The place where Chu Kun lives is not remote, but the courtyard tonight is extraordinarily quiet.

Liu Ruyan looked into the room through the half-open window lattice, and there was no palm lamp inside. She leaned over the window and entered, and when she landed, she didn't make a sound, she stood up neatly, and walked lightly to the inner room.

The bed curtain was lifted, and the bedding on the couch was stacked neatly, as if someone had slept before.

Liu Ruyan made a move, could it be that Chu Kun was not in the house?

Just a few steps away from her, a shadow came to her, saying that it was too late and that it was fast, Liu Ruyan quickly turned around, but she didn't expect that the other party's strength was extremely strong, she only felt a pain in the back of her neck, and then lost consciousness......

In the inner courtyard, Bai Zhi informed the head of the family about the Gu worm.

"The deaths of Liu Shangshu and Lord Chen are not because of the cat spirit, but man-made! The deceased had been hit by a rare Gu worm named 'Mei' before his death. Usually in a dormant state, but once it encounters a poisonous insect like a centipede, it will wake up, and those who are in the Gu will have symptoms of weakness in their limbs and inability to speak, and they will be at the mercy of others, and they will have no resistance until they are hanged alive. ”

Qi Heng clenched his palms and said angrily: "Who is so vicious and vicious, using such a subordinate method?" ”

"The magic of witchcraft originated from foreign tribes, and Bai guessed that this matter might be related to the tribes in the southwest."

"Investigation, we must investigate strictly, and bring the murderer hiding in the other garden to justice." Qi Heng ordered the family, "Search all the rooms all night, but anyone who keeps Gu worms, no matter who it is, will take it down for me on the spot!" ”

"Whew-"

The family was just about to retreat, and a few nurses hurriedly came outside: "The master is not good, the Taoist boy next to Ming Juezi is missing!" ”

Qi Heng was stunned, he remembered that Dao Tong was a young man about thirteen years old, and his temperament was old and heavy.

"Where is he gone?"

The nursing home replied truthfully: "I heard that it is in the courtyard of Lord Chu." ”

The night was thick, but the Qi family garden was brightly lit, and almost all the family members were searching for Liu Ruyan's whereabouts.

Bai Zhi walked back and forth, anxious: "You said that she went to Chu Kun Courtyard not long ago, but what about Chu Kun people?" ”

"I don't know." Shen Yanchu's eyebrows tightened, "Chu Kun and Liu Ruyan disappeared together, and their whereabouts are still unknown. ”

Dong Qingxian pursed his lips, always feeling uneasy: "Could it be that Chu Kun found out that Yan Er was looking for the murderer, and he wanted to prevent exposure, so he struck first?" ”

Thinking that Liu Ruyan might have been killed, Bai Zhi became more and more uneasy, and he walked out of the courtyard: "It's not a way to wait like this, I'll go find her." ”

"I'll go too." Dong Qingxian finished speaking and left.

Darkness is like maggots on tarsal bones, firmly enveloping the heavens and the earth.

The forest is cold, dark, and biting.

Liu Ruyan closed her eyes tightly, and her body continued to sink and sink again in the frozen water.

The bun spread out at some point, like smudged ink, softly brushing her face, and she seemed to be unconscious, settling deep underwater.

"Yan'er, Yan'er-"

Who's calling her?

Liu Ruyan opened her eyes, and a little light appeared above her head, looming, like a firefly flickering in the starry sky on a summer night. And in the depths of the shimmer, she saw her father walking slowly, and there was a rare tenderness on his solemn face.

"What is Yan'er thinking?" Father Liu sat beside her and looked up at the starry sky with her.

The night breeze gently stirred the tip of the grass, and also brushed the strands of broken hair on her forehead, revealing a pair of dark and translucent eyes, the shape of which was curved, like a crescent moon.

She raised her hand to the nearest star, "I wonder if there are as many stars in the sky as there are mortals?" If I can turn into a star, Yan'er is willing to turn into the biggest and brightest one and keep Liujiazhuang for Aye. ”

Father Liu smiled slightly, looking at the immature face beside him: "From tomorrow we will go to Da Zhou, and you will enter the military camp with me." ”

Liu Ruyan turned her face, and the innocence in her eyes dissipated, replaced by the unique perseverance of soldiers......

Underwater.

Seeing that she had been unconscious, Ye Xun had to turn into a body and try to hold Liu Ruyan. However, as soon as the palm of the hand is touched, the mechanical prompt sound does not stop:

"Warning, violation!"

"Warning!"

Nightsearch soon lost his human form, and he called his host over and over again under the water.

