Altar of Infinity

Before Jiang Jichu had time to ask, Xie Ji had already led the donkey and pig and ran down the steps at the gate of the courtyard.

When he got closer, he found that both the donkey and the pig had bit on their heads.

Reminiscent of the long hooks at both ends of the iron chain, Jiang Jichu immediately realized what Xie Ji was going to do.

This person is too...

too……

Xie Ji: "Don't stand still, come and help me, and let's put the iron chain around Niu Kuyin's body together."

Although Niu Kuyin's attack power is strong, his speed has always been flawed. Xie Ji and Jiang Jichu's skills are far beyond ordinary people, and they can easily catch Niu Kuyin by wrapping a few chains around his body.

After winding the iron chain, Xie Ji tied the two ends to the donkey's and the pig's bit respectively, and dragged Jiang Jichu into the coffin shed.

When Niu Kuyin rushed towards them again, Xie Ji threw the lighter at the feet of the pig and the donkey.

Before Niu Kuyin touched them, his waist suddenly tightened, and he was dragged by two animals, one high and the other low, and rushed towards the end of the dirt road.

Niu Kuyin: "???"

There were no street lights on the dirt road in Niujia Village, and Niu Kuyin's figure quickly disappeared into the depths of the night, and because of the heavy rain, there was not even a trace left.

Xie Ji patted the rust on his hands, and asked Jiang Jichu with interest: "Do you think donkeys run faster or pigs run faster?"

Looking at the three running figures, Jiang Jichu forced his voice back: "Anyway, they run faster than Niu Kuyin."

Xie Ji laughed. He turned to look at his comrades. Jiang Jichu was still holding a knife, standing with his back straight. Facing the scene of Niu Kuyin being dragged away, he only looked relieved, without the slightest joy of watching the fun.

Xie Ji: "Is it fun?"

Jiang Jichu: "It's pretty desperate."

Xie Ji: "You are young, why don't you have any interest in life."

Jiang Jichu: "Then your taste is quite special."

Xie Jixin said that he has thick eyebrows and big eyes, but he didn't expect that talking back was also No.1.

He opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly he smelled the smell of blood that was close at hand.

Xie Ji: "Are you injured?"

Jiang Jichu belatedly probed to look at his back, but couldn't see anything, and said indifferently: "The wound was opened before."

Xie Ji turned the person on his shoulders, and apart from the rain, a large amount of blood was oozing from Jiang Jichu's back.

After all this, the tone is still light, the young people nowadays just don't take care of their bodies.

Xie Ji: "There is a medical kit in the room where we live, let's go and bandage it."

Xie Ji didn't take care of the coffin shed anymore, nor did he take care of Niu Kuyin who ran off to nowhere.

He took Jiang Jichu back to the house, the roof that was originally broken with a big hole was blocked as early as the afternoon, and once he entered the door, he returned to Xia Tian again.

He opened the chandelier at the door, pulled down two more towels, threw one to Jiang Jichu, and went to the medical box while wiping his hair with the other.

It is said to be a medical box, but it is actually a transparent plastic box with medicines in a mess.

Fortunately, it has not expired.

Jiang Jichu's skin was pale, and between the tight and smooth muscle lines, a scarlet and narrow wound slanted from the butterfly bone to the waist. It was obvious that the skin and flesh were split, and even some places had been soaked by the rain, but it didn't look hideous and terrifying. A strange coquettish feeling.

Jiang Jichu wanted to take the alcohol bottle that Xie Ji was holding, Xie Ji raised his hand to avoid it: "The injury is on the back, you can't see it and it's hard to deal with it, just sit down."

Jiang Jichu was silent for a moment: "Are you so kind to everyone?"

"Is this called being good to you?" Xie Ji began to sterilize the tools, "We are comrades in arms now, and your recovery will also help me, let alone just taking medicine."

Jiang Jichu stopped talking.

