I live on the 18th floor of Nether Community

Jiang Miao was awakened by a scent of rice mixed with the smell of firewood.

It was already dawn, he clenched his fists and found that most of his physical strength had recovered.There was the broken bowl beside him, Jiang Miao looked at the bowl, and the memories of last night resurfaced in bits and pieces.

I vaguely remember that when I was half asleep and half awake, a cool hand would touch my forehead after a while.During the period, there was a quiet fragrance of Xuli, who else would it be if it wasn't Xichi?

Qichi... Jiang Miao's eyes darkened, and as memories began to emerge one after another, he didn't know how long he and Qichi could live in peace like this.

But why, the memory just started to recover from the moment after arriving at the famous garden of the underworld?Jiang Miao thought about it, it seemed that everything started from his first dream.Where is the land of no bounds in the dream?Who is that self?

The door of the room was pushed open, and You Ji stepped in with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Jiang Xiao, how are you?"

Jiang Miao looked at You Ji lazily, raised his chin at the cigarette on his mouth and said, "Isn't it over? Where did you get it?"

"It's okay with my fellow villagers. They went to rebuild Zunshan Tianshi Temple early in the morning."

"What about the injured colleague?"

"I was taken back to the underworld. I explained to them and contacted me as soon as they woke up. I still need to ask him for some information."

Jiang Miao nodded, pulled the jacket aside and put it on his body, and walked outside the house, trying to get some well water to wash his face.

As soon as he left the house, he was taken aback by the scene in front of him.

Qichi was squatting in front of a stove, concentrating on lighting the fire.The cauldron on the stove was emitting white gas, and the aroma of rice smelled earlier came from this cauldron.

There is a unique chill in the winter air, which is now neutralized by the firewood and steam, adding a bit of warmth.

Seeing Qichi, Jiang Miao got up from time to time and lifted the lid of the pot, stirring the porridge inside with a spoon.Probably blinded by the water vapor, he hurriedly waved the steaming white smoke with his hand.This appearance matches the chaimen small courtyard, and there is an indescribable sense of harmony.

A few words suddenly came out of Jiang Xiao's head, "The clever daughter-in-law of the peasant family."

"I never thought your neighbor could cook?" You Ji stood behind Jiang Miao, flicking his cigarette ash.

Jiang Xiao smiled: "The craftsmanship is not bad."

You Ji took a step forward, stood side by side with Jiang Miao, and said seriously: "Jiang Miao, I have to remind you. You must be careful with this guy, the way he looked yesterday... In short, if he really shows up in the future What's the matter, remember not to be tough with him."

"Yes, I know."

"You understand shit!" You Ji rolled his eyes and muttered in a low voice, "You don't understand anything."

Recalling the way Xichi walked into the house as soon as he picked up Jiang Xiao last night, and the cold eyes when he looked at him, You Ji's heart couldn't help but tremble again.

You know, even the evil spirits in the Infernal Hell wouldn't make him feel this way.

Qi Chi put the lid on the pot again, and when he looked back to see Jiang Miao, he was a little dazed.Immediately afterwards, he smiled lightly at Jiang Xiao: "Is it better?"

"It's much better. In fact, it hurts a little bit of vitality, just sleep." Jiang Xiao also smiled at Qi Chi, "Thank you last night, Brother Xiaohua."

"You're welcome." Qi Chi said as he scooped up a bowl of porridge and put it in a bowl, "I cleaned the bowl, come and eat something."

Jiang Xiao nodded, and patted You Ji on the shoulder: "Let's go, let's eat something together."

Jiang Miao took the porridge from Xichi's hand, sat down on a large step at random, brought the bowl to his mouth and sucked it.After eating the hot porridge, Jiang Miao couldn't help but let out a satisfied sigh.

Qichi sat down next to Jiang Miao, silently watching him eat.When Jiang Miao met his gaze, he hooked the corner of his lips at him and asked, "Is the taste good?"

"Okay, the whole person has warmed up." Jiang Miao was watched by Qichi for some reason, and for some reason he remembered the way he held himself in his arms to drink water last night.He hurriedly coughed and turned his gaze elsewhere, and felt that he was being so pretentious.

