This Damned Thirst for Survival

The night is quiet and the stars are twinkling.

In the city, it is rare to see such beautiful stars.The moon is white and the wind is clear. It should be quiet and beautiful, but at this time, no one has the leisure to appreciate such a starry sky.

After the sacrifice, Jiang Luo took off his mask.This pair of masks made him feel uncomfortable. He was obviously smiling, but he had a lifeless feeling, rigid, stiff, and full of weirdness.

He stuffed the mask into his pocket and listened quietly to the contestants' whispered conversations.

"Did you find anything today?"

"Nothing, what about you?"

"Me neither. However, I found that there are very few elderly people in this village."

"Even the village head looks like he's only in his 50s, not too old."

There are many elderly people in the countryside who are still working in the fields at the age of 60 or 80. Therefore, the elderly in the countryside are healthy and can live to be [-] or [-] years old. .

But in Shentu Village, there were not many old people.

After Jiang Luo eavesdropped on the conversation, he stopped listening.

Lu Yi suddenly said, "Jiang Luo, isn't that the little girl we met before?"

He tugged Jiang Luo and motioned Jiang Luo to look to the left.

Jiang Luo turned his head and saw that the little girl in red quietly walked away from her parents and ran back from the corner.

He said decisively: "Go, let's go and have a look."

Jiang Luo and Lu Yi stayed away from the crowd in a low-key manner, and followed the little girl.

They gradually chased from the village to the edge of the inaccessible, and after passing through a large dense forest, their eyes suddenly opened up.

At the end of the dense forest is a large wilderness cemetery with graves next to graves.

The tips of the graves are like small hills, and there is a tombstone carved in front of each grave.At first glance, except for the weeds on the graves, almost all the graves are exactly the same.

Jiang Luo glanced quickly at the top of the grave, and soon saw a red figure, "It's over there."

The little girl is digging a grave.

Her hands were only half the size of an adult, neither holding a shovel nor a shovel, and her two white and tender hands were digging the grave with bare hands, and were quickly worn out by the sharp blades of grass and hard stones.

Even if someone came, she just looked up at Jiang Luo and Lu Yi, then lowered her head and continued digging the earthen grave.

Jiang Luo squatted down without changing his face, and said softly: "Little sister, what are you doing?"

Lu Yi shivered and crouched beside Jiang Luo.

The little girl didn't respond, Jiang Luo asked again, and the little girl said dully: "I'm digging a grave."

Jiang Luo asked patiently, "Why dig a grave?"

The little girl said, "I'm looking for my parents."

"Are your parents under the grave?" Jiang Luo asked unhurriedly, "Then your parents we met during the day, aren't your real parents?"

The little girl didn't speak, but shook her head silently, not sure if she was denying Jiang Luo's problem, or expressing that her parents were not real parents.

She dug the grave twice more, suddenly looked up at the sky, and murmured: "It's getting dark, I'm going home."

After finishing speaking, she left the grave bag and Jiang Luo who had dug out a small hole, and quickly rushed into the dense forest.

Jiang Luo and the two were caught off guard, and they didn't react until the little girl disappeared. Lu Yi swallowed, "Then let's go too?"

Jiang Luo looked down at the grave, his half-drooped eyelashes moved, and the corner of his mouth suddenly twitched, "Lu Yi, have you ever dug a grave?"

Lu Yi: "..."

After 10 minutes, two people began to dig the grave with two long pieces of wood they picked up.

The moonlight was in the sky, and the pale moonlight shone on the open space, which was even brighter than a lit lamp.

Lu Yi was sweating profusely from digging, and after concentrating on digging the grave, he didn't feel any fear anymore. The long logs danced vigorously, and the tomb was quickly flattened by half.

The coffin in this tomb was buried very shallow, and it didn't take long for the skin of the coffin to emerge from the tomb.

The two of them worked together to clean up the soil, Jiang Luo raised the coffin lid with the tip of the wood, and Lu Yi trembled, "Luo, do we really want to open it?"

Jiang Luo stopped his movements and glanced at the grave, "Then shall we bury it back?"

Thinking of the hard work of digging the grave just now, Lu Yi shut up.

With a force, Jiang Luo suddenly tilted the coffin open.Lu Yi took a look and took a deep breath.

There were two corpses lying in the coffin, a man and a woman, exactly the same as the parents of the little girl they had seen during the day.

The body has been decomposed, but the clothes are clean, it should have died recently.

Lu Yi: "This..."

If the two bodies in the coffin were the parents of the little girl, who were the couple they saw during the day?

