Doe

After a stick of incense, everyone arrived.Chuyi told Pei Zhen and Baili Jueming what they saw before, and Pei Zhen looked through the binoculars for a while, but there were no lights there anymore, as if what they saw before was just an illusion.There are too many tree houses, Chu Chu only remembers the general direction, and it is impossible to determine which wooden house is emitting the light.

Is the figure behind it a ghost, Xie Cenguan, or the Masang people who have survived so far?Must go and have a look.

Pei Zhen asked the others to stay behind, stepped on the vines with Baili Jueming, and entered the range of the treehouses without a sound.

The nearly rotten wooden planks creaked under the feet, which was very abrupt in the silent jungle.Baili Jueming kept his footsteps as light as possible, grabbed a thick vine stretching above his head, and swung into the opposite tree house.He landed on the pole vine that served as a ladder, turned around and took Pei Zhen over.The two squatted at the door, listening to the movement inside.

No sound, dead silence.

Baili Jueming stretched out his fingers and gently pushed open the wooden door.There was a creaking sound in the door mortar, like a moan of pain, the wooden door opened slowly, and the darkness inside opened quietly.Pei Zhen lit the lantern and sent it in with a pick, and the inside became a little brighter.This is a narrow tree house where at most three people can lie down.A black coffin with a tall head was parked in the middle, and all furniture, tables and chairs were placed against the wall, as if to make room for the coffin.

Seeing this coffin, the two of them simultaneously thought of the ghost in Mu's Ghost Castle.If there was another goblin here that could release gore, it would be enough for them to drink a pot.

Baili Jueming snorted, "You said you wanted to see the bones of the Masang people, what's the matter, you want to open the coffin?"

"Senior, this coffin has already been opened." Pei Zhen said.

Baili Jueming was stunned for a moment, then bent down to look at the cracks in the coffin.Sure enough, the coffin nails were gone, and the coffin had been opened.

Pei Zhen found the coffin nail on the ground, which was covered with a layer of old dust, and there were marks of being pried on the edge.

In all likelihood, it was opened by the Baili Cassia before his death.That Baili Cassia walked through West Nanda once, and found out a relatively safe route for them.However, the night is so dark that it is impossible to see things at all, and it is impossible to judge where they are on the map, or whether they are on the right route.

Simply do not follow what Baili Jueming said, even if he acts according to what he said, absolute safety cannot be guaranteed.If you want to be truly safe, you must know this place well.

"It has been opened and has not been re-sealed, so there should be no danger." Pei Zhen made a decisive decision, "Open the coffin."

Head to tail, the two lifted the coffin board at the same time, and carefully placed it on the ground, making sure that there would be no loud noise during the movement.As soon as the coffin board was opened, the rancid smell filled the whole tree house.Baili Jueming cut off the flow of spiritual power that simulated breathing, picked up the lantern, and leaned into the coffin.Inside lay a rotting corpse with a blurry face and two rows of miserable white teeth.There is a piece of ice cicada jade next to its head, which slows down its decay.According to normal circumstances, it should have become a bone long ago.

It looked like a female corpse. The belly of the corpse was larger than normal and had been cut with a sharp weapon. She probably died of dystocia by caesarean section.

Baili Jueming shook his head and sighed, "It's really miserable for a pregnant woman to live in such a ghostly place."

Pei Zhen covered his mouth and nose, put on his gloves, pulled out his dagger and cut open the corpse's clothes, revealing her horrible wounds.It was full of maggots, squirming together densely, and at first glance it looked like paste.Baili Jueming felt his scalp tingle and retched several times.Pei Zhen didn't let him stand still, but asked him to wear gloves to clean up the maggots inside the corpse.

Baili Jueming closed his eyes, his heart became ruthless, and he put his hand into the abdominal cavity of the corpse.

Pei Zhen's face was extremely ugly. He had dissected the corpse, but he had never dissected such a disgusting corpse.If he had to see the condition of the abdominal organs of the corpse with his own eyes, he would never take a half step near her.After working for a long time, they took back the dagger, and the two took off their gloves and put in a small bundle.

Baili Jueming wanted to spit out his intestines, and asked him with difficulty: "What do you see?"

"This person is not a woman, but a man." Pei Zhen looked down at the corpse in the coffin with a very complicated expression.

"Huh?" Baili Jueming was stunned, "Then he didn't die in childbirth?"

