Chapter 12: The Wild Shop (Part II)

What to do?

Something strange came in, but it seemed that she was the only one in the world who knew, and the Miao girl was still blocking the door, not speaking or moving, just staring at Xiao Xia and not letting her leave!

"Ruan Zhan! Miles! She dared to scream again, but still unresponsive.

Knock-knock-knock-knock

The sound of chaotic but regular footsteps was heard, indicating that the strange group of people was entering the store.

Only on your own!

This realization made Xiao Xia pluck up his courage and slowly sat on the edge of the bed. She timidly aimed in the direction of the door, trying to find the right time to squeeze past the Miao girl, but she really couldn't think of anything else!

She clenched the talisman on her chest, and her feet subconsciously groped for her shoes.

She touched her shoe, but was kicked to the side, so she hooked it with her foot, her eyes still aimed in the direction of Miao Nu. One, two, three, how do you touch farther and farther? It's out of her reach!

"Are you looking for this? Guest! A voice suddenly came from her feet.

Xiao Xia gasped, and saw a black shadow squatting on each side of her left and right, each holding one of her shoes in her hand! I don't know when it appeared.

"Ami, Dust, she sleeps in my bed!" The Miao girl, who had been standing still, suddenly screamed and flew over angrily.

Xiao Xia quickly shrank back into the corner of the bed in horror, looking at the three uninvited guests in horror.

The two crouching black shadows stood up under Xiao Xiadi's gaze, as if arching out of the underground soil. They slowly moved in front of Xiao Xia, lined up with the Miao girl, and looked down at Xiao Xia.

The two middle-aged people, all dressed as Miao, a man and a woman, black, thin and ugly, smiled at Xiao Xia at this time, their expressions were stiff and strange. His eyes were staring at Xiao Xia, but his eyes drifted to Xiao Xia's back, making Xiao Xia feel that his whole back was numb.

Is there anything behind her?

"Ah Hua, don't talk to guests like that!" The man said, "Entertain guests." She's Ami—"

Before he could finish his order, the woman on the left took out a tray out of nowhere and handed it to Xiao Xia as if she were forced. There was a black thing on the tray, like a rice cake, but it had long been moldy and smelly, and the big black ants unique to the mountains and forests were shuttling around the rice cake!

"Let's eat!" As she spoke, the tray almost hit Natsu's nose.

Instinctively, Xiao Xia waved his hand, and the tray fell out with a 'bang' and hit the corner of the house, making an earth-shattering sound! It turned out to be tangible and qualitative, and Xiao Xia had no opinion on the same hand!

And with this sound, Xiao Xia and the three Miao ghosts suddenly stopped talking. Xiao Xia was frightened, but the three Miao ghosts looked offended, and stared at Xiao Xia fiercely!

"Waste food, sinner! Sinner! The three of them shouted in unison and bowed their heads!

Xiao Xia felt the bitter cold rushing to her face, with the dampness of the earth, which made her breathless! He could only lean against the bamboo wall, clenched his amulet, and was just about to shout 'Nan Mu Ji Zang Wang Bodhisattva,' when he heard two voices sounding at the same time.

Squeak - Jingle -

Then there was the sound of footsteps, which steadily pressed the human sense, and it was the strange man in the hat who led the string of strange things upstairs! and walked through and gradually walked to the door of the small summer house.

Step by step-

The door opened silently, and the strange man stood in the doorway. The three Miao Ghosts automatically dodged a gap so that the person could see Xiao Xia.

The moonlight shone brightly on the man. Xiao Xia realized that the clothes on his body were not white cloth, but robes. The robe was full of water droplets, but it did not fall, and it seemed to be silver in the moonlight.

The hat on his head was pressed very low, and Xiao Xia's eyes widened and desperately wanted to see his face, but he felt that there was nothing under the hat, just the darkness that could not be solved.

He walked over, and before he forgot to shake the copper bell in his hand, the crab-like 'person' behind him also jumped in, and for a while, the small room was crowded, but only Xiao Xia was alone with the sound of frightened breathing!

"She sleeps in my bed!" Miao Nu shouted again, and it was this sentence over and over again, but this time it had the meaning of complaining.

The man walked over and leaned over to look at Natsu. So close, Xiao Xia still didn't see his face!

He didn't make a sound, just looked at Xiao Xia like each other, and then suddenly reached out and grabbed Xiao Xia's neck, and threw her out of the window before she could struggle!

Xiao Xia fell heavily to the ground, but it didn't hurt much, it was just a shock, and the surrounding environment was not very right, and in a daze, he heard footsteps coming, and then a pair of men's feet appeared in front of him. Then the man picked her up and put her back on the bed.

"What nightmares did you have? Still falling out of bed? Ruan Zhan's gentle voice came.

