The Midnight Owl

The coordinate point this time is on a bar street, and midnight is the busiest time on this street.

Xu Wang and the others arrived at 11:30, sat in a music bar for a while, listened to the midnight guitar, looked at the stars and the moon, and had the illusion of returning to a better life.

When Xu Wang was at work, he was not keen on nightlife, but since he entered Owl, he was "kidnapped" at night, and he realized that being able to get drunk until dawn like this is also a blessing.

He is already very close to happiness - there are only two hurdles left.

Taking a deep breath, Xu Wang heard the hooting of an owl from an unknown place.

"Cuckoo-"

The singing in the bar continued, but no one heard the strange cry, and no one realized that five guests had disappeared without a sound.

The dizziness disappeared, and the five friends opened their eyes again, and they were on the streets of a small town.

It's Halloween, and the whole town is in a festive mood.Pumpkin lanterns are placed in front of every house, and the streets are also very lively.

Small town residents walked past five people one after another, some were family outings, some were friends, the only thing they all had in common was that they were all dressed up as "demons and ghosts", or witches, or mummies, or masked killers, or biochemical monsters, and magicians , vampire, iron barrel man, etc., the costumes are strange and colorful, and most of them laugh and laugh.

The children were happier, carrying small baskets, going door to door asking for candies, and trick or treating.

The five stood still.

After two or three minutes, a priest came towards them.

It is the same as the information bought from Mr. Fan.The priest handed them a map of the town and five sharp crosses, and asked them to subdue the ghosts in the five places marked on the map with the cross, and then take them to the church in the south of the town to perform the exorcism ceremony.

"I'll wait for you at the church." The priest left in a hurry after finishing his last sentence.

The friends are no strangers to it—many quest NPCs in Owl leave the scene as hastily as if they were in a hurry to pay their wages.

Xu Wang distributed the crosses, one for each person, and then opened the map of the town to check with everyone.

The map is drawn in great detail, and the layout of the entire town can be seen at a glance.The east-west street they are on is the main road of the town. Most of the houses in the town are built along this street, and a few are far away from the street, scattered alone. Every house is on the map , are clearly visible.

However, there is no sign on the map—according to the priest, it takes 5 minutes for the sign to appear.

Just holding up the map and waiting for 5 minutes, the time was quite long. Qian Aibai was bored, raised his arm and glanced at the badge manual, then frowned and complained to his partner: "Could it be that we have to check the ceilings from house to house?"

The ceiling, is a badge tip for 12/23.

"If you can't think of a better way, this is the only way." Xu Wang was already ready for a blanket search.

Just as he was talking, there was a hoarse "Gah--" from above his head

The five looked up following the sound, and saw a huge black crow standing on the top of a tree, staring at them.

"Gah-"

It called out again, a rough and long monosyllable, lingering in the ominous breath of death.

Suddenly, it spread its wings and swooped down, grabbing the map with its sharp beak!

It happened too fast, and when the friends realized it, it had already snatched the map from Xu Wang and was about to run away.

Kuang Jinxin was not the first to react, but he was the first to click off the stationery, because he happened to have a stationery that was suitable for him——<[Wu] Can't escape with wings>.

But when he clicked away the stationery and looked up again, he couldn't find the crow.He could clearly still hear the sound of flapping wings, but he couldn't catch that figure. The evil bird had already melted into the night with its extremely black feathers.

"West! It's flying west—" Qian Ai yelled as if he had discovered something suddenly.

Kuang Jinxin was surprised: "Can you see clearly?"

While chasing after him, Qian Ai yelled and replied: "If you are as ill-fated as I am, and your steps are bumpy, you can also train your eyes to see six directions and your ears to listen to all directions—"

What makes people grow most quickly?Desire to survive!

Kuang Jin Xinle.In fact, he has always thought that Qian Ai is very powerful. Many weapons used by Qian Ai may not be useful for others, and not everyone with a little less luck can improve rapidly through continuous training like Qian Ai. fighting power.

But I won't talk to Qian Ai about this, because it is obvious that the atmosphere of "bitterness and hatred" is more conducive to his performance.

