India

The main room is relatively bright, and there is a portrait on the wall facing the entrance, in which is a young woman in green clothes, she is sitting upright, her long hair is tied into an elegant tassel bun, holding a wooden fan , looks beautiful and pleasant, his eyes seem to be looking at the person coming, and he is as vivid as a living person.

Candlesticks and incense burners are placed on the long table below the portrait. The incense in the burner has not been burned yet, and there are still bits and pieces of fire.

When Mo Nan saw the portrait after entering the door, he sighed at how lifelike it was, and then stared at the eyes of the person in the painting, but the more he looked at it, the weirder he felt, he immediately looked away.

He Jing led them to sit down at the square table, then got up to make tea.

Mo Nan rolled his eyes and looked around. The other furnishings in the house were not much different from those in ordinary halls, but for some reason, he always felt waves of chills coming from all directions. And the outside felt icy cold.

It was as if there was something waiting for him in the dark, and he was like a prey, stepping into the designed trap little by little.It's a bad feeling.

A bad premonition... Mo Nan's eyelids twitched. He looked at Ji Guiran who was next to him with a normal face, and there was nothing unusual. Then he wondered if he was too suspicious.

After being worried for a while, He Jing came back after making tea.Mo Nan forcibly dispelled the uneasiness in his heart, and decided to talk about something casually.

"Brother He lives here alone?"

"Yes," He Jing poured a cup of hot tea for the two of them, "I have lived here by myself for almost three years."

"What exactly is this place?"

"You should have seen that black stone tablet at the entrance of the town. This town is called Soul Mountain Township. Do you know why it is called Soul Mountain Township?"

Mo Nan shook his head. A gust of drafts blew through the room, making his skin crawl. The candlelight on the table flickered a few times, and the shadows of the three trembled with the candlelight.

"This town is located among the mountains, with a strange terrain and surrounded by spiritual mountains. There is a reason why it is said to be a spiritual mountain. You have also seen that the part above the mountainside is covered by clouds and mist. The mountain has spirituality and will not let outsiders easily. Come in, and if anyone tries to climb over the mountain, they will get lost in the mountains."

Ji Guiran, who had been listening for a long time, suddenly remembered the female ghost he saw on the mountain, and asked, "How do the lost people get out?"

"Either go back the same way, or be trapped in the mountain all the time. If the mountain didn't want to let people in, they wouldn't let them go down to the other side of the mountain... I'm curious, how did you get in?"

"I followed him." Mo Nan pointed at Ji Guiran.

"I..." Ji Guiran wanted to say what he saw, but changed his words, "...It's just a few more turns, maybe I found the way by accident Bar."

"Hey, let me just say, it must be a blind cat meeting a dead mouse."

"Can you shut up?"

"I won't!"

After He Jing heard this, he looked at the two people who were bickering in doubt, without thinking too much, and then asked: "Then what is the reason for the two of you to come to Soul Mountain after going through hardships?"

When the two people who were arguing heard the words, they seemed to have suddenly remembered something, they stared at each other and snorted coldly, then turned their heads and ignored each other.

"..." Why did these two incompatible people travel together?He Jing thought to himself.

Mo Nan said, "Brother He, to tell you the truth, we came here to find something very important."

"What is it?"

"It's a white snake, not very long, only about half a meter...the kind that can bite people. Have you seen it before?"

"Snake..." He Jing seemed to be recalling something, "A few days ago, I seemed to have seen a small snow-white snake in the yard..."

"Really?!" The two almost jumped at each other.

He Jing was taken aback by the excited reaction of the two, and then he smiled and signaled them to calm down, and continued: "Yes, I did see one. I was watering the tree at that time, and it was spitting letters on it. Son, I saw that it was docile by nature, so I wanted to stretch out my hand to tease it, but Leng Buding was bitten by it, and the strange thing is that I didn't feel any pain... oh yes."

Speaking of which, he lifted up his cuffs: "The next day I discovered that there was a very magical symbol on the place where it bit my arm."

"..." Mo Nan and Ji Guiran stared at the mark of the biting snake on He Jing's arm.

"At first I thought it was poisonous, and I was very worried. There is no medical center here, so it would be troublesome if it was poisonous." He smiled casually, "Fortunately, after a few days, no symptoms of poisoning appeared. "

...No, that is highly poisonous.

"Is there no other feeling? Like itching." Ji Guiran asked.

"No, it's just that there is an extra thing." He Jing was slightly puzzled, "Why does it itch?"

"It's nothing, just a casual mention."

Mo Nan's eyes were shining, and he said excitedly: "That! Is the snake still in the mansion?"

"I'm not sure about this, maybe you can look for it, maybe it's still there..." He Jing looked at the already dark sky outside, and said, "If you two want to look for it, you might as well wait until tomorrow , it’s hard to find people who are in the dark now.”

