Chapter 64: Walking at Night with a Knife(1/2)
"How did this happen?"
The sudden dark wind and the noisy and floating sounds frightened everyone present.
All the torches were extinguished, and the surrounding area suddenly became invisible. Only the cold wind blew gently against his bones.
In my ears, I couldn't hear any breathing of the workers around me... But I was suddenly surprised. Everyone held their breath and didn't dare to move... Everyone stood stiffly in the darkness, until they reached their side.
Suddenly a sinister laughter floated through.
"Mom..."
The sound of laughter rang in their ears, and suddenly some people couldn't hold it any longer, dropped the knife in their hands, turned around and ran away.
And as this person collapsed, the others couldn't hold themselves back, rolling and crawling in the darkness, crying and fleeing out of the village.
"Don't...don't run..."
Xu Ji also froze on the spot and shouted anxiously.
But when I screamed, I realized that I was so nervous that my voice had changed and my throat was blocked.
He couldn't suppress the panic in his heart and wanted to escape, but he tightened his grip on the wooden sword in his hand and held it straight.
This time when he returned to the city, he also saw the situation at home.
Dad was suddenly raped. Not to mention the oil and water, most of the family property was confiscated by the incense owner. None of his previous relatives and friends disappeared, and there might be even bigger troubles in the future.
His father also secretly gave him the few good things left in the house and asked him to sneak out through the back door, just to bring it back to the shopkeeper so that he could learn how to become a year-watcher and protect the family.
So I must win, how can I lose to that mud-legged guy?
But even if you stay, what should you do if your previous plans are completely disrupted?
Just as I was in a state of confusion, with my eyes closed to anything, I suddenly heard a strange sound, like the sound of a snake's belly scales crawling across dry grass.
In the swirling wind around him and the noisy sounds of the guys fleeing far away, it seemed extremely clear, as if a snake was slowly swimming around him. However, the weather was getting cold now, where did the snake come from?
Even if there is, how big of a snake must it be to make such a clear crawling sound?
His mind was extremely confused, and he didn't react until his ankle suddenly sank, as if it was entangled in something plush.
It's not a snake, it's hair!
It was the hair from the well that came out again and wrapped around my ankles.
"Ah yes..."
In Xu Ji's panic, he let out an inarticulate cry in his throat, grabbed the mahogany sword in his hand and slashed downwards.
There was a "chi" sound and the fire flickered slightly.
When the hair touched the mahogany sword, it was suddenly burned and cut off.
And with the help of this weak firelight, Xu Ji finally saw the surrounding situation clearly. Those bastards were already so scared that they didn't know where to run. By the well in front, countless thick hairs appeared like water plants.
It grew at the mouth of the well.
Li Wazi, who came from Dayangzhai Village, was too close to the mouth of the well. His hair was already wrapped in a ball, and he was slowly pulling towards the well.
Xu Ji was frightened and frightened. He raised his courageous mahogany sword and was about to kill him.
But suddenly he heard a cry coming from the well, his eyes seemed to be dazzled, and he saw a pale face.
He was slowly emerging from the mouth of the well, staring at himself faintly.
At this moment, as if struck by lightning, Xu Ji's courage was instantly overwhelmed by the Yin Qi, and he turned around and ran away.
Can't fight anymore.
He did not hesitate to pay a lot of money and called many guys in this village. He said that he only wanted them to help plunder the formation. In fact, he thought clearly. These guys were selected from various places by the Red Lantern Society. The furnace fire is the most important.
Exuberant.
They are just boys themselves, and with their anger sealed, they would feel hot to the touch when you are close to them, let alone so many of them at once?
It is precisely because there are so many people helping out that even in the middle of the night, the yang energy outweighs the yin energy.
Just enough can restrain the behavior in the well.
But as soon as these people were afraid, they all ran away, and the situation suddenly reversed, and the strong and the weak emerged.
Dusk is the boundary, Yin and Yang are divided into two parts.
How can a living person fight against such sinister things in the middle of the night?