Soon, the five friends started running, and Chi Yingxue ran at the end. Seeing the trust and recognition for Qian Ai in Kuang Jinxin's eyes, her beautiful thin lips were pursed into a sullen straight line.

Didn't you see a bird?

The group headed west all the way, chasing all the way to the outside of the town, and finally locked the evil figure in a forest. Kuang Jinxin immediately activated "It's hard to fly with wings", and the friends finally regained the map.

After snatching back the map, they realized that there was a cemetery under their feet. There were not too many tombstones scattered in the woods, and the dead were buried under the tombstones.

The night wind blew through the woods, as if someone was whispering.

At this time, the map has shown signs, a total of five places, and the one closest to them is the last house they passed before they ran out of the town.

No one likes to stay in the cemetery for too long. The five friends glanced at each other and immediately returned to the town along the forest road.

Fortunately, they didn't run too far. After walking for about 15 minutes, they returned to the west entrance of the town and saw the two-story house.

Compared with the hustle and bustle of the town center, it looks a bit cold here.

The whole house was painted red, too bright red, under the moonlight, like a bloody mouth that devours people.

"Defense No. 1 and No. 2, prepare." Wu Sheng said in a deep voice.

Kuang Jinxin and Chi Yingxue immediately went to order their stationery.

【Owl: Someone used <[Anti] Evil Spirit Retreat> on you~~】

【Owl: Someone used <[Anti] Try to touch me> on you~~】

With the double defenses in place, Wu Sheng nodded to Xu Wang, who raised his hand to knock on the door.

Unexpectedly, the door was ajar, and upon knocking, it opened immediately.

There is a smell of cooking, blowing over my face, I can't tell what the cooking is, it's a bit meaty, but also a bit strange.

The five of them walked into the room quietly, and through the hallway, there was a brightly lit living room.This is a very warmly furnished cabin, with soft carpets under the sofa and family photos on the coffee table.

But there was no one in the living room.

The smell came from the kitchen further inside.

The five little friends walked in slowly, the closer they got to the kitchen, the more cautious their steps.

The kitchen door was wide open, and a man wearing a chef's hat was standing in front of the stove. He was nearly two meters tall and extremely fat. The chef's hat was on his head, reaching almost to the ceiling, and his thick body completely blocked it. Seeing what he was cooking, from the perspective of the five friends, he could only see him raising one hand and stirring constantly, as if he was cooking something.

The taste is getting stronger and stronger.

The man's stirring hand suddenly stopped, as if he sensed an unexpected guest.

The five friends stood still, but unconsciously held their breath.

The man let go of the spoon and turned around slowly.

The five of them stared wide-eyed and gasped.

A bloody face with no facial features at all.The skin of the face was torn off piece by piece, hanging in place, exposing the bloody muscle tissue, the only thing left was the teeth, but without the wrapping of the lips, those two rows of teeth looked like demons.

No, it was originally a demon.

When he turned around, the friends had already seen what was on the fire—a pot of hands.

Qian Ai twitched in his stomach and vomited directly against the wall.

Wu Sheng's scalp was tingling, and he clicked off the stationery——<[Anti] Hao Ran Zheng Qi Tian Silk>!

A silk thread specially designed to deal with evildoers fell from the sky, and immediately bound the evil spirits.

The blood-faced man struggled a few times, but he didn't break away. He seemed to want to speak, but when he opened his mouth, only his teeth "clicked and clicked".

Amidst the eerie sound of teeth, the five friends entered the kitchen, spread out in a semi-arc formation, and surrounded the blood-faced man little by little.

Just as they were gradually narrowing the encirclement, the blood-faced man suddenly struggled hard and broke the sky silk, then raised the pot of hands, and smashed it violently!

The direction of the smash was Kuang Jinxin, and behind him was the kitchen door.

The hands of the boiling pot, carrying the boiling hot water, all rushed towards Kuang Jinxin.

There are two stationery sets, one is anti-evil spirit attack, the other can anti-injury, but none of them is anti-hot pan splash.

Kuang Jinxin subconsciously wanted to hide, but when he dodged, it was equivalent to letting the other party run through the door. With this hesitation, it was already too late.

He could almost feel the scalding humidity.

But in the next second, a person rushed over from the side and threw him down, and the pot of things hit the person's back directly!