How? Is it a dream? No wonder Ruan Zhan didn't come to save her, it turned out to be a dream! Is it really a dream?!

Xiao Xia choked up and talked about everything that happened just now.

Ruan Zhan frowned when he heard this.

This dream is too weird, if it's really a dream, Xiao Xia will have to see a psychiatrist, because if you always have this kind of nightmare, there must be something wrong with your psychology. However, if there are capable people who are playing tricks behind their backs, it is not impossible to involve Xiao Xia in some illusion, and he has already seen the dream killing technique.

They are in the light, the other party is in the dark, and every time they have to turn over in the disadvantage, it's difficult, but it has to be done. Like this time, he knew that getting closer to the truth was tantamount to treating himself as a rake, but he had to do it. He didn't care about Guan Zheng's death, but Guan Zheng's death implicated 'Yang Muyou' and Huang Boheng, he just wanted to find out the origin of that 'Yang Muyou', and he strongly felt that it must be related to the vine, and the deep mountains and river valleys.

"Have you inquired about this store?" Xiao Xia had fully woken up from the nightmare, but she still pretended to be scared, didn't come out of Ruan Zhan's arms, and kept leaning on him, "Is there a husband and wife with a girl?" ”

She overheard at the foot of the mountain that the language in this area has the legacy of the ancient Yue language, and called Abba and Grandma 'Dustpan and Ami'.

"No, it's just an old man." Ruan Zhan lied casually.

The store is indeed run by a husband and wife with their sixteen-year-old daughter.

"That's good, the little girl in my dream always says I slept in her bed! I'm so angry that you keep telling me to leave! Speaking of this, Xiao Xia couldn't help but shudder, "I thought that the shopkeeper's family was killed, but I couldn't figure out what was going on, so I had to ask for my life!" ”

Ruan Zhan stroked Xiao Xia's soft hair, and before he could answer, the sound of footsteps brought thousands of miles.

"Is there a situation?" He walked in as he spoke, and Xiao Xia quickly straightened up.

"Ruan Dashen, why don't you call me, aren't you afraid that I will be matched by a female ghost?" Wanli was still barefoot, obviously in a hurry, but he was holding a bloodwood sword in his hand.

It was Ruan Zhan who had placed it beside him in a hurry, in order to protect someone who was sleeping deeply.

"You get farther away, I'll be clean."

"If I leave you, you'll miss me, if I'm dead—"

He sat on the edge of the bed as he spoke, and Xiao Xia hurriedly jumped up to cover Wanli's mouth, "In the middle of the night, don't talk nonsense!" ”

"Are you afraid of my death?" Wanli asked with sparkling eyes.

"If you say this again, I swear not to talk to you for three days." Xiao Xia was a little angry, but she actually felt that it was very ominous to say this in this strange wild shop.

"Okay, well, I'm afraid of you, I won't say it, but-"

Before the words fell, there was a sudden knocking sound of 'dangdang' downstairs.

The unexpected voice was like a sudden interjection, which silenced the three of them on the spot.

Xiao Xia's heart tightened and looked at Ruan Zhan. Seeing that he stood up with a solemn expression, he walked quickly to the door, but his feet were very light.

She looked at Wanli again, who smiled comfortingly, lowered her voice and said, "It's not a hallucination, we all heard it." ”

Xiao Xia didn't say a word, put on his shoes, and remembered the dream just now, and his heart was a little numb.

"It's time to go down and take a look, it's so annoying!" Wanli asked in a very low voice.

"It's better to be still than to be still." Ruan Zhan snorted.

"But if they play conspiracy, they may not succeed, and second, should we take the initiative and not always be beaten!"

His words touched the most uncomfortable place in Ruan Zhan's heart, and he had been on the defensive since he fought with 'Yang Muyou'. Even though he kept reminding himself not to act rashly, it made him unconsciously impatient.

"You stay upstairs and don't move!" He decided to go down and see for himself.

"No, wait a minute, you listen to me." Wan Li objected again, "The situation is unclear, we can't disperse at this time, or is it safer to gather together, what do you think?" ”

Ruan Zhan pondered for a while, a little undecided, but the knocking sound sounded again at this moment, as if urging him to make a decision, which made him finally nod.

"Okay, you take the bloodwood sword, Xiao Xia stands in the middle! Come on! ”

Ruan Zhan walked out of the room first, and Xiao Xia and Wan Li followed him silently.

At this time, the sky was overcast again, and the only moonlight was obscured, and the small shop was pitch black, with only a faint light.

When-when-dang-dang-

The sound came out again, one moment tight, sometimes slow, irregular, and the source of the sound was so uncertain that it was impossible to tell which side it came from.

Ruan Zhan stepped on the stairs, as if on purpose, stepped on the floor slab, creaked, and walked directly downstairs recklessly. He was usually a steady man, but now he does so with a bit of a demonstrative look. I thought that since the other party wanted to lure them out, it was useless for them to be careful, it was better to be generous.

