Seeing that the situation was not good, I hurriedly pushed the Miao knife forward again, and then swung it violently, and the blade of the Miao knife cut off the middle-aged man's head, revealing a scar the size of the bowl.

At this moment, I found that the man's hands were still holding on to the shoulders of the seventh master, although his head had been cut off by me, but his body was still moving, seeing this, I was also a little confused, I didn't know what to do, the seventh master's body was still shaking rapidly, and Wang Chuyi, who was not far away, was still in a state of mental slackening, and before he went down to the ancient tomb, he had already damaged two people.

The most important thing is that we are now in the ancient city, watching the time pass minute by minute, once the people in the ancient city get up in the morning and see the four of us, there will definitely be no good fruit to eat!

The more I thought about it, the more anxious I became, so I simply picked up the Miao knife and slashed it at the middle-aged man's arm, this man's arm was like two pieces of tofu, and my Miao knife had just been cut into his hand, and before I could exert my strength, I had already cut off the man's arm.

At this moment, the seventh master's body was raised suddenly, and he quickly retreated, and the whole person fell to the ground due to excessive force, panting heavily, and then I saw that the two hands of the middle-aged man who were cut off by me were still clutching the shoulders of the seventh master, and the five fingers were almost embedded in the flesh of the seventh master's shoulder.

I hurriedly rushed towards the seventh master and asked what was going on, the seventh master gasped and just waved his hand, and did not elaborate, and then pointed to a house not far away, and said, "Don't worry about the others, it's dawn soon, don't let the villagers find us, the house is very dilapidated, no one should live in it, let's go and hide first." ”

I nodded hurriedly, picked up the seventh master and walked towards the house, maybe this room is too close to the dry well, when I opened the door, I only felt a burst of dust blowing in my face, sure enough, no one has lived in it for a long time.

After settling the Seventh Master, I carried Wang Chuyi in with Huzi, and then took back the climbing rope tied to the outside, and after doing all this, I only heard a rooster crow, and the sun shone in through the window of the house.

The seventh master hurriedly walked to the window, only to see that after the sun's rays shone on the pair of hands that were cut off by me on the shoulders of the seventh master, a burst of white smoke quickly rose, and then the two hands quickly disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if they were burning paper, and disappeared.

After doing all this, the Seventh Master took out a small bottle from his bag, poured out two small pills from the bottle and handed them to me, saying, "Stuff this pill into Wang Chuyi's nostrils." ”

As soon as I took the pill from the seventh master's hand, I smelled a pungent smell, I can't tell what this smell is, some like mint, very cool, the size of this pill is just enough to be stuffed into Wang Chuyi's nostrils, and I don't have to worry about falling out.

After about 20 minutes, Wang Chuyi gradually recovered a little, slowly got up, his eyes were still a little sloppy, but fortunately, people had begun to have some spirits, although they were very much, but they still said, "That... In that well...... No... It's not clean, let's ...... No... Can't get down from that. ”

After such a toss last night, several of us are tired enough, it seems that there is indeed a problem with the dry well, no wonder the villagers are reluctant to approach, as time passes little by little, the sun also rises high, the seventh master asked us to carry Wang Chuyi to a place where the sun can shine, which will help her recover.

After I finished doing this, I quietly leaned down by the window and looked out, some of the villagers had already come out of their homes to start their daily routine, and many villagers had gathered in our direction, apparently to go to other wells to fetch water.

At this moment, a familiar figure appeared in my sight, it was the middle-aged man who was carrying a flat burden that day, and he was holding a large basket and came to the middle of the crowd, as if he wanted to distribute something.

When the villagers saw him coming, they all surrounded the past, and at this moment, I suddenly found that there was something wrong with the villagers here, except for the middle-aged man who sent things, the expressions on the faces of the others seemed to be exactly the same, not happy, not sad, not angry, giving people the feeling that it was two words, wooden, right is wooden, as if it was a puppet, there was no spirit in the eyes, although these villagers' posture and movements were normal, but the expression on this face was too weird, whether it was an adult or a child, it was an expressionless face.

I looked to the left, and there were four or five little boys playing together, looking like they were only seven or eight years old, and it stands to reason that children of this age were innocent, but their faces were the same, there was no expression, and if you looked closely, these people looked like dead people except that they could move! Because only the dead have no expression on their faces!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shudder, if the people in this entire ancient city were dead, it would be too terrifying!

