Zheng Pei sneezed several times in a row. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info he stopped, thinking that his mother must be talking about him. Thinking of this, a sense of helplessness welled up in his heart. He and Ba Niang were speeding in an unknown wilderness, and the fear in his heart made him have no time to estimate the helplessness, and he felt that another thorny difficulty at the moment was the cold.

But Ba Niang laughed "hehe" behind him, and said with a slight joking, "Ha, you stupid boy still have this luck?" ”

"What?" The long-term application of the technique ingested too much yin qi, which made Zheng Pei's voice tremble a little.

"There's a forest up ahead," Ba Niang paused, as if looking for something. But it didn't seem hard to find, she looked in one direction and said, "Go over there." ”

Relying only on the starlight in the sky, Zheng Pei couldn't see anything clearly, and it was dark in front of him, and he began to regret why he didn't take a flashlight. With his eyes adapting to the darkness, Zheng Pei stretched out his hands and kept groping forward. His arm kept rubbing against the trunk of the tree, and the only sound around him was the intermittent sound of the wind blowing through the leaves. He moved his hands and feet, felt a little hot in his body, and continued walking.

Obviously, in this dark environment, Ba Niang's eyesight is far better than Zheng Pei's. Watching Zheng Pei stumble and grope in the dark, she took out two fingers and gently swiped them across Zheng Pei's eyebrows, and in an instant the vision in his eyes brightened a lot, although it was far less than daytime, but at least he could see the branches and the ravines on the ground. Zheng Pei looked at Ba Niang gratefully, but Ba Niang's still cold face instantly knocked the smile on his face away.

"Bang", the sudden sound behind him made Zheng Pei's cold hairs stand on end, and if you judge it carefully, it seems to be the sound of a tree branch being trampled on.

But Ba Niang didn't seem to care, she just said expressionlessly, "Let's go." ”

Is it a critter? Zheng Pei pondered as he walked. I hope it's a small animal, if I meet a beast in this forest, I guess I have to give my little life to it. But if Ba Niang was there, Zheng Pei looked back at her, maybe she could deal with the beast effortlessly. Zheng Pei smiled bitterly, maybe she would be as easy as she was when she solved herself.

With Zheng Pei's footsteps, the surrounding sounds became more and more dense, as if something was following him, secretly monitoring his every move. Zheng Pei looked back at Ba Niang nervously, but he knew that it was in vain to ask. However, Zheng Pei suddenly thought that he didn't know when he was no longer so afraid of Ba Niang. It seems that fear is due to not understanding, and maybe you understand the other person, and you will no longer be confused by the other person's appearance.

The low roar of an animal sounded behind Zheng Pei, and it was particularly piercing in the silent woods. He remembered the sound, he had heard from the animal world, it was supposed to be a tiger or other big cat, it was powerful, and it contained a thirst for hunting.

Cold sweat slipped down Zheng Pei's face, and now he began to wonder if Ba Niang could deal with this kind of thing, as for himself, he couldn't even see the road clearly, and he couldn't run.

"Hehe", a mocking laugh came from behind the tree on Zheng Pei's side, sharp and eerie, like a sharp nail cutting against the scalp next to his ear, instantly giving him goosebumps all over his body.

Ba Niang didn't have any words, and looked ahead with a cold expression. Zheng Peike was not so calm, he quickened his pace, and the "whoosh" sound of trampling on the weeds and branches on the ground seemed to be a warning, or a plea.

Suddenly, a gust of wind rushed in front of him, Zheng Pei quickly squatted down, and a black shadow swept over his head with a "swish". Zheng Pei was no longer willing to tell what it was, and now for him, there were countless things in the woods that wanted to hurt him.

"Rubbish! What to hide! Ba Niang's cold voice sounded behind Zheng Pei, "These are just the language spirits I have arranged, just to scare the cowards." ”

Zheng Pei slowly stood up and looked at Ba Niang in disbelief, "Then why don't you let them stop?" ”

"Whatever they do, it's here." Ba Niang urged.

As long as Zheng Pei continued to walk forward, the strange sounds around him had already converged into a chorus, and all kinds of beasts and strange sounds came and went, sometimes far and near, and some even reached the point of whispering in his ears.

Anyway, it's all some language spirits! Zheng Pei gave himself courage and walked away with his head down. Although he didn't know what the spirit of speech was, he thought it seemed to be a very small elf, like a bird, or even smaller.

"Here we are." Ba Niang said. Zheng Pei looked up and saw that there seemed to be the outline of a house, and the reason why he could still distinguish it was because the color of that house was much darker than the night in the moonlight.

Why don't you go to the graveyard! Zheng Pei frowned.

Ba Niang floated to the front and motioned for Zheng Pei to follow her. Zheng Pei took a closer look, it was a small wooden house, and it was estimated that it was not much bigger than his guard room. The wooden house had an indescribable strangeness, exuding an earthy smell, mixed with a strange smell that Zheng Pei had smelled but couldn't remember for a while. Looking at the wooden house leaning on the ground like a crooked-necked tree, Zheng Pei had a question mark in his heart: Could it be that this thing grew out of the ground?

"Come here, put your hands here." Ba Niang beckoned Zheng Pei to walk to the wooden wall and motioned for him to hold on to the wooden wall with his hand.

Although there were 10,000 unwilling, Zheng Pei finally did what Ba Niang said. When the palm of his hand touched the wooden wall, it felt cool, as if it was just ordinary wood.

