Nightmare Apostle

He had asked almost all the things he needed to ask, and he also got the route map to the Earth Temple last night. Before leaving, Yang Xiao left a small piece of silver and warned Ji Gen, "What you said has nothing to do with our earl." The government knows about the same situation. I’ll let you off for now. We’ll come back to you in a few days. If I find out that you go back to beat your wife and children, haha...

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Feeling Yang Xiao's increasingly cold eyes, Ji Gen, who had already received the money, shook his head repeatedly, "I don't dare, I don't dare!"

"Go back and do some serious business. What's the point of selling your wife?" Fang Zhou rolled up the book and tapped Ji Gen's head skillfully.

"Little sister." Chang Chuchu squatted down with a smile and touched the little girl's head, "Just keep the money your sister gives you. If you want to buy candied haws, buy it yourself. If you can't spend all the money, you can give it to your mother. Your father won't. You want it, right?

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Saying that, Chang Chuchu raised her head and stared at Ji Gen. This look made Ji Gen's heart beat. He nodded hurriedly, "Yes, I'm sorry...you good boy, keep the flowers for yourself. Daddy doesn't want them, but he still has to take them." You and your mother go to eat sesame seeds and buy new clothes."

"Really?" The little girl had never been treated like this before. Her eyes widened with disbelief on her face.

"Of course it's true, now, let's go now!" Ji Gen winked at his daughter, telling her to shut up.

Seeing this, Yang Xiao couldn't help but laugh in his heart. Ji Gen looked brave, but in fact he was quite thoughtful. He was worried that people like him would kidnap him back, so he grabbed his daughter and wife as life-saving straws. Ji Gen should have noticed that these people He has a good impression of his daughter.

The little girl was not very old, but she had learned about the ways of the world early on due to the tempering of life. She reached out and hugged Chang Chuchu who was squatting down, stood up on her toes, and kissed Chang Chuchu on the face, "Sister Beauty, I am going back with my father. , I will miss you."

"Sister will miss you too." The little girl put Chang Chuchu in a good mood, took a small piece of silver and gave it to the girl, and said generously: "Go back and buy some new clothes for you and your mother. Don't worry about your father, he doesn't like it.

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The little girl turned to look at Jiang Qingluan again. She seemed to want to repeat her old trick, but was dissuaded by Jiang Qingluan's aura of not letting strangers in.

At this moment, everyone also learned from the little girl that the poem she sang was learned from the little beggar she played with. But in the end, it is impossible to verify which one sang it first. In short, the source is the wanted ones. A monster.

The group of people walked out along the alley, and Ji Gen also fulfilled his promise and went home with his wife and children. After listening to his daughter whispering in her ear, the woman was so moved that she knelt down and gave Yang Xiaoji People kowtow and bow.

Fangzhou hurriedly stepped forward and helped the person up.

, "Don't be like this, go home quickly, my daughter wants to buy you new clothes."

In front of her man, the woman didn't dare to say some words. She could only look back at Ark with one step at a time, her eyes filled with tears, as if she was expecting something.

Chang Chuchu couldn't help but move away and said: "Hey, Fang Zhou, you do a good job. You can win the hearts of married women."

"If I were you, I would redeem myself with money and get a cheap wife for free. I have a daughter." Chang Chuchu watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal.

"Don't make fun of me. She doesn't like me. She only likes me for the money she has. She just wants to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain." Fangzhou shook his head and saw clearly, "What's wrong with me?" Although you have a lot of money, you can’t spend it on things like this.”

"Okay, we already have the route. Let's go out first and find a cloth store to buy some old clothes. These clothes are too eye-catching." Yang Xiao decided. After buying the clothes, he bought some food to eat on the road, and then immediately Set off and rush to the ruined temple last night to look for clues.

That ruined temple is inseparable from the Earl's Mansion. According to Ji Gen, every time the ancestors of the Earl's Mansion celebrated their birthdays, they would build a temple of earth. What's more, coincidentally, it also coincides with the start time of the Fushou Village mission in reality. consistent.

