The nursery rhyme poem was still hanging in my ears, and my heart was beating wildly, and it was like a mess, did the other party have long expected that we would take this road?

The wooden sign is placed horizontally there, and in this situational atmosphere, it is not like an ordinary boundary monument, but more like a tombstone of a grave.

Seeing the mottled handwriting, the three of us were all frozen there, only Jiang Xun didn't know the reason, and was pulled by Tang Jiao a few times in his thoughts, whispering the content of the song we heard yesterday.

"Why don't we get out of here and go the other way." Tang Kao craned his neck and said, "It's too dangerous." ”

"Now that we've come here, how can there be a way out." Jiang Xun looked casual, looked ahead and smiled, and said: "Stretching out the head is a knife, and shrinking the head is also a knife, it's better to be simple, I also want to see what tricks they have." ”

In a moment's hesitation, something seemed to flash through the grass, and it burrowed behind a mound of dirt that was slightly convex in front of it.

I said that I was not afraid of being deceitful, and I felt trembling when I approached, and I was cautious with every step, and when I saw Jiang Xun leaning down and peeling away the weeds to reveal the thing hidden underneath, even though it was daytime, I inevitably felt a chill.

All the feathers on its body have been plucked off and it is bare. I stood behind Jiang Xun, perhaps because we were too close to each other, and through his side, I saw that the little guy was bright red all over, his eyes and mouth were gouged out, and there were large dark scabs in the hollow places.

"Oh my God, what is this?" Tang Jiao was so frightened that he withdrew a long way, Jiang Xun squatted in place and watched for a while, covered up the weeds, picked up a fist-sized stone from the side, and smashed it down hard at that position.

As if I could hear the sound of * bursting in my ears, my heart trembled, and I saw that Jiang Xun had stood up with the same face and said to us, "Let's go." ”

The unexpected episode made everyone quieter and quieter, and they all had a gloomy face, and even their steps were lighter.

The roads here are all unique to the countryside, unpaved, all depend on a pair of people's feet where they are tread, where is a small road, there are not many buildings, but basically there are one or two forks in the direction of the house. As I walked, I observed that most of the terrain of the whole village was low and sunken, and if it rained heavily, it was estimated that most of it would be submerged, so the houses were built on the slopes on both sides. The place is remote, the transportation is inconvenient, there is no field, people do not know what to live on, in front of each house there are several clay jars of equal size, about the height of a person's chest, and the others are scattered, and there are also a few small jars piled up. Far away, occasionally one or two figures were seen, flickering outside the door, and soon the door was closed and disappeared, and the whole village was extremely deserted.

"There are a lot of bamboo embryos on the ground." Tang Jiao said, looking to the other side, "Are those piles of rags heads?" It's all rotten. ”

The group walked to the vicinity of the forest that Ziwei said, looked up in the shadows, and saw a tree on the periphery with something like an oilcloth, with a lot of holes, and it was blown by the wind.

I stared at it, looked closer, and guessed, "Pigskin." ”

"Let's go." Tang Jiao shuddered, took a step to the side, clicked on something, and immediately jumped behind Jiang Xun like a frightened mouse, grabbing his arm.

The three of us looked down and saw a broken old puppet among the dead leaves.

The puppet is completely carved out of wood, unlike the previous one, a bamboo skeleton is simply pasted with a layer of paper to color, each of its joints can move freely, but it is a semi-finished product, the position of the facial features is missing, and it has been lost here for a long time, and it was stepped on by Tang Jiao just now, and there were several cracks on the body, and a leg was broken.

The forest was dense and gloomy and invisible, and the four of us walked along the edge to the right and found a path buried by weeds.

Tang Jiao wiped his face and whispered: "There are so many spider webs, how long will it take for no one to leave here, and I don't know what kind of place Dongchuan is, can you take a hot bath." ”

"Be careful." Jiang Xun brushed away the cobwebs in front of him with his hand and said, "I'll open the way, you follow behind me, pay attention to your feet." ”

I responded, paused a few steps, and fell behind him, Ziwei and Tang Jiao were the same, the four of them were almost lined up, and followed the footsteps of the previous one. Although there were many cobwebs along the way, we walked for more than ten minutes, and we did not see a single spider in sight. The forest and grass are messy, and it is a wet and rainy season, but there is not a single insect here, and it is unreasonably clean.

After taking a few more steps, Jiang Xun suddenly gestured to us and stopped at the front.

