The angle of sunlight on the roof was no different from when he was asleep, and the water trail left by the dishes on the floor had not yet dried.

The time displayed on the watch was only ten minutes since the last time he looked at it.

I've only slept for a short time.

Xia Beifeng frowned and stared at the reflective hand, rubbing his temples in pain, with the illusion that his brain could explode at any time.

Who is not long-eyed, who dares to make me sleep.

Wrong!

Thinking of this, he suddenly came to his senses.

I woke up when I heard a sound outside, why is it so quiet now?

He looked around suspiciously, wanting to ask Shen Qingge for help.

The girl with the gun was no longer there.

She was kneeling by the door, lying on the crack of the door and looking out, obviously not far from Xia Beifeng, but he had to look around several times before he found someone close at hand.

"You ......" Xia Beifeng stood up and was about to ask her what she was looking at, but was stopped by a stern look from her.

Shen Qingge made a silent gesture to him, moved to the side, and pointed in the direction outside the door.

It seems that there is a place for him to lie on the crack in the door together.

What the hell are you trying to do?

Xia Beifeng's heart was full of doubts, he walked to the door in a few steps, half-squatted down, and also looked outside at the crack of the door.

There wasn't much to see through the crack in the door, a few crooked old trees, a man-tall weeds tangled in a mess of vines, just like when they entered the house.

Not to mention a person, not even a ghost.

He looked down suspiciously at Shen Qingge, who seemed to be much shorter than himself because he was kneeling on the ground, and asked her silently.

Shen Qingge ignored him, and was looking intently at the empty door, his expression was very serious.

Xia Beifeng only felt that the doubts in his heart deepened.

He looked at it for a while, and then he faintly saw a few vague shadows outside the crack in the door. They were gathering under a tree, and they seemed to be discussing something lively.

The shadows were originally translucent, but now they appear even more blurry in the sunlight, almost blending with the surrounding light, and can only be vaguely seen to be humanoid.

Those "people" got together, although they were discussing, they were very emotional, and from time to time they opened their teeth and danced a few times, threatening others.

Only one of them would occasionally raise his hand and point to the room where they were and say something, causing the other companions to nod their heads in agreement.

With the passage of time, those figures became clearer and clearer in Xia Beifeng's eyes, and they could almost see their facial features clearly.

The young man, who was pointing to the room between the two of them at every turn, suddenly slapped the trunk of the tree angrily, stood up suddenly, and walked in the direction of the house.

The "people" behind him immediately stopped him, dragging his body to prevent him from passing, and he didn't know what he was shouting with his mouth wide open.

The "man" wriggled his body, trying to break free of his arm, and raised his arm in the air, shouting something excitedly.

Just as the conflict between them became more and more intense, and the few people who quarreled at the beginning finally couldn't cope with his struggle, and kept letting go one after another, he himself stopped his movements first.

Then, suddenly, they all looked in one direction.

Xia Beifeng also subconsciously followed their eyes.

There was a weed, nothing else.

But as if they had seen something terrible, they held each other's hands, stared out vigilantly, and moved back to the bottom of the tree.

After a while, the "man" who had stood up at the beginning somehow gave up on himself.

He squatted on the ground, as if covering his face and crying, his shoulders trembling.

His companions were silent for a moment, looked at each other, and then suddenly pulled him up and dragged him away in the other direction.

At the same time, Xia Beifeng suddenly felt the silence around him.

This so-called silence does not simply mean that there is no sound.

Besides, there was no sound in the village, not even a single thing that could move or pant for breath, and most of the time there was a frightening dead silence except for the occasional wind.

But it's not the same. The silence at this moment feels more like time has been frozen, and everything that moves between heaven and earth has stopped.

Xia Beifeng involuntarily slowed down his breathing, trying to make himself seem to fit in with the silence around him, for fear of alarming the thing that was approaching them.

It should also be the source of this silence.

He glanced down at Shen Qingge, and found that Shen Qingge was also looking at him, and motioned to him with his eyes: "Don't worry, don't be afraid." ”

But he turned a blind eye to the silent questions he passed on.

There was a dead silence outside the house, even the grass and trees in the yard no longer swayed, and they lowered their heads in unison, as if expressing awe of some invisible existence in the dark.

The sun hung high in the sky, shining equally on everything on the ground, but it would be obscured by that thing.

During the time when it passed by the door of the house, Xia Beifeng only felt darkness in front of his eyes—not just visual darkness, but in that short few minutes, he lost all perception of the outside world, and he couldn't even hear his own heartbeat.