After looking at the corpse, the puzzle was not solved a bit, but even more confusing.Jiang Luo and Lu Yi covered the coffin and restored the grave to its original state.

After Jiang Luo buried the last handful of soil, he ran to the tombstone to read the words on the tombstone.

Lu Yi wiped the sweat off his face, but from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a light flashing behind Jiang Luo, his heart skipped a beat, and he shouted, "Jiang Luo get down!"

Jiang Luo only heard the sound of a breaking wind, and he reacted quickly and rolled on the spot, rolling all the way to another grave.

After he settled down, he looked up, and saw a cold-bladed broadsword pierced straight into the ground where he had just been. The sharp blade hadn't fallen halfway down. If Jiang Luo hadn't run so fast, he might have been killed by this broadsword. Cut in half.

Jiang Luo looked in the direction where the sword was thrown.

A strange man walked out of the dense forest.

He was wearing extremely strange clothes, like a layer of worn cloth wrapped around his body, and also like a simple robe.He gradually stepped into the moonlight from the darkness, the tall figure crushed the fallen leaves and dead branches, walked to the side of the big knife, and pulled out the big knife.

With a "crack", the man held the knife and looked at Jiang Luo and Lu Yitwo.

His image is like an ancient general and soldier, with cold eyes full of bloody killings.Jiang Luo got up from the ground, his back slightly bent, his whole body tensed up, ready to attack and escape at any time.

The man gave him a great sense of oppression. This man looks like a human but not a human, like a ghost but not a ghost. The evil spirit on his body is as real as it is. It is an evil spirit that can only be formed by killing thousands of people.

"Who are you?" Jiang Luo asked tentatively.

The man didn't say a word, but walked towards Jiang Luo with a knife in his hand.Jiang Luo turned the yin and yang rings, but in the eyes of outsiders, he remained motionless, as if he had been frightened stupid.

Lu Yi rushed over and hugged the man's thigh. He gritted his teeth and said loudly to Jiang Luo, "Run!"

"Run, Jiang Luo!" Lu Yi turned pale with anxiety, "Run!"

Jiang Luo was startled.

The man frowned slightly in annoyance, stopped walking towards Jiang Luo, looked sideways at Lu Yi, and raised his hand holding the big knife.

The light of the knife flashed across Lu Yi's body.Lu Yi tightly closed his eyes, obviously terrified of fear, but still tightly hugged the man's leg.Just when the big knife was about to fall on his back, a golden light suddenly appeared, and the golden shadow threw the man aside violently. With the roar of the tiger, one paw of the golden tiger slapped heavily on the man's head, and the bloody mouth opened wide. , yelling at the man's face: "Ho!"

Lu Yi opened his eyes in a daze, and Jiang Luo panted heavily, walked up to him and squatted down, "Lu Yi, are you an idiot?"

Lu Yi: "Huh?"

Jiang Luo's lips were tightly pursed and suppressed, his expression was restrained and tense, mixed with deliberate indifference.It seemed that the scene of Lu Yi sacrificing his life to stop the danger just now didn't bring him the slightest touch, but also made him very repulsive.

"Why are you rushing over," the tone was even a little irritated, "Do I need you to do this?"

But Lu Yi didn't see what was wrong with him at all, and he replied stupidly: "I think your legs are weak, if I slow down a bit, your life will die."

Jiang Luo's inexplicable anger stagnated, he took a deep breath, pulled the idiot up, and looked coldly at the man under the tiger.

In desperation just now, his mind was filled with anger and tension, he was almost angrily thinking: How dare you fucking touch my man?

In such a mood, he actually summoned Yinhu who had never been summoned before.Yinhu was huge, twice the size of a real tiger. The colder Jiang Luo looked at the man, the harder Yinhu stepped on the man's paws, and the angrier his roar became.

The man seemed to still have strength, he moved his hand holding the knife, Yinhu seemed to be provoked, and mercilessly smashed his claws on the man's head.

Blood flowed from the man's forehead, and the man finally closed his eyes.Jiang Luo walked over slowly with Lu Yi, his sharp eyes scanned the man's whole body, and kicked the big knife in the man's hand aside with his foot.

Lu Yi stared at the mighty tiger without blinking, and couldn't stop marveling three times in a row: "Wow, shit, shit!"

"So handsome!"

He still wanted to reach out to touch the tiger, but he saw the man under the tiger's claws suddenly opened his eyes, and the wound on his forehead had healed as before.

Lu Yi sat down in fright, "Jiang Jiangluo, he opened his eyes again!"

Jiang Luo immediately turned his head to look sideways, and saw the man staring straight at them, but apart from looking at them, he didn't make any struggle.

