19. an empty shell

What Mao Xiankang has is just momentum, but this momentum doesn't work at all when facing my fist.

I felt like I had tried my best to control my strength, but this punch still knocked Mao Xiankang's legs off the ground, and the whole person suddenly fell to the ground on his back. Looking at Mao Xiankang, who was lying on the ground with blood on his nose, I suddenly felt that I was too heavy.

"Hey, are you alright? I didn't mean to be so heavy-handed, you were rushing too hard. I squatted down next to Mao Xiankang and made excuses for myself.

Mao Xiankang didn't respond immediately, probably not because he didn't want to respond, but because he was stunned and didn't recover yet.

After about half a minute, Mao Xiankang's eyes finally opened completely after two blinks, he looked at me in a daze, and then suddenly raised his body and reached out to grab my arm and shouted, "Box!" Box! ”

"I see, there's a puppet in that box, and it will grant people's wishes."

"It's not! That's not true! Mao Xiankang shouted excitedly: "There is a devil in that box, a devil who specializes in eating people's souls, I think about it, I remember everything, I know how my brother died!" ”

"I also know that the price of making a wish on the box is to give your soul." I said.

"No, you've been deceived, you've been cheated just like my dad and my brother, and it's been since you made a wish on the box!!"

"What has already begun?"

"Deal!"

"Deal? You mean a deal between wishes and souls? I asked.

"Yes, the devil in the box, the demon, the ...... I don't know what it is, but it's going to find you sooner or later, and if you make a wish, your soul will be with it! ”

"How do you know that?"

"I've seen the devil, I've seen the thing, and it said it would come back and take my soul, and it did! I've been controlled by it for the past few years, and it's in my body! ”

"Wait! Isn't the devil in the box a puppet? Why did it become you again? I was surprised.

"It's a puppet, yes at first, but then it wasn't, it wasn't for a long time! I don't know what the hell is going on, anyway, my body is out of my control, I can see and hear, but my body just isn't under my control. ”

"But now you have control over your body again?" I asked.

"Well, yes, I'm ......" Mao Xiankang suddenly stopped in the middle of his words, his eyes stared straight at me, his mouth was half open, as if the whole person had suddenly turned into a wax figure and a wooden puppet.

What Mao Xiankang said and his reaction now gave me a very bad premonition.

I have also heard similar descriptions, Qiao Wei was controlled like this when he first came into contact with Blood Tai Sui in Fujian, and I almost lost control of my body.

A box that can fulfill people's wishes, a devil who wants to get people's souls......

All of these circumstances point to a special form of life - God!

This is the reason why Zhu Yue and the God of Fortune brought me here?

"Hey! Hey! Brother, your phone is ringing! Li Xiang said loudly as he pushed my shoulder, and his voice pulled me back from my preoccupied thoughts.

I looked at my phone, and it was Qiao Wei calling.

I also quickly answered the phone, and his voice came out immediately: "Thunder, I am following a large group of puppets, they seem to be in a hurry to go somewhere, I think there may be hope to find Mao Xiankang's wife and children!" ”

"I've also seen Mao Xiankang here, but the situation seems to be a little wrong, that wishing box seems to be related to God!" I said.

"Where is Li Xiang's home?" Qiao Wei asked.

"I don't know, let him tell you." After speaking, I handed the phone to Li Xiang and asked him to tell Qiao Wei where we are now.

Li Xiang took the phone and told Qiao Wei the address of his home, and then returned the phone to me again.

Soon Qiao Wei's voice came out of the phone again, "That group of puppets seems to be heading for you!" I'm not sure if there are any other puppets, but be careful, I'll get there within five minutes, and I'll drive the phone first! ”

I didn't ask Qiao Wei where he got a car, and the situation was obviously not the time to pay attention to these things.

Immediately after I hung up the phone, I asked Li Xiang to close the door of the house and lock all the windows. The lock on the door was broken, and we had to move the fridge to the door to keep it closed.

