The hands, a little white and a little frightening, without a trace of scarring, had long nails of turquoise, and a layer of thin hair grew on the tips of the nails.

"Deceived corpse!" Someone shouted.

This sound broke the string in everyone's brains, regardless of men and women, their first reaction was to run.

The people in the ear chamber didn't know what was going on outside, and they were still concentrating on delivering the baby, but it was clear that it wasn't going well.

I rushed over, grabbed Gu Xiaoxiao, and dragged her out: "Xiaoxiao, you go quickly, it's still too late to run." ”

If you don't leave, it's too late, and it's not so easy to leave after that.

Gu Xiaoxiao shook her head: "I definitely can't go, I have to be with my grandfather, Ah Li, I shouldn't let you come, you go, escape one by one." ”

"What a stupid thing to say, I have mana, I have the ability to protect myself, and you don't have anything, but we need someone who can move the rescue for us, and you are the most suitable."

"The fog is already approaching the village, and soon we will all be covered and controlled by the fog, and no one will know how we will die by then."

"Xiaoxiao, we have put all our hopes on you, you can't let us down."

I moved with affection and reason, and pushed Gu Xiaoxiao to the east as I spoke, but she stiffened her neck and refused to leave: "Ah Li, who do you think of me?" If I was really greedy for life and afraid of death, I wouldn't have come with my grandfather, the matter of Daliu Village was taken over by us, and I couldn't be a deserter either. ”

"It's not a deserter, Xiaoxiao......"

"Ah Li, don't say it, I won't leave."

Gu Xiaoxiao said, pushed me hard, and pushed the whole person I pushed to the right, I was surprised, but the moment I turned around and saw what was behind me, the whole person was shocked.

There was a man standing there, more than one meter and eight tall, his eyes were dull, miserable and white, two long fangs showed out of his lips, and his neck was slightly forward, if I hadn't been pushed away by Gu Xiaoxiao just now, I would have been bitten by him.

But after Gu Xiaoxiao pushed me away, she was exposed to the man, who sniffed his nose and jumped towards Gu Xiaoxiao excitedly.

The man's feet were tied with a red rope, and even the Qingyun shoes he was wearing under his feet were connected with his heels, which limited his speed to a large extent.

I rushed over and pulled Gu Xiaoxiao away, and with the other hand, I had already pulled out the short whip on my waist, and my hand shook and lengthened, and I pumped it towards the man fiercely.

I really should be grateful to Lu Lao Wu, when he gave me this whip, he probably never thought that this whip would become my most handy weapon.

The whip went down, the man screamed, and the terrible scream resounded throughout the village, and the place where the whip was thrown was bubbling with black gas, and the originally pale skin exploded, and in a blink of an eye, it became a big black hole, and the white bones could be faintly seen.

"Wow, Ali, when did you become so powerful? Another whip will break his leg so that he can't stand up, and he won't be able to hurt anyone. Gu Xiaoxiao pointed to the man's leg and said without hesitation.

I gritted my teeth and swung my whip at the white bone exposed from the man's calf, only to hear a 'click', the bone broke, and the man's body leaned down, screaming.

At this moment there was a cry of a baby from the ear chamber, followed by the voice of the midwife announcing the good news: "Born, born, gave birth to a big fat boy." ”

The people in the ear chamber laughed.

But then, a hoarse voice sounded: "Boy? Why boys? Strangle him, I'm going to strangle him! ”

There was a quarrel on the other side of the ear room, and the woman's hysterical cry: "Strangle him, I don't want him to live, I don't want him to be the next mountain guard, his grandfather was buried in Xishan, his father died in Xishan, I don't want him to still have such a fate, I would rather never give birth to him!" ”

This is a woman's most desperate cry, her life is bitter, just ask, which woman in Daliu Village has not suffered such pain?

Their relatives, husbands, and sons, at the strongest age of their lives, could not go out to work or support their families, but they could only live a difficult life guarding a beast-like western mountain that eats people and does not spit out bones.

Every time they enter the mountains, they probably have no way back, but all their sources of livelihood are only those prey in the mountains.

It's really better not to give birth than to give birth, and if you have to give birth, you'd rather be a girl.

At this juncture, when she is most sad and helpless, it is understandable that she will have this extreme misanthropic emotion, and if she is not enlightened well, she is likely to suffer from postpartum depression.

The man on the ground stopped at the sound of a woman's howl, his sharp fangs slowly retracting into his mouth, and looked thoughtfully in the direction of the ear chamber.

"His son was born, you say, was he reformed?" Gu Xiaoxiao asked me in a low voice.

I am noncommittal, the behavior of a low-level walking corpse cannot be guessed with the thinking of ordinary people.

