Withdrawing his gaze from looking at the night sky, Qin Shaoyou divided the people into two teams.
"Everyone should work harder tonight and rest in two shifts. Monk Ma and I will lead a few people to stay up until midnight, and Zhu Xiucai will lead the remaining people to stay at midnight."
"Yes." The horse monk and the warriors accepted the order in a low voice, and immediately took off the equipment one by one from the horse and placed it in the sleeping place to prepare for the night's watch.
Soon, Zhu Xiucai, who was inspecting the statue, came back.
"How's it going? Did you find anything?" Qin Shaoyou asked.
Zhu Xiucai shook his head: "I walked around the statue several times, but found nothing and didn't sense any danger.
I also asked a few caravan guys who had stayed here to inquire, and they said that the statues had been there since the Wujiabao was built, but they couldn’t tell the identity of the statues..."
This result was within Qin Shaoyou's expectation, and he was not too disappointed. Instead, he informed Zhu Xiucai of the night watch plan he had just decided.
Zhu Xiucai naturally had no objection.
After eating dry food, Zhu Xiucai and the strongman who was responsible for guarding in the middle of the night wrapped themselves in blankets and lay down on the brown blanket.
They should seize the time to sleep and recharge themselves for the duty in the middle of the night.
However, even when they are sleeping, they are always close to their bodies and can jump into battle immediately if there is a situation.
Qin Shaoyou, Monk Ma and others also wrapped themselves in blankets and sat down against the earth wall.
He also specially took a shield wrapped in cloth and put it under his butt in case of emergency.
Several people seemed to be taking a nap, but in fact their eyes were constantly looking around, full of vigilance.
After a while, the caravans and travelers on the other side of the pavilion fell asleep one after another.
Although they also arranged for people to keep vigil at night, their vigilance was far less than that of Qin Shaoyou.
Those people didn't stay for long before they yawned profusely, dozed off little by little, and some even started snoring.
Wujiabao gradually became quieter.
Apart from the night wind blowing the torches all around, there was only the sound of snoring one after another.
At this moment, Qin Shaoyou and the others still found nothing.
Time soon came to midnight.
The night is getting darker and darker.
Suddenly, Qin Shaoyou, who had always been sober, felt intensely tired for no reason.
His head became groggy and his eyelids became heavy. After yawning, he fell asleep directly against the earth wall.
However, he only slept for a few seconds before Qin Shaoyou suddenly woke up and opened his eyes.
"Why did I fall asleep?" He was full of surprise.
Ordinarily, with his cultivation in the Muscle and Bone Realm, he could survive no matter how sleepy he was. What's more, he wasn't very sleepy just now, so why did he fall asleep inexplicably?
Looking at Monk Ma and others next to him, they all fell into a strange deep sleep, each one snoring louder than the other. How could Qin Shaoyou not understand?
Something must have hypnotized them, so they suddenly fell asleep collectively.
Qin Shaoyou was able to wake up. In addition to being sensitive to danger, he should have eaten a lot of purple snow cold silk in the past few days, which strengthened his mental resistance and allowed him to recover quickly after being hypnotized.
Qin Shaoyou, who was secretly complaining, was about to wake up Monk Ma, Zhu Xiucai and others when he suddenly saw black shadows in the darkness. They came out of the statue and quietly pounced towards the statue where they were staying for the night.
of people.
There was a dark shadow among them, and it was rushing towards them.
"There is indeed something wrong with this place!"
Qin Shaoyou cursed secretly in his heart, and temporarily gave up his plan to wake up Monk Ma, Zhu Xiucai and others, so as not to alarm the snake and prepare for the approaching black shadow.
He narrowed his eyes slightly and pretended to be sleeping, but his hand wrapped in the blanket secretly clenched the knife in his arms, holding his breath, waiting for the opportunity to attack.
The corner where Qin Shaoyou and the others were staying was far away from the statue. While the black shadow that pounced on them was still on the road, several other black shadows had already arrived in front of the caravans and travelers around the pergola.
The black shadows swayed and changed into human shapes.
Just because the distance was too far and the light was too dim, Qin Shaoyou couldn't see the specific changes in them.
After the black shadow transformed into a human form, it woke up the sleeping people and asked them in a very strange and scary tone:
"Do you think I look like a human being or a god?"
Is this a request for closure?
Qin Shaoyou had a thought in his mind.
He had heard the story of the petition.
Legend has it that after an animal reaches a certain level of cultivation, it will come to someone to ask for a title.
If you say it is like a god, then its cultivation will be greatly improved, but you will have to bear the karma, pay the price, and even drag down your family.
And if you say it looks like a human being, it will ruin its practice, and it will be entangled with its hatred from now on, and it will be difficult to achieve good results.
However, the feudal fight that took place in Wujiabao was different from the legends Qin Shaoyou had heard.
People awakened by the black shadow obviously have mental problems, and they all look confused.
When they heard the black shadow's question, they either answered: "Like a god." or muttered: "Like a human... haha, like a human."
If he answers like a human, a black shadow will immediately penetrate his body from his open mouth.
After a while, when the black shadow comes out again, the original living person will be reduced to just a piece of skin.
Flesh, flesh, organs, even bones, etc. were all devoured by the black shadow.
Those who answer "like gods" will also have black shadows piercing their bodies.
It's just that when the black shadow comes out, he will not be reduced to a human skin, and he can even move as if he is not affected.
But if you look closely, you will find that there is no blood on these people's bodies.
All the blood in their bodies was sucked dry by the shadow, and they became corpse puppets controlled by it!
When these black shadows ask for a seal, no matter whether the answer is human or divine, the result is death and they will be eaten by them.
The only difference is that one is a single menu and the other is a banquet.
In the blink of an eye, the dark shadow rushing towards Qin Shaoyou and the others also arrived.
Through the faint firelight on the earthen wall, Qin Shaoyou could clearly see what the black shadow looked like after it turned into a human form.
He is a thin, short old man with sinister eyebrows and a stooped body.
It ignored Zhu Xiucai, Monk Ma and others who were really sleeping, but focused on Qin Shaoyou who was pretending to be asleep.
It grinned, and a bone-chilling coldness surged into Qin Shaoyou's body. He shivered from the cold, and his mind seemed to be frozen, becoming dull and dazed.
Fortunately, the next second, Qin Shaoyou returned to normal.
Zixue Liangsi once again made meritorious service!
The thin old man transformed by the black shadow did not notice that Qin Shaoyou was awake.
It opened its mouth, revealing a set of yellow and bloodshot fangs, and asked with a strange accent and a sinister smile: "Young man, look at me, do I look like a human or a god?"
"I think you look like..."
Qin Shaoyou pretended to be delirious and muttered:
"A little devil JK with twin ponytails and black stockings!"
"ah?"
The short, thin old man transformed by the black shadow was confused.
It didn't understand what Mr. Qin was talking about at all.
This is a huge generation gap between the two worlds. How could it be possible for a mere evil monster to understand the hobbies of old perverts in another world?