It was getting dark.

At first, the people carried torches just to strengthen their courage and ward off evil spirits, but later they relied on torches for lighting.

The Liao family's house is extremely lively tonight.

Everyone searched patiently, and they didn't miss any corners, even the rat hole had to find a way to pry open it to see if the golden toad was hiding inside.

Be careful not only when looking for things, but also when walking.

The people of the Liao family thought of what the immortal master said in the afternoon, if the golden toad was not hiding, it would be some kind of stealth method, so after some deliberation and discussion of countermeasures, they finally sprinkled a thin layer of flour inside and outside the house, and now they have to be very careful when they walk in and out by themselves, and can only step on the previous footprints.

The day was fine, but when it was dark, every time I walked in, I had to lower the torch and lantern and shine on the footprints on the ground.

"Did you find it?"

"Nope!"

"Where is this thing hiding?"

"Look carefully! It was inconvenient to walk, and when we had to move the position, we were told to move it, and it was impossible to run too far! ”

"I've searched all ......"

Everyone was anxious and helpless.

Even as time passed, and they worked so hard without results, the ruthlessness and courage they had mustered before were slowly fading, and some people began to beat a little in their hearts.

Sanhua Niangniang was still sitting on the courtyard wall, expressionless, only staring down at the people who came in and out below, secretly observing, silent.

An old man with a white beard sat on a chair, and also turned his head to look at his descendants, and when he saw that they had not been able to find him for a long time, he was silent, and suddenly raised his eyebrows, knocked the ground with a stick, and said angrily:

"Find them all! Don't be lazy! That thing can't get out of this house! The second brother went to bring me firewood, and the eldest went to count all the valuable things in the house, and took them out, if I can't find it tonight, I will burn this house, and I will no longer suffer from it! ”

"Daddy......"

"Head of the house!"

When everyone heard this, they were shocked and persuaded each other again and again.

Even the neighbors who watched the excitement at the door and did not dare to come in were shocked. Even the girl sitting on the eaves of the courtyard wall couldn't help but be stunned, and lowered her head to stare at the old man.

"No! Compared with the whole family being tossed to death by that thing, how much money does a house cost? It's a big deal to build it again! Behind our house is Yangjiang, and there is still a distance from the neighborhood on the left and right, and we can't burn to others, what are you afraid of? ”

Although the old man's voice was hoarse and vicissitudes, and his speech was a little awkward, his words still echoed in the courtyard, and everyone could hear them, and the courage in his words was even more admirable.

Then the courtyard became even more chaotic.

The crowd became more and more panicked as they searched more and more carefully, and occasionally some people moved out gold and silver belongings and precious furniture, and some people brought in dry firewood.

Sanhua Niangniang was already sitting a little bored on the eaves of the courtyard wall, and couldn't help but change her posture, from sitting upright to supporting her chin with her hands, still staring down, but she couldn't help yawning and blinking.

At this moment, she was suddenly stunned.

With a snap, she turned her head and stared straight at an open space in the middle of the courtyard, where there was nothing but she didn't blink.

After a few glances, he glanced at the old man thoughtfully.

Then he continued to stare at the courtyard, his gaze slowly moving.

But there was still nothing she could see.

The old man in the courtyard was still sitting, glancing at her from time to time, and everyone in the courtyard was still coming and going, looking carefully, but no one found anything unusual.

Sanhua Niangniang's eyes moved slowly, her head lower and lowered, until the focus of her gaze had come from the courtyard to the position near the door, and her head was also very deep, then she raised her head and glanced at the old man, looked at the other people around her, and said:

"Don't let it run away!"

The voice was clear and delicate, not loud, but it also instantly attracted everyone's attention.

These were the first words she had spoken since she entered the gate and jumped onto the courtyard wall.

The old man who was sitting in the middle of the courtyard and presiding over the overall situation had been watching her, and when he heard this, he immediately knocked the ground with a crutch and shouted: "Look at the footprints on the ground!" ”

The old man's prestige was very high, and when everyone heard this, they immediately did it.

Immediately the torches were lowered, and the lanterns were lowered, all close to the ground, and everyone bent down and searched carefully on the ground.

"That's not right!"

Suddenly, a sharp-eyed person noticed that something was wrong.

It was not that they saw the extra footprints in the clearing, but that in the place where they had stepped on it, there were human footprints, and the flour had not been completely wiped out, but the flour in the footprints had become very small, but on a series of vague footprints, there were a few more tiny dots, as if they had been pressed by fingers.

It's blurry, it's intermittent, it's night, and you can't see it clearly if you don't look carefully.

The man was seeing this, and there were a few more vague small footprints in the big footprints in front of him, all of which were very short intervals.

"Ahh

The man was suddenly frightened and took two steps back, pointed ahead, and shouted, "Here!" ”

One sentence caused many people to turn back.

"Where?"

"Here! Unseen! ”

"Hoo ......"

Suddenly, someone swept over with torches.

It was clearly swept through the air close to the ground, and when it passed over a footprint, it was as if it had hit something heavy and hard—

"Bang!"

There was a muffled thud, and sparks flew everywhere.

"Boom Boom ......"

There was the sound of a metal object rolling on the ground, and it rolled several times in a row, and a thin layer of flour on the ground also showed its rolling trajectory, which did not seem to be very round.