Although it was only a few minutes, it was as if a lifetime had passed, not only did the body lose its intuition, but gradually, it seemed that the brain also slowly stopped functioning.

When he regained consciousness again, he found that before he knew it, his clothes had been soaked with cold sweat, sticky and sticky to his body, so uncomfortable.

Sweat dripped down his chin and fell to the ground with a tiny sound.

The plants in the yard also regained their spirits at some point, and stood straight with their chests held up in the sun.

A cool breeze blew, and the rags in the room "hulala" turned around and made noise.

Everything seems to be back to the way it was again.

Xia Beifeng stretched out his hand and pressed his chest, and found that his heart was beating extremely fast, as if it could jump out of his chest at any time and leave him.

He let out a long breath of turbidity, and listened to the sound of his own exhalation in his ears, and nervous again like a frightened bird.

He lowered his head and asked silently at Shen Qingge, "Is he gone?" You won't hear the sound and come back, will you? ”

Shen Qingge made a silent movement again, and replied silently: "I didn't go far just now, although I won't come back, but you better be quiet." ”

Xia Beifeng nodded, sat on the ground, leaned against the dirty door panel, grabbed his collar and fanned the wind, trying to make himself cooler.

In fact, although the temperature in this room is not low, it feels very cool, and even makes people feel cold and shiver after staying for a long time.

At this time, Xia Beifeng didn't really feel hot, but his heartbeat was too fast and he was very irritable. The whole body was in a state of tension and excitement, the nerves were too tense, and I urgently needed to do something to distract myself and calm myself down.

Shen Qingge's appearance was not much better than him, she was still kneeling by the door, looking out through the crack in the door, one hand tightly gripping the handle of the gun, and the other was pressed on the door panel, and the not too long nails actually made a few deep marks on the black wooden door as if unintentionally.

She wasn't a living person in the first place, she didn't have a heartbeat and breathing, and she naturally wouldn't blush because of nervousness or something like a living person. But at this time, although she did not have these appearances as auxiliary evidence, she obviously exuded a "very nervous" atmosphere, and the whole person jumped very tightly, like a branch that had been bent to the extreme, and with a little force, it would break into two.

She knelt by the door for a few more moments, then suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and fell to the side like a loss of strength.

Xia Beifeng hurriedly reached out to support her shoulders and stared at her face nervously, for fear that something would happen to her.

It's not a sparrow kind of person who can do it with a piece of paper. Don't try to find a way to bring her back then, that's going to be troublesome,

Luckily, she only closed her eyes for a few seconds, and then she was back to normal.

"I'm fine, I'm just confused." She said weakly. Raising his hand, he softly pushed Xia Beifeng's hand: "You let go, I'm fine." ”

Xia Beifeng didn't listen to her immediately, but observed for a while, making sure that she had gradually returned to normal, and then tentatively let go of his hand.

Shen Qingge held the ground with one hand, supporting himself to sit on the ground, and with the other hand, he hooked his little finger, stroked the bangs that fell on the side of his face, and smiled at him.

"Okay, that guy is gone, it's okay."

Xia Beifeng nodded, took out the lighter and cigarette case for the first time, and lit a cigarette.

It wasn't until he watched the gray-white smoke slowly drift up the sky that he had the illusion that "my soul has finally returned to my body".

"That guy ......"

As soon as he opened his mouth, he found that his voice was very hoarse, and a fishy sweet taste came out of his throat, which made him cover his mouth and cough a few times.

Then the taste of blood in the mouth became even stronger.

"You want to ask what it is, don't you?" Shen Qingge stretched out a hand and patted his back gently, helping him to calm down, with a slightly jealous and nostalgic expression on his face: "I can't tell you its name, and I can't tell you what it is." You just need to know that a large area of mountains around here is under its control, so you must not provoke him, and if you encounter it on the way, quickly pretend to retract it, don't be reckless, it will not do anything to you. ”

"How dare I provoke it." Xia Beifeng finally got his breath over, and almost choked again when he heard this: "I didn't even see what it looked like, and I dared to provoke it, am I tired of it!" ”

"That's good." Shen Qingge nodded with satisfaction and withdrew his hand: "Just know that you can see strange things and bypass them." I'm afraid that you will be stubborn and stubborn, and if you are unhappy, you will challenge that guy head-on, and I will not be able to save you at that time. ”

"So what the hell is he here for? Just take a walk or do you want to catch someone and go back to the tooth sacrifice?

"He's just here to take a look around and inspect his territory.

"What the hell, after doing it for so long, I saw a king call me to patrol the mountains, right?

