Chapter 9: The Black Lantern

"Woohoo—"

The silence in the room was interrupted by a loud knock on the door, and everyone looked in the direction of the door.

Stiletto instinctively asked in Chongqing dialect: "Which one?" Then he felt that it was wrong and immediately shut up. The longsword glanced at him and made eye contact with Lacey, and the two of them walked slowly to the back of the door with daggers in hand.

"Open the door." The sound of the wind whirring outside the door was faintly heard. Then the sound of banging on the door became more and more urgent, and the force became stronger and stronger, and if it continued like this, the old gate had to be smashed.

Seeing this, Xiao Shuai pasted a piece of talisman paper on each of the long sword and Lacey's chest, buckled a little divine sand in his fingernails to prepare, and opened the door at once.

A gust of wind rushed in with the opening of the door, and Xiao Shuai shivered. The bright moonlight outside the door shone on a black figure wearing a hat, which was shining with a candle paper lantern, and the faint light shone on his yellowish skin.

It was the village chief, and the paper lantern in the village chief's hand had a big black word "forbidden" on it. The lantern did not emit bright light, but emitted a faint black light that shrouded the 2-meter range around the village chief, which was extremely strange.

After the village chief entered the house, he looked around and said, "The girl of the Qian family and Wan Camel are not here?" ”

"I'm not there." Xiaoshuai said instinctively.

Lai Xi and the others on the other side were shocked, the village chief asked this, it must be Wan Tuo and Qian Hong who are missing, something happened! This time the journey was going well, Lacey had been waiting, and the time to come was still coming.

Without saying a word, the village chief turned around and walked out with a lantern.

"Wait a minute." Xiao Shuai called the village chief.

The village chief stopped and turned his head, his upper body turned slightly, and his head turned directly behind him to stare at Xiao Shuai.

Eagle Eyes Wolf Gu!

Xiao Shuai was shocked but couldn't care so much, and asked the village chief, "Are they missing?" But you're going to find them? ”

At this time, the village chief looked at Xiao Shuai with sharp eyes and didn't say anything, Xiao Shuai didn't think much about it and said, "I'll go too." ”

Whatever the purpose, Xiao Shuai is going, although there are some drums in his heart.

"Little ......," Zi Fei swallowed back when she said it. Wang Yan turned his head to look at Lacey, and then turned his head to look at the village chief.

The village chief stopped expressionlessly for about ten seconds and turned around, and said, "Come on." ”

Zi Fei stood up and took off the Tianjing iron bracelet she was wearing on her wrist and put it on Xiao Shuai's wrist, looking at Xiao Shuai with a pair of bright eyes.

Without waiting for Xiao Shuai to speak, the village chief grabbed Xiao Shuai's wrist and dragged Xiao Shuai to his side, turned around and stepped out of the door, and the door closed automatically with a "bang".

Everyone else in the room rushed to the door, but they couldn't open it.

Xiao Shuai outside the house seemed to hear Zi Fei shouting: "Xiao Shuai." He almost turned back, but he held back. He followed the village chief into the wind.

Listening to the sound of the wind outside, the ghost cried and howled, but as soon as he walked into the wind, the sound was gone, and the black light emitted by the white paper lantern tightly enveloped the two of them. The village chief's hand always grabbed Xiao Shuai's wrist, as if he had brought a pair of stone cuffs to Xiao Shuai. The Tianjing Iron Bracelet that was grabbed by the village chief emitted an invisible magnetic field around Xiao Shuai's wrist, and Xiao Shuai felt the mana flowing in his body. Since entering the village, the mana has been suppressed, but after wearing the Tianjing iron bracelet on both the left and right hands, it seems that the mana has returned, and it is stronger than in the past. Xiao Shuai's heart moved, could it be that this day crystal iron bracelet is really a pair? One left and one right have a miraculous effect after wearing it?

Now I had no intention of thinking about it, but I followed the village chief to the center of the village, and the voices of people gradually became noisy, and I turned a corner and came to the avenue in the middle of the village. The streets are full of people and bright lights. It's like a temple fair at night.

