Chapter 5: The Back Under the Moonlight (2)

"Take hair as a string," so evil.

It was noon, in a teahouse in Xixiang Town, Mo Fan asked for a pot of tea and a few side dishes, and sat there thinking about what the Orion said about the woman in red.

He wasn't sure if what the hunter said was true or false, or if the woman in red was a ghost, so he went to the teahouse to inquire about the others.

The teahouse is mixed, people from all walks of life have it, and they are relatively well-informed.

No, not long after entering the teahouse, I heard the conversation between the two people sitting next to me.

It's just that it's not about ghosts, it's something else.

"Huang San, have you heard, the fourth team of the Demon Hunting Legion has returned from the world outside the wall."

"I haven't heard that only seven of the more than thirty Demon Hunters have returned, and four of them are still crippled." With a thin face and two mustaches on his lips, Huang San, who was about forty years old, raised his eyebrows and replied to the big man who asked the other side.

"Hey! What do you say about the world outside the walls, and why do the Demon Hunters lose so much when they come back? The big man on the other side sighed and asked again.

"Who knows, if we ordinary people can't even climb that wall, how can we know the world outside the wall." Huang San, who had a mustache, took a bite of food and said while eating.

"Demon Hunters, Fourth Brigade." Listening to the conversation between the two next seat, Mo Fan frowned deeply.

The Fourth Brigade of the Demon Hunter Legion is a veteran team, and the members in it are all strong, with the ability to tear lions and tigers with their bare hands and open mountains and split rocks.

Who would have lost so many people in the world outside the wall, which couldn't help but increase Mo Fan's curiosity about the world outside the wall.

It's just that what he has to do now is to complete the first task on the waist card as soon as possible, just now he took out the waist card and looked at it again, it said that although the first task is still two days away, but in fact he only has one night tonight.

Since the mission started at 8 or 9 p.m. the night before yesterday, 8 or 9 p.m. tomorrow will be the last time for the mission to end.

Picked up the cup in his hand and took a sip, one night is really a bit short for him now!

First of all, the unjust soul mentioned in the first task on the waist card, he still has no eyebrows.

Secondly, he had never been in contact with ghosts, and all he knew about them came from other people's accounts and biographical descriptions.

So he didn't know how to deal with something like a ghost when he encountered it.

The more he thought about it, the more chaotic his mind became, and at this time he was not in the mood to drink tea and eat, so he put down three copper coins on the table for tea and rice, and then walked out of the teahouse and walked towards the outside of the town.

According to the first quest on the Waist Card, the Soul he is looking for is near the Temple of Souls.

Since it is near the Soul Temple, it makes no sense to stay in Xixiang Town.

After leaving Xixiang Town, he did not return to the Soul Temple first, but ran to several villages not far from the Soul Temple, and asked people some strange things about the night nearby, and then returned to the Soul Temple.

……

Chirp!

Mo Fan, who returned to the Soul Temple and opened the door of the wing, heard the cry of the letter bird as soon as he entered the door, looking at the letter bird in the bird cage, his bleeding eyes were now a little brighter, and his spirit was much better and he was no longer pecking at the iron cage.

The only pity is a beautiful feather, it will be difficult to grow for a while, I really don't know what it saw last night, it will be scared like this.

Shaking his head, he didn't think about it, and when he finished the task on the waist card, he would go and investigate.

Now his goal is only to find it and destroy it.

After putting some food and water in the birdcage, he came to the main hall of the Soul Temple, intending to add three pillars of new incense to the Soul Statue.

After all, after walking all day, the incense lit in the morning has long been burned.

However, when he came to the main hall, looking at the four white smoke wafting from the incense burner in front of the soul statue, the whole person was frozen in place.

Because the incense in the incense burner has just been lit, and even the incense has not yet burned, it means that someone has come and just left.

But when he came back, he didn't see anyone coming to the Soul Temple, and he didn't find anyone coming out of the Soul Temple.

The strangest thing is the four incense sticks in the incense burner, which is not the incense of the soul temple for the soul statue, and the other is to incense the soul statue, which is generally worshiped with the numbers three, six, and nine.

And now there are four incense sticks burning in the incense burner, which makes Mo Fan a little stunned.

Four is an inauspicious number in the world within the walls, representing death.

Frowning deeply, the situation here in the Soul Temple is getting weirder and weirder.

So looking at the four burning incense sticks in the incense burner, he didn't replace them rashly, but lit three new incense sticks and inserted them next to them, and then walked out of the main hall and left the Soul Temple.

Originally, he planned to wait for the night to fall and go out to find the unjust soul, but the sudden appearance of four incense sticks made him feel an inexplicable danger.

He was worried that there would be an accident when night fell and he left the Soul Temple, so he decided to take advantage of the dusk and rush to the place where strange things happened from the nearby village when he came back.

……

The evening wind with a hint of coolness, wandering among the red-shirted forests, swaying countless red leaves, making a pleasant sound of "bang-la-la".

On a big tree where two people were hugging, Mo Fan squatted on a fork and poked his head out to overlook the forest.

Before returning to the Soul Temple from Xixiang Town, he passed through several villages and heard about a red-shirted forest four miles southwest of the Soul Temple, where some people heard cries and songs coming out at night, and some people saw people entering and exiting it in the middle of the night.

Even on some special festivals, a group of rats larger than cats were seen standing upright on their hind feet under the moonlight, holding various things on their front feet, and lining up into the red-shirt forest.

All kinds of strange phenomena, Mo Fan is sure that there must be something greasy here.

And the unjust soul he is looking for is likely to be hidden in this red-shirt forest.

According to people, the soul is transformed by resentment after death, so the Red Shirt Forest is the best place.

Because there are many dead people buried here, there are many graves in the forest, which are buried by people from nearby villages after they died.

This is also the reason why he came here, of course, he did not go deep into the forest, but picked a big tree on the edge and hid on it in advance.

At night, if there really is something strange coming in or coming out from the outside, he can see it clearly.

For now, he just had to wait for the night to fall completely.

……

The sun sets, and the dusk is gone.

Night falls, and the bright moon hangs high for half a day.

Mo Fan, who was hiding in the big tree, woke up suddenly, and he fell asleep leaning on the trunk of the tree at some point, so that he didn't know when the night came and the moon rose.

Looking up at the bright moon hanging in the middle of the sky, he estimated that it should be eleven o'clock at night.

After sitting on the tree for a long time, he felt a little uncomfortable, and was about to get up and change his position, when a strong wind suddenly blew in the forest.

Then I saw a figure walk out of the depths of the forest under the bright moonlight.

Then, under Mo Fan's stunned gaze, he left a back figure and walked in the direction of the Soul Temple.