After autumn, the afternoon sun is still hot, and the occasional hint of hot wind only startles the lazy response of the leaves on the roadside. Whisking up fine dust, even the heavens and the earth are gray.

The official road that used to be lively has now become bleak and desolate, and the small village not far away is quiet and eerie, looking deserted, showing a scene of the end of the world.

Walking south of the official road, a weak shadow lay on the ground not far away. I don't know if I'm dead or alive, and I don't know how long I've been lying there, and I've never moved. When I got closer, I realized that it was a little boy about eight or nine years old.

Seeing that night is coming, it will be a dark night of gods and demons. The little boy didn't move, and he had to worry about whether he would turn into dust the next moment and be blown away from the sky by a trace of wind...

Suddenly, a figure wandered in the distance, slowly approaching this side step by step. In the afterglow of the setting sun, I saw the true face of this "person": his hands drooped weakly, his eyes were gray, and he was "looking" ahead blankly.

It limped up to the little boy and bowed its head slightly, as if to discern what was in front of him. Its waist has been stiff and can't bend, and it tried several times to "scoop" the boy under its feet, but because it couldn't do it, it finally gave up, and simply pounced, and the door was directly pasted in front of the little boy's face~

It was so close that I realized that the corpse was really ugly and disgusting: its pale and puffy cheeks revealed a terrible blue-gray, and its face was full of pus mixed with a layer of oil and gas.

I don't know if one eye is sunken or dropped, but I see a big black hole! The other eye is completely protruding from the socket, and I can't distinguish the boundaries of the sockets and eyeballs, and the nostrils and mouth are also incomplete...

It seemed puzzled, and what was in front of it seemed to be a living thing, but it still had to be included in today's dinner. Then it slowly stretched out a rotting hand and slowly approached the little boy's head.

Unexpectedly, before his hand was halfway reached, he suddenly stopped, and held it stiffly in the air, letting the maggots in the flesh tick on the little boy's face.

Suddenly, a lean old man appeared on top. One at the corpse monster, then at the boy on the ground. Then he pulled the corpse monster away with one hand, and pulled a heavy-looking black knife from its back.

It turned out that the back of the corpse monster had been cut off by the knife at this time, and it was probably the reason why it couldn't move. The old man rubbed the knife against the corpse monster's tattered clothes, and neatly thrust it into the thick hemp rope tied to his back, and turned to leave, but he was stunned.

At this moment, he was looking at the little boy on the ground in amazement, because the little boy was at this moment, and he didn't know when he was looking at the old man with his eyes half-open and motionless.

The old man looked down slightly, and saw that there were obvious marks of scratches on the little boy's abdomen, and the wound had been purulent and festering, and he looked at the old man and shook his head again and again. The little boy's face had darkened, and although his eyes were weakly open, they were clear, and one could feel the strong will to live in his eyes.

The old man looked at it like this for half an hour, and the expression on his face seemed to be getting more and more surprised. Without much hesitation, he took out a wide wind-proof robe from his waist-bag, wrapped the little boy around it, gently put it on his back, and walked away.

A tall and thin man with thick eyebrows in his thirties at the head of the village seemed to be waiting impatiently, and shouted from afar: "Lao You, is it necessary to go to see a corpse monster for so long? This time the two of us finally came out of Fengya Forest, but unfortunately the old Zhang Xiaozeng didn't even save his life!"

We've been on the road for a few days, but here we still run into the corpse of the hanger! If it weren't for my grandfather, I would have been injured, and I wouldn't have dug up his soul beads!

I said Lao You? That day was really unlucky, and the wind and the forest were well prepared, but I didn't expect to encounter such a thing! You chased them in, and in the end you came out alone. Honestly, did you kill it?

I haven't seen Lao You speak for a long time, and the big man is also holding his breath, it is estimated that he has asked more than once without responding, and then he seems to have suddenly seen the child on Lao You's back, and the topic changed: "Yo! I picked up a treasure, I'll take a look... Tsk~ Can you still live if you are injured by that animal? Why are you bringing this thing with you? I'm not afraid that the corpse will hurt people, so it's better to give me a knife and chop it to save trouble!"

Seeing that Lao You was still walking on his own without speaking, he was suddenly bored. simply stopped talking, and followed behind unhurriedly and sullenly...

The little boy on Lao You's back was also confused, and he didn't know how long he had been lying on the ground before. I felt something approaching in a daze, but I couldn't move or speak, and I slowly cleared my thoughts when my strength eased up.

Maybe he was dying! He couldn't help but clear his head, so his strong will to survive made him open his eyes and look at the blurred figure in front of him, proving that he was still alive!

I vaguely remember that there was a special mirror hanging from the waist of the person carrying him, with a simple style, shining silver in the green and yellow, how could this mirror have a sense of déjà vu? Before he could think about it, his eyes were dark, and he completely passed out.

