Daily life of civil servants in the prefectural government

"I was wrong, stop calling..."

Chen Ju collapsed to the side dying, still muttering words of begging for mercy.

Cui Zhao withdrew his hand and kicked Chen Ju aside without hesitation.Although in terms of their current environment, this side is only a few tens of centimeters apart.

"Cui Zhao, come and see."

Su Xiyan squatted halfway, beckoning Cui Zhao to come and see what he found.

Now the two of them are in a very narrow cylindrical environment, surrounded by smooth stones, and a layer of soft fine sand under their feet.

According to the environment they were in before they fell, it is not difficult to guess that they should be in a dry well now.

The place in the well is narrow, and the two big men occupy almost 80.00% of the space when they stand inside, making it difficult to even turn around.

Cui Zhao turned his back to Su Xiyan just now, and now he turned around, inevitably touching him.

Su Xiyan felt the sound of the cloth rubbing against each other, and a warm body was stuck behind him.

"what have you found?"

Warm breath hit the back of Su Xiyan's neck, and he subconsciously moved away a bit, but when he turned his head, his lips brushed against a warm and soft place.Judging from the height of the two of them, the only thing he could touch was Cui Zhao's cheek.

Su Xiyan was taken aback, and wanted to stay away from him in a panic, but suddenly stepped on a round object, staggered a few steps and threw herself directly into Cui Zhao's arms.

How could Cui Zhao push the person who came to the door away? He almost instinctively hugged the person who rushed towards him, and his arms automatically wrapped around Su Xiyan's slender waist.

The scene now is almost exactly the same as when Su Xiyan changed Cui Zhao's dressing that day. The difference is that Cui Zhao took the initiative in the whole process last time, and now it is Su Xiyan who "actively" fell into his arms.

The two were too close, and the facial features of human beings would be particularly sharp in the dark. Su Xiyan felt that he was almost enveloped by Cui Zhao's breath, and he hurriedly pushed him away.

Unexpectedly, in the panic, he forgot that Cui Zhao was a seriously injured person, and he didn't know where he was pushed.Cui Zhao snorted, and took a few steps back while clutching his chest.

Su Xiyan realized for the first time what it means to be at a loss. He could only turn on the flashlight to try to check Cui Zhao's wound.

"I'm sorry, are your wounds okay?"

In the darkness, Cui Zhao was silent for a while, and then the voice of grievance sounded.

"Su Xiyan, you are taking advantage of me."

Su Xiyan: ...

The hand touching the wound suddenly stopped and retracted.

The people on the other side who took advantage and wanted to go further were still talking.

"You took advantage of me, you kissed me, you are responsible for me."

"I know I'm good-looking, and many people like it, but you can't just take advantage of me here. Even if you really...you have to go out and talk about it..."

Su Xiyan turned off the flashlight. He suddenly felt that the person in front of him was a bit hot-eyed, so it was better not to look at him.

"Stop, shut up."

"Oh." The man on the opposite side stopped obediently, and after a while he seemed unable to bear it, and asked again.

"Su Xiyan, when are you going to marry me?"

Su Xiyan: ...Killing people is bad, you will go to jail, hold back!

Angrily, Su Xiyan lowered his head to see what tripped him just now, but he didn't notice that Cui Zhao, who was hiding in the darkness, was clutching his heart, his expression twisted in pain, but he still maintained a brisk tone.

Seeing that Su Xiyan didn't try to touch him again, Cui Zhao took a deep breath and let his back soaked in cold sweat lean against the stone wall.The air at the bottom of the well was cold and humid, inhaled into the lungs as if he had just drank a glass of cold water, and his mind suddenly became clearer.

It's okay, as long as you bear with it for a while, it will pass.

Ever since the seal on his body became unstable, this kind of bone marrow-deep pain always occurred from time to time.But it came and went quickly, as long as the pain wasn't so painful that he couldn't get up in bed, he could still take this pain as a kind of training.

But today's attack made the big-hearted Cui Zhao feel a little uneasy.

Only a few days had passed since the last attack, and the severe pain lasted longer and longer. All this seemed to indicate that the seal on his body that had lasted for thousands of years was about to be completely broken.

Obviously according to the extent of previous inspections, the seal can last for hundreds of years, why did it suddenly break so quickly?

Cui Zhao seemed to hear Su Xiyan calling him in a daze, and when he looked up, he found him squatting on the ground, and turned to look at him worriedly.

"Cui Zhao, isn't your wound really open?"

"It's okay, just go back and bandage it again."

The severe pain had passed, Cui Zhao took advantage of Su Xiyan's inability to see at night, and leaned forward with a pale face.

The fine sand under Su Xiyan's feet had already been cut in half by him, and the culprit who tripped him just now was a human skull.

When the flashlight shines on it, you can faintly see a lot of scattered bones in the surrounding fine sand.Judging from their shape, they should also be the bones of a certain human being.

In this seemingly ordinary dry well, there are also many unknown darkness hidden.

On the wall of the dry well, the spliced ​​stones seem to be smooth, but if you touch them carefully, you can feel small scratches.It seems to be showing the performance of the last struggle of the people who were once trapped here.

"hey-hey……"

Chen Ju, who was almost forgotten by Su Xiyan and the others, suddenly sneered.

"You can't escape, there is no exit here at all."

As soon as Su Xiyan and the others were thrown here, they were attacked.If an ordinary human being was attacked by a ghost in such a weird place, they would probably become cold within a few seconds.

But Su Xiyan and the others are not ordinary people. As ghost messengers, they have some natural restraint on ghosts.

