"Don't move, don't move at all!" When Li Huowang's voice sounded in the dark bamboo forest, everyone froze in place instantly.
They stood there motionless, looking up at the rows of bamboo tips above their heads, for fear that these things would be inserted straight down.
"Don't move." Li Huowang said, lifting his right foot and taking a step forward.
When others saw this scene, their hearts suddenly rose to their throats, but when they saw that the bamboo above their heads had not changed at all, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Huowang took a few steps forward and walked around in a circle. The bamboo was still the same bamboo, with no change.
"Is it... is it that the bamboos in this poor place have strange shapes?" Gou Wa said hesitantly.
Regardless of whether it was true or not, Li Huowang didn't dare to guess. He started to ring the bell with one hand, and Mr. You, who was formed by lines, quickly patrolled the bamboo forest.
After a while, when Mr. You came to Li Huowang and expressed that there was no problem, Li Huowang felt relieved a little.
What reassured him was not what Mr. You said, but that the strange staring feeling disappeared.
Li Huowang did not immediately put Master You away, but took him forward with him.
Although the ringtone makes people dizzy, it is better than being attacked by the so-called "Twelfth lunar month eighteenth".
"Follow closely, let's hurry through the forest."
Li Huowang walked towards the bamboo forest while ringing the bell. He opened the buckle of the cowhide bag with his fingers, and the torture instruments inside were quickly spread out at his hem. Under the illumination of the fluorescent stone, these things gave off a slight cold light. At this moment, everyone held their weapons and held their breath, following closely one by one, for fear of falling behind and never being able to keep up.
As time goes by, the bamboo tips above the head are getting lower and lower, and the lower ones are touching the roof of the carriage.
The sound of the bamboo tips scratching on the roof of the carriage was harsh and sharp, which made everyone feel depressed, but Mr. You still showed that he did not have any enemies.
Walking through this weird bamboo forest, everyone has the feeling of drilling into the mouth of something, and those bamboo tips are the fangs of that thing.
In this environment, Li Huowang didn't know how long he had been walking, and his dizziness made him lose his sense of time.
Suddenly, he felt a light in the distance, the exit!
Excitedly, he held up the long sword that was as sharp as iron and swung it hard, and a large piece of bamboo was chopped down, and the dazzling sunlight shone in.
The sun in the sky made everyone subconsciously squint their eyes. It was too dazzling. Judging from the position of the sun, it should be already afternoon.
When everyone who had slowed down looked forward, they couldn't help but open their eyes wide. They actually saw a village behind this strange forest.
The blue-tiled houses in the distance are scattered and unevenly arranged, no different from all the villages seen on the road like Li Huowang.
And at the edge of a crystal clear pond at the head of the village, some older girls and younger wives were beating their clothes, chatting and laughing about trivial matters.
"Senior Brother Li, are you sure this is here? Are we in the wrong place?" Xiaoman, who frowned slightly, asked in confusion.
After quickly filtering through the location given by Master Jingxin in his mind, Li Huowang put away the Dao bell in his finger and took steps towards the village in the distance.
"Follow closely, don't let your guard down, maybe this is just an illusion of the "18th lunar month"."
"On the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month...will it be a village?" Bai Lingmiao murmured to himself.
What she said was also the thought in Li Huowang's mind. The only information he could get from Shitai about the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month was that the evil spirit was red.
As Li Huowang and others approached, the first people to notice them were naturally the women washing clothes. They picked up their clothes, whispered and walked towards the village.
The approach of such a large group of people wearing black gauze and bamboo hats obviously attracted the attention of the villagers. Groups of young and middle-aged people gathered around the village head with some farm tools, their eyes very wary.
"Outlander! Why are you coming to our Wujia Village? Are you passing by or visiting relatives?" An old man with a goatee shouted to Li Huowang from a distance.
Li Huowang's eyes scanned the faces of all the villagers, but he did not find anything abnormal. From the surface, this seemed to be just like a normal village.
"Will the eighteenth lunar month be here?" Li Huowang thought to himself.
When he saw the village chief shouting the second sentence, Li Huowang led the people over, cupped his hands, and opened the map to them.
"Excuse me, old man, is the location on this map your village?"
"What? Asking for directions?" The old man took the map and started talking quietly to the people on the side.
Li Huowang stared at their faces intently, observing their expressions.
After discussing for a while, the village chief handed the map back with both hands. "Outlander, you are looking for the wrong place. The location on this map is twenty or thirty miles away from here."
"You found the wrong one? It's not here yet?" Li Huowang quickly calculated the distance from Anci'an to here. Master Jingxin said it was two hundred miles. He was not a machine, so a slight error seemed normal.
"Hahaha, I was so reckless, I found the wrong place." Li Huowang's generous hands once again arched towards the people in front of him.
"But daddy, the sun is going down soon. Can you let me stay overnight? We have been traveling for half a month and we are really tired."
"This..." The village chief looked at Li Huowang and others with obvious vigilance in his eyes.
"Old man, please do me a favor." The smiling Li Huowang leaned over, and the long sleeves of his robe covered one of his hands.
Feeling the palm of his hand sinking slightly, the village chief's expression suddenly changed and he pinched it with his fingers.
"Okay, the west wing of our house is still vacant, so I'll let you stay there. Remember, it's just for one night."
Just as the two carriages were walking towards the village on the moss-covered stone slabs, Gou Wa came closer and asked in a low voice: "Senior Brother Li, didn't you find the right place?"
Li Huowang glanced sideways slightly at the villagers who were hiding at the door and peeking out.
"Maybe we went right? Maybe this is what we are looking for?"
The most important thing he has learned after being out for so long is that you can only believe at most three-thirds of what others say about you.
Since the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month can look like anything, a complex village is undoubtedly very convenient for hiding.
I don’t know if it can eat humans. If it can eat humans, then this village is also a very convenient place to get food.
His eyes began to search for all the reds in the entire village, but when he reached the village home, he still couldn't find any red.
Arriving under the archway at the entrance, the village chief folded his hands and looked at the outsiders in front of him.
"Let me tell you first. There are many rules in Wujiacun. These are the rules passed down from the previous generation and cannot be changed. You want to live here? Yes, but you must abide by the rules. If you can't do it, do it now.