The sky is getting darker, and the day is about to pass again.

During the day, Li Mo and the others settled the woman in the medical hall, the doctor was as expected, it was an old man, the old man was radiant, his waist was straight like an ageless green pine in Nanshan, and when he saw the young faces of Li Jingliu and his party, he showed a little surprised look, and then retracted his expression and tried his best to diagnose and treat the woman.

Seeing this, Li Mo and the others planned to stay here for one night before going on the road, as for the woman, it was indeed not easy to continue to take it, so she gave her twenty taels of silver and found a medical center, which was enough to do her best.

Speaking of accommodation, this is the second strange place in the small town, obviously there are few people, but there are many inns, and there are not a few trembling old men waiting at the door with towels.

Li Mo and the others chose an old inn, and the elderly shopkeeper stood at the door to greet guests, and there was no junior. There were a few small tables in the low hall, which were not big, but they seemed to fill the entire inn, and the slightly shabby furniture was a little shaky, but it was clean.

The shopkeeper carried a dim lantern, a little candlelight flickered in it, he looked at the two young people who were staying in the house, and showed a little regret, he reminded: "Don't hide it from the two guest officials, the town may be a little noisy at night, and please bear with the two of you, don't go out." ”

It's okay not to say this, but when I say it, I can't suppress the curiosity of Li Mo and the others. They were young people, and they were curious enough to see that there were only old people in the city, but every time they asked questions, these old people either changed the topic, lied and wanted to cover up, or just scratched their boots like innkeepers. It seems that I have to go out and see what I said this night.

Even though this was the case, Li Jingliu couldn't help but ask the old shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, why are there only old people in your city?"

The old shopkeeper smiled slightly: "Young people just love to inquire, let's spend tonight honestly, and the rest will be talked about tomorrow morning." Then he added: "Maybe you will know for yourselves tomorrow morning." ”

All kinds of doubts have to wait until dark. Li Jingliu played an abusive game with a group of living corpses all night, and after another day of running, he was really tired, and now that he had a chance to sleep, he quickly fell asleep.

On the contrary, Mo Dongxuan was a little insomnia, he leaned on the bed, looking at the old tables and chairs, the transparent floor, a little wind blowing, the paper window squeaked, there was no candle, but the night outside the window gradually sank, next to him was Li Jingliu's slight breathing, for some reason, Mo Dongxuan was suddenly a little afraid,

A chill climbed up from the vest, stroked his cheeks slightly, and brought up goosebumps, Mo Dongdui felt panicked himself, he closed his eyes, covered his head and wrapped the bed in a somewhat yellowed quilt, and forced himself to fall asleep. Obviously, it was useless, and the creaking of the window kept touching his heart.

In this way, I don't know how long it took, Mo Donghu, who was covered in the quilt, seemed to suddenly see a little light. Then I felt that a heavy person on my body pressed down, dead and heavy, like a corpse, silent, and Li Jingliu's breathing beside him was still very rhythmic and soft.

Then, a leisurely voice said, "There's a big trembling man here, have you eaten him?"

One sentence finally broke through Mo Dongdu's bottom line of fear, from fear to resistance, as soon as he lifted the quilt and grabbed the new vine heavy sword that he had been holding in his arms, he was about to take the initiative to attack.

However, he saw Li Jingliu, who was overturned to the ground by him, and the little beast snoring and sleeping beside him.

Li Jingliu got up slowly, patted the soil on his body, and sighed, "Senior brother, it's not that senior brother said you, why do you feel so poor? You are still trembling when you sleep, are you afraid?"

Mo Dongduan naturally wouldn't admit it: "When did you wake up?"

"Hey~ Senior brother, I've been awake for a long time~ When there was a strange whistle sound from outside the window. As he spoke, he pointed out the window, where the lights were bright, and those bright colors had already lit up a room through the thin paper window, "This is what a show looks like outside." Brother, I just wanted to call you up to admire...... Who knew you were so rude~"

"Is the way you call people up is to silently press on people?" Mo Dongxuan suddenly felt that it was very reasonable for Li Jingliu to be considered a madman when he was a child, that is, he was now, except that he didn't look like a normal person anywhere, and there was nothing to blame in terms of other behaviors.