One is the bizarre nightmare world, and the other is the real world that Yang Xiao is familiar with, and the Earth Temple is the intersection of these two worlds.

Soon, the four people changed their clothes and appeared on the street. They bought a lot of food on the way, including baked crispy sugar cakes and sliced ​​soy sauce beef. In order to avoid the cold, Yang Xiao also bought a bottle of wine. After a brief sip, the wine was not strong in flavor and had a turbid taste.

In addition, I also prepared some incense, candles, paper money, etc. and packed them together. After all, I was going to the temple, so I was prepared.

Following the directions on the map, the group walked all the way outside the village, and soon found the archway they passed last night. There was an ancient stone plaque hanging on the archway, with the three characters "Fushou Village" written on it.

Chang Chuchu couldn't help but sigh. When they entered the village last night, there were still 11 people. Just one night later, they lost two teammates, and they all died in unknown ways. The last one, Jun Yuzawa, couldn't even find his body. .

Fang Zhou was thinking as he walked, and the demonic poem kept singing repeatedly in his mind with the voice of a little girl. Among the five monsters in the uncle's house, the one he was most interested in was the third monster. The slave thief suffered from it because Ji Gen As I said, those monsters with huge bounties on their heads fall into this category.

"Watch the road, don't be distracted." Yang Xiao immediately reminded him when he saw that he was distracted.

"Brother Yang, what does slave cattle thief mean?" Fang Zhou looked at him and asked curiously.

"In ancient times, there was a kind of punishment called punishment, which was one of the five ancient punishments. It was to shave off all or part of the prisoner's hair. People at that time were deeply ashamed of it. Later, it was extended to a derogatory name for monks, also called bald slaves. There is a poem that says: slaves are noisy in the bustling city, and they don't know where the Dharma is."

"As for this cow thief, he is a Taoist priest. The shape of the Taoist's bun is like a cow's nose, so he is also called a cow-nosed Taoist priest, which is not a good word." Yang Xiao explained as he walked.

"So the people in the Earl's Mansion reject people like monks and Taoist priests." Fang Zhou was thoughtful.

Not long after leaving the village, they encountered a fog. The fog came quickly, as if it was blown by a gust of wind. The road ahead became blurred in the fog. What's more weird is that there are shadows in the depths of the fog. I don't know if it is a tree or a human figure shaking.

"Why does it feel similar to last night?" Chang Chuchu hid behind Yang Xiao and Fang Zhou, occasionally poking her head out and looking into the depths of the fog. Last night, they found the ruined temple in this white fog.

If there is any difference, the fog is a little thinner during the day, but it's only a little. It's hard to say if you go further in.

"Something is wrong. With such a thick fog, we should be able to see it in the village. It's a good day today." Jiang Qingluan was alert to the surroundings.

"Should we retreat?" Fang Zhou suggested in a low voice.

"Don't, keep going." Retreating at this moment is a taboo. Yang Xiao decided to walk a little further. Since he encountered the fog last night, from another angle, it means that he is not far from the ruined temple. They are on the right path.

But the development of the next thing was beyond everyone's expectation. As they walked, a forest appeared in front of them. The trees here seemed to have been deprived of sunlight for many years and were malnourished. The branches and leaves were almost all gone, and they grew in all kinds of strange ways. There were crooked trees, broken trees, and trees that seemed to have been struck by lightning and were charred all over. There were no big trees in the forest, only dry and twisted small trees. The thickest one was only as thick as a human thigh.

The forest was dead silent. Yang Xiao's sight was attracted to the depths of the forest. He saw fog floating inside. Under the cover of the fog, the trees in the distance seemed to have changed their appearance. They were cold, stiff, and filled with an indescribable sense of dead silence, as if they were standing there one by one, dead and aimless.

This was a serious problem, because there were no trees near the dilapidated temple at all, only a barren river beach. The forest appeared here.

The direction must be wrong.

"Could it be that... that Ji Gen deceived us?" Fang Zhou recalled Ji Gen's face, and he didn't think it was like that. He didn't have the courage.