"Take out those two little rocks in your pocket." Ba Niang pointed to Zheng Pei's trouser pocket.

"...... you?" Zheng Pei's question was swallowed back by him as soon as a word popped out, yes, what else does this female ghost not know? He took out the two strange-shaped small stones from his trouser pocket, spread them in the middle of his palm, and handed them to Ba Niang. However, Ba Niang didn't take it, but just asked him to press the small stone against the wall. Zheng Pei did so, but nothing happened, and the surroundings were quiet.

"Say, don't obey orders." Ba Niang said to Zheng Pei.

"Don't keep orders." Zheng Pei didn't know what Ba Niang was going to do, so he repeated mechanically. But as soon as he finished speaking, the wooden wall he was holding on to his hands began to decay and crack, and after a "crackling" sound, a half-man-high hole appeared in front of him.

Zheng Pei followed Ba Niang into the hut. The inside is darker than the outside, and the strange smell is stronger, but it doesn't smell bad. The ground under his feet was soft, as if he had stepped on meat. Zheng Pei couldn't see anything, he could only follow Ba Niang's figure and walk forward, it seemed that the space here was far larger than it looked from the outside, Zheng Pei followed Ba Niang along the spiral passage for a long time and didn't come to the end.

"Knock two small stones together." Ba Niang's voice came from the darkness.

Zheng Pei did so, and a pale green fluorescence gradually lit up around him, which seemed to be scattered from the walls. Suddenly, the whole space was bright, although this light didn't look very comfortable, Zheng Pei suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

At this time, Zheng Pei had the opportunity to carefully look at the furnishings in the house. The first thing that surprised him was that the space of this room was much larger than it looked from the outside, and the inside could almost be regarded as a large classroom, with a lot of things densely packed inside, including books, scrolls, and all kinds of bottles and cans. But the most interesting thing is that the walls, which are not bricks or cement, are scattered with green fluorescence from them, and the material of the walls is almost transparent.

"Open this box." Ba Niang pointed to the innermost box pressed by books and scrolls.

Zheng Pei put away his curiosity and walked over to take the things on the box. The box was not big, Zheng Pei tried to hug it, and sure enough, it was not heavy. He carried the box to the ground a little more free outside, looking for the lock on it. But after looking for a long time, he didn't find it, on the contrary, Zheng Pei was surprised to find that this box was a whole piece of wood, with no cracks, not to mention the lock leaf, but when he shook it, there was something inside. Zheng Pei tinkered for a long time but didn't find the lock.

"Put those two small stones on it," Ba Niang's leisurely tone seemed to teach him the method, "Calm down and feel the texture of the wood with your heart." ”

Zheng Pei's rough palm slowly stroked the surface of the wooden box, although Ba Niang told him the method, he didn't feel anything, only felt that the surface of the box was very smooth, as if it had been brushed with paint.

"Silent recitation, metamorphosis is born, birth and destruction." Ba Niang said again.

It's this kind of headless and brainless words, although Zheng Pei is a little depressed, he can only do it. He was concentrating on adjusting his breathing, while silently repeating the words in his heart. Sure enough, after reciting silently a few times, Zheng Pei's hand could gradually feel the texture of the wood, and it grew around the wooden box layer by layer, and the feeling was very clear.

"But I still can't open it, I don't know where the lock is." Zheng Pei asked Ba Niang suspiciously. But Ba Niang just smiled and didn't say anything. As time passed, Zheng Pei could feel that the texture of the wood was constantly deepening, and finally it turned into cracks, and finally, the box became rotten, with a muffled "pop", cracked into several petals, and the sawdust and the contents were scattered together.

At this time, Ba Niang was no longer domineering, no longer raised her eyebrows, her body slowly fell to the ground, full of grievances, gently squatted down, sorted out the items in the sawdust one by one with her hands, and held her in her arms.

Seeing Ba Niang suddenly become like this, Zheng Pei was very curious about what was in the box.

Originally, there were not many things in the small box, and Ba Niang quickly cleaned them all out of the sawdust. a hairpin, slightly silvery-white, with a few shiny spikelets; a small cloth bag, which seemed to be clothes; A book, the paper has turned yellow-brown, and the worn-out seems to be falling apart at any moment; There is also a carving of wood, which looks like a bird. Ba Niang held these things tightly in her arms like a treasure and sobbed softly.

Zheng Pei didn't know what to say, he really wanted to comfort the sad Ba Niang, but first he didn't know why Ba Niang was sad; Second, he was also a little worried, worried that Ba Niang would suddenly change her face and suddenly strangle herself like the previous time.

Ba Niang stood up and wiped the tears on her cheeks with her sleeve, but Zheng Pei found that her action was purely habitual, because although she had been crying for a long time, there was not a single tear stain on her face. Zheng Pei was a little stunned, it turned out that when a person died, did he really want to cry without tears?

Ba Niang ignored him, went straight inside and tore off a relatively wide hanging painting, put the things in her arms on it, and carefully put a small burden. The movement is very light, as if it is wrapping a baby, for fear of squeezing and pressing. After beating it, she looked at the package in a quiet daze, although Zheng Pei was puzzled, she didn't dare to make a sound. In the end, Ba Niang slowly raised her head and looked at him, but she didn't speak, staring at Zheng Pei thoughtfully, and Zheng Pei's heart was furious.