She was really scary at that time, her whole body seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit. Her numb eyes turned fierce in an instant, and there was a sharp light like a knife, with rust, I think it was
The smell of blood. Like a wild cat with fried hair, it looks haggard, but every hair that stands up is sharp and sharp.
"Okay, okay..." Finally, I said to her, "Then what should I do so that you will believe me?"
She really listened, calmed down a little, and took a small step back. Miss Tao took a deep breath, and her murderous eyes cooled down.
"unless……"
"unless?"
"You go find the treasure," she said, "and give it to me."
I didn't understand. But I thought about it and told her: "It's not impossible, but do you really trust me? Besides, I'm not here for it, but for you. Do you know where that thing is?"
"I don't know. If I knew, I would have gotten it a long time ago." She said coldly, "I don't dare to say that I know. If I told it like this, the people who came to visit before would hold me hostage and force me to talk to them.
Let's die together. When the time comes, I won't even know how I died. Even in my own home, I can't care about my own safety, let alone outside... I can't trust anyone except my family, and I shouldn't trust anyone. This is
He told me."
I glanced at the bed again, looked at her again, and asked sincerely: "Then do you believe me?"
She didn't speak, just looked at me. Her big eyes were round and round. Under the too-long hair curtain that had not been taken care of, she looked like a little animal hiding under the cabinet and under the table. She secretly looked outside and made a calculation in her heart.
.
"What do you want it for?"
"Do you know what kind of baby that is?" she asked me.
She is actually very smart, which is a good thing because it allows her to survive alone in this crisis-ridden world.
"Yeah." I nodded truthfully, "Although I don't covet it, I have indeed heard of such a thing. It is a special kind of clam. It is said to be the treasure of the Dragon Clan, and it is also said to be related to the Shark Clan. How exactly does it live?
At this point, I have no idea. I just heard that that thing has the power to make people immortal."
"It can also cure all the illnesses in the world."
I nodded again. It seemed that she was also aware of this matter, and she sincerely hoped to cure her brother, not to escape in exchange for money. But people often underestimate their greed, and many people thought this way at first,
What will happen when you really get any benefits and face huge benefits?
She wants to, even betray her relatives and friends, even if they have been close friends in life and death, she can leave them behind. I see such examples many times. Of course, I will not doubt her relationship with her brother because of things that have not happened yet.
At least at this moment, at the moment, her thoughts are so sincere and vivid.
"I can find it for you, as long as you wait here for me to come back. By then, no matter whether I can find it or not, whether the magic weapon can work or not, you must leave here with me."
She looked at me with that special look again, and I knew that she had been shaken. Things went smoothly after that. I discussed it with her and got up and set off. I promised her that whether she found it or not, I would come back here to find her.
She told me - if I can still find my way back here.
That forest was very scary, and it was rumored that the curse started close to the forest and spread throughout the village. The trees in this forest are difficult to see in other places. They basically do not grow alone, they are all in pieces——
A very big one. Dark and tall are their most important features.
They are hard as iron and difficult to burn. In appearance, each tree is like an elongated cone. There are no branches at the lower end of the tree, and some are at very high places. After the first thunderstorm in summer, they produce leaves.
And immediately after the first ray of autumn wind, it dried up and fell off. So I stepped on
Every step through the snow does not step on soil, but on thick rotten leaves. Even if the tree does not rot, the leaves will rot very hard and will turn into soil in the second summer. Even if this kind of tree dies, it will
It has stood on the ground for many years, and in summer it can still grow leaves from the remaining nutrients in its branches.
I was the girl Tao Zhu who visited me at noon that day. Holding my Kagura bell, I walked step by step in the forest until dusk. Those trees all had many eye-like break marks, like birch trees, so vivid that they could blink at any time.
Just like a birch tree, the outside is black and the marks inside the bark are white, which reminds me of a friend... That's all. I kept walking until it was almost dark.
Then I turned around and asked, "When are you going to take action?"
I know, she has been following me.
No one answered behind her. It was getting late, and the whole forest had a dim yellow tone. She hid behind a certain tree, and her small figure was easily obscured by the trees that were not strong. She did not show up.
I just continued talking.
"The knife on the chopping board is more like a meat cutter than a vegetable cutter. But you don't always have such conditions here. If you put a kitchen knife on it, I won't be suspicious. I can do it.
Suddenly, you are probably not prepared. There are some bones not far away, some of which look like human ones. Of course, you can also interpret it as an attack by wild beasts."
Miss Tao Zhu came out, holding the sharp knife in her hand. The setting sun fell on the slightly rusty blade, giving it a blood-like color. That knife should have killed many people.
"Is that all your evidence?"
She was shockingly calm. But I knew that with her appearance like this, she probably didn't want to continue acting. She wanted to know how much more I could see, so I continued.
"The water at noon was also problematic. It was laced with poison. Those drugs were always in the bowl, always ready. In the forest, there were also many bones, not just of animals - not just those killed by predators,
More people died in traps. There were also many traps cleverly hidden by the heavy snow, such as bear traps, ropes, potholes and so on. My eyesight and luck were good enough, and I haven't fallen into the trap until now. You just wait.
