The Midnight Owl

Xu Wang gently pushed the moon door open, and the door made a low "squeak", like a sob.

Four people filed in.

As Qian Ai, who was walking at the end, stepped into the east courtyard, the door panel slammed shut behind the four of them, shocking the four of them.

Xu Wang turned around and went to pull the door again, but the door couldn't be opened no matter what.

The wind, colder than the west courtyard, pierced people's clothes.

And the scenery in front of him—if the broken walls and ruins can be regarded as a scenery—is even more desolate and desolate than the West Courtyard.

The dead trees fell, the pond was dry, and the silt all over the floor exuded a stench. The pavilion at the end of the corridor had collapsed. Under the bleak moonlight, there seemed to be ghosts swaying among the messy piles of wreckage.

The four partners can conclude that the last time they came to 5/23, they had never been to the East Court during the whole process.

"Didn't you say that Fengshui is good here..." Qian Ai said in a very low voice, with a face full of indescribable words, "It's good Fengshui if it's all like this?"

Wu Sheng sighed lightly: "You have to think in reverse."

Qian Ai: "..."

Wu Sheng: "..."

Qian Ai: "And then? Gone?"

Shall I explain further! ! !

"You're so stupid," Xu Wang grabbed the old money and whispered, "He means that this kind of place, people seem to be disturbed, but ghosts may seem to be the best comfort zone, understand?"

Qian Ai understood: "...Hell on earth, fairyland on earth."

"Captain, don't think that Brother Qian is stupid," Kuang Jinxin leaned over, holding back his joy, and whispered, "Think about it, if Brother Sheng looks at you, Brother Qian will understand in seconds. One word, Brother Qian is just like you. Read it immediately to understand the full meaning..."

Wu Sheng silently looked up at the sky.

"Old money," Xu Wang turned his head immediately, and patted his teammate on the shoulder sincerely, "You don't need to improve, just keep the status quo, it's good."

Qian Ai: "..."

"You guys—" There was a ghostly roar not far away, the sound quality was ghostly and shrill, but the momentum was very righteous, "It's just you, stand there and don't move!"

As soon as the words fell, a ghost had rushed in front of them.

He looks about forty, lean, with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, a dead man's pale complexion, black lips, only a pair of eyeballs that are dripping around, which makes him better than other ghosts in terms of "vigor".

"How did you get in?" Diliu Luanzhuan looked up and down the four of them vigilantly.

"We...we came in over the wall." Xu Wang didn't change his expression and his heart didn't beat.

"Lonely ghost, homeless," Wu Sheng added, "Come here to find a place to stay."

Xu Wang, Qian Ai, Kuang Jinxin: "..."

My military adviser watched "Liaozhai" on the train with a PAD yesterday, and he didn't learn the law of curing ghosts clearly. This ancient line is definitely memorized.

"If you don't go through the gate, what kind of wall do you climb?" Diliu scolded, but the hostility was obviously weakened, "If the boss knows that I didn't guard the gate and let the ghosts sneak in, I really have to be crucified again .”

By again?

Xu Wang didn't notice any obvious scars on Di Liuluan's turn, and always thought he was poisoned, but now he heard the voice and looked again, only to find that there was a thick nail nailed to the cap of his spirit.The needles have completely penetrated the brain, leaving only the heads of the nails outside, which are covered by the messy hair, so you can't find it if you don't pay attention.

"Okay," the crucified ghost heaved a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, I found you. Let's go. I'll take you to see the boss. Whether you can stay here is up to the boss."

The four partners looked at each other—is this the boss?

Xu Wang pursed his lips—what if the boss asked us to go undercover again?

Qian Ai's eyes widened - Infernal Affairs is the middle way? !

Kuang Jinxin wrinkled his face—it was too difficult...

Wu Sheng raised his forehead—no one would design the script into an endless loop!

"Why are you winking?" The crucified ghost took two steps, turned around and found that the four of them hadn't moved, and said impatiently, "Follow up quickly."

The four of them collected their thoughts and increased their speed to keep up. Following the crucified ghost in the corridor, they finally came to a very small and remote courtyard.

In the yard, you can see the head at a glance. There is only a tree with a crooked neck that will not fall down, and a well under the tree.

Xu Wang looked at the crucified ghost in puzzlement: "Your boss... is in the well?"

"Don't be blinded by your eyes," the crucified ghost suddenly became deep. "You see it as a well, but it is actually a door leading to the deep courtyard."

"So let's go next..." Xu Wang had a bad feeling.

Crucified Ghost: "Let's throw ourselves into the well together."

He just knew it! ! !

Four people and one ghost came to the mouth of the well, and the crucified ghost suddenly took two steps back and made a gesture of invitation: "Jump."

Xu Wang hurriedly gave way: "You come first."

"Jump quickly, don't wait for me to kick you." The crucified ghost's tone became fierce again, fierce, and there was a hint of... eagerness?

