Doe

"Father, is that you?" Mu Zhishen asked in a low voice.

The figure did not respond, still standing at the end of the halo.Mu Zhishen took the lantern and took a few steps forward.That square-inch area became brighter, and the halo completely covered the figure. Only then did Mu Zhishen realize that there were no ghosts standing in front of him, but a large group of dark-colored parts on the bloody mud wall, which happened to be the shape of a person.Standing close and looking closely, the figure is not tall, on the contrary, it is quite slender.It was too far apart just now, and there were too many shadows under the light, which caused the illusion of its height.

what?

Mu Zhishen untied the scabbard and poked it into the mud wall. The end of the scabbard hit something hard and he couldn't move forward.He used the scabbard to draw along the outline of the figure, and this hard thing happened to occupy the dark black part.Mu Zhishen understood that there was something human-like in the blood mud.

There are three possibilities for what's inside.First, Grandpa must have heard the news that he had entered Mu's Fort, and sent someone in to look for him. The person sealed in blood is most likely Mu's Erlang.The second type is the remains of Erlang who entered Mujiapu in the past.The third type is the ghosts in Mujiabao.If he is unlucky, it is very likely that he is one of his relatives who have been trapped in Mu's Fort and have never been able to get out.

If it's the third case, you can't help but fight it after digging it out, and things will get tricky.He only has twelve hours, so he can't waste time.However, in the first case, things are different.Mu Zhishen didn't know how long this boy had been sealed, maybe he wasn't completely dead yet.Even if it is dug out, he will only have twelve hours left just like Mu Zhishen.

Being sealed in the dark blood mud is no different from lying in a coffin buried in the ground. This person must be very desperate.Mu Zhi took a deep breath, put down the lantern, and used the scabbard to dig the mud.

Mu Zhishen started digging from the head, exposing the mouth and nose, so that the boy could survive.Mu Zhishen dug very quickly, and it didn't take long to dig out a hole the size of a bowl.Holding up the lantern, the candlelight passed through the small hole, revealing a face wrapped in cloth.The scarlet cloth covered the entire face, and by the candlelight, the contours of the facial features could be seen slightly clearly.Mu Zhishen thought of the Thousand-Eyed Corpse in Ghost Country, which was exactly like those living corpses covered in bandages.

Mu Zhishen began to hesitate, should he be dug out?

How did he get in?Was it buried by a companion?Mu Zhishen suddenly realized that he had overlooked some things, and these neglected things were enough to make him die without a place to bury him.After entering the ghost domain, every decision is crucial.Whether it's choosing which path to take or deciding how much to eat at a meal, it can mean the difference between life and death.And some clues that are sometimes overlooked may bring fatal crisis.

For example, right now, he only cares about saving people, but forgets to think about how this person got into the blood mud.Chu Liu said that blood and mud can change people. It looks like a human being, but in fact it no longer knows what it is.If a mortal turns into a ghost, even if his heart is dug out, he can still move.Once they discover that their companions have mutated, their first choice is naturally to control each other.Burying him in bloody mud, making him unable to move, is a very good choice.

Fortunately, only the face was dug out, and the man's limbs were still inside, unable to move.Mu Zhishen took out his dagger for the final confirmation.If he is convinced that he has mutated, Mu Zhishen will give up on him.Mu Zhishen put down the lantern, pulled out his dagger, and cut through the facecloth of the man in the mud.The cloth was very thick, the blood mud hadn't been soaked through, and his face was clean.The face cloth was torn off one by one, exposing the fair cheeks of the mud man in the halo.He lifted the cloth covering his eyes, opened them, and met Mu Zhishen's eyes.

"Mu Zhishen," said the man in the mud.

With a familiar voice and a familiar face, Mu Zhishen did not expect that this person was Yu Tingqiu.Her complexion was very bad, and she was sealed in the blood mud for a long time, her face was as white as paper.

"Why are you here?" Mu Zhishen frowned.

"Looking for you."