The man had a broken leg and couldn't stand up at all, looking at his appearance, I suddenly felt a little unbearable, after all, I broke his leg, and now he seems to want to see his child, this wish can't be fulfilled because of a broken leg, this is really a sin.

I was regretting that I had made a quick move, but over there, the man suddenly bowed his body, his hands on the ground, one leg supporting the ground, half of his leg hanging in the air, a cushion, jumped up like a leopard, and rushed in the direction of the ear chamber in the blink of an eye.

There was a wildness in the swift movement, my intuition was not good, so I pulled my legs and followed, Gu Xiaoxiao also shouted: "Ah Li, we have underestimated the enemy." ”

The people in the ear room all swarmed out of the door, standing in the mourning hall in a daze, the midwife in her hand, still holding the newborn baby.

"You kill me, Wen Qiang, I don't want to live anymore, really, I don't want to live for a moment." The woman's hoarse voice was full of sorrow, and as I stood at the door of the ear chamber, I saw the man pressing the woman to the delivery bed, and the woman who had just given birth was covered in blood.

Blood dripped down the futon, and the woman's face was as pale as a piece of paper, and her whole body was soaked in a pool of blood.

The woman had a massive hemorrhage after giving birth.

Giving birth to a child is a trip around the ghost gate, and after giving birth, it is not a worry-free situation, the most fatal thing is postpartum hemorrhage, which is not handled well, and it will kill you every minute.

And now, she didn't pay attention to her physical condition at all, and when she looked at the man's eyes, she actually flashed a fanatical abnormal light.

It was a longing for death.

She was fed up with the tragic fate of Da Liu Village and wanted to leave with her man.

The man roared, and suddenly let go of the woman's neck, and the moment the hand was raised, I saw the sharp nails on the hand pop out, and then stabbed down on the woman's neck.

I reacted instantly, and threw the whip at the man with a snap, each whip used all his strength, and with each blow, the man snorted, and after a few times, he fell on the woman's body.

Gu Xiaoxiao stepped over and stretched out her hand to drag the man's body to the ground, and immediately, black smoke rose from the corpse, and in the blink of an eye, it became a pile of white bones.

I breathed a sigh of relief, and Gu Xiaoxiao also patted her chest and said: "It's so dangerous, it's almost a big mistake, this man is not at peace when he dies, it's really a sin." ”

"What about the midwife? Call the midwife in. I shouted.

The woman on the bed was already unconscious, and the blood under her body was still flowing out, and the midwife didn't dare to come in again, but was finally carried in by Gu Xiaoxiao.

"Don't be afraid, with us guarding, nothing big will happen, but the mother has heavy bleeding, it is unrealistic to go to the hospital now, everything is up to you, for the sake of the face of the newborn child, please do your best." I said to the midwife.

The midwife nodded: "It's all in a village, it's not easy for anyone, I won't see death without help, but my ability is limited, I can't save it, I don't dare to pack a ticket." ”

"Just do your best." I replied.

The midwife nodded and reached out to handle the mother.

Gu Xiaoxiao and I used cloth to collect the man's bones, and then sent them to the coffin, and when I turned around, we saw that the group of people who had fled to the mourning hall before were all shrunk in the corner of the wall inside, silent.

Gu Xiaoxiao and I looked at them suspiciously.

This group of people are all female dependents, helping the midwives deliver the mothers, and there are also those who watch the excitement, at the moment of the corpse, the group of men who lifted the weight don't know where to run, and the rest of them are not running now, but they are all nested in the corner.

Are they all so timid and afraid?

"Ah Li, do you feel that something is wrong?" Gu Xiaoxiao asked me in a low voice.

It's okay that she didn't say it, but when she said this, I always felt cold behind me, and I looked back suddenly, but I didn't see anything.

But there is always a feeling of being stared at behind it, which is very uncomfortable, and the temperature in the mourning hall seems to have dropped a lot.

"It's cold." Gu Xiaoxiao said, "But the cold air came in from outside the door, so it stands to reason ......"

Logically speaking, it is impossible to be so cold, but in this situation, anything is possible.

"Xiaoxiao, now that the corpse has been resolved, you are guarding the mourning hall, I have to go out and have a look." The corpse has become a pile of bones, and I don't believe that this corpse can stand up again and do evil!

"That's right, it's all a pile of bones, what am I still doing here? I'll go out with you. Gu Xiaoxiao said, took my hand, and the two of them walked out together.

When Mo Xianye was guarding here before, the corpse was motionless, and there was no sign of defrauding the corpse at all, but as soon as Mo Xianye left, he immediately deceived the corpse, which shows that Mo Xianye's deterrent power to these things is really great.