The rooms that had been empty were filled all at once, and there were all kinds of characters walking around, but they didn't feel a little popularity. Popularity is a matter of feeling, and even a blind and deaf person can feel the difference between staying in the city and coming to the mountains. Xiao Shuai had already guessed what these things were. What's more, these "people" are so strange, some wear modern clothes, and some ancients wear the costumes of the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties. These people are all used to living in peace. It's just that everyone saw the black light emitted by the lantern, and all of them quickly flashed to the side. Let the village chief and Xiaoshuai walk through the middle. Before, Xiao Shuai always thought that it was the identity of the village chief, the "master", that made these "people" so afraid of him, but Xiao Shuai gradually felt that there was a dead air in the black light, which was what these "people" were afraid of.

Even the dead have half life, and the dry bones have half life, but this black light is not half life, everything is silent.

It's another world!

If it weren't for the disappearance of Wan Camel and Qian Hong, Xiao Shuai would not have been able to see the unknown side of this mysterious mountain village anyway. And this black lantern of the village chief. Thinking of the rule of calling the village chief, I am afraid that the secrets of this street may not be known to the whole village. Thinking of these, Xiao Shuai glanced up at the village chief. At this time, the village chief's eyes were full of strange light.

Heavy pupils!

Obviously, the village chief was observing the whole street with heavy pupils, and he was here to find someone, thinking that Wan Camel Xiaoshuai gathered his mind and opened his eyes to search around. The air around this opening of the Divine Eye suddenly became cold like freezing, the white fog around was vast, everyone's eyes looked at Xiao Shuai, and the rhythm of everything slowed down and quieted down. Only the roar of a motor suddenly came from the alley in the distance, and a military three-wheeled motorcycle during the Anti-Japanese War quickly drove out of the alley, and the three people in the car were actually different, one was eight roads, a national army and a Japanese soldier. The three of them all looked at Xiao Shuai with hideous faces, and the motorcycle also went straight to Xiao Shuai, seeing that the motorcycle was about to drive past Xiao Shuai, and the Japanese soldier sitting in the car next to him suddenly grabbed his hand to Xiao Shuai's door.

After several years of experience and training, Xiaoshuai did not panic, nor did he retreat, and he took a step to the side at the right time to avoid it. The hideous Japanese soldier's hand grasp had also detected the black light of the lantern, and the entire arm of the Japanese soldier was completely a skeleton in the black light, and he was wearing a torn military uniform. This surprised Xiao Shuai.

Xiao Shuai's heart was so messy, and the three-wheeled motorcycle turned around and collided head-on with Xiao Shuai.

At this time, the village chief took out a wooden scoop made of gourds and buckled it above Xiao Shuai's head, and suddenly a thick black light enveloped Xiao Shuai. The light was darker and more lifeless than the lantern emanated.

The "trio" on the motorcycle only hesitated for a moment, and then rushed over with gritted teeth. Xiaoshuai is already a little angry in his heart, good and evil are not mutually exclusive,

The mage's blood naturally contains this innate antagonistic aura. Xiao Shuai's left palm slowly shone with a blue glow, and his right palm also had a faint faint golden light. The Demon Seal and the Buddha Seal have been mobilized, and Xiao Shuai is going to destroy the three demons.

The three demons rushed over frantically, the village chief raised the black scoop in his hand, and the black light suddenly shot over, and the three "people" immediately decayed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the military uniform first turned into a flying air scattered around, and the white bones in the black light were also rapidly blackening and scattering into flying ashes, but the three hideous skeletons still rushed over, and the mandible kept shaking up and down as if they were shouting, and the teeth fell out quickly.

The motorcycle rushed to the front, Xiao Shuai jumped diagonally to avoid the motorcycle, and was about to play the magic seal and the Buddha seal, when the wind suddenly raged around, Xiao Shuai was a little unsteady, and he had jumped out of the black light of the lantern. At this moment, all the "pedestrians" around them pounced on Xiao Shuai as viciously as the trio

Come.

A thunderclap sounded, and before Xiao Shuai had time to react, all the strange phenomena disappeared, and the village chief was stroking his chest and panting. The paper lantern in his hand had also turned to ashes, and the sky was much brighter. It became cloudy in the evening. Then the clouds opened in a minute, and the sun shone down.

…… It's not night at all......

Is it an illusion? What was that thunderclap just now? Did the village chief do it?

Note (1) Eagle Eye Wolf Gu - Eagle vision here refers to sharp eyes and greed. And wolf Gu refers to the fact that the head can turn 180 degrees without moving on the shoulder, because the wolf and the dog can look back 180 degrees. According to legend, Sima Yi, Yuan Shikai and Lin Biao all have wolf looks, and non-big people will not have this appearance.