"Why are you looking for me?"

Yu Tingqiu looked at him and said, "Because you are my fiancé."

The darkness was as silent as stagnant water, and the amber halo enveloped the cheeks of the two of them, and there was imperceptible surprise in Mu Zhishen's eyes.The candlelight like broken gold was deposited there, as if the wind was blowing, and the gold swayed slightly.He has been with knives since he was a child, and he rarely comes into contact with women, so he has no way of understanding the thoughts in their heads that are completely different from those of men.In fact, even men, sometimes he can't understand, such as that guy Xie Cenguan.He couldn't figure out how Yu Tingqiu made the decision to follow him to this treacherous place of death just because he had the identity of his fiancé, and was buried in rancid blood mud.

"Didn't the second lady give up her love and desires?" Mu Zhishen asked her while digging the wall.

"It's not thorough enough, so I came to you." Yu Tingqiu looked down at his white nape, and felt that this man was not bad.

Mu Zhishen: "..."

Really not understanding this girl, Mu Zhishen stopped asking, and asked why she was buried in blood mud.

Yu Tingqiu answered briefly.She entered Mu's Fort from the virtual gate of the sixth day of junior high school. Since she didn't know where Mu Zhishen started from, she took a different path from him.According to what she said, when she was walking halfway, someone grabbed her ankle suddenly, and when she looked down, she saw a strange face crawling at her feet.

"There are people here," Yu Tingqiu said, "There are a lot of people, they pulled me into the wall."

Mu Zhishen frowned and looked around, but he didn't find the weird person Yu Tingqiu said.

Yu Tingqiu went on to say that at the last moment when she was about to be completely buried, she made an important decision—tear off her clothes, wrap her head and face, and pretend to die.This undoubtedly bought her precious time until Mu Zhishen's rescue.

"Hurry up and dig," Yu Tingqiu looked around and said, "I always feel that this mud is not a good thing."

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Baili Jueming suspected that Mu Pingwu's group of grandsons had opened the door in the wrong place, so he crawled for less than half an hour, and kept crawling in a corridor.The zenith is too low, so that he can only walk with his back bent.The walls are covered with muddy things, as if the mud was not dry when the walls were built, and it was just left here to dry.Mu Pingwu said that the mud should not be touched directly. Before he came in, he wrapped his head and face, and also wore gloves and a scarf. The whole body was wrapped more tightly than those zongzi-like thousand-eyed corpses.Just crawling here is too exhausting, Baili Jueming really wants to burn this place clean with a torch.But Mu Zhishen hasn't found him yet, so he can't act rashly.

He stopped, picked up the lantern and looked back.The female ghost in red is looming at the corner of the corridor, her curly hair like a black snake stretches and shrinks as if breathing.This woman is too persistent, wherever he goes, she will follow.

He stared at the tangle of hair, feeling inexplicably agitated.I had provoked her once before, but being followed like this all the time, it was unavoidably creepy.He hasn't slept since he came out of Tiandu Mountain, so he might as well have a quick fight.However, this ghost mother has an evil nature and refuses to fight, but follows from a distance.Baili Jueming chased after her, and she disappeared.Baili Jueming became more and more irritable, and there was an indescribable hatred and disgust in his heart, covering his heart like a dark cloud.

The matter in front of him is more important, this place is really weird, Mu Pingwu gave him a copy of the original map of Mujiabao, put it on his lap and looked at it, he couldn't figure out where he is now.The surrounding roads and spaces are completely different from those marked on the map. The blood mud has sealed all the light leaks and changed the shape of the building.This is definitely not where the Mu family used to live, unless they are all a group of crawling bugs.Mujiabao was transformed by these bloody mud-like things, and became a huge closed lair.

He moved the wind lamp to observe the mushy blood mud carefully.In the long passageway, it was dark on all sides, only he had a small handful of halos surrounding him.What are these blood slimes?How did you get it out?Mu Pingwu said that Mujiabao is so big that it occupies an area equivalent to a small town.To climb down like this is to climb to the year of the monkey, not to mention the cargo he left in Mujiabao, it is Mu Zhishen, I am afraid that there is no life waiting for him at all.