Xu Wang narrowed his eyes slightly and stood still.

Wu Sheng suddenly pulled him behind him, preventing him from negotiating with the crucified ghost: "We can jump first, but you don't stay so far away, you have to guard the well and watch us off."

The crucified ghost remained silent, staring at them, a trace of black air suddenly rose from the nail head of Tianling Gai.

The next second, the crucifixion ghost suddenly stepped forward, and pushed down the well against the defenseless Kuang Jinxin!

Kuang Jinxin tilted his body and fell headfirst into it!

Qian Ai's breathing was stagnant, and he stretched out his hand to grab it, but everything happened too fast, and before he had time to catch it, Kuang Jinxin had already fallen!

"Little Kuang—" Qian Ai shouted loudly towards the dark underground well!

Wu Sheng manipulated the arresting vine to stretch out its branches, and quickly slid into the mouth of the well to chase people!

"I'm fine..." Kuang Jinxin's response finally came from the well.

After a while, a classmate Kuang, who was tightly grasped by the back collar with a severed hand, was carried out of the well and saw the light of day again.

Arresting Teng failed to catch up with Kuang, who narrowly escaped death by relying on his own stationery.

Qian Ai and Wu Sheng were amazed.

This is not a severed hand, this is the Iron God Arm! ! !

Here, at the moment when Kuang Jinxin fell, Xu Wang manipulated the spirit behind him, and directly entangled the crucified ghost tightly, getting tighter and tighter!

Can ghosts be strangled?Xu Wang was not sure.But right now, he couldn't think of a better way to kill this guy.

Just as he was thinking wildly, a black figure suddenly rushed over from a dark corner, hugged the crucified ghost's waist, and rushed to the edge of the well in one breath!

Kuang Jinxin had already come out of the well, and the three friends instinctively dodged when they saw a group of ghosts approaching at a high speed.

Soi Ying pressed his back, raised his legs, and directly stuffed the crucified ghost into the well!

Everything happened in an instant, and the speed of the black shadow was so fast that people couldn't see his appearance clearly, and it also made it too late for the crucified ghost to make any resistance!

Hearing only a "boom", the crucified ghost seemed to have fallen to the bottom of a dry well, and the next moment, the whole courtyard could hear his shrill howling!

The howling made people's scalp numb and their hearts tremble.

Fortunately, it soon weakened, and then became silent again.

A cloud of ghostly blue will-o'-the-wisp slowly floated out of the mouth of the well and fell into the hands of the black shadow.

Only then did the four of them see clearly that Hei Ying was a young man in his 20s, but his face was yellow and emaciated, and his appearance was haggard. Even in a ghost, he was not scary to look at, but only made people feel sad, feeling that life in the ghost world is not easy.

"He lied to you," Guiying said, with honesty in his voice, "He's not a gatekeeper, he's eating ghosts."

Xu Wang: "Huh?"

Wu Sheng: "Eat, ghost?"

Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin: "..."

Let the military master read it, why is it inexplicably cute...

"It's eating ghosts, ghosts." His sallow and emaciated eyes gave them an unbearable look, and his cloudy eyes became clear when he rolled his eyes, "He specially picks new ghosts to attack, and when he cheats here, he pushes them into the well, and waits for the soul to be refined. Come out, and he will eat it in one bite."

"What will happen to the ghost that was pushed down?" Xu Wang asked.

His face was sallow and thin, and he said: "The moment the original soul is raised, it will be wiped out."

"We are new ghosts, inexperienced," Wu Junshi's words have become a routine opening line for questions, "Ghost, can't you fall into a well?"

"It's not that you can't fall into the well, it's that you can't fall into this well." The pale and thin man looked down into the well, and said solemnly, "This well is called the soul refining well, as long as you fall down, no matter how powerful you are, the ghost will have to be taken out of the original soul obediently. "

The four of them looked around the small courtyard, completely unable to see that there was such a deadly well hidden in such an inconspicuous and remote corner.

Empress Qian Ai was afraid of breaking out in a cold sweat: "I said, in such a dangerous place, can't you put up a cordon, put up a sign or something?"

The sallow and thin stared at him blankly for a while, then laughed: "No one really thought about it like that."

"Each ghost sweeps the snow in front of the door by himself, but he doesn't care about the frost on the roof of the ghost. This kind of bad habit is brought from the underworld to the ghost house." Qian Ai shook his head in disappointment, "I didn't expect the ghost world to be so indifferent, alas."

Wu Sheng and Kuang Jinxin pulled away their own teammates who were too involved in the role, and replaced Captain Xu.

"This is Yuanhun in your hand?" Xu Wang stared at the will-o'-the-wisp for a long time.

"Well, eating it can increase ghost power," the sallow and thin handed it over, "Look, who will eat it?"

Xu Wang, Wu Sheng, Qian Ai, Kuang Jinxin: "..."

The greatest sadness in the world is that it is difficult to meet a good ghost who is united and friendly, and cannot share the "Da Bu Pill".

