The bright moon sits on the ground

It was Nie Qiu who woke up first.

He didn't know how long it took him to fall asleep last night, but because there was a disciple of the Shendingmen outside the door who was seeking revenge, knocking on the door from house to house, and the sound of the wind knocking on the door alternately throughout the night, so Nie Qiu fell asleep this night. Didn't sleep well either.

Nie Qiu sat up lightly, walked around Fang Qisheng to get his robe, put it on hastily, and walked to the window.

As the sky gradually dawned, those annoying noises disappeared without a trace, and only the birds on the branches were chirping outside the window, as if everything last night was a dream he had.

He reached out and touched the thin wall and the window that was closed only a crack.

Nie Qiu grabbed the Hanshuang knife on the table, and the blade came out of its sheath in an instant, and the paper-thin blade pierced through the gap in the window.

As if the blade had obviously touched something, it paused for a moment, and then it slashed across under Nie Qiu's force, easily cutting off the soft object that hindered his movement.

There was a muffled sound when the body fell to the ground, and a scream that was cut off from the man's throat sounded particularly horrifying, and when Nie Qiu pulled the knife back, there was not even a little bit of blood on the blade.

Nie Qiu thoughtfully pushed the knife back into its sheath, turned around and saw Fang Qisheng woke up, frowning and pressing his temple.

"Wake you up?"

"I've been awake for a while," Fang Qisheng turned over and got up, "Go out and have a look."

After the two packed up, they moved away the sundries that were against the door, and when they opened the door and went out, they found that there was indeed a mess outside the door.

Not only their thatched hut, but also other families were more or less affected.

However, the disciple of the Shending Sect should have been doing evil around here for a long time, so although she knocked on doors for a long time last night, no one in the local area opened the door for her, so she worked all night but still nothing.

They went around to the window, and as expected, they saw a living dead man lying on the ground whose human shape could not be distinguished. Even though Nie Qiu cut off his body, he still twitched and writhed on the ground, trying to crawl away.

It had already crawled half a meter away, and Fang Qisheng stepped on it and kicked it back.

The art of refining corpses is difficult to practice because this technique is too contrary to the rules of heaven, just like the living dead lying on the ground now, if an ordinary person would have died long ago, but it can still move.If the disciple of the Divine Cauldron Sect controlling the undead is not killed, the undead will not "die".

Nie Qiu pulled out his knife and cut off its limbs neatly.

They tied up the living dead tightly to prevent it from hurting people with its nails or fangs stained with corpse poison, and then they planned to go to a villager to ask about the situation——Where is the disciple of the Shendingmen? How long has it been here?

The villager seemed to be afraid of being knocked on the door last night, and Nie Qiu let him open the door after talking nonsense outside the door. The young man was relieved for a moment when he saw Nie Qiu, and then he was terrified by Fang Qisheng's eyes. Almost closed the door again.

Nie Qiu pressed the door calmly, and said softly: "We want to ask you something, we will leave after we finish."

Seeing that the young man's expression softened, he said again: "We are also here to help you solve that evil way."

Fang Qisheng's eyes changed when he heard the word "evil ways" behind him, but he didn't interrupt Nie Qiu's words.

The young man looked at the long knife on Nie Qiu's waist, and then at the sword box Fang Qisheng was carrying on his back. After hesitating for a while, he took a step back and opened the door, which was a compromise, "Come in and talk."

Nie Qiu thought helplessly that this person invited them in because he was afraid of the two of them going to fight directly, but——since the goal was achieved, the rest didn't matter.With that in mind, he walked in.

When Fang Qisheng was about to enter, a living dead man suddenly jumped down from the roof.His face remained unchanged, he pulled out Zhaxue with his backhand, pierced the living dead man's body with his sword, and flung it aside.

After turning around and closing the door, Fang Qisheng turned his head and saw the young man staring at him blankly.

Nie Qiu said at the right time: "I didn't lie to you, we are really here to help you solve that evil way."

Although the conditions of this family are not good, the thatched house is much more comfortable than the place where Nie Qiu and Fang Qisheng lived before. There is a huge water tank not far from the door, and the room also has a cold and damp atmosphere. .

After the two sat down, the young man's attitude towards them was obviously much better. He poured water for them respectively, then sat down and asked, "Do you two heroes have any questions for me?"

Nie Qiu asked, "When did she come to this village?"

The young man said: "It's been half a month... that person not only stayed in our village, but sometimes went to other places along that commercial road, such as Qingchang Town not far away."

Isn't Qingchang Town the same town where they settled down in the first place?

Nie Qiu subconsciously thought of the strange behavior of that townsman, and suddenly felt that the kit in his arms was burning faintly.

"We didn't see her face directly, maybe the people who saw her face were already dead..." the young man recalled, "I only know that she came suddenly, and brought a lot of things that couldn't be killed. The monster that can't be driven away, the number of people in our town has become less and less because of her, some people have escaped, some people have been taken to nowhere by her, and now only we are left stubbornly guarding People from my hometown. She only appears at night and will not enter people's houses. After we figured out her habits, the situation gradually improved, at least fewer and fewer people disappeared."

"Where do you think she came from?" Nie Qiu asked.

The young man shrank his neck suddenly, and whispered three words: "Xiayan City."

Nie Qiu didn't think there was anything at first, but when he saw his frightened look as if he remembered something, he suddenly felt a sudden chill.

At this time in his previous life, he was far away in the imperial city. The so-called "the sky is high and the emperor is far away" probably meant this: there was no rumor about the resurgence of the Shendingmen in the imperial city, let alone Xiayan City. That's right, that place is far away from the imperial city, close to the desert, and it's not a frontier. Almost no one will notice that place.

