Sick beauty loses horse in thriller game

"Really?" The village chief rubbed his dry and rough hands and smiled at Jiang Lai, "That's good. We country folk don't understand the affairs of you city teachers. Just make your own decisions."

"Ah, it's getting late. I should go back. I'll ask the teacher to take good care of the children in the village."

The village chief turned around to leave, but suddenly turned around again, looked deeply at Jiang Lai and the others, and said slowly: "Several teachers have just arrived and are not familiar with the situation in the village. I advise you to have a good rest at night and don't wander around. Otherwise... hehe, you may not be able to come back..."

After leaving these threatening words, the village chief no longer lingered and walked away.

"Captain, we..."

After the village chief left, Meng Fanchen frowned and looked at Jiang Lai.

Jiang Lai understood what she wanted to say and responded, "It's okay, don't worry about him. Let's go back and rest for four hours, and then we'll act at midnight."

"Captain, why don't we split into two groups and go explore the two places where the sacrifices are hidden separately." Chen Gongxun suggested: "We don't have much time, so if we split into two groups, we can at least save time."

Hu Zhiguo added, "If we successfully complete the task and get rid of those sacrifices that have become demons, we might as well go to other boys' homes in the village to look for other sacrifices. Old Chen is right. We don't have time to waste now. Saving a little time is also a victory."

Jiang Lai nodded and chose Zhen Zhen, Yao Dong and Lu Zhou to form a group with him. Chen Gongxun, Li Wei, Meng Fanchen and Hu Zhiguo were the second group.

Jiang Lai also asked two young ladies, Luo Yuxian and Lu Yuqiong, to follow them as helpers.

After everything was arranged, Jiang Lai released Jixiang, Donggua and the seven young ladies and asked them to guard the yard and each room respectively, so that everyone could take time to rest and recharge their energy for the evening's action.

At midnight, everyone was ready to set off.

After walking out of the room, Jiang Lai looked up at the sky.

Although the heavy rain had stopped for three hours, the sky was still covered with dark clouds. It was so dark around that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face, and there was not a single sound.

In this extremely quiet night where you could hear a pin drop, even though Lu Zhou and Chen Gongxun pushed open the gate slowly and carefully, the dilapidated wooden door still creaked under their combined strength.

Fortunately, Jiang Lai took out the noise-blocking props in advance and asked Jixiang and the seven young ladies to help put the props in place in advance, thus avoiding alerting the enemy and being discovered before their action even started.

The night after the rain is eerie and gloomy.

The narrow bluestone alleys of Pingguling Village are dotted with puddles of varying sizes.

The puddles reflected the light from the flashlights held by Jiang Lai and his friends, as if they were the eyes of monsters lurking in the darkness.

Occasionally, a gust of wind blows, bringing with it the rustling of tiny leaves, as if whispering some unknown secret.

The old house in the village was looming in the night, with water drops hanging on the window frames, like tears, flashing in the darkness.

At this moment in Pingguling Village, there was no sound of chickens and dogs as there should be in a normal village, and even the sound of insects could not be heard. There was only absolute silence.

It was so quiet that it was... eerie and sent chills down your spine.

Jiang Lai and his group walked out of the alley and split into two groups as agreed before.

Li Wei's group, led by the calm and measured Hu Zhiguo as the temporary team leader, led the other three people, as well as the two young ladies Luo Yuxian and Lu Yuqiong who were hiding in the darkness to help, and walked towards Dayong's home, which was relatively close to here.

Jiang Lai and his friends went to Hai Fu's house, which was relatively far away, on the western edge of the village.

Thinking about what happened before at night when Jixiang and the seven young ladies tested the village chief, Jiang Lai and his friends tried their best to control their steps along the way and made almost no noise.

Even to communicate, they used tactical sign language and pen and paper.

Just as they approached Haifu's yard, they heard a loud cow mooing suddenly from the village!

The direction from which the voice came was exactly where Li Wei and the others were going, the direction of Niu Dayong's home!

"Oh no! Li Wei and the others must have been discovered!" Lu Zhou wrote quickly.

"The one making the sound must be Niu Dayong's guardian ox." Jiang Lai replied.

She remembered the children in the school before... no, those monsters who had lived for hundreds of years, who taught them all the strange knowledge in the village.

At this time, a loud cow mooing was heard in Niu Haifu's yard, as if echoing the cow mooing from Niu Dayong's house!

"No, we were discovered!"

Jiang Lai, Lu Zhou and the other three all thought the same thing in their hearts.

They were right.

Although they made almost no sound, the guardian bull in Niu Haifu's home still sensed the arrival of the uninvited guests through their scent.

"Moo!"

A skinny-looking bull, as if controlled by some strange force, suddenly broke through the gate of Niu Haifu's yard, and rushed towards Jiang Lai and the others with red eyes!

What's strange is that just like this evening when Jiang Lai witnessed the group of cows at the gate of the yard returning to their owner's house without anyone taking care of them, there was no one in Niu Haifu's yard at this moment.

All that appeared was the angry bull.

seem……

Niu Haifu and his family are not usually here.

Just as Jiang Lai was thinking about these strange things, Niu Haifu's family's guardian bull had already roared and rushed towards them!

Jiang Lai dodged to the side and avoided the bull's attack.

Lu Zhou and the other two quickly took action to dodge and avoid being attacked by the angry bull.

There was a flash of cold light, and a sharp sword with dual attributes of ice and thunder appeared in Jiang Lai's hand.

She held the sword in her right hand, dodged the bull that was charging at her again, then twisted her wrist and swept the sword in her hand across the bull's two hind legs. Without any sense of stagnation, she smoothly cut off the bull's two hind legs at once, causing it to lose balance and fall to the ground with a thud.