Doe

The dark path was long and deep, with bloody walls on both sides. Yu Tingqiu felt that she was walking in the intestines of a human body, and she was the prey swallowed by monsters.Occasionally, you can see the ever-burning lamp poured into the ground with molten iron, and the area illuminated by the light is engraved with pure heart determination.I don't know what this thing does. After studying it for a while, they thought it was something to pray for.

After walking for more than an hour, I still haven't walked out of this narrow path.Sometimes the road will break, the blood mud wall will change instantly, and a hut will be embedded inexplicably.There is no transition from the blood mud wall to the tung oil boards of the hut, and the mud wall and wood boards are seamlessly connected together.

More often than not, the path would become twisted and narrow, twisting and twisting like twists and turns, forcing them to climb and move forward.On the way, two ghost servants fell into the dark space crack and never came out again.The only thing to be happy about is that the blood mud seems to be decreasing. Over the past hour, the blood mud on the two walls has become thinner and thinner, revealing the black stone walls in several places.

"No, this is not a good thing." Mu Zhishen said suddenly.

"Why?" Yu Tingqiu asked, "Didn't they say that they would be finished if they got this mud?"

Mu Zhishen didn't answer directly, but turned around and asked the third grader, "Is there still no news from Xie Xunwei?"

On the third day of junior high school, he fiddled with the Lianxin lock, sweating profusely.

"No, not only Langjun, but even the first brother and second brother are silent. Mu Langjun, Langjun and Senior Baili are together, it should be fine."

Mu Zhishen shook his head heavily, and the halo of the lantern flowed across his face like flowing gold, even so it could not conceal his paleness.Seeing him shaking his head, the faces of the remaining three ghost servants also turned pale.They are the ghosts of Xie Xunwei, relying on Xie Xunwei to connect with the world, without Xie Xunwei, they will become lonely wandering souls again.

Every ghost is perseveringly looking for a skin that can shelter. Only with a skin can they return to the world, and can touch the fallen leaves, running water, wind and rain.Without skins, ghosts are phantoms in the world. Countless people pass through their bodies, unable to talk or communicate, just like a flat boat in the vast sea.Even ghosts who have lost their lives cannot bear that kind of loneliness.

"You misunderstood what I meant." Mu Zhishen said.

"What?" The third grader suddenly raised his head.

"Our situation is more dangerous than that of Xie Xunwei." Mu Zhishen glanced aside, and a tung oil board was suddenly inserted in the middle of the mud wall there, "I remember you said that the ghost mother came in with Senior Baili, and the ghost mother's spell It’s changing time and space. I’m not sure if time has changed, but we’ve all seen the changes in space.” He broke open the board with force, and behind him was a crack in space, dark and empty, and he didn’t know where he would go when he entered it, “ The ghost castle has become a domain in the domain, and the ghost domain of the ghost mother has shrouded it. She has re-bridged the space, so the stone will grow with the wood."

"Change time and space..." Yu Tingqiu felt surprised, "There is such a technique."

"In this way, our map will be useless." The third grader looked serious.

"Ghost Mother transformed Yinmu Village in the same way, but as far as I can see, Ghost Castle is far worse than Yinmu Village. At least Yinmu Village has preserved a complete hut, so that different huts are collaged with each other, while Ghost Everything in the castle is broken." Mu Zhishen frowned, "Plus the blood mud is decreasing and disappearing..."

The pupils of the third grader narrowed their eyes, "You mean..."

The appearance of Baili Jueming mutated due to hunger was vivid in his memory, and a creepy answer appeared in Yu Tingqiu's heart.

"The magic spell consumes too much for the ghost mother. She is very hungry and she is looking for food."

In the third grade of junior high school, I looked back at the thin walls of blood and mud, and observed closely, there were indeed traces of licking on them.

Mu Zhishen had obviously noticed the lick mark, "Ghost mother came here and ate the blood mud here. Since ten steps ago, the blood mud wall has become thinner. So since ten steps ago, we will walk in the On the route that the ghost mother traveled."

After he finished speaking, cold sweat broke out on everyone's forehead.There is no need for Mu Zhishen to say that there is no ghost who has never heard of the name Huangquan Ghost Mother.Although Baili Jueming is frightening, he is a person who can be seen and touched.The ghost mother of Huangquan has always been passed down as a legend. No one knows when she died and where her ghost country is.She was nested in the hole before, and even if there was a way to block her, if they met face to face, it would be easier to commit suicide.