"Of course, there is no other injury on his body except for the abdominal scar. Someone cut open his belly and opened his stomach sac." Pei Zhen said in a deep voice, "The disease is in the stomach, senior, do you remember anything?"

"Stomach..." Baili Jueming murmured in a low voice, and suddenly remembered that the little figure in Yu Lianhai's mouth crawled up from his throat.In the throat is the esophagus, which is connected to the stomach.The dead Masang man had his stomach dissected and his stomach sac cut, maybe there was something in his stomach, and his tribe had no choice but to cut his stomach in order to save him.It's a pity that the medical skills are not good, and the patient died of bleeding.

Could it be the stuff in Yu Lianhai's mouth in his stomach?

"No way, a human grew out of this man's stomach?" Baili Jueming was shocked.

Pei Zhen nodded, "If my guess is correct, the ghosts outside were conceived in the stomachs of the Masang people. This strange pregnancy disease is not only fatal, but also quite contagious. They tried to save themselves and expel the ghosts by cutting open their stomachs, but they failed. Effectiveness. In the end, the entire Marsang family died of the disease. These tree houses were their shelters during their lifetime and their coffins after death.”

"..." Baili Jueming was stunned, shook his head and said, "I don't believe it, I'll go to another tree house to see."

Baili Jueming looked from tree house to tree house, Pei Zhen guessed right, there were coffins parked in every tree house, some had one, some had two, the most were four small coffins, inside were lying coffins. should be children.Baili Jueming had mixed feelings in his heart. These Masang people left their homes and fled to the holy place recorded in their scriptures, trying to escape the threat of the ghost mother under the protection of the holy place.But instead of giving them shade, Xi Nanda made them suffer from such a strange and strange disease.The Masang family died, and the ghosts bred in their bodies took over West Nanda.

Why is this happening?Baili Cassia felt a tight pain in her chest.For some reason, since entering here, he has felt a heavy sadness.There is endless cold rain falling on my head, and the raindrops are dense and continuous.

Back at Pei Zhen's place, Pei Zhen chose a spacious tree house and called Mu Zhishen and the others over.

This tree house seems to have been specially selected by Pei Zhen. There are tall sky-watching trees on all sides, covering the house like an umbrella. The room is extremely humid and dark.Pei Zhen lit the lantern and said, "Now it's time to solve our own problems." He picked up the Tianji sundial, "There is still half an hour before dawn. From now on, we will stay here and wait for dawn. Since we have not The memories of the daytime, when the daytime comes to Xi Nanda, something strange must happen."

Yu Tingqiu frowned and said: "Is this useful? What if we forget about the day's affairs when the night comes?"

Pei Zhen nodded at her, "Second lady, please be safe. The third day of junior high school has placed eight bronze mirrors in the eight corners of this tree house, and they will record the daytime in West Nanda and what we have done. In order to prevent accidents during the day, such as someone being possessed by an evil spirit and destroying the bronze mirror. Only the third grader will know where these mirrors are installed. After he hides the bronze mirror, he will destroy his body and return to my shadow. So all of us present I can't even know the location of the bronze mirror, and when the night falls, I will ask the third grader and get the bronze mirror back."

After the plan was agreed upon, no one had any objections, and the third day of junior high school left the tree house to destroy itself.Baili Jueming leaned against the window and looked out. There were tree houses one after another, leaning against giant trees and vines, where the Masang people lived in the past.Did everyone die without exception?Did anyone survive?He thought of the lamp mentioned at the beginning, leaning on the window sill and sticking his neck out to look around, it was dark everywhere, there was no light, only the tide-like night flooding the whole world.

He retracted and looked back. Everyone was asleep, and snorting one after another could be heard in the silence.Pei Zhen was sleeping next to him, and his brows were furrowed as he fell asleep. This kid was very thoughtful, his hair would grow gray if he kept going like this.He closed the window, quietly approached Pei Zhen, and moved Pei Zhen's head to his shoulder.

He decided not to sleep, to keep watch, so as not to be attacked by ghosts or something.But his eyelids became heavier and heavier, he tilted his head and fell asleep.

"senior!"