The tiger roared, and the man looked at the tiger expressionlessly, then at Lu Yi and Jiang Luo, "Who are you?"

He paused, "Who am I?"

Jiang Luo: "..."

Lu Yi: "..."

The man's expression showed a little confusion, dispelling the coldness on his face, "Why is this tiger stepping on me?"

"You pretend again?" Lu Yi said contemptuously, "You dead ghost, do you think you can fool us by doing this?"

"Is dead ghost my name?" the man said, "Then what's your name?"

Jiang Luo: ... When things are in doubt, let's make a decision.

The hexagram proves that the man is not lying.Jiang Luo cautiously entangled the man with the golden talisman culture as a snake before letting him stand up.

After the man got up, Jiang Luo knew why he lost his memory.

When the tiger threw the man down, it happened to throw the man onto a sharp stone.The stone was inserted into the back of the man's head. I don't know what the man's origin was. In a short period of time, the wound on the back of the head has healed, and the wound is tightly wrapped around the stone, leaving only a small point of the stone outside the scalp.

Jiang Luo squinted at the wound, and even smiled.

The anger just now dissipated quite a bit, he and Lu You glanced at each other, Lu Yi coughed, "Have you really forgotten who you are?"

There was some blank doubt on the man's expressionless face: "Didn't you say that I am a dead ghost?"

Lu Yi choked, then smirked, "No, dead ghost is just your nickname, you still have a big name."

The man asked, "What's my first name?"

"Your name is Jiaojiao," Lu Yi said solemnly, "because you like acting like a baby."

The man pondered for a moment, "Then you should call me a dead ghost."

After confirming that the man really lost his memory, Jiang Luo would not do anything to a newborn who knew nothing, he said flatly: "Lu Yi, let's go."

Lu Yi immediately abandoned the dead ghost and followed Jiang Luo. The two walked out of the cemetery, but the man who just wanted to kill them picked up a big knife and followed them silently.

Jiang Luo released Yinhu, and pursed his lips coldly: "If you follow us again, I won't be polite."

"Why?" The dead ghost looked at them in confusion, "Aren't we friends?"

Who would be friends with someone who wants to kill him?

Jiang Luo stopped talking nonsense, released Yinhu to deal with the man, and left the tomb quickly with Lu Yi.

The man who was left on the spot resisted the tiger's attack with difficulty, and slowly moved towards them.

……

Half an hour later, Jiang Luo and Lu Yi returned to their residence.They told their companions about the dead body of the little girl's parents, which was so strange that everyone couldn't figure out what to think.

"It seems that we can only wait for tomorrow's ancestral hall selection," Wen Ren even frowned, "I don't know what this selection means, do you think it looks like someone who chooses sacrifices?"

"But if it's the person who chooses the sacrifice, the village chief probably wouldn't say things like 'don't worry,' and 'don't have any disputes,'" Ge Zhu said while holding his chin, "unless the sacrifice represents a With a good meaning."

Just as Liao Si was about to say something, he suddenly raised his eyes and looked out of the window. Surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he smiled and said, "It seems that a living dead came outside the door."

As soon as he finished speaking, a shadow was reflected in the gap in front of the door.

Lu turned his head to look at Jiang Luo for a moment: "Could it be a dead ghost?"

Jiang Luo raised his eyebrows, got out of bed and opened the door, there was indeed a man standing outside who looked like an ancient man with a big knife in his hand.

There are many wounds on the man's body, and the wounds have healed, only the messier clothes and blood stains can prove his embarrassment.When the man saw Jiang Lago, his brows relaxed, but he still said with a slumped face, "Friends, I'm here to find you."

Lu Yi and a few people walked behind Jiang Luo, and Lu Yi couldn't explain, "Why are you still here?"

Liao Si looked at the man from behind the crowd, his eyes flickered, and he raised his voice, "Jiang Luo, do you know this living dead man?"

Hearing the sound, the man glanced in Liao Si's direction, and Liao Si silently mouthed: "Why are you here?"

But as soon as he mouthed a word, the man turned his eyes away without any fluctuation, and his eyes were fixed on Jiang Luo and Lu Yi, as if he didn't know Liao Si at all.

Liao Si's forehead twitched, why did Teng Bi become like this?

"Is he a living dead?" Jiang Luo turned to Liao Si, "What is a living dead?"

Liao Si came back to his senses and explained: "The living dead are people who can act like a living person even though their bodies are dead. They are different from corpses, and still have living memories and emotions. They seem to be alive, but they are still dead. "

Ye Xun added: "The living dead are extremely rare. Some people are so evil that no one dares to arrest their soul after death. Only by chance and coincidence can they become a living dead walking between heaven and earth."