Although he didn't recognize the road he walked last night, he still recognized the general direction. Everyone agreed that the road was correct, at least the direction was right.

"Retreat, return the original way, follow the footprints." Yang Xiao looked at the foggy woods in front of him, and he didn't have the curiosity to go in and check it out. It looked wrong here, and this also reminded him of the rumor that Ji Gen mentioned that someone had disappeared nearby.

At this moment, the fog was getting thicker and the visibility was only a few meters. Several people followed the footprints all the way back, but as they walked, they realized that something was wrong. They didn't seem to have walked on this road, and they had no impression at all, but the footprints were clear, leading all the way to the depths of the fog.

After walking for dozens of meters, they suddenly stopped. At this moment, the uneasiness that had been hidden in their hearts for a long time finally materialized. In front of them, there appeared another forest, which was almost exactly the same as the one they encountered before, and the footprints led directly into the forest.

This was impossible. They didn't see any trees on the way here. The only explanation was that they encountered a ghost.

It was a ghost wall. Yang Xiao was sure that even if they changed directions, they would be blocked by the inexplicable forest.

"Now... what should we do?" Fang Zhou, who encountered such a scene for the first time, was visibly panicked, and cold sweat oozed from his forehead.

If it was the real world, Yang Xiao would smile and turn back, tell his teammates not to panic, and then take out the ghost lantern to teach the ghost a good lesson, but this was a nightmare world, and he could only use the dumbest method. Fortunately, they also brought a lot of incense, candles, paper money and other things with them.

He piled the paper money together, then took out three incense sticks and lit them. Yang Xiao clasped his hands together devoutly, held the three incense sticks, and worshiped in the direction of the woods, muttering to himself, "Don't bother with the lonely ghosts, we will deliver incense and candles to your door." He also promised that as long as he made way for them, he would let them leave safely. He would buy more paper money to worship them when he returned, so that they would live gloriously over there.

After saying the polite words, Yang Xiao knelt on the ground, inserted the three incense sticks side by side on the ground, and lit the paper money at the same time. However, a strange scene occurred. The dry paper money could not be lit no matter how hard he tried. At the same time, a whirlwind blew up out of nowhere in the forest, blowing the paper money into pieces. In Fang Zhou's shocked eyes, the left and right two of the three incense sticks suddenly broke and fell to the ground.

This scene also stunned Yang Xiao, Jiang Qingluan and others, and Chang Chuchu's face turned pale. People should avoid three long and two short, and incense should avoid two short and one long. It is clear that the other party is not giving face and intends to keep all four of them.

"We can't wait any longer. If we are surrounded, we will die." Jiang Qingluan stood up at this moment, took out another stick of incense and lit it, holding the incense with one hand, turning his head to look at Yang Xiao and Fang Zhou, "Who among you is a virgin?"

Seeing Yang Xiao hesitated for a moment, Jiang Qingluan immediately stared at Fang Zhou and asked quickly: "I'm asking you a question, are you a virgin?"

"I... I guess so." Fang Zhou answered reluctantly.

"Hold the incense in your left hand, like me." Jiang Qingluan pulled out Fang Zhou's left hand, flattened his palm, and inserted the incense in the gap between his ring finger and middle finger, "Hold it tight, remember, no matter what happens, don't let go!"

After that, she tore open the bag she was carrying, folded it a few times, made it into a blindfold, and covered Fang Zhou's eyes, "Don't ask anything, don't think about anything, just keep going until I say stop, do you understand?"

"But there is... ahead

Fang Zhou still has questions he doesn't understand, but Jiang Qingluan doesn't give him a chance to speak, and sternly said: "Don't ask, if you ask too much you will die."

"I understand. "Fang Zhou didn't dare to move.

'Build a human bridge, break through the ghost gate, the boy will lead the way, and the King of Hell will guard the back door." Yang Xiao saw Jiang Qingluan's plan at a glance, "We have the boy, but who will be the King of Hell? None of us has the fate of an evil star, so we can't suppress it."

"You are a rare lonely star, a living King of Hell." Jiang Qingluan stared at him.