I snorted and rolled to the side, the whole person was soaked in the water, and when I wanted to stand up, I saw the person on the Tongyin Stone and was directly stunned.

There was a phantom of the old man on the Tongyin Stone, sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed.

Zhao Rou had already walked to the edge of the Tongyin Stone, standing in front of the phantom of Lao Yutou, and I saw her sitting on the Tongyin Stone in almost slow motion, crossing her legs, overlapping with the phantom of Lao Yutou.

Her straight back bent as she slowly opened her eyes and grinned at me.

I shuddered and scrambled to my feet.

After coming out of the water, I gasped for breath and looked over to Zhao Rou, but the person who saw her met two round, yellow eyes, like cat's eyes at night.

I broke out in a cold sweat on my back and limped to the shore.

The ground beneath his feet became more and more slippery, and after taking two steps, he threw himself into the water again, slid uncontrollably with the current, and finally hit a protruding object.

I grabbed it, looked down, and saw that it was a staircase, and the edges had been washed away very smooth.

"Tuzi!" I heard Gao Hui call me, and the next moment a hand grabbed my clothes and pulled me out of the water.

When I looked at Zhao Rou again, she and Lao Yutou were nowhere to be seen.

The flow stopped again, and it was a river, but it was like a backwater lake.

Gao Hui pulled me ashore and asked anxiously, "You're not hurt, are you?" ”

"Nope." I said, looking around, but I didn't see the big tiger.

Gao Hui said: "He's already gone. ”

Zu Zhiyou took off his coat and put it on my body, "As soon as you went down just now, I saw black shadows coming out of the water, I couldn't touch the entity, but there was no ghost, I was afraid that something would happen to you in the water, so I quickly called you up." “

My heart shuddered, "You mean, out of the water?" ”

He nodded.

I was busy getting up from the ground, "Go back and see if there are any new Taoist priests coming in." ”

Gao Hui stopped me, "I'll go back and change my clothes first, and I'll go with Zu Zhiyou." ”

"Okay." I answered.

A few of us parted by the river, Liya and Zhai Huimin followed me and walked back, and when I passed the collapsed villas, I walked over and found that there was a slight wind blowing around me, faintly, and there were subtle footsteps,

But there was no one in front of me, and even if I reached out and touched it, I couldn't touch anyone.

On the way back, I whispered, "Do you think Dushuo Villa is real?" ”

Liya looked at me in surprise, as if she didn't react.

"I'll see the hanging." Zhai Huimin said with a solemn face: "All this is too unbelievable, and besides, I think Gao Hui is right, someone is manipulating things here." ”

I pursed my lips, and I agreed with what Zhai Huimin said.

The three of us quietly returned to the villa, and the dark shadow that originally surrounded the villa had left, and Li Jingzhi was nowhere to be found.

Liya said anxiously: "My senior brother won't have an accident, right?" ”

"No, it won't." I said with certainty, "Liya, your senior brother is more capable than you think. ”

She was a little stunned, thinking for a while, and her face slowly changed.

After a while, Gao Hui and Zu Zhiyou returned.

"Sure enough, there are a lot of new Taoist priests." Gao Hui said.

"As you said before, there are more than 900 Taoist priests who set off to Dushuo Villa, and dozens of them are put in every day, and we will be trapped here for at least ten days, forcing people to fight one stubble after another, and food will also be a problem." I said with a frown.

"Is it now proven that the river is the problem?" Zhai Huimin thought about it and said, "Then let's think of a way to solve the problem of that river directly, and we should be able to find the cause, right?" ”

Thinking of the steps at the bottom of the river, I looked at Gao Hui, "What did you find when you entered the river just now?" ”

"It is likely that the river was not formed naturally, but was built by hand," he said in a deep voice, with no mud at the bottom and steps built on it. ”

"I think so too." I hesitated and said, "I saw a stone at the bottom of the river, which is the one from Yimen. ”

It is estimated that Zhai Huimin and Zu Zhiyou don't know who Lao Yutou is, so I didn't mention him.