And the man in front of him was undoubtedly the kind Ye Xun was talking about.

Jiang Luo thought with great interest, why did a rare undead appear in Shentu Village?

And why did they come to kill him and Lu Yi?

Everyone looked at the man curiously. Seeing that other contestants had noticed the movement here, Jiang Luo let the man into the house.

The man sat at the table and put the big knife on the table.There was soil left over from his attack on Jiang Luo on his knife. Under the light, Jiang Luo could clearly see the shape of the knife, but the appearance of the sharp knife was very simple.There is a circle of black cloth wrapped around the handle of the knife, other than that, there is no decoration.

Under Jiang Luo's gaze, some black evil spirit gushed out from around the knife.In the turbulence of evil spirit, there are countless ghost faces trying to escape, but they are imprisoned in the knife face.

"You want my knife?" the dead ghost said suddenly, "but I can't give it to you, because I only have this weapon."

Jiang Luo retracted his eyes, tilted his head and said lazily, "How did you find it?"

"Follow your scent," Shi Guijian frowned, and said, "The smell is confusing, and it made me go around for a long time. Friends, do you want to get rid of me?"

Lu Yi whispered in Ye Xun's ear: "He speaks so strangely, in a very polite way."

Ye Xun nodded, "Judging from his appearance, he should be a living dead who has lived for hundreds of years."

Zhuo Zhongqiu asked curiously at this moment: "What's your name?"

The dead ghost said: "I am called a dead ghost."

Everyone was silent, "...What a good name."

It was getting late, and it was time to rest.Everyone put these things aside for the time being, and went back to bed to rest.

When others were busy and no one cared, Liao Si stood next to the man casually, looking at the scenery outside the window, "Ten Bi, what are you doing?"

The dead ghost looked at him strangely, "Who is Teng Bi?"

Liao Si frowned, "Did you really forget or pretend to forget?"

The dead ghost didn't want to deal with this weird person, he closed his eyes and turned a blind eye.

Liao Si's smile froze. Seeing that people from Baihua University were coming, he had no choice but to press the button and not mention it.

Day two.

Early in the morning, Jiang Luo went out, planning to find the little girl he met yesterday.

It didn't take long for him to notice changes in the village.

There are many more girls coming and going in the village.These girls have ruddy complexions and bright and affectionate eyes like black pearls.Their shiny hair is braided behind them, their bodies are slender, and their clothes are neat and close-fitting from head to toe, as if they are not peasant girls.

Jiang Luo approached a kind-hearted girl nearby and asked, as soon as he approached, he smelled a sweet fragrance from this girl, "Sister, do you know why there are so many beautiful girls today?"

Jiang Luo's appearance is so good that ordinary people don't look like ordinary people, and when she smiles on purpose, it makes people blush and heartbeat, coupled with the sweetness of her mouth, the girl covered her mouth and smiled, her eyes were shining like stars, "Because the ancestral hall has to choose people today. We all want to To be the bride of God, of course you have to dress up well.”

"The selection of people in the ancestral hall is to choose a bride for God?"

The girl's eyes were gradually stained with obsession, "The ancestral hall will only be opened when the god chooses a bride. We have already promised ourselves to the god. As long as the god chooses me, it will be on an auspicious day. Come and marry me away."

Jiang Luo bid farewell to the girl thoughtfully, and after wandering around the village without finding the little girl in red, she returned to her residence to join her companions.

The companions also noticed the girl in the village, and Wen Ren even raised his chin and asked, "Do you know the girl from Luohua Cave?"

"The Luohua Cave Girls are called the Three Evils of Xiangxi together with expelling corpses and releasing Gu," Wen Renlian said softly, "Luohua Cave Girls are unmarried women who married themselves to gods in their imagination. , they will no longer be tempted by ordinary people. They will maintain their beauty and demure every day, looking forward to the day when they will truly marry God."

Zhuo Zhongqiu said: "You mean, there is a god here?"

Wen Renlian shook his head, "Whether there really is a 'god' or someone is pretending to be a ghost, we can't guess it. If we want to find out the secret inside, the best way is to mix with those girls, Go to the ancestral hall again at six o'clock this afternoon."

The careless Jiang Luo suddenly had a bad feeling when he heard the words, and he took a step back without any trace.

"If you want to mix with girls, of course you have to dress up as a girl," Wen Ren even said with a smile, "Although I can do it, it's not enough for me alone. Isn't it, Jiang Luo?"

Everyone turned their heads to look at Jiang Luo neatly.

Jiang Luo: "...I don't wear women's clothing."

Do not wear to death.

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