The ghost mother came here and ate the blood mud here, so which direction did she go?Should they go forward or back?If the ghost mother and they are both moving forward, and they walk too fast, they are likely to catch up with the ghost mother.Only by going in a different direction from the ghost mother can they survive.

Mu Zhishen signaled everyone not to move, and squatted down to check the footprints on the ground.After careful inspection for a while, Mu Zhishen pointed to the back, "Go back the way you came, don't go forward."

Walking back and forth, everyone found that the way they came from was completely different from what they remembered.Ghost Mother's ghost realm seems to change every moment, which is not a good sign, because it means that the direction has no meaning in the ghost realm.Once the road to the ghost mother is spliced ​​in front of them, they are finished.

Everyone was silent and stopped walking, and Mu Zhishen's face was also very solemn.

Yu Tingqiu gave a "tsk", "I thought you gang of evil ghost servants were capable, but it turned out to be nothing more than that, look at how cowardly you are."

The evil spirits looked at her expressionlessly, Mu Zhishen frowned, and stood in the middle, blocking the eyes of the evil spirits.He looked at Yu Tingqiu, "Is there a way?"

Yu Tingqiu shrugged, "I thought of a good idea. How about an exchange, you tell me what happened when you were 12 years old, and I'll tell you the solution."

Mu Zhishen lowered his eyebrows and looked at his palm. There was a little bit of bright red color under the bandage. It was his skin. It was stained with blood mud before, and his skin was changing, becoming the same as the blood mud.He tied the bandage tightly, and said calmly: "Second lady, since I come back here, I don't plan to go out. You are saving yourselves."

"Oh, I know." Yu Tingqiu said, "So what happened when you were 12 years old, was it your crazy father who made the Mujiabao like this?"

Mu Zhishen was silent for a long time, what is there to say?It is said that the rumors from the outside world are all wrong, is it his mother who went crazy?Did you say that evil spirits invaded Mujiabao 18 years ago and lurked beside Aunt?He clearly remembered that that year, because of the sudden increase in Yin Qi, he fell into a serious illness. When he was in a daze, he saw a pair of withered hands pressing on the top of his head in the mirror.He wanted to cry out for help, but the ghost bed made him speechless.The family members only knew that he had suffered from wind evil, but no one found that terrifying evil spirit lurking beside him.Every night, there would be a row of bloody footprints under his bed.

He remembered more clearly that one night when he finally woke up, the shadow of the evil spirit no longer appeared in the mirror.He thought that their lives were back on track, that there would be no more infestation by evil spirits, no more suffering from illnesses.Two years without incident, the snowy night, the sky and the earth are white.He woke up in the middle of the night, but saw his mother standing outside his moon hole window with disheveled hair, holding a bloody ax and the head of his little sister in her hand.

It was too late to discover everything. His mother had already been deceived by the evil spirits, her skills were disordered, she became obsessed, and she couldn't distinguish between ghosts and humans.The servants called her a lunatic, and chained her hands and feet when she was insane.The grandfather forced his father to kill his wife, and chose a young and beautiful lady from the side of the Mu family to send him to his father's bed, intending to make him forget his affection for his mother.

The father couldn't do anything, so he decided to exorcise the evil spirit.He fed my mother to drink amulet gray water, drained her blood, tied her hands and feet with red thread... all methods were exhausted, but nothing worked.Mu Zhishen watched his grandmother being locked in a cage, crawling like an animal, and a man's sinister laugh came out of Yin Hong's mouth.

In the end, the father imprisoned the mother in the Mu family bunker, hoping that the ancestors' heroic spirits would suppress the evil spirits that were eyeing them.Father took him far to Baochen Mountain, on the one hand, to ask Senior Baili to accept him as an apprentice, and take him away from the intrusion of ghosts, on the other hand, to ask the great master to come out of the mountain, and subdue the evil ghosts in Mujiabao.However, Grandpa Gu Nian's family should not be publicized, so while his father was away from home, he sent people to open the Mu family's bunker, intending to kill people and seal ghosts.Five elders of the Mu family and twenty high-ranking disciples of the Mu family jointly arranged a formation, but they were unable to defeat the raging evil spirit after all.Grandma escaped from the formation, slaughtered her family and wiped out her family, leaving blood everywhere.

He remembered that last day, when he and his father returned to Mujiabao, everything was irreparable.The autumn frost all over the sky, the wind all over the sky, the blood light reflected on the sky, and the red clouds all over the sky were illuminated.Father took off his shirt, revealing the evil tattoo that Grand Master had embroidered on him.The ferocious tattoos glowed blue, and the fangs of the ghost head seemed to be piercing through his thin chest.