Kuang Jinxin was protected under his body from head to toe, and his head was pressed tightly against his chest by a big hand. He couldn't see or speak, and only knew that the pot of things didn't touch him at all.

With the "clang" sound of the pot falling to the ground, the person protecting him jumped up, as if he knew that his protection was absolutely fine, without looking at him, he turned around and rushed towards the blood-faced man.

Kuang Jinxin got up quickly, and just caught Chi Yingxue's back jumping towards the blood-faced man when he heard a "bang".

power cut.

Everything was instantly shrouded in darkness, even the jack-o-lanterns in the garden outside the window were extinguished.

"Xiaoxue!" Kuang Jinxin yelled worriedly while groping towards Chi Yingxue's direction, but as soon as he took a step, he bumped into something unknown, with a "boom", it hurt even to hear it.

Kuang Jinxin endured the pain and didn't cry.

Chi Yingxue fell out: "Don't move around."

Then, a cluster of small flames lit up from Chi Yingxue's hands, barely illuminating most of the kitchen.

<[Anti] evil spirit lighter>.

The bloody man was gone.

The four partners followed the light and finally arrived at Chi Yingxue's side. They saw that the clothes on his back were soaked, and there was still a faint heat on his body. His exposed neck was red, which was still under the light of the lighter. Under white light, it is estimated that the red is even scarier.

Kuang Jinxin immediately ran to the faucet and took two large bowls of cold water.

Wu Sheng originally wanted to say to rush to cool down with cold water to reduce the burn damage, but he didn't expect Kuang Jinxin to move faster than him.

Two large bowls of cold water were poured down, and the burning sensation was reduced by half. Chi Yingxue breathed a sigh of relief, and stood up while supporting the table.

Although soon, the burning pain came back again, but looking at the intact Kuang Jinxin, Chi Yingxue felt that it was worth it.

"It hurts..." Kuang Jinxin looked at Chi Yingxue's drenched back, thinking that it would not be long before there would be a blister, and felt uncomfortable. Chi Yingxue was so afraid of pain.

"..." Chi Yingxue wanted to say that he was not afraid of pain anymore. He seemed to understand a little bit about Yan Wang's fierceness to fight himself, but looking at the worry in Kuang Jinxin's eyes, seeing this People finally put all their eyes on themselves, and the words that came to their lips turned around a few times and were shortened into two simple words, "Mmm, it hurts."

The guilt in Kuang Jinxin's eyes was even deeper, but he didn't know what to say, whether it was "thank you" or "sorry", they were too blunt and flirtatious.

Xu Wang asked solemnly: "Xiaoxue, can you still persist?"

Chi Yingxue tried to move her shoulder, but it hurt, but it didn't affect her action: "No problem."

"Okay." Xu Wang said, "then persevere. There will definitely be fierce battles in the future, and you will be easily injured. When the time comes, save up and use the healing stationery."

For a week in Endless Sea, he only got two healing stationery, which he could only use wisely.

Chi Yingxue took a peek at the worried Kuang Jinxin, and resolutely refused: "No, I want to recover naturally."

Xu Wang and Wu Sheng were dumbfounded.

Qian Ai was dumbfounded, what kind of devil's way of keeping in good health is this!

……

Using the evil spirits lighter, the five searched the entire house, but found no trace of the blood-faced man. In the end, only the attic was left.

With the lesson of that one-pot manpower, this time Wu Sheng would not let Xu Wang take the lead this time, and walked up the stairs first.

Xu Wang and Kuang Jinxin followed in the second and third, with Chi Yingxue and Qian Ai in the rear.

As soon as he entered the attic, the smell of blood came to his face.

Wu Sheng frowned and said nothing, holding Chi Yingxue's evil spirit lighter, and gently stretched his arms forward, the firelight reflected dozens of hanging corpses, some with severed hands and feet, or missing heads and limbs, none of them were complete, In this way, the attic is full.

The cuts of all the corpses were still dripping with blood, as if they had just been severed alive not long ago.

The few friends who came up afterward were almost choked by the smell of blood, and when they saw the densely packed people hanging in front of them, their breathing became stiff.

