Yi Baohua's mobile phone still has a bit of battery left.
He finally looked outside the house. The heavy rain was like splashing ink, hiding everything behind it.
He closed the door tightly.
Repeatedly:
"Two minutes past seven."
At first, everyone in the room didn't react much, and they were still busy with what they were doing.
Because today, the passage of time does not give people too much real sense: the wind and rain are not stopping all the time, the sky is always dark, and the division between day and night is not clear.
But.
"It's night."
His voice was very soft, as if he was afraid of waking something up, and his words were almost inaudible mixed with the whistling wind and rain outside.
But everyone invariably slowed down their movements and kept silent.
Silence spread in the room.
Night is the beginning of many horror stories.
It can naturally give people coldness and trembling.
Especially now, especially here.
Destroyed vehicles and violent storms trapped everyone in this small, remote mountain village. The evil spirits lurking in the village hung in the minds of everyone like Damoris.
"Brother Li..."
"how?"
"What exactly is in the village?"
"have no idea."
The heavy rain splashed on the roof tiles, making a "倥得" sound, as if something was knocking on the door outside.
"How long will the underground seal last?"
"have no idea."
The strong wind laughed strangely outside the house, the old roof beams creaked and moaned, a bit of cold wind seeped in from the gaps, and the candlelight swayed.
"Tonight...will there be monsters coming?"
"have no idea."
In the tightly closed room, the musty smell in the air became increasingly severe.
There seem to be more mold spots on the walls, roof beams, doors and windows.
Yi Baohua suddenly felt that the monster underground had broken free of the seal and climbed up the tunnel to the world. The bloodthirsty hyphae had already quietly invaded every dark corner of the room.
He suddenly lost control of his emotions.
"Then what do we know?" As soon as he blurted out, he slapped himself hard, "I'm sorry, I..."
His expression was bitter.
"It's okay, it's human nature."
Li Changan didn't take it seriously, but he managed to pay some attention. Only then did he realize that the atmosphere in the room was extremely depressing, and everyone was like a taut string that was about to break at any time.
Yes.
Li Changan suddenly realized.
Not everyone is like him, accustomed to facing evil spirits and life and death.
He pondered for a while.
"This is the first time I've seen the thing attached to Xiang Dai'an's body. I really don't understand it. The result of the fight is very different from ordinary zombies and more difficult. I'm afraid ordinary talismans have no effect, but the good news is that
The thing is very afraid of fire. We are fully prepared, so we don’t need to be afraid of it.”
"In addition, besides being able to entangle people, the silk that grows on its body is also weird. It's best to wrap yourself tightly. If you are unlucky enough to see it, don't let it get on your skin."
Li Changan glanced around and found that everyone had already wrapped themselves up tightly in three layers.
"As for that thing underground, you don't have to worry too much. I dealt with it in a timely manner. In one or two days, the thing can't come out. Tomorrow, the rain will definitely slow down, so we will leave immediately. Brother Wang
Lead the way, and when that thing gets out of trouble, we'll be back in the county town long ago."
After talking, everyone felt somewhat comforted, and everyone's faces finally relaxed a little.
Once people relax mentally, physiological problems that were ignored when they were nervous will naturally emerge.
Yi Baohua said he was thirsty, Wang Zhongmin complained that he was hungry, Zeng Guangwen's belt was tied too tight and it hurt, and even Xiao Shu raised one hand as if he was in class.
"Can I go out for a moment?"
Out? Now?
Everyone was confused at first, but then they saw her cheeks were slightly red and her legs were tightly twisted, and it suddenly became clear.
But it was really dangerous to go out now, so I had to get a small bucket and draw a curtain in the corner of the room to let her make do with it.
…
Focus back here.
Wang Zhongmin took a bite of the biscuit and saw Li Changan busy with his work again.
Really curious.
"Little Taoist Priest Li, what do you do?"
On the one hand, to prepare for life-saving, and on the other hand, to relieve anxiety, everyone has been busy until now. They have done many useful things and useless things over and over again.
