"Will you send me down the mountain?" Xiao Yu approached Zhang Lie and pleaded.

"Why?" Zhang Lie sat cross-legged in the cave, and in front of him were more than a dozen rabbit-sized small beasts with fiery red and gold-veined fur, enjoying breakfast.

"Because I want to go home, if I don't return overnight, my father must be dying."

"I can't help it, I'm injured, I can't go anywhere." Zhang Lie just buried his head in munching.

Xiaoyu was unhappy: "Liar, you were able to catch such a big monster last night, how could you not go anywhere." You clearly don't want to send me back. ”

"I haven't asked you why you sneaked out." Zhang Lie asked vaguely.

Not knowing him, Xiaoyu was aroused, and couldn't help but pick up a stone and throw it far away in anger: "It's not because my father has to promise me to Liu County's son." I saw him at the temple fair last year, he was stupid and stupid, as fat as a pig, if he hadn't had a father who was a county magistrate, I am afraid he would have starved to death, who would want to marry that kind of wretched. I really couldn't help it, so I escaped. ”

"In that case, why do you want to go back?" Zhang Lie raised his head strangely.

"Because my father will be worried, in the past, when I ran away from home, Uncle Fang would find me quickly. But this time, this time, I don't know where I am, and my father must be worried about dying. Xiao Yu's eyes turned red again.

"I'll get married when I go back." Zhang Lie squeezed his eyes at her.

"You still say, you still say. When I go back, I must beg my father to find a new family for me, even if I marry the iron striker at the entrance of the village, I am better than him..."

"Okay, okay, don't cry, I have a way to make the son of the Liu family unable to marry you." Zhang Lie said suddenly.

"What, really?" Xiaoyu burst into tears and laughed.

"Of course it's true, but I'm injured now, and I have to wait until the injury heals."

"Speaking of which, you still don't want to send me back, so you make this excuse. Besides, this hole is full of leftover bones that you eat, and it stinks to death, how can people live. Xiao Yu said dissatisfied.

As far as the eye could see, the cave was full of monster bones thrown by Zhang Lie, and it looked like a beast's nest at a glance. It's not stinky yet, but it's not very pretty.

"That's easy to do." Zhang Lie shrugged.

As he spoke, he made a magic seal with his hands and shouted in a low voice: "Powerful soul and evil ghost, listen to my summoning and devour!" ”

In an instant, there were countless green and blue flames like ghost fire in the cave, and with the faint cry of the ghost, these flames floated all over the hole, and after a while, the bones on the ground had been eaten clean, and there was no longer a single one.

Glancing at Zhang Lie strangely, Xiao Yu couldn't help but think: "Eating raw meat, and summoning these strange things, is he really a mage who slays demons and destroys demons?" ”

Shaking her head, she quickly shook off the thought in her mind: really, why is it not a mage, he still saved me. If it was a youkai, I was eaten last night. Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu, it's so wrong for you to think so...

"By the way, give me the hairpin on your head." At this time, Zhang Lie said again.

"What are you going to do?" Xiaoyu asked strangely.

"I need to make a little preparation so that I can help you get into the engagement." Zhang Lie said seriously.

He was already accustomed to his strange methods, and Xiao Yu didn't doubt it much. For her, as long as she can cancel the marriage contract with Liu Gongzi, a hairpin is nothing, she took it off casually and handed it to Zhang Lie.

"Good, there's a good show to watch now." Zhang Lieshen smiled mysteriously.

So, just like that, Xiaoyu accompanied Zhang Lie to live temporarily in the cave.

**

In Dingshan Town, Xie Xiaoyu's disappearance has caused an uproar.

Sadly losing his beloved daughter, Xie Yuanwai went crazy to look around, but half a month passed, but there was no news. Just as Xie Yuanwai was about to expand the search area to several neighboring counties, the bad news came.

A woodcutter who went up the mountain to chop wood accidentally found a bloody hairpin on the mountain, and after taking it back, Xie Yuanwai immediately recognized that it was his beloved daughter's belongings, and immediately fainted.

Soon, rumors spread that Xie Xiaoyu was eaten by wild beasts on the mountain. Within a few days, Xie Yuanwai invited the best craftsman to make a fake body for his beloved daughter, and the funeral was held in a beautiful manner.

