On the dark mountain road, Shen Nanqing was running wildly, her face was pale, she was out of breath, and she glanced back from time to time.

She didn't know why she was running.

She seemed to be hiding from something, but she couldn't remember what it was.

In dreams, people are always groggy in their minds, and there is often no logic to speak of.

But that panic is very real!

"Where is this, where the hell is this?"

She was shouting in her heart, but she didn't dare to make a sound, stepping on the artemisia grass on the ground, only to feel that the world was spinning.

"Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee......"

At this moment, a shrill laugh rang out, creepy, and it seemed to be the voice of a little girl.

That kind of voice, poignant and eerie, like a cat meowing in heat in the middle of the night.

"I remember!"

Suddenly, a memory welled up in her mind, a little girl in red was chasing her.

That's a ghost!

She didn't know where this ghost came from or why she was chasing her, in short, the other party was chasing her.

At this time, she followed the sound and saw a little girl with a blue face and sharp black teeth, smiling sadly at her.

"Ahh

She screamed, turned and ran, and she rushed into a large field of basil, and faintly, there seemed to be a light source in the depths of the basil.

It was a faint white mist, even tinged with a hint of blue-gray, which is a scene in many movie dreams.

"Hee-hee, sister, where are you going? Since you're here, stay with me, I'm so lonely......"

The little girl let out a terrible laugh, her feet were two inches off the ground, and she chased after Shen Nanqing.

"Hurry, hurry! Why can't you run fast! ”

Shen Nanqing fell into a strange state at this time, no matter how she ran, she didn't seem to be able to run fast, and even stood still.

It was as if her body had suddenly lost its weight, and another gust of wind was blowing her backwards.

"Stay, stay with me......"

The little girl's voice grew old, like an old woman about to breathe.

Shen Nanqing looked back and saw that the little girl's body was twisting, slowly turning into a black old woman, wearing a black shroud, and stretched out a wrinkled dry palm to her.

"Ahh

The next moment, she suddenly opened her eyes, let out a frightened scream, and her body instinctively sat up from the bed.

Sitting up in a dying dream.

"Huhu...... It turned out to be just a dream......"

She gasped for breath, but then, she sensed something was wrong, and it seemed like a biting chill was coming.

She turned her head to look!

I saw that the old lady in the shroud was already standing at the head of her bed at some point, with a hideous face, and raised her hideous claws at her.

The old lady didn't speak, but with a wicked smile and a pair of wizened paws, she approached her step by step.

The old lady was like a corpse, and she didn't speak at all, but kept getting closer, closer, closer......

"Someone, help me......"

Shen Nanqing shouted desperately, but he felt as if his voice was hoarse, and he couldn't make a sound at all.

She wanted to run, but there was no way to escape from the narrow room, the door was blocked by the old lady, and the other party was still approaching.

"Woo woo woo ......"

She only felt her scalp tingling, and in despair she crouched at the end of the bed against the wall, holding her head and crying—still unable to make a sound.

Fear, fear, fear!

Absolutely, desperate, desperate!!

She had never been so afraid, and even wanted to die quickly, to be relieved when she died, and to be okay when she died.

"Smack!"

At this moment, there was a soft sound outside the door, which was particularly abrupt in this dead night.

It seems that someone used a lighter and lit a cigarette.

"Wow-"

She looked up, only to find that the old lady who was standing at the head of the bed, who was about to catch her, was burning with a faint blue flame, and before she could even struggle, she turned into ashes in an instant.

"This!!"

Shen Nanqing was shocked, she subconsciously turned over and got out of bed, and ran towards the door barefoot.

She stood in the doorway and looked out, only to see a man standing not far away with his back to her, slowly exhaling a smoke ring.

The man seemed to be facing an unknown light source, so his back appeared dark, but the outline of his back became clearer.

This back...... Déjà vu.

"Who are you?" She asked aloud.

But the man didn't answer, and walked off into the distance.

"Wait a minute!"

She tried to catch up, but found that the man seemed to be walking slowly, but he was getting farther and farther away from her, and soon disappeared.

"Who the hell are you!"

She still wanted to chase, but as she ran, she found that her consciousness was getting more and more blurred, and then she ...... She woke up.

"Nanqing, Ling has finally woken up!"

She opened her eyes and found her boyfriend Zhou Xuan sitting at the head of the bed, looking at her nervously.

Zhou Xuan's parents and sister were also beside him, and the three of them all showed concern.

"Nanqing, did you dream of something terrible?" Zhou Xuan's father frowned and asked.