Having no clue, feeling restless in my heart, I suddenly realized that the ghost mother hadn't moved for a long time, and there was no sign of following at all.He crawled back and forth, stretched out the lantern to look around the corner, but found that the ghost mother at the corner was gone.

Finally gave up?Baili Cassia climbed to the corner, but the road was empty.

It didn't feel that simple, and just as he was wondering, many hairs emerged from the blood mud, writhing around like earthworms.Baili Jueming suddenly realized that the ghost mother was swallowed by blood mud.How did this girl get swallowed?The wall is standing upright, can she still hit the wall by herself?She seemed to be out of her mind, but it wasn't impossible.

Baili Jueming poked the wall with the light pole, and the lights and shadows of the scenery swayed and swayed non-stop.

Plan for the worst in everything, assuming that the ghost mother is not stupid enough to get into the wall by herself, then this broken wall is tricky.

The blood and mud obviously couldn't trap the ghost mother, and more and more hairs grew out of the ghost mother, and Baili Jueming could see the top of her dark head.The fear and disgust in my heart became more and more dense, like a chrysalis ready to move.He hung the lantern around his neck, turned around and continued to climb forward.

Turning around, the light shone forward, and he saw an extra face on the ramp ahead.

It is not accurate to say that it is a face, because Baili Jueming only saw a pair of slit-like eyes.Those eyes were about to be opened or not, and the tip of the eyes was slanted up, revealing a sinister look.The mud here is full of pits and pits, and it is not uncommon for some patterns that look like human faces to appear, but the lines of the half-squinted long eyes are very uncomfortable.

Baili Jueming closed his eyes, and looked again, but the face was gone, and the ramp was covered with bloody mud.

No, no, there must be something weird about this wall.

When he was climbing the slope ahead, he didn't see a human face, but he saw it when he turned around.That face seemed to be spying on him, with a feeling of waiting for an opportunity to attack.That being the case, Baili Jueming took the lantern off his neck and turned his head abruptly.

At this time, Baili Jueming saw countless slender eyes looking at him coldly in the gap between the twisting of the ghost mother's hair.The cobweb-like strands of hair block their vision from time to time. The ghost mother is now in the mud wall, and it is conceivable that she is crowded together with countless strange people.The hair seemed to restrain them, and they grimaced, several rolling their eyes.

"His grandma, dare to make a surprise attack." Baili Jueming poked some of the faces hard. These faces seemed to have no bones, and they poked every hole.Baili Jueming released the earth fire, and sure enough, the blood mud within three feet retreated like crazy, and distanced himself from him.These muds are alive, and they are full of "people".

A little way ahead, Baili Jueming scraped the bloody mud on the wall with a dagger while climbing, and the original stone wall was exposed. Baili Jueming relied on this to roughly judge his position.The stone walls are made of Taihu stones, most of which are rough and uneven. What is even more surprising is that many of them have been eroded by blood mud. These rancid muds are closely connected with Taihu stones, which looks like sarcoids growing on the stones.He guessed right, they not only eat people, but also eat stones.

Since it was the Taihu Stone, Baili Jueming speculated that he was in the garden of Mujiapu.Flowers and plants must have been eaten up by the blood mud, and stones are hard to chew, so they eat slowly.Crawling in the corridor was really aggrieved, Baili Jueming chose a direction and climbed towards the buildings.After climbing for about half a stick of incense, I finally saw a light ahead.He speeded up, the light was getting closer and closer, the yellow color filled the hole, like a piece of crystal jade.

He was about to get out when he suddenly felt something was wrong.The yellow light is not skylight, but candlelight. Someone is lighting candles outside.

