The village, immersed in the thick of the night, was dead silent, as quiet as no man's wilderness.

No, there is still the sound of wind and crows in the wilderness, but nothing can be heard here, and it is strange.

In the dimly lit room with only a small candle, the paper-tied women and men have bamboo skeletons, wear well-cut paper clothes, and their faces are similar to those of real people.

Listening to Chu Han's words, Nangong Jiu frowned, and just touched the handle of the knife with his hand, but heard the black witch who closed the door say: "Don't guess, I am the only living person in this village." ”

is so unscrupulous, what does she rely on? Nangong Jiu pulled out the blade of the knife and pointed it at the black witch, but the black witch waved his hand calmly: "Put it down, I didn't kill the person." ”

She ignored Nangong Jiu's knife and walked towards the pile of paper figures, stroking them while sighing: "If it weren't for these paper figures, even I wouldn't have survived, and this would have become a veritable ghost village." ”

"Ordinary paper figures without carrying spells are of little use, and can only sacrifice the deceased while doing white things." The tip of Nangong Jiu's knife moved with it, always facing the black witch, "Very few people can use magic to control more than a dozen paper figures to attack at the same time, and then they can also control the paper horse to fly with people, which shows that your strength is not arrogant." So, who else has the ability to kill all the villagers but you? ”

"They are my neighbors, how could I kill them!" The Dark Witch shook his head.

Chu Han said lightly: "If I'm not mistaken, the faces of your paper people are all real human skins, right?" ”

"What?" Nangong Jiu was shocked, and glanced at the paper faces, the handle of the knife held tighter, "Real human skin? ”

The black witch looked up at Chu Han in surprise: "You can see this, good eyesight!" ”

Nangong Jiu's anger was as cold as ice, and he stepped forward with a knife: "What else do you have to say?" ”

Unmoved, the black witch touched the face of one of the paper figures and said, "Yes, they are indeed taken from the faces of real people, and I peeled them from the faces of the villagers. ”

I actually admitted it myself! Nangong Jiu slashed over: "Then I will clean up the tumor for the priest!" ”

"I told you I didn't kill people!" The Black Witch dodged and said, "I skinned them after they died, so that their souls could have a place to rest for a while, and your sword should not hurt them!" ”

Nangong Jiu immediately stopped attacking: "What do you mean?" ”

"It means that something killed them, but if it's a spirit or what, I don't know." "All I know is that thing kills a person every three days and takes her soul away. The villagers saw this law and wanted to leave, but they couldn't get out of the village, and in desperation, I thought of a way, I couldn't shirk it, and I thought for a long time before I thought of this method, using witch medicine to make them unconscious, peeling off their faces to make paper human faces, and then luring their souls to the paper people to sleep, in order to escape this catastrophe. ”

Nangong Jiu frowned: "There will be such a thing?" …… So what are you doing with people robbing us? Also, since the villagers can't get out, how do you get out? And why didn't that thing kill you? ”

The black witch smiled darkly: "Because I promised to find a living person for it, and today, is the last day of the deadline!" ”

It turned out that they were used as substitutes for the dead! Nangong Jiu shook his head: "You save the villagers, but kill outsiders, isn't it the same bloody and unforgivable crime?" ”

"Hand over your souls, and I will quietly refine your corpses into powerful zombies, and maybe I will be able to ......" The black witch stopped abruptly at this point, looked around vigilantly, and pricked up his ears to listen carefully to the movement outside the house, and only after a long time, did he breathe a long sigh of relief.

"You're trying to turn us into zombies to deal with it?" Nangong Jiu sneered, "Should I say that you are kind or vicious?" ”

"I can't help it, I have to sacrifice." The black witch said in a low voice, "Although I can get out of the village, I know that if I don't solve it completely, I won't be able to escape at all, and sooner or later I will die." ”

"So in order not to die for yourself, you not only want to refine our corpses," Chu Han raised his eyelids and looked at the back door of the house, "You also roasted the villagers?" ”

Nangong Jiu was taken aback, Chu Han was still staring at the wooden door: "Don't you feel the slightest heat coming through the crack in the door?" ”

Boom!