"I ...... I dreamed of ...... There's a ghost trying to catch me, and at first it's a little girl, and then it's an old woman......"

Shen Nanqing's voice trembled, and now he still has a numb scalp when he recalls it, and tears flow down unconsciously.

"It must be that second girl again!"

Mother Zhou said angrily: "These two girls were sold to the mountains back then, and they have been resentful after their deaths, and they want to take revenge on the living people here, but unfortunately she is not a local, the strong dragon can't suppress the snake, and the people in the mountains are sheltered by the mountains, and she can't get close, so she likes to attack the strangers who pass by!" ”

They are already poor in this place, and the transportation is inconvenient, and the girls outside are unwilling to marry them.

Coupled with the trouble of the second girl, it is even more difficult for local young people to marry a daughter-in-law, and many people are gritting their teeth about it.

"This ...... This ......"

Shen Nanqing was so frightened that she cried again, what happened today completely subverted her worldview.

In the past, she thought that the countryside was haunted or something, just because of a misunderstanding caused by lack of culture, but today's experience has made her change this idea, it seems that the countryside and the city are really different.

Remote and backward places are more likely to breed evil spirits?

"Take Nanqing to Quanshui Village tomorrow and find Liu Cripple to have a look." Father Zhou was silent for a while, and said in a deep voice.

"Who is Cripple Liu?" Shen Nanqing wiped away his tears and asked.

Zhou Xuan explained: "It is a capable person in our mountains, and several nearby villages and towns, whoever has an evil family, will go to him for help." ”

"Is he powerful?" Shen Nanqing asked.

"Of course."

"Then why don't you just invite him to come to the village to do it, and overtake the ghost of that second girl? According to you, these two girls have been wreaking havoc here for many years. Shen Nanqing frowned and said.

Zhou Xuan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The sons and grandsons of these two girls are all officials in the village, if anyone dares to invite someone to do it, they will say that you are superstitious. That Liu Cripple was educated when he was young, and now he doesn't dare to act casually. ”

Shen Nanqing was silent.

She finally understood what it meant that the Tiangao Emperor was far away, and in this remote mountain village, the village officials were veritable snakes.

"Maybe I could write a book that would expose these situations." She said silently in her heart.

Some festering scars must be uncovered, and if they are uncovered, they may bleed pus, but if they are not uncovered, they will continue to fester.

……

The next day, Zhou's father took Zhou Xuan and Shen Nanqing to walk more than ten miles of mountain roads and came to Quanshui Village.

The Zhou family and the Liu family are somewhat related to each other, and some marriages come and go, so they are also familiar with the road, and soon came to Liu's lame house.

"Woohoo!"

In front of the simple wooden house, there was a miscellaneous soil dog on a leash, and when he saw a stranger, he immediately barked.

"Rhubarb, is anyone coming?"

Out of the house came a lame old man, it was Liu Cripple, this person had gray hair and looked like he was about sixty years old.

"Brother-in-law Liu, it's me!" Father Zhou smiled enthusiastically and shook the gift he was carrying.

"You ......"

"Tiemu Village, Zhou Lao Liu!"

"Oh oh, it's you...... Hehe, let's go inside and sit. ”

Liu Cripple obviously didn't remember who the person in front of him was, but he didn't stretch out his hand to hit the smiling person, not to mention, he still had gifts.

He also probably knows what the other party is looking for him to do, after all, he will also be able to do that trick.

The mountains and wilderness are easy to breed evil, so his business is not bad, and people come to him almost every month.

The three of them entered Liu's lame house together, which was very messy, all kinds of things were messy, and a lot of dirty clothes were piled together, giving off a rancid smell - this is the current situation of old bachelors in the countryside.

Liu Lame was married before, married to a cousin of Zhou Laoliu, and then there was a flood in the mountains, his wife died, and his leg was lame.

"Hehe, the world is going to change, the world is going to change......"

In the room next to it, an old voice sounded, which seemed to be crying and laughing, showing its true colors of madness.

"What is this?"

Shen Nanqing showed a look of surprise.

"This is my father, who used to do the same business, but after the flood more than 20 years ago, he went crazy."

Liu lame smiled bitterly and laughed at himself: "I am an old bachelor myself, and I have to take care of an even older bachelor, what a sin." ”

None of the three answered.

It's hard to answer.

Liu Cripple didn't say much, he looked at the three of them and asked, "Who needs to see a doctor, come with me." ”

"Go ahead."