Xu Wang smiled dryly: "Well, you saved us, how can we want this, you can keep it for yourself."

The sallow and thin stared at them for a while, then nodded at the end, "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

The four partners looked at it carefully, but they couldn't see any change in their sallow complexion.

...Maybe it's internal strength?

Just as he was thinking wildly, his sallow and thin stomach suddenly growled.

Xu Wang looked at him wonderingly: "Ghosts are still hungry?"

Sallow and emaciated, he scratched his head embarrassedly: "I'm a starving ghost."

Four partners: "..."

Perfect logic, no flaws.

"Speaking of which, I just heard you tell Guigui that you want to find a place to stay?" the starved ghost asked suddenly.

Suddenly turning to the topic, Xu Wang restrained his thoughts and became serious: "Yes."

The starving ghost pressed his stomach that was too flat, as if he would not be so hungry: "If you don't choose, just live in the underworld."

Wu Sheng: "Hell?"

The starving ghost nodded: "That's right, it's here, and there are several courtyards in front of it. They are collectively called the underworld. You can live here wherever you want, and no one will care."

Wu Sheng heard the clue: "Besides the underworld, are there other things?"

"Well, the courtyard further inside is the 'human world'," said the starving ghost, "the 'human world' is more ghostly than the underworld, but not everyone can go there. You have to find someone in charge and pass the assessment. OK."

"The underworld, the world," Qian Ai sounded awkward, there are so many classes in a ghost house, "Why don't you go to the sky, and make a heaven to be more exciting."

The starving ghost: "Yes, the boss lives in the innermost part, the heavenly realm."

"..." Qian Ai tried to smile, "As expected of being the boss, I have lofty ideals."

Xu Wang probably understood: "If we want to live in a better place, closer to the boss, we have to pass at least two assessments."

The starving ghost looked at him in surprise: "Do you really want to go to the heaven? It's very difficult. The ghost spring is there, and the boss will not let people in easily. Those who can live in the heaven are big ghosts."

ghost spring!

The four partners were startled, they didn't expect that they would get the information like this.

In the sudden silence, a severed hand suddenly tugged at the corner of the hungry ghost's clothes.

The starved ghost turned his head, but he didn't see the ghost. He lowered his head again, only to see Kuang Jinxin squatting on the ground.

"Xiao Hungry," Kuang Jinxin said tentatively, "Can I ask you about one, no, two ghosts?"

"..." Suddenly having a new name made the starving ghost feel a little complicated, but the other party yelled very kindly, so out of the complexity, a little...isn't that bad?

"Who do you want to hear?"

"The Merry Ghost and the Dream Ghost," Kuang Jinxin asked, "do you know where they live?"

With the information on Guiquan, the rest is of course the badge.

"It's in the underworld." The starving ghost didn't even think about it. "I don't know which courtyard, but it definitely didn't enter the human world."

Xu Wang leaned over: "So sure?"

The starved ghost nodded: "Merry ghosts are not qualified. Menggui is very afraid of ghosts and always hides in places where there are no ghosts. There's nowhere to hide."

Xu Wang exchanged glances with the three friends, and then said to the starving ghost, "That's it, if we want to go to the human world, can you take us to find the supervisor?"

The starving ghost frowned and persuaded: "Do you really want to go? In fact, this place is very good..."

"Ghosts go to high places, but water flows to low places." Xu Wang is now very proficient in talking nonsense, "But the four of us haven't agreed yet, can we talk again?"

"Okay," the starving ghost readily agreed, squatting down and pressing on Gululu's stomach, "You all gave me your original soul, if you really want to enter the human world, I'll take you to find someone in charge."

The starving ghost here waited obediently.

The four little friends over there got together and held a "Temporary Meeting of Want Want Team".

"The ghost spring is in the sky, and the badge is in the underworld. If we can't find a save point, we will have to split into two groups." Wu Sheng hit the nail on the head.

Qian Ai sighed: "The last time I came here, I didn't find the save point. I don't think I should look for it this time. I just split up and act."

Kuang Jinxin said: "I agree with Brother Qian. If the tasks of other teams are simple, we will have less time left. Rather than looking for a save point where we don't know where it is, it is better to complete more specific tasks and badges."

Xu Wang held a small meeting with everyone, that's what he meant: "Then it's settled, Wu Sheng and I will go to Heaven to find Guiquan to hand in the papers, and Lao Qian and Xiao Kuang will stay here to find badges."

After 1 minute, the four partners returned to the starving ghost.

The starving ghost was quite curious about the outcome of the meeting: "Is it settled?"

"Well," Xu Wang pointed to himself and Wu Sheng, "We go to the human world, of course, it would be better if we can live in the heavens." He also pointed to Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin, "They don't want to go, they stay in the underworld."

Qian Ai: "..."

Stay in hell.No matter how you hear this, it is very ominous!Can't we say underground workers?Negative layer of Patronus is also fine!

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