"Ah, senior brother, I'm just learning the way of a bear to show kindness to you~"

Mo Dong ignored him, and walked lightly to the window, the small town at night is quite different from the daytime, to say that the small town during the day is a spirited old man, and the small city at night is an energetic but extremely decadent young man, the hanging lantern exudes an ambiguous red light, projecting the shadow of the object on the wall, from time to time there are screams and roars from the street, mixed with some strange friction sounds, just like the sound of silkworms devouring mulberry leaves, 'rustle, rustle'.

Everything looks like a flower street at night in a big city, only there are no people. Li Mo and the others were on the second floor of this small building, facing the street. It stands to reason that people should not be invisible. However, even though there was a burst of noise, there was no one in sight, and some strange shadows were cast on the wall.

Suddenly, a bad feeling suddenly surged in Mo Dong's heart, he opened the paper window slightly, and looked into the sky through the gap...... Then he turned, his face pale.

Li Jingliu was very calm, and he could calm down and appease Mo Dongdu, "It looks like a yaksha, right? At best, they may also be the feather people, and it is said that the feather people are very friendly." With that, he leaned on the other side of the window and watched carefully.

Mo Dongduan really couldn't see how friendly those guys in the sky were, they had strange bones on their heads, the tips of the bones broke through their foreheads, they grew outside, and there were a pair of big wings on their backs, some of which were just simple fleshy wing membranes, and some were covered with sparse feathers. Other than that, their faces and bodies look quite human-like.

What really frightened Mo Dongxuan was that there were one person after another hanging on the powerful hind paws of those guys, both men and women, but there were no old people. The death on the claws seemed to be dead, and they didn't seem to be dead, they didn't resist, they were just grabbed by the claws, and they were thrown into the air...... The winged creatures swarmed up, like vultures swooping down on carrion. They tore off the limbs of those men and sucked his veins out with great urgency. The sharp fingers and claws completely destroyed his back without pause, and then, a black mist of unknown origin enveloped from the side, and in a short time, a new winged man was born.

The rest of the wingmen gathered around him, offering him the blood that had been torn from him.

Seeing this, Li Jingwan turned his head and said with a regretful expression: "Senior brother, they shouldn't be feathers, they are quite similar to the Flying Yaksha, but no matter which one it is, we can't beat it." ”

Mo Dong froze and said, "Do you see the old man in the city?"

"We can't see it, and if you think about how calm they are during the day, it's certainly not the first time this has happened. Either they are the winged people in the sky, or they have a way to avoid the winged people's harm. The only strange thing is that the young people in this small town are hiding during the day, and there are not many of them at night. ”

Another scream came, Mo Dongdu's face turned pale, he struggled for a while, and still said: "Let's go and save them, just look at the dead ......"

Li Jingliu looked at him differently from an idiot, and interrupted: "I said it, we can't beat them." There is no need to die for strangers. ”

This is the first time that Li Jingliu has refused Mo Donglu's request so seriously, although Mo Daxia's martial arts value has always been very high, but mentally it is far from being as complete as Li Jingliu's, Li Jingliu lived in his own world for the first half of his life, and a pair of eyes have seen all kinds of lonely souls and all kinds of states in the world. Therefore, Li Jingliu has no fear or panic, and his actions are worth it except for considering whether he is happy or not. This time, it became clear that it was not worth it. The people on the ground have no long-range means of attack, and it is difficult to knock down the things in the sky, and I believe that he Mo Dongduan also knows this truth.

There was another sound outside the window, this time it was the child's immature and frightened voice, Mo Dong looked at Li Jingliu in a faint manner, and the latter did not react, so he gritted his teeth, and finally, he still carried the new vine and prepared to rush out......

Who knows, before he could take a step, he was whipped from the back of his head by Li Jingliu, and the whip made a whistling sound in the air, which was equivalent to a whip of a brick, and even whipped Mo Dong to the ground.

