"Dead?"

Xiaoqing looked at me, she trembled with fear: "How do you know that they are all dead?" ”

I pointed to the two skinny dogs and said lightly, "If the person hadn't died, the dog would have been thin like this?" Coupled with such a quiet and uninhabited population, anyone can guess that it can't be said that the whole village has something to do together, right? ”

"Then why doesn't the dog eat the carcass?" Xiaoqing asked again.

Zhang Aiai frowned and said: "It is estimated that after the death of the master, he was so sad that he didn't eat or drink, didn't there be similar news?" ”

I shook my head and said, "Those are all old dogs, and they are not in good health, and after the owner dies, they are also in a bad mood and have no appetite at all." In fact, science has long proven that when the owner dies, the cat will wait until the day, and if it has not eaten or drunk for a whole day, they will start to eat the owner's corpse; If it is a dog, wait for three to four days, and when it is really unbearable, it will still eat the owner's corpse. ”

"Those two dogs are skinny like this, they definitely didn't lose weight in a short period of time, do you mean ......" Sun Qing frowned.

I nodded, "The corpse is poisonous, otherwise the dog wouldn't be thin like this." It must be because the corpses are poisonous, they don't dare to eat it, and they can only find something to eat in the mountains, so they become skinny dogs. Since it's poisonous...... Wait a minute. ”

I rummaged through my backpack, found another blank talisman, moistened it, covered my mouth and nose, and walked towards the first house. They followed me cautiously, and when they came to the old house, I saw that the door was open, so I stretched out my foot and kicked it hard!

"Bang!"

I kicked the old wooden door crookedly and slammed it against the wall, which also made me see the inside of the house.

Empty.

The whole room was empty, only some furniture was placed inside, and there were no people or corpses in sight.

I frowned and muttered, "It's weird, it's weird." ”

"You analyzed it in the first place, but in the end it turned out that your conjecture was wrong......" Zhang Aiai kicked open the door of the second room, and after finding that there was no one inside, he muttered to me, "Can you do it?" ”

I reluctantly said, "Don't think I'm like a god. ”

"Ai Ai, one mistake is not enough to prove the incompetence of others, at least we have all seen the master's previous performance." Sun Qing said to Zhang Aiai unhappily.

Zhang Aiai stopped talking, her eyes looked directly at the two thin dogs, and she whispered: "Let's go to Jiang Wei's house first, if this is the case, I guess the clue is on those two dogs." ”

I hummed, this is the only way now.

We walked to Jiang Wei's house, and the situation finally changed. In the center of Jiang Wei's house, there was a black coffin. The coffin is very simple and has no special patterns. As soon as he saw the coffin, Jiang Wei immediately cried and hurriedly rushed to the coffin.

He tried hard to push the coffin open, but the coffin was as if it had been nailed to death, and no matter how hard Jiang Wei tried, it just couldn't move. I walked around the coffin in confusion and found that at the end of the coffin, there was an envelope.

Definitely a hint message.

"Li Dong, since you can come here, I naturally want to be impressed by you. It's a shame that the scene I wanted to see didn't happen, but your performance was just as good. I'm sure you'll become my backbone sooner or later. Now I can tell you that it is true that everything is covered by ghosts, but what is it that covers the eyes of ghosts? Just before crossing the river. In fact, after crossing the river, you are not in the ghost blindfolding, but in the formation......"

"When you came here before, you were bitten, right? To tell you the truth, after that, there was already a breath of yin qi running around in your body, this is the point now, in this village, there are two people, I believe Jiang Wei knows both. One is the patriarch and the other is the village chief. Among them, the blood of the patriarch can open this coffin, and the blood of the village chief can save you. But I must tell you, you can only save one person in your time, the choice is yours. If you choose to save Jiang Wei's mother, I'm afraid you will lose your left hand. Believe me, no matter what you do beforehand or after, you can't recover it. ”

After I read the note, I burned it with a lighter and said coldly, "Let's go, go find the patriarch." According to the practice of poor mountainous areas, people like the patriarch always stay in the ancestral hall, either to engage in clan activities or to repair the family tree. ”

Jiang Wei said softly: "Now is indeed the time for the clan to cultivate the genealogy, then I will take you to the ancestral hall." ”

"Jiang Wei, you are too selfish!" Sun Qing roared angrily, "It's clearly written on the note, if the master goes to save your mother, he will lose his left hand." We can understand your sincerity to save your mother, but the master also chose to save your mother without saying a word, and you didn't even have a word of thanks? ”

Jiang Wei's face turned pale for a while, he bit his lip tightly, and remained silent without speaking. I waved my hand and said, "One hand is not as important as a life, since the person behind the scenes dares to pack tickets, we don't have to waste time in the choice." Let's go, needless to say. ”

Sun Qing and the others all glared at Jiang Wei unwillingly, and we left the house and walked towards the ancestral hall.

I'm not a saint.

It's just that no matter what angle you think about it, Jiang Wei's mother will have something to do with me, if you blindly evade responsibility, maybe you will be comfortable at the beginning, but you will fall into self-blame in the rest of your life. I'm soft-hearted, and it's easy to forgive anyone, but it's not easy to forgive myself.

Instead of sighing as you toss and turn every day after that, do something worthy of your conscience.