However, just before people recovered from the regret of Xie Xiaoyu's death, on the seventh day after the funeral, something strange happened in the neighboring Shuangshui County, and this time, it was in the county commander Liu Definition's house.

Since the night before, the county magistrate's family has begun to be unpeaceful. First of all, all the flowers and trees in the house died inexplicably overnight, and the silk-like white hair of the Persian cat raised by the county lady somehow fell off and became a veritable leper cat.

Subsequently, everyone in the whole house was in a trance during the day and had nightmares at night. And every late at night, there is a ghost crying wolf howling in the house, and the toss is non-stop. Some servants swore that they had seen Xie Xiaoyu who had died in Dingshan Town, sitting on the dead tree in the mansion every night, clapping their hands and laughing.

After 5 or 6 days of tossing like this, gradually no one could stand it. The servants and maids returned to their hometowns, and those who ran away secretly, and there were only a few people left in the county government of Nuoda. And Liu Hang, the son of the county commander, simply moved his family to the brothel and did not come back. But the result was that the brothel began to haunt the brothel, and the old bustard was so angry that he personally brought the turtle slave back to the plague god.

Liu Xianling was very hurt, and even the spirit of sitting in court for a while was gone, and the entire Shuangshui County was basically in a state of anarchy. Fortunately, the people of Shuangshui County are pure, and nothing happens on weekdays, and the haunting will not make trouble in the county government, so the people's lives have not been affected.

In a few days, the county order, which I couldn't bear anymore, invited all the famous mages and monks near and far. It's a pity that I don't know if the mages are too incompetent, or the demons are too powerful, every time the altar is opened, either the robe spontaneously combusts, or the altar explodes. The monster hunting masters sighed at the ferocity of the monsters, and at the same time took a valuable reward and ran away, and over time, no one dared to come.

**

All of this is naturally a trick made by Zhang Lie and Xiaoyu. I didn't know that my father had held a funeral for himself in Dingshan Town, and Xiaoyu didn't know how much fun she had in Liu's Mansion these days.

Seeing the annoying Liu Xianling's family being brought back to life, especially the overly frightened appearance of Liu Gongzi, Xiaoyu was so happy. At first, she just wanted to scare the family, but after playing, I am afraid that even she forgot what the purpose of doing this was, and she enjoyed it completely.

The only thing that made Xiaoyu quite complaining was that Zhang Lie was dissatisfied with Zhang Lie's stripping of the beautiful Persian cat. So she caught the cat and asked Zhang Lie to cast a spell to make the cat grow again, and now it has become her favorite pet. On the Liu Mansion's side, it is naturally another strange incident of the mysterious disappearance of the cat.

That night, after once again playing tricks on the timid Liu Gongzi, Xiaoyu sat on the horizontal branch of the big tree in the courtyard of Liu's mansion with a Persian cat in her hand, looking at the direction of Dingshan Town in a daze.

Zhang Lie knew that she was homesick again, so he jumped lightly and sat beside her: "It's almost over, I'll use ecstasy to charm them for a while, you go to the dream to give the county order and his son, if you want to be peaceful, you will dissolve your marriage contract." In this way, they will definitely do it, and you won't have to worry about being promised to the county commander again when you go back. ”

"Really? It's great, I finally don't have to marry that. "Xiaoyu is overjoyed.

Zhang Lie smiled and raised his hand to blow softly into the bedroom of the county order family below. I saw a faint cloud of light smoke blowing away with the wind, slowly soaking into the room, and after a short time, there was already a thunderous snoring inside.

"Alright, you just have to go in and tell them." He said to Xiao Yu.

Nodding and about to jump off, Xiaoyu turned back again: "You have helped me do so many things these days, I really don't know how to thank you." Why don't you come home with me, my dad will be surprised to see you. ”

"I don't know if he will be surprised to see me, but he will definitely be surprised when he sees you..."Zhang Lie smiled strangely.

It's a pity that Xiaoyu, who was immersed in joy, didn't notice Zhang Lie's abnormality, she quickly slipped down the tree and walked towards the bedroom of the county order's family. These days are making trouble in Liu's Mansion, which has already made her familiar with this.

However, before he got closer, Xiaoyu asked a rancid smell wafting over, and she couldn't help but wonder, could it be that wretched waste was so frightened that she was incontinent? Why else does it stink so much?

Holding her breath, Xiaoyu pushed open the door and walked in. The moonlight shone through the window, casting a hazy shimmer in the room. Immediately, she was stunned by what she saw.