Who knew that Zu Zhiyou immediately asked: "Is it the piece that Yu Weiguo brought out from Nantaizi Village?" ”

I nodded first, and then asked in surprise, "Do you know Lao Yutou?" ”

"Of course I do." Zu Zhiyou explained: "At the beginning, he was in charge of Yimen, and he helped Tianji Pavilion to do bad things, originally we planned to find an opportunity to solve him, but who knew that he disappeared by himself." ”

I opened my mouth, but in the end I didn't say that Lao Yutou had died in Kuiniu Mountain, and there was his shadow on the Tongyin Stone, perhaps, he was not dead at all.

I squatted down slowly, thinking about what happened in Kuiniu Mountain, at that time I saw him scatter with my own eyes, how could he reappear on Zhao Rou in a blink of an eye?

Perhaps, the problem lies in the Yin stone.

"It's almost dawn, let's go back to the room and take a rest, it's likely to be a fierce battle at night." Gao Hui said.

I was still sleeping in the previous room, and as soon as I walked to the window, I saw Yu Xuan'er standing on the balcony opposite, looking at me.

After thinking about it, I pulled the curtain open so she could see me directly.

She smiled and turned away.

I had a feeling that she had come to see me.

I was stunned for a moment, closed the curtains, lay down on the bed, and as soon as I closed my eyes, I fell asleep.

The body was getting colder and colder, and there was the sound of rushing water, and after a while, I couldn't breathe.

I struggled to open my eyes, and my eyes were blood-red, and I chuckled in my heart and quickly sat up.

The blood red in front of me disappeared, and when I looked down, I realized that I was sitting in the blood water.

There was a whip snap, and it didn't hit me, but my shoulder hurt a bit, and the skin on my right shoulder slowly cracked and extended down to my waist.

I gasped and was about to reach out to touch it, but my face hurt and I could clearly feel a crack in the skin from my eyebrows to my chin.

Those two whiplashes appeared on my body.

I scrambled to my feet from the water and took a step, a cold-glowing whip wrapped around my neck, slowly tightening, the blade on the inside cutting through my skin.

I pulled the whip from my neck desperately.

"Han Ming......" My voice echoed in my ears, but I didn't speak at all!

The whip around my neck was getting tighter and tighter, my mouth was wide open, and my heart was beating faster and faster.

Suddenly, I shuddered and woke up, gasping for air.

When I tried to touch my neck, I realized that my hands had been pinching my neck.

The curtains were blown by the wind, and the ground was a smash of glass, and a stone was mixed in with it.

Someone deliberately smashed the glass.

I went down to the window and looked out, but I didn't see anyone.

Could it be that someone knew that I almost strangled myself in a dream and broke the glass to wake me up?

But who is that man?

I wiped the sweat from my forehead, turned on the light, and looked carefully in the mirror for a long time to make sure that there was no injury on my neck, and I was relieved.

I didn't dare to sleep anymore, so I simply went downstairs to keep vigil, and when I got to the living room, I saw Gao Hui sitting on the sofa.

No, it was his soul sitting on the sofa, and Gao Hui's body was lying on the other side, as if asleep.

He glanced up at me, pointed to the kettle on the table and said, "Gao Hui boiled hot water before going to bed, and it is still warm." ”

"Thank you." My voice was hoarse, hissing, and my throat was so sore that I spoke.

I quickly poured a glass of warm water and drank it slowly.

He raised his eyebrows and said, "Can't sleep?" ”

"Well, I had a nightmare." I say.

He didn't ask me what dreams I had, "I'll go to the meeting after drinking water, I'm busy tonight." ”

I answered and asked him, "Do you know anything about this place?" ”

He didn't run away from this question, and said with a frank expression: "Of course I understand." ”

Without waiting for me to ask him why, he continued, "I came to the Castle, but when I came, it wasn't like this. ”

"When you were alive?" My heart jumped, this Dushuo Villa was built only five or six years ago, and this year it became famous.