I immediately tensed my nerves, and in a short time I heard a continuous stream of footsteps from the depths of the jungle, stepping on the fallen leaves, running very lightly, but very fast, at first it seemed to be one, and then it became one, and the number was too chaotic to be recognized.

The three of them made a gesture to meet the enemy, staring at the movement around them, the sound did not stop, the distance was also narrowing, but there was no one in the field of vision.

"That's not right." Jiang Xun frowned, as if sensing something, and urged us: "Hurry up." ”

The grinding sound began to appear in the grass, and we hurried forward, the sun had not yet set, and the road ahead was clearly visible, but in the midst of all the gloom, I still put all my eyes on the man in front of me, and followed him closely, perhaps because of the clear purpose, and caught a steady tail in the ethereal unknown. Until the silhouette of the houses could be faintly seen, the voices faded away, as if they had been a non-aggressive bewilderment.

Jiang Xun stopped before approaching, I thought he was worried about what would be lurking in those buildings, and took a step forward to look side by side with him, only to find that the focus of his gaze was not far away, but right in front of us.

"What's wrong...... "Halfway through the sentence, I saw in the sunlight what seemed to be a flash of light in the air in front of us, and when I looked at it, nothing was gone.

Jiang Xun bent down to pick up a branch and threw it towards the open space in front of him. I took a deep breath and felt the flow of air tremble like a new snowflake on a pine needle in the ice and snow, rippling a faint wave, and at the same time, a very soft sound of breaking ice penetrated into the eardrums, and the branch drew a parabola from his hand, and there was no obstacle in the way, but the moment it landed broke into several small pieces of less than two centimeters.

"Thousand Ice Ropes?" I asked.

Since it is refined by the cold qi, it should be cold, but it is not afraid of the sun, and I don't feel half a chill at such a close distance.

"Be careful around." Jiang Xun said: "Although his ice rope is sharp, it will also break itself at the moment of cutting off the object, and it is too low-level to make such a trap, and there should be a back-up move." ”

After speaking, he turned around, and after his gaze swept over me, he was stunned for a moment.

I don't know why, but I looked back and saw that Zi was not standing far away from us, and the person was deeply bowed his head, his hands hanging at his side, and he was in a strange state.

"Ziwei?" I called out to him, but there was no response, and I called him a second time, quietly pulling away the tart whip and slowly approaching him.

He stood there until I got closer, and I could hear his breathing heavily, trying to do something like that, his veins bulging outward, his muscles quivering unnaturally. When I was only three or two steps away from him, he suddenly raised his head and took a big step forward, attacking me with an unfamiliar move that did not belong to Shen Ji.

I raised my hand to block it, and Jiang Xun next to me also quickly made a move, and after a few back and forth, he was pressed to the ground. I hurriedly stepped forward, first biting the blood on his forehead with my fingertips, and then found that there was no yin qi on his body, and on his face, the expression was still abnormal, but at this time it was full of forbearance struggle, pupils dilated, cold sweat slipped into his eyes, and the whites of his eyes were full of lines.

"What's going on?" Jiang Xun suppressed him, I shook my head in confusion, and swept around to find that there was no one missing around us, "What about Tang Jiao?" ”

"Leave Tang Jiao alone, find a way to make him sober up, and we'll look for it together."

But he looks like he is obviously awake, but for some reason he can't control his body, it's the first time I've seen such a situation, time is short, and where is the solution, if he can't recover in time, then Tang Kao is facing us unpredictable danger......

The heaviness of life on my shoulders made me breathless, and under the fear of responsibility, helplessness and worry made people secretly produce a lot of anxiety.

"Shen Qing." I raised my eyes in a hurry, looking at Shangjiang Xun's dark gaze, the tone in my ear was still calm, and I said lightly: "Calm down, come one by one, with me, there will be no problem." ”

I couldn't speak, my heart was still beating fast, but my brain got rid of those cumbersome distractions because of this sentence, and divided more space for thinking in the present.

Ziwei's whole body was tense, his hands were stiff to the touch, and two different forces were acting on him at the same time, fighting against him. I examined it closely, and noticed that his Adam's apple was agitating abnormally, and although his jaw was straining, it was not locked, but it was trying to keep it in a state of "relaxation".

"He seems to have something in his mouth." I'm not sure.

Jiang Xun strangled his neck, I went to break his chin, and the teeth that were not closed were broken without much effort, I only saw that it was black inside, and I wanted to reach out to probe, but Jiang Xun stopped me.