"Too……"

"It's getting late, if you two have nowhere to go...would you like to stay at my house for a night?"

"Okay, okay!" Mo Nan quickly responded, "It is our honor to stay overnight in your residence! Thank you, Brother He!"

"Mr. Mo, you are being polite. The guest rooms in the humble house are simple, but fortunately there are two rooms that can be used by the two of you." He Jing stood up, "Come with me."

He Jing led them to two side-by-side houses, said good night, and went back to his own house.

Looking at the closed door, Mo Nan felt that there was something terrifying inside, so he dared not open the door and enter.But Ji Guiran in the next room opened the door and went in. Mo Nan was the only one left outside, with an empty courtyard behind and an unknown door in front.

He gritted his teeth, forced himself to push the door, and saw that there was nothing strange in the room except for the furniture displayed by the moonlight. He heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly lit the candles to brighten the room, and he immediately felt relieved.

But that peace of mind lasted only a short while.In the middle of the night, he turned off the lights and lay down on the bed. The overwhelming anxiety swept over again, and his senses became extremely sensitive in an instant.

The moonlight faintly passed through the window paper, intertwining bizarre shapes on the ground, and the dark wind blew in through the cracks in the door frame, and the sharp sound seemed to be hoarse crying, which stimulated his eardrums.There seemed to be countless ghostly hands in the whole room, pulling the people lying on the bed one after another, as if they wanted to tear and devour the people in the bedding.

Mo Nan lifted the quilt abruptly, sweating coldly, got out of bed and ran out the door as if he had made up his mind.

He hurriedly knocked on the door of Ji Guiran's room, and the person outside said: "Hey, Ji Guiran! Have you slept yet?"

There was no movement in the house. Mo Nan stood outside the door, feeling countless peeping eyes in the dark environment behind him, which frightened him to knock harder on the door.

I don't know how long it took before the door was opened, and Ji Guiran looked like he had already undressed and went to bed, with a displeased expression on his face.

"What's the matter?" he asked impatiently.

"I..." Mo Nan suddenly couldn't find an excuse, and made it up, "Hey, what, I suddenly had a urgency to urinate, and I couldn't find where to go to the toilet, so I just wanted to make up for it in your room... wait a minute close!!!"

Seeing that Ji Guiran was about to close the door and leave, he hurriedly stopped him: "I'm just kidding! That... I... can I sleep in the same room with you..."

"reason."

"I..." He thought for a long time before uttering a word through his teeth, "...cold."

"..." Ji Guiran's expression became even more unkind.It was mid-spring, and there was a heavy quilt in the house, so you told him it was cold? ?Thinking of this, he stretched out his hand to close the door again.

Seeing him coming again, Mo Nan hurriedly held onto the door frame with his hands, holding on tightly to prevent him from closing it, with a mournful face: "Don't close it! Let me tell you! I... I'm afraid!"

As if hearing something novel, Ji Guiran stopped and looked at Mo Nan with raised eyebrows: "What did you say?"

"...I'm... scared! Can't sleep!"

Ji Guiran endured it again and again, suppressing the desire to laugh, and was about to tease Mo Nan, only to see the pitiful look of the person outside the door, his face pale with fright, and he stood up weakly. Unsteady legs, and pleading eyes in fear, suddenly, what he wanted to say was blocked in his throat.

"..." Ji Guiran gritted his teeth, "Only this once."

Mo Nan, who was saved, burst into ecstasy, and entered Ji Guiran's room in a flash.But when he saw the tables and chairs beside the bed, his waist felt sore reflexively.

Who designed the table and chairs to be placed next to the bed? !He cursed in his heart, but he could only ask embarrassingly: "You...don't want me to sleep sitting on the stool again..."

"What do you think?"

"..."

I can only accept my fate, rely on others, and have to bow my head.

In the middle of the night, Mo Nan really woke up from the cold. The temperature here is significantly lower than other places. In addition, he sleeps on the table with his head on the table, and there is no quilt to cover him. If he sleeps like this, he will probably catch a cold.

He was thinking about whether to go to his room to get the quilt, when he raised his head and looked back, he saw that Ji Guiran was sleeping soundly with his back to him, and there was actually a large space behind him, enough for another person to lie on it .

Mo Nan was overjoyed, and tiptoed onto the bed. Seeing that Ji Guiran hadn't woken up, he lifted a corner of the quilt and slipped in gently. He instantly felt that his cold hands and feet were comforted, and he felt a lot more at ease.

I don't care, it's the place you vacated if you don't sleep well.He looked at Ji Guiran's sleeping back and snickered.

Lying like this is naturally more comfortable than sitting. He closed his eyes and soon fell asleep.If you describe it, the treatment of being able to sleep on the bed is so beautiful that his dreams are full of fragrance.