"Hmph, don't you listen to what Senior Brother says? Li Jingliu shook his delicate bones and continued to sit by the window to watch, but when he saw that those winged people were full of blood, they descended and landed in front of the houses of those who hung lanterns, and instantly turned into normal people, and walked in with a stiff posture. Not a single one of them was an old man.

Finally, it was dawn.

The old people in the small town have good habits of self-cultivation, and just after the end of the year, there will be some uneven rooster crows in the small town, and then the whole city will wake up. The old men came out of the room with a small horse and a birdcage or a walnut, and after a few quarters of an hour the sound of babbling came from all over the town.

It seems that everything last night was a nightmare, and everything that is warm this morning seems to prove the absurdity of this nightmare, but Li Jingliu confirmed that they were all real, and pointed to the bag on the back of Mo Dong's head to confirm that everything had happened.

At the end of the day, Li Jingliu went downstairs, and Mo Dongdu, who had disobeyed his brother's unforgivable sin, was naturally still lying on the ground. Li Jingliu hung a note on his face with a bad heart.

"Shopkeeper, are you making monsters in the city?" Li Jingliu went downstairs and pretended to be frightened. "I was so scared that I didn't dare to move in bed all night, and it was only after the rooster crowed that I was vaguely squinted. ”

The shopkeeper was very surprised that Li Jingliu was still alive, and few young people could not help but make a movement when they saw this kind of scene at first glance. Hearing Li Jingliu's words again, I was relieved, these two are quite obedient.

"You're having a nightmare, aren't you? If you're really a monster, how can I stand here properly, old man? If you want to be noisy, change shops."

"But ......" Li Jingliu stopped talking, and then said with relief: "What do you change, what do you do in this place, when my junior brother wakes up, he will leave in the afternoon!"

The old palm's eyes showed a little reassurance, and his mouth was angry: "Then please ask the guest officer to leave quickly, don't run into a place like us on the way!" The last sentence was sincere.

As soon as the cruel words were finished, Li Jingliu immediately rushed out of the door, he still remembered that the courtyard with lanterns he had seen last night, the yard was very remote, between an alley, and there were few people, so he took advantage of the day to take a look.

There are a lot of weird things about this small town, such as the spotless rooms and the new furniture, but they are uninhabited. For another example, the inn is in tatters, and the room is leaking.

Li Jingliu is now standing in the lobby of the small courtyard, the red pine furniture is waxed and oiled, it looks shiny, the ground is spotless, and there are three incense sticks in front of the portrait of the ancestor in front of the hall, some tributes, well, it is still fresh.

Yes, Li Jingliu picked up the fruit of other people's houses without any scruples, ate it, and looked around the room to find the way while eating, the reason why the small courtyard is called a small courtyard is because it is indeed quite small, no, it didn't take half a pillar of incense time, Li Jingliu found the main owner of the small courtyard, the shadow of the plane tree completely obscured the light source of this house, the green cloth masked scholar, lying on his back on the coffin-like bed, he was motionless, without a trace of vitality.

At the moment when Li Jingliu stepped forward to look, the door suddenly made a 'squeak', Li Jingliu was slightly startled, but he did not show any abnormality, his back was slightly tense, and he held the delicate bone tightly in his hand. His eyes stayed on the masked scholar in the green cloth. If you want to say that the cheap hand is a big problem, this is the case, Li Jingliu looked at the scholar and couldn't help but lift the shade cloth.

At that moment, the book came to life, and the person behind Li Jingliu also moved. Li Jingliu hurriedly dodged, retreated sharply, and retreated to the wall. The scholar had his eyes closed, but he still had clear vision, he was like a zombie, he raised his hand straight and flat, and pounced in the direction of Li Jingliu, the nails of that hand were gray-green, and he knew that it was corpse poison at first sight.

Li Jingliu hurriedly raised his whip to resist, but at this moment, he suddenly felt a coldness at his feet, followed by a sharp pain. He looked down distractedly, but saw the old shopkeeper throwing the cold knife with great force, and slashed it straight to his calf from the bottom of the plate. Li Jingliu endured the pain and kicked the scholar with his teeth and claws, but unexpectedly, it seemed to be kicked on a stone, and the scholar's body was as hard as a rock.

