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"That's right, you were wrong."

A slightly deep voice sounded in his ears, as if bewitching, with a kind of slowness like persuasion.Ye Jing's eyes widened in an instant, and when she turned her head, she saw that Nanka stepped aside, and Li Mu was walking slowly on the snow, with his head slightly lowered, and the mirrors were somewhat reflective, making it difficult to see his eyes clearly "None of us saw the old man, why did you see it?"

The young man's deep voice followed his footsteps: "What did you see? Did you really see it? Really..."

"Is there an old man?"

After the last word was pronounced, Ye Jing's pupils suddenly constricted, and his brain went blank for a moment, only Li Mu's words echoed, like a curse, almost suffocating him.

He could no longer see the expressions of other people clearly, and when Li Mu took another step forward, his body bounced uncontrollably.

run away.

All the way into the snow field, his feet were uneven and he staggered, but he ran faster and faster until his heart began to beat violently, and his vision was blurred by the white gas he exhaled.

--what are you saying?How can there be any grandma?

——Did you read it wrong?

—Have you seen the devil? "

——Ye Jing, what's wrong with you?

He thought of the ghostly look on the old man's face, the hazy thin figure in the shadows, and Li Mu's nightmarish words.

——Really...are there any old people?

He hung his head, his bangs casting a shadow over his face, and he let out a low howl from the depths of his throat.

--what is going on? !

He ran like this for an unknown how long, when suddenly, a figure jumped out in front of him, the huge inertia made him unable to stop and bumped into it, rolling into a ball with the other person in the snow.He didn't know where the stone hit him, and Ye Jing's ears buzzed suddenly, a stream of heat slid down the side of his face, but he got up and wanted to continue running without hesitation.Seeing this, the other party grabbed him, and he screamed and began to struggle desperately.

"You kid took the wrong medicine?! Is there a ghost chasing after you?" The other party scolded a few times, Ye Jing was taken aback, and when he heard the voice sound familiar, he turned his head and saw Gesang who had disappeared.He was also in a mess, with leaves stuck to his body, as if he had come out of the woods, there was a small wound on his forehead, and blood was flowing down from his hair, which made him half-open his eyes.

"Ge... Uncle Gesang?" Seeing that he was the most familiar and trustworthy person among the group, Ye Jing couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, but then became incoherent, "Grandma... Li Mu and the others..."

"I know, I know." The man gestured, and sat down on the ground exhausted, covering his wound and grinning: "Damn, I was put together."

Gesang's narration was a bit confusing, and Ye Jing struggled to sort it out.It turned out that after Ye Jing fell asleep last night, Gesang quietly told Li Mu about the temple under the cliff, and Li Mu became interested when he heard it.He recently failed in business investment and was short of money, so he also used his brains and suggested that they go back the next day to fish out the oil and water inside. If the gold seal is genuine, the whole money will be enough for them to spend.

When Gesang heard this, he felt that it belonged to someone else, and no matter what, it should be handed over to the state for confiscation, and there would be no good fruit if he was caught, so he quit.The two had a dispute later, and Li Mu picked up the candlestick in a rage and gave him a few hits on the head. When he woke up, he found that he had been thrown into the woods outside the house.

"Unexpectedly, that guy has a weak physique, and his hand strength is not small. Fortunately, I have thick skin." Gesang spat, and Ye Jing asked quickly: "Then grandma..."

"Of course I know whether my mother is a human or a ghost." Gesang gave him a blank look, "I guess she was locked up by Li Mu. Judging from what you just said, that group of people probably have all defected and followed Li Mu. And you kid is the most troublesome one in their eyes, once they heard that you want to see grandma, you might be suspicious for other reasons, so they simply put on a show together."

Gesang took out a crumpled earthen cigarette and lit it, took a long puff and said, "Do you know what that guy Li Mu is doing? Psychological counselors are the best at taking advantage of loopholes in people's minds, and in the end they turned you The kid is lying around."

Ye Jing was a little shocked, and stayed where she was for a while, feeling that the changes in the incident made him a little difficult to digest, and it took him a long time to react, and said awkwardly: "...then... what should we do next?"

"What should we do?" Gesang sneered, and pressed the cigarette butt on the ground, "Let's not say that every revenge must be revenged, I will definitely go back to save my mother."

Ye Jing knew that he was going back as soon as he heard it, and what happened just now made him choked up, so the two of them groped all the way back, but the strange thing was that when they returned to the cabin, they didn't see him. Alone, as if in an instant, everyone evaporated.

"Probably left to go down the cliff." Gesang pondered for a moment, and said, "It's not convenient for the old man to carry it, and Grandma is probably still in the house." So the two began to search in the house. Asked: "Ye Jing, when was the last time you saw Grandma?"

"Last night, before I went to sleep." Ye Jing said after thinking about it, and Gesang naturally continued to ask: "Then before that, did Grandma say anything?"

