Chapter 30: The Strange House in the Mountains

Subconsciously, Wan Li touched the fishing rod box on his shoulder, did not shake, and glanced again, and the bloodwood sword inside did not emit red light, which proved that there was no evil nearby, but why did the lights in front of him suddenly go out?

He stood vigilantly for a few seconds, then slowly turned around.

Behind him, a flowing firelight flickered. Count it, and it's still those four flowing fires! That is, the fire was not extinguished at all, but the direction changed and turned from in front of him to behind him!

In the blink of an eye, how did he get to the position behind him? He was at least two hundred meters away from the firelight, and if they were going to turn at such a large angle and at a longer distance, how did they do it so quickly? Also, why did the dark strange house appear behind him? It can't be that even the house has turned 180 degrees, right? Unless what he saw was illusory, something like a mirage, a trap set by the mountain spirit, or—it was not the strange house and the fire in front of it, but himself!

He was sure it wasn't a ghost hitting the wall, as the Bloodwood Sword didn't react at all. So what's going on, is it because you have walked into a certain formation that this situation will occur? That is to say, there is a formation about two hundred meters away from the strange house, and given that this is a barren mountain and old forest that is inaccessible, it is basically certain that it was arranged by the owner of the house, and it is likely to prevent the intrusion of uninvited guests.

For the owner of the house, he is an uninvited guest when he comes late at night!

He didn't know how to form or anything, and he didn't know the direction at all, so he could only try, and his two eyes were fixed on the four flames and slowly walked forward, trying to keep walking straight, seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the strange house, and suddenly fell into darkness without warning, exactly the same as just now.

Turning around, the strange house and the lights appeared in the direction behind him again!

"What a hell of a life!" Wanli frowned, looked at the strange house that seemed to never be able to get closer, and muttered in a low voice.

He had to find Master Long, so he couldn't get close to this strange house in the mountains once, so he could only continue to walk. However, he thought to himself that since he was walking towards the firelight, and when he reached a certain direction, the strange house would unconsciously turn one hundred and eighty degrees, so he might as well try to walk with his back to the firelight and see if it would turn right in front of him.

He froze and determined his bearings, and then walked in the opposite direction of the firelight, but after walking for ten minutes, he suddenly realized that something was wrong—he was getting farther and farther away from the strange house, as if he had stepped out of that formation. When I turned around, I saw that the lights were faint.

As a last resort, he had no choice but to walk back again, but when he reached about two hundred meters away from the strange house, he still reversed direction as usual, as if there was an invisible turntable on the ground.

I tried again, but the result was the same - if you walk towards the firelight, you will turn, and whether you walk with your back to the firelight, or to the left or right, you will get out of that strange formation!

After wandering in the mountains and forests for half the night, he was already exhausted, and at this time he fell into this inextricable predicament, he had no choice at all, sat on the ground, and decided to rest for a while, and he didn't care about mosquito bites.

After sitting like this for a while, he suddenly realized that he was stupid again, and that he should actually use the most conventional way of visiting others.

He stood up, cleared his throat, and shouted into the strange house, "Master Dragon, Master Dragon, are you there?" My name is Wan Li, and I'm here to visit. ”

The night in the deep mountains was very quiet, and Wanli screamed so loudly, the sound was particularly loud and abrupt, and it also had a far-reaching echo, which not only startled a flock of birds, but also startled himself.

However, the strange house was still lifeless, and there was no reaction at all, and even the four lights flowing outside the house were moving at their original speed and frequency, unaffected in the slightest.

Wan Li looked around uncomfortably, and continued to call the door, "Master Long, I know you're inside, please don't hide from the world anymore, okay?" I don't dare to disturb you in the middle of the night, if it weren't for the urgency, I wouldn't have come to trouble your old man, it would have been a matter of several lives! ”

Voiceless.

"Master Long, even if I beg you, as long as you show me a clear way, I will save people myself, and I won't trouble your old man to do it himself. If I want to see what you need, I'll do it. He knew that such a worldly master was always a little strange, and it didn't have to be a valuable gift, but he might have to test him, test him, and so on.

