The strange black umbrella, the rotten and smelly glutinous rice, the cracks on the door, and all kinds of strange phenomena made Xu Ning's heart a little heavy.

But fortunately, there were no white flags hung in front of the house, no white lanterns hung, and no yellowed paper money spread.

This means that there are no casualties in the family.

At least for now.

Xu Ning didn't knock on the door immediately, but leaned over and grabbed some rotten glutinous rice in his hand, looked at it carefully for a while, and then leaned closer to his nose and kissed it gently.

In addition to the rancid smell, these blackened glutinous rice also have a special taste.

For this taste, Xu Ning had some conjectures in his heart, which was somewhat similar to the taste of the group of spirits he met in Ailao Mountain.

Corpse stench.

He casually threw away the rotten glutinous rice and stepped forward to carefully examine the crack in the door.

At first glance, it seems that this is a mark left by a sword slash, but by the length of the direction between the rifts and the gaps, it seems that this is not caused by the sword, but more like a sharp claw.

"Do you see what, good boy?"

Oni Cheng Tianzun asked with interest, but his eyes were a little playfully focused on the strange black umbrella.

"The rotten glutinous rice, as well as the cracks in the gates, should have been caused by zombies."

Xu Ning took a deep breath and said in a somewhat heavy tone.

There are all kinds of signs in front of me that Dongxi Village is a zombie.

Zombies are strange beings born from the resentment and filth of heaven and earth, immortal, immortal, and immortal. Abandoned by the Three Realms of Heaven, Earth and Man, outside the Six Realms of Living Beings.

Wandering, displaced, in the world, resentment as strength, blood as food, with the blood of all living beings to vent endless loneliness.

For ordinary people, zombies are almost all nightmarish existences, except for the lowest purple zombies.

Death is upon encounter.

"But the black umbrella, I can't see any clues."

"Bring the umbrella first, let's go inside."

Ghost Cheng Tianzun smiled slightly and gently squeezed Xu Ning's palm.

"If there is a teacher, it will be fine."

"Master, please."

Xu Ning grabbed the handle of the umbrella with one hand and knocked heavily on the knocker.

"What people!"

A rough male voice like thunder immediately sounded inside the door.

"Zhang Hu, it's me."

Xu Ning said lightly.

Through the memory in his mind, he heard the owner of the voice.

Zhang Hu, together with his brother Zhang Long, is one of the Xu family's bankers and thugs, and has a close relationship with his predecessor Xu Ning, and is one of his playmates who grew up together.

"Brother Ning!"

Zhang Hu pushed open the door with a "clang" and welcomed the two into the village in surprise, but in an instant, his face changed suddenly as if he had thought of something, and he immediately closed the door again.

He held the Pu knife in one hand, scratched his head with the other, and said with a smile.

"Brother Ning, didn't you go to Beijing to take the exam? Why did you come back so early? ”

Xu Ning's eyes swept the Pu knife in Zhang Hu's hand, and at this time, several Zhuang guests patrolling the front yard of Zhuangzi also greeted him.

Not surprisingly, they were all armed with knives, and they looked heavily guarded.

"It's a long story, but what's going on in the village lately?"

Xu Ning asked in a deep voice.

"It's all to blame on the group of straight thieves in Xixi Village!"

The anger in Zhang Hu's eyes almost burst out, and he gritted his teeth and said.

"Xixi Village?"

Xu Ning's eyes flashed with a hint of confusion.

Xixi Village is their neighbor of Dongxi Village, and the two villages are separated by a Huanxi, one in the west and one in the east, which is why the two villages got their names.

The two villages are separated by water, and there is usually no contradiction in the ordinary world, so it won't be so big, right?

"What's wrong with them?"

Xu Ning asked in a deep voice.

"Brother Ning, you don't know anything. Only three or five days after you left, there were ghosts and ghosts in Xixi Village. ”

Zhang Hukong's powerful face showed a trace of solemnity, obviously this kind of strange ghost is even a brave person like him is very jealous.

"That ghost is so good that he dares to lure people into the water in broad daylight. When I went to the stream to fetch water, I saw with my own eyes that Wu Lao Liu, who was striking iron in Xixi Village, looked stunned, and walked straight to the stream with stiff limbs. ”

Zhang Hu recalled the scene of that day, and even his voice became slightly trembling.

I didn't pay attention at first, and casually greeted him, but found that he didn't respond, so I walked straight up. At that time, I felt a little strange, this Wu Lao Liu has always had a good relationship with me, why didn't he say hello as if he didn't see me? ”

Immediately afterwards, Wu Lao Liu plunged directly into the water, I thought he just had something to worry about recently going into the water to play, so he just cared about carrying the water and ignored it. But when I came back after four trips to the water, I found that he was still floating in the water, with only his back exposed. I thought he was cramping in the water and his hands and feet were numb, so I quickly put down my flat shoulder and swam over to help him. ”

But when I turned him over, he was already out of breath, his face was dark and his body was very swollen. I carried him ashore and went to the doctor, but he still couldn't get back. Later, after looking at the corpse, he said that this man had been drowned for at least two or three days. But I obviously saw Wu Lao Liu go into the water alive, and it would never take more than half an hour to the left and right, why did he drown for two or three days? ”

Zhang Hu sighed, and then said: "Wu Lao Liu was the first, and for several days in a row, one or two people drowned in the stream with Wu Lao Liu in Xixi Village every day, and they all died in the same way. I was not the only one who saw it, and both villages were in a state of panic, and there were rumors that it was a ghost who was causing trouble. ”

At this time, it happened that two gentlemen from Xixi Village came, a monk and a Taoist priest. They heard from the people in Xixi Village about this matter, so they pointed out a way and taught them to use bluestone to chisel a pagoda and place it by the stream to suppress ghosts. ”

"Since the pagoda was built, there are no more dead people in Xixi Village. But who knew that the pagoda was not to suppress evil spirits but to exorcise evil spirits, and drove all the ghosts and monsters to our Dongxi Village. ”

Since then, there have been many strange things in the village, and there have been zombies in the past few days, Li Jiu at the entrance of the village, and Wang Laohan at the wine shop have been poisoned. Even Zhuang Shang was attacked last night, and we desperately drove the zombie out, but the eldest brother was accidentally scratched by the zombie. ”

Zhang Hu said as he spoke, and couldn't help but have tears in his eyes.

If an ordinary person is accidentally scratched by a zombie, there is only a dead end waiting for him, which is almost common sense for everyone.

"Take me there."

Xu Ning said urgently, and at the same time cast an inquiring look at the Ghost Ride Tianzun.

Zhang Long was scratched by zombies to protect the Xu family, and he had to save him because of reason.

And now, the only one who has the ability to save him is the Ghost Cheng Tianzun.

Ghost Cheng Tianzun nodded, treating such a trivial matter as being scratched by a zombie would not be difficult for her.

"Brother Ning... Alas, come with me. ”

Zhang Hu quickly took the two to Zhang Long's courtyard, and the house was already full of people at this time.