"Has anyone else been here in the last two days other than us?" Luda asked the old lady casually, and I could tell that Luda was testing her.

"I come here every day, and I don't see anyone." The old lady finished. As I put the basket on my back and turned to leave, Luda gave me a look and told me not to squeak until now, either the old lady didn't see it when she came yesterday, or the old lady was deliberately hiding from us.

We followed the old lady to the densest part of the woods, and we could no longer see the sky.

"Don't always follow me, the fruits will be planted more densely, and if you all come, they will be trampled on!" The old lady turned to us and said, "Go back to town." It's a damp place, and it's uncomfortable to stay in. ”

When we heard this, we quickly stopped, and Luda took advantage of the old lady's inattention to pull us aside, "This old lady is strange, there is a clearing in front of us, which is where I was ambushed yesterday. ”

Yu Jie's eyes rolled, "It's easy to do, since there was a fight like that yesterday, she must have ruined a lot of herbs, let's just ask." ”

So she shouted, "Grandma, have the herbs here been destroyed recently?" ”

The old lady turned slowly and replied with difficulty, "Well, that's what happens as well. If the deer and the bear come running, it will be a lot of waste. ”

After the old lady finished speaking, she went to collect medicine again, and we wandered around for a while, but we didn't find anything unusual. I guess this is just a herb field, and as for the two warriors of Kun Anguo, they just happened to make an appointment with someone to meet here. As a result, he was killed. There's nothing left to look up here, and we should focus on the gang who ambushed Luda.

On the way back to town. Naranor asked Luda what she was going to do next.

"We've been to see that place just now, it's nothing special, and if I stay here, not only will I not make any new discoveries, but I may also encounter danger. Thanks to the citrine of the Four Tigers, the wound on my back had healed, so I decided to return to my country first to report to the king and then make a decision. Luda replied, frowning slightly.

Luda must have had a hunch that last night's corpse fraud was unusual, and that she was weak and unwilling to trouble us, so she wanted to go back and report to the king of Kun'anguo as soon as possible.

Case. We decided to get back to town and pack our bags and continue on our way, Naranno would accompany Luda until she returned safely to Kun'anguo, a boy who had made a good deal to be a flower messenger.

When we got back to the inn, we had just harnessed our mounts and were about to go upstairs, when we saw two large wagons running from the south side of the town, and stopped in the small square in the center of the town, and the coachman shouted, "Collect the herbs!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the townsfolk with stern expressions immediately put down their work and ran back to the house, as if they had received some kind of instruction, and even those who were about to leave the town with baskets on their backs immediately folded back.

In a few moments, all the townspeople came out, some carrying boxes, some carrying sacks, and even some pushing small carts. Clamp the big move.

"Don't squeeze! Get in line! The coachman shouted at the bustling crowd.

The townsfolk were very obedient, and lined up in two long teams, and it was not the first time that they had come to collect this posture. It was the first time I saw the joyful expressions on the faces of the demon folk when they took the bags of coins they had exchanged.

"No wonder the old lady is so afraid that we will trample on her fruit, it seems that the price is quite expensive!" Qingxue couldn't help but sigh.

"Earning so much money and still pulling a face every day, I really don't understand what they think." The big head was very unimpressed.

I exchanged glances with Ling Xiao, and he asked in a low voice, "You also found out?" ”

"Well, it should be in the alley behind my right."

"You get up from the front, and I'll intercept him from behind."

I nodded, slowly moved back, and suddenly turned around and rushed down the alley behind me, grabbing the man who had been peeking at us.

Hey, why is this arm so thin? I didn't have time to look closely just now, but then I realized that it was a little boy, who looked about the same age as Little Bean, and I was already trembling with fright.

Ling Xiao also rushed over from behind him, "Little ghost, what are you doing sneakily here?" Why peek at us? ”

At this time, everyone else also rushed over, and Qingxue saw that I was holding a child, and immediately asked what was going on.

"You two are so old, why are you still bullying children." Saying that, she was about to pull the little boy out of my hand, but I didn't let go, "There is something wrong with this child, I just arrived in town yesterday and found out that someone has been secretly spying on us, it turned out to be him." ”

Qianmo looked at the child's pitiful appearance, and also defended him: "The child is inevitably curious, and we are from outside, Ling Xiao, you are also a little too nervous, right?" ”

Seeing that this little boy didn't look like a bad boy, I sent my hand away a little, but I didn't expect him to stumble on the soles of his feet, and he almost didn't stand firmly. Yujie observed carefully, and quickly picked up a stick that fell on the ground and handed it to him, and I found out that his right leg was disabled.

"Please, save my sister!" As soon as the boy stood still, he cried out to us.

"Where's your sister? What's wrong with her? Qingxue frowned, and squatted beside him distressed as she asked.

The little boy wiped the tears from his face with his sleeve, pointed to a girl who was queuing in the distance and said, "That's my sister." ”

Ling Xiao was a little incomprehensible, "Isn't your sister exchanging herbs for money, why should you save her?" ”

"I don't know what to say, you won't believe me"

"But if you don't say it, how can we help you?" The big head also listened anxiously.

This was a bit strange, and the girls immediately took advantage of their amiable big sister and encouraged the little boy to tell what was going on.

"When it's dark, you'll know when you come out into the street." After he said that, he limped away.

I suddenly remembered what the old lady had told us, she told us to close the windows after dark and not to come out. A few of us decided to find out.

Every time a long night passes, the alternation of day and night becomes frequent for a period of time, and this is the pattern that I have summed up after I arrived in the ghost world. Sure enough, just before we were about to rest, it was getting dark, so I quickly called the others and quietly came out of the inn.

As soon as we got outside, we were all shocked, it seemed that the ghost people of the whole town were roaming the streets, aimlessly and with no expression on their faces.

"Is this a group sleepwalking? It's not that I'm wrong, am I? The big head said and rubbed his eyes.

I walked up to one of the ghost people and waved my hand in front of his eyes, but there was no reaction at all, as if I had fallen into an evil spirit.

"Hey, come here!" A small voice came from the innkeeper's stable, and we walked over to see that it was the little boy during the day.

I quickly asked him what was going on.

"It's all because of those green fruits!"

"What does that herb have to do with it?"

"I feel like I don't think those are herbs at all, but poisons! Ever since my sister started growing that, she doesn't like to talk or laugh. ”

I asked him why he was okay, and the little boy told us that his sister was reluctant to let him work because he had a disability in his leg, and because of this, he was one of the few people in the village who had not been exposed to green fruits, so he was fine.

"Is this what your sister and these townsfolk do when it gets dark?"

"Hmm"

It's no wonder that the townsfolk look listless on weekdays, and if they stand like this all night without resting, their spirits will definitely deteriorate. But the last time I looked at the window, there was no one on the street.

The townsfolk become in this state of walking dead as soon as it is dark, does it have anything to do with the fact that they have been to the woods? But we all went, and it was fine. I was about to ride the Red Flame back to the forest to look for clues, but Ling Xiao stopped me.

"Fourth brother, don't worry, didn't you notice that the old lady was not on the street?" Ling Xiao looked at the wandering ghosts and asked me.

I looked around, and there really wasn't. Is that why the old lady won't let us out?