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A Sheng and Senior Brother Chen huddled under the altar, and Chen Shou also touched a piece of pastry. There was no water here, so he could only eat dry pancakes. He had been hungry for a whole day, and he only had one piece of cake every day. Now that A Sheng came, he could eat even more. not enough.

That's why Chen Shou didn't bring the other two along.

I don't know how long this cake has been stored, it is as hard as a rock, Chen Shou took a bite and put it in his mouth.

He wanted to chew the cake until it was soft, but his mouth was so dry that he didn't even have saliva in his mouth, so he could only chew it dry, chew it into powder, and swallow it slowly.

Ah Sheng saw it, and quickly took out the water bottle hanging on his body: "Here, brother, drink it."

When Chen Shou saw the water, some spittle came out of his mouth, he didn't rush to drink it, and asked first, "Where did this come from?"

"This is taken from bamboo, it is clean, not pond water."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Shou took two sips from the kettle, which didn't quench his thirst at all, but he put the lid back on the pot: "Keep it, let's drink it slowly."

"Brother, how did you survive these days?"

As soon as Ah Sheng finished asking, Chen Shou blocked his mouth and shook his head at him in the dark.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer. When they ran out of the theater, there were no "people" in the streets and alleys, and every house closed their doors tightly, leaving empty streets for them to catch "chickens" to eat.

The monster was looking for someone by smell, and kept searching the town, looking in from the windows of every house.

"I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry." The voice echoed throughout the town. It ate a blue face, then grabbed a red face, and squeaked, like sucking chicken paws, eating up the meat.

Walking all the way, spit out black-faced clothes and shoes all the way.

Put the half of the red face on the pointed nails, chew it slowly, and spit out the human bones all over the floor.

It wandered from room to room, as if playing hide-and-seek. If it won, it would have one more chick to eat, and the Jiqing class would have one less person.

It stopped in front of the ancestral hall of the mansion, put its nose close to the window of the ancestral hall, inhaled deeply, and saliva stuck to the window paper.

A Sheng and Chen Shou huddled tightly under the god's table, the silk cover on the table covered them, and the two of them huddled together and dared not even breathe out.

"I smell you." The monster's voice vibrated the enshrined tablet in the house, and it giggled, "I smell you, you are inside, you come out."

Ah Sheng gritted his teeth tightly, and he and Senior Brother Chen were close together, both of them were sweaty palms, fearing that the monster would tear the roof off.

But although the monster has been lingering outside the house, it has not destroyed the ancestral hall. It chewed on the remaining half of its body with a blushing face, looked at the ancestral hall again, turned and left.

Ah Sheng's back was wet with sweat, and Chen Shou was similar, so Ah Sheng asked again: "Senior Brother, how did you survive these days?"

Chen Shou shuddered, there was no fire in the ancestral hall, there was only a long burning lamp, but the fear in his eyes was clearly reflected.

Chen Shou said slowly: "The night I came, it was the first time the monster came out." The people in the troupe were overly enthusiastic, but they just didn't say where the sect master was.

Chen Shou became suspicious, the play should have finished long ago, why did they stay in the town and did not go back, not only the sect master disappeared, but also where the rest of the people were, they were all murmuring.

Several people also said that the mutton in this town is very good, so they took out a bowl of mutton stew and asked Chen Shou to drink it.

Chen Shou was holding the bowl and was about to drink when he looked up and saw the eyes of these people. There was a great famine in his hometown, and he knew what the light in the eyes of people who had eaten human flesh looked like.

The gazes of these fellow apprentices were exactly the same as his childhood nightmare.

These people seem to think that as long as they have eaten "mutton", they deserve it if they are eaten again.

Just as they forced him to eat the broth, the monster came out.

Chen Shou was chased by the monster. He fled to the ancestral hall in a panic. The monster clearly saw him coming in, but it left without destroying the ancestral hall.

"So as long as you hide in the ancestral hall, you are safe." Chen Shou also ate the offering cakes because he hid in the ancestral hall.

After hearing Senior Brother Chen's words, Ah Sheng felt terrified. If he bumped in by mistake first, he would definitely be the same as the Senior Sisters.

Chen Shou thought for a while and told Ah Sheng: "Master, he should not be dead yet."

