Last night, the rainstorm came as scheduled, pouring down all night. The rain on the ground had not yet completely penetrated the earth, and at noon the drizzle began to rain continuously, and the drizzle was mixed with a slight chill, and the distant sky seemed to be covered with a veil of mystery, and it was impossible to look directly.

"What the fuck I do, it's such a fucking weather in the middle of summer," Hu Lai complained in a trembling duck-like voice, and he kept complaining along the way, but Ximenqu and Hu Bat ignored him. However, he had his own way of deflating his anger, and he saw that his left hand was tightly holding a hemp rope, and a boy was tied to the other end, and the boy was Qin Yu.

Qin Yu's face had become a little puffy, blue and purple, and the whole person was like a mud man being pulled by a rope, moving forward in embarrassment. Whenever Hulai's complaints went unanswered, they would go around behind him and punch and kick him all over the body. He always bowed his head and said nothing, without any resistance, not even a hint of pain*.

Seeing that Hu Lai had already circled behind Qin Yu again, he grinned and leaked out a few yellow teeth, and was about to make a move. At this moment, Hu Bat, who didn't care about his actions along the way, suddenly turned around, only glanced at Qin Yu, then turned his head and said coldly to Hu Lai, "If you beat him to death, I will replace you later." Then he pointed ahead, "Look." “

Hearing this, Hu Lai let go of his thoughts of beating Qin Yu again, took a few steps forward and looked in the direction of Hu Bat's finger, and vaguely saw a huge mountain like a big dog and bear lying down appear in the distant sky. His mouth instantly cracked bigger than just now, and this time it could be seen that he was indeed laughing, but the laughter was more ugly than crying, and the laughter no longer sounded like a male duck, but like a female ghost crying, and this neighborhood was also a barren and populated wilderness, and it was uncomfortable to listen to on this rainy day.

Xu is Hu Lai's laughter is really ugly, even Sima Qu, who was expressionless and speechless on the way, really couldn't listen to it, and said in a hoarse voice: "I said, shut your mouth, don't be too happy too early, now I just see the shadow of Xiong Demon Ridge, I'm afraid that it will take another half a day to really arrive." “

"In that case, wouldn't we have to wait until dark to reach Bear Demon Ridge. “

"That's right! When you reach Bear Demon Ridge, it's dark. This time the person who answered him was the bearded bat.

Hearing this, the smile on Hu Lai's face suddenly disappeared, "Should it be, shouldn't it, should it be done, let's do that at night!"

"Why, I'm afraid," there was a slight irony in Hu Ba's tone.

The strange thing is that this Hu Lai heard Hu Ba's sarcastic tone, but he didn't shout to prove his courage as before, and his face became a little nervous after hearing it.

"I said, brother, you won't really go there at night, do you? I've heard that some unclean things have come out of this Bear Demon Ridge lately, and even those man-eating beasts don't dare to run around. Hulai said, puffing out his voice and lowering his voice. At this time, his voice sounded much more pleasant.

"I said, brother, it would be nice when you could be so thoughtful when you could do other things. Don't worry, no one wants to run around in that ghost place where you can't see your fingers on this cloudy night, even if you don't have those so-called unclean things, but it's not good if you stumble and fall, and besides, I don't believe that those man-eating beasts will be idle at night. A little further on, there is a village, called Bear Demon Village, which is the closest village to Bear Demon Mountain, and the village chief and my father have known each other for a long time, so let's go there tonight! After hearing this, Hulai's nervous face relaxed.

For the next part of the road, this Hu Lai seemed to be a different person, no longer complaining all the way, not even talking more, and not beating Qin Yu again for no reason, but the expression on his face looked quite strange, sometimes calm and sometimes hideous.

It was getting dark, but the rain was still falling, and the road was getting harder and harder, and sometimes you would see rainwater pooling in all directions, forming ponds. As time passed, Xiong Demon Ridge no longer looked like a big bear lying on the ground, but gradually appeared the edges and corners that a mountain should have. Under the leadership of Hu Bats, the four of them did not go straight in the direction of Xiong Demon Ridge, but deviated all the way to the south, and soon a small mountain village appeared in front of several people.

"This is the Bear Demon Village," Hu Bat said with a frown as he pointed to the small mountain village. He felt a little strange, although it was completely dark, but the time was not too long, but the village in front of him was actually dead silent, and he had a bad premonition.

Qin Yu was led all the way by Hu Lai with his bare feet, his whole body was shivering with cold, and his tattered clothes, which were originally covered with mud, had been washed away by the rain, thanks to Hu Lai for not taking out his anger on him again for no reason. The other three were no better off because they hadn't prepared for the rain beforehand, and now they urgently needed to find a place to shelter from the rain, otherwise it would only get colder late at night.

Walking into the village, everyone was greeted by weeds growing a foot long, and the gates of all the courtyards in the village were open, and the black hole inside could be seen to be dead silent.

"Ah Ba, this is the Bear Demon Village you just mentioned," Ximen Qu looked at the village in front of him, although there was no expression on his face, but he could clearly hear a little heaviness in his hoarse and old tone.

The bearded bat did not speak, but led the group forward for a while, until he stopped in front of a courtyard that was also open to the black hole, the only difference in this courtyard was that it was more imposing than the other courtyards around, there was a stone lion on each side of the open gate, and a stout unknown old tree rose from the ground on the left, and a huge canopy enveloped the whole courtyard. "It's here, that's right, this is the village chief's house, I remember very clearly, you see this stone lion and that tree. “

"But why is there no one in the village? and it seems that it has been uninhabited for a long time. Ximen Qu still asked in an extremely heavy tone.

"Yes, I said, brother, this place of the hell..."

"Shut up, you fool, don't be fooling around all day, if you want to leave, no one will stop you..."

Before Hu Lai could finish speaking, Hu Bat suddenly turned around and scolded Hu Lai angrily. After a long while, Hu Bat calmed down.

"Come to think of it, the people of Lou Sang Village moved out collectively a long time ago, and they came here anyway, so they can take shelter from the rain here. After saying that, he first raised his feet and walked towards the courtyard of the black hole.

Qin Yu only felt that someone pushed him the back, and Hu Lai's voice came from behind, "Boy, if you don't want to die, hurry inside." “

Finding a dry place in the dark room, several people quickly did it, in addition to each other's breathing and the sound of rain outside the door, Qin Yu also heard the sound of a thumping heartbeat made by someone who didn't know it. Even Hulai, who kept talking along the way, kept his mouth shut, apparently sensing the strangeness of the village.

Although Qin Yu was expressionless all the way, his heart was not calm, although he also felt that something terrible must have happened in this village, which caused it to be empty. But that's not the main thing that keeps him at ease. He understood why the three of them became nervous and even frightened when they saw that the village was empty, and although he lived on the streets, he still heard about Bear Demon Ridge.