The last impression in my memory was still in the sharp cry of the group of puppets, and before the last second, I seemed to faintly hear the howl of a beast, but I didn't have time to think, there was no picture in front of me, and the thinking ended here, so the unformed guess could not be verified.

When I woke up, I don't know what time it was, it was dark all around, I felt that I was no longer in that ravine, I only knew that I was lying on a bed, the wound on my head was bandaged, and when my hand touched, I could smell a strong smell of medicine in the dull pain.

My ears were still buzzing, I sat up, leaned on the head of the bed and calmed down, I didn't feel the danger, and by the moonlight I saw that the tart whip and the backpack I carried were well placed on the table next to me, so I tentatively got out of bed, untied the tart whip and tied it around my waist, looked down and found that the clothes on my body had also been changed, and picked up a long coat stacked on the chair and draped it over my body to cover it.

Leaving the room, there is a circular corridor outside, and a candle lamp is held at intervals of a few meters.

I walked over to the railing and glanced down. I was on the second floor of the whole building, high above the ground, with a large courtyard in the middle, very empty, except for a stone table and a few stone benches under the tall plane tree in the corner. Looking up, there are nine layers of candles on top of the head, and the candles are only lit to the seventh layer, roughly counting, there are about hundreds, from a low place, the lights are accompanied by the moon shadow and starlight, a little magnificent.

Just thinking about it, the door next to me was pushed open, I was nervous, I turned my head to see Ziwei with a confused face, the two looked at each other, and before they could say anything, they were preempted by another familiar voice.

"Shopkeeper Shen? Little Brother Shen? Tang Jiao peeked out from the door frame behind Ziwei, had regained his senses, looked around like a thief, and asked, "Where is this black light?" ”

"Are you alright?" I asked, walking over to them.

Tang Jiao came out of the door, scratched his head and said, "What the hell happened here, I don't remember it at all, it seems that I was walking and fell asleep inexplicably." Why are you all hurt? What about Jiang Xun? ”

I shook my head, pressed my temples to relieve the headache, and said, "At that time, the three of you all fell into that deep ditch, I was dragged by the stiffness, unable to rescue, and the screams of the puppets made people unconscious, I don't know what was going on, as if I heard a howl like a monster wolf, saw a shadow, and then was thrown to the other end of the deep ditch, fainted, and woke up and was already here." ”

"That monster attacked you?" I asked.

"It rushed towards me at that time, and I didn't have time to dodge, so I had to collide head-on with the stiff, and then the stiff was bitten half of its body by him, and I was thrown out by the huge inertia of its bite."

"What does that monster look like?"

Ziwei recalled carefully and frowned, "I can't tell, it's very large, with horns on the top of its head, its chest is like a boulder, there are large patches on its chest, its back is covered with long hair, and its skin is ...... It also seems to have something like a branch. By the way, on the left side of its face, just under the eye, there was a deep scar, very long, from the corner of the eye to the base of the ear. ”

"It's the monster in Muzhang County." I can finally be 100% sure that when I first saw it, that scar was also the place that left the deepest impression on me, if it hadn't also taken advantage of the turmoil of the enchantment to run out before the world closed, or after we left, something else happened in Muzhang County. And now, it's followed us here.

The three of them looked at each other for a while, and I put this matter aside and asked, "Didn't you all see Jiang Xun?" ”

"Nope." Zi didn't answer, Tang Jia also shook his head, we were in a situation where we didn't know what to do, a girl's voice came, "Huh? You're awake. ”

I turned around and saw a little girl about twenty years old coming from the direction of the staircase with a tray and said, "You have just woken up from your injuries, and it is cold outside, so you should go into the house quickly, lest you catch the cold again, and I will go and tell my master at once." ”

"Your master?" I'm wary.

She smiled and said, "Don't worry, girl, this is already the jurisdiction of the Dongchuan Situ family, and you are safe here." ”

"Situ family?" I breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Is your family master called Situ Yu?" ”

She smiled and nodded, and I asked, "He saved us?" ”

"No, it's our second young master who saved you, Situ Yao. He was out on patrol that day, and happened to meet you behind the boundary line of Dongchuan, and there were two hairy stiffs with half of their bodies torn off by something, so he took you back. ”

I said anxiously, "There was another partner who was traveling with us at that time, have you ever seen it?" ”

"He's badly injured and shouldn't wake up for a while." She lifted the tray in her hand and said, "I'm about to change his dressing, if you want to see him, come with me, no matter what you see for a while, remember not to make noise, my master is most afraid of noise." ”

The three of us said yes and followed her to the other side of the hallway.

Hearing her words, I was terrified, and as she walked to the door of a room not far away, I landed on the last one, and after they had all entered, I held my breath before I lifted my foot over the threshold.