Like a dead city.

"The bell is ringing," Fang Qisheng said, "Have you heard the bell ringing?"

The young man was silent for a moment, "That's a small copper bell, I've seen it before."

Nie Qiu and Fang Qisheng looked at each other.

"We've finished asking, thank you." Nie Qiu stood up, turned and left, "Let's go."

Seeing that they were about to leave, the young man asked blankly, "Aren't you going to sit a little longer? At least drink some water..."

He stretched out his hand to grab Fang Qisheng, but Fang Qisheng, who had been on guard for a long time, dodged sideways.

"Aren't you going to help us—" the young man staggered and fell to the ground, raised his head and shouted to the two of them.

Then he saw the exceptionally beautiful gentle young man turn around and promise coldly: "I will."

The door closed with a bang.

Nie Qiu and Fang Qisheng came out of the door, but both of them were full of thoughts and didn't know where to start.

It was Nie Qiuxian who said, "His fingertips have started to turn black."

"The water is also mixed with poison," Fang Qisheng said.

The most important point is that he said that he had seen that brass bell—he said that no one had seen the appearance of that Shending disciple, and after a while he said that he had seen that person's brass bell.

The disciples of the Divine Cauldron Sect basically control the living dead through external objects. Some use bells like the one they met, and some use silver wires like the elder of the Divine Cauldron Sect a hundred years ago. It won't be left everywhere, and the most likely thing is to bring it on my body.

Fang Qisheng went to snatch the Gu worm from that person, but he didn't know that the bell she used was made of copper, and he didn't even see where she put it. If this young man was an ordinary villager, how could he know this? ?

But what Nie Qiu was sure of was that he really wanted to harm the two of them, and he really hoped that someone would come to save him.

It's a pity that the young man was originally an ordinary citizen. He didn't have any scheming and didn't know how to hide himself. Otherwise, they might suffer here.

Fang Qisheng was thinking at this time how to get the bronze bell of the disciple of the Divine Cauldron Sect. A large part of the reason why he didn't kill her directly last night when she was weak was that since she was taken away from the Gu worm, she should stop After a while, she knocked on doors from house to house trying to find him out.Fang Qisheng always felt that this person still had a back hand, so he decided to wait and see for now.

At this time, Nie Qiu was thinking about the situation in Xiayan City, and he gave Xu Lang a weird smile when he left.

What is the use of this kit?Nie Qiu had no clue.

"Did you see what she looked like then?"

"She covered her face."

The expected answer.Nie Qiu caught a glimpse of a living dead man hiding in the shadows in the distance, staring at them intently. He ignored the cold gaze and asked, "Are you in a hurry to leave?"

"No hurry." Fang Qisheng narrowed his eyes and said, "Since you gave me the Gu worm, I'll forget about the copper bell as well."

He said the word "give" frankly, as if the disciple of the Shending Sect really gave him something willingly.

But... as expected of the leader of the Demon Cult.

With such a correspondence, perhaps the reason why the matter of Xiayan City in the previous life did not spread was that Fang Qisheng had already solved the matter completely, but Nie Qiu had never heard any rumors about this copper bell or Gu worm.

Putting this matter aside for the time being, after what happened just now, Nie Qiu had a faint feeling that almost all the villagers here were being controlled under the threat of the disciples of the Divine Cauldron Sect, which would make the situation even more unfavorable for them.

They basically know everything they need to know, and these ordinary villagers don't know much, so it's useless to dig deeper.

"One question," Nie Qiu raised a finger, "Why didn't she turn the people in the village into living dead, but used that method to control them?"

Fang Qisheng thought for a while, "Her strength is far from enough to turn so many people into living dead."

At this time, the sky was completely bright, and when Nie Qiu looked over again, the living dead hidden in the dark disappeared.

After they returned to the hut, the tightly bound living dead were still struggling in the corner.

The two horses had been led by Fang Qisheng to a piece of grass not far away, and Nie Qiu squatted down to observe the living dead carefully - he had never observed such a thing up close before, and he couldn't help sighing when he saw it. , this kind of evil technique is indeed against the way of heaven.The facial features on the face of the living dead were strangely pale, not like a normal person, but more like a clay figurine, and the body was also bare, with only four limbs left, not even a single organ in the body.

Nie Qiu picked it up and threw it outside the door into a patch of bright sunlight.

When Fang Qisheng came back, he saw Nie Qiu leaning against the door with his chest folded. On the ground not far away was the living dead who was desperately trying to crawl back and hide in the shadows again.

"The living dead will be much less aggressive during the day, and their actions will become sluggish, almost non-threatening." When Nie Qiu saw Fang Qisheng came back, he ignored the hanging dead man and came over to meet Fang Qisheng. Walking side by side, "Her lair must be in a dark place, and if we want to get rid of her completely, we have to lure her out during the day."

"That creek." Fang Qisheng was thoughtful, "I didn't see how they appeared last night, but now that I think about it, that creek must have something to do with the disciple of the Divine Cauldron Sect."

After speaking, the two immediately decided to leave and return to the place last night.

Nie Qiu rubbed the bump on Hanshuang's handle with his fingertips, and said, "I hope the water is fine."

Fang Qisheng saw him glance at the injured part of his forearm, and gently shook his arm.

"The water must be fine, I've tested it."

They used lightness skills, and they could already see the gurgling stream from a distance, which became more and more sparkling in the sun, because there was still a long distance between them, so Nie Qiu only felt that the stream was like a golden river. A dazzling light shone like a belt.

Fang Qisheng continued: "But if we want to know more, we have to dive in."