Now that Mo Xian has entered the mountain at night, he doesn't know if he has found Grandpa Gu and them.

Just thinking about it, Gu Xiaoxiao, who had already stepped out of the threshold of the mourning hall, stopped suddenly, I was startled, looked up, and my face suddenly changed.

It was at that moment that I understood why the women in the mourning hall were cowering around the corner and did not dare to move.

It's not that they don't want to come out, and they have come out, but as soon as they go out, they are frightened back by the scene outside the door.

The fog had already crossed the farmland and was spreading towards the village houses, a white expanse with very little visibility.

Just on the edge of the fog stood a line of men, all of them strong, in their twenties and thirties, they ...... It was the first group of young men to enter Xishan with Grandpa Gu before.

At this moment, they all hung their heads, their eyes glazed, their hands hanging down to their sides, and stood there motionless, like a group of robots waiting for orders.

Inside, there was no Grandpa Gu, and there was no Mo Xianye.

Gu Xiaoxiao hugged my arm tightly all of a sudden, and she was probably frightened: "How can this be?" Will they go on like this forever? Will it suddenly pounce? ”

I couldn't answer any of her questions, and I wanted to know what was wrong with these people.

I shook my head: "Anyway, at least Grandpa Gu is not in this group of people, which means that Grandpa Gu should have no accident." ”

At this time, retreat is the best choice, after all, these people in front of them have not been alarmed yet, and no one dares to guarantee what the consequences will be once they are awakened.

"The fog is too big to see anything clearly, could grandpa get lost in the mountains and can't get out?" Gu Xiaoxiao's face was full of sadness, she and Grandpa Gu depended on each other, although the grandparents and grandchildren usually loved to stumble, but the relationship was not ordinarily good.

If Grandpa Gu really had an accident, I don't know if Gu Xiaoxiao would go crazy.

"They need a guiding light to guide them back." Gu Xiaoxiao's words gave me a hint that there is very little we can do now, but as long as there are conditions, we still have to do it together.

But what can we do now?

What can pierce the white fog and allow the lost to return home?

Sound? Firelight?

Thinking of this, I dragged Gu Xiaoxiao to search all the rooms immediately, and finally found a few lifters and drummers hiding in the West House.

"Don't hide, it's useless to hide, it's foggy outside, and the people who entered the mountain before have also been tricked, if you don't want to die, please do me a few favors." When I said these words, I actually had two plans in mind, and now it depends on whether you listen to me or not.

A few of them had gloomy faces, and instead of speaking, the leader of the drummer asked me, "Girl, how can we help you?" ”

"You are drummers, and you must know a lot of tunes, and I want you to go west, and use your strength to play songs with higher tunes, the higher the better." I said.

The one at the head consulted the opinions of the people around him, but the opinions were still a little different.

Some people agree, while others refuse outright, on the grounds that the louder they blow, the easier it is to attract unclean things, and it is better not to blow them, because they don't want to set themselves on fire.

They all have a point, and at this time, I have no position to force anyone to do what I want them to do, after all, I can't bear the consequences.

I nodded and said, "Okay, you don't agree with this, can you help me carry the coffin outside?" ”

"No way!" The leader on the side of the lifting immediately refused, "How can there be any reason to carry the coffin casually, it is not until three o'clock in the morning, and the coffin cannot be lifted." ”

"However, the corpse should be cheated, it has already been cheated, the corpse should be decomposed, the skin and flesh are also decomposed, and now there is only a pile of white bones left, do you really need to wait until three o'clock in the morning?"

"With such a big fog and such a grim situation, may I ask, are you really going to carry the coffin into the mountain at three o'clock in the morning?"

"Don't forget, none of the people who can take you into the mountain have come out of the West Mountain normally so far, so why are you guarding this pile of bones?"

I asked them rhetorically one by one, hoping that they would understand all my good intentions.

A group of people stared at each other, and none of them could make a decision.

Gu Xiaoxiao squeezed my hand, very tight, according to her previous temper, this situation had already broken out, but today she didn't.

She knows what is important.

"Actually......" someone suddenly said, "Actually, we have a chance to escape." ”

I immediately asked, "What chance?" ”

"We have to avoid all eyes and move to the ancestral hall, the fate of Daliu Village, passed down from generation to generation, no one can escape, in order to save their lives, Daliu Village has been enshrined in a tablet, just in the ancestral hall, it is said that the mana is strong, as long as we hide in the ancestral hall, we can save our lives." The man said, sighing, "It's just that the fog came up too suddenly, and we ...... Missed the best of times. ”

"How far is the ancestral hall from here?" I asked.