On the bed of the prefectural couple, a humanoid object with a festering body and a strong stench was lying on the prefectural order, burying its head deep in his chest, and constantly making a dull sucking sound.

Hearing someone come in, the thing looked up sharply, and what he saw in Xiao Yu's eyes was a "human face" covered with pus, blood, and rotten flesh, purple and black, and half of his eyeballs hanging in his eye sockets.

"......" was stunned, and then she screamed in horror.

With a bang, the window shattered, and a person had jumped into the room, it was Zhang Lie. When he saw the "person" at the head of the bed, he was also extremely surprised: "Corpse? ”

The corpse didn't bother to give him time to find out, and with a hiss, it swooped down at a speed disproportionate to its size. Pulling the frightened Xiaoyu behind him, Zhang Lie stretched out his palm, and grabbed the neck of the corpse first, and hung it in the air.

A string of incantations was whispered in his mouth, and he saw a blue and blue flame coming from his palm, covering the whole body of the corpse in an instant. In just a few moments, the corpse had turned to charred ash.

"What's going on, what was that, what was that?" Xiao Yu poked her head out from behind him and asked in horror.

"That's a corpse, a dead person infected by the 'plague', there must be a 'plague' nearby, that's quite a troublesome thing." Zhang Lie said and walked to the window of the county order couple.

The two couples were dying, their throats were a blur of flesh and blood, each with a hole the size of the bottom of a cup. The body appears very thin and thin due to the loss of a large amount of bodily fluids, and it looks extremely permeating.

Xiao Yu also leaned over curiously, and after only one glance, he closed his eyes in fright and hid behind Zhang Lie. She stammered, "Are they still saved?" ”

Shaking his head, Zhang Lie said: "If the people who are killed by the corpses are not disposed of, the corpses will be transformed the next night, and there will be plagues nearby, which will soon affect the entire county." ”

"So what should I do?" Hearing that the entire county was going to suffer, Xiaoyu hurriedly asked.

Zhang Lie put his hand on the corpses of the county commanders and his wife: "Of course, dispose of their corpses, I have to find out how many corpses have come to this city as soon as possible, and where the plague is." ”

As he spoke, he whispered, "Bloodthirsty soul, summoned!" ”

Silently, a few clouds of black smoke that were so faint that they were barely visible quietly appeared, hovering in mid-air for a few weeks, dimmering the corpses below. As if dissolved by something, the bodies of the county commander and his wife disappeared in an instant, leaving only the clothes of the two people on the bed.

"Why are there corpses in the city?" Seeing Zhang Lie finish everything, Xiao Yu couldn't help but ask.

How did Zhang Lie, who had always been kind, shout loudly at this moment: "How do I know? Hurry up, it's dangerous to stay in the city at night, and if you run into a plague, I can't guarantee that I can protect you! ”

With that, he walked straight out. Being scolded by him, Xiaoyu felt extremely aggrieved, she bit her lip and forcibly held back the tears that were about to fall: "Really, people just ask, what are you doing so fiercely." ”

However, the scene she saw with her own eyes just now left a deep impression on her, although she was wronged, Xiaoyu did not dare to play the lady's temper at this time. Looking back at the clothes on the bed again, she felt a chill in her heart and hurriedly chased out.

She didn't know that at this moment, Zhang Lie was thinking with chagrin in her heart: "Damn, these days I accompanied this girl here to play those ghostly tricks, but I didn't expect that the accumulated resentment would attract the plague." If you don't solve it quickly, you will be really in trouble if you provoke those difficult guys from the four major magic schools. ”

At that moment, the silence of the night was broken by a barking of dogs, and it barked in fear, as if it had seen something terrible. I screamed a few times, but I heard a terrible wail, and then there was no more sound. After a moment of silence, the dogs in the city suddenly began to bark miserably, and the barking immediately gave the night a hint of panic.

Xiao Yu's cold sweat flowed down her entire spine, even she guessed that there must have been another corpse entering the city just now. caught up with Zhang Lie in a few steps and was about to speak, but she was surprised to see that Zhang Lie's face was also extremely terrifying at this time.

didn't dare to say any more, she could only follow closely behind Zhang Lie, and quickly walked through the empty and dark streets and alleys of Shuangshui County.

In the distance, the barking of the dog is gradually decreasing, gradually stopping...