Chapter 34: White Hands and Flower Faces

"What are you going to do?" Xiao Xia asked.

"I'll go to the nearby village first to inquire about the bride who threw herself into the river, and then inquire about whether there have been any major events or strange people here before."

"You need to come back quickly." Xiao Xia instructed.

She knew that she and Wanli were sick and injured, and it was just that they couldn't help Ruan Zhan, and they couldn't increase his burden anymore. But despite thinking so, when he thought of Ruan Zhan being so far away, he still shrank for a moment.

Ruan Zhan understood Xiao Xia's mood.

Even if it is a bold woman, it will be afraid for her to stay alone in the mountains with a comatose man, not to mention that Xiao Xia is so timid? But every time it was like this, he had to abandon her.

"As long as you think hard about me when you're in danger, I'll be sure to come back immediately." He promised her, "You said that you are not a burden to us, but a partner to us, so I believe that you will protect Wanli." And I'm going to protect both of you. ”

For the whole day, Xiao Xia spent the whole day in a difficult sleep.

She had been exhausted from the attacks on Yedian in the past two days and then the horrors at dawn this morning, but the current situation had made it impossible for her to sleep.

Even if you fall asleep in a daze, you will be awakened again after a long time. Sometimes it was the casual sound of the wind, sometimes it was the birdsong in the mountains, sometimes it was the slightly heavier breathing of Wanli, and even the 'squeak' of the bamboo bed when she turned over, which would make her wake up suddenly, and the last time it was simply the unusual silence in the octagonal building.

In a light sleep, I suddenly felt that something was wrong, as if I was in a vacuum. When you come out of your sleep like that, you tend to be unusually awake and feel a little frightened.

Looking at Wan Li around him, he was still unconscious, but his brows were tightly locked, as if he was suffering some great pain, which made Xiao Xia couldn't help but wipe his face again, but the black gas still couldn't be wiped down, just like a heavy cloud floating on his face, and at the same time pressing on Xiao Xia's heart.

Outside the window, it was already dark, and Ruan Zhan walked for a whole day and didn't come back.

He hadn't slept for two days and one night, and he hadn't eaten much, unlike her, so he made a supplement, if he continued like this, he couldn't be saved, and he himself would be dragged down.

Xiao Xia thought worriedly, but also understood that the things they wanted to investigate were too long, and they couldn't figure it back to before the liberation, and they only relied on inferences and a little clues, that is, there were no clues and no literary and historical materials, let alone outsiders could not discover their true purpose, in this case, it was difficult to find out the truth of the matter.

But they had to find out the truth, because it was a matter of thousands of lives!

Don't say that everything is just speculation, even if the Gu man is really Huang Boheng, even if they have conclusive evidence, even if the police from all over the country come to help arrest him, if he hides in the deep mountains and old forests and doesn't come out, it won't be able to be caught in three or two days. And the time of thousands of miles is running out, after midnight today, he still has only twenty-four hours, he has no time to wait!

Therefore, the mystery must be solved in the closest place to the truth, so that the person behind the scenes will jump to the foreground in order not to expose the secret, so that they will also have a chance to fight the opponent head-on and then eliminate him.

Because the Gu person is a dead Gu, if he doesn't die, he can't live for thousands of miles! This is the rule he set, this rule blocks all the ways of life, whether it is for himself or Wanli, in the end, only one person can live!

Xiao Xia thought anxiously for a few seconds, and suddenly felt a little scared in the dark, so she slowly sat up straight with the sound of the bamboo bed.

Grabbing Wanli's hand, he looked at his watch, the fluorescent hand was already pointing to half past nine. According to the habits of the mountains, people were already asleep at this time, but why didn't Ruan Zhan come back? Is it in danger or is it running into the jungle to search for the strange woman? Do you want to spend this night alone with the unconscious Wanli in this lonely building?

Thinking of this, the fear in Xiao Xia's heart deepened again, and he felt a little hairy, and there was a layer of fine sweat in his palms.

"Don't scare yourself! I think I, Yue Xiaoxia and these two men, have already experienced so many things, what else is there to be afraid of! She scolded herself, but after thinking about it, she decided to get out of bed and light the candle.

She was half-lying on the outside of the bed, and on the inside was the unconscious Wanli. Although she sat up at the moment, she was still on the bamboo bed, so the slightest movement made the old bed moan strangely, which was particularly harsh in the dark bamboo building. And as soon as her feet touched the ground, there was an immediate tingling pain, which reminded her that her right foot was injured. Fortunately, the moonlight was bright enough for her to see the room clearly, and she limped to the table to look for illuminators.