Dangdangdang -

Walking downstairs to the dining room, I finally felt that the sound was a little closer, and it sounded like a finger tapping a magnet or something, not like a knock on the door. But when they listened carefully and tried to discern their direction, the voice disappeared and fell silent maliciously.

Who is pretending to be a god? What is the purpose? Do you want to go upstairs, or do you want to find out?

Ruan Zhan had no choice but to make a third judgment.

As soon as he entered the shop, he could see the environment clearly - the stove room on the left side of the dining hall and the utility room on the right. There are a lot of pots and pans in the kitchen, and the sound of tapping on the magnet is more likely to come from there.

In a matter of seconds, he decided to check the stove himself, and waved his hand to make a gesture for the other two to stay.

He can see at night and can see clearly in the dark. But he forgot that the other two people didn't have night vision, Xiao Xia and Wan Li only waved when they saw him in the dark, thinking that he was asking them to check the utility room opposite, so after Ruan Zhan left, he walked into the dark room.

'Bang', a cluster of flames flashed in the dark, so that Xiao Xia didn't open his eyes for a while, and when he looked sideways, he realized that it was Wanli who lit the lighter.

The flames flickered, and Wanli's face was a little hideous, as if it wasn't him!

"Take this." Wanli shoved the bloodwood sword into Xiao Xia's hand, and stood in front of her, holding her with one hand, and inspecting the entire utility room with the faint light of a lighter with the other.

During the day, only Ruan Zhan had ever come in here, and they didn't know that this place was actually quite big, and with the light in Wanli's hands, they couldn't see the opposite wall at all.

Xiao Xia stumbled a little, and before she could react, she let Wanli pull passively, but she always felt that there was something behind the clutter accumulated in the dark, and when the light passed, it was quiet, and when the light passed, she opened her teeth and claws in the darkness. The more they walked inside, the closer she went, made her feel like a sheep in the mouth of a tiger.

She rubbed forward in small steps, and kept looking back in the dark, for fear that something would follow her, but suddenly she felt a soft mass under her feet, which was alive, and she couldn't help but scream and jump up.

A scream of 'meow' rang out at the same time, and the thing under Xiao Xia's feet jumped onto the pile of debris next to her, staring at her with dark green eyes in the dimness, hunching her back, and a threatening sound from her mouth. Although he couldn't see it clearly, Xiao Xia still felt that the black hair on the cat's body stood up, and he looked like he was going to kill!

"The cat you're about to catch!" Xiao Xia immediately recognized the cat with oversized eyes and rushed out.

When Wan Li heard this, he hurriedly turned the lighter around, and at the same time grabbed an empty pocket at hand and went to the cat's hood! The black cat deftly flickered, its pocket fell to the side, and it jumped out of the half-open bamboo window and disappeared into the darkness.

"Cats are not as easy to catch as dogs!" Wan Li muttered.

By this time they had reached the end of the room, and they had found nothing like magnets, all sacks and large leaves of plants for unknown purposes.

"Then let's go back!" Xiao Xia hugged her shoulders and felt a little cold for some reason.

However, they had only walked a few steps when there was a sudden rumbling sound behind them. When I looked back, it was the sack that had been stepped on by the black cat and fell down. Under the sack, a small magnetic altar is revealed.

The altar was black, with a bumpy upper end, as if it had been engraved with some text, about a foot high, and was abruptly clustered in a large pile of sacks.

Dangdang -

The sudden sound startled both of them.

The sound is so close that it feels like it's under your feet, but if you listen closely, it comes from that magnetic altar!

Dangdangdang -

There was another chaotic sound, as if something inside was about to come out, and the more it was knocked, the more urgent it became, making people feel that even the jar was shaking!

Wanli looked left and right, got a bamboo stick in his hand, and wanted to walk over to take a look, but was pulled by Xiao Xia.

"Don't, wait for Ruan Zhan to come!" She was very nervous and felt that something was too wrong.

What can be held in such a small jar? Why does it make a knocking sound? Ghost? Goblin? Or what?

"It's okay, I don't break it, just take a look!" Wanli comforted Xiao Xia.

He was nervous, but he couldn't help but be curious.

He walked over slowly, the lighter held high.

At this time, the black magnetic altar was quiet, but this silence had an indescribable temptation, as if to say: Come on, open me! Come on! Come on!

Wanli stretched out the bamboo stick in his hand and made a gesture to knock on the outside of the magnetic altar.

"Don't!"

"Stop!"

Xiao Xia and Ruan Zhan, who suddenly ran in behind him, shouted almost at the same time!

Wan Li was stunned, and the bamboo stick in his hand fell lightly on the magnetic altar. This is not enough to break a piece of paper, but the magnetic altar suddenly shattered!

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