For example, use gasoline to make a Molotov cocktail, or polish the Molotov cocktail to make it shiny.
But Li Changan was the only one doing one thing from beginning to end: crushing a few rocks into powder, mixing them with cinnabar, and drawing runes on the ground. The runes were next to each other and almost formed a circle.
Son.
The stone is a fragment of the statue brought by the Taoist priest.
"Have you seen Three Strikes of Bone Demons?" Li Changan said casually, "This is the circle."
"Hey!" Wang Zhongmin said in a high tone, as if talking about cross talk, "We are also enjoying the treatment of Tang Monk!"
"No. I'm sure there will be a female seductress out to seduce you. When the time comes, you have to be careful and don't fall into the beauty trap."
Not funny.
But when people need to laugh, they will not miss every opportunity to laugh.
First it was Wang Zhongmin, then Zeng Guangwen, Yi Baohua, Professor Shao... they laughed one after another, and the laughter gathered together, making the beams creak and the walls shake slightly.
Sound? Shake?
The laughter stopped abruptly.
"Watch out!"
Boom~ Bang~ The house collapsed!
…
When everyone got up in embarrassment, they hurriedly lit up all the light sources they could.
Then I saw that a corner of the house had collapsed, and wind and rain were pouring in through the gap without restraint.
Didn't have time to sort out my mood.
A shrill scream almost broke my heart.
Several hands and flashlights moved over in a panic.
But Xiao Shu was seen crawling in the muddy water outside the house, reaching out for help inside the house, and then she seemed to hear something, and looked behind her with a horrified face.
There.
A vague and weird shadow quietly appeared.
I didn't wait for everyone to turn their flashlights around.
Xiao Shu's whole body was suddenly dragged into the darkness, and he disappeared into the dark winding alley with a series of screams, leaving only a frightened face imprinted in everyone's heart.
"Xiao Xiao!"
Yi Baohua howled and was about to catch up.
Li Changan grabbed him.
No words were spoken.
I just finished drawing the last talisman with concentration.
Look up again.
At the collapse site, cold wind mixed with chaotic rain hit our face, and behind the thick night that a few panicked flashlight beams could not penetrate, there were urgent screams.
Li Changan turned his head and glanced at the people with different expressions, and pointed at the talisman circle at his feet.
No need to talk nonsense.
Cover the raincoat hood.
Throw yourself into the wind and rain.
…………
The divine walking armor and horse are in the body.
Li Changan passed over the high and low walls and roof ridges of Laoshan Village, like a flying swallow cutting through the night rain.
Behind you, the light of the house is getting farther and farther; in front, Xiao Shu's screams are getting closer and closer.
Finally, my eyes caught the strange figure.
But that thing might have been chased in a hurry, so it actually left Xiao Shu behind and fell into the deep alley alone.
Li Changan didn't chase him, nor did he rush forward.
He jumped off the wall.
Look around for a moment.
This was supposed to be a small courtyard, but the house had completely collapsed and suddenly sank into the dense cluster of buildings in the village. The heavy rain overflowed and turned into a pond, and the accumulated water was silted up to half of the calf.
Xiao Shu was at the other end of the pond. When he called over with his flashlight, he saw that his body was wrapped in a raincoat and soaked in the turbid water. His long hair was messy and disheveled, covering his face.
"Xiao Shu?"
Li Changan slowly approached.
The woman's body trembled, and a low cry could be heard in the rain.
"Don't be afraid? The monster has escaped."
Li Changan got closer and closer, but the woman still didn't answer, but her cries became weaker and weaker, mixed with a few painful moans.
"You are hurt?"
Li Changan came to her side, but the woman no longer cried. She huddled in the cold water, breathing only weakly under the cover of her hair.
The Taoist priest half-knelt down, reached out to hold her thin shoulders, and turned her around.
"you……"
The words stopped abruptly.
This was probably because the turned-over face turned out to be an old, strange face covered with wrinkles and black spots. It had no nose, no ears, no mouth, and only one dim yellow eye embedded in the center.