Ah Sheng had a smile on his face when he heard this: "Really? Where is the sect master?"

Chen Shou shook his head: "I don't know, I... I dug up the bunker where they buried human bones, and there was no door owner's head inside."

They killed people, cut off their heads and buried them, and piled the leftover bones in a heap.

The child who died the first had a wooden sign in front of the soil bag, which may be their last bit of humanity.

Chen Shou didn't dig up more children's bodies, he guessed that the sect master hid them with those little juniors, and the children were the easiest to kill.

Knowing that the sect master is still alive, Ah Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly remembered something, looked at Chen Shou: "Senior Brother Chen, you... do you like Senior Sister?"

That's what everyone said, Senior Brother Chen likes Senior Sister Chu, has he seen Senior Sister Chu eating "wontons"?

Chen Shou's eyes dimmed, and he leaned against the wooden board behind the altar: "I should have come earlier." Maybe I could have saved her sooner.

Thinking so, Chen Shou took out a compact from his arms, opened the compact, and his thin face was reflected in the small mirror.

He has bought this powder box for a long time. It is a new one from the department store. He wants to give it to her on her birthday. She will definitely like it, but he can't give it away now.

Ah Sheng didn't know how to comfort Senior Brother Chen: "Senior Brother, let's go to Bai Qiye when the sun is up."

Chen Shou put the powder box back into his pocket: "Ah Sheng, it's not that I don't want to, I really don't have much to eat." There were two empty plates on the altar table, and two more people would definitely not be enough to eat.

Ah Sheng blinked: "We brought food, Brother Huo brought a lot of food."

This night, the monster's luck was very bad. It only caught two chickens. Seeing that the sky was about to dawn again, it roared angrily, shaking the bamboo and pine trees in the mountains.

The cry of the monster spread far and wide, all the way to the earth temple.

A pile of firewood was burning in the earth temple, and the firelight added a bit of warmth to the dilapidated temple, and even the night wind didn't feel cold when it blew in.

With a blanket on his lap, Bai Zhun sat in front of the fire and was drowsy. Hearing the roar of the monster, he opened his eyes, thinking.

Huo Zhenye added some firewood to the fire, and Ah Sheng ran away. When he finally looked back, he saw Ah Sheng being pulled by a man, and the two ran away together.

That means there are actually some sober people in this troupe, and not everyone has become a ghost.

I will find Ah Sheng tomorrow, and we will find a way to leave together.

Huo Zhenye dug out a small pot from his luggage, set it up to boil water, and took out a handful of dried noodles from the box, and asked Bai Zhun, "Do you want noodles?"

Bai Zhun glanced at his box, it was full, in addition to two long baguettes and a small bag of rice, there was also a pack of ham, a few handfuls of dried noodles, and most importantly, half a box of canned food.

"I'm afraid you won't be used to eating outside." Huo Zhenye said while cooking the noodles. He also opened a can of beef and poured the beef soup into the noodle pot. When the noodles were cooked, he used sliced ​​beef as topping.

The pot of noodles was so soft and rotten, Bai Zhun ate a third of it, and Huo Zhenye ate the rest.

He also took out several canned candies and asked, "Would you like walnut candy or lotus root candy?"

The ruined temple in the ghost town was abruptly turned into a small restaurant by Huo Zhenye.

"Are you out on vacation?" Bai Zhun felt that he had underestimated this dude, he really could think of ways to spend money to enjoy himself anytime, anywhere.

The corner of Huo Zhenye's lips twitched: "Come out with you, isn't it a vacation?" After another touch, he took out a canned yellow peach, "You pick one."

Bai Zhun wanted him to be serious, but they didn't know how to get out. Since that monster is a local worshiped evil god, it must have other skills.

He could keep himself safe, but he wasn't sure to take all the living people out.

Seeing that Huo Zhenye didn't care, and he could still cook noodles while listening to the roar of the monster, Bai Zhun lowered his head and pursed his lips slightly: "I want yellow peaches in syrup."

The sky soon dawned, and Bai Zhun leaned back on the wheelchair to sleep for a while, of course he didn't get enough sleep, and his temper became a little bad.

Ah Sheng took Chen Shou back to the Earth Temple, Huo Zhenye took out the bread, the canned noodles were prepared for Bai Zhun, he ate soft noodles, and the three of them ate dry bread.

