When I saw Mr. Lu's hippie smiling face, I couldn't help but feel angry. But thinking about the water ghost egg in his eyebrows, he felt that all thoughts were lost, and he didn't even have the heart to quarrel with Mr. Lu.

Although I was cold, Xue Qian didn't intend to let Mr. Lu go, he said, "Old Lu Dao." You mean that if things don't work out, no one will get rid of the water ghost eggs for us? ”

Mr. Lu obviously didn't want to answer this question head-on, but Xue Qian chased after him, and finally he had to whisper: "The people in the water village can get rid of the water ghost eggs." They've been studying this thing for years. It's just that we are surrounded by water ghosts, and we have no way to do it. Once the water ghost eggs in the body are gone, the water ghost will definitely kill us. Those two of my predecessors are examples. ”

Then, he pointed to the top of his head and said, "Or, like me, forcibly seal your head with a steel needle, and flee from here for a long time." However, there is a downside to this. ”

When he said this, he actually smiled at me: "Haven't you always wanted to know what the wound on my chest was caused by?" ”

I was stunned for a moment and said, "Water ghost eggs? ”

Mr. Lu nodded: "I don't know what the water ghost egg is. At that time, I broke into the cave for the first time and failed. When the people in Shuizhai saw that I had failed, they refused to keep me for fear of attracting revenge from the Ten Thousand Ghost Caves. In desperation, I stuck a steel needle into my head. That kind of pain, I don't want to come back for a second time in my life. I pushed the water ghost egg down my throat and wanted to spit it out. But it didn't work out. It burrowed into my chest, and I didn't expect it to fool the water ghost. Let me escape. ”

I asked Mr. Lu, "Have you ever been to the hospital to check what the water ghost egg is?" ”

Mr. Lu smiled bitterly: "I have been wandering outside for decades, and I have used all the methods. Nothing was found. This thing is not alive, maybe it's a yin qi, maybe it's a wisp of soul. Anyway, it's drilled into the body, it's incorporeal and formless, and I can't do anything about it. ”

The three of us were silent for a while, and Xue Qian asked, "What is the skeleton that the ghost mentioned just now?" Is that the treasure you're going to take? ”

When Mr. Lu saw us asking, he was obviously hesitant. However, after a few seconds, he still nodded: "According to legend, the owner of the skeleton is a Taoist priest at the level of an ancestor master. No one knows why his bones ended up in the Cave of Ten Thousand Ghosts. In short, all the Taoist priests in the world want to get it out......"

I asked, "Is there a secret on the bones?" ”

Mr. Lu laughed: "It is said that the ancestor master has superb Taoist skills, everyone naturally wants to study it, what he has learned in his life is very likely to be around this bone, and even finding clues from the bones can also benefit immensely." But as long as we get this skeleton, we will naturally bury him well. Kill two birds with one stone. ”

I said, "I didn't expect you to be so keen on this kind of thing." I always thought you were a quiet person. ”

Mr. Lu's tone was full of remorse: "I was too young at that time. Every day, I just thought about practicing Taoism, and occasionally I heard that there was a skeleton here, so I hurriedly came. I met those two seniors on the road, and the three of us have similar personalities, obsessed with Taoism, and have no city government, so we immediately took them as confidants, and we couldn't care about anything. In fact, if the three of us can take a good look, we will naturally know that over the years, I don't know how many Taoist priests have come here to find the bones, but none of them have succeeded. ”

Mr. Lu stood up, walked around the room twice, and said, "Those two seniors are certainly good, but their experience is still too shallow. When we came here that time, we didn't even know what the water ghost eggs were for, otherwise the two of them wouldn't have died in vain. ”

He stared at the oil lamp for a moment, then said, "Now I'm no longer young, and I'm no longer keen on Taoism. But I had to come here, and I had no way back. ”

Xue Qian suddenly said: "I always feel that there is another way to get rid of the water ghost eggs." "Every pit is handsome.

