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Shentucheng grasped Gu Panhao's hand subconsciously, but the soft and smooth touch made him want to shake it off again.Suppressing the discomfort in his heart, Shentucheng took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "The smell of blood."

He raised his feet irritably, and found that his legs and feet were as heavy as if they were tied with tens of kilograms of lead.Something slippery climbed up his calf, sticky, and the rotten smell almost made him vomit.

Gu Pan approached without any trace, and reminded softly: "Stay where you are and don't move."

"What is it this time?" Shen Tucheng gritted his teeth and asked word by word.

Gu Pan thought for a while, then shook his head honestly: "I don't know." He just had an intuition that it would be better to stand where he was.

Shen Tucheng paused, hesitant to speak—no matter what, whether it was Ah Hao or Lian Qiao, the person beside him appeared in the image of a woman, and he instinctively didn't want to scare she.

"What?" Gu Panhao felt Shentucheng's hesitation and asked aloud.

He kept telling himself in his heart that the people around him were Ah Hao, the strong Ah Hao, as long as the two of them were together, there was nothing to be afraid of... After a while, Shentucheng asked in a low voice: "Do you feel ...are we sinking?"

He thought Ah Hao would be in a bad mood even if he wasn't surprised, but Gu Panhao laughed lightly and said, "It's not that we're sinking, it's that they're rising."

"they?"

"Well, the soil under our feet." Gu Panhao asked, "Do you smell anything?" After all, he is possessed by Lian Qiaoye, whether it is vision, hearing, smell, taste, or mobility, Not as good as ordinary humans.

Shen Tucheng thought for a while, and said: "The smell of blood...and the smell of rot." He tried his best to describe the strange smell lingering at the tip of his nose, "It's like putting a piece of fresh meat under the quilt for several times in summer. Same week." For some reason, he could not only smell it, but feel it.Restlessness, sultriness, depression... All kinds of negative emotions flooded into his mind, forcing Shentucheng to almost jump up.

Gu Panhao shook Shentucheng's hand, as if encouraging, and then patted it lightly.He sighed and said, "They want to take us somewhere."

"I didn't promise to go." Shen Tucheng was displeased, and his voice became cold.

"Well, but if they struggle, they will fight back crazily."

Shen Tucheng snorted coldly, thinking to himself, afraid it won't work?

"You don't have to be afraid. Well, I don't have to be afraid either." Gu Panhao's voice was still gentle, "But what about your classmates?"

Shen Tucheng was stunned, and suddenly remembered that the purpose of this trip was to find Lu Zhonghui. Although he didn't understand what these things had to do with Lu Zi, what Ah Hao said was definitely right.He took a good look at Gu Pan beside him, and thought of the faint meaning of "I don't need to be afraid, because you are here" in the other party's words, his mood immediately improved a lot. "This feels disgusting." He muttered softly, moving slightly.

While talking, the light of the paper lantern became stronger and stronger, like an incandescent lamp, which made the two of them see clearly what surrounded them—the flowing mud.With Shentu City and Gu Panhao as the center, the dark brown mud formed a ring-shaped mud wall ten steps away, like a waterfall against the current, creeping upwards at an extremely slow speed.Shen Tucheng looked up reflexively, and found that the mud wall was already higher than the heads of the two of them, and it was getting closer to the middle bit by bit.

clack.

A drop of mud mixed with black blood dripped at Gu Panhao's feet, and a puff of black smoke came out.

"Damn it." Shen Tucheng cursed in a low voice, and quickly switched places with Gu Panhao.

Click.Click.

A few more drops of mud fell, and when they touched the ground, there were a few puffs of black smoke.

Shen Tucheng raked his hair irritably, and simply hugged Gu Panhao in his arms.

In the already sealed mud room, there was only the thick sound of mud flowing. After a while, Shen Tucheng heard Gu Panhao ask softly, "Will you feel uncomfortable?"

Shen Tucheng was stunned for a moment, and said: "It's very uncomfortable." There was obvious irritability in his tone, but he still didn't let go of the person in his arms - he knew that his body was delicate, so holding her like this made him feel very uncomfortable. uncomfortable.But as long as he thought that she was also his good friend, he couldn't help but stand by.

Gu Panhao sighed and said, "Let me go...these things are not a threat."

Shen Tucheng heard the words, as if he had received an amnesty, he immediately let go of the exquisite female body.

Gu Panhao squatted down, carefully looked at the black marks burned by the mud, and touched them when Shentucheng had no time to stop them, and then said: "So strong resentment..."

