"Boss, the situation is not right, this thing seems to be more evil than we have seen before, shall we exit this house first?"

Beside the beard, a man who looked like a deputy couldn't help but turn pale after seeing Xiao Yang's tragic scene and the white mist ghosts that slowly poured in from the backyard and transformed into human shapes from time to time, and made suggestions to the leader.

But the beard looked at the dark sky outside, shook his head, and said:

"We can run, we can chase these things, and you think these things that are already hanging in the air and don't even have legs will be limited by a courtyard wall? Besides, 'don't go into the forest at night', this house is quite wide anyway, you just need to guard the surroundings. But if you enter the forest, you have to guard against it up and down, left and right, which is even more dangerous. ”

The deputy nodded, and said no more. Instead, he went to assist his companions in setting up the ring of fire—they formed a small circle with all kinds of ignition materials, lit a fire, and everyone stood in the ring of fire. Including the sleepy-eyed little girl Duoduo was also dragged out of the room and placed in the center of the fire ring.

The white fog around them gradually thickened, and the clumps flowed to the side of the fire ring, but they were really afraid of the burning flames, and they didn't dare to approach the place where the light hit.

"Be careful not to put out the fire, but don't let it get too big, and we'll keep it until dawn. ”

The bearded man shouted to his companion, but he himself took a torch in each hand, stepped out of the ring of fire, and took the initiative to walk towards a cloud of mist ghosts that seemed to be more independent.

"Come on, see how fierce you are!"

The beard was really quite bold, and he dangled his torch in front of the strange mist that no one else avoided, as if he were teasing the beast. The torch in his right hand struck twice, and while he was unprepared—I don't know how he judged the fog to be "unprepared", the torch in his left hand plunged into the middle of the mist.

"Snort" and "crackling" sounded at the same time, as if red-hot iron had been immersed in water, but with a slight explosion in between. The mist shrank suddenly, and at the same time, everyone present seemed to hear a piercing roar in their minds.

The flame on the torch had dimmed, but there was still some dark red. The bearded man quickly took off the wine gourd at his waist, took a sip of liquor in his mouth, and spewed it onto the torch, which suddenly caused the flame to rise again.

"Haha, everyone has seen it, this thing is really afraid of fire, there is nothing to be afraid of!"

The beard loudly boosted morale, and the courage of those behind him suddenly rose. A few people even picked up torches, followed the example of the boss, walked out of the fire ring, and took the initiative to meet the fog......

A head-on battle between man and ghost begins.

............

Not far away, on the roof of the small building, the old Taoist priest who saw this scene couldn't help but nod slightly, and said to Huang Chang:

"These guys are doing really well. Of the dozen or so nights I've experienced here before, most of them have only known how to escape, and some have not even been able to escape. The few who dare to fight back are often fighting indiscriminately under fear, and there are really few who are not afraid of danger like this and can take the right way to deal with it. ”

Huang Chang also nodded, this beard is indeed quite good - when he encountered danger, he was not in a hurry to run into the forest, but calmly analyzed the situation and decided to stay in the yard to resist. After establishing the flame defense circle, he did not blindly shrink in the circle and wait for dawn, but knew that he took the initiative to attack, and dared to compete with the opponent head-on on the premise of having a solid rear position, which not only stimulated the morale of his own family, but also made those strange fogs unable to calmly form an encirclement of the fire ring.

Those Jianghu men are agile and will not be wrapped in fog easily, even if they are accidentally entangled, they can quickly break free with a torch and burn it immediately. If you are weak or injured, you can temporarily retreat to the ring of fire to rest, so that the two sides can be said to attack and defend each other. Even if the human side is slightly inferior, it will not be completely passively beaten, and it is estimated that it is not a big problem to persist until dawn.

It's just that the fuel is running out a little fast, but the beard has no scruples in this regard, and without hesitation, he has people remove wood and old furniture from the house and fill it in. As for the owner of the house, he threw a gold ingot over directly.

"Little sister, I'm sorry, it's important to save your life. Demolish your house and use this right as compensation. ”

Of course, a gold ingot is worth much more than a broken house, but considering that there is no money in this barren mountain and no place to use it, it is difficult to say whether it is worth it or not. But looking at the posture of the beard, this is just asking for peace of mind, even if Duoduo doesn't accept it, he will still tear down the house - when life and death are at stake, there are not so many worries to talk about.

Huang Chang admired his decisiveness, if it weren't for the fact that these people would disappear after dawn, he even had the heart to recruit them. Now, of course, I can only say cheers from a high place.

However, there was a group of people who attracted the attention of those mist ghosts, and there were no monsters on their side to disturb them, so Huang Chang was able to concentrate on continuing to study the haunting patterns of those guys. He even drew the floor plan of the entire house on paper, on the one hand, through the naked eye, on the other hand, with the help of the peeps of the ghostly eyes, Huang Chang showed the location of the "ghost" on the paper one by one, and sure enough, he found that it was roughly presented as a circle.

So naturally - the center of the circle is where he wants to focus on it. He looked towards the corresponding position, and there was indeed a lonely hut there, tattered, seemingly unremarkable, but its location made people feel faintly incongruous.

It seems that the time will inevitably be used to carry out the demolition and relocation law again, but Huang Chang does not plan to find trouble at night, he still follows the rule of "catching ghosts during the day", and plans to wait until dawn before doing it. For now, let's wait patiently for the night.

On the front yard, there was a whole night's noise, and under the leadership of the bearded man, a group of people really persevered in the fire ring until dawn. Except for the "Xiao Yang" who was looking for his own death at the beginning, who lost his life, and several broken houses that were demolished, there were no casualties after that. Including Duoduo, everyone is safe and sound.

The ghostly white mist didn't hold out until dawn, and quickly faded as the red light faintly shone through the sky. As if the tide was receding, it quickly retreated into the darkness of the corner of the house, and then disappeared without a trace. Even if he detected it with Huang Chang's divine thoughts, he couldn't find his whereabouts.