It’s just less than that.”
"The trap can only be set in the largest area that can be reached during the day, otherwise I won't be able to go back. After all, there is nothing here... I don't believe anyone can survive the next day, so I followed you. You are indeed an accident
.”
She suddenly grinned, and the smile seemed to be cut from her face with the knife in her hand. The previous numbness was swept away, and it was different from the anger, but full of vitality. She was very powerful, pretending
It's very similar. If I hadn't known the truth, I would have almost been deceived by her. If she had become an actress, I'm afraid she would have been much richer than she is now.
"Everything you've done so far is within my expectations." I responded in return.
"What else do you know that you can tell me about?"
She played with the knife in her hand, throwing it high and catching it steadily, very skillfully. She only wore two pieces, and didn't even need to cover herself with a blanket in the room. She was really cold-resistant. The sun
It was about to sink completely, stretching our shadows very long. This made people sure that Tao Zhu was indeed a living person and not a ghost.
"I also know that you and your brother are not from this village. When it was still called a village, there was no family named Tao, so you are not born and raised here. It was you who spread the rumors about the treasure.
.That clam really was here a long time ago. I’m afraid you also came here for this reason, but
I think you must have looked for it, but it's not there. But Mr. Taoji can't move around anymore, so you can only stay here. If you don't look for the treasure, tell them about it, and then entertain them, and then
Let them go; kill and dispose of those who come looking for treasure. But you are not just after their money."
It was fine when she said other words, but the last sentence made her expression change. In the dusk, the last radiance of the sun disappeared, and there was only a layer of cold blue light on her face. It won't take long for this color to disappear.
She would blend into the darkness and then use her skilled fighting skills to slit my throat.
Tao Zhu probably didn't want to hear me talk anymore. She tightened her grip on the knife and moved forward. But I kept talking.
"Your words are false, but your story is true. You and your brother have indeed experienced similar things and suffered a lot. But you are not satisfied with living an ordinary life, you also want to live well.
So men stole and women prostituted, deceived and kidnapped many people, until they came to this village. Then... your brother lost his life for some reason, this is destined
The retribution. The curse does not exist. It was you who killed people in the village as revenge. Even so, your brother could not survive. There is a space for the ceremony in your house, and there are traces of the magic circle.
I don't know where you learned it from, but it does work. You kill people not only to get money, but also to get their lives."
She rushed towards me, her legs as nimble as a rabbit. She jumped up, with enough speed and strength to kill her with one blow. I dodged, but she didn't hesitate, and then she slashed with my backhand, twisting her arm until it was almost dislocated. Ordinary
Humans simply couldn't do it. Even so, she was still very strong, and I avoided it again. She plunged the knife into the "eye" of the tree, and the blade did not even penetrate an inch of the iron-hard tree trunk. Pulling it out was harder than cutting it in.
tired.
Tao Zhu was really crazy. She attacked me without any rules and told me to shut up. But I didn't listen. I still gave in and dodge step by step, and kept mumbling:
"You love your brother so much that in order to extend his life, you have done extraordinary things and taken many detours. But extending the life of the dead is not called extending life, it is called borrowing life. A loan cannot be repaid. This must be done by the living.
Voluntarily, but you don’t want to sacrifice yourself, so you will lose him again. So you
Through a special spell - probably learned from the Shadow Pavilion, you can renew the life of the person you killed, and lend your life to Taoji through another set of spells. No one has been here for a long time, so
He lay back down again. Your brother is not sick, but dead."
"He's just sick! He's just sick! He can't speak or move, that's all. He's not dead! He's not—dead!"
In her rage, she finally stabbed my chest with the knife. I felt the flesh being cut open and the warm blood escaping from my body.
But I still advised her:
"Don't do this kind of thing again. If other impermanent ghosts come, I'm afraid you will be dead. I know you are loyal and filial, and I don't want you to be destroyed. Come with me...accept the punishment you deserve. I will let you
When the deceased returns to his soul and is reincarnated, do not make things difficult for him."
She knew that I was impermanent, and her face was so fierce that she could almost bare her fangs and panicked for a moment. She let go of her hand tremblingly, and the knife was still stuck in my chest. I pulled out the knife, and blood flowed from my chest.
The wounds on the clothes were quickly recovered and became clean again. She didn't know where to put her eyes, she took a few steps back and fell into the snow.
"Don't take me away!" Her face turned fast, "You can't take me away!"
Her voice was also trembling, and I just felt heartbroken, not only because of the knife just now.
She trembled and crawled over, pleading: "Please, you can't do this, you can't... He died for me. I know that I have never done anything clean. I sold myself for money and harmed others for money.
Yes, but you want to be frivolous with me that day
Man, I don’t agree. I don’t want to do his business. He insists... When my brother fights with him, it’s not like this has never happened before. It has happened many times, but my brother has never lost.
.That time..."
She kowtowed every time she said a word, and the snow in front of her melted, revealing withered black leaves.