Father Zhou and Zhou Xuan looked at Shen Nanqing.

Shen Nanqing hesitated for a moment, but finally plucked up his courage and followed behind Liu Cripple and walked into a compartment in the inner hall.

"Wow-"

As soon as I entered, a smell of incense came to my nose, which was completely different from the rancid smell outside.

She looked ahead and saw a shrine enshrined in front of her, with a candlestick, an incense burner, and a mahogany sword in front of it.

There were three pillars of incense on the incense burner, and the pale cyan smoke slowly spread, like cyan pigment, smearing in the air.

And in that shrine, there is a simple portrait of the person in the painting, who is dressed in white clothes and white hair, elegant and handsome, but exudes a sense of sacredness.

"This!!"

The moment he saw this portrait, Shen Nanqing's body trembled violently.

She's seen this guy!

Although the hair and clothes are different, she will not admit that face and that otherworldly temperament.

Because that person's temperament is too different, she has only seen it in her life, so she has a deep memory.

"That's him! The back in my dream last night was also this person! He is...... Mr. Zijin! ”

Shen Nanqing became short of breath, only to feel that the world had suddenly become ridiculous, making her feel as if she was in a dream.

She took a deep breath and asked at Liu Cripple, "Excuse me, who is the portrait in the shrine?" ”

Liu Lame smiled mysteriously and said proudly: "Naturally, it is our ancestor, the White Emperor Tianzun." ”

"Who is the White Emperor Tianzun?"

Shen Nanqing frowned, because she had not heard of this title in the existing mythological stories.

"Hehe, White Emperor Tianzun, is our lineage's honorific title for the ancestor master, at first it was called White Emperor, and the title of White Emperor comes from an ancient book more than 4,000 years ago - "The Biography of the White Emperor", of course, this book is not widely circulated, it is close to being lost, and only occasionally there is a single book circulating."

Liu Lame smiled, raised his eyebrows and said, "I said Emperor Bai, you may not understand, but if I say another name, you should know." ”

"What?"

"Spirit beast Bai Ze."

"Shhhh

Shen Nanqing gasped and shouted in disbelief: "Spirit beast Bai Ze? You mean the spirit beast Bai Ze in "The Legend of Bai Ze"?! ”

If the White Emperor is a relatively remote myth, then the spirit beast Bai Ze is a very orthodox myth, which spreads widely and is known all over the world.

"Bai Ze! Bai Ze! He did say that his name was Bai Ze! I originally thought it was just the same name, but I didn't expect it to be like this, it turned out to be like this! ”

Shen Nanqing's eyes were in a trance, his breath was short, and he almost fell into madness, after all, this news was too shocking.

Mythological figures, gods in shrines, actually appeared beside her and spoke to her!

The impact on her was like a flash flood and tsunami.

No wonder Zijin said that there was no possibility for the two of them...... I see, hey......"

She sighed in her heart, and knew that her best friend could really only have unrequited love, after all, there could be no result in the different paths of immortals.

"Girl, what's wrong with you?"

Liu Cripple looked at her suspiciously-our ancestor is the spirit beast Bai Ze, is it so shocking? There are more people who worship the spirit beast Bai Ze.

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay."

Shen Nanqing came back to her senses, she laughed dryly twice perfunctorily, and her heart was still difficult to calm down.

Liu Cripple didn't bother to care what she was thinking, picked up the peachwood sword in front of the shrine by herself, and said, "Don't stand still, I'm going to do it." ”

Shen Nanqing naturally didn't know that the ghost she dreamed of last night had been completely wiped out, and Liu Cripple's pretending at this time was just to make an extra amount of money, after all, the money sent to the door should not be in vain.

At this moment, in the dimly lit room next to him, a white-haired old man with messy hair sat on the bed and giggled.

"Things are going to change, things are going to change...... Hehe, they don't understand, you know, right? ”

In front of the old man, there was a huge python hanging upside down on the beam, its body hanging down, and the snake's eyes and the old man looked at each other.

Hearing the old man's words, the huge python actually nodded.

This python doesn't know how many years it has lived, and its scales are faintly fluorescent.

Hey, inexperienced, there are a lot of thunders in the setting and plot.

The road narrowed. I have a way to die.

Of course, it is impossible for a eunuch to be a eunuch, and I will finish the story. Hamlet is on top!

But the pace will be accelerated, and some transitions and side plots will be cut and go straight to the main line. I don't expect to make any money anymore, I just want to finish normally and give Hamlets an explanation.

(End of chapter)