In the entire Muzhang County, the only person who is still in his childhood, born with aphasia, has a pair of mouths that have never told lies, has not been involved in the world, and should have an ignorant and pure heart.

Of all the people, the leader chose her to stay in her childhood, for the sake of this moment of killing?

"Stay where you are, I'll go out and see." Jiang Xun said, without waiting for us to respond, he opened the door lightly and quickly closed it.

Mu Jinshu and I were waiting in the room, the tears on her face had not dried, and after Jiang Xun said the three words "little dumb", her whole face was buried in her knees, her arms were wrapped around it, and she hugged herself.

I rarely deal with outsiders, I don't know how to comfort her at this time, I just clumsily learn from my childhood master, pat her back with the palm of my hand, sit awkwardly in the silent atmosphere, raise my spirit and pay attention to the surrounding environment, thinking about how to rescue Ziwei and Tang Jiao, where is the exit of the enchantment, I want to ask Mu Jinshu for more clues, the timing is not right, and I can't say it.

Jiang Xun patrolled outside for a long time, and when he came back, his body was damp, his hair was damp, and a drop of water slipped on his face, and he asked Mu Jinshu: "Where will your sacrificial ceremony be carried out?" ”

Mu Jinshu seemed to take a long breath to calm his emotions, and said with a choked voice: "The previous altar has been destroyed, and they have built a small replacement house under the cliff wall where the phoenix tail was cut off. ”

She stood up against the wall, wiped away her tears, and said, "If you already have a plan, I can take you there." ”

Jiang Xun nodded and said, "They are still searching for that monster, let's take advantage of the fact that we are going to the altar first, figure out the terrain, and find a suitable place to ambush." Since the sacrifice is to punish evil bodies, we will definitely bring our people with us at that time, so we will wait until the ceremony begins, and when the other party relaxes their vigilance, we will save the people, and then find a chance to break the barrier and leave. ”

"Okay." I'll say yes.

"Mu Jinshu."

We were about to leave, Jiang Xun stopped Mu Jinshu, took out the token taken from the female corpse and handed it to her, saying, "This time, keep it right, don't go astray again and lose your heart." ”

Without saying a word, Mu Jinshu lowered his head, looked at the words engraved on it, and stayed for a long time before he stretched out his trembling hand and took it, clenched it vigorously in his palm, and said, "It's me who is sorry for the ancestors, sorry for everyone." ”

"It's useless to apologize." Jiang Xun walked ahead, "You can only try your best to make up for it." ”

Leaving the house, Mu Jinshu led the way, we went around the jungle to the edge of the cliff, and met several people who were searching separately on the way, except for the sound of footsteps, the forest was quiet, and there was no movement. The surrounding leaves were all covered with water droplets, and in the process of passing through, they were all wet and uncomfortable, and under the cold air, the thin clothes could not resist, and people shivered uncontrollably.

"It's almost there." Mu Jinshu stopped, looked up and pointed to the majestic cliff above us, "Right below, the leader ordered someone to build a simple altar. ”

I looked around and saw that my current position was very close to the cemetery, and I took a step forward, and before my heel was steady, I suddenly heard a roar in my ears, almost exactly what we had heard in the burial chamber.

The three of us ran in the direction of the sound at the same time, close to the edge of the dense forest, Jiang Xun stretched out his hand to stop us, hiding behind a tree and looking out.

It was a strange sight, there was a thick mist outside, and it was so gray that I couldn't see what was really going on.

"Look there." Mu Jinshu pointed to the corner of the fog, saw the scene in the fog clearly in the flow of the wind, and was stunned, the words rolled in his throat, full of surprise, "What the hell is this?" ”

In the clearing not far away, there stood a monster with long horns and brown hair, with a boulder on its chest, and its whole body covered with branches, surrounded by people, and retreated in the face of the arrows that were full of strings, but it did not go far before the attack began. As the chaotic arrows pierced the skin behind him, the monster leapt into the fog as if provoked, wailing as if it had touched its body, its strong arms being corroded and melted by the liquid flowing from the thing's body in an instant.

I could see that when I saw a long, incurable scar on the left side of its hideous and terrible face as it looked up in the fog, I confirmed that it was the monster I had seen outside.

In the midst of the arrows, the wounds on its body were not red blood, but some muddy mucus.

I was still in shock, and those green eyes turned my head in our direction, and I suddenly felt a spirit, and I hid sideways behind the tree, my back against the tree, and I couldn't say why, and I broke out in a cold sweat.

"Let's go."

Jiang Xun whispered, walked a short distance with Mu Jinshu, turned his head and looked back at me, "Shen Qing? ”

I came back to my senses from the shock of losing my soul, only to realize that my breathing was unusually short, I held my breath to calm myself, and the next second I heard Jiang ask me: "What do you feel?" ”

There was a rare hint of uneasiness and hesitation in his tone, which I couldn't express, except that I felt that the monster was different from when I saw it outside.