He saw my doubts and said slowly, "I came here when I was alive." “

"You mean to say that Dushuo Mountain Villa has been around for thousands of years?" I was horrified.

He shook his head and said: "More than a thousand years, when the two gods of the door and the gods of Yu Lei appeared, there was already Dushuo Mountain, and this Dushuo Villa and Dushuo Mountain are in the same line, but the main ghost of Dushuo Mountain, and Dushuo Villa is both living and yin. ”

"You ......" I wanted to ask him what else he knew, but I saw him wave his hand and said with a smile: "That's all I can say, I can't say anything else, and I don't dare to say it." ”

"Okay." I didn't ask again, went upstairs and went back to my room.

Staying in the room until it was almost dark, I saw Gao Hui go out, hesitated for a long time, or left through the back door while there was no one in the living room.

Halfway through, I texted Liya and told them not to worry about me.

Looking at the full grid of signals on my phone, I secretly shook my head, what the ghost on Gao Hui's body said was not necessarily true.

If Dushuo Villa is similar to the mythical Dushuo Mountain, then how can there be a signal on the mobile phone, so now this Dushuo Villa is likely to be real.

The more I think about it, the more it seems that it is possible, perhaps, from the very beginning, that someone began to mislead us, making us think that the place we are in now is just as much an illusion as the place of life and death.

And the purpose of his doing this is to hide the truth of the next series of things.

It's like those collapsed houses, I doubted the authenticity of this place before, I didn't believe it was an earthquake, I thought that the people behind it could have made it, but I thought about it in another direction, what if the house really collapsed?

This can happen in real life, for example, if there is a problem with the foundation.

A long time ago, I saw the news that a resident had dug the basement and caused cracks in the walls of the building.

If the foundations of those villas were hollowed out, there was a high chance that they would collapse.

Thinking of this, I suddenly brightened my mind and hurried to the river.

Get ahead of Liya and the others to see what's going on at the bottom of the river, and then go to the collapsed buildings.

I didn't go into the water this time, I directly found a long wooden stick, and poked a few times at the place where I had put the Yin Stone before, but I didn't find the Yin Stone.

I took a stick and walked all the way down the river for more than half an hour, and the bottom of the water was very gentle, and the bricks and stones were paved.

Gao Hui is right, this is an artificial river.

I looked at the lower reaches of the river, the artificially carved river, and then built a sluice and a dam upstream, and as long as the sluice was not opened, this section of the river would be a stagnant lake.

I threw the sticks aside, quickened my pace downstream, and walked for more than half an hour, and sure enough, I saw the sluice gate and the dam.

Just as he was about to get closer, a whip suddenly came out of the water, and the blade was inlaid with a mountain on one side.

I hurriedly dodged, and the whip slammed into the ground, pulling out a deep scratch.

I took a few steps back and watched as the whip sank into the water.

I took a deep breath and quietly dived into the water, and found that the stone used by Lao Yutou was actually lying in front of the dam, and there was a cat squatting on it, staring at me with a gloomy gaze.

As soon as it tilted its head, the whip flew out from behind it and whipped at me.

I hurriedly avoided it to the right, and at the same time the cat's head tilted to the right, and the whip turned halfway and came to the right.

My heart sank, and I quickly swam backwards and climbed ashore.

The whip was drawn in front of my feet, just a finger's throw away from me.

When the whip was back in the water again, I exhaled, twisted the water on my coat, and was dumbfounded when I looked at the situation around me.

I didn't even notice that I was on the wrong bank, so I ran to the other side of the river.

I hesitated to look at the water, wondering if I should wade through it again.

Just thinking about it, I suddenly heard movement behind me, I subconsciously held my breath, cautiously turned around and looked back, but there was nothing behind me.