Is it Mu Zhishen?Or a ghost living in Mujiabao?He quietly turned off the lantern under his neck, and slowly poked his head out.A smell of rotten wood rushed into his nostrils, making him want to vomit.The hole in the wall was near the base, like a mouse hole.Outside was a room, about half eaten away by blood and mud.The opposite wall is covered with moldy spots like eyes, and half of it from the roof to the brick wall is blood mud, full of potholes and holes, disgusting like a beehive.

Diagonally opposite is a gold and silver floor-to-ceiling screen, candles are lit behind the screen, and the screen is embroidered with carved birds, which is surprisingly well preserved and has not been corroded by blood mud.Probably because gold and silver are harder to chew than stones, they don't like it.

But what surprised Baili Jueming was not this, but a figure sitting behind the screen.

The silhouette and sitting posture of the shadow didn't look like Mu Zhishen. Mu Zhishen was a guy who stood like a pine and sat like a bell. Even if he was sitting in the mud, he was sitting upright as if he was attending a banquet.

Human or ghost?

Baili Jueming slowed down, half of his body leaned out of the cave quietly.At this moment, the figure moved, its head turned, and it seemed to be looking in the direction of Baili Cassia.Looking at each other from a distance, even though they are separated by a screen, there is still something creepy.Whether he is a man or a ghost, let's try his barbecue first.In terms of terror, who can defeat him?He was about to release the true fire of samadhi, when he suddenly felt itchy on his back, when he looked back, the ghost mother was lying on his shoulder, her hair-covered face was only a slap away from him.Even though her hair covered her face, Baili Jueming could still feel the ghost mother's staring gaze.

Damn it, when did she climb out of the mud wall?He didn't hear a sound.I never thought that the ghost mother would make trouble at this time. The moment her face was pressed against her face, her scalp almost exploded.Ignoring the ghost behind the screen, Baili Jueming didn't even think about it, the flames in his palm burst out instantly, and he slammed his palm on her Tianling cover.

The top of the ghost mother's head was burning and smoking, and she immediately screamed miserably.The woman's voice was high-pitched and extremely sharp, as if a knife had cut her eardrum, and Baili Jueming was almost not deafened by her.Then she backed up with hands and feet, and Baili Jueming decided not to do anything else, so he simply climbed back to chase her again.Just as he climbed back, suddenly a hand grabbed his ankle and dragged him out.At the same time, more cold hands came through the hole and grabbed his ankle.He was terrified, it turned out that there was more than one ghost outside.Looking down, countless pairs of pale claws reached for his legs.Looking up again, the ghost mother in the depths of the corridor stopped backing, her black hair curled and squirmed frantically, rolling towards him along the mud wall.

There are wolves in the front and tigers in the back, and the corridor is too narrow to use.

Baili Jueming gritted his teeth, gave up resisting, and let the ghost outside pull him out.

Out of the hole, the eyes suddenly brightened, the palm flame was ready to go, suddenly all hands let go of him, and many men in black ran forward and pushed down the cabinets and floor screens to block the hole.The ghost mother hit the cabinet like a cannonball, making bang bang noises.The people in black pressed the cabinet tightly, motionless.

They were busy, and no one paid any attention to Baili Cassia.Baili Jueming was in a daze, unable to understand where this group of people came from.Raising his head in a daze, a man wearing a black iron mask came into view.Tall and straight, as beautiful as pine and bamboo, Baili Jueming was lying on the ground, just in time to see his smooth chin.This outline was so familiar, Baili Jueming unconsciously thought of Pei Zhenlai, when that little bastard stepped on his chest with bare feet, looking down, his chin was so pretty.

The man bent over with his hands behind his back, looked at him and smiled, the mask covered most of his face, and couldn't hide the dancing smile on the corners of his eyes and brows.In his drooling eyes, only the dazed shadow of Baili Jueming was reflected.

"Long time no see." He said.

Baili Jueming felt that he looked familiar, but stared at him for a long time and didn't remember it.

Baili Jueming said: "Where is the grandson who dares to pull your grandfather's leg!"

Shi Wu read: "..."