"Here!"

"I can't see it!"

"Sprinkle flour!"

"Flour!"

"It's running!"

The evil creature was in a panic, and could no longer follow the footsteps of the people, and began to run out of the door, and the thin layer of flour on the ground was trampled by it Many footprints, each of which was only the size of a fingernail, as if pressed by a finger, and it was not obvious to push away the flour that had been stained away.

"It's going to run out!"

"Here comes the flour!"

"It hit me in the foot!"

Someone came running with a pot of flour.

Someone hurriedly closed the door, and the neighbors who were still watching the play outside the door had already left in a hurry.

"Hoo ......"

Suddenly, a gloomy wind rose in the courtyard.

Where the yin wind blew, the people who had lived in the Liao family's mansion suddenly felt a convulsion in their stomachs, and couldn't help but bend down, wow, and spit out black water from their mouths.

"Whoa......

The black water smells foul, like the water fermented by meat in a barrel on a hot day, and as soon as it hits the ground, it splashes everywhere, and when the wind blows, the room is full of fishy and unpleasant smells.

Immediately, everyone felt that their abdomen was like a knife, and they were in pain.

The same was true of the man who brought the flour, and at once his hand lost strength, and the flour basin fell to the ground with a clatter.

And those relatives near and far who came to help, and the warriors who paid for it, were not disturbed by it, and at most they only felt a chill. Seeing that the flour basin fell to the ground, and the flour was also sprinkled a lot, a middle-aged man reacted quickly, hurriedly went over to pick up the basin, and splashed it forward.

Those who spit out the black water are still spitting, and the flour has fallen to the ground.

The flour sticks to the black water, and it immediately becomes sticky, outlining the crawling figure.

The size of a palm, vaguely recognizable, is a toad.

It's just that it crawls very slowly and moves stiffly.

"There!"

Another group of people pounced.

The girl sitting on the courtyard wall couldn't help but rub her nose, showing a disgusted expression, but she refused to take her eyes off, but still stared intently below, watching everyone catch the golden toad.

It's just that somehow many people reach out to grab it, but they either grasp it to the left or the right side of it, and their hands are either forward or backward, and they just can't touch it.

On the contrary, it was a group of people who hit their heads head-to-head, and the collision was not light.

The girl looked puzzled, looked serious, and thoughtful, and then shouted:

"Fake, don't look at it."

The voice was clear and thin, but it was a mess underneath, and few people could hear it.

However, the old man hurriedly used his crutches to the ground, spitting out black water, uncomfortable, and shouting at the top of his voice: "Shut up...... Eyes, touch with your hands, don't look at it! ”

Everyone was puzzled when they heard it, but some people heard about it.

It's also wonderful-

As soon as he closed his eyes and touched them randomly, he touched the cold metal toad.

The timid one retracted his hand with a brush, but the bold one held on, and if it struggled, it wrestled with it and cried out to others to catch it.

What's even more wonderful is that the infirm can't touch it at all, and they only feel the cold through the bones, like a winter day putting their hands into the ice water, the cold is like a knife, scraping people's bones, and only a little grasp will subconsciously electrocute it to scatter it, even if the person is strong, he can only take it for a short time.

In addition, the golden toad can still move, and its strength is not small, and it struggles in its hands, and no one can hold it at all, so it has to keep changing.

"I'm coming!"

A vigorous warrior walked over, grabbed it, and didn't let go no matter how hard it struggled.

The toad gradually revealed its true form in his hands.

It was a bronze statue of a golden toad the size of a palm, covered in flour, with its mouth open and closed, its tongue in and out, and its limbs constantly kicking.

Immediately, the toad popped, and black smoke was emitted from its body, and the black smoke smelled fishy, eroding people's skin, making it impossible to hold it.

Seeing this, Sanhua Niangniang's expression froze, tidied up the blanket on her body, and just wanted to jump off the courtyard wall, she heard the martial artist snort coldly, and fell to the ground, and then found a copper basin filled with flour just now and buckled it to the ground, and then firmly buckled it inside.

At this time, the people who originally spit out the black water don't know if they have finished spitting, or if the evil thing is no longer making trouble, and they have stopped spitting, and they have slowly eased up, and they all look at the warrior and the copper basin.

The brass basin was like gold, and he trampled it under his feet.

There was some movement in it.

The Liao family runs a bookstore, and when many people see this scene, the thoughts that flash in their hearts are similar - if you write it down, a few strokes, maybe it is also a good story of mystery.

"Caught!"

"Hero! Awesome! ”

"Amazing!"

"Finally got it!"

Everyone was excited for a while and praised one after another.

Don't talk about them, even Sanhua Niangniang was also surprised.

Originally, she saw black smoke coming out of the golden toad, and she finally had the ability to hurt people, and she thought that these people couldn't cope with it, and she was ready to go down to help, but she didn't expect that these people only used a copper basin to cover it. At this moment, the black smoke was still faintly emitting from below, but it could hardly hurt anyone.

"What now?"

Everyone looked at the old man in the middle, and then followed the old man's gaze to the girl on the courtyard wall.

Sanhua Niangniang hesitated, but still jumped down.

(End of chapter)