bone cutter

Since the man's back was facing the entrance of the cave and just blocked the villain's view, Zhuang Yin couldn't see the white cloth, and his appetite was high for a while.But I saw that the man tossed with the carving knife for a while, and then picked up a hammer and beat it there.

Boom, boom——

A familiar voice sounded, and Zhuang Yin's eyelids trembled. This voice... No matter how I heard it, it was [-]% similar to the knocking sound in Man Yue's father's room just now. I vaguely remembered that Man Yue mentioned before that her father liked to carve. Could this person be... Could it be Man Yue's father?

The man suddenly put down the buddy in his hand, walked forward, and the candle flame fluttered with him.

Thinking of this episode, Zhuang Yin felt a strange feeling in his heart, and this strange feeling was confirmed when the man turned around. Even though the villain and the wooden carving were far away, Zhuang Yin could still see clearly what was hidden in the white cloth ——A lifelike wood carving.

The wood carving is a bit stooped, its face is full of ravines, and the skeleton seems to fall apart at any time. Zhuang Yin can't wait to wrinkle his brows into Sichuan characters, because even without the outer layer of skin, he has already recognized this wood carving.

It's old man Li, the owner of the restaurant.

As the candle flame approached, the man came back quickly, and when he came, he had an extra piece of wrinkled skin in his hand.

Zhuang Yin speculated that this must be old man Li's skin.I saw that the man glued the leather and the woodcarving together tightly, and there was a small wooden box in the palm of his backhand. He opened the wooden box, and a few dim light spots flew from the box to the woodcarving, immersed and fused, and then, old man Li's eyeballs He moved, his throat rumbled, and the first sentence he spoke was begging for mercy: "Forgive, forgive, I, that, Taoist, Taoist and black-clothed people, are too, too smart to kill them."

Zhuang Yin was thrilled to hear it from the tree, but also confused, he thought: It's their first time to burn incense, why are there so many people who want to kill them in this village?The gray-shirted man said slowly: "You are lonely ghosts. I kindly took you in to escape the pain of going up the knife mountain and down the frying pan. If you hadn't needed your cooperation in acting, you would have been out of your wits long ago."

Old man Li hurriedly bent down to flatter: "Yes, yes, I am very grateful for your great kindness." When he said this, his tongue was no longer tied.

The man in the gray shirt said: "Keep an eye on the full moon, don't let her have too much contact with people outside, otherwise..."

Old man Li was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed, his stiff joints creaked, "I dare not, I must watch Miss Manyue."

The man in gray shirt nodded.

Old man Li hesitated and asked: "Then, how to deal with those people who were arrested before?"

The man in gray shirt turned his back and said, "Don't worry about it, I'll take care of it myself, all of them are coveting my things? Hmph, delusion."

Old man Li said: "Yes, they are overthinking their capabilities."

The gray-shirted man said: "You can go."

Old man Li got up from the ground, bowed respectfully to the man in gray shirt a few times, "Let's leave, little one." After saying that, he walked towards the entrance of the cave with two thin legs.

Zhuang Yin cried out inwardly, but at this moment, a black shadow flashed in front of the villain, but it was Brother Boots who quietly ran out of the hole, and quickly hid in the white cloth. Zhuang Yin urged the villain, "Follow Brother Boots!" The man followed on short legs.

A pair of boots and a puppet hid in a piece of white cloth nearby. After a while, Zhuang Yin heard the footsteps of old man Li passing by the rain creek. into that narrow hole.

After a while of rustling, old man Li was gone.

Zhuang Yin at the other end saw this scene, and couldn't help but imagine such a scene in his mind-hundreds of woodcarving figures possessed by dead souls, crawling slowly like earthworms in the tunnels intertwined in the underground of Burning Xiangzhuang. .

This scene is so weird just thinking about it.

How many people in Burning Fragrance Village are woodcarvers, and how many people are real people?Thinking about it, a more absurd and terrifying idea took shape in Zhuang Yin's mind. Maybe except for a few uninvited guests who were brought in by the full moon, no one in the village was human, and each wood carving was covered with a layer of its own skin. , and then injected into the dead soul by the gray shirt man.What is the connection between these lingering dead souls and Futu Mountain?Is it really just to avoid the pain of the mountains of swords and seas of fire?Who are the "those who were arrested" that old man Li said?And who is the man in gray shirt acting for?What is the meaning of Brother Boots showing him these things?

Zhuang Yin couldn't figure it out, so he simply put aside the messy questions for the time being.After old man Li left, the gray-shirted man did not leave. There was a large stone chair on the top of the dark room. Beside the stone chair were two bamboo baskets filled with black and white chess pieces. These chess pieces were carved out of stone. Each piece is round and smooth, completely natural, which shows the skill and patience of the sculptor.

The gray-shirted man was sitting reclined on the stone chair, and beside his feet were piles of uncarved jade stones, the black ones being pebbles and the white ones being jade.There was a barely visible smile on the corner of his mouth, he leaned over and picked up a pebble at random and held it in his hands, thinking about something through his eyes, he raised the carving knife for a long time and began to carve.

It's a pity that Zhuang Yin couldn't see this scene, he could only hear the friction sound of metal and stone colliding to break the dull air, it was so thin that it had a touch of lingering meaning, and at the same time he couldn't see the tree under the tree where he was hiding I don't know when it was full of people.

The people under the tree were all expressionless, as indifferent as if Zhuang Yin owed them a debt, exuding an indescribable murderous aura, as if Zhuang Yin would swallow him alive if he moved.

After Zhuang Yin communicated with the villain's senses, the five senses of the real body will be weakened sharply, approaching zero, and his attention is all on the gray-shirted man in the dark room at the moment, otherwise he should have sensed it with his keenness. The intent to kill was so menacing, how could it be so dull that a butcher with a butcher's knife dragged his fat body up a tree and remained indifferent.

In the dark room, the man in gray shirt began to talk to himself, and sighed inexplicably: "Another poor and ignorant person."

Zhuang Yin was puzzled.

At this time, the butcher was hanging behind his real body with one hand, showing his fierce face. With his fat, greasy hand, he raised a sharp, blood-stained butcher's knife, and slowly pointed it at the back of Zhuang Yin's neck. .

The sword is ruthless, let alone eyes, Zhuang Yin is about to be buried under the butcher's knife, but he heard a voice from outside the sky, his tone was extremely cold, like frost, "Who gave you the courage, this person, wait for Xiaoxiao Dare to move?" Immediately afterwards, a glamorous cold light burst through the air, passing by the butcher's knife-holding hand like a meteor, and then flew back into the voice owner's hand in a beautiful circle.

bang-

The butcher's knife fell from his hand.

The butcher's wrist broke at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he fell, but he didn't shed a drop of blood. Xie Qi couldn't help squinting his eyes, "So it's not human, no wonder he didn't even bark."