Experience shaped character, Xie Ji felt that Jiang Jichu's personality was so independent, it might be due to his lack of love, so that he had to ask a question for simple medicine.

Entered the checkpoint with an injury, tossed with Niu Kuyin last night, went to dig a burial pit today, came back and got wet in the rain and tossed with Niu Kuyin again, but such a serious injury has always been like nothing to mention.

I don't know what life was like before.

He reminded: "I didn't find iodophor, only alcohol, bear with it?"

Jiang Jichu hummed.

When the cotton ball stained with alcohol touched his body, Jiang Jichu instinctively trembled slightly, and then quickly held back, but he didn't even groan.

Doesn't this also know pain?

In order to divert Jiang Jichu's attention, Xie Ji found a topic to chat with: "How did you get the injury?"

Jiang Jichu replied briefly: "Miss."

Jiang Jichu didn't explain, but Xie Ji could understand.

Wang Dan and Wang Liang were jealous of Jiang Jichu, and felt that those who could enter advanced levels were not considered human beings. Jiang Jichu was still in puberty and had strong self-esteem, so it was normal not to mention failure.

Xie Ji: "You are only 19, you are still in college, which school?"

Jiang Jichu: "Z is big."

Xie Ji: "What a coincidence, my younger brother is also the oldest, what is your major?"

Jiang Jichu: "Art."

"The Art Department of Z University is very famous, little artist." Xie Ji, "The altar that the little artist entered by himself? Is your brother not here?"

The body under his hands suddenly tensed, the butterfly bones on both sides spread slightly, and the wound opened and closed with Jiang Jichu's movements like breathing, like a river of living blood.

After a few breaths, Jiang Jichu said slowly: "I used to be."

Xie Ji remembered Jiang Jichu said that if he died on the altar, he would die in reality.

That watch is really Jiang Jichu's elder brother's relic.

Xie Ji whispered: "Don't worry, I will find someone to fix the watch for you after I go out."

After giving Jiang Jichu the medicine, it was still early for the two to see each other, so they simply lay down and went to sleep.

As for Niu Kuyin, who knows when he will be back.

Better not come back at all.

When they woke up the next day, the sky had cleared up early.

Xie Ji was woken up by the biological clock on time. He checked Jiang Jichu's wound and made sure that it hadn't deteriorated before walking out of the house together.

Just took the first step, a newcomer who happened to pass by the door of their house jumped up in fright.

"Ah—! You guys, are you people or ghosts?!"

Xie Ji remembered that this newcomer was called Ban Sui.

He thought it was funny: "Of course it's a human, where did the ghost come from in the village?"

Ban Sui: "But you were not yesterday, not..."

Ban Sui's cry attracted the others, and Wang Dan was also very surprised when he saw Xie Ji and Jiang Jichu: "You survived?! No, didn't you guard the spirit last night? How did you get out of the house?"

Xie Ji showed a kind expression: "Niu Kuyin wanted to move freely yesterday, so we'll go back to sleep."

Wang Dan and the others were in a daze when Wang Liang came running from the backyard: "No, there is a donkey and a pig missing in the pen."

Xie Ji: "Perhaps pigs and donkeys also want to move freely."

Wang Liang: "??"

Wang Dan realized that something beyond his imagination must have happened last night, so he hurriedly opened the door to see the coffin.

The shed was still the same as yesterday, but it was stained with a lot of mud due to the rain.

Niu Kuyin's heavy coffin was not moved at all, and even the coffin lid was well covered.

Xie Ji looked at Jiang Jichu, who explained: "It should be some kind of mechanism of the checkpoint."

For a moment, Xie Ji felt that Niu Kuyin was quite pitiful. After being walked by pigs and donkeys for most of the night, he had to come back and get into the coffin and close the lid to pretend that nothing happened.

But thinking about the two people who were sucked to death by Niu Kuyin's blood, this pity only existed in his heart for less than half a second.

