chasing shadows

Uncle Liu helped Xia Ying into another alley. The dilapidated wooden doors on both sides were tightly closed. The doors were pitch black, as if they were covered with layers of burnt ash.

Even so, there should be people living here, because almost all the doors in the alleys are pasted with fiery red Spring Festival couplets, and the word "Fulai" is pasted on the lintel.

Judging by the color of the Spring Festival couplets, it is definitely not a long time ago, but just pasted.

It's just that I can guess that the people living here should be poor people in the town,

"Master, I'm going to knock on the door and find someone to ask for directions." Uncle Liu walked a few steps and came to a blackened door with bright red Spring Festival couplets on it. On the right is: look up and see that there are many happy events.

Uncle Liu took another step forward, raised his hand, and was about to knock on the door, but found that his feet were heavy. He lowered his head and found a boy in a red bellyband sitting on his feet, with his legs wrapped around his, Looking up at him with a dark face, he smiled.

Uncle Liu thought he was a child of this family, so he wanted to bend down and hug him, but he reacted immediately, quickly retracted his outstretched hand, and said to Xia Ying seemingly unintentionally: "Master, this The doll looks really cute."

Xia Ying took a step forward, with the same expression on her face, and said, "Really? There are children, I can't see them."

A stone fell from Uncle Liu's heart. Since the young master can't see it, it means that this child really exists and is not something terrible.

Uncle Liu picked up the dark child, pointed to the door, and asked, "Little baby, are you a child of this family?"

The child didn't speak, but kept giggling at Uncle Liu. Although the child was black, he looked very cute.

After all, everyone likes people who love to laugh.

Xia Ying suddenly said: "Uncle Liu, my Luo Ying rope is gone, it's not on my wrist anymore."

"Ah?" Uncle Liu immediately put down the child and came to Xia Ying's side.

He looked at Xia Ying's bare wrist, and asked anxiously, "Where did it fall? Is it the alley we came out of just now? If it's really there, we...we're going to take a look."

Xia Ying nodded quickly, "Let's go to that alley again." After speaking, she turned around and walked forward with a bamboo stick.

Uncle Liu hesitated, thinking that the female ghost in white might still be there, Xia Ying grabbed Uncle Liu and said anxiously again: "Don't lose the Luo Ying rope!"

Then Uncle Liu hurriedly said: "Don't worry, young master, we'll go right away." Then he turned to the black-faced kid standing there and said, "We'll come back later."

The child tilted his head, looked at Uncle Liu, grinned again, and let out a "giggle" laugh.

"Uncle Liu, hurry up." Xia Ying called again.

Uncle Liu let out a "hey" and looked at Xia Ying, but he saw the red Luo Ying rope tied around Xia Ying's waist. He patted his thigh and said quickly, "Young master, you have a good memory. is not at...."

Before Uncle Liu finished speaking, Xia Ying interrupted him: "Uncle Liu, the rope is really lost, let's go find it together!"

Uncle Liu's body trembled violently, and then he smiled uglier than crying, "Master, let's go right away, right away."

It's just that he tensed his body tightly, for fear that his body would sway slightly, so that he could see the child behind him.

The two walked a little far, Xia Ying whispered to Uncle Liu: "I can see him"

This sentence is in Uncle Liu's ears: he is not a human being.

Uncle Liu murmured: "Ah, why are we so unlucky, and met evil spirits again, young master, do you have some kind of spell on you, suppress him quickly, let him reincarnate early, what's wrong with running around for nothing? It’s just scary, you have to cast a pig’s womb..."

"Ahem!" Xia Ying suddenly coughed.

Uncle Liu looked at Xia Ying in confusion, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter, young master? Are you scared too? It's all because I didn't study spells well at the time. Now I always encounter these things, and I can't help you much. .”

Xia Ying grabbed Uncle Liu's arm and said in a low voice, "He's following! He's ten meters behind us."

"What?" Uncle Liu couldn't stand the scare, his legs began to weaken, his eyes fixed on Xia Ying, he didn't dare to move, for fear of seeing something terrible.

His voice became sharp because he was too afraid, and he asked tremblingly: "Master, what should we do?"

Xia Ying lowered her voice: "Let's pretend we don't know anything, and go out of this alley first. If it doesn't work, I will take out the talisman..."

Xia Ying touched her chest subconsciously, only to realize that the talismans had been used up.He changed his words: "It's really not possible, let's run faster."

"Ah!" Uncle Liu screamed, and Xia Ying lowered her head in shock. That child-like thing had come to them at some point, and a black hand was holding Liu tightly. Uncle's clothes corner.