After listening to Shentucheng's description of the strange smell earlier, Gu Pan could smell some of it himself now, goodbye to the moving mud wall, he was already able to confirm some things.For example, this wall that looks like it is made of mud is actually made of rotting corpses.The location where they are now is undoubtedly an unmanaged cemetery, and many corpses have been dug and buried hastily, without even a decent ceremony.Generally speaking, such a place is easy to form a situation where wild ghosts are rampant, but Gu Panhao only felt resentment and did not see any ghosts.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that he hadn't moved, Shen Tucheng also squatted down.

Gu Panhao lowered his head, and seemed to be talking to himself: "When a person dies, the flesh will rot."

"kindness?"

"These are not mud." Gu Panhao pointed to the wall surrounding them, "It's rotten flesh, the flesh that falls from the corpse after it rots."

Shen Tucheng was startled, lowered his eyes and didn't want to look at the meat wall again - he didn't have such strong nerves, the disgusting smell alone was already driving him crazy, if he looked at it for a while, he was afraid that he would really vomit come out.

Gu Panhao didn't care about these things, as if he wanted to temper Shentucheng's will, and continued: "The corpse has been stuffed in the soil for a long time, just like a rotten banana, it will dent a piece when you poke it with your finger... it will rot The bananas were smashed into a paste and piled up in piles, just like the current wall."

Shen Tucheng closed his eyes and did not speak.

"It stands to reason that wild ghosts that still have their bodies should be very fierce...but they only circle us..."

The meat paste on the top of the head kept falling on the ground, and a few drops fell on the back of Shentucheng's hand, making his face even more ugly.Even so, Shen Tucheng still tried his best to block Gu Pan with his body, so as not to let any dirt fall on the other party.At this time, Gu Panhao can be said that this person is covered by Shentu City. He raised his head, his eyes were facing Shentu City with rippling water, and he concluded: "Something is suppressing them."

Shen Tucheng was stared at by the eyes filled with water vapor, and suddenly lost his soul, and it took him a long time to utter a syllable in a daze: "En?"

Gu Pan laughed a little, lowered his head and continued to study, but he did not forget to explain: "They have grievances but don't attack us, there is something suppressing them... Well, it may be control."

"Why?" Shen Tucheng asked in a daze before he recovered.

"I don't know." Gu Panhao blinked and said, "But it's hard to deal with."

"Look up at me." Shen Tucheng said suddenly.

"Hmm..." Gu Panhao seemed to have discovered something, but did not respond.However, at the next moment, a big hand pinched his chin, forcing him to look up compulsively.

"Look at me." Shentucheng said forcefully, "I want these eyes to look at me."

……

Just for a moment, Gu Panhao suddenly felt something dangling in his chest, and a warm and numb feeling hit his heart - this is... what?Why does he also have feelings as a spirit body?The gentle and calm expression disappeared, and he opened his eyes wide, staring blankly at Shentu City.

Shen Tucheng laughed softly, with a hint of sarcasm in his gentle expression: "Any other conclusions?"

Gu Pan was so startled, he waved away the big hand that was restraining him, and was about to speak when he caught a glimpse of the projection on the ground—"Be careful!" he shouted, hugging Shentucheng's waist in desperation.But Shentucheng's reaction was one step faster than his. He hugged Gu Panhao, and he couldn't care less about the meat pulp all over the floor, and rolled away from the spot.

After confirming Gu Panhao's safety, Shentucheng's knife-like sharp eyes swept over the place where the two of them were just now - a sharp dead wood branch stuck in the soil.He pursed his lips, and looked in the direction the wooden branch came from—the branch that had just hung the paper lantern had turned into a hand.

Even without careful study, Shentucheng knew that it was a dead man's hand.It is so thin, with only dark brown paper-thin skin wrapped in dense white bones.Part of the skin on the knuckles has burst open, and a corner is raised like a piece of paper that has not been firmly attached.A white paper lantern was hooked on one of the fingers, shaking back and forth, illuminating the surrounding fleshy walls flickering.

The wall of flesh that had been wriggling seemed to be frozen in an instant, solidified.Shen Tucheng firmly protected Gu Panhao, staring at the dead tree not far away, his eyes were as fierce as a beast waiting for an opportunity to attack.

"Shentu..." Gu Pan moved a lot.

"Don't move!" Shentucheng held Gu Panhao's head and shouted.After a while, as if realizing that he was too rough, he let out a soft breath and said, "Hey, just stay here and don't move."

"I want to see clearly what it is." Gu Panhao's slightly dissatisfied voice came from Shentucheng's chest.

Shen Tucheng stared at the tree trunk slowly changing into a human shape, and said viciously: "Dead corpse."