It was dark behind him, and he couldn't see if there was a house.

After thinking about it, I walked forward in small steps, the more windy it became, the lower the temperature, and finally I couldn't hold back and sneezed.

"Who?" A voice came from in front of me to the right, and the person who could hear it was nervous, and his voice was shaking.

I didn't say a word, I took two more steps, and it was as if I had passed through a veil, and everything was clear in front of me.

It turned out that on the other side of the river was a mountain.

Zu Zhiyou and Zhai Huimin both said that they were trapped in the mountain at the time, could it be this mountain?

I picked up a pebble and threw it at the trunk of a tree not far away.

"Who the hell is it?" The trembling voice sounded again, all with a crying tone, and the man could be heard to be afraid.

But in my line of sight, there was no one at all.

"Get out of here quickly, it's too evil, you can't see it when you open your yin eyes." The man seemed to be talking to his companion again.

I waited a few minutes, threw another stone, and this time no one made a sound.

It seems that they have left.

I frowned secretly, why?

The man said that he could not see me when he opened his yin eyes, and I opened my yin eyes and could not see him either, and that he had companions around him, but I could only hear one man talking.

After thinking about it, I walked over to the place where the man had just spoken and stood, my eyes closed, listening intently to the movements around me.

I noticed that the wind blew around me from time to time, and each time the direction was different, east, west, north and south.

The wind is small and easy to ignore, like the air currents brought up by someone walking briskly.

When I opened my eyes, my heart sank deeper and deeper, and it seemed that what those Taoist priests said was true, they were trapped on the mountain, and they couldn't see anyone else, so they all said that there was no one else in the whole mountain.

But how did they do it?

I couldn't figure it out.

"Tuzi ......," I heard Xiao Yu's voice.

Before I could turn around, my waist sank, and he took me into his arms and covered my mouth, "Follow me first." ”

He spoke in a very low voice, almost all of which was air, and if it weren't for the silence around him, he wouldn't be able to hear it clearly.

He took me down the river again, but in about ten minutes, there was a stone bridge, and he stood by the bridge, opened his umbrella, and hugged me along.

Walking on the stone bridge, I felt that the road under my feet was actually soft.

After crossing the stone bridge and walking about ten meters forward, he led me to stop under a willow tree.

He flicked it on my head and said helplessly, "You actually found this place by yourself." ”

"Is it hard to find here?" I asked as he spoke.

"Ordinary people can't go up to the other side of the river," he said. ”

I understood what he said, so the people in the villa area didn't know that the mountains on the other side were full of people.

Thinking of the people on the opposite mountain, I asked curiously: "There are so many people on the mountain, why can't they feel the existence of each other?" ”

His eyes deepened, as if to confirm with me, "You really want to know?" ”

"Yes." I say without hesitation.

He put away his umbrella and led me to the river, "I'll show you." ”

I didn't move, looked at him, raised an eyebrow, and said, "Are you playing with some bad ideas?" ”

In the past, he kept me away from these things, but today he even took me to see them.

He said: "After the Maoyin incident, I figured it out, the more I pressed, didn't let you check, didn't let you know, the more you scratched your heart and lungs to know the truth." ”

I rolled my eyes, "It's like these things have nothing to do with me, I'm here to live." ”

"These things really have nothing to do with you." He said seriously.

I clasped my hands to my chest, "Then tell me, why is there her corpse in the dragon tomb of Maoyin?" Also, if Dushuo Villa really has nothing to do with me, why did you let me come? ”

Speaking of this, he looked a little guilty and said, "It's my fault, it's me who has caused you." ”

"Forget it, I won't tell you, you don't want to take me to see it, hurry up." I said impatiently.

I began to be irritable again, and felt that talking to him was like driving a donkey to grinding, and I only took a step with a whip.

I just said so much, and none of it was useful.

Walking to the river dam, he asked me to stand aside and jumped directly into the water myself, and the moment he touched the water, the whip in the water suddenly pulled out.