Someone pinched his face, rubbed and rubbed it.Baili Jueming finally woke up, and sat up with his eyes wide open.I just woke up, my eyes were bleary, two hairs were raised on my head, and I was still confused.Looking left and right, the room was pitch black, with a lantern placed in the middle, and the people sitting around were sitting upright with dignified expressions.The lights covered their faces, and everyone seemed to be wearing a golden mask.The shadows stretched long behind them, and there was a kind of weird horror.

His mind gradually became clear, and he suddenly turned around to look outside, it was night again.

They missed the day again.

"Where's the mirror?" Baili Jueming asked.

Baili Jueming was the last to wake up, Pei Zhen had already taken out the mirror and placed it on the ground.

Pei Zhen drew the talismans one by one, the mirror became brighter like a lamp, and the scene inside clearly appeared.

Baili Jueming took a mirror to look at it. The light inside was dim at first, and it was vaguely clear that everyone was sleeping soundly. The boy in the second year of junior high school even picked his nostrils unconsciously.The sky is getting brighter, and the room is also a little brighter.The light was very strange, revealing a touch of carmine.The red light penetrated through the window screens, marking a row of latticework on the wooden floor.The bright red window screen is a little bit bright, like a bride's square hijab.

No one wakes up, everyone sleeps in the shadows.

Baili Jueming raised his head and looked at Mu Zhishen and Pei Zhen.Except for the ghost servants present, only the three of them had entered the ghost country before.They all remember the bright light in the ghost country, and the bright light is such a red color.When bright light appears, the ghost mother will come out to eat people.But this is Xi Nanda, so it should be different from the ghost country.

After watching for a long time, they in the mirror have been sleeping, all of them look like dead pigs.Could it be that the bright light of West Nanda hypnotizes?

At this time, a terrible sight appeared.A shadowy figure appeared outside the window screen, the shadow continued to deepen, and the crowd was crowded, moving left and right.Baili Cassia was terrified, her hands and feet were cold.Who would have thought that there was something outside the house when they were sleeping soundly.The shadow is getting bigger and bigger, those people are approaching the wooden house.Just when Baili Jueming thought they were going to come in, they stopped outside the window without moving.The shadows were motionless, and some tilted their heads, as if they were watching the sleeping people in the tree house.

Is it the ghosts from last night?No, those things are afraid of light, how can they stand under the light?Baili Jueming's heart skipped a beat, feeling that something was wrong.He put down the mirror, poked his head out to look out, and broke out in cold sweat for a moment.

Outside the window is several feet high in the sky, and there is no place to stay at all.Where do the "people" in the mirror stand looking at them?

"It's a ghost," Mu Zhi said in a deep voice, "There is no ghost attached to the body."

Pei Zhen added: "Only ghosts can float up."

"How is it possible? You can only see ghosts by rubbing locust tree leaves. How can the octagonal bronze mirror reflect ghosts?" Baili Jueming asked in a low voice.

"It is recorded in the Masang scriptures that after death, a person sees three layers of bright light, which reflects the joy and anger of his life, and finally returns to silence." Pei Zhen frowned, "The bright light is the light that can only be seen after death, maybe the bright light appears. At this time, it is the time when yin and yang intersect. When yin and yang intersect, people and ghosts cannot be distinguished. At this time, we can see ghosts."

"You mean ghosts will appear in the bright light?" Baili Jueming thought for a while, then shook his head, "No, why didn't we see ghosts when the bright light appeared in the ghost kingdom?"

As soon as the words were asked, he understood by himself.The ghosts in the ghost country are almost eaten by the ghost mother.

"Stop making noise, look, what are those ghosts doing?" Yu Tingqiu said.

The tall figure at the front stretched out a finger and swiped it on the window screen.One stroke at a time, as if writing.Pei Zhen immediately drew out the dagger, and everyone made room for him. Pei Zhen followed the ghost's movements and restored his strokes on the wooden floor.

After writing a line, the ghost left, leaving only the bright red window screen and the sleeping people in the mirror.

Everyone looked at the characters copied by Pei Zhen on the ground. They looked like six independent characters, but they had never heard of this shape, and they had never seen it before, so they couldn't figure it out.

They were too unfamiliar with the Yuchong script, Pei Zhen had been identifying Masang's script under Wu Du's hands since he was a child, and he knew what was going on with these words at a glance.

"The words are reversed."

Pei Zhen re-wrote these six characters with the opposite strokes.Following his movements, Masang Feather and Insect Seals gradually appeared on the dagger:

"Er, wait, belly, middle, you, ghost."