Suddenly an iron chain jumped out of Cui Zhao's body, completely ignoring Li Gui's struggle and directly tied him into a zongzi.Su Xiyan made up a body talisman, and the poor ghost could only lie on the ground and be beaten.

Halfway through the beating, Su Xiyan and the others found out that he was still an acquaintance, so they would beat him up a few more times.

In just one day, after Chen Ju experienced his body being torn apart and the cauldron zombie body being killed by something, his soul was dragged into this well and beaten violently.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems a bit miserable.

But no one will pity him, he has fallen to this point, it can only be said that he deserves what he deserves.

Su Xiyan grabbed the iron chain and dragged him directly.

"How did we get in without an exit? If you don't tell me, I'll almost forget you. Come on, tell me everything you know."

"I don't know." Chen Ju showed a dazed smile at them.

"If I knew, I would have run away long ago, and I would never stay with you."

"They violated the agreement. I brought sacrifices, but they still attacked me. You were also pulled in like this. You don't even have sacrifices. You will be absorbed by this well in a short time. You... "

He suddenly screamed, struggling frantically despite being chained.

Under the light of the flashlight, both Su Xiyan and Cui Zhao saw that countless small translucent suckers suddenly appeared on the well wall, and they stuck to Chen Ju's soul, eating crazily.

Chen Ju yelled and cursed frantically, trying to get those suction cups off his body, but one part was pulled off, and more stuck on other places.

Soon, Chen Ju's soul was sucked out, and finally he couldn't even maintain his human form, and turned into a cloud of black mist into the stomachs of those strange suckers.

After eating and drinking, those suckers wandered around, as if they didn't see Su Xiyan and Cui Zhao, and left on their own.

Su Xiyan and Cui Zhao looked at each other, and Su Xiyan took out the golden bell that he was looking at before from his pocket.

"According to what he said, there is no exit to this ghostly place. We stand here, and we have not felt the air flow at the mouth of the well. It is estimated that even if we have a way to climb up, there will be a big rock blocking it, or there is no wellhead at all. .”

"If we want to go out, I'm afraid we can only start from the bell."

Cui Zhao took the bell from Su Xiyan's hand, flipped through it back and forth, and finally managed to magically get a bunch of small notes out of the bell.

The note was only half the size of a fingertip, and when it was opened, there was a line of words written in very small fonts.

"Spiritual Well, please bless me and my beloved to be together forever."

Su Xiyan told Cui Zhao all the runes he had touched on the wall of the well above, but Cui Zhao sighed and told Su Xiyan not to touch randomly in the future, just touch him if you want to touch it.

Guaranteed to be lively and fragrant, much better than those hard and stinky stones.

Su Xiyan: ...

"This well looks like it should have belonged to that village's sacrificial well. People would hold activities for it every year and make wishes to it. Even if it had consciousness, it should be the one that favors humans, but... ..."

Cui Zhao didn't say the rest, Su Xiyan could guess it.

A long time ago, when people depended on the sky for food, people in relatively arid areas would attach great importance to water sources.

A well that can continuously produce water is the most important lifeblood for the village where it is located.

If there are some magical rumors, it is not uncommon to see the well as a god to worship and make a wish.They will subconsciously worship the well and worship it every year for fear that it will disappear.

But with the development and progress of human science and technology, more and more human beings no longer believe in such superstitions.After having tap water, they even discarded the well, filled the well that once regarded as their life with soil, and left the village.

The well was abandoned and became what it is now for some unknown reason.

The bell that Su Xiyan found was supposed to be used by people to pray in the past. After touching and shaking, they were pulled in by the well.

"Then what should we do now?" Su Xiyan asked.

"Cold salad," Cui Zhao spread his hands, "Let's look around again, if we can't find the exit, let's set up a teleportation array and go back to the underworld, anyway, we won't be trapped to death here."

Su Xiyan: "...Can we still use the teleportation array to go to the underworld?"

Cui Zhao: "If you can go, what kind of ghost is a ghost who can't go to the underworld, but if you set up an formation here, you may be nagged by the king of Hades."

Su Xiyan: "What are you nagging about?"

Cui Zhao: "The cost of materials is too expensive, why else?"

Su Xiyan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but after knowing that there was a way out, she couldn't help letting go of the worries in her heart.

The two walked around the bottom of the well several times, and when they were about to climb up to have a look, they suddenly heard a subtle sound.

The sound seemed to be coming from the top of their heads, rattling down and throwing broken stones, it sounded like movement from the mouth of the well.

Su Xiyan and Cui Zhao leaned against the well wall tacitly, turned off the flashlight, and waited quietly for the movement above.

At this time, they didn't care about those little suckers on the wall of the well. If the mouth of the well really opened, that would be their chance to get out!

The sound of the stone moving lasted for a long time, and a faint light came down from above, pressing a mark on the fine sand.

"You... don't blame me, blame... if you want to blame, blame yourself for not being a woman, and cheating outside all day long. I... I'll kill you... that's because you forced me!"

A man's voice sounded, he seemed to be in a panic, he was talking about something up and down, and after evading the reason for the murder, he began to curse in a low voice. Su Xiyan listened carefully, and he was just counting the faults of a woman.

It sounds like it should be his wife.

What is a little strange is that, accompanied by his voice, there is also a puffing sound, which sounds a bit like the sound of a sharp blade cutting bones when the butcher cuts meat.

Su Xiyan originally wanted to speak out and let the man pull them up, but she always felt that something was wrong, so she just stood there with Cui Zhao and waited.

Facts have proved that his choice is extremely correct.

After a while, something was thrown down from the mouth of the well with a plop, round and messy wrapped in a layer of hair.

Su Xiyan took a glance and saw that it was the head of a woman who would never die!