How could this be Xiao Shu?!
Instantly.
The dim yellow eyes suddenly turned.
The unruly hair suddenly swelled up and turned into countless small snakes, tightly wrapping around Li Changan's arms.
Immediately afterwards.
The raincoat was thrown off.
The skinny body underneath was exposed, and there were actually four arms on the body, which were thrown up as if they were boneless and grabbed the Taoist priest tightly.
Then.
Hearing a low and weird roar, its shriveled belly suddenly split open and turned into a bloody mouth, and it gnawed at it.
The thin line between life and death.
Li Changan, on the other hand, had an expression of indifference, no surprise, and no fear.
Such an abnormal attack made the monster's biting movements stagnate slightly.
The one eye on his face blinked again and again.
However, there was no need to be surprised, because it soon saw the Taoist priest in front of him who had been tricked and was about to kill him, with a spark in his eyes.
The one eye hurriedly moved to the left side of the head.
On its shoulder, entangled in the messy hair, a yellow talisman burned slowly.
The wind howled and the rain howled.
The click of the teeth is clearly audible.
"Edict."
Boom~~
A fire breaks out.
…
A single fire talisman, with Li Changan's Taoism, cannot burn up this heavy rain.
The flames were quickly extinguished by wind and rain.
Li Changan pulled off the squirming corpse and threw it aside.
Add a talisman.
While waiting for the monster to be completely burned to ashes, he immersed his arm in the water to wash away the remaining heat.
Something is very wrong.
At first, although the demon that Xiang Dai'an's corpse turned into was somewhat cunning, it was still just a simple monster. But the thing in front of him actually had obvious emotional changes. Could it be that it still retains the wisdom of when it was a human?
"How much are you humans? How much are you demons?"
No one answered.
But the sound of "ta da" footsteps sounded in the rain. In the alley ahead, the strange shadow that kidnapped Xiao Shu came back again. When I got closer, I saw its true appearance, the same old face, the same missing facial features.
The same skinny body has no arms attached to it. Instead, it has three pairs of skinny legs, like a weird spider.
No wonder it can run like flying in the tight and winding alleys.
But the "spider" didn't pounce on him in a hurry. He just stared at the Taoist priest fiercely and stopped at the entrance of the alley, as if waiting for something.
really.
There was a chilling sound of "Saxaul" in the darkness, and another monster swam down from the incomplete wall beside the "pond". Its body was extremely elongated, with no arms and legs, and there was actually another pair of monsters attached to its waist.
Slender body.
"Pa", there was a splashing sound, and a figure with long arms and legs but as short as a child jumped out from the corner. A closer look revealed that there was no upper body.
"Boom", a monster like a mountain of meat pushed down the wall and came out... One monster after another appeared one after another, surrounding Li Changan in this pool of cold water.
Take a quick glance.
Counting the ones that were burned to ashes, there are six monsters in total.
Every one of them has a weird shape.
It was as if the limbs of many people were mixed together and then randomly distributed according to their heads, resulting in these twisted and deformed things in front of you.
Li Changan frowned.
He wasn't afraid, he just felt strange.
Shouldn't there be another one?
…………
Two flowers bloom, one on each side.
Through the collapsed gap.
The cold wind kept pouring cold rain into the house.
Even though everyone is crowded in the "talisman circle" and even though the clothes are tightly wrapped, there is still an inexplicable chill spreading among each other.
"Brother Li?"
"Shut up!"
I don’t know who is wavering, and I don’t know who is scolding.
In fact, everyone is the same. They are panicked. The reason why they still maintain their sanity is that they still have some hope.
But suddenly.
"Who? Who's there?"
The trembling question immediately tensed everyone's nerves to the extreme.
"Speak up! If you don't speak, I'll take action."
Wang Zhongmin picked up a homemade Molotov cocktail, his hands shaking even more than his throat. If he hadn't forgotten to light the fire, he would have burned himself first instead of hitting others.
fine.
A figure shivered out of the darkness, raising its pale face.