At this moment, the crowd began to disperse gradually, and the middle-aged man who sent things seemed to have finished his things, and at this time took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, lit them on his own, and then sat on a stone platform not far away and smoked.

I looked at him carefully and found that only he was different, in other words, only he seemed to be a normal person, with an expression on his face and his eyes moving fast, only to see that he was smoking a cigarette and his eyes swept over the villagers who were fetching water.

I was afraid that he would find me, so I quickly moved away from the window, and then whispered, "Seventh Master, the people here don't seem to be normal, they don't have any expression on their faces, and their eyes are dull, even seven or eight-year-old children are like this." ”

As soon as these words came out, the seventh master was obviously stunned, and then walked quickly to the window and looked at it for a while, then slowly walked back to the house, and said, "Could it be that the legend is true?" ”

His words immediately aroused my curiosity, and I quickly asked, "What legend?" ”

The seventh master shook his head, and did not answer my question directly, but said to himself, "Impossible, that kind of thing, absolutely impossible." ”

The more the seventh master said, the more curious I became, and I hurriedly asked him what was going on.

After a long while, the Seventh Master spoke, "Have you ever heard of raising corpses?" ”

"Raise the corpse!" Huzi and I both exclaimed.

The Seventh Master hurriedly made a silent gesture, lowered his voice and said, "Legend has it that this is a secret art, which was first circulated in Xiangxi, and was invented by a corpse chaser, which can preserve the corpse for a long time and be able to live like a living person, but without any emotion or thought, it just mechanically repeats some things that were done before death." ”

Hearing this, I couldn't believe that there was such a thing in this world, if it were normal, I would never believe it, but everything I saw just now was so real, those expressionless villagers and children playing with expressionless faces, all floating in my mind.

At this time, Wang Chuyi seemed to have almost recovered, stood up, moved for a moment, and then said, "Seventh Master, do you believe in this kind of legend?" I don't know if you've ever heard of a disease called neuropathic facial palsy? ”

As soon as Wang Chuyi's words fell, Huzi also walked over from the window and said, "Neurological facial paralysis? You mean all the villagers in this ancient city are paralyzed? Seven or eight hundred people are paralyzed? And it's so concentrated? ”

Seeing Wang Chuyi and Huzi arguing, Seventh Master and I fell into silence, whether it is a legend or facial paralysis, now we are not able to draw conclusions, but one thing is certain, that is, the villagers here are not normal, if we are discovered, I am afraid that it will be more auspicious.

At this moment, I suddenly remembered a detail, a problem that was overlooked by all of us! That's eating! The problem of eating, such a large ancient city, communication with the outside world only depends on a middle-aged man with a flat burden, to say that the people of a city rely on him to go to the outside world to exchange food for food, it is absolutely impossible, such a large ancient city wants to be self-sufficient, it must have a large amount of agricultural land, at least forty or fifty acres of land, otherwise it will not be able to feed so many people.

But before, when we were on the top of the ghost cave, when we were looking through binoculars, we didn't find any cultivated land, so how did these villagers solve the problem of eating?

Thinking of this, not only did I recall the words of the old man I met in the village at the foot of the mountain, I remember that he told me at that time that only one person in this ancient city would come out regularly and go to the town to change some daily necessities, and the old man also said that it was not this middle-aged man before, but an older person, probably because he was old and his legs and feet were inconvenient, so he changed people.

If this is the case, then in addition to this middle-aged man, there must be normal people in this ancient city!

As soon as I thought of this, the Seventh Master's body shook suddenly, and when I looked at him, it was obvious that he had thought of something, so he hurriedly asked, "Seventh Master, did you think of something?" ”

The Seventh Master nodded and said in a low voice, "Do you remember last night?" When we quietly entered this ancient city. ”

Huzi and I both nodded and replied, "Of course I do." ”

The Seventh Master said slowly, "Then have you noticed that this ancient city is terrifyingly dark, it was only more than ten o'clock at that time, and in the entire ancient city, there was not a single family lighting up!" Even if this ancient city is not connected to the outside world and there is no electricity, then there should always be candles! ”

The words of the seventh master are like a thunderbolt from the sky, I am cold, there is no food source, there is no light at night, all kinds of signs point to the rumor that the seventh master said, a gloomy feeling from the soles of my feet to the hair, I feel that the whole city is extremely terrifying.

At this time, after hearing about the food and light, Wang Chuyi no longer insisted on his own opinion, and the four of us just hid in the house, and fear slowly crept into our hearts and spread between us.