Xia Ying suppressed her nervousness and said with a calm smile, "Uncle Liu, what's wrong?"

Uncle Liu squatted down knowingly, he coughed, "Young Master, it's okay, this kid came over, he suddenly pulled my clothes off, I didn't notice it for a while, so I was startled."

The more he talked, the more trembling his voice became. He coughed again, adjusted his voice, patted the boy's head, and said with a smile: "Uncle and brother go find things first, and play with you later, you grow up You are so cute, you must be obedient, right?"

Calm as Xia Ying immediately covered the mask with both hands, because with Uncle Liu's stroking, the child's scalp began to fall off slowly.

Uncle Liu opened his eyes wide, and forgot to scream, his hands trembled like sieves, and his whole body almost collapsed to the ground.

The dark child giggled, the flesh on his body slowly fell off, starting from the head, revealing the dark bones.

Xia Ying pulled Uncle Liu up and shouted, "Run!"

Uncle Liu also came to his senses, and then shouted "Ahhh", while dragging Xia Ying to run forward desperately, regardless of direction.

When the two of them were sweating profusely and could no longer move, they stopped.

Xia Ying asked while panting, "Uncle Liu, have we come out?" He heard the voices of people talking and laughing.

Uncle Liu looked around and let out a long breath, "Master, we finally left the alley!"

At this time, in front of them is an open road, with passers-by coming and going, peddlers hawking, and children playing and chasing each other.

Xia Ying nodded, and said with a helpless smile, "Although we escaped, Brother Hei hasn't been found yet."

Uncle Liu rubbed his stomach, "Master, let's continue eating something, I'm so hungry."

Xia Ying was also hungry, and they came to a small stall selling steamed buns. The owner of the stall was a young man with a simple smile. He wrapped some hot steamed buns and handed them to Uncle Liu.

Uncle Liu grinned and smiled at him.

The young man smiled even more honestly, scratching his head.

Looking at the young man's smile, Xia Ying couldn't help but smile, lamenting the simplicity of the people here.

However, as soon as this thought entered her mind, Xia Ying pulled Uncle Liu back a step as if facing a formidable enemy, and was about to say something, when someone shouted: "Ah! It's on fire! It's on fire!"

A man on fire rolled on the ground, screaming: "Help me! I'm burned to death, I'm about to be burned to death!"

The people around showed fear, and they were also frightened by this sudden scene, but soon, someone reacted, he picked up a bucket of water, and rushed towards the person with a "wow".

But who knows, with a more miserable scream, what was poured out was not a bucket of water, but a bucket of oil, and there was only a sound of "咻", and the fire on the man's body was burning vigorously, and it was just After blinking and closing his eyes, the man became a mass of black ashes.

"Help me, I don't want to die, please help me." Xia Ying's clothes were suddenly grabbed.

He turned his head, and was horrified to find that the face of the young man who had just sold him steamed buns was slowly melting, while his whole body was surrounded by a circle of fire, and his outstretched hands were like burning candles, with the skin peeling off little by little.

Xia Ying yelled: "Uncle Liu, we haven't escaped yet!" From the moment he saw the young man's smile, he realized that they were still being entangled by this group of ghosts.

He didn't care too much, he kicked him away with one kick, and ran away with Uncle Liu who was so frightened.

"Ah!!" Another person suddenly burst into flames.

It's like a beginning, followed by a second, a third, a fourth...and then it's all spontaneously combusting.

They were yelling and crying, and they all rushed towards Uncle Liu and Xia Ying with their hands open.

Xia Ying looked at the group of people who were yelling "Help me, save me" heart-piercingly, surrounding them from all sides.

Seeing that the surrounding circle was getting smaller and smaller, Xia Ying didn't know how to advance or retreat. During the nervousness, big drops of sweat had already flowed from Xia Ying's forehead, and Uncle Liu was so frightened that he passed out directly.

Could it be that he was devoured by these wild ghosts?

Xia Ying clenched the bamboo stick in her hand, he couldn't control that much anymore, picked up the bamboo stick and hit the heads of those burning people who were close to them without any sense of discipline.

"Help me, I don't want to die..."

"Let me go, please let us go..."

"I don't want to die, why are you doing this to us..."

"..."

Accompanied by their cries, more and more Pyro men rushed from all directions.

Xia Ying increased the speed and strength in her hands, and hit those ferocious burning men's heads one after another. His clothes were soaked with sweat, and his whole chin was already wet. He roared exhaustedly: " I don't want to die either!"

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