When many villagers saw such a tragic situation, they were not afraid, and everyone wanted to save their lives, so they threw the man's body there and ran home.

The stout man was the human-faced tree, and he watched the crowd run back and still sit there giggling, muttering in his mouth: "There is a debtor who is wronged, and there is a debtor who is wronged......"

The villagers ran home and immediately closed the doors and windows, and even blocked the doors with the cauldrons in their homes, hoping to block the trees.

However, some dilapidated houses do not even have a door, so how can they resist them? After thinking about it, they could not come up with a way, so they had no choice but to go to the village chief's house and ask the village chief for help.

However, what they didn't expect was that the village chief, who was usually kind and charitable, was unusual, and put on a tough and arrogant face to block many villagers from the door.

The village chief shouted through the stone wall: "Each person has his own personal fate, whether it is a blessing or a curse or a curse, you all go home and take precautions, tomorrow I will invite the Onmyoji to collect the demons!"

Many villagers listened to his words, and slapped the stone wall like crazy, and some even knelt down and begged bitterly, hoping that the village chief would let them in and give them a way out.

In their eyes, the village chief's house is the strongest fortress, no matter what kind of youkai will be blocked by this tall stone wall, they can save their lives by entering the courtyard.

The village chief was lying behind the stone wall with palpitations, listening to the sounds outside with his ears close to his ears, and suddenly his eyes turned to his heart.

He threw out all the hoes, shovels, and rakes in the house, and then stood on the stone wall and shouted, "What's so terrible about the monsters?

Those villagers were already hopeless for survival, and when they heard that the village chief was going to lead them to eliminate demons together, they suddenly came to their senses, and the village chief's prestige was very high, so the villagers picked up the farm tools and armed themselves without question.

They even shouted slogans together, and in an instant the crowd was full of people, and even some villagers who had been hiding at home picked up their farm tools and rushed over to deal with the human-faced trees together, and in a short time they gathered about 30 people.

The village chief looked at the thirty or so people, old and young, men and women, who came to the door of his house, not to mention how happy he was.

He himself hid behind the stone wall with a sharp long sword, and an evil smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "This group of fools is really easy to deceive, these thirty or so people are estimated to be enough for that monster to eat, and when he is full of food and drink to vent his anger, he will definitely not care about me anymore, and when I take my wealth and flee from here tomorrow, I am not afraid that this monster will come to the door." ”

He was pondering this, when he suddenly heard the silence outside the wall, and the noisy words of the villagers were now silent at all.

The boundless silence chilled the village chief's heart, and the fear in his heart couldn't help but overflow in his heart, "Could it be that they have met a monster?" But how come there is no movement at all when they encounter a monster, there are about thirty people here, even if they kill one at a time, they will not be so silent." ”

The village chief muttered in his heart, and looked over the stone wall lightly, and couldn't help but be shocked.

The human-faced tree did not come, and the villagers did not die, but I saw about thirty villagers staring in the same direction in a daze, looking at the endless farmland as if they were fascinated.

The village chief looked far away, and suddenly saw that the rice field that was about to produce grain had turned into a person, a person with the face of a villager!

Those people were similar to scarecrows, the lower half of their bodies were still straw, but the upper half of their bodies were all old and young, men and women of the village.

Look at the lifelike face, except for the color of straw on the face, the rest of the people look exactly like the villagers.

He swept his eyes and found that there was a scarecrow in the middle of the group of scarecrows who looked the same as himself!

He looked at the scarecrow in horror, and as the scarecrow looked back at him, he withdrew his gaze and hid behind the stone wall.

His heart was pounding, and his whole person seemed to be weakened, "It seems that those people will lose consciousness because of this scarecrow who looks like them, if I look at the eyes of the scarecrow, maybe I will become like a villager." Good risk, good risk. ”

He picked up the sharp sword again and recited the Diamond Sutra in his mouth.

It is rumored that this "Diamond Sutra" is a sharp weapon for subduing demons and eliminating demons in Buddhism, as long as the scriptures are recited, to ensure that ghosts and gods do not invade.

He read it word by word, and gradually felt the peace of mind brought by the verses of the Diamond Sutra, only to feel that his body gradually became lighter, and even his mood relaxed.

He was engrossed in the recitation twice, and as the verse was recited, he seemed to hear voices growing beyond the stone walls.

He said happily: "Could it be that the villagers have regained their senses? It seems that this "Diamond Sutra" is really useful, maybe I will recite it twice and this tree demon will be wiped out." ”

He couldn't help but laugh in his heart when he thought of this, he even conceited that it was his fate that the human-faced tree met him, and as a tree, he could organize everyone to peel the bark of the tree and turn it into a monster, what could he do to him?

He opened his eyes, expecting to see a glimmer of victory, but he never expected to see the most terrifying scene in his life, and he lost consciousness before he even had time to be afraid.

He slowly opened his eyes, and saw a pair of huge eyes staring at him in the dark night.