Now is no longer the time to seize this last chance, it is time to save your life...
Xu Ji just wanted to understand these things, so he turned around and ran towards the outside of the village without caring about many other things.
While running wildly, he tore open the front of his shirt, revealing a purse on his chest.
He grew up with his father in the city, but every year his father would take his family back to visit relatives in a remote village a hundred miles away. At first, he didn't understand why.
Even when his father grabbed a handful of ashes from the old fire pond in the village and asked him to take it with him, he felt a little disgusted.
But now, I can only rely on this thing to save my life.
Once a person's courage is lost, it is like a river bursting its banks, and fear flows out endlessly.
Xu Ji was still fine, at least his legs were not weak from fright, and he was just running with long strides. But behind his head, he could only hear the whimpering and crying, which was always next to his ears, and there were even more whimpers behind him.
There was a sound, and from time to time something would wrap around his feet.
He cursed loudly, turned around and struck with his sword from time to time, and then ran away again.
And whenever the cry came closer, the pond ash on the chest became a little warmer, and then gradually died out.
I don’t know whether it was the powerful old object in his hand or the pond ash on his chest that played an role. He actually escaped from the village and logically stayed away from the well.
But for some reason, the cold wind was still biting outside the village, and there seemed to be something shaking behind the invisible night. Xu Ji did not dare to slow down, and just ran forward in long strides.
Finally, he saw a figure running ahead of him on the long and narrow road.
Thinking that he was a clerk from Zhuangzi, Xu Ji was so angry that he couldn't help but cursed: "You bastard, why are you running away?"
"If you're brave enough, we'll do that thing together..."
"..."
He hurriedly caught up while running, also thinking that having more company would make him feel more at ease.
But the man was so scolded by him that he still walked forward without looking back, and his speed slowed down slowly.
Xu Ji quickly approached and finally vaguely saw this person's appearance.
He saw a face staring straight at him.
The man didn't look back, but he still looked at himself, because his face was originally on the back of his head. His stiff facial features seemed to be painted on, and above the exaggerated expression, those eyes were the most strange and staring.
He looked at himself and showed a weird smile.
It is not facing away from you, but is always staring at you!
"ah……"
Xu Ji didn't know what it was, but he was so frightened that he grabbed the mahogany sword and swung it forward wildly.
The row suddenly disappeared, but the sound of laughter was left in the open space.
Xu Ji was so frightened that his head was dizzy. All he could do was run away, one step at a time, sometimes he would fall down, get up and run again. He didn't know how far he ran before he calmed down a little. When he looked in front of him, he saw a group of people.
People gathered around there, shivering.
This time, Xu Ji had experience. He squinted his eyes tightly and finally recognized the green belts around the waists of the group of people, and then he was sure.
I found him, this time he was the man from my farm.
"Wait for me, wait for me..."
This time he didn't dare to scold, but hurried towards them.
But when he got closer, he stopped again. This time he could see clearly that they were indeed his men in the village. From the background, he could even vaguely see that two of them were his followers.
But now they are gathered together, their bodies trembling, as if they are discussing something, and they seem to be just crying together.
When they got closer and made a sound, they slowly turned around, their eyes rolling around like dice, and their bodies were still trembling and shaking.
This time, Xu Ji saw clearly that they were not trembling.
Instead, he was holding his own fingers and pointing them, knocking them rustlingly. The bruises were so bloody that only the bones were left.
"oops……"
Some of them seemed to recognize Xu Ji, and their eyes suddenly lit up.
The voice was sharp and weird, extremely unpleasant, but it seemed to be full of surprise: "I finally blocked you kid again..."
"ah……"
When these people stood up at the same time and surrounded him, Xu Ji felt his scalp numb and fear welling up at the base of his skull. Before he could run away, a gust of cold wind suddenly hit his face. His body became stiff and he shook his head.
The hand holding the mahogany sword couldn't even lift it.
He almost just stood there in a daze, looking at the shopkeepers one after another. They raised their lips and showed their cold and stern teeth as they gathered around him.
To be continued...