"Huh?" Hearing his question, Ye Jing was stunned for a moment, and then immediately remembered the strange behavior of the old man at the foot of the cliff that night. Thinking that this might also be a clue, she told the story that she planned to keep secret. He came out, and at Gesang's suggestion, he began to rummage through his backpack, and handed the prayer wheel to his hand.

Seeing that Ye Jing stuffed the prayer wheel into an empty thermos cup, then hid it in the interlayer and stuffed it at the bottom, Gesang couldn't help thinking: "This prayer wheel is very important to Grandma. I didn't expect to give it to you, but you hid it very tightly." Ye Jing laughed dryly and urged Gesang to see if there were any clues, Gesang looked at it carefully but shook his head, Ye Jing was a little disappointed, the two People had to continue to search in the house, but still found nothing.

"Don't they throw my aunt outside too, she's different from me, it'll be bad if she freezes." Gesang was a little anxious, Ye Jing comforted him, saying: "If you want to do this, they I threw grandma out with you that night, and if you think about it again, there are still places in this house that you haven't looked for."

Gesang pondered for a moment, then suddenly said: "...the vegetable cellar!"

The vegetable cellar is in the firewood house, which extends two or three meters underground. When the lid is lifted, a damp and warm atmosphere rushes towards the face with the smell of vegetables.The wooden steps to go down were not firm, and there was a slight tremor and creak when stepped on. It was very dark inside. Fortunately, Gesang lit a candle before he got down, so he could barely see the road clearly.As Gesang went down, he continued to ask the old man about the details when he turned the prayer wheel, and Ye Jing told him about the old man pointing at the Buddha statue with the prayer wheel without thinking too much.Gesang was silent after hearing this, and at the end of the road, Gesang signaled the two to split up and then went to the other side.

Ye Jing felt a bit of a headache, but fortunately the previous wound had solidified under the low temperature and stopped bleeding, so she began to perk up and search in the gaps between the piles of potatoes and cabbage, and finally found the unconscious old man in a sack in the corner.

He hurriedly helped the old man up, and after checking it, he found that he was fine, but he was in a coma, and there was no hypothermia symptom in the vegetable cellar where the temperature was higher.Ye Jing pinched the old man several times, and the old man slowly woke up with a muffled grunt.

"Grandma, are you awake?" Ye Jing smiled and said happily.The old man raised his eyelids slowly, seeing Ye Jing, he seemed relieved, but in the next second, her cloudy eyes widened suddenly, and she looked straight behind him with a somewhat frightening gaze.

It was an indescribable horror, and just looking at it made people feel a chill that penetrated deep into the bones.The old man's eyes were wide open at this time, covered with bloodshot eyes, as if they would fall out of their eye sockets in a second, his thin face looked a little distorted, and the wrinkles on his face looked like poisonous snakes coiled on his face under the dim light .Ye Jing froze, feeling horrified for a moment. He saw the old man trying to open his mouth. His shriveled mouth was like a black hole, and there was an indistinct sound coming out of it, like the low moaning of a monster and monsters, stretching out their claws at the same time. trembling hand pointing behind him.

He felt a kind of ghostly aura from the old man again, but he still suppressed the urge to leave the old man and run away. At the same time, he also realized that there seemed to be something behind him, so he turned his head tremblingly.

Behind is the exit, a darkness that seems to be able to swallow people up, suddenly, there were a few friction sounds, and then a little bit of fire light jumped up to illuminate a expressionless face.

"...Li Mu!" Seeing the other party's mirror reflecting white light, Ye Jing cried out, then frowned and raised her voice, "You're still here... What else do you want to do?"

The other party didn't respond, but instead smiled strangely.Ye Jing suddenly felt ominous, but he still tried to calm down: "What are you laughing at?" He couldn't figure out why Li Mu didn't leave and found this place, but because he had a helper this time, he was confident enough Many of them also began to be on guard while trying to find Gesang to come out.

"Don't be too complacent, Uncle Gesang is also involved, your tricks..." Ye Jing just wanted to say a few harsh words when he felt the old man next to him grab his arm.Ye Jing thought she was still afraid, and was about to comfort her, but saw the old man shaking his head vigorously at him, his face full of horror.

He was a little confused, so at this moment, Li Mu adjusted his glasses and said with a sigh: "Ye Jing, don't you understand?"

"What..." He was a little stunned, and suddenly realized that the old man's eyes were not focused on Li Mu's body. At this moment, a Tibetan knife was quietly placed on his neck.

His body froze, and the coldness on the aorta gave him a sense of suffocation.Cold sweat slowly ran across the congealed blood on his face. At this moment, a doubt slowly surfaced in his mind.

"...According to what you said, the wound on your head was caused by Li Mu last night, so why... the next morning, the wound hadn't solidified and was still bleeding..." He swallowed, dumbfounded Throat opened slowly.

"...Uncle Gesang."

Mixed with the old man's foolish murmurs, and low laughter came from behind, the man raised his head, the simplicity and honesty on his face disappeared, and the smiling face was immersed in the shadows, showing a kind of ferocity: "because……"

"...I lied to you."