What's more, if Niu Kuyin hadn't been taken away, they would have been the ones who had the accident.

Wang Dan tentatively asked, "What happened last night?"

Xie Ji: "Are you sure you want to know?"

Wang Dan thought for a while, then shook his head decisively: "It's good not to know."

Yesterday they completed the first phase of the task assigned by Uncle Niu, setting up the coffin, digging the burial pit, and notifying the funeral.

Not long after, Uncle Niu came to the door again with a few villagers' followers to arrange the second phase of the task.

Uncle Niu: "Everyone prepares for the funeral, we will start crying in the afternoon."

Wang Dan: "Weeping?"

Uncle Niu led the crowd to the coffin shed, and circled a spot on the ground with his feet: "Bring a table over here, and put Niu Lao's spiritual tablet and sacrifices on it. Everyone put on filial piety clothes, carried mourning sticks around the table Six laps, weeping and beating myself with a mourning stick, and then saying something to see off Lao Niu."

He waved his hand, and several villagers threw mourning clothes and mourning sticks in front of everyone.

It's not that Xie Ji has never seen a funeral in the countryside, but he has never cried for someone, let alone for a monster who wants to kill him all the time, he can't imagine the scene.

He wasn't the only one who couldn't imagine it.

Jiang Jichu said coldly: "Do you have to wear mourning clothes to cry for Niu Kuyin?"

Uncle Niu straightened his bent back: "Of course! This is the rule!"

Jiang Jichu drew a white light with his long knife in the air, and split the other stone lion at the door in half.

Uncle Niu just straightened his back, which was barely half an inch, and immediately shrank back: "It's okay not to wear filial piety clothes and not cry, but you must whip yourself with a mourning stick, and say some auspicious words to send Niu Lao away."

Jiang Jichu reluctantly withdrew his knife, retreating back into the crowd without any sense of presence.

After Uncle Niu left, everyone gathered around to have breakfast.

During breakfast, Wang Dan talked about survival points.

The mourning took place only in the afternoon, and the preparation of the altar table offerings was relatively simple. Everyone dispersed and decided to find Niu Kuyin's missing second son, so as to gain more survival points by exploring the plot.

Considering Jiang Jichu's injury, he and Xie Ji did not go out with the crowd.

The two came to the bedroom where Niu Kuyin lived, intending to see if there were any other clues.

Xie Ji: "Do you think Niu Er and Niu Wei really eloped?"

Jiang Jichu: "If you elope, you will definitely leave Niujia Village, and we are not allowed to leave Niujia Village. The altar will not set up such an impossible task."

Xie Ji: "In other words, Niu Er and Niu Wei either did not elope, or Niu Kuyin's wish has nothing to do with getting Niu Er back. Which one do you prefer?"

Jiang Jichu: "No elopement."

Xie Ji smiled: "Me too."

If it's elopement, then this level is too simple.

He has been thinking about a question, what kind of existence is Niu Kuyin.

It has a physical body and can breathe, so it is definitely not a ghost.

He could even feel the temperature of Niu Kuyin's body when he touched him.

But the excessive defense, blood-sucking habit, and the sharp claws that were born, and the ability to stay in a closed coffin all night, are definitely not in the human category.

Seeing his silence, Jiang Jichu asked, "Did you find anything?"

Xie Ji shook his head and said his thoughts again.

A bit of annoyance appeared in Jiang Jichu's eyes, and a black shadow was drawn from the void.

Xie Ji has seen that black shadow.

When Niu Kuyin attacked Jiang Jichu last night, Jiang Jichu used it to carry off Niu Kuyin's sharp claws, but last night it was too dark and it was raining, so he couldn't see what it was, but now the daylight is just right, and the two of them Only half a meter away, he finally saw the real body of the black shadow.

It is an A5 size notebook with a pure black cover.

Xie Ji: "What is this?"

Jiang Jichu: "The Book of Life and Death."