is open, and when you enter the gate, there is a path paved with black stones, and on both sides of the path is a row of stone benches, on which are lined with long-dead plants and bonsai, and the atmosphere is gloomy.

White candles are all over the courtyard, the pavement is stained with white ash, the gray mud walls are combined with dark red brick ornaments, and the old green vines cling to the walls, which is even more eerie.

"What a big villa." Dai Qing exclaimed.

"Shhhh Someone. Ye Mu made a silent gesture, pulled Dai Qing to hide by the wall, and cautiously poked his head out to look ahead.

I saw a tall girl dressed in white like snow and with a dusty temperament standing with a sword.

"Liu You'er?" Ye Mu was surprised.

"Huh?" The girl snorted and turned her head to look.

Who can be the beautiful face that captivates the country and the city, if it is not Liu Youer?

"Ye Mu?" Liu You'er was slightly stunned and walked slowly towards Ye Mu and the others.

Ye Mu and Dai Qing both breathed a sigh of relief, Ye Mu glanced left and right, and asked, "You'er, have you seen anyone else?" ”

Liu You'er shook her head and said, "No, I was here alone when I woke up." ”

"It's possible that the rest of the people are still outside the villa, just like we were before." Dai Qing guessed.

"I'm a little worried about Liu Wen." Ye Mu frowned slightly: "She is pregnant." ”

"Shall we go look for them outside the villa?" Dai Qing asked.

Ye Mu thought for a while and said, "We don't even know where we are, let's take a look in the villa first, it's best not to run around, and this villa is the most obvious within a radius of several miles, if they are nearby, they should come over." ”

The second daughter nodded and followed behind Ye Mu in tacit understanding.

The three of them walked to a dilapidated wooden door, the three of them looked at each other, Ye Mu put his right hand on the sword at his waist, and carefully pushed the door open.

'Squeak'

The wooden door was pushed open, and the room was indeed lit with white candles as Ye Mu expected.

When the three of them walked into the house, a faint smell of rotting wood came to their nostrils, the hollowed-out wooden windows were already dilapidated, and the eyes were a musty wooden round bed, a broken guqin stood in the corner of the wall, and a bronze mirror stood on the black wood dresser.