After doing these door and window protection work, I asked Li Xiang if there was any oil or liquor at home, I didn't have much hope, but I didn't expect Li Xiang to immediately nod and say yes, and then ran into the kitchen, and after a while, he came out with two large barrels of soybean oil, and a bottle of cooking wine under his armpit.

"What are you going to do with this?" Li wanted to ask.

"Prepare a fire, bring all the wood in your house to the bedroom door, and if the puppet rushes in, we'll light a fire at the door. And make a few torches! While giving orders to Li Xiang, I dragged the completely immobile Mao Xiankang into the bedroom in the back room.

There was a wooden bed in the bedroom, and Li and I wanted to go to the door of the bedroom like a bed, and then I used brute force to tear down all the bed boards, and kicked off a few wooden chairs and piled them all in the doorway, and then we poured all the oil and wine on the wood, and then covered the sheets, quilt covers, and so on.

"Lighter, do you have one?" When everything was ready, I asked Li Xiang again.

Li Xiang hurriedly nodded and said yes, and then took out a lighter from his pants pocket.

"Are we going to burn to death in the house at this fire?" Li Xiang also asked worriedly.

"Yes! So don't light the fire until you have to, and delay the time if you can. ”

"Oh my God, who the hell am I offending here? Brother, will you let me go? Don't let me be here, I'...... I'm scared! Li Xiang said to me with a bitter face.

"You made a wish on the box, if you don't solve the problem completely, you will be in trouble sooner or later, if you still want to live, stay here honestly!" I lied to Li Xiang, I didn't want to save him, it's just that my legs are not flexible now, and I need someone to help me.

Li Xiang was frightened, he hid backwards with a blushing face, but he had no intention of leaving this house at all.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door that had been blocked by the refrigerator, it wasn't loud, but it was messy, and it felt like the puppet had arrived first.

Immediately after that, my phone rang, and Qiao Wei called to say that he had gone downstairs, and he hung up immediately after asking me about the floor of Li Xiangjia.

After a while, the chaotic knocking on the door outside disappeared.

"Thunder, it's done, open the door!" Qiao Wei's voice came from outside the door.

I quickly called Li Xiang to come with me to the door to remove the refrigerator, and then opened the door.

The puppet lying on the ground in the corridor, to be precise, the puppet's stump and severed arm, Qiao Wei stood at the door with a watermelon knife in his hand, obviously prepared.

At this time, there was the sound of a mess of wood knocking on the stairs from downstairs, and it was obvious that another group of puppets had rushed up from downstairs, and as the puppets' footsteps approached, the puppets that had been cut to the ground began to move, even if they were missing arms and legs or were simply cut in half from the middle, but they still tried to stand up.

The puppets didn't have knives in their hands, and even if they stood up, I didn't think they would pose any threat to me, but I kicked them all downstairs with Qiao Wei. Then we hurried into the house, closed the door, and put on the refrigerator.

As soon as we closed the door on our side, there was an immediate knock on the door panel, but fortunately the force was not great, and it seemed that the puppets outside were unlikely to break through the door.

I was just about to breathe a sigh of relief, but I found that Li Xiang, who had been in a panic, suddenly became extremely calm, and his face had no expression, standing in front of me like a puppet.

"Li Xiang? What are you doing? I asked him.

Li Xiang did not answer me, but continued to stand in front of me.

Suddenly, Li Xiang stretched out his right hand to my neck. I hurriedly stepped backwards to dodge, and Qiao Wei took a half-step forward and punched Li Xiang in the stomach with an uppercut.

I know very well how powerful Qiao Wei's fist is, but Li Xiang was not knocked down by Qiao Wei, his hand was still stretching out towards me, and his face was still expressionless.

In an instant, I understood what Mao Xiankang had just said, all wishes made on the box would take away their souls, and from the moment the wish was made, the transaction was already underway. What is standing in front of me now is not Li Xiang, but an empty shell that has been robbed of his soul.