The figure outside seemed to have nothing wrong from a distance, and as he got closer, he could gradually see his problem.

The "man" limped as he walked, his arms hanging down at his sides like bones, swaying with his movements, like two ornaments hanging at his side.

As he got closer, he could see a few bones poking out of his waist, as well as his stiff face.

The so-called stiffness of expression does not simply mean that there is no expression on his face, but that there is no sign of movement on his face, whether it is blinking or rolling his eyeballs, such small movements no longer exist in him.

He just stared directly at the two girls in the car, the broken glasses hung on the bridge of his nose, making it impossible to see the eyes under the lenses, reflecting the light of the ghost fire, which was particularly penetrating.

This man was the unknown traveling companion that the two of them had been discussing, who had been missing all day.

"Yueyue."

Zhao Xinning stared at the man who was getting closer and closer, and seemed to have regained his composure again.

"You run on your own." She squeezed Qu Yue's wrist tightly, then quickly let go, pointed to the back door and said, "I'm stuck here now and can't move, I shouldn't have much chance to run." But you can still run away. You go out now, run in any direction, don't stop, run as far as possible, don't let him see you. ”

"Ning Ning, I'm ......" Qu Yue wanted to say that she would not leave her friend and run away by herself, but she was pushed hard by Zhao Xinning, and she stumbled forward a few steps before stabilizing her figure.

There was a sound of slamming the door in front of him, and the man outside the car stiffly knocked on the glass on the door, and his bloodshot eyes under the glasses stared directly at Zhao Xinning, who was lying in the car and couldn't move.

"He's not looking at you yet, hurry up now!" Zhao Xinning whispered to Qu Yue: "Don't do anything about life and death here!" Do you think you're watching an eight-o'clock TV series? No one will come to save us, running out is counted as one, don't you understand such a simple thing! ”

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"So in the end you ran away on your own and left her there?"

Xia Beifeng sat cross-legged opposite Qu Yue, listened to her story quietly, and watched her emotions calm down a little before asking.

"I also knew it wasn't right, but I was really scared, you don't know those things......" Qu Yue said and cried once, she covered her red and swollen eyes, and said intermittently: "I...... I really am...... Was too scared to ...... later And then it wasn't just ...... The man was smashing the car outside, and the driver got up. I'm so scared...... Ningning ...... I'm sorry for her......"

Xia Beifeng sighed, reached out and touched her head to comfort her: "Okay, okay, it's all over, don't cry." ”

Qu Yue leaned his head on his arms, continued to sobb quietly for a while, and suddenly looked up at him and asked, "Do you think I'm a particularly cold-blooded and ruthless bad person." ”

"It's okay. At that time, if you stayed there, you were just going to die, you just made a choice that most people would make. Your friends also understand this and will let you run on your own. ”

Xia Beifeng frowned, looked at the girl leaning on him with a headache, and reached out and gently patted her back.

"Okay, okay, don't cry, it's all over."

"But...... I still think ...... I'm a bad person, and Ning Ning must hate me very much now. ”

"She won't. Aren't you good friends, she'll be happy to see you're safe. ”

Xia Beifeng looked up at the black roof above and began to talk nonsense with his eyes open.

"Don't you know your friend? She is so good to you, the first thing that comes to mind when encountering this kind of thing is to keep you safe. Definitely don't want to see you cry here now, don't you think? ”

She was true when she was alive, but I don't know if she would think that way when she died.

The brain circuits of dead people are different from those of living people.

Xia Beifeng silently added in his heart.

The white candle stood straight on the offering table, and the dancing flames shook the shadows of the two people, falling on the mottled walls, looking like a demon that would pounce at any moment.

"You seem to be right. Ning Ning, she didn't like to see me cry the most. ”

I don't know if I've been crying for a long time, my brain is not very good, Qu Yue was really fooled by Xia Beifeng's baseless nonsense, temporarily stopped meaningless self-pity, and sat up straight again.

Xia Beifeng withdrew his gaze from the roof and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Later, you said that Zhao Xinning was taken away by a ghost, which means that she wasn't dead at the time, right? Did you see her taken away by a ghost? Or did you guess it yourself? ”

Xia Beifeng asked Qu Yue like a cannon: "And how did you come to this place, and did you see anyone else in the process?" Anything else, not a human guy, or something that just doesn't look normal. Tell me as much as you can remember, especially how you got here. ”

If it was usual, he would be very willing to coax the girl in front of him. But now, he felt that his patience seemed to have been completely exhausted, and he didn't know what kind of mood he was in when he said the comforting words just now.

"Ning Ning was indeed taken away by them, I saw it." Qu Yue stared at Xia Beifeng seriously, and said with a serious expression: "After I ran a few steps, I looked back again. The man carried Ning Ning on his back and ran away. The driver - I think he's dead, the driver is chasing them. ”

"I don't know how I got here." Qu Yue snorted, touched a handful of snot and tears with his sleeve like self-abandonment, held the candle in both hands, and said aggrievedly: "After I was kicked out by Ning Ning, I ran in the woods for a long time, and I didn't stop until I couldn't run anymore. ”

"There were trees all around, and there was no light. I don't know where I am, so I sat under a tree for a while, but I was sleepy when I sat down, and when I woke up, I came here. ”

She seemed to be trying to remember something, her eyes looking at the beams above her head, and there was a pained expression on her face.