This octagonal building has three floors, and each floor is a large room with no partitions. The first floor is like a living place, and many old daily sundries are placed on a few pieces of furniture in a regular manner, and there are tables, chairs, benches and so on in the middle; The second floor was like a simple altar, with an empty shrine on one side and many empty altars on the other, which reminded Xiao Xia of the situation of the Ten Thousand Miles Gu that day; The third floor, which is also the top floor, is the bedroom where Xiao Xia and Wan Li are located.

This room feels relatively empty, because there is very little furniture, only a large bamboo bed, a few bamboo chairs, a wardrobe, a basin shelf, and a dressing table, on which there is a large copper mirror and a few toiletries, it can be seen that there were women living here before.

Xiao Xia walked to the dresser with difficulty, took out a lighter and lit the candle that Ruan Zhan had found from the village, and immediately a warm fire flashed in front of him. Although the room was large and the flame was small, the light could not shine into the corner, but it had already calmed her mind a little.

But as soon as she turned around, a cold wind blew from the window, and the candle 'fluttered' and went out.

Xiao Xia 'stool' in her heart, frozen in the dark and didn't dare to move.

When I didn't light the candle just now, I could roughly see the outlines of the objects in the room by the moonlight, but at this time, it turned from light to dark, and it was dark for a while, and it took a while to get used to it.

Nothing was missing in the room, and luckily nothing more!

It's a mountain breeze! She said to herself.

This octagonal tower is very beautiful, and there are windows on the other three sides except for the side of the door. It is said that it is a window, but in fact it is just a few thick bamboos erected in the window frame, like iron railings. The four seasons here are like spring, and the roof has wide and wide eaves corners, which should not be cold, nor will it be sprinkled with rain when it rains, but it has no sheltering effect on the mountain wind.

Xiao Xia stood stupidly for a while, and seeing that there was no movement around, he lit the candle again.

She protected the fire with her hands, held her breath, and moved very gently and slowly, lest the faint flame would be extinguished by the wind she walked, and finally she returned to the bed little by little, but found that she had not brought a candlestick!

She had no choice but to rub back again, endure the pain in her ankle, and walk so carefully that she didn't dare to move even the hot candle tears falling on her hand.

The candlestick was next to the dresser, and as soon as Xiao Xia put the candle in, he saw a strange figure in the bronze mirror in a blink of an eye!

She was so startled that she almost threw away the candlestick, but when she looked closely, she realized that the person in the mirror was herself!

It's just that at this moment, she looked panicked, there was a striking red mark on her face, and the hair on her forehead was scattered, covering her eyebrows and half of her eyes, and her face was heavily shadowed, and she felt terrible when she saw it, and she didn't want to take a second look.

So, she wanted to put the bronze mirror on the table, but the bronze mirror actually had some weight, she didn't pull it, and with a little force, the copper mirror 'snapped' and fell over.

At the same time, the candle went out again!

The sudden darkness strikes again, leaving Xiao Xia at a loss.

What's going on this time? Is it still a mountain breeze? But the first time the candle was extinguished, she didn't feel the wind blowing, could it be the wind brought up when the bronze mirror fell?

Although she felt that this explanation was too far-fetched, Xiao Xia still chose to believe it, and tried her best to restrain her slightly trembling hands and light the candle for the third time.

By the candlelight, she looked around and found nothing, which made her breathe a sigh of relief. I thought that maybe it was this strange phenomenon caused by scaring myself, as long as I didn't think about it, it would be fine. Once she once heard Wanli say that from the so-called scientific point of view, the soul is a kind of energy, and of course the human brain wave is the same. If you think too much about ghosts, especially at night, you're using your brainwaves to summon spirits, and maybe something unclean will come in.

So - don't think, don't think, don't think!

With a thought to herself, she walked back to the bed, then shrank back into the bed and drew the curtain like a mosquito net again. Fortunately, the candle was not extinguished, and Wanli was still lying quietly, and she felt much safer.

Although Wanli was in a coma and couldn't help her, but if he was by his side, Xiao Xia still felt that he was not alone in facing this unknown night, and this gauze tent could not block the wind, but it also had a sheltering effect psychologically, not to mention that the bloodwood sword was lying quietly under the pillow, as if Ruan Zhan was also there.

To do it - the heart is selfless, the world is wide! Also, I don't do anything bad in my life, and I don't feel shocked when I knock on the door in the middle of the night!

Xiao Xia thought in her heart, constantly doing all kinds of psychological construction for herself, but before she finished reading, she heard the door of the bamboo building 'bang', as if someone was knocking on the door.

