sunk in yesterday

In reality, I would not dare to agree to a stranger's request rashly, not to mention meeting a dead person now.If he nodded rashly and ended up sending him to the grave together, it would be a bit of a waste.

Xia Zhuo thought for a while and asked, "Young master, if you want us to take you home, then you have to tell us where you come from?"

Across a dozen steps, he could clearly feel the fierceness in the boy's eyes.Although the pupils of those eyes were black, there was a little green light inside, as if full of strong resentment.

This resentment shouldn't come to me...Xia Zhuo thought uncertainly.

Guan Yuzhou obviously also realized that the visitor was not good, he took half a step forward, and a man and a ghost stared at each other across the stairs.The chill in the room seemed to be getting worse. Xia Zhuo felt like he was standing in a big freezer. Just when his body was about to be unable to bear the cold, and his limbs were almost stiff and numb, the little boy slowly raised his arms, white The lanterns point directly outside the door of the inn.

[I come from Tuping Village. ]

As Xia Zhuo expected, he did mention this village.

"You ran out alone?"

After a long wait, the boy shook his head.

"So someone came out with you?"

The boy shook his head again.

Xia Zhuo was confused, he didn't come out alone, and no one came out with him, what does this mean?

"You came back from outside?"

The boy shook his head for the third time.

After being denied three consecutive questions, Xia Zhuo pouted, a little frustrated: "Am I really stupid, no matter how I ask, nothing is right."

Guan Yuzhou smiled, patted him reassuringly, and took over his questioning work: "What's your name?"

The boy answered this time: [Liu Zijin. ]

The name is quite nice.Xia Zhuo thought.

Guan Yuzhou said, "We'll take you back tomorrow morning."

It's not like asking for a compromise, it's more like a blunt notice.Compared with passively following the ghost's arrangement, it is obviously safer to hold the initiative in your own hands.

Liu Zijin thought for a while, then nodded in agreement.

It's pretty easy to talk about.Xia Zhuo thought again.

There is an appointment first, at least tonight's risk factor is not great.Liu Qianyu and the others moved the nest, and the next door was vacant. The two settled Liu Zijin in this empty room, and went back to the innermost side by themselves.

The rain outside the window still hasn't stopped.

I looked out the window three times, and saw something different each time.Maybe it was late at night, and there were bursts of white air from the surrounding forest.The white gas approached the inn where they were staying like a thick fog, and gradually gathered into an ocean.When the fog was about to pour into the window, Xia Zhuo reached out and closed it.

Back on the bed, he crossed his legs and said, "This fog is much thicker than ever before. According to this trend, it won't dissipate after dawn."

"Look after dawn." Guan Yuzhou folded his clothes and lay down beside him, "If you can't sleep, you can close your eyes and rest for a while."

"Okay~" Xia Zhuowei went to his side, hugged his arm and rubbed against him.

He said he was not sleepy, but in the middle of the night, he still lost consciousness in a daze.The next door was quiet, and he felt more and more cold in a daze. He subconsciously wanted to lean towards Guan Yuzhou, but found that his body was stiff and stiff, as if he was numb from the cold, and he couldn't move.

He tried his best to roll his eyes, and saw that the people around him were gone.

Is it a dream again?

I had a guess in my heart, but I couldn't wake up for a long time.

When his gaze swept across the ceiling, he suddenly froze, a chill rose up along the icy bed, and crawled up his back like a poisonous snake.

An old lady with hair full of silver hair was lying on the ceiling, wearing a white mourning dress.As if noticing that he had been spotted, that head turned around little by little, looking straight at him.

Xia Zhuo felt that he was also a person who had experienced strong winds and waves, and he still couldn't stop feeling cold all over his body - the main reason was that he couldn't move, this passive situation was too bad.

In the blink of an eye again, the old lady was gone.A stream of air swept over his head, carrying a smell of old medicine.He was sleeping on the bed with his arms barely leaning against the wall, while the old man had already climbed onto the wall, approaching head to toe.

She was as thin as a stick, and her skinny hands were full of wrinkles, like old vines.Behind the loose silver hair, her eyes are chaotic and lifeless, but they are covered with bloodshot like cobwebs.She stared at Xia Zhuo, the flesh on her neck trembled, and there was a strange gurgling sound in her throat, as if she was talking or laughing.

Eagerly as if she wanted to express something, she kept repeating the same words, her voice buzzing and trembling like the wings of a fly, and the scattered words were put together to finally form a sentence.

——When misfortune comes, blessings depend on it, and blessings come under misfortune.

It was dawn, and the door was knocked from outside.

