The monks walked in the forest for most of the day, and at noon, they came to a small town.

Unlike other towns, this town is very weird, like a ghost town, the streets are cold and cold, the doors of every house are covered with all kinds of rune paper, and occasionally on the side of the road, you will see a few elderly people dressed in white, burning paper money with white flowers.

When the residents of the town saw Li Xiao and his party coming here, they hid as if they had seen ghosts, and no one was willing to say more than half a word to them.

"Master Xuande's nephew. Walking on the street, Li Xiao looked at the closed shops on both sides, and said to Xuande beside him in confusion: "Why is this town so gloomy?

"It can't be wrong!" Xuande nodded firmly: "Walk through the town, climb over a mountain, and you will arrive at the Silent Gate, a few years ago, when the poor monk passed through this place, it was still quite lively, why haven't you seen it for a few years, and it has become like this?

"Forget it. Li Xiao looked at the empty street, shook his head and said, "The people in the town are avoiding us, and they probably can't ask anything, so let's hurry up and go to the silent door to support." As he spoke, his pace quickened a lot.

Everyone traveled all the way out of the town, and after searching in the mountains for a long time, they found the location of the silent gate next to a stream at the foot of the mountain.

This is a huge mountain villa, the entrance of the mountain villa is overgrown with weeds, above the half-hidden dark mansion gate, there is a dilapidated plaque with paint off, and there are two white lanterns next to it, which are unrecognizable, and look desolate and desolate against the background of the setting sun.

"This ...... Is this a silent door?" Li Xiao and a group of monks looked at the gloomy and dilapidated mountain villa in front of them.

"It's a silent door!" Xuande looked at the word "mute" on the plaque, nodded and said: "Poor monk, when I came here a few years ago, the villa was not so dilapidated, could something have happened?

With puzzlement, he stepped forward, buckled the half-open gate, and shouted loudly towards the courtyard covered with white silk: "Xuande of Longhu Temple! At the invitation of your faction, come to support! Please show up and see your junior sister!"

"How many are the senior monks of the Dragon and Tiger Temple?" A hoarse voice came slowly, and an old woman carrying a white lantern, dressed in white, with a blue face and sparse hair, suddenly poked her head out of the door and looked at everyone vigilantly.

"We are the monks of Longhu Temple who were invited by your faction to come to support!" Li Xiao said with a smile when he saw this.

The old woman raised her eyes and glanced at the monks lightly, and said, "Come in!"

As soon as they entered the door, everyone was surprised to find that the sky inside the villa was even darker than outside, and in the surrounding corridors, gusts of wind blew from time to time, which was terrifying.

Walking with the old woman in the gloomy villa, Xuande couldn't help but wonder: "Donor, the poor monk remembers that the villa of your sect in the past was not like this, did something happen?"

"Something did happen. The old woman carried the lantern and said slowly: "This is the old site of the silent door, two years ago, for some reason, many disciples in the door suddenly died, almost every day there will be a few cases, the door owner has no choice but to discuss with other disciples, moved out of here, the old body has lived in the villa for a lifetime, unwilling to leave, so stay here alone." ”

"That's right!" the old woman stopped suddenly, raised the lantern, reflected the zombie-like old face, and said to everyone solemnly: "The villa is haunted, and you must be careful when you rest at night." ”

As if confirming her words, a gust of wind blew, and in the dilapidated hall next to it, white silk was flying, and among the dozen coffins on the ground, there was a faint "squeak" sound echoing, and people's heads were numb when they heard it.

"Thank you donor!" Xuande said: "Poor monks and others, spend the night, and they will leave tomorrow, and when the time comes, please ask the donor to tell us the new address of your faction." ”

"No problem. The old woman put down the lantern, turned around and led the monks through several corridors, came to a small courtyard, pointed to the left and right rooms and said: "Masters, stay here for the time being, try not to go out of the courtyard at night, if there is anything, you can come to the main hall to find the old body, by the way, here is a wilderness, food is scarce, dinner, and the masters need to prepare it themselves." ”

"This is natural!" Xuande watched the old woman leave, commanded a few people to clean up the room, and then lived and cooked with everyone.

In the dead of night, the blood moon hangs high, and the whole mountain villa is shrouded in a chill.

Quietly in the room, the monks lay on the stone couch and fell asleep, snoring one after another, at this moment, a black shadow slowly drifted through the window, stopped at the window, and slowly watched the people in the room.

After a long time, the black shadow fluttered, and a slight "creaking" sound came from the mouth, and then floated into the room, revealing a cloak of hair, a long tongue exposed, dripping with mucus, and a bloody face with a blurred flesh and blood.

The alien looked around the room, floated straight to Li Xiao, who was sleeping on the stone couch, and stuck its head above his head, the mucus dripping from his long tongue on his cheeks.

"What's it?" Feeling the coldness on his cheeks, Li Xiao subconsciously raised his hand and touched it, opened his hazy eyes, and frowned at the sticky object in his hand.