He pressed the whip with his umbrella, the blade downward, and stepped the whip directly on the ground.

Just a few clicks were heard, and a whirlpool formed near the dam, and the water suddenly flowed and the water level gradually dropped.

In seven or eight minutes, the river dried up, and a hole appeared at the bottom of the river, and there was still the sound of water flowing in it.

Xiao Yu turned his head to me and said, "Quick, jump into the hole." ”

I immediately went over and jumped into the hole without hesitation, my eyes glancing over the stone in front of the dam, on which the cat spirit was still crouching, but its eyes were closed.

The pit was not deep, and there was water underneath it, and I fell into the water, but it didn't hurt.

As soon as I stood firm, Xiao Yu jumped down, and at the same time, the big pit was gradually sealed, and it was pitch black on all sides, and I couldn't see anything.

"Don't be afraid." Xiao Yu took my hand and turned on the flashlight.

I laughed, "You're still preparing this." ”

He put the flashlight in my hand and said, "This is for you, I don't need it." ”

As he spoke, he had already pulled me out of the water.

The stones used on the shore are the same as those used at the bottom of the water.

I looked around and guessed correctly.

There is a cat under Dushuo Villa.

Now the head has been dug through, except for the supporting stone pillars, there is no other cover, and you can't see the end at a glance.

The houses that collapsed before should have had a problem at the bottom, causing problems with the foundation of the house, and then they collapsed.

Xiao Yu and I had just walked a few steps, and the two of us came out from behind the pillar, and when we looked closely, it turned out to be Xu Cheng and Li Huang.

Xu Cheng bowed his head and said respectfully: "Mr. Xiao, Yu Xuan'er ordered to come down, and no one is allowed to come in." ”

It dawned on me that no wonder I couldn't find Yu Xuan'er and a few people, they weren't on the ground at all, they lived underground.

Xiao Yu sneered and said, "I need to follow her orders?" ”

Li Huang and Xu Cheng glanced at each other, and both of them smiled bitterly.

"Of course you don't need it, but our two brothers need it, and please ask Mr. Xiao to raise his noble hand and let us go." Li Huang said.

Xiao Yu didn't speak, and looked at him lightly.

I noticed that cold sweat was slowly dripping from the foreheads of Xu Cheng and Li Huang, and the muscles on their bodies were trembling slightly.

"Last time, they ran into you?" Xiao Yu asked me suddenly.

I was stunned for a moment before I reacted to his words and shook my head busily, "No." ”

Li Huang and his body have become even stronger.

Xiao Yu hummed and said, "Spare your lives, get out of here." ”

Xu Cheng and Li Huang said yes, and then said in unison: "Offended." ”

Then I saw the two of them go up to a pillar, take a deep breath, roar angrily, and crash into it as if they were not afraid of death, and bleed their heads.

Xu Cheng fainted directly, Li Huang may not have grasped the strength well, so he had to hit it a second time before he fell to Xu Cheng's side as he wished.

I looked at Xiao Yu in surprise, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to be so terrible." ”

His forehead was bruised, and his face was speechless, "Don't worry about this neurosis." ”

When he said that he was neurotic, Xu Cheng's fingers trembled.

I suddenly felt a little sorry for Li Huang, from beginning to end, he was the only one who was genuinely knocked unconscious.

Xiao Yu and I walked forward and found that the place had indeed collapsed.

At first, the ground was flat and clean, but as we walked a little further, various runes began to appear on the ground, all written on the floor with cinnabar.

But I watched it for a long time, and I couldn't help what these runes were used for.

"You shouldn't have brought her here." Out of the darkness came a man.

Seeing the man's face clearly, I felt a chill in my heart, it turned out to be the old man who beat me half to death last time.