"It's not the king who asked me to come to patrol the mountain, it's the king who went out to patrol the mountain himself."

"Then this king is too miserable, he even has to come by himself to patrol the mountains, what about the monsters under his hands?"

Xia Beifeng touched his nose in embarrassment, smiled, and didn't say anything.

"You don't really think about it, let me tell you, don't say it's me, Ye Baiyu's mallet has to bend down when he sees it, don't be stupid!"

"I won't, I'm a coward, and you don't know." Xia Beifeng pointed to the door with a smile and changed the topic: "So, that one just now is the legendary 'Ghost King', right?" ”

"I really don't know where you're cowardly!"

Shen Qingge stared at him for a while, and when he saw that he still had a hippie smiling expression, he sighed helplessly.

"He's not a ghost king."

"Not the Ghost King? So is he a mountain god? Xia Beifeng frowned when he heard this, and seemed to fall into some memory: "Mountain God? The mountain god still has this one? ”

"Does Ye Baiyu need to be afraid of the mountain god? He is the one who will kneel to greet the Lord wherever he goes! ”

Shen Qingge laughed contemptuously as he spoke, as if he was despising Xia Beifeng's imagination.

"That guy is under the account of the Ghost King...... Well, the Ghost King guards. ”

"The guards are so powerful, is that good?" Xia Beifeng touched his chin and fell into contemplation, and sighed intentionally or unintentionally: "To what extent is the ghost king himself going to be perverted!" ”

"The ghost king himself has a good personality, I haven't seen him do it, and he is usually too lazy to go out, not as difficult as this guy at all, staring at others every day, as if everyone owes him eight million, so many subordinates of the ghost king are so capable of doing things."

"Sorry, I didn't understand too much." Xia Beifeng raised his hand like a primary school student and asked respectfully: "Teacher, according to what you say, this 'ghost king' seems to be similar to our family." ”

"Almost." Shen Qingge replied without thinking: "The left and right are just dead houses that can't die if they squat in the nest for months." ”

"But Tian'er can still play games and read books at home every day, so there is an entertainment project. Isn't it boring for this ghost king to stay where he lives for a few months? “

"I remember that he used to sleep when he was fine, so he shouldn't be bored."

"This ghost king's predecessor, his life ...... Ah no, ghost life, how lonely it is, you can only pass the time by sleeping. ”

"Because there are some people in this world who just don't want to go out, don't want to work, just want to be satisfied with lazy lying down, and we guys won't understand their greatness."

Shen Qingge raised his head to face the sun, his tone was solemn and solemn, his eyes were full of some painful memories, and he didn't know who he remembered.

"Yes, and this kind of person is a genius, he can throw off others for 800 streets if he does anything, and he can't envy it."

Xia Beifeng echoed with the same feelings.

"It's still a poisonous tongue, open and close your mouth, it's you scum, you waste, it's so infuriating."

Shen Qingge continued to complain.

"But the object of comparison is his words, which cannot be refuted at all." Xia Beifeng hugged his head painfully: "Ah, I remembered a lot of unbearable memories of the past!" ”

"Yes! Why don't you hug each other and cry? ”

"Forget it." Xia Beifeng pushed away the beautiful girl who was approaching him, laughed dryly, looked around at the empty room, and asked stiffly, "What are we going to do next?" ”

"What's next."

Shen Qingge withdrew his hand in disappointment, turned his head to look at the corner of the wall, and whispered "cut".

"The next step is to wait for dark, I want to meet a few "people" to ask something, and I can move freely until dark, just don't get lost. ”

She said as she turned around and grabbed the deadbolt.

"It's dangerous to get lost in this place, I'm still staying here, don't just wander around, if you always want to go out, go out by yourself."

Shen Qingge didn't speak, she lowered her head and squinted at the deadbolt in her hand, the expression on her face was very complicated.

"Xiaobei, how did you get this rope." She tugged at the rope tied to the door and said angrily, "Him! Mother! Target! Beat! No! Open! Yes! ”

You can even kick the door broken, why can't the deadbolt open?

Xia Beifeng looked at the two wooden doors that crackled because they were violently shaken by Shen Qingge in surprise, and couldn't help but show a sympathetic expression.

"You let go and let me go. Don't shake the door when you turn around, it will be even more troublesome if you can't close it. ”

As he spoke, he pushed Shen Qingge aside, bent down and gently fiddled with the knot on the door.

"I just remembered something."

Just when the first knot was untied, he suddenly looked back at Shen Qingge, knocked on the wooden door beside him, and asked very seriously: "There was no one in this room originally, why was the door locked when we entered?" ”

(To be continued.) )