After all, Banshan Village is just a small village, and after walking a few steps, we saw the ancestral hall in the distance.

It was a small ancestral hall, just a one-story bungalow, but the place should be quite large. The door of the ancestral hall is open, and it is estimated that there has been some activity before.

What is unacceptable is that there are figures walking around in the ancestral hall. The men walked slowly, a little staggeringly. Their stature is particularly thin, and they look as strange as bamboo poles, and their two hands as thin as chopsticks are shaking in the air.

Xiaoqing was pleasantly surprised: "The villagers are still alive, you can ask them for help!" ”

I shook my head and said, "No, I guess...... My previous assumptions were correct. ”

"What do you mean?" Zhang Aiai wondered.

I looked at Jiang Wei and asked, "Is there a pig farmer next to me?" ”

Jiang Wei hurriedly said: "Yes, it's right next to it, I'll take you to see it." ”

He ran towards a house, and we hurriedly followed. When I entered the back door of this man's house, I found that there was indeed a pigsty here, and there were two pigs in the pigsty, both of them fat and strong, and they were lazily taking a nap on the ground. And in the ground of the pigsty, there are several holes in the ground.

"It's poison gas......," I said, "this village has been attacked by poison gas before, and the two skinny dogs, as I said, don't dare to eat the poisonous carcass." What I didn't calculate was that the villagers would be able to move like the walking dead after they died. ”

Jiang Wei asked suspiciously, "How can you deduce that it is poisonous gas?" ”

"The burrows in the pigsty," I explained, ......, "are the tenth most intelligent animals in nature, and of course humans are not counted. The most powerful thing about pigs is the means of protecting themselves, when the poisonous gas attacks, they can already feel it, and they will arch a hole in the ground and burrow their noses into it to avoid the poisonous gas. In the history of human warfare, something similar has happened. I understand it now...... Why does the mastermind behind the scenes say that the two can only save one. Go out, I'll show you there. ”

I took them out of the house, it was now eleven o'clock at noon, I pulled them to sit in front of the ancestral hall to rest, looking at the figures walking around in the ancestral hall, Zhang Aiai couldn't help but ask: "What is the reason why the two can only save one of them?" ”

"Wait, I'll take a nap first, and when it's about four o'clock in the afternoon, you'll know."

I took out compressed biscuits and mineral water from my backpack, and after eating, I used my backpack as a pillow and lay down on the floor to sleep. It's really not enough to rest from yesterday to now, if you don't take advantage of the free time to sleep a little longer, I'm afraid that you will miss things due to fatigue when you move.

In order to make me sleep more comfortably, Sun Qing and the others used their bodies to help me block the faint natural light, Jiang Wei looked anxiously at the ancestral hall, but did not dare to disturb me.

I really didn't get enough sleep last night, so I slept comfortably until four o'clock in the afternoon, and it was Zhang Aiai who woke me up. When I got up, I saw that her face was very strange. I laughed and said, "Is something strange happening?" ”

"Yes." Zhang Aiai nodded.

"Are you finding that they're getting thinner?" I asked.

"yes, you can take a look."

I looked into the ancestral hall, and sure enough, the figures that were as thin as bamboo poles were really as thin as lines at this time, and I could even clearly see the shape of their bones.

Sun Qing asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

I explained: "These guys are not afraid of death or pain, and if we want to break through, I'm afraid it's just a dead end." To be honest, I don't have a way to fight them, I can't set fire to the ancestral hall, first of all, I don't know if they are afraid of fire, if they burn the patriarch out, then it's all over. And in order to satisfy their own entertainment, the mastermind behind the scenes set a time for these villagers to be completely reduced to ashes, and now it seems that it is estimated to be at nine o'clock in the evening. ”

"Then we only have more than three hours left!?" Jiang Wei was surprised.

I nodded and said, "Yes, within more than three hours, we will break into the ancestral hall, break through unknown difficulties, and bring back the blood of the patriarch to save your mother." That's why the mastermind behind the scenes let go, and of the two, we can only save one of them. ”

Sun Qing gritted his teeth and said, "What if we act separately?" ”

"He's sure to set the difficulty just right, don't think too much......" I laughed, "If people don't have that ability, how can they make countless netherworlds?" If you don't believe it, go and see it. ”

Sun Qing really didn't give up, pulled Jiang Wei to leave, and said to go to the village chief's usual office to have a look. I just sat on the ground and waited, and after a while, Sun Qing came back with an ugly face, but he didn't say anything, and I didn't ask.

"Now wait until nine o'clock?" Zhang Aiai asked.

I hummed, there really is nothing I can do now but wait.

The mastermind behind the underworld is a complete pervert. He deliberately kept me waiting so long with nothing to do, just to see me change my mind or break down in order to satisfy his desires.

People are not afraid of bad luck coming, they are only afraid of waiting for the process of bad luck.

"Do you want to see me like a lost dog...... I lit a cigarette for myself, puffed out a puff of smoke comfortably, and muttered, "Behind the scenes...... How ruthless do you have to be so that you can do anything without feeling guilty about your conscience? ”

I began to feel numb in my left hand, and I lifted my sleeve to see that the blood vessels on my left hand were exposed, densely packed......