As soon as her words fell, Nangong Jiu rushed over with lightning speed and kicked open the door made of wooden planks!

When I opened the door, I realized that there was something else inside, it was a dark closed corridor, and at the end of the corridor, connected to several other rooms, there was a fire shining, flickering and dimming, like a fluctuating ghost fire. Along with it, there is a slight aroma of barbecue wafting into the nose.

Nangong Jiu was about to continue rushing in, but he suddenly stopped and quickly retreated to Chu Han's side, pointed at the black witch with the tip of his knife, and said with a calm face: "Take us in!" ”

The black witch made a gesture of please: "If you want to enter yourself, I don't plan to stop you!" ”

Give somebody a dose of his own medicine? Chu Han said lightly: "Let's go, she just waits for us to go in, if we don't go in, she will have to do more work." ”

The black witch smiled: "Then thank you for your understanding!" ”

Chu Han shook his head and was silent. Nangong Jiu grabbed her arm with one hand and held a knife in the other, leading her cautiously forward.

Walking through the windless corridor, entering the open-door house at the back, and then carefully approaching the partition wall made of bamboo paste paper that showed fire on one side, Nangong Jiu suddenly lifted the coarse cloth curtain instead of the wooden door!

Hiss!

Rao was his Holy Son's guard, and he couldn't help but gasp at the scene in front of him, and he almost screamed.

The space inside is larger than expected, there is a large and long special oven against the earthen wall, semi-enclosed, three women's corpses hanging their heads are hung in a row by iron hooks, hanging above the red charcoal fire, the skin has been roasted and discolored, a woman with dull eyes like a puppet holds a clay pot in her hand, constantly picking up the roasted corpse oil, and does not know the pain of the fire.

At the back of the curtain was a dead male corpse with his feet tied to his feet and hanging head-down with his head down, his blood had almost been drained, and from time to time the last of his blood fell into the tub of blood on the ground, making a slow ticking sound.

"I have never seen such an extermination of humanity!" Nangong Jiu was not afraid, only angry, "No wonder I can't live in the stilted building, it's obviously for the purpose of refining corpses!" ”

He turned around and roared, "This is what you call rescue? That's how you treat the villagers? ”

The voice of the black witch came from the dark doorway: "In order to save everyone, a small number of people's lives must be sacrificed in exchange. Their souls have been snatched away and imprisoned and cannot be brought back, these bodies will always be empty shells, what difference does it make between me using and not using? The families I used to save them have a new value. ”

Nangong Jiu said coldly: "How can you be sure that their souls will never come back?" Just kill the murderer and use the soul summoning spell ......"

"What if it's already been devoured?" The Dark Witch whispered, "No body, just soul, do you think they still have a chance to return to their body?" Taking a step back, even if they are not devoured and released, the ghosts that wander away from the world will gradually be consumed by yang energy, and without paper people to nourish their souls, their souls will be unstable, and sooner or later they will die. And the possibility of this being released is only very small! ”

Nangong Jiu was silent, and his anger gradually subsided: "Tell me how to find it, I'll help you get rid of it, and you don't want to refine the corpse again!" ”

The Black Witch snorted, "By you? ”

"It's up to me." Nangong Jiu took out a waist card and slowly stretched it out, "The third-level guard of the Holy Palace, is it qualified?" ”

"Holy Palace...... How could it be ......" The black witch was dumbfounded, unable to say a complete word, as if he never thought that the person he bothered to snatch from Baal would be so big.

"For the sake of saving people, your business, the Holy Palace will not care about it for the time being," Nangong Jiu put away his waist card, "Now tell me how to find it." ”

The black witch came back to his senses, but shook his head: "I don't know, because it only saved my life so that someone could run errands for it, and if my guess is correct, its lair should be near the village, and it can't be too far from it." However, it is a constant rule that it comes every three days, and today is the third day. I'm also afraid that I won't be able to pay the difference, otherwise I won't take the risk of robbing ~~"

Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden strong wind outside, and the sound of flying sand and dead leaves hitting the window lattices and roofs made the black witch's body tremble: "It...... It's coming! ”