"Believe me, I've really come here without knowing it. But when I was asleep, I did feel like someone was moving me for a while. I felt it, but I couldn't wake up...... No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't wake up, it was like a ghost pressing the bed, and they could only let them move me around, which was very scary. ”

After she finished speaking, she stared at the expression on Xia Beifeng's face, for fear that he would not believe her words, so she waved her hands meaninglessly and asked him eagerly: "Do you know the ghost press, that is, the brain is clear, but it can't wake up...... It's that kind of ......."

As she spoke, she found that she still couldn't explain her experience clearly, and she couldn't help but cry again.

"You don't have to say it, I probably understand."

Xia Beifeng nodded, took the candle from Qu Yue's hand, and blew it out.

"Don't worry, just remember slowly...... In that case, you don't even know who brought you here, don't you remember at all? ”

Qu Yue shook her head dryly, and moved closer to the position of the offering table.

She glanced at the half-extinguished candle in Xia Beifeng's hand with longing, pursed her mouth, and finally didn't dare to make a sound.

"I don't have a lot of candles, so if I don't have to, I'll just light one. Actually, I came with a flashlight, but it was taken away by someone else, just wait for her to come back later, you bear with it first. ”

Xia Beifeng said and walked to the offering table, reached out and touched it, and then raised his hand and put his fingers close to his eyes.

His fingers were clean, and he didn't see even a speck of dust.

He had discovered this matter since he had just entered the door, and although the room where the corpses were stored was smaller than the room where he had stayed with Shen Qingge before, it gave people a more solemn and majestic feeling.

Although there was nothing superfluous, not only the tables, but also the floor and the floor were clean in this room.

Even the incense burner is light, and the ashes inside look like they were left over from a short time ago.

There were even three blue-gray futons under the offering table.

It seems that there are people here all the time, and it is not surprising that someone cleans it every day.

"Where was you in this room when you woke up?" He leaned against the offering table, bowed his head to Qu Yue who was sitting on the ground and asked, "Do you remember?" What's so special about that place."

"There." Qu Yue stretched out his finger and pointed to a corner on the right, "Mmmmmmmmmm

"It doesn't seem like there's anything special, I don't remember exactly."

Xia Beifeng sighed, straightened up, turned his head, and stared at the black tablet on the offering table.

"Since it's useless to ask people, then you can only ask the ghosts and gods, and I hope that his old man will not ignore me."

After he said this, he miraculously took out three sticks of incense, gathered them by the candle and lit them.

"This ghost...... Ah no......" He approached the tablet, carefully distinguished the handwriting on it, and said again: "This name is Wuxi Xi, and his profession is the predecessor of the Ghost King, I don't know if you can listen to me." This girl and I are just two unlucky people who accidentally passed by your place. There is an enemy outside, so I have to borrow your place to hide, I hope you don't see outside. ”

After he said this, he raised the incense in his hand and bowed to the tablet in front of him.

"It's just that the juniors still don't know something, and I want to ask the seniors. If the seniors don't think I'm annoying, I'll be tired and show up. ”

"There will definitely be no shortage of incense tributes, I just ask my predecessors to help me solve this disaster. Stop my parents and say, we can be regarded as half of the peers, even if it is to give face. ”

When he finished speaking, he closed his eyes and repeated the passage in his mind.

Then he respectfully inserted the incense into the incense burner, then pulled out the futon, and knelt on it reverently and kowtowed three times.

"This, what kind of immortal!" Qu Yue watched his movements curiously, and asked cautiously while hiding behind him.

"This is not an immortal, but a ......" Xia Beifeng thought for a while how to describe this "ghost king" senior, and finally grabbed his hair a few times angrily: "It is the leader of the underworld forces in the local non-human world, and it is the head snake of the earth." You see there is his tablet here, and we are far from the main hall of his old man's house, so it seems that it is impossible to ask him without bowing to him. ”

Qu Yue was stunned by his words, looked at the slowly burning incense in the incense burner in shock, and nodded blankly.

I don't know what's going on outside.

Whether that aunt and grandmother won the battle or not, I don't know what the other party is, I hope she's okay.

Xia Beifeng glanced at the outside world separated by a door worriedly, and couldn't help but worry about Shen Qingge.

The incense sticks burned quietly, and the gray-white smoke rose straight into the air and slowly dissipated.

"It seems that he doesn't dislike us, but he doesn't want to deal with us." Xia Beifeng said as he pulled out another futon from under the offering table and pushed it down in front of Qu Yue: "You can sit too, don't be afraid, at least he has no objection to staying here." ”

How could I not be afraid, I don't even know who you are now!

An uncle who met a passer-by on a long-distance bus suddenly appeared in a haunted place, and told me so seriously that he wanted to chat with some ghost king, should I trust you in the first place!