Unexpectedly, Li Jingliu shook the whip, the tip of the delicate bone whip was separated, and the sharp bone spurs instantly pierced into the scholar's palm. The scholar was in pain, and he withdrew his hand again and again, but he was brought up by the barbs of the delicate bones with a piece of blue-gray flesh.

Seeing this opportunity, Li Jingliu was short, withdrew from the side, and saw that the old shopkeeper who was dodging there was a whip, and this whip hit the waist and eyes of the old shopkeeper, and the force was so fierce that the old shopkeeper couldn't stand up.

In an instant, the scholar pounced again, Li Jingliu dragged his injured leg, and did not want to fight with him, so he stepped forward and scooped up the old shopkeeper, and then walked out of the room and entered the small courtyard.

The morning was still warm on the ground, the shadow divided the light and darkness into two, the scholar closed his eyes tightly, chased after him, but the moment his nails touched the sunlight, he suddenly retracted, at that moment, Li Jingliu saw that the scholar's blue-gray fingertips were obviously lit with a trace of black smoke.

To say that Li Jingliu's mental quality is really good, he didn't go far, seeing that it was still early, he threw the old shopkeeper to the wall, sat down next to the old shopkeeper lying on the ground like a dead dog, and quietly wrapped the wound, and watched the scholar in the shadows jump back and forth, struggling angrily, which was quite pleasing to the eye.

After resting for a while, Li Jingliu asked, "Old shopkeeper, give you a chance to talk about what's going on in your small city?"

The old shopkeeper stiffened his neck, twisted his face to the side, and did not answer.

Li Jingliu sighed softly and said, "Now go out and make a whole mirror, refract the sunlight and shine on that thing, will he melt it?"

This sentence is very effective, the old shopkeeper turned his head with difficulty, and said with a bitter smile on his face: "Guest officer, if you have something to say, let's not involve others." ”

"If you cooperated so well, I wouldn't have to be stabbed~"

The old shopkeeper was covered with dust, and said bitterly: "That scholar is my son." Our city was normal five years ago. ”

Li Jingliu had such an expression on his face: "Okay, you tell me well, I promise not to take the initiative to provoke your son." ”

"Five years ago, a wandering woman came to our city, saying that her husband had died and that her son had died, and begged us to give her something to eat. Their old ladies were soft-hearted and somehow agreed. Since then, there have been more strange things in the city. Every night there must be a layer of gray fog, and then some winged monsters appeared in the city, and during the day they did not know where they were hiding, but at night they flew around the city and caught some young men, and that was ......"

The old shopkeeper was obviously a little choked, and Li Jingliu reassured: "It's okay, I see that there are few young people in your city, and there will be no such scene after they die." ”

The old shopkeeper agreed, and continued: "The young men they catch will become their own kind, and you see, they are like zombies during the day, and at night they will turn into the horrible appearance of such monsters, and feed all over our town. After a long time, the young people of our small city have become like that, saying that they are dead, and they seem to have a tone, saying that they should live, but it is better to die. In the end, it is our own children who have become like this, and we as parents cannot abandon them. ”

"So now that they have nothing to eat, you have so many inns in the city to feed them, and these old men and old ladies are still trying to pretend that everything is normal in the city?"

The old shopkeeper didn't say anything back, but blinked vigorously, as if he had been burned by the sun that wasn't scorching.

Li Jingliu looked at the old shopkeeper, and suddenly pinched him on the waist, and the old shopkeeper screamed. What Li Jingliu didn't see was that the scholar in the shadows was a little moved at that moment.

"Okay, straighten your lumbar spine, stand up and take a look, if you don't learn well, you still have to fight with Xiaoyoung, you deserve it!"

The old shopkeeper stood up with difficulty, looking at the young man dressed as a Taoist, his eyes were obscure.

With the words of the old shopkeeper, Li Jingliu suddenly remembered the words of the black shadow before he died: 'She is really my daughter-in-law, she is not human. When I compared it before and after, everything made sense, and the woman I met was the same woman who had wandered here five years ago, but that woman was not a human being, but an evil thing. But the strange thing is, why can't I see it?