What a mess, isn't it just hugging and drinking water!In the past, when I was messing around with the gang of soldiers down below, I would feed each other mouth to mouth at every turn.

Not far away, You Ji looked impatient, holding the porridge bowl in distaste, thinking that it was just a bowl of porridge with broken grains, how could it taste?While thinking, he leaned over to the bowl and took a sip.

Um? ...Hmm...seems to be okay?

You Ji snorted coldly, and ran to the pot to fill another bowl.

After the three of them finished their breakfast, they walked along the path towards the shrine.From far away, I heard the sound of dingling.

Under the sun, everyone in the village seemed to be back.They either carried a tree to the outside of the shrine, or climbed to the roof to repair the leaky roof.

The women set up a shed directly outside the shrine and lit a fire to cook.The children were organized to pull weeds on the ground with their buttocks pouting, and the old lady I met on the first night was sitting with several other older people to discuss the list of future shift personnel in the shrine.

Everyone had long-lost smiles on their faces.

Seeing Qichi, a tense atmosphere once again cleared up among the villagers of Wutong Village.After all, last night, this person almost killed all the villagers in the village.

The hoes, axes, and harpoons were tightly held by the gentlemen, and they all rushed towards Qichi.

Seeing this, Qi Chi frowned slightly, and the sickle in the hand of one of the peasants fell to the ground with a clang.

Jiang Miao stretched out his hand to block Xichi behind him, and said in a low voice, "Brother Xiaohua, you stand back first."

As he spoke, a smiling expression instantly changed on his face, and he waved his hands at the villagers and said, "Fellows, fellows, it was all a misunderstanding last night! We are here to help the big guys with their work!"

The villagers looked at each other in blank dismay, still on guard.I only heard a loud voice suddenly came from among them.

"That's right, our house was attacked by zombies yesterday, and it was this guy who stood in front of us and saved my wife and children!"

The one who spoke was the man in a family of three who was on the verge of becoming a zombie last night.

He pushed aside the crowd and stood up and said, "Many of you were bitten by zombies yesterday, so there's nothing they can do if they don't do this, right? Fortunately, Celestial Master Zunshan has appeared, and everyone is fine now!"

Following the man's words, the peasant woman in the family of three walked up to Jiang Xiao with her child in her arms, and smiled gratefully at him: "Thank you, young man."

"No, no, no." Jiang Miao reached out and touched the baby's little hand in the peasant woman's arms, "It's good to clear up the misunderstanding, if you need any help from the three of us, just say it!"

Seeing this, the old lady among the old people at the side walked towards Jiang Xiao tremblingly, took his hand and said to everyone: "These are good boys, what should you do, don't take a pair of them. Treat people like a ghost."

"Is this old lady crazy?" You Ji whispered.

Upon hearing this, the villagers put down their agricultural tools one after another.

One of the young men who looked like a thin monkey shouted: "Don't you want to help? The statues in the temple haven't been painted yet, so go and help with it."

When Jiang Miao heard this, he thought it was just right.Then he turned his head and winked at Qi Chi and You Ji, and said with a smile: "It's easy to talk, let's go right away."

As he spoke, the three of them carried the paint bucket and walked into the shrine.

……

The shrine during the day was not as gloomy as last night, but it was still a little dark.Jiang Miao walked up to the statue of Zunshan Celestial Master with a paint bucket in his hand, and raised his chin to look at the clay sculpture of Celestial Master.

"Why help? Aren't those villagers just afraid of seeing this zombie-like fairy, worried that the clay sculpture will suddenly come back to life and bite them?" You Ji snorted coldly, throwing the paint bucket on the ground casually.

"Have you ever wondered why the statue of Taoist Zunshan became what it is now?" Jiang Miao said, "There has been no zombie attack in Wutong Village for many years, why did zombies suddenly appear again? And, with Those who left the village out of fear and returned here are still Taoist Zunshan's four subordinates."

Hearing this, You Ji couldn't help but pause for washing the brush, followed Jiang Miao's eyes to look at the portrait of Zun Shan Taoist in the center.