"Xuande! you damn thing! drooling again!" glaring angrily at Xuande, who was snoring like thunder next to him, he rolled over, turned his back to Xuande, and after a moment, fell into a deep sleep again.

Not long after, the alien floated in again, as if it felt that Li Xiao was too keen, it changed its target, and stretched its head in front of Xuande, who was sleeping, but unexpectedly, the shoes on his feet suddenly fell off, and the alien's body stiffened, and he suddenly fell to the ground.

"Ahh

"Ahh

"Who is this! so dishonest! they all slept on the ground!" Shaking and getting up, Li Xiao looked at the back lying on the ground angrily, raised his foot and kicked it hard, "Go to bed! bastard!".

Seeing that the other party didn't react, Li Xiao huffed, picked it up and threw it to Xuande's side, then picked up the shoes on the ground, put them on the old monk's feet, and then walked back to the bed, about to climb up.

"Damn! I drank too much soup at night!" suddenly thought of something, he quickly put on his shoes, walked out of the yard, and walked out of the yard against the cold wind, looking for the thatched house.

Along the silent corridor, when passing through a courtyard, suddenly, Li Xiao only felt that his eyes were dark, his forehead hurt, and there was a hot pain as if he had been hit by a stone, and then he heard the sound of the item falling to the ground, and when he looked down, it was actually a rattan ball.

"What bastard! Playing ball in the middle of the night!" The moment he saw the rattan ball, Li Xiao was furious, looked up at the yard, and was about to look for the person who lost the ball, when suddenly, he heard a cold and ethereal child's voice, "Brother, is it okay to play with me?"

Li Xiao heard the sound, looked down, and at some point, next to the rattan ball, stood a three- or four-year-old boy wearing a shroud with a white face and red lips.

"Brother, is it okay to play ball with me!" the little boy's stiff voice sounded again.

"Playing with a ball?" Li Xiao glanced at the rattan ball, then at the little boy, and raised his foot to kick the bear child out of the air.

"You guys!" Looking at the corner of the courtyard, a few stunned white-faced children, he said angrily: "Hurry back to sleep! Let me see you playing here again! Don't blame me for kicking you as a ball!"

The children were frightened, weeping, turned around and ran to the back room, disappearing into the shadows.

"Where the hell is the thatched house?" and through several desolate courtyards, he saw a black figure lying on a coffin in the main hall, with a strange "clucking" sound coming out of his mouth, as if chewing something.

"Hmph! pretend to be a ghost!" picked up a wooden stick on the ground, Li Xiao walked over violently, and raised the stick to smash it.

"Oh yes! Who! Who's beating the old body! Stop!" the black shadow lying on the coffin was in pain, holding his head and running in all directions.

"Huh?" Hearing a familiar voice, Li Xiao stopped, grabbed the lantern not far away, put it in front of the blue-faced old woman, and said, "It's you?

"Eat!" The old woman raised her thin hand, revealing a few peanuts in her palm and said: "The old man is hungry, so I found some peanuts in the coffin to eat, but I didn't expect to be beaten by you!"

"I'm sorry, I thought it was, someone was pretending to be a ghost. Li Xiao embarrassedly threw away the wooden stick, took out a bulging cloth wrap from his arms, handed it to the old woman, and said, "I have some dry food here, you can eat some first when you are hungry." ”

Speaking of this, his face changed, and he said anxiously: "By the way, where is the thatched house in the villa?"

"You want to go up to the thatched house?" the old woman happily took the package, took out a cake, devoured it, and said vaguely: "Go out and turn right, just cross a courtyard, you better go and go back quickly, the thatched house is very dangerous at night." ”

"Thank you, mother-in-law. Li smiled and thanked him, and according to her instructions, he came to the courtyard where the thatched house was located, which was colder and quieter than other courtyards, and from a distance, he saw a group of people standing outside the thatched house and lining up.

"In the middle of the night, there are so many people going to the thatched house?" Li Xiao was stunned for a long time, and he couldn't care about the rules, squeezed through the crowd, and ran directly in.

"Soup?" Standing in the corner, a middle-aged man with a blue face next to him turned his head mechanically and grinned at Li, showing a smile that was uglier than crying.

Li Xiao glanced at the middle-aged man strangely: "Otherwise, do you want to release the water?"

The middle-aged man stared at Li Xiao with an expressionless face for a while, and then said slowly: "The soup will have to wait for a long time!"

"What the hell!" Li Xiao walked out of the hut with a gloomy face, "Why are there some strange guys that I met all night!"

As he left, the heads of the people lining up in front of the hut turned mechanically one hundred and eighty degrees, and their godless eyes stared at his back.

Li Xiao turned back along the same road, and when he passed the hall where the coffin was placed, he stared at the room in confusion, and a black shadow was lying on the coffin, making a strange sound of "clucking" from his mouth.

"What's the matter? Didn't you give her dry food just now?" Looking at the black shadow in a daze, Li Xiao was full of doubts, "Why is she still lying on the coffin looking for something to eat?"