I shook my head, and wanted to make sure, but when I looked into the fog again, I was shocked to find that in this short period of time, all the fog had dissipated, and the monster just now was gone, and only a few shapeless corpses remained in the original place.

"It's weird." I came out from behind the tree, came closer, and looked at the clear emptiness in front of me, and the strangeness in my heart deepened.

"Shen Qing." Jiang Xun called out to me, his tone was cold, and he urged, "We should go." ”

I nodded, and I couldn't help but look back after walking far away, but in the time that followed, the entire Muzhang County showed unprecedented tranquility.

When I arrived near the altar that Mu Jinshu had said, I looked at the mountain rock, which had almost no arc, close to vertical, and felt a heavy sense of oppression at that height.

A large totem is drawn on the plank-enclosed ground under the rock wall, and in the center stands a high platform with a cross-shaped torture rack covered with chains. At the front and back ends of the torture rack, some messy strokes were drawn, forming a strange formation.

There were people guarding the altar all around, we didn't approach, found a safe place to hide, Mu Jinshu said: "On it is a torture frame used to punish evil bodies, after the ceremony begins, tie people to it, and use a long arrow to directly pierce the head, in order to comfort the victimized souls, ask them for protection." ”

"Where's the little mute? What will they do to her? ”

Mu Jinshu lowered his eyes and paused, "The leader has taught her all the processes, she will stand in the center of the altar and complete the entire ceremony at the cost of her own life." As for what will happen after the ritual is completed, even I don't know. ”

Mu Jinshu pursed his lips and said, "Actually, if it weren't for you to save me, the person who is now tied to the torture rack as a sacrifice should be me." ”

"As long as we can work together, no one will be a victim again." As I spoke, I stared at it for a long time, and asked Mu Jinshu, "Have you seen the kind of formation drawn on the altar before?" ”

She shook her head, "The secret arts in our clan are generally only used for blessing farming, healing, saving people and resisting natural disasters, although sometimes some talisman props are borrowed, but basically never use arrays, so my understanding of this aspect is blank." ”

I thought about it for a while, and then asked, "In those years, apart from us, have there been other aliens in Muzhang County?" ”

Mu Jinshu still shook his head, his expression uncertain, "I don't understand what you mean." ”

I sat down next to the stone behind me and said, "Judging from the time, the time when the leader learns this magic should be after the barrier is generated and a large number of clansmen suffer. I was just wondering how she had learned this alien sorcery in a closed environment. ”

"In addition, I have another question, you said that you don't know how to use the formation, so when the two places negotiated peace, the formation set up by that man in the river was not taught by your sister?"

Mu Jinshu groaned and said, "I'm not sure, I've never thought about this. When my sister had an accident, I had only been in contact with the secret arts for a short time, and I had only learned some fur, but I had read all the slips left by my ancestors, and there was really no mention of the use of formations. ”

"Maybe." I said, "Among those outsiders back then, there were other warlocks who knew how to do strange arts. ”

If there really is such a person, will he have anything to do with the disaster that happened in our Dongyan Town?

We still don't know who taught Liu Fu the method of exchanging lives in living coffins.

"Shen Qing." Jiang Xun called me, met my eyes, but was silent, his right hand subconsciously touched the Buddha beads on his left wrist, looked to the side, and said to me: "Some things, I'm afraid it's not as simple as you think, if you want to give up, after leaving this time, follow me back to Chengshui City, at least there, we may still be able to ask for a stability." ”

I didn't understand what he meant by these words at this time, and replied: "Hundreds of people in Dongyan Town are still sealed, no matter where I go, how can I be stable? ”

Hearing this, he smiled, half helpless, half relieved.

"Jiang Xun." I frowned, "If you find anything, or if you know something, I want you to tell me as it is, it's everyone's life, and I need a clue." ”

"I'm sorry." Jiang Xun smiled, "What I know about Dongyan Town is limited to what we have experienced. ”

I clenched my fists, and then I heard him say with a straight face: "I just have a feeling that if your assumption is true, then we may have been counted into some elaborate trap a long time ago, and the more we investigate, the more we get into the game." ”

I was still ignorant, I couldn't understand everything he was thinking, and I didn't speak again in my self-digestion.

The three of us stood guard near the altar, taking turns to monitor the situation of the guards outside, and after a night, in the early morning of the next day, it rained again in Muzhang County, and the water in the air was so thick that it was choking, and every breath was like sucking water into the lungs, implicating me in wanting to cough.

After all, Mu Jinshu grew up in this environment, and Jiang Xunxu was not greatly affected because of his physical condition. I was the only one who endured the hardships, as if I needed double the oxygen by myself, and my activities were dull and clumsy due to the yin qi that permeated the surrounding me.

It never lit up again when it got dark, and it remained like four or five o'clock in the morning, and through the rain, I could barely see the surrounding scene through the faint light.

The change of time stopped, and I couldn't judge, I don't know when, Jiang Xun suddenly spoke up and said, "It's coming." ”