However, there was still silence.

Wanli begged a few more times, but when he saw that the strange house still didn't move, he couldn't help but get a little angry. Because according to his investigation, although this dragon master can't say that he is helping to abuse, and suppressing those resentful spirits is also to dissolve their ferocity and let them go to the place where they should go smoothly, after all, he has not avented these people who died in vain, and he has selfish intentions. Now that there is such a big problem in the new town, he also has to bear a certain responsibility, why is his attitude so arrogant?!

"Master Long, you old man can't give me a muffled voice to make a fortune." As soon as he became angry, he began to speak unceremoniously, "Those people died so unjustly, and now they are going to take revenge." They have the help of people with profound mana, and your demon tower and feng shui layout have been broken, and the resentful spirit can't be shut down at all. You have to help people to the end. Isn't it too late to make a move now that 'it's none of your business'? ”

Silent as usual.

"Master Long, my friends were inadvertently imprisoned in Newtown, and they are completely innocent." Wan Li said loudly, "I have to see you, if you must not see me, and you are in a hurry, don't blame me for setting fire to the mountain!" ”

This time, although there was still no sound for a long time, Wan Li felt that his words made the Dragon Master hiding in the house react. Sure enough, a full minute later, an old sigh came from the strange house, so far away, but it clearly reached Wanli's ears.

"Innocent? Not necessarily, right? ”

"They weren't the ones they harmed back then!"

"However, it was the so-called 'master' who did the blame to deal with your friends, otherwise how could those resentful spirits come out? It's just a month, a month. Alas—" Master Long let out another long sigh, his voice full of powerlessness and desolation.

Thousands of miles of words.

This is the case, that is, because Sima Nan wants to deal with Ruan Zhan, all the dead and alive have become pawns on his chessboard.

"Master Dragon, but—"

"If you have to see me, come." Master Long interrupted Wan Li, "Be careful. ”

Wan Li didn't understand what he meant, and he didn't feel any change in the surrounding environment, and after listening to Master Long's words, he suddenly stopped making a sound, so he had to tentatively walk towards the firelight.

After walking out for more than a dozen steps, Wan Li understood that he had broken through that formation, because he felt that he was slowly getting closer to the strange house in front of him, although he didn't understand why there was still no light in the strange house, but he still walked over without hesitation.

The strange house is a huge yard with low walls, and with a height of 10,000 miles, it can be easily climbed over. But he didn't have to climb over the wall, because the gate of the courtyard was wide open, and I don't know if it was specially opened for him, or if it was never closed.

Wanli didn't dare to take the liberty, first stopped at the gate of the courtyard and looked inside, only to see that there were only two stone houses in the courtyard, the one facing was very large, and the hut next to it to the left was very small, and the overall feeling was quite incongruous. Moreover, there was nothing in the yard except a well, and it was so empty that it was panicking!

"Master Long, I'm here." Out of politeness, he signed up and shone his flashlight on the threshold and lifted one foot.

"No trespassing!" At the moment when Wanli's feet crossed the threshold, someone on both sides of his body suddenly spoke at the same time, but it was as neat as a person's voice.

Wanli was startled, not knowing that there were other people in this strange house besides Master Long!

He looked left and right, and saw two figures on each side of the courtyard wall, each carrying a lantern in his hand, which was the same light he saw in the distance. Now he understood why the lights were moving, for the four men were divided into two groups as if they were patrolling, and walked around the courtyard with lanterns, and he had not seen them at the door just now, because they had happened to be at the back of the house.

Wan Li was a little puzzled in his heart, he didn't know that Master Long's family still had guards!

He looked at the ground, and on this starless night, he saw four shadows on the ground, which made him breathe a sigh of relief. He is in a hurry, but he doesn't want to be entangled with any demons and monsters, so it's good to be a normal human with a shadow.

But then, he felt that something was wrong with these four 'people', not only was it unusually silent, but his body was also very stiff when he stood upright, and the lantern he picked was even more strange.

