The handsome man in the entertainment industry

Deng explained what happened to his master.

"I used to go to that mountain forest when I was a child, it's a relatively safe area, so it's hard to tell what happened to that child..."

"Well," Xiao Xiao nodded, rubbing her chin with her right hand and pondering, "If the lost child hadn't accidentally fallen into a ravine or something, then suddenly no one could be found in broad daylight, It's really weird..."

He thought for a while, and then asked:

"The children who came home, did you mention any unusual things they encountered while playing?"

Ruan Mudeng shook his head, "Those three children were all terrified, they just cried and cried when they were pressed by the adults, they couldn't explain anything at all."

These ten people walked in the dark for about half an hour with flashlights on, and finally came to a forest.

"Everyone spread out to look for it, and if you find a child, yell loudly."

The village chief gave instructions to everyone.

Xiao Xiao and Ruan Mudeng walked a certain distance in a direction where no one was around, and after avoiding the sight of others, they both opened their eyes and took out the compass from their bags.

"As expected of the forest at night when Guitou Day is approaching, the atmosphere is really heavy."

Xiao Xiao looked at the compass pointer deflected towards the cathode, frowned, and walked towards the direction pointed by the pointer.

It was a downhill path, very narrow and uneven, and covered by the surrounding weeds. It was obviously not made artificially, but more like some small animals stepped on it after they often appeared here. beast trail.

Xiao Xiao walked a few steps, then stopped suddenly, raised her head and looked to both sides, and suddenly opened her eyes wide, revealing a dazed expression.

"What's wrong?" Ruan Mudeng stopped beside his master and asked with a frown.

"Look, there are two symmetrical pagoda trees."

Xiao Xiao raised her hand and pointed to both sides of the path.

Ruan Mudeng looked up, and sure enough, as Xiao Xiao said, there was a locust tree on the left and right of the path, both in the thickness of the trunk and the height of the crown, they were all very close.Even in such late autumn, the two trees still haven't shed all their leaves, and the branches interweave to form an umbrella-like dome above the path, just like two guards with guns guarding the gate.

"This is the Yin Yang Gate."

Xiao Xiao pointed out the mystery of the two locust trees to her apprentice.

"Anyone who sees such a twin tree and the path under the twin tree proves that not only people in the world can walk here, but also things in the underworld. Although they are on the same path, they don't interfere with each other and go their own way... "

He paused, "However, as long as you know the method, then people in the world of the world can also walk the way of the underworld, which is commonly known as 'walking the ghost road'."

"Do you think that the missing Ruan Chaoyang walked into the Underworld?"

Ruan Mudeng thought for a while and asked, "But how could he know how to walk the road to hell?"

"No, I think, the kid didn't go in by himself, but something specifically 'led' him in."

While Xiao Xiao answered, she carefully illuminated the ground near the two locust trees with a flashlight, and soon, at the edge of a wet soil, she found a small half of a shoe print—it was a small foot of a child's size.

"Look, he really is going here."

Although Xiao Xiao usually acts foolishly and unreliably, Ruan Mudeng still believes in the judgment of her master.

"Then let's go and see."

The trail under their feet, after passing under two locust trees, extends to the depths of the dark mountain forest.Even with the wisdom eye open, it is impossible for Ruan Mudeng to see where it leads through the barrier of yin and yang. "Do you have a way to enter the Underworld?"

"Ah."

Xiao Xiao agreed, and after digging around in her bag for a while, she took out a candle, pinched a fire-starting formula with two fingers of her right hand, and lit it.

Different from common standard-sized white candles, this candle is obviously thicker and shorter, and the flame after it is lit presents a very peculiar color between turquoise and fluorescent blue, Ethereal and eerie colors.

"I only brought this kind of candle this time."

Xiao Xiao fixed the candle on a small brass lamp holder and held it in her hand, "So we have to make a quick decision and bring back the missing child before the candle burns out."

Chapter 132: Extra Story 03: Homecoming [-]

Xiao Xiao turned off the flashlight, relying only on the candlelight in her hand, and walked forward along the rugged path with Ruan Mudeng.

In the faint blue candlelight, Ruan Mudeng felt that it was just the difference between candlelight and flashlight, but the winding mountain path under his feet had unknowingly turned into a completely different space.

Ruan Mudeng saw some "people" coming and going.