Those eyes were full of greed, cunning, cold-bloodedness, and even a little extermination of humanity hidden in them.

These eyes came from the scarecrow who looked exactly like him, and the scarecrow grinned at him, and his mouth grinned in an extremely strange arc.

A look of fear just appeared on his face, and in an instant, it turned into a numb look.

Because he was no longer him at this moment, his emotions and mind were forcibly captured and sealed in the scarecrow's body at the same time he saw the scarecrow's eyes.

The scarecrows were noisy and shouting, bouncing and jumping from house to house as if they were alive.

They deceive many people into opening their doors with the original voices of the villagers, robbing them of their feelings and minds.

A child in the village quietly saw this scene through the crack in the door, and was so frightened that he didn't even dare to come out.

Suddenly, my father's voice sounded outside the door: "Child, the monster is gone, open the door quickly and let my father go home." ”

The boy was about to open the door, but in the crack of the door he saw that his father's foot had turned into a piece of wood!

The child wanted to cry, but he didn't, because if he did, he would be discovered by the scarecrow who looked like his father.

He covered his mouth with his hands and didn't dare to make any sound, and his tears couldn't stop flowing.

The scarecrow outside the door seemed to hear the child's sobbing, and the door knocked tighter, only to hear him say softly: "Don't be afraid, child, father is here, and there is a father who is not afraid of those monsters." ”

This voice, this tone is his father's, when he was a child, he was afraid of the dark, and his father comforted him in the dark. The child almost couldn't resist opening the door, but he didn't dare to move when he saw the scarecrow's mouth almost open to his stomach.

The father's voice said again: "Hurry up, open the door, your mother has become a monster, he is coming to eat us, do you want to let your father wait outside the door to die?!"

"Mother's ......"

The father outside the door finally heard the child speak, he seemed to be getting more and more nervous, and his voice became more and more sharp, "Open the door quickly, your mother is here with a monster!"

The child's spirit was about to collapse, and his heart trembled violently at the thought that his mother had become that kind of monster, and his father's voice outside the door became more and more pitiful, and his heart became more and more sad.

The child had a nervous breakdown, and he was about to reach out and pull the deadbolt open, but suddenly he couldn't hear anything.

At this time, he came to his senses, gasped for breath, and exclaimed in his heart: "It turns out that these are all monster scams, so dangerous!"

The boy stood up and patted the dust on his buttocks and walked to the bed, he knew that most of his parents had been killed by youkai, and although he was sad, his heart was even more resilient, because his sleeping sister on the bed still needed his protection!

He quietly packed his bags and prepared to leave with his sister early tomorrow morning.

There was really nothing to pack up in the house, because their family was poor except for the windy earthen walls on all sides, and there was only a large iron pot left.

He wrapped all the clothes in the house, put the big iron pot at his feet, and lay quietly beside his sister waiting for dawn.

Seeing that there was already a faint morning light through the crack in the door, the child finally took a breath and said, "It's finally safe." ”

But what he didn't expect was that some straw came in through the cracks in the door and the wall, and there were more and more straws, and in a short time they filled the whole room.

The child was stunned, he didn't know how these lifelike straws got in, and what surprised him even more was that there was a gust of wind blowing in the room at some point, and then the straw all over the room slowly piled up into two figures, which were his father and mother.

The two scarecrows stretched out their hands to greet the child and said, "Come here, come here, and when you get to your father's arms, you don't have to be afraid of monsters." ”

The boy was dazed, lost sensation in his legs, and jumped up and down towards his father. When he walked into his father's arms, there was another scarecrow by his side.

In this way, the scarecrow captured all the villagers, not even the youngest children!

It wasn't until the whole village had been captured by the scarecrow that the human-faced tree stood up from the big rock.

He muttered as he walked towards the village.

The voice of "There is a wronged debtor!" resounded in the village.

Wherever he went, the scarecrows and villagers followed him.

He came to the end of the bloody river, and turned into a great tree, and the scarecrow jumped up the trunk, and in a short time his body turned into a puddle of blood and melted into the tree.

The human-faced tree absorbs blood and scarecrows, and then grows branches and bark.

At this time, the villagers climbed down the trunk of the tree to the branches and gradually turned into cocoon-like objects, like fruits hanging on the branches.

After a while, the figure of the human-faced tree became lighter and lighter, and finally turned into nothingness.

The ancient records of the Abe family were cut off at this point, and there has been no news of the human face tree in the world since then.

Unexpectedly, a thousand years later, Reiko Abe actually saw the true body of the human-faced tree in the 'Ghost Night Beheading', and even heard that he was infatuated with Gu Won Bird.

Reiko Abe eased her nerves and bowed to the human-faced tree, "The most beautiful thing in the world is the human heart, and the most sinister thing is also the human heart. ”

Perhaps her bow not only represents herself, but also represents the evil of the human heart and the good of the human heart.