Ordinary lanterns are transparent on all sides, but the outer cover of this lantern is wooden, square, with wooden planks on three sides, and only the outward side is empty, and the light also emits from this place.

The light of the lantern was very weak, and the four people stretched out their arms and picked them far away, so they couldn't see the faces of these four people at all. And after they have said a word, they will never speak again. Wanli didn't move, they didn't move, Wanli tried to take a step back, and they moved a little forward, like robots.

He remembered what Master Long had told him to 'be careful', and he couldn't help but be vigilant. Although the Bloodwood Sword did not react, if the Dragon Master had that much ability, it was not certain that he had done anything to do it. He's a hermit, and he won't be so easy to see. But who are those four people? Corpse?

Out of politeness, he had not used the flashlight to shine in the direction of the four 'people', and he didn't care about these etiquette at the moment, and slowly stepped back while moving the light of the flashlight to the four people.

Black cloth shoes and white socks on the feet, no problem; There is no problem with the black long coat and trousers on the body; There was no problem with the white gloves on the hands, until the bright light of the flashlight moved to the face little by little.

Generally, when there is a direct light on a person's face, the person's eyes will not adapt, and will instinctively dodge, squint, or block with their hands, but when the strong light of the flashlight hits the faces of these four people, they still stand straight and do not react at all. Moreover, under the illumination of the light, Wanli finally saw their faces clearly!

Wood! Their heads are wooden, and so do their bodies. They weren't human beings at all, they were puppets the same size as people!

Wan Li remembered that the villagers under the mountain said that there was an old craftsman who made puppets living on the mountain, and he always thought that it was the identity disguise made by Master Long to hide people's eyes, but at this moment he knew that he was really a puppet, but the puppets he made could move and would be scary in the middle of the night!

But Master Long's craftsmanship is not very good, the proportions of the limbs and bodies of these puppets are still normal, but the faces are blurred, the knife work is quite rough, and the painting is even more messy, making the face red and green, and it looks even more eerie in the middle of the night, and even a bold person like Wanli is shocked.

He continued to slowly retreat, trying to keep a certain distance from the puppets, but he didn't watch out for a rock under his feet that tripped him and nearly fell to the ground. As soon as his movement was loud, it was like pressing the switch of the four puppets, and they immediately rushed towards Wanli together, because Wanli hadn't adjusted his pace yet, and he was quite embarrassed to dodge this blow, and the box containing the bloodwood sword on his shoulder fell to the ground at once!

It was a Dao Realm treasure, although it didn't play a big role in his own hands, but he was still always on guard against being snatched away by people with ulterior motives, and now this dragon master didn't know whether it was good or bad, of course he couldn't just throw the bloodwood sword on the ground.

Seeing the four puppets come together again, he immediately threw himself to the ground to grab his sword, but their movements were faster than he could have imagined, and one of the puppets raised its solid wooden feet high, aimed at Wanli's outstretched arm and stepped on it fiercely, so frightened that Wanli hurriedly withdrew his hand.

With a 'bang', a deep oval footprint appeared on the ground.

". So ruthless! Wan Li cursed, his heart was on fire, and he was about to fight back when he got up, but two puppets on the side swept towards his chest and abdomen at the same time, forcing him to jump backwards a big step, but a gust of wind came behind him, forcing him to bend over and miss the third wave of attacks.

"There is even cooperation!" In the absence of beautiful women watching the battle, he still kept talking nonsense, and defiantly smashed the flashlight on his right hand that had not been thrown away at the nearest puppet.

Thinking that the puppet didn't hide, he hit him hard, because he used too much force, the flashlight broke at once, if it weren't for the four lanterns placed on the ground not far away, he would immediately fall into the dark night. Looking at the puppet again, the head was smashed off and rolled into the grass next to it, but it still didn't move, and it was another puppet who went to help it find it.

Wan Li was stunned for a moment, and then secretly scolded himself for being reckless!