I don't know how long it has been, but I keep repeating the same nightmare: dreaming that the door of my house is always closed at night. Listen to the grown-ups tell horrific stories and shut yourself under the covers. When you sleep, you can hear strange noises outside the house with your ears pricked up, and suddenly from the nailed window, there is the sound of sharp nails scratching.

Then one day, on the darkest and darkest night, the door of his house was violently slammed open by an external force! My parents rushed in with a frightened face, grabbed themselves and ran into the inner room, opening the cellar door that they usually hid into.

Before he could make a move, suddenly, a clear terrifying voice similar to the roar of a beast came from behind him! Then I saw my father covered in blood and fall to the root of the wall~

Through the faint light, I saw a monster creeping in the middle of the room. The monster's face was full of hideousness, and its eyes were only whites, but it felt like it was staring at itself like a cheetah!

This glance frightened him so much that he stopped breathing. Suddenly, I only felt a flower in front of my eyes, a numbness in my abdomen, and my head was still confused for a while and did not react. I heard my mother screaming like crazy, and then I was pushed hard, and I stumbled down from the mouth of the cellar, and I heard a loud "bump", and the front was completely dark.

I don't know how long it took, but I hid in the cellar and shivered, and I could only hear the fluttering on it for a while before it fell silent. Slowly, I felt a strange pain and itching sensation in my lower back and abdomen, and I realized that I was injured, and it was very uncomfortable.

Fear and hunger gradually invaded, and finally I couldn't bear it anymore, and I fell asleep groggy.

When I woke up again, I found that my whole body was hot, my abdomen was numb, and my mouth was dry and I couldn't stand it! After listening to it for a long time, there was no movement on it, and I don't know how long I slept before I dared to open the cellar door carefully.

I could feel that it was daytime outside, and a few rays of sunlight shone through the broken windows, illuminating the interior of the room.

By the light, I saw that the inner room was full of blood, even on the walls, but there was not half a figure in sight. I just wanted to go out, but I found that my lower body was almost unconscious, so I had to grit my teeth and crawl out.

At this time, the sun was already setting in the west, but the ground was still hot, and he didn't care, just crawled to the place next door.

But I found that the door of my uncle's house next door was wide open, and I screamed hoarsely a few times, but no one answered. Because of the light, when I looked up at the room, I could only see a rough outline. When my eyes gradually got used to it, I realized that there was chaos in the house!

There must be a man lying on the ground, one shoe has fallen off, the soles of his feet are facing his direction, and a large pool of blood is dripping from under him! He didn't have the courage to step forward and take a look, so he slowly turned around.

He turned around slowly, but his body was stunned, because he found that not far behind him, I don't know when there was a "person"! The guy had no whites of his eyes, and his face was a little pale. The clothes look dirty but not tattered, and other than that, they are no different from ordinary people.

It's just that seeing this "person" in this case is indescribably weird. The other party lowered his head slightly, his hands naturally drooped, and at this time, "he" just looked at himself quietly, standing motionless and not speaking. Only the occasional hot breeze ruffled the somewhat messy hair on the cheeks.

After watching for a long time, there was no movement after all, and finally slowly turned his head to look in the direction of the village entrance. The little boy didn't dare to come out, so he was stunned for a while. Seeing that the other party really didn't move, he quickly climbed away.

He knew that there was an official road in the southwest of the village, which was the only way to go to Beiyu Mountain to the north, and Nantong Town to the south. Crawling out of the village, I looked back, but the "man" was gone. He breathed a sigh of relief, discerned the direction, and crawled towards the south of the official road.

Although it is a special period, on the official road, there are occasional merchants and escorts carrying grain into the city during the day, and there may be a "master" to ensure the safety of the road. Of course, there are also martial artists who don't know spells but have good feet, and they can quickly evacuate when they encounter danger, so they don't have to spend a lot of money to hire a master.

As long as you go to the official road, you may still be saved, and it is estimated that staying in the village will be a dead end. Ever since he was a child, the boy still heard many stories and ways to deal with danger from adults and the elders of the village. Thinking so, I made up my mind and slowly crawled on the road.

It's just that he has no feeling under him, and he has no strength from hunger all over his body. After climbing for half an hour, I turned around and realized that I had only walked more than a mile. At this moment, he was tired and sweating profusely, and traces of blood began to rise on the ground behind him.

Seeing that it was getting late, staying outside at night at such a time would have almost no chance of surviving! At a glance, there was not even half a figure, so I couldn't help but feel anxious and crawled hard.

With this force, the wound in the abdomen suddenly hit the protruding stone. The pain made his eyes blacken, and his back arched reflexively.

When I lowered my head, I saw that the wound in my abdomen was black and purulent, and a trace of cyan lines radiated out along the wound, which was terrifying. The little boy's heart tightened, and he suddenly fainted in a whirlwind~ Later, it was after meeting Lao You and them.