Several people followed the bloodstains to the backyard of Huayuan Temple.

The backyard was even more dilapidated than the frontyard, littered with weeds and broken rubble. In the pile of rubble, some red leaves are faintly visible. There are only leaves, no flowers, I wonder if it is the kind of magical flower in the story that Xiao Catchy told before.

"This backyard is messy, and it doesn't look like a place to hide people." Xiao Yu quickly muttered: "Brother Gao, white girl, have you found any other bloodstains?" I didn't find anything on my side. ”

"The blood is gone here." Bai Li looked at the pile of rubble in front of him that looked like a hill of rubble. After looking at it for a while, she took a few steps back, pointed to the pile of rubble and said to Gao Zhan, "Gao Zhan, do you think this pile of rubble looks like a person?" I'm not referring to a specific person, but to a rough stone man carved out of mountain rock, with only the upper body. ”

"Like, it's really a bit like that when you say that, Miss Bai." Xiao Yu quickly felt rare, ran to Bai Li, and also looked towards the pile of rubble. "White girl, do you think the murderer is hiding in the middle of this pile of rubble?"

Xiao Yu asked this in a joking way, but he had just finished speaking, and before he could close his mouth, he heard a heavy sigh suddenly come from the rubble.

"Someone! Big Brother Gao, there are people in this pile of rubble! Xiao Yu quickly pointed to the pile of rubble: "No...... It can't be a human being, how can this living person bury himself here, even if he is alive when he is buried in it, he should be crushed to death at this time. Ghosts? Brother Gao, there are ghosts in this rubble! ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Gao Zhan first scolded Xiao Catcher, then his eyes slipped over Bai Li, and continued: "It's also a quick catch, how can you say such nonsensical things in front of the white girl!" You look up and see, how can there be ghosts in broad daylight. You guys, tear up this pile of rubble for me. ”

"Also, how can there be ghosts in this blue sky and white day. You two, come over here and come with me to tear up this pile of rubble. Xiao Yu said quickly, first pulled out the saber he carried with him, stuck the tip of the knife into the rubble, and flicked it outward little by little.

As the rubble continued to slide down, Bai Li faintly smelled a stronger and stronger fishy smell. The smell was very strange, and when she heard it, she felt dizzy in her head, and there was a heart-piercing pain at the base of her ear, followed by a buzzing sound, like a bee getting into it. After the humming stopped, a man's voice was heard, and he seemed to be speaking to her. I can't hear what I can say.

"Bai Li, are you okay?" Gao Zhan was looking at the pile of rubble, but when he heard Bai Li's painful moan, he hurriedly ran to her, saw her covering her ears, and reached out to help her to the side and sit down: "What's wrong with your ears?" Can you hear me? ”

Bai Li wanted to answer Gao Zhan very much, but all kinds of voices were mixed in her ears, and she could only nod slightly.

The voice in my ears didn't look like a normal human voice, it was stumbling, stabbing and stabbing, like that kind of noisy sound waves. It stands to reason that if a normal person hears this sound, he would like to cover his ears tighter, but Bai Li let go of the hands that were covering his ears after barely getting used to it.

She looked up, looked at the pile of rubble, and said to Gao Zhan, "The person in there is talking to me, stinging, stinging, I can be sure that it is a man, but I can't hear what he is saying." ”

As soon as Bai Li finished speaking, Xiao Yukuai's voice also came: "Someone! Brother Gao, there is a person sitting in this rubble. ”

Bai Li grabbed Gao Zhan's arm and stood up suddenly, she shook her head at first, and after the voice in her ears was quieter, she was helped by Gao Zhan to walk to the rubble. The rubble that was originally piled up in one place was mostly picked apart at this time. In the middle of the rubble, a strange face appeared.

How weird is it? At first glance, you will think that this is a human male face, but the more you look at it, the more you feel that this face is a little unspeakably weird. By the way, this face doesn't look like it grew out of itself, but it looks like it was made with an abrasive.

In the era when Baili lived, some merchants would put a strange-shaped abrasive on the outside of the fruit that had not yet grown in order to promote the goods, and when the fruit grew up, it would become the appearance of the abrasive. What a square of watermelon, doll-like zucchini, and so on. Is it tasty? Not necessarily, it's just that it looks more attractive.

The face in front of me is like a human face abrasive, three points like a person, and seven points like a person and not a person. But under this face is connected to the neck of a normal person, and below is the body that is still buried in the rubble.

Judging by the height of his stature, the man should be sitting cross-legged in the rubble.

The eyes on that face were originally closed, but when Bai Li and the others looked at him carefully, that face suddenly wrinkled, and his facial features were first squeezed together with some exaggerated expressions, as if he was grimacing at them. After an instant, his facial features stretched again, and the corners of his mouth rose, revealing a strange smile. Later, the closed eyes opened, but there were no black eyes, only the whites of the eyes covered with strange green threads.

"Ah Chang, it's Ah Chang...... It's the murderer in the mouth of the white girl...... That Ah Chang who used to be a cook at the Spring Banquet! Xiao Yu Kuai was the first to recognize this person, pointed to his eyes and said, "But my impression of Ah Chang is not like this, is he dead, or is he evil?" ”

"Dead!" Bai Li said softly: "Look at his neck." ”

There was a distinct strangulation mark on the deceased's neck, but it was not caused by an ordinary rope, but like a vine of some kind of plant, a thorny one. It wrapped around the neck of the deceased, leaving a tight strangulation mark on it, and the dense pinhole-like stuff was caused by the vine's own vine thorns.

"This is strangulation? But if it were a dead man, how could he have an expression on his face? And his eyes, which he had just closed. Xiao Yu quickly felt an inexplicable chill, and pulled his companions to Gao Zhan and Bai Li's side. If you can see a corpse, it means that he is not a ghost. What kind of situation is it now, is he a corpse? ”

"It's not a corpse, but the actual situation may be trickier than a corpse." Bai Li stared at the neck of the deceased: "You may not believe it, the vine that hanged him may have grown to the same place as his body." ”

As soon as the words fell, the pile of rubble cracked, and Gao Zhan directly turned around and blocked Bai Li. It was only when everything was quiet that they saw what was going on from the neck down the neck of the deceased.

His body can no longer be said to be a human body, but like a mutated tree. Branches pierced and extended from all parts of his body, and green vines wrapped around them. And the vines, outside of his body, or inside his body, had some places that bore carmine-colored fruit.

The red leaves they had seen growing from the rubble came from the green vines that were wrapped around the human tree. Although the vine is green, it has red leaves and red fruits.