While munching on the bread, Ah Sheng told Bai Zhun and Huo Zhenye that the masters of the eight sects were not dead, nor were the junior juniors, they should have hid together.

Bai Zhun said "Yes", and directed Ah Sheng: "Go and chop some bamboo."

A Sheng immediately went to the mountain to cut bamboo, and Chen Shou followed, and the two dragged back a large bundle of bamboo.

"What are you going to do?" Huo Zhenye asked, he took out a knife and split a piece of bamboo into four long strips, and cut off one by one for later use.

"Make something that can send us out." Bai Zhun didn't explain, he put the bamboo strips chopped off by Huo Zhenye on the fire, and roasted each one into different curvatures.

A Sheng and Chen Shou fetched water while chopping bamboo, and soon stored several bamboo tubes of water in the earth temple.

They could see the coffin in the temple standing on two wooden stools when they went in and out. It was neither named nor offered incense, so Asheng placed a piece of cake in front of the coffin and inserted a stick of incense.

I bowed twice: "Let's live in peace and not interfere with each other."

Bai Zhun raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "This is an empty coffin." If there was a dead person inside, he would have burned incense already.

Although it was an empty coffin, it was already off the ground. There were still runes written in cinnabar on the coffin. Although it was old and peeled off, this coffin was custom-made for a murderous corpse.

"Ah?" A Shengbai kowtowed a few times, stood up and patted the soil, he was still happy, "It surprised me, it turned out to be empty."

Bai Zhun paused, and asked Ah Sheng to go to the river bank, "Go and cut some reeds."

A Sheng went out as promised, and Chen Shou followed behind: "A Sheng, are you sure Qi Ye can take us out?"

"Sure!" Ah Sheng glanced at Chen Shou, "Qi Ye is the master of the Seven Sects, if he can't do it, then..." Then he will have to die here.

Chen Shou patted Ah Sheng on the shoulder, affirming with a smile: "That's good, then I can rest assured."

The two came to the water's edge, cut two thick bundles of reeds and went back. After a busy day, it was almost dark.

Bai Zhun stood up at this moment: "Let's go to the ferry."

Ah Sheng felt strange: "What are you doing at the ferry? Can't we just stay in this land temple?" Hearing that the god statue protected them, Ah Sheng lit several sticks of incense one after another, and even cleaned the altar.

"Look how many people come in." Bai Zhun walked away, Huo Zhenye followed behind him.

The four of them walked to the ferry, just as the sky darkened, a boat sailed into the reeds, the boat was full of excitement, and those who wanted their lives last night were all smiling.

"Senior Sister Chu, when you go back this time, should Brother Chen propose marriage?"

The two followed two masters respectively, but there was also a master on top of the master, and it would be a lively event if the insiders got married.

It was only then that Huo Zhenye saw that Senior Sister Chu didn't put on a face, she was smiling brightly, she folded a handful of reeds in her hand, and hit the man with white flower spikes.

Senior Sister Chu said, "Don't talk nonsense."

The man laughed: "Is it because Senior Brother Chen is too timid?"

Senior Sister Chu's face turned red, and she rolled her eyes: "It's not because he's timid, he doesn't dare to propose marriage to me, so I'll propose it to him!"

This sentence made everyone on the boat laugh, but Ah Sheng on the shore felt very uncomfortable when he heard it. He wanted to comfort Chen Shou, but when he turned around, Chen Shou disappeared.

"Where is Brother Chen?" Ah Sheng looked around, but he didn't see anyone.

Huo Zhenye glanced at A Sheng with his arms folded, and said inexplicably, "He's gone to the temple."

There were no Bamen masters and those escaped children on the boat, those who had been eaten, and those who had eaten people. The shadows of people were stacked together, carrying boxes and opera banners, and then sang this endless opera.

The three returned to the Earth Temple, the ground was full of mess, Huo Zhenye went to the place where the box was placed: "The box is gone."

Ah Sheng's face was pale, the box could hold their food rations for several days, but Senior Brother Chen actually stole their food.

Huo Zhenye dragged out the bamboo basket hidden under the altar, and there were cans neatly stacked inside, as well as bags of dried noodles, bread and rice.

"What's in that box?"

"Stones." Huo Zhenye smirked, and filled a box full of stones.

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