Darkness enveloped the village.

In this place far away from the bustling city, the village seems to be integrated into the darkness. All the street lights are turned off, every household has its doors closed, and no one can be seen on the street.

Everyone was sitting around the dinner table. Seeing Xie Guilan's face looking strange, she gave the advice "Don't go out after dark."

"Gudu!"

Long Feicheng swallowed his saliva and said with a smile: "Sister Xie, don't scare us, we have all seen the world. People are not afraid of anything black or ghost!"

Xie Guilan suddenly stood up, leaned forward, and almost put her face in front of Long Feicheng across the table, she sneered Said:

“It would be easy if the village was just haunted by ghosts!”

“Ahem, if you have something to say, please don’t be surprised...” Long Feicheng was already a little timid.

Mente and Kong Xuan, two "girls" who had never seen the world, were so frightened that they regretted following them to this strange village.

Everyone looked out the window again. It was pitch black outside and they could not see anything. It seemed that the darkness was full of ghosts. Once they took a step outside the house, they might be dragged into the darkness by those ghosts. Use the cruelest means to share food.

Now that I want to leave and return to a prosperous city, I’m afraid it won’t be that simple.

Yan Shouyi said calmly: "Sister Xie, since it's dark today, it's time to tell us what's going on in the village, right?"

Xie Guilan nodded and sat down Returning to his position, he sighed and said:

"As you can see, the young people in our village have gone to work in the city. Most of the young people who are still in the village are Among those who are idle and idle, there is a gangster and bully in our village, his name is Xie Dazhi. This Xie Dazhi’s family has fields but not farming, and pigs but not raising. The family is obviously too poor to expose the problem, but he still forms gangs every day and is addicted to gambling. Later, a few more families followed him in the village, and these people started to run rampant in the village, spying on widows bathing, robbing the elderly of their subsistence allowances, and stealing other people's chickens and ducks, all of which were common things they did."

"Although I am the village director, I can't do anything with him, because they only commit petty thefts every time. Even if it is serious, they will be arrested and imprisoned for a short time. After being released, they will be raped again. Same as before, no repentance at all.”

“I don’t know when, the village began to spread rumors that a group of strange people appeared nearby. They appeared in groups at night, with strange postures. , and erratic. Some well-informed old people in the village said they were ghosts, some said they were monsters, and some said they were earth gods.Fairy's little follower. But no matter what those things were, people in the village were very scared and did not dare to go out at night. "

"After Xie Dazhi learned about this incident, he insisted on going to find out what was going on. He said it was to eliminate harm for the people, so he took a few of his henchmen and went out in the evening. They stole a chicken and roasted it. Everyone drank a lot. A few bastards slept by the river near the village until most of the night. When they woke up and found that it was already early in the morning, they took advantage of the alcohol. , began to look for traces of the group of monsters near the village. "

"As a result, the next morning, Xie Dazhi's family did not see them coming back, so they searched around the village. As a result, all the others were missing, and only Xie Dazhi was found by the river. , when he was found, Xie Dazhi’s body was soaked in the water and he lost consciousness due to freezing, and his mouth was filled with stones. Fortunately, he was still breathing. Everyone rushed him to the hospital and finally got him to wake up. The first thing Dazhi said was to hit a ghost! "

"It's a pity that Xie Dazhi has gone crazy since then and talks nonsense. I went to see him several times and barely figured out what happened that night from his words. "

"That night, Xie Dazhi and the others patrolled around the village under the influence of alcohol. Sure enough, they encountered the rumored weirdos. Those weirdos seemed to be two different groups, and one group looked like corpses. , and the corpses died in different miserable ways. Some had missing arms and legs, some had their heads crushed, and some simply had only half of their bodies left! "

"The other group of people are ghosts with translucent bodies floating in the air. Among those ghosts are those who beat gongs, those who carry flags, and those who carry sedan chairs - oh yes! The group of ghosts were also carrying a sedan. The sedan was very high, and inside it sat a monster that was at least three meters high! "

" Facing him, he showed a very cold and strange smile! One of the corpses actually opened his mouth, pointed at Xie Dazhi and the others and laughed, saying that it was you who he was looking for, but you delivered it to the door yourself! Immediately afterwards, all the corpses moved, Xie Dazhi was so frightened that he lost his soul, and everyone turned around and ran away! "

"Xie Dazhi ran fairly fast, but several of his henchmen were caught quickly without even a chance to scream. Xie Dazhi knew that their end would probably be miserable. , so he ran as fast as he could until he reached the small river. When he saw an earth temple by the river, he went into the earth temple. The group of monsters chased them outside the earth temple and did not dare to get closer. , Xie Dazhi thought he was saved, and actually started laughing at the ghosts outside in the Tutu Temple! "

"Those ghosts and monsters are not vegetarians. A weirdo walked out of them. He just raised his fingers at Xie Dazhi, and Xie Dazhi's body walked out uncontrollably! ”

"When Xie Dazhi walked out of the Earth Temple, he was immediately picked up by several corpses and carried to the lake. They stuffed stones into Xie Dazhi's mouth and pressed his head into the water, trying to drown him. , but then it was getting dark and the roosters were crowing, and all the ghosts and monsters suddenly disappeared."

From that night on, Xie Dazhi became more and more crazy, and Xie Guilan had no choice. , throw him into a mental hospital, and don't care about more.

As for Xie Dazhi’s henchmen, there is still no whereabouts. Their families shed tears every day and posted countless missing persons notices nearby. Later, the police also came because there were really no clues. , so there has been no progress. As for what Xie Dazhi said, the police do not agree. After all, Xie Dazhi is crazy, and the words of a madman cannot be used as clues.

Later, Xie Guilan also hired a few mages, but half of those mages were liars, and the remaining half shook their heads after they arrived, saying that they could not control the matter.

The last mage, after spending the night in the village, took his gear and hurriedly left, leaving only one sentence: "The affairs in your village are too involved, and I have no ability to take care of them." , there is no one in Qiantang who can help! If you want to solve this problem, you can only go to some famous sects... Go to Maoshan, Maoshan will definitely be able to solve this problem!"

It was from that mage that he obtained Maoshan's contact information, and now Yan Shou, Han San and others arrived in the village.

After talking about the strange things in the village, Xie Guilan sighed again:

“I thought Maoshan sent a powerful mage, but it turned out that you guys are here. You yellow-haired boy, that’s it. Don’t interfere with our village’s affairs. I’ll find another expert...”

They waded through the muddy waters with contempt mixed with good intentions.

Han San said seriously: "Sister Xie, we cultivators have always taken it as our duty to eliminate demons and defend the Tao. How can we shrink back just because of fear? But having said that, you have been talking for so long, and it’s just chicken soup. It’s cold, could you please warm it up for us? We’ll be ready to work after eating?”