The two of us didn't understand what the old man said, and Lu Xiaoling didn't have time to continue to spend it on him, so after asking a few words to no avail, she pulled me and continued to move forward.

"Have you regained your strength?" Walking out for a while, she suddenly reacted.

"Hmm." My face warmed up, but she probably wasn't visible in the dark.

"Then hurry up!" Her attitude suddenly cooled down for some reason.

We walked briskly along the road in the valley, the old man still following us unhurriedly, and I occasionally turned my head to shine my flashlight, and found that the distance between him and us had not been reached, and the distance between him and us had not been reached, and the distance between us was always less than fifty meters.

The surroundings are still so dark, but the cold and frightening things in the darkness seem to have disappeared suddenly, and the water in the valley next to it is rumbling, it is the flood season, and the water in the river is very fast, I don't know when, the sound suddenly became louder.

There were birds chirping somewhere, but not the kind of sound I had heard before.

If I had to describe it, it was a sound that made people shudder, and now this sound makes people feel "this bird is so ugly" at best.

Lu Xiaoling's pace was getting faster and faster, forcing me to trot a few steps from time to time, which left me without a chance to tell her how I felt.

It's also strange to say, although her attitude is still so bad, after helping her walk a few hundred meters, her impression in my heart suddenly improved.

There was still no signal on the mobile phone, but after turning the last mountain pass, we finally saw the lights of the project department.

Master Lu and the three villagers were still sitting in the circle in the middle of the field, and it seemed as if nothing had happened.

Lu Xiaoling looked back at me, and I immediately understood what she meant, so I tried my best to exhaust the last bit of strength in my body and ran after her and ran over there.

"Uncle!" She shouted loudly from afar, Zhang Dali and they stood up, and Master Lu made a gesture for them to stay where they were.

"What's going on? What about cars? He asked.

Lu Xiaoling picked up the main points of what happened, and Master Lu nodded.

"Why did they lure us in and only attack us once, without any pain?" Lu Xiaoling asked the question in my heart.

"You met an old man on the road, didn't you?" Master Lu asked.

I subconsciously used a flashlight to shine a light on the way we came, but the old man was gone.

"It can't be him." Lu Xiaoling said. "I tried it secretly, but he didn't have any Dao reaction, and he didn't have any evil reaction."

"There are not only two kinds of Taoism and evil qi in this world." Master Lu said.

"Secretary Zhang, do you know about him?" I asked. "It's the lonely old man who used to live alone in the mountains, the one who has been making trouble for a long time with land acquisition."

Zhang Dali frowned.

"You're talking about Zhang Laogen?" He said in surprise. "Speaking of which, he is still my own uncle, but since I was a child, he has always lived alone in the mountains, and rarely interacts with the people in the village."

"He could be a mage." Niu Wu suddenly said beside him.

We were all a little surprised and looked at him in unison.

Of course, the mage here is not the kind of mage who can use magic in video games, I know that the county of Yuanshan City calls people who understand yin and yang, can read feng shui, and can deal with ghosts and gods as mages, while in other places they are called sir, which actually means the same thing.

"I went to sell vegetables in a shed on the mountain, and I saw him open an altar on the mountain from afar." Niu Wu said.

Master Lu was very interested in this and asked him to talk about it in detail, but Niu Wu couldn't tell clearly, he just said that he saw him set up an altar on the mountain to kill chickens, burn incense and paper, and then ring the bell.

"It doesn't look like any other mage, and I didn't dare to go there." Niu Wu said.

If it was before, everyone would not have taken this estimate to heart, but after what happened now, everyone's faces became ugly.

"Why didn't you say it earlier!" Zhang Dali said to Niu Wu hatefully. He is the village party secretary, and what happens in the village is what he is most afraid of seeing.

"That was a few months ago, how do I know......" Niu Wu replied with his head down.

"Does this have anything to do with him?" Lu Xiaoling said. "He shouldn't have gone far, I'll go get him!"

Master Lu shook his head and stopped her.

"He shouldn't have bad intentions." He said as he thought. "I'm right, it's he who escorted you all the way back, so you didn't encounter anything else."

"Then it's better to ask him to come over and help!" A flame of hope burned in my heart.

If he can really protect me and Lu Xiaoling from evil spirits, then wouldn't he be even more powerful than Master Lu?

"If he wants to come, you don't need to say he'll come too." Master Lu shook his head. "I think there must have been a reason for him leaving."

Everyone was silent, this inference was reasonable, but Zhang Dali couldn't accept the conclusion that an old man in the village who didn't understand the world was a very powerful mage, let alone that he didn't help the people in the village even though he had the ability.

"I'll go up the mountain to find him tomorrow morning as soon as it's dawn." He said loudly.

The fear of the unknown mostly comes from feeling that there is no way to deal with it, but if someone can deal with it, this fear will be imperceptibly weakened.

There were only six of us left in the huge project department, and it still felt a little terrifying, so I sat cross-legged on a circle in the center of the circle according to Master Lu's command, and Zhang Dali, Niu Wu, and Zhang Fugui all sat together.

The exhilaration of encountering things and groping for part of the root causes of things quickly passed, and the feeling of exhaustion and intense burnout soon returned to me, making me sleepy.

I don't know how long it took, but a strong chill suddenly enveloped me and made me sneeze.

The breath that came out of my mouth turned into water vapor that could be seen with the naked eye in front of me.

"Master Lu~" A few of us shouted softly in unison.

"You guys sit still and don't move!" Master Lu said, and then took the peachwood sword in his hand and chanted in front of the altar.

Lu Xiaoling held a bell in her hand and shook it from time to time in conjunction with his recitation.

But the cold feeling became heavier and heavier, just like the coldest winter in Yuanshan City, the four of us could only try our best to huddle together to keep warm, I saw that Master Lu's eyebrows and Lu Xiaoling's hair were covered with a layer of hoarfrost at some point, and even the candle flame on the altar was pressed to a very small extent, as if it was about to be extinguished.

The street lights also became extremely dim, and the whole world seemed to be swallowed up by darkness, Niu Wu's teeth rang out, and Zhang Dali and Zhang Fugui also trembled.

I couldn't help but close my eyes.

"Nine days of generalization, Tiangang real machine, five thunders in the sky ~ boom!"

With Master Lu's loud shout, a loud bang suddenly erupted around us, and the brilliant light could be felt even with my eyes tightly closed, and faintly, I felt that I heard a man's scream.

"It's now!" Master Lu shouted loudly.