No, sooner or later she'll have to drown.

Just as the night search dissipated, he turned on the host's perspective and teleported the picture of Liu Ruyan under the water in time.

"Whether it's over tonight or not depends on this time." Ye Xun twisted his eyebrows.

In the courtyard, Shen Yanchu was about to go separate with everyone to look for it, and at the right time, a light call came from the night wind.

"Yan Chu."

He paused in his footsteps, and seemed to see the scene of Liu Ruyan sinking to the bottom of the water.

- Water, she's in the water?

Bai Zhi spoke at the same time: "Ruyan may be in the water." ”

Shen Yanchu's face was gloomy, if the scene he saw just now was true, it meant that Liu Ruyan had encountered the murderer and was sunk to the bottom.

Thinking that she might have met with an accident, he seemed to have a ball of anger in his chest, he hated this villain hiding in the shadows, hated his powerlessness. As this hatred spreads, it seems that the heart is being clenched tightly, and it can't help but hurt.

On the side, Dong Qingxian was also worried, and couldn't help asking: "What happened to Xiao Daotong, is he already ......?"

"Split up and look for all the ponds." Shen Yanchu turned his head and left.

Time is urgent, although Liu Ruyan has been used to holding her breath, she can't hold on for long without internal strength. There are no less than dozens of large and small ponds in the Qijia Garden, lotus ponds, water pavilions, and even drainage ditches.

The three of them acted separately, Bai Zhi went to the front yard, Shen Yanchu went straight to Yiyuan, and Dong Qingxian rushed all the way to the canal in the distance.

The night was dark, Dong Qingxian wandered along the canal, there had just been a heavy rain here, the mud was wet and difficult to walk, he didn't care about rolling up his robe, his shoes flowed through the water, and called Yan'er all the way.

Except for the rocks and mud, there was no half of a figure nearby, Dong Qingxian bowed down slightly, put his hands on his knees, and his eyes finally flushed.

It was also such a rainy night in the spring, he lived alone in the mountains and waited for his father to come home, but he didn't know that in the end, what he was waiting for was his father stumbling and falling into the valley. Obviously, people were fine when they went out, but why were they suddenly gone.

In the front yard, Bai Zhi also stopped by the pool, and the neighborhood was found, and now only this pond remains.

Thinking that her body was afraid of the cold and the biting cold water, Bai Zhi felt uncomfortable, he held his breath, sank into the water a few steps forward, and swam towards the bottom of the water.

Yiyuan, Shen Yan walked to the waterfront at the beginning.

He stepped into the lotus pond without stopping, and at the same time, his true qi condensed on the soles of his feet. He half-closed his eyes, the silver silk in his hand glided out and fell into the water, Shen Yanchu calmed down, discerning the thing under the water.

After a while, he withdrew the silver wire into the ring, and his lips were pursed into a line.

Liu Ruyan is not here.

Shen Yanchu stood with his hands in his hands, remembering the scene he had just seen. The water curtain was dark, and she could only be vaguely recognized.

Shen Yan raised his head at the beginning of the moment, the sky was a crescent moon, and the moonlight was as clear as practice.

Water without moonshine?

He frowned, and suddenly remembered a place, it was the abandoned well!

With a tap of his toes, the man swept into the distance......

Cold, so cold.

Liu Ruyan wrinkled her eyebrows, and her fingers began to move.

She curled up at the bottom of the water and struggled to open her eyes, the first thing that caught her eye was a skull.

In the icy water, strands of skull hair floated, and there were half-rotten pieces of cloth scattered around it, and when she looked down, she saw that she was lying on top of the bones, and the nearby narrowness made it difficult for her to move.

Liu Ruyan froze and swam towards the top of her head with her arms outstretched. As she got closer and closer to the mouth of the well, the bones at the bottom of the sinking well were completely revealed, lying at the bottom of the water in an eerie posture.

The well was so deep that it took all her strength to swim out of the water, and the tingling sensation in her chest was finally relieved. She took a slow breath and looked overhead.

The manhole covers are closed, no wonder it's pitch black here, and there is not half a light in sight.

Liu Ruyan shook off the water droplets in front of her forehead, took out the claw rope from the system space, and tied the rope to her waist at one end. As she did this, her body became more and more tired, and her consciousness became blurred again. She bit her lip, the intense pain regaining a little clarity, and then, with all her might, she threw the hook into the air.

There was a dull sound of "clang" in the well, and the hook firmly clung to the wall of the well, but she hung her fingers like a loss of strength, and finally fell into a coma again.