Xiao Yu said lightly: "Before destroying it, let her take a look." ”

The old man's eyes were cold, and he said angrily: "Xiao Yu, you should know how much effort this formation has spent, and it is about to be completed now, and you want to destroy it?" ”

After speaking, Lao Yutou looked at me hatefully and said, "I knew that I should have beaten her soul away back then, and you were trapped by love." ”

Xiao Yu let go of my hand, his whole body was filled with evil energy, the soul lock umbrella slowly opened, and he looked at me: "Do you want me to destroy this place?" ”

I tried to ask, "Is that okay?" ”

He smiled at the corner of his mouth, "You say yes, I'll do it." ”

Without hesitation, I said, "Yes." ”

The old man blew his beard angrily and glared, pointed at Xiao Yu and scolded: "Xiao Yu, this is not child's play, you are ...... for a woman"

Before the old man finished speaking, the black umbrella in Xiao Yu's hand spun and crashed towards him.

At the same time, Xiao Yu swept forward, and in an instant he had reached him, holding the handle of the umbrella, drawing a slender black sword from Chong, and fighting with the old man.

I hid behind a pillar and looked at them nervously.

Maybe I've been here for a long time, and I can see things a lot more clearly, and I can vaguely see the things around me.

The place where the old man and Xiao Yu fought was higher than other places, and there was a row of villains not far away, all of whom were tied out of their hair.

If you look closely, the length and thickness of the hair are different, and some of the hair is dyed and colored, indicating that it is not a person's hair at all.

The old man was forced by Xiao Yu to be anxious, and he also moved, his expression gradually became fierce, and he threw his backhand at Xiao Yu, the whip sounded, and a finger-thick groove was drawn on the ground.

My eyelids jumped, and the old man was using a whip too.

Xiao Yu's eyes were fierce, and when he saw the whip, his moves became even more fierce.

The black umbrella hung in the air, turning faster and faster, and for a while the wind was howling below, and the top fell straight down to the earth.

"You're looking for that whip."

Hearing Yu Xuan'er's voice, I was startled, and I didn't know when she came to me.

She looked at the old man and said again: "The whiplash you dreamed of came from the whip on his hand. ”

That is, Grandma Zheng and the obedient were both killed by the old man?

In my dream yesterday, the whip wound on my body was also drawn by him?

I was stunned.

Yu Xuan'er frowned and looked at me, sighed and said, "You have to be a woman." ”

Me: "......"

Why is this girl still struggling with this question?

I suppressed the horror in my heart, pointed at Xiao Yu, and said, "I'm really a woman, that's my man." ”

She glared at me, "You don't have to stress it all the time. ”

As long as she is facing Yu Xuan'er, she is always a little inexplicable, laughs dryly, moves to the side awkwardly, and looks at Xiao Yu again.

The old man had already been injured by Xiao Yu, and the whip had fallen off.

"Damn, why isn't he light or heavy, this old man can't die now." After Yu Xuan'er finished speaking, she rushed forward directly and blocked the sword in Xiao Yu's hand.

She and Xiao Yu made eye contact, and reached some kind of agreement in an instant, and while Xiao Yu retreated, she floated the old man, picked up the whip on the ground, and left directly.

And Xiao Yu inserted the black sword into the handle of the umbrella, jumped onto the umbrella surface, formed a strange posture with both hands, and moved his mouth quickly.

The little people on the ground who had their hair tied up staggered to their feet, and took two steps on the ground, but there was still smoke above their heads, and the flames were rushing out from the inside.

At the same time, the cinnabar runes on the ground became lighter and lighter, and finally disappeared.

Xiao Yu jumped down from the umbrella and put it away.

There was a smell of burnt mush on all sides, and I covered my nose and walked over, "It's over?" ”

He shook his head, "Far from it." ”

With that, he looked to the northeast.

I also looked over, there is a gate there, on which are painted two door gods, Shen Tu and Yu Lei, the color is bright red as blood.

There was a creak and the door slowly opened.

Xiao Yu lowered his head and asked me, "Do you want to go in?" ”