You Ji: "Do you think..."

Qichi followed Jiang Miao's words, and said slowly: "Last night, I seemed to remember that someone obviously saved those villagers, but he didn't dare to show up... Well, gods are not allowed to show their faces when they save people, and there is no such rule in the Three Realms, right? "He said with a faint smile, "Gathering all the villagers together seems to be done on purpose for others to see."

Jiang Miao held the dry tobacco that he had begged from the peasants, squinted his eyes slightly, raised his chin at the statue of Zunshan Daoist, and gave a smirk: "Say, is it your fault?"

Of course, no one in the shrine would pay attention to Jiang Miao.Jiang Miao also knew that now he must not rashly destroy the statue of the Celestial Master.Now the villagers of Wutong Village firmly believe in the fact that this Zunshan Celestial Master appeared and saved them. If even a brick or tile is destroyed here today, the villagers will definitely not let them go.

Besides, they can't do anything with the villagers yet.

"What should we do now?" You Ji asked.

"Since the injured Yin soldier was found here, let's look around to see if there are any clues about other missing people. It's daytime, and there are all villagers outside. A certain great fairy wants to be a good person in front of everyone. We will definitely not harm the villagers in the Tianshi Temple." Jiang Miao said.

"Jiang Xiao, come here."

Xichi's deep voice came from behind the statue of Master Zunshan.Jiang Miao quickly went around, only to see Qi Chi bent down and picked up a long black hair from the ground.

"This is……"

"It's unmistakable, it belongs to Ajiao." Xichi paused and said, "If nothing else happens, Ajiao should be with those missing Yin soldiers."

"Can't you feel Ajiao's breath?" Jiang Xiao asked with a frown.

Xi Chi shook his head.

Jiang Miao looked along the back of the statue of Tianshi, and suddenly found a very inconspicuous bump on his back.He jumped onto the altar, touched the bulge with his hand, suddenly his eyes sank, he pulled his hand towards the edge of the bulge, and twisted it hard to one side.

There was only a faint sound of breaking, and the mud attached to the protrusion fell down in a rustle.The original appearance was revealed there, which was actually an octagonal bronze mirror.

A beam of light shot out from the mirror and hit the west wall of the shrine.

"Look again." Jiang Miao said to Qichi and You Ji in a deep voice, "Are there any other bronze mirrors here?"

"Yes." Qi Chi turned his gaze to the clay sculpture of a smiling face in front of the hall, and walked forward quickly.With a slight force, he inserted his hand|into the back of the smiling face clay sculpture's head.

You Ji also ran to the clay sculpture of the crying face, and found a bump on its left arm in the same way.

There is also such a mirror located between the right arm and the mouth of the anger clay sculpture and the joy clay sculpture.

Several rays of light gathered together to form a coordinate.

You Ji was overjoyed and said, "This, refers to the back mountain!"

Jiang Miao jumped off the altar and was about to go out of the house, when Qi Chi stretched out his arms and hugged him.

"Beware of fraud." Qi Chi said in a deep voice.

At this time, a strange ringtone suddenly came from You Ji's phone.

It's the scene sung by Aunt Mei in "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village".

What the hell is this novelty-seeking aesthetic?

Before Jiang Miao could complain, You Ji had already connected the phone.

Following the content on the phone, I saw You Ji's face getting darker and darker.

"Success, I got it. Send people, I'm afraid this time the opponent will be difficult to deal with. Oh, by the way, remember to ask the brothers to bring ink fountains, peach wood, glutinous rice... Fuck! What is Yangjian? I won’t ask someone to borrow it!…Damn it, I don’t have anything I want all day long! The broken gun that comes with it can’t even kill a zombie! I’ll settle the score with you when I get back!”

You Ji vented the anger accumulated these days in one go, and slammed the phone down.

He turned his head and said coldly to Jiang Xiao, "The injured colleague woke up. He said he escaped from the cave in the back mountain of Wutong Village. He was attacked by zombies on the way, and he didn't know how he would be killed. Throw it here."

You Ji paused for a moment, looked at Qi Chi: "Also, the one in your building is also in the back mountain."

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