Unlike when he used his intelligent eyes to distinguish yin and yang, and judged whether a person is a ghost, a demon, or a fairy based on the halo surrounding the target's body, he can clearly identify the appearance of the "people" he sees coming and going.

Among these people, some are wearing shrouds, their bodies are weak, showing a sense of translucency like frosted glass; some maintain their human shapes, but they have strange looks, with wide foreheads, protruding eyes, flat noses, and wide mouths; Some are even completely inhuman, such as spring stools with four spider legs, big sauce jars with gaps, and so on.

Ruan Mudeng thought of a word: Hundred ghosts travel at night.

Even though it is such a narrow mountain path, so many ghosts can pass through it...

"The road to the underworld is different from the road to the yang world."

Xiao Xiao took Ruan Mudeng's hand, leaned into his ear and explained softly: "There are many entrances to the underworld in the world, which are the passages for ghosts and ghosts to enter and exit Yin and Yang. As long as you enter the underworld, the space and time of the yang world The rules no longer make sense."

He thought for a while, and made an easy-to-understand analogy:

"For example, if we don't return to the entrance of the two locust trees along the original road, but find another exit to leave here half an hour later, then we may find ourselves at a distance of tens of kilometers away. In the county town outside, it was already dawn the next day.”

Ruan Mudeng has read a lot of miscellaneous books, so he has naturally read many similar folk tales.

For example, when a person ran into a cemetery at night and was hit by a ghost against the wall, he couldn't get out no matter what. When he was terrified, suddenly a figure with a lantern appeared in front of him, vaguely like his grandfather who had passed away, and someone followed immediately. Behind the figure, he was led for a while by the flickering lantern light. When he came back to his senses, he suddenly found that he had not only walked out of the cemetery where he lost his way, but also walked away overnight. Hundreds of miles away, people are already standing at the entrance of the neighboring village.

"It turns out that this is the 'ghost road'."

Ruan Mudeng nodded and sighed softly.

Xiao Xiao raised her eyes and glanced at her apprentice, "Actually, you have walked through the underworld once before."

"When?" Ruan Mudeng opened his eyes wide in surprise.

"You probably don't remember."

Xiao Xiao laughed, but in order not to disturb the ghosts passing by, he kept his laughter low.

"Back when we were in Xijia Village... the time I turned into a fox, the son drove us down the mountain, and he took the way to the underworld. But you fell asleep at that time, so you didn't see any of them. It's just a vision on the road."

After being mentioned by his master, Ruan Mudeng immediately remembered that the son had indeed asked "Bai Yiming" if he wanted to take a shortcut that day. After getting an affirmative answer, he turned the headlights of the car into a strange blue color, and immediately He drove the car into a narrow mountain trail that he had never seen before.

"But it's not okay to wander around here like a blind fly."

Xiao Xiao said, pointing to a forked road in front of her, "This candle can only burn for another half an hour, and the child must be found quickly."

"But, how do we find it?" Ruan Mudeng asked.

"Besides us, in this underworld, the person with the most yang energy should be the little boy who is actually a child."

Xiao Xiao smiled, folded two small bags with talisman paper, filled them with grave soil, and pinned the small talisman bags on the chests of the two men to cover up the yang energy of the two big men.Then he bit his finger, and carefully wiped the blood from the fingertip of his left ring finger on the pointer of the compass.

"Okay, that's all."

This trick of wiping the pointer is called "drawing eyebrows".

The compass that is usually used in the yang world, once it reaches the underworld, it will become unusable because the yin energy is too heavy, exceeding the upper limit of the compass cathode.Therefore, Xiao Xiao used her own blood to smear on the compass pointer like thrush eyebrows.

After the compass has been processed by the step of "drawing the eyebrows", the yang energy in the human blood covers the pointer, which offsets the excess yin energy in the surrounding environment, allowing it to regain the ability to distinguish between yin and yang.However, even if the blood on the pointer with the "eyebrow" is wiped off later, its perception of the positive and negative points has been disrupted, and the compass is considered scrapped, and it has become a complete disposable product, only Can be used like this once.

"Follow the compass, it will help us find the missing child."

Xiao Xiao stuck out her tongue and licked off the remaining blood on her fingers, "I hope that the 'thing' that abducts children hasn't taken them too far."

The two of them stared at the compass and walked fast all the way, seeing the needle tremble more and more, which proved that they were getting closer and closer to the bright source of yang energy.Ruan Mudeng and Xiao Xiao simply trotted up, relying only on