The figure outside the house had already walked to the window, reaching out to open it.

Sheng Xi was in the innermost part of the room, and it was too late to rush over.

At the moment when the butler's hand touched the window, Yuan Xian quickly locked the window.

The butler failed to pull the window and immediately went to open another window.

Sheng Xi took advantage of the time difference when Yuanxian locked the first window, and locked the second window.

Both windows were locked, and the butler shouted again: "Guest, if you don't open the door, will you open the window?" I'll hand you the candle. ”

Sheng Xi didn't reply, and hurriedly checked all sides of the house with Yuan Xian to make sure that there was only this one door and two windows.

The housekeeper didn't say anything more, and in the night, Sheng Xi heard the sound of Suosuo.

Yuan Xian pulled her behind him, followed his gaze, and stabbed a dagger through the crack in the door, quickly picking off the small latch.

Yuan Xian resisted the door, Sheng Xi drew his sword, and cut off the dagger directly where it was exposed.

When a high-level spirit sword encounters this kind of dagger, it sharpens iron like clay.

Yuan Xian inserted the latch back into place before it hit the ground.

In the next second, the butler's angry rebuke came from outside: "Open the door!" Open the door for me! ”

"Do you two think this kind of breaking down can stop me!"

"Believe it or not, I smashed this door!"

The thin wooden door was smashed by him, and the lock behind the door shook back and forth, but as if by magic, this door, which obviously looked vulnerable, stood still at the moment.

That's the power of rules.

What makes this rule work is not the three-inch-long latch, but the inconspicuous-looking brass lock.

The butler knocked on the door for a long time, and the scolding became more and more ugly.

Sheng Xi ignored him and whispered to Yuan Xian: "I'm going to beat him up tomorrow." ”

Yuan Xian's face was expressionless: "I'll come." ”

Seeing that Sheng Xi and the two were not fooled, the housekeeper breathed a sigh of relief and said softly: "Then I will put the candle at the door, and the guests remember to take it." ”

The red lantern hanging under the eaves vaguely illuminated the figure of his departure, and soon disappeared.

Sheng Xi was about to breathe a sigh of relief, when he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

The footsteps faded so quickly that they apparently stopped without taking two steps.

She could almost imagine that after the other party pretended to leave, he hid to the sidelines, and when they opened the door to fetch the candle, they struck him head-on.

Yuan Xian obviously thought of the same point, and shook her head at Sheng Xi, signaling that the danger was not far away.

The two waited for a while, and there was a slight sound of footsteps outside, which was the real movement of the butler leaving.

Without the noise of the housekeeper, Yuan Xian was finally able to talk to Sheng Xi well: "Little junior sister, the rules here are also some level of protection. ”

Sheng Xi understood: "Obeying the rules can be blessed, but if you want to get out of here, just obeying the rules is not enough." ”

"Moreover, it is full of traps, and if you are not careful, you can get into danger."

It's like this butler, who is sincere on the surface, but can lie at any time.

Every word he said, Sheng Xi had to beat him hard to verify the truth.

Just as he was thinking, the crisp sound of a small wooden block falling to the ground sounded in the silence of the night.

Sheng Xi and Yuan Xian tensed their nerves, and heard the frightened voice of the man in green outside: "How did you get in?!" ”

"Get out! Get out! ”

"Don't come here! Don't—ah—"

A terrible scream pierced the sky, and then there was no more voice from the man in green.

Only all kinds of strange sounds came from there, like the sound of chopping flesh and breaking bones, and Sheng Xi got goosebumps all over his body.

Yuan Xian got up with a calm face and checked the door and the two windows, the brass door lock was still there, and the wooden door latch was still the same although it was useless.

The windows were no problem either.

The half-cut dagger on the ground is still there.

"The butler should have more than a dagger with a latch." Yuan Xian said.

Sheng Xi also guessed: "It seems that the terrifying things in the Yan Mansion are likely to be the housekeepers." ”

"Maybe he's just one of them, and the one on the street is dangerous. In addition, there may be things in Markham that we don't know. Yuan Xian twisted his eyebrows and made a silent gesture.

In the silence of the night, the crisp sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the eerie laughter accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves.