Three beeps, one beep, one beep, one beep.

Xia Zhuo sat up suddenly, his body was chilly, and the lingering sound was still lingering in his ears. He raised his hand to touch it, and a little sweat broke out on his forehead.

Guan Yuzhou had already got up and opened the door. Liu Zijin stood in the white mist with the lantern in his hand still alive, illuminating the engulfing mist brightly.Without the darkness as a backdrop, his appearance was much clearer than when he saw it last night, and he also lost some insignificant aura.The water on his body was still dripping, and the time it took to knock on the door had already formed a small puddle on the ground, and he still rolled his eyes and stared at the person in front of him in such a gloomy way: [It's already morning, when is it? departure? ]

Up to now, the reminder of the dream has not popped up, and the plot has not officially started.Xia Zhuo moved down slowly, he took a deep breath, pretended to be stupefied, and hugged Guan Yuzhou's waist to replenish his battery, and observed the dead in front of him by the way.

Liu Zijin was wearing a pair of ordinary gray cloth shoes, and his clothes were plain, not much better than the coachman who brought them here yesterday. Apart from his complexion and those eyes, he looked quite handsome. He died at a young age somehow, and is his death related to the owner of the embroidered shoe he met yesterday?Or maybe it has something to do with the old lady in the dream?Or... related to the entire Tuping Village?

[When is the departure? ]

When there was no response, Liu Zijin asked again.

The eyeballs were covered with a layer of gray and white, and although his tone of voice remained unchanged, he could vaguely feel that his patience was gradually losing, and a chilly air approached the ground silently like sneaking, wandering to the ground. When it was on the edge of the shoe, a low voice drove it away.

"Now."

It was Guan Yuzhou who answered him.He turned his head to see Xia Zhuo's sleepy look, wiped his face with water, and coaxed him softly: "It's time, we should go. What do you want to eat?"

Xia Zhuo rinsed his mouth, thought for a while and said, "Apple."

I crave something sweet on a rainy day.

Moreover, he was nauseated by the smell of the medicine, so he lost his appetite for a while.

Guan Yuzhou gave him an apple, stuffed him with candy, and the two of them walked out along the corridor.

The fog spread wantonly, and it was impossible to see anything one meter away. The light of the flashlight was extremely weak in the thick fog, and it was not even as effective as the lantern.Delay for a while, and when the fog fills up all the gaps, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave even if I want to.

Xia Zhuo chewed the pulp in his mouth. He remembered that it was only 100 meters from the room to the other end, but now he has walked at least two hundred steps, but he has not yet reached the stairs.They seemed to be trapped in a weird maze. There was an endless corridor ahead, and the same was true for the back. No matter whether it was going up or down, the stairs disappeared completely as if they were swallowed by this fog.

This goes on and on and on.

He grabbed Guan Yuzhou's wrist, and Liu Zijin, who was following him, also stopped. The white lantern wobbled and almost hit his back.

Originally, I wanted to ask Guan Yuzhou's words, but swallowed them back, Xia Zhuo had a flash of inspiration, and made room for a little space to the side, "Young master, I think you are quite weak, why don't you go ahead? We can stay behind Pay attention to your situation at any time, after all, I want to escort you back, it would be bad if you have an accident on the way."

He spoke tactfully, Liu Zijin stared at the lantern in his hand for a long time, then brushed past him.

At this moment, the surrounding fog receded.

Behind them was still a corridor that could not be seen to the end, but the vision in front of them was much wider, and a few panic-stricken figures appeared on the opposite side, it was Liu Qianyu and others on the other side.

"Ah!!!" Shen Wei was the one who walked in the front. Getting lost in the mist was already scary enough, but when he suddenly saw a kid with a lantern walking towards him, he immediately let out a scream. It became even more tragic when he noticed that there were two hazy shadows behind the ghost.

The few people who followed him were also shocked, especially Liu Qianyu, who was holding onto his clothes, was so frightened that her face turned pale.Meng Tianhua turned around and was about to run in the opposite direction. Shen Wei, who hadn't recovered from his body, suddenly pointed straight ahead and tremblingly said: "Xia Xia Xia Xia..."

"Xia Ming." Xia Zhuo reminded him thoughtfully.

Zhao Xiaomeng couldn't catch her breath. She looked at the young boy in the front who was obviously not alive, and then at Xia Zhuo and Guan Yuzhou who hadn't changed behind her. Her mind was as messy as a dream.

"You, you want to go with it?"

"It's not 'you', it's 'us'." Xia Zhuo walked to Liu Zijin, and introduced to the five people who were retreating: "This young man is lost, and we are also going to Tuping Village, so we will send him off Procedure."