The room was dark, and the lamp was lit to barely illuminate the outline, Tang Jiao leaned to the side of the bed, looked left and right, and tried to shout: "Inquiry?" ”

The man did not react, and in the dim light, I saw that he was lying there well, without any scars on his face, and his face was not ugly, but his lips were white and chapped, and the whole person was in a state of semi-dehydration.

The girl put the tray on the side of the bed, ready to change the dressing for him, and just as she lifted the quilt to reveal Jiang Xun's body below, I heard Tang Jiao let out a half-exclamation and took a sharp breath and choked back, followed the light to see the situation clearly, and stayed where I was.

His entire upper body* was covered with gauze, almost half of his body was covered with blood, and the area near the right side of his abdomen was soaked with blood, and what was more serious was that the position of his right arm, at this time, was completely empty, only a few thick gauze wrapped directly from his shoulder to his chest.

He ...... He's ...... What about his hands? Tang Jiao was so frightened that he stammered, with a strange expression, "Wasn't it okay before, he was so powerful, how could he be ......?"

"This is good, when the second young master brought him back, he had a huge wound on his right chest and abdomen, injuring his internal organs, and because of the cold entering the body, the various circulation in his body was close to a static state, there were almost no vital signs, he was already half a dead man, and even Mr. Si Ming said that it was a miracle that he survived." The girl said, "Looking at him like this, he must have been injured by the strange magic weapon of that evil way outside the realm." ”

"Evil ways?" Zi didn't ask.

The girl nodded, and while untying the gauze to change the dressing for Jiang Xun, she said: "The Situ family has lived in seclusion in Dongchuan for many years, and has been taking everyone to make some handicrafts for a living. At first, it was just a prank, although everyone was panicked, but nothing major happened, but then people kept disappearing, and the lord sent a lot of people out, but they couldn't find it, and finally because the corpses were rotting and smelling, they attracted a lot of bugs, and they found their whereabouts. The horror was that when they were discovered, all the skin on those people had been stripped naked, and only a bloody pile of rotten flesh remained. ”

The paper coat is not firm, the bark is easy to be eaten by insects, and the smell of pig skin is heavy......

So what's left?

"That incident made a big fuss, but there has been no result, many people moved away because of fear, and then the master handed over the Situ family to the eldest young master due to serious illness, and then it was found out that the person who did these things used was a variant of the Situ family's puppet technique, and it was suspected that our Situ family had an internal ghost, but the identity of the other party was never determined, but it was suspected that it was a servant who suddenly disappeared many years ago, and it is said that he stole the Situ family's art book, and learned a few points and cultivated into the evil path and entered the demon."

Ziwei asked again: "There is no way for the Situ family to take him?" ”

The girl said: "He is not only alone, he has been unpredictable for so many years, he only knows that he often haunts Puxian Village on the outer edge of the Dong River, but it was not until three years ago that our eldest young master took someone to have the first head-to-head confrontation with him, but he didn't even see the other party's face, only saw him wearing a black robe, he would control many puppets to make strange sounds that could make people dizzy, and he would also use a very evil secret weapon, extremely sharp, as long as he touched it, even the stick and blade could be cut in an instant, not to mention that people touched it." In order to protect everyone's safety, the eldest young master dug a deep ditch at the junction of Dong Chuan and Pu Xian, and set up a barrier there to prevent evil from entering, Dong Chuan was a little quieter, but sometimes at night you can hear the puppets over there singing and reciting some weird nursery rhymes. ”

After saying that, the blood stains under her hands had been cleaned up, and some medicinal powder was sprinkled on the terrifying wound, and then she took out a new gauze and looked at Tang Jiao, who was closest to her, "Can you help me lift him up a little?" ”

Tang Jiao was so frightened when he saw the appearance of the wound that he didn't dare to touch him when he got close, Zi didn't help him, and took the initiative to step forward and say, "I'll come." ”

The girl nodded and told him to be gentle.

I couldn't stand it, I had mixed feelings, and I avoided my gaze.

For some reason, from the moment I walked into the room, I had a dull pain in my abdomen, which was especially bad at this time, and I didn't make a sound, and I left the door first.

The wind blew by, and I leaned against the wooden wall behind me and took a few deep breaths, holding my stomach with my hands, lowering my head, blurring my vision for a moment, and then I saw a lot of blood flowing out of my lower body, flowing down to the ground and spreading.

The dream I had in the hospital came back to me clearly, I felt suffocated, I grabbed the clothes under my hands hard, my body was weak, I slid down the wall, and I broke out in a cold sweat. The pain in my abdomen was so bad that I was shivering, confused, and my stomach was twitching, and I wanted to vomit but couldn't.

"Master, Master?"

I heard Ziwei calling me, felt the warmth of his body, was helped up, and struggled to open his eyes. It was like another dream, the pain in my stomach was subsiding, it was no longer so unbearable, and the ground was now clean and there was no trace of blood.