He has always been witty, but this time he was a little anxious because he was in a hurry to rescue Ruan Zhan and Xiao Xia, and because he was in a state of isolation, he made mistakes repeatedly. He forced himself to calm his mind, and saw that a puppet was reinstalling the head of the decapitated puppet, so he hurriedly seized this opportunity, rushed to a puppet on the other side in two steps, lit up the sole of his shoe, and kicked directly into the crook of the puppet's leg.

Of course, the puppet doesn't hurt anymore, it hurts his feet, although he kicked it with the soles of his feet and didn't dare to kick it directly with his feet, but this still made him feel numb under his feet. But it worked, and although it didn't hurt, it couldn't stand on its feet, and fell straight to the ground!

This is the experience he gained from fighting zombies, this puppet is weird, but the body is stiff, and the principle is similar.

Just now he saw that the puppet's head did not seem to be attached to the body, but was attached to the torso along with the neck, so after he knocked down a puppet, he immediately threw himself on its side, pressed its wooden leg with both legs, pressed one hand on its chest, and pulled its head with the other hand.

I only heard a 'click', and the puppet's head was broken off by him!

Without waiting for the puppet to react, he kicked it away and threw the severed head far away. His arm strength was not small, and the severed head glided through the air for a considerable distance before falling to the ground, making a very slight muffled sound.

He threw it too far, so that the puppets lost their sense of purpose for a moment, and they wanted to find their heads but couldn't find them, and the decapitated puppets were immediately like a robot that had lost power, and could no longer attack Wanli.

Taking advantage of the moment when the severed wooden idol in front of him was as motionless as the rotten wood stacked, Wanli quickly knocked down the other puppet that was still stunned, and concocted it in the same way. But when he got up to deal with the third, the puppet learned to behave, and although it fell to the ground because of the stiffness of its joints, one of its hands kept pressing on its head, so that Wanli twisted it twice and did not unscrew it. And its other hand was also pressed on Wanli's face, desperately squeezing his head to the ground!

Although the puppet's actions are clumsy, they are extremely powerful, and although Wanli's strength is already great, it still feels like a mayfly shaking a tree when it scuffles, and it can't break free at all!

There was a hot pain in the back of his neck and the back of his head, and he knew that it was caused by the rough sand and gravel on the ground, and knew that if he continued like this, he would have to let the puppet burst his head, and from the fingers of the wooden hand that pressed his face, he saw that the first puppet whose head had been smashed off by him was moving a large stone and staggering towards him, knowing that it was trying to kill himself. It's just that because its head is in the wrong direction and its face is facing backwards, it walks more slowly.

But even so, he will be able to arrive sooner or later, and he will have no chance of life by then!

Thinking like this, he simply let the puppet's hand press on his head, endured the pain in the back of his head, and groped his two hands around quickly. He remembered that something sharp hit him and almost broke his waist as he struggled, and it must have been a big rock.

There is not the waist side!

There is no rib!

After the crotch, no!

Above his shoulder, he finally touched something, the cold and rough texture told him that it was the usable stone!

He had struggled so hard just now that the stone was in a place he could reach but couldn't reach. Feeling that his head was about to crack, and the puppet with its head backwards was approaching, he held back his strength, pushed upwards violently, took advantage of the gap of less than a second, turned his body in one direction, desperately held the rather small stone with both hands, turned over and smashed at the puppet that was entangled with him!

In the hurry, he didn't know where he was smashed, but he felt that the wooden hand that grabbed his body was loose, and at the same time he heard a sound of breaking the air from the back of his head.

He hurriedly rolled to the side several times, and heard a loud 'bang' behind him, and felt a wave of air rush on his back. When he turned his head, he saw that the puppet that was haunting him had a stone smashed outside its chest, which was already embedded in its wooden body, and another larger stone had smashed into its stomach, simply crushing him in two!

"Hoho, you accidentally injured your companion." Wanli first jumped up, then the cat bent down and screamed.

The face of the last puppet is facing backwards, so its legs are crooked in front of him, it is too easy to pounce, such a good opportunity is in front of him, can he still miss it?!

The puppet fell in response, and Wanli jumped up again, kicking out its uninstalled head with one kick!

Ahh

The cry is from thousands of miles!

"My feet!"