I looked at him in surprise: "What's the solution?" Where did you know that? ”

Xue Qian pointed at Mr. Lu and said, "The last time he and my mother came here, they didn't think about getting rid of the Ten Thousand Ghost Caves at all, but wanted to steal the skeleton and slip away. So I guess......"

When Mr. Lu heard this, he turned around and pounced, covering Xue Qian's mouth tightly. He whispered, "What are you talking nonsense? ”

Xue Qian asked a little proudly, "What?" Did I guess right? ”

Mr. Lu was silent for a while, then nodded, and then he lowered his voice and said in our ears: "Before Mrs. Xue and I came here, we had been exploring the world for decades. I'm pretty sure the skeleton can get rid of the water ghost eggs from us. So this time, I didn't want to get rid of the Ten Thousand Ghost Caves at all, I just thought about stealing the bones. Hey, alas, it failed in the end. ”

Next, Mr. Lu pointed to my knife: "There is no way to trick this time." ”

The meaning is obvious, last time they had already alarmed the evil spirits of the Ten Thousand Ghost Caves, and this time they wanted to steal something quietly, but they definitely couldn't. The three of us can only kill all the way through and completely wipe out the Ten Thousand Ghost Caves. Only in this way can there be a chance of survival.

I didn't ask Mr. Lui how sure he was going to do it, because I was a little scared of his answer.

The three of us were silent for a while, and then I asked Mr. Lu, "Why are you afraid of the ghost just now?" ”

Mr. Lu was also a little embarrassed, he pointed to the three oil lamps, and said, "Our lives are in the hands of others, can we be careful?" ”

I said, "What if the lights go out?" ”

"People from outside would come in and eat us," Mr. Lu said. ”

I was taken aback: "Cannibalism? ”

Mr. Lu smiled and said, "These three water villages belong to the same race. The village we passed through for the first time was called a people's village. There are living people, and you have seen them. The village we are staying in now is called a corpse village. These are the walking dead, they are not fully spiritual, although they can walk and eat, but they basically have no mind. It's easy to be controlled by people. The ghost just now controlled them. ”

I asked, "What about the third stockade?" ”

The flesh on Mr. Lu's face twitched obviously: "The third village is called Ghost Village." There are only some dilapidated houses, and there is no one in sight, which is already the territory of the Ten Thousand Ghost Caves. ”

I lay on the ground with a heavy heart, and I kind of regretted coming out this time.

After a while, Mr. Lu said, "It's dawn, we can go." ”

I asked him curiously, "How do you know it's dawn?" There are no chickens here. ”

Mr. Lu pointed to his head: "After so many years of cultivation, grasping the time is the most basic kung fu. ”

The three of us cleaned up and slowly got out of the bamboo hut.

On the way, Mr. Lu whispered to us, "At night, those walking corpses will be extremely excited. So we chose to leave after dawn, so that the yang energy of the day could suppress them. ”

The three of us went outside, and the people in the stockade didn't change. They were wanderers with their heads bowed and dangling like we had when we came in.

After some reminders from Mr. Lu, I soon found that the clothes on their bodies were in tatters, and they were all yellow and thin, and they really looked like corpses.

Xue Qian and I lowered our heads and didn't dare to say a word, we followed behind Mr. Lu and hurriedly walked outside the village.

After coming out of the corpse village, Xue Qian and I deliberately slowed down, and both of us resisted the ghost village a little. Not only because of its gloomy name, but also because of Mr. Lu's previous words: Ghost Village is already within the scope of Ten Thousand Ghost Caves.

We walked slowly, but by noon, in the distance, I had already seen the bamboo buildings.

At this time, Mr. Lu stopped, and he took out three candles from his baggage. One for each person, divided it between me and Xue Qian.

He said, "After you go in for a while, the candle can't be extinguished, understand?" This candle is a symbol of our three identities, don't believe anything but the candle, and don't pay attention to what you see or hear. ”

We both nodded nervously.