Let's take the ghost baby out of the mountain, it seems to him to be a somewhat nonsensical request.

Actually, I am the one who is "non-divided", Lao Yang probably doesn't know that a large part of the reason why he wants to risk his life this time is on me.

If it weren't for my curse, Du Kang probably wouldn't have come here to find the evil god, and he wouldn't have to enter the realm of the evil god with us.

On the way here, I discussed with the second master, can we let Lao Yang take us to find the cliff first, and then we will send Lao Yang out, anyway, we have found the way to the cliff, we can send Lao Yang out and then find it back the same way.

But Du Kang said that if there is no Lao Yang, even if we destroy the evil god, there will be no return, because only an old man like Lao Yang, who was born and raised in this village, knows how to build a heavenly lock.

Liu Shangang was washing the ghost baby's hair, but the ghost baby heard Lao Yang's voice and rushed over with soap bubbles on her head.

His face was gray just now, and I couldn't see his facial features clearly, but now, the pair of cleanly shaped sword eyebrows and a pair of slender Danfeng eyes made him not very old, but he looked a kind of natural majesty.

I was worried that Lao Yang would ask the ghost baby to kneel for us or something, and when I saw him running to Lao Yang's side, I preemptively said, "Ghost baby, will you stuff rice?" ”

The ghost baby nodded immediately, and the soap bubbles on her head were thrown everywhere.

I smiled and said to him, "Wash your hair first, and then you'll help me stuff rice." ”

The ghost baby looked at Lao Yang, and Lao Yang was about to speak, but I rushed in front of him and said to him: "I didn't have a wok-fried pot for this kind of bamboo shoots before, otherwise, you can also get started and make a dish?" ”

Du Kang also said to Lao Yang: "Okay, we all know your intentions. Let joy wash your hair. ”

Lao Yang released the ghost baby and came to me with a smile to fry bamboo shoots.

I fried four relatively large dishes, Lao Yang fried the bamboo shoots, and Liu Shangang made a big bowl of milky white soup with the small fish they brought back. In this old house with ventilation everywhere, eight people sat around a small table, eating food, and the second master and Lao Yang drank some rice wine, I knew that the second master had an amazing amount of wine, and that jar of rice wine was definitely not enough for him to drink.

The ghost baby ate very happily, he probably encountered such a sumptuous dinner for a long time, a pair of eyes always stared at bacon and two dishes with more meat, seeing him gobbling up, I couldn't help but recall the first time I drank Tai Sui soup in the Mass Grave Mountain.

At that time, I was consumed by ghosts, and I was also thin and small, just like the ghost baby now.

After eating, we slept on the floor in the living room of the old house, Lao Yang seemed a little uneasy, but several of us reached a consensus, that is, to take care of the ghost baby first, he is weak, young, the cold on the ground is too heavy, Lao Yang's body is not good, can not let them sleep on the floor.

Because I had convulsions when I dreamed at night, I quietly went outside the house after eleven o'clock and sat outside the door and slept for a while. The dream came as scheduled, probably because I was very close to the evil god at this time, and the content of the dream had also changed.

In the dream, the sky was already bright, and the whole village was shrouded in a thick layer of fog, and the sun could not be seen.

I was still sitting outside the door, and when I looked up, I could see a huge tree standing in the middle of the mountains, and I could see a lot of people standing on the branches. Under the thick fog, the people in the trees became dark silhouettes. Although it was far away, I knew that when I looked at the trees, they were looking at me.

A dark shadow flashed down the path in front of me, and I knew it was the black dog that appeared in my dreams every time, and ignored it.

After a while, the black dog turned back, and it stood less than three meters away from me, staring at me with its coal-like eyes, but never approaching me.

"You're here."

Behind me, the sound of Liang Houzai sounded, and I turned to look, and saw a woman in a scarlet robe standing in the room, and on her forehead was also nailed a long, narrow nail through the bone.

The moment I saw her, the sharp headache returned, and I opened my eyes suddenly.

There was silence in the village, and above my head, the moon and stars, not so bright, reflected the night.

I rubbed my temples and went back into the house.

The next morning, I simply made a few dishes, and after everyone had eaten early and late, I was ready to leave.

There is still a lot of rice left at home, and Liu Shangang and they also got pickles, so the ghost baby's three meals a day don't have to worry too much. Despite this, Du Kang still asked Gai Dong to stay and take care of the ghost baby, after all, he was only a child in his early eights, and it was not a reassuring thing to let him be home alone after all.

But this morning, the ghost baby has been sullen since she got up, and she has no energy when she eats. When they left the old house and walked towards the mountain north of the village, the ghost baby rushed to Lao Yang from the house, he hugged Lao Yang's arm, and asked with a worried face: "Grandpa, when will you come back?" ”

Lao Yang rubbed the ghost baby's hair and said with a smile: "Didn't I tell you last night, I'll be back in two days." ”

The ghost baby nodded, but the hands holding Lao Yang's arms still didn't let go.

I think that the ghost baby probably had a premonition that Lao Yang would be in danger, the grandparents and grandchildren have relied on each other for so many years, and in some ways, the two people's minds are the same.