"Run out, Shen'er, run out hard."

"how about you?"

"You're a man, it doesn't matter if you're alone." His father stroked the top of his head, his eyes filled with grief, "Your mother and younger sister need my father's company. Shen'er, you can be alone, right? "

can he?Can he really do it?

He stroked the rough sharkskin handle and closed his eyes.Why do men need to be alone?If given his choice, he would rather die that night 16 years ago.In that way, even death is a family reunion.

He is 28 years old this year, and he can finally pull out a knife as strong as a wolf's claw like his father.So he's back, back to his doomed death, for a reunion that won't end.He chose to help Xie Xunwei not because of any righteousness or integrity, but because he knew the pain of parting from his loved ones.Xie Xun lived in vain for eight years, and he walked alone for 16 years.He knew that a child who lost his home would walk alone, and he also knew that he would spend his whole life to find his lost home.

"Hurry up and find a way to get out of here." Mu Zhishen lowered his head and packed his bags, and said in a low voice, "We part ways here, I wish you good luck."

He turned around to go, and went deep into the corridor.The black-haired man in black seemed to melt into the bottomless darkness if he didn't pay attention.Yu Tingqiu thinks that he can be friends with Xie Xunwei because both of them like to seek death, and they will go wherever it is easy to die.She raised her ancestral sword and slammed it on his neck.

Mu Zhishen's back froze, he turned around slowly, and looked at her coldly.

Silence all around, very embarrassing.Yu Tingqiunahan said: "Are you hard? You won't get dizzy if you knock like this, why don't you let me knock again?"

The man didn't say a word, and slowly got shorter, and finally fell to the ground with a bang, and passed out.

Yu Tingqiu kicked him on the body, "I want to have a romantic relationship with you, how can I let you run away?" She waved her hand and called the junior three over, "You are responsible for carrying him."

"..." Junior Three asked, "The Second Lady just said there is a way?"

"Yes." Yu Tingqiu suddenly punched out, hitting the wall where the blood and mud were stripped and the black stone was exposed.Stones and bones fell, and dust was everywhere.No one could have imagined that the girl had such great strength. The ghost servants looked at each other in blank dismay. If they didn't use magic techniques, even the ghost servants would not be able to crush the three-foot-thick stone wall with one punch.Just now Yu Tingqiu used brute force, how strong is this force?

After the smoke and dust cleared, the light of the wind lamp slowly penetrated the darkness, and a narrow wooden tunnel fell into their eyes.Yu Tingqiu climbed in first, and said: "The method is very simple, we don't follow the path left by the ghost mother, but walk our own path."

The third grader had nothing to say, and climbed into the tunnel with Mu Zhishen on his back.The place hadn't been eroded much by gore, dust, and feather-thick cobwebs.The last ghost attendant put back the stones at the entrance of the cave so that the ghost mother would not discover their whereabouts.Yu Tingqiu took the lead and walked forward on his knees. This place is probably under the floor of a small building. High-ranking and wealthy families often build such fortifications, hollowing out the floor below, specially for hiding gold and silver.

There was silence all around, this is not a human world, there is no need to pretend to be a stranger, the three ghost servants including the third day of junior high school no longer imitate the breathing of a living person.So the place became even quieter again, save for the crunch of their knees against the planks.After climbing for a long time, I didn't get out. Climbing alone on this narrow ground floor is already aggrieved enough. In the third year of junior high school, I have to carry Mu Zhishen on my back, which is really unbearable.Just as he was about to ask a question, he made a sound, and suddenly a hand stretched out from the side, covering his mouth tightly.

"Stop!" It was Yu Tingqiu's voice.

The ghost servants stopped at the sound, and then the wind lamp was also extinguished, and the surroundings sank into darkness as heavy as iron.

Obviously everyone stopped, but the sound of crawling did not stop.

"Crack-crack-crack-crack-"

In the third grade of junior high school, his eyes narrowed, his back felt cold, and he looked around, trying to identify where the voice came from.Is there someone crawling in the dark?

"On top." Yu Tingqiu said in a low voice.

As soon as she finished speaking, dust suddenly fell from the top of her head, covering her head like flakes of snow.

"Squeak—creak—"

Not the sound of crawling, but the sound of footsteps.Step by step, the rhythm is slow, from far to near.The only sound left in the silence was the footsteps, which seemed to tread eerily on the ends of their bristling hair.Everyone raised their heads in unison, and a distorted shadow passed over their faces through the gaps in the planks.Someone passed over their heads, just above them.