The man said: "It's far, it's not far, the ancestral hall is in the back row of the village, from here, it only takes five minutes to take a shortcut, but once you get out of this door, what you will encounter on the road, whether you will inhale the fog, will become a big problem." ”

"None of this is a problem." I immediately said, "According to the two operations I just mentioned, create a chaos, and then take the opportunity to move towards the ancestral hall, so that you can avoid encountering anything on the road to a large extent, as for the fear of breathing fog, I don't think there is a need to worry about this at the moment, because the fog is coming from the west, we can take the curve, go around the ancestral hall from the east, although it is a waste of time, but I think it is feasible." ”

Once again, there was a deathly silence in the room, and no one dared to take this risk, after all, if they made a mistake, they could be doomed.

I had no choice but to continue to lobby: "You guys should think about it, after all, time is running out, and the fog will disperse all over the village, and no one will be able to escape." ”

"I don't think it matters whether you are happy or not, it's easy to attract the attention of those things that are hidden in the shadows," one person proposed, "and just burn the house along with the coffin." ”

"Liu Jun, this can't be helped, a good house has been burned, where will you let Wen Qiang's mother, wife and children live in the future?" Someone immediately refused.

The man named Liu Jun sneered and said, "What are you doing with this house?" It's all decades old, and the cracks in the wall can see the light outside, and it can last for a few years? ”

"Besides, if no one can escape tonight, what is the point of the existence of this village of houses? If we can survive the catastrophe and get rid of the fate of Daliu Village, who else wants to continue to live in this place where birds don't? ”

Liu Jun's words struck everyone's hearts at once, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, you can see from your eyes that you are shaken.

Liu Jun spoke again: "I can't bear the child can't trap the wolf, if the brothers are willing to believe me Liu Jun once, just take a hand, if you don't want to, then I can only drag the coffin out to burn, and then the brothers don't complain that I don't fit in, I am also for the good of everyone." ”

Liu Jun said, he had already left the West House and walked towards the mourning hall, Gu Xiaoxiao and I hurriedly followed, although there was only Liu Jun alone, and he was weak, but at least someone affirmed our thoughts, this is hope.

As soon as we stopped by the coffin, someone followed behind, it was Liu Jun's brother who carried the heavy weight.

While everyone was busy carrying the coffin, the leader of the drummer came out and said, "Don't move, we're willing to take a risk." ”

Gu Xiaoxiao and I glanced at each other in surprise, only to see that the group of men had already begun to enlighten the women hiding in the mourning hall.

After only three or four minutes, everyone lined up in an orderly manner, carried the mother, and quietly jumped out of the window of the east room.

As soon as a group of us left the house, the whole house was on fire.

The coffin was poured with diesel, which burned instantly, the coffin burned, the flames jumped in all directions, and there were many flammable products in the mourning hall, and the crackling burns endlessly.

We can't manage that much, and follow the agreed route and go straight in the direction of the ancestral hall.

The fire burned more and more, lighting up half of the sky, and I believe that those people in the mountains will definitely be able to see this raging fire.

Gu Xiaoxiao pulled me and said, "Ah Li, don't look at it, go to the ancestral hall to see the situation first." ”

I nodded: "Okay, let's go to the ancestral hall and make the next deployment." ”

……

In fact, in my heart, no one is willing to give up the mourning hall, after all, if those people come back, they will definitely come to the mourning hall to find us.

But there is also a big crisis that the people who are looking for us are probably not people, so we still have to hide first under all kinds of choices.

From the mourning hall to the ancestral hall, the distance is not long, because everyone is united, and there is no chaos on the way.

Although the ancestral hall is close to the west, when you go around from the east, you find that there is no fog around the ancestral hall, is it really the magic power of the ancestral hall that blesses everyone?

The door of the ancestral hall was locked, but the key was not in our hands, and they said that the key had always been with the village chief, but the village chief had already taken the lead into the mountain.

Someone began to try to break the lock into the ancestral hall, but the lock couldn't be broken no matter how hard it was picked, and everyone finally calmed down, and suddenly became restless again.

"Get out of the way, I'll come." Gu Xiaoxiao said suddenly.

Only then did I remember that Gu Xiaoxiao's lock-picking skills are very strong.

It's not that she herself is willing to learn, but Grandpa Gu forcibly taught her, in Grandpa Gu's view, every lock is a mechanism, and for those who follow our path, breaking the mechanism is a necessary skill.

The crowd got out of the way, Gu Xiaoxiao stepped forward to open the door, I followed behind her, only half a minute before and after, and the lock opened with a 'click'.

Gu Xiaoxiao stretched out her hand to push the door of the ancestral hall, the door just opened a crack, a strong cold air came to the face, the main hall of the ancestral hall was empty, only a wide offering table was placed, and a large tablet was enshrined on the table, and the tablet was covered with a red cloth.