"This..." This really lures wolves into the house!Isn't keeping a ghost by your side the same as they opened the door to let the female ghost in last night?But it was at such a short distance, Shen Wei did not dare to shake his head, fearing that the refusal would anger it, so he froze for a while.

Xia Zhuo didn't have much resistance—it wasn't the first time he had a close encounter with a ghost. In other words, it might be...Practice makes perfect?

"Any questions?" Guan Yuzhou asked politely.He was clearly smiling, but he always gave people a fluffy feeling. When those eyes glanced at him, they all felt threatened without exception.

"Or, are you sure that you can get out of this fog and reach the village safely?"

No one said anything, and they realized that their hope of survival was even slimmer if they took a step back.You can't even get out of the second floor of the inn, so why talk about finding Tuping Village?

"I'm with you." Kong Man suddenly stood up. He was the only one who didn't have much emotional fluctuation so far.

I don't know what kind of role he occupied in this temporary five-person team overnight. As soon as he opened his mouth, the rest of the team joined in one after another. Although they looked hesitant, they finally reached a united front.

Xia Zhuo and Guan Yuzhou originally planned to act alone, but these people have been polite until now. Since they met, they should pull it if they can, and it can be regarded as accumulating some virtue for themselves.

"Then let's go."

Under the leadership of Liu Zijin, the seven people successfully found the stairs.Xia Zhuo took a careful look when he went downstairs, the bloody footprints from last night disappeared, as if it was his hallucination.

After leaving the inn, facing the fog that covered the sky and the sun in all directions, everyone fell into confusion again.Liu Qianyu held Zhao Xiaomeng's arm, her voice trembling slightly: "Then how should we go next?"

After saying this, Liu Zijin suddenly turned his head.The chaotic footsteps behind him immediately disappeared, and there was no sound in the huge space, only the cold rain floating in the gray sky and earth.

Liu Qianyu was startled, and hurriedly covered her mouth, as if she had said something she shouldn't have said.

Guan Yuzhou stared at the wet back of his head, and stretched out a hand towards him, "Give me the lantern, and I can take you back."

Shen Wei couldn't help but to take a deep breath, this is too big to speak!Asking for props directly from the aborigines, who can do such a thing? !Didn't he hit the hole of the gun by himself, just looking for death?

The little boy's bluish-black and stiff face became more and more strange, as if some not-so-good memories were stirred up by these words, and half of his distorted face became venomous.

He asked softly, as if whispering something:

[Really send me back? ]

"of course."

[Never break your promise? ]

Guan Yuzhou's expression did not change, "Yes."

The little boy looked at him carefully, his eyeballs rolled around twice, and then lightly swept over everyone's face, showing his first strange smile.He stretched out his hand and approached step by step, shaking the lantern.

[Someone said the same thing to me back then.If it wasn't for being betrayed, how could I not even be able to go home... Forget it, this lantern is useless to me, you can give it to you if you want. ]

When the lantern was in Guan Yuzhou's hands, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.But at the same time, they became suspicious again, could it be that there is something strange about this lantern, which is why Guan Qiang asked for it by name?

Xia Zhuo also moved closer, avoiding Liu Zijin, hissed and asked: "Is there any problem with the lantern?"

"I found something wrong just now on the second floor." Guan Yuzhou said while turning around slowly on the spot, and showed him: "It doesn't always maintain the same brightness, but keeps changing."

Xia Zhuo looked carefully, and it was exactly as he said, when the lantern was facing a certain direction, the light emitted from its whole body was many times brighter than when it was facing other directions.

This is a guiding light!

"My God...you know all of this?" Shen Wei was shocked, and when he looked at Guan Yuzhou again, his eyes were a little more worshipful, "Brother, how many times have you fallen into a dream? This is too fierce. If I It may take ten days or eight days to live in the inn before I dare to put my mind on this thing."

Guan Yuzhou glanced at him coolly, as if he thought he talked too much.After repeated confirmation, he took Xia Zhuo to the front left, and the rest of the people had no objections this time, and followed them in unison.

With step by step, the forest that had disappeared before finally appeared in front of my eyes.When seeing the withered and yellow weeds clearly, ghost papers fell from the sky one after another, like white butterflies twirling and falling, gathering forward little by little to form a crooked trail.

A wreath was planted in the muddy ground, nothing was written on the left and right straps, it was empty, obviously there was no wind, but it was like hands waving towards them.

"This...how is this, why is it so like..." Liu Qianyu swallowed, "Why is it so like inviting us to a funeral?"