It's exactly the same thing they hear on the street.

The sound of horses' hooves came from far to near, and from near to far, and then the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

After a long while, the sound of horses' hooves approached again, and resounded outside the house along with more wanton laughter.

As the sound of horses' hooves approached the door, the doors and windows were touched one by one, as if someone was testing whether the doors and windows were open.

Sheng Xi and Yuan Xian held their breath until the sound of horses' hooves echoing in the courtyard disappeared, and the two exchanged words in a low voice.

"Is it that thing on the street?" Sheng Xi asked.

Yuan Xian bowed slightly: "Listening to the movement, he only checked us and the two people opposite, not the house of the green-clothed boss." ”

From this point of view, the boss in green should be completely cold.

"Familiarize yourself with the rules first. The piece of paper was gone, and I always felt that the person who made the rules didn't want us to remember it at all, didn't want us to leave alive. ”

Sheng Xi and Yuan Xian are monks, so it's not a big problem to remember this thing.

But it is really difficult for monks or mortals with lower cultivation to memorize so many things at once.

The two checked the next seventeen rules to make sure that what they remembered was consistent, and then they were relieved.

Suddenly, Sheng Xi yawned.

She quickly pinched herself: "Why am I sleepy?" ”

Since she knew that Sheng Xi's strength had a golden pill, Jingchen Yuanjun taught her how to use this power.

Now Sheng Xi is a qualified Jindan monk, and he has long since opened the valley, and he no longer compels to sleep for a long time every night.

Yuan Xian was also a little sleepy, he pinched his eyebrows, and suddenly thought of an inconspicuous sentence in the rules: "Article 7 of the rules, at the end, it is written, 'Please take a good rest'." ”

"Well, let's go to sleep." Sheng Xi yawned and turned to check the bed.

In a normal night, Sheng Xi, as a monk, can see the situation inside the house.

The bedding is all new and has no smell or strange stuff.

It seems that I asked the housekeeper for a clean room, and it was really right.

"Senior brother......" Sheng Xi just spoke out when he saw Yuan Xian take out a new futon from the cabinet.

"I sleep on the ground." He leaned over to make the bed.

Sheng Xi remembered Yan Che, Xiao Liluo and Hu Songyuan, who had occupied the dragon bed with him in the secret realm of Pumi Mountain before, and couldn't help but want to praise the senior brother.

But as soon as she opened her mouth, she yawned, her eyelids were as heavy as a mountain, and she fell asleep directly on the bed.

……

When I woke up, it was already dawn.

Sheng Xi glanced at the mechanical watch on his wrist, and the hour had just passed.

Yuan Xian also just woke up, supported the ground with one hand, and sat up.

His hair was slightly messy, with a bit of unruliness.

He subconsciously looked at Sheng Xi.

The two glanced at each other, and Sheng Xi waved his small hand at him: "Senior brother is early." ”

"Early." Yuan Xian was stunned for a moment, as if he was asleep.

There was a sound of the door opening outside the house, and the person on the other side came out.

"Third brother, did you hear the eldest brother last night......" The other party was silent when he said this, obviously what happened last night made him palpitate.

The third man in green was also scared: "I heard, big brother, he-big brother?!" ”

The second and third in green shouted at the same time, and the screams pierced the sky.

The green-clothed boss who was in full swing last night snorted coldly: "What are you shouting?" ”

The other two were silent, huddled together and shivering, both looking at him in horror.

Sheng Xi and Yuan Xian glanced at each other, and quickly got up to check the situation.

The half-cut dagger that had fallen in the doorway was gone.

The boss in green was actually standing at the door of the room, scolding at the two younger brothers: "What are you hiding? Lao Tzu, isn't this good! ”

The tragic movement last night, unless he pretended it, it is impossible to be alive.

But judging by the caution shown by the boss in green before, it was impossible for him to do such a prank.

Sheng Xi only opened the door one slit, revealing her and Yuan Xian's two heads.

Looking at the person who was scolding her little brother, she asked in a low voice, "Senior brother, do you remember the fifteenth rule?" ”

Yuan Xian replied softly: "Hmm." ”

[Article 15: When a person is killed, he dies, and after death, he or she can carry out normal activities. 】