I squatted in front of the ghost baby and said to him, "Your grandfather will come back." ”

The ghost baby looked at me, and then at Lao Yang, and he stretched out a small hand towards me: "Pull the hook." ”

I also raised my hand and hooked the little finger of the ghost baby with my little thumb: "Pull the hook." ”

Only then did the ghost baby let go of Lao Yang and grinned at me.

The second master is right, the ghost baby and I are indeed very fateful, he trusts me, and I will not live up to his trust, no matter what, I will definitely bring Lao Yang back.

Saying goodbye to the ghost baby and Gaidong, we followed a path in the village into the mountains.

The vegetation here is unusually luxuriant, tall and short trees occupy the space on the mountain compactly, and the dense weeds are knee-high.

The second master asked Lao Yang: "Few people usually come in your forest, and the weeds are so high." ”

Lao Yang said: "The south of the village is a firewood garden, in the past, the firewood was cut to the mountains in the south, and the land in the north is said to be the hunting ground of the Tusi family in the past, and civilians are not allowed to enter." I heard the old man say that seventy or eighty years ago, there were occasional hunters who came in to hunt, but once, after three or four hunters entered the forest, they never came out again, and since then, Beishan has been deserted. ”

Du Kang asked Lao Yang: "I heard that the last time you found the big cliff, it was because you got lost in Beishan. ”

Lao Yang smiled: "That day I wanted to get some game for the ghost baby, he was growing his body, and there were not enough things to eat at home, what about me, I learned to catch snakes with people when I was young, so I wanted to catch a snake and go back." But somehow I went deeper, the forest was big, and the sun was going down, so I got lost. I didn't expect to walk to the side of the cliff by mistake. ”

Speaking of this, Lao Yang added: "There are many snakes and poisonous snakes on this mountain, so everyone be careful." ”

After walking for a while, I couldn't help but ask Lao Yang: "I always hear you talk about the big cliff, what kind of place is the big cliff?" ”

Lao Yang said: "It's a cliff with a broken head, and a horizontal knife around a person's neck, isn't it 'big'." It was the place where the old Tusi executed the prisoners, and they all said that there was a lot of resentment there, and no one dared to go there, and I heard from the older generation in the village that there were often strange things happening in that place. ”

I said, "The last time you went to the cliff was at night, didn't anything strange happen?" ”

Lao Yang's face turned white, and after a long time, he said: "Why not, that night, I always heard someone call my milk name, that voice, like a ghost crying." Fortunately, the sun was about to rise when I got to the cliff, and the sound was gone as soon as it was dawn. In fact, in this old forest, the most powerful thing is not a ghost, but a dwarf mule. I'm lucky, I didn't run into it. ”

There is a record of dwarf mules in the "Examination of the Walking Dead", which says that dwarf mules are actually a kind of mandrills in Xiangqian and Guizhou, and their appearance is similar to that of humans, but they are very small, have large heads, and their eyes will shine at night. Although this thing is small, it has amazing strength, and it is also very fast in the mountains, and it also knows some ecstasy, which is difficult to deal with if there are too many of them.

And this thing is a social group, and generally speaking, it does not appear alone, but as soon as it appears, it is a large group. The "Examination of the Walking Dead" also says that the dwarf mules are particularly vindictive, but anyone who provokes them will be subjected to extremely cruel revenge. If you deal with a dwarf mule, you must not kill, only deter, and if they are afraid of you, they will never appear in front of you a second time.

Because dwarf mules can communicate yin and yang and evil spirits, some people also believe that they are slaves of the mountain gods. It is rumored that during the Ming Dynasty, there was a Taoist priest with high magic power who once raised a short mule, and then this Taoist priest did not die well, I don't know if it was because of the damnation of raising a short mule.

Old Yang was obviously very afraid of the dwarf mule, and when he said these three words, his face became even more ugly.

As we went deeper and deeper, the forest was not as dense as when we first entered the mountain, and the weeds on the ground seemed to be a little thinner. Lao Yang's direction sign is the time and the direction of the sun, so he can only discern the direction when he can see the sun.

I kept the eye open, and there was nothing unusual in the first half of the road, but after noon, we had reached the depths of the old forest, and by this time, I had already felt a heavy yin qi, and occasionally I could see some vague shadows between the gaps between the trees.

It was a wandering spirit in the forest, they were not aggressive, but when I saw them, they would also find me, and occasionally a spirit would run nearby to peep at us, but I was holding an unsheathed green steel sword in my hand, and there was a Fantian seal on my waist, coupled with the evil aura of the second master, these spirits did not dare to get too close to us.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the forest suddenly became foggy, and this fog became unusually thick at a very fast speed, and our visual distance was only about five meters.

Because of the appearance of the fog, Lao Yang was no longer able to discern the direction.

Lao Yang stopped and asked the second master what to do, but the second master turned to me and said, "This fog started too suddenly, it's not right." ”

I nodded, "Something is leaning in." ”

In fact, when the fog first appeared, I felt that more than a dozen strange Qi fields were slowly approaching us. I have never seen such a Qi field in the past, sometimes yin and sometimes yang, and the irritability is very heavy, and there is a trace of demonic energy mixed in it.

I think we're probably being targeted by a mule.

Those Qi fields were still slowly approaching us, so I said to the second master: "Second master, don't suppress your evil spirit, let it go." ”