At this moment, Xiao Xia almost fell off the bed, and at the same time felt that the inside of the gauze tent suddenly brightened. When I turned my head, I saw that the flame of the candle had doubled, and it was burning straight ahead, without even shaking at all!

Squeak - the door to the first floor opened.

She could feel that it wasn't Ruan Zhan, because he never walked like that. Step by step, temptation, hesitation, oppression, like a foot on a person's heart.

He went up to the second floor—then the third—and was silent for a moment - and then the door was thudfully pushed open!

There was no figure in sight, but Xiao Xia felt that something had entered the room, and he was so nervous that he didn't dare to breathe, and saw that the candle flame suddenly fainted again, and gradually turned into a bean of green, exuding a faint light.

The gauze tent in front of her moved, and then began to float inward, Xiao Xia only felt a burst of cold air blowing, which made all the hairs on her body stand on end, and the candle was completely extinguished, and the surroundings immediately fell into darkness.

Xiao Xia couldn't see anything clearly, the moon seemed to be covered by dark clouds, and in the extreme darkness, only a pair of dazzling white hands were moving!

The hands gestured in the air, not knowing what to do, and then slowly and slowly reached towards the gauze tent.

Natsu shrunk into the corner of the bed, and in the silence she heard her own heart beating like thunder, and the slight 'hiss' sound of her nails scraping against the sheer curtains.

"Bride! Bride! A hoarse voice said faintly.

Xiao Xia gritted her teeth and didn't say a word, and the white hands seemed to feel that there was a gauze curtain blocking it, so she changed the action of opening it, and then stretched out to Xiao Xia without hindrance!

"Bride! Bride! He muttered, his tone creepy.

Xiao Xia didn't know what he meant, but when the pair of white hands were about to reach out to his face, he suddenly pasted the charm that he had been holding in his hand just now onto the hand.

A sharp scream that did not belong to the world rang out, and Xiao Xia was so uncomfortable that she covered her ears and bent over Wanli's chest. I saw that the white hands trembled in horror, grabbed the bed frame, and the bamboo bed shook violently, making a 'squeak' sound like falling apart.

However, the suction from the door was too great, and despite the desperate struggle of the white hand, it finally melted like a lit candle, and then became a white stain that was sucked into the closet that had been opened at some point.

In the closet, a small metal flag with a reddish glow shook for a moment, then calmed down.

It was Ruan Zhan's Broken Banner, he hid it in the closet by the door, knowing that Xiao Xia couldn't drive it, so he gave her a charm, saying that as long as she calmed down, put the charm on the evil object or throw it over, she could make the Broken Banner automatically generate a sense and suck the soul into it!

He said that he would not leave the lamb at the door of the wolf's den without any protection!

"Amazing!" I don't know where a voice came from the window, which made the frightened Xiao Xia almost stop his heart. A quick glance at a few windows, but I didn't see anything.

She broke out in a cold sweat, knowing that this was the third floor, and no 'person' could talk outside the window.

"Who the hell are you?" She asked tentatively, staring at the windows at the same time, "Why do you want to harm thousands of miles?" ”

"Whoever wants to get you has to die!"

Xiao Xia quickly followed the prestige, and this time the thing that spoke did not hide, so that Xiao Xia could see clearly.

The reason why it is called something is because what floats outside the window is actually a flower. This flower is very large, but Xiao Xia has always been indistinguishable, and it is under the moonlight, so I can't tell what kind of flower it is, but I saw that all the petals of this flower are spreading outward, revealing the heart of the flower the size of a human face inside, and the center of the flower has facial features just like a human face.

The facial features are painted, but they move when they speak, and at first glance it looks like a human head is peeking out the window.

Xiao Xia should have been afraid, but the flowery attitude of vowing to kill thousands of miles angered her. So once again, her anger overcame fear, she violently lifted the pillow, took out the bloodwood sword, jumped out of bed, endured the sharp pain from her ankle, and stabbed at the window!

Her heart was so sad and indignant that she actually exerted part of the power of the bloodwood sword, and before the sword arrived, the red light cut the flower face vertically, and the flower face immediately split in half from the middle, but it laughed and fell rapidly.

"I'm not going to let him die!" She yelled into the jungle downstairs!

"I will fulfill you!" The voice sounded from another window, and Xiao Xia didn't want to slash it again.

But before the flower had yet to fall to the ground, the last voice came from the last window, the one next to the bed, "Look at the basin, and I'll tell you how to save his life!" ”

The face of the flower disappeared, but the water in the basin began to stir for no reason!

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