Qu Yue carefully pulled the futon, still sitting against the corner of the wall, glancing at Xia Beifeng's expression from time to time, and didn't know what he was thinking.

Although I have believed.

After a while, Xia Beifeng suddenly said to her as if he had nothing to say: "By the way, I'm idle anyway." How old are you this year? When is my birthday? ”

Qu Yue said a date.

"What about the time of birth?"

"It's past three o'clock in the morning."

"Tsk!" Xia Beifeng frowned, closed his eyes and calculated the time: "Girl, if you encounter this kind of thing again in the future, when someone asks you about your birthday and birth time, remember that they asked about the lunar birthday, and you said that the number of the month and the day will be counted for you, blame the trouble." ”

"I don't know what the lunar birthday is." Qu Yue muttered quietly: "Who still remembers the birthday of the lunar calendar now." ”

"It's better to take note of it. Although it is generally not used in ordinary times, it is basically a big event when it is used, and these are still quite important on the other side. ”

Xia Beifeng stretched out a hand to her as he spoke, hooked his fingers, and motioned for her to put his hand on his own.

Qu Yue immediately hugged his shoulders and looked at him defensively.

"You're not too light, but it's not heavy. It's not easy to come across this kind of thing in normal times, but now this place is not enough. Xia Beifeng sighed and explained helplessly: "You give me your hand, and I'll draw something for you, so that those guys outside can't see you." ”

"What is it, can I draw it myself?" Qu Yue pleaded and said, "I'm good at painting, just tell me what it looks like." ”

"No, you hurry up and reach over. I'm busy, don't waste your time. ”

"Oh."

Qu Yue put his hand in his palm and looked at him defensively, his face full of distrust.

Is this treating me like a hooligan? I was still hugging me and crying just now, so my face changed after a while, should I say that she is really an unpredictable young girl?

"I said you, do you need to guard me like this?"

Xia Beifeng grabbed her wrist, pulled her closer to him, and pulled out a switchblade.

Qu Yue immediately tried to pull his hand back hard.

"You didn't say you were going to use a knife before!" She shouted and cried: "I'm afraid of pain, can I stop painting?" ”

"I didn't say I'd let you bleed!" Xia Beifeng only felt that he was going to be laughed at by this little girl: "You really don't have to be like this, I want to do something to you a long time ago, or do you think you can prevent me like this?" ”

Qu Yue paused for a moment.

He rubbed his index finger against the blade, watched the red streak of blood ooze from the wound, and gasped with a grin.

"Uncle, I am a good citizen who fights seven or eight hooligans alone to protect the little girl who was robbed of her purse on the street. Do you really want to do what you think you're rebelling against? ”

As he spoke, he used his fingers to quickly draw some pattern on Qu Yue's wrist. The red blood left clear and messy marks on Qu Yue's fair wrist, which didn't hurt, just a little itchy.

Qu Yue stared at his movements, and finally showed his first smile of the night.

"It's true that a good citizen who acts bravely will not bully a girl casually, but your causal relationship is still quite strange."

"It's not strange, I'm just giving you a list of my combat strength, as well as ......" Xia Beifeng glanced at Qu Yue's neckline: "I'm not interested in a little girl who can't even hold up her clothes." ”

Qu Yue: "......"

What the hell is going on with this man!

Why is he a good person, but he always has to say some suspicious questions and speak to self-destruct his character!

"Alright." Xia Beifeng let go of her wrist and raised her head: "If you go out after that, just be careful and stay away from those guys who are not easy to mess with at first glance, there shouldn't be any problems." ”

Qu Yue leaned closer, observed the pattern on her wrist, and kept nodding her head to indicate that she remembered.

"And." Xia Beifeng took a deep breath and patted her head: "Even if you want to lose weight, you have to eat well, eat meat, don't stay up late...... What's going on with young people nowadays, their physique is so poor. ”

"Huh?"

Qu Yue raised her head and looked at him confusedly.

"You have a bad stomach, you are still anemic, do you always feel dizzy in the summer? Let me tell you that bad skin is the reason for staying up late, and it is useless to buy expensive cosmetics and sleep well! I won't say anything if you don't care about your body, the little girl cares about her face! ”

"Oh." Qu Yue looked at him stupidly, and only reacted after a while: "How do you know this!" ”

"You don't care how I know, just be obedient."

Xia Beifeng stretched and glanced back at the fine fragrance behind him.

The incense was about to burn out, and the ashes fell tremblingly into the incense burner.

The ghost king's predecessor had no intention of coming forward at all, and seemed to have acquiesced in the fact that the two of them had sought refuge in his temple.

"Aha...... I'm a little sleepy. He yawned and approached the door, complaining in a low voice: "What's the matter with Shen Qingge, he hasn't ...... for so long."

Before he could finish his sentence, he heard a loud bang outside the door.

Sounds like something heavy hit the door.

Then came a man's groans of pain at the door.

It's actually a human?

Xia Beifeng thought in surprise, and was about to open the door when he heard Shen Qingge's cold voice coming from outside the door.

"Xiaobei, don't open the door, this guy is not a human for the time being."

(To be continued.) )