Nightmare Attack

With his mouth wide open and his lips trembling, the fat man was so frightened that he couldn't say a word. He didn't understand why the ghost didn't kill him but snatched the guide sign.

Suddenly there was a harsh sound, and the fat man immediately turned around. It was the sound of gongs, coming from the village!

The gong sounded one after another, the ground was shaking, and cracks appeared in the surrounding scene little by little. Finally, it shattered like a mirror in the fat man's horrified eyes. The next second, a face appeared in front of him.

"you're awake!"

When the fat man saw the doctor's face, his first reaction was not to feel relieved. Instead, he immediately stepped back until he could clearly see the scene around him.

It was still the thatched room here. Except for Shao Tong guarding the door, the doctor and Li Bai were with him. At this moment, he was lying on the bed with a wet cloth covering his forehead.

The fat man wanted to open his mouth to speak, but his throat was very dry, and all he made was "ah...ah...". Li Bai thoughtfully took a water bag and fed it to him.

Seeing that the fat man was fine, Jiang Cheng also breathed a long sigh of relief, and the worry in his eyebrows gradually disappeared, "What's wrong with you? I can't wake you up even if you scream."

Through communication, Fatty gradually understood what happened during this period. The first half of the night between the doctor and Shao Tongshou was uneventful, but when the shift was changed, he suddenly realized that he could not wake up, but Li Bai, who was sleeping in the same bed, was No, everyone realized something was wrong.

After regaining his composure, the fat man told what happened last night, but because his thoughts were quite confusing, everyone could only get a general idea.

"How do you know that the figure outside the window is Grandpa? You have never seen him." Li Bai asked the first question.

"It's a cough... I heard it very clearly, just like what we heard yesterday when we first arrived. Also, I looked out through the crack in the window, and there was a withered figure outside, an old man. There was something in the sky at that time The moon, the moonlight is very good, I can see clearly."

After hearing the fat man's explanation, Jiang Cheng walked over and squatted down behind the closed window. After a while, he stretched out his hand to call the fat man over. Only when the fat man squatted in his place did he realize something was wrong.

The cracks in the windows have long been sealed, so you can't see outside at all.

"Also, there was no moon last night, and there was almost no light in the village. There could be no shadow cast on the window paper, and the stove in the room was not extinguished."

"Let's describe it as a dream. There were too many unreasonable things in that dream. I'm afraid you were able to come back alive thanks to the sound of the gong."

The fat man was stunned when he heard this, "Why, did you hear the gong sound too?"

"Well, you woke up shortly after the gong sounded." Li Bai said, raising his head and looking in the direction of the village, "The gong came from that direction.

"By the way, that sign!" The fat man suddenly reacted and touched the wooden sign on his chest through his clothes. This was a guide sign given by the Marquis Mansion. It was very meaningful. Fortunately, the wooden sign was not lost.

The fat man breathed out, wiped the cold sweat on his face with a wet cloth, and finally felt relieved. It seemed that this dream was not so weird that it distorted reality. This was what he was most worried about.

"Take out the sign." Jiang Cheng said.

The fat man untied his clothes and took out the brand from the innermost pocket. But the moment he took the brand into his hands, the fat man realized something was wrong. The brand was still the same one, but this feeling... why was it a little sticky?

At the same time, a slight stench, a strange smell mixed with the smell of blood spread, irritating everyone's nostrils.

is blood!

Look carefully, there is actually a bloody handprint printed on the dark wooden sign!

"There is blood, and there is a smell of rotting corpses." Jiang Cheng said without changing his expression. He rubbed the sign with his hands, "There is still some mud mixed on it."

Compared with Jiang Cheng's attitude, which seemed to be used to this kind of scene, Fatty was speechless for a moment. The scene last night was shattered and reorganized in his mind, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether it was fantasy or reality.

"Ah...! Ahhh...!"

A woman's scream was heard next door, followed by a cry.

"Grandpa! Grandpa!"

Hearing the sound of the gong meant that the night was receding. Jiang Cheng wrapped the wooden sign with cloth and then took it back to himself, "Let's go and take a look."

Hearing the cries, Yao, Shun, and Yu also walked out of the room. As soon as they arrived at the door of the woman and her grandfather's house, the door was opened, and the woman with tears on her face stumbled out, her whole body became blurry, and she looked at He got up and fell into great sorrow, "Grandpa, he... Grandpa, he is dead!"

"died?"

"I woke up this morning when I heard the sound of the gong. Seeing that grandpa was still sleeping, I didn't disturb him, but just now...just now I was about to wake grandpa up for breakfast, and then I realized...then I realized..." The woman was filled with laughter. His face was stained with tears, he could no longer control his emotions, and he looked very pitiful.

Jiang Cheng looked in through the open door and saw a person lying on a shabby earthen bed, wrapped tightly in a quilt, and his face could not be seen.

"Please help me take care of my grandpa. I...I'm going to find people in the village to help arrange my grandpa's funeral affairs. I'm asking you to help me."

The woman's sadness didn't seem to be staged. What's more important was that she didn't give Jiang Cheng and the others a chance to refuse. After saying this, the woman stumbled away. From the back, she looked like she had lost her soul.

After the woman left, the small courtyard fell into silence. Everyone looked at the figure on the earthen bed. To be precise, it was a human figure wrapped in a quilt. The scene was a bit strange.

Jiang Cheng succinctly told Yao, Shunyu and the others what happened to the fat man last night. At this moment, everyone felt a little guilty, worried that what was hidden under the quilt was not a corpse, but a fierce ghost.

Shao Tong volunteered to step forward, which was exactly what he wanted. As the corners of the quilt were lifted little by little, an old face was revealed.

The old man did not walk peacefully. His face was distorted and even a little out of shape. His eyes were not completely closed and his mouth was open, as if he had something to say. The fat man immediately recognized that this was the old man he saw last night.

Jiang Cheng pulled out his grandfather's hands, compared them, and then took out the sign from his arms. After two verifications, the bloody fingerprints on the sign matched his left hand perfectly.

Now everyone is convinced that the fat man’s dream last night was related to Grandpa.

Li Bai opened the old man's eyelids, then reached out to check the old man's body temperature, lifted the body to check, and made a judgment after a moment, "The child's hole is gone. Judging from the temperature and other physical signs, the person must have been dead for a short time, probably After 4 or 5 hours, corpse spots appeared on the back and other sinking areas.”

"According to this time estimate, when we first arrived yesterday, the old man was indeed not dead yet, and the cough we heard was also made by him." Zhu Jie analyzed.

"It looks like this from the corpse." Li Bai nodded.