In the suffocating silence, a strange rustling sound came from behind the "corpse forest". It was a black figure squatting at the bottom of the wall inside, hiding behind many hanging corpses, with its back to them, not knowing what it was doing.

The little friends knew that they should go forward, push aside the hanging corpse, and find out.

But after thinking about it, in such a situation, no one can move one step forward.

Qian Ai was glad that he had just vomited out all the contents in his stomach, otherwise he would have to do it again.

The moonlight suddenly shone into the attic, shone on the back of the black shadow, and also revealed the outline of the chef's hat.

The black figure turned around slowly, just like he was in the kitchen, bloated and slow.

It wasn't until he completely turned around that everyone saw clearly that what he was gnawing on was a human leg.

The bloody face with only two rows of teeth left was eating with relish. His blood was mixed with the blood of the human leg, and it was impossible to tell who was who.

【Owl: Someone used <[武]Silver Bullet> on you~~】

Just as the blood-faced man hugged his legs and got up slowly, Xu Wang followed the pre-battle deployment and directly used the weapon. In the next second, the cold exorcism bullet was shot at the blood-faced man.

"boom--"

The blood-faced man who had just stood up was shot and shook.

Just as Xu Wang was about to refill his gun, the blood-faced man suddenly disappeared.

At the same time, a gust of wind came from nowhere, directly blowing out the lighter in Wu Sheng's hand.

Wu Sheng's heart tightened, and he heard Kuang Jinxin say in shock: "The armor I used has disappeared!"

As soon as the words fell, Chi Yingxue echoed faintly: "Mine is the same, and there is a lighter."

The whole team was covered with two armors of "evil spirits retreat" and "try to move me". The other stationery in use was "evil warding lighter", which was completely ineffective in a gust of wind.

Wu Sheng's intuition was not good, but Qian Ai could already feel the eerie cold wind blowing from the back of his neck.

He bent down suddenly and pushed his shoulders straight back!

Sure enough, let him bump into a bloody person, no, ghost.

The darkness where you can't see your fingers, on the contrary, made Qian Ai feel at ease. Without looking at the face of this evil ghost, his courage value was soaring upwards.

But the blood-faced man was not a vegetarian either. Qian Aina tried his best, but he didn't knock him down, but made him wobble unsteadily, and quickly rushed forward again, throwing Qian Ai down directly.

Qian Ai has never felt that he has lost anyone in brute force in his life. Now that he knows that there is still a mountain to go, the back of his head hits the floor with a bang, his head is buzzing, but his ears can clearly hear the two rows of the blood-faced man clicking. The clicking teeth were approaching his face.

Qian Ai's scalp is about to explode, not because of fright, but because of anger - you have no face, and you fucking don't let others have face!

Heartbroken, Qian Ai went all out, and raised his hand to push the approaching head violently.

I don't know where to push, anyway, my hands are sticky.

Qian Ai gritted his teeth and resisted, struggling to reach for the cross with the remaining hand.

But the evil spirit pressed him so tightly that his hands couldn't reach into his pockets at all.

During the stalemate, a black shadow suddenly jumped on the back of the evil spirit.

Qian Ai couldn't see which partner came to support him, but he only knew that the weight on his body suddenly became two people, and he was about to vomit blood: "I can't breathe, I can't breathe——"

As soon as he finished yelling, he felt a cold light flash in the darkness, and then the evil ghost let out a shrill roar and got up from him suddenly.

Qian Ai took a deep breath, and the feeling of suffocation in his chest was instantly relieved.

The attic suddenly lit up, and the range and intensity of the light was greater than that of the previous lighter—Wu Sheng had been unable to light Chi Yingxue's lighter again, so he gave up decisively and took out the flashlight from his backpack.

With the light, everyone could see their respective positions clearly, and also Chi Yingxue who was riding on the evil ghost's back.

He was pulling out the cross - the roar of the evil spirit just now was because he threw the cross in when he threw himself on the back of the evil spirit.

But you can't insert it in the back, you have to insert it in the front.

He had wiped blood from half of his face, but he didn't show any too intense expression, just like a silent soldier.

The cross was pulled out all of a sudden, and the blood-faced man took the opportunity to grab his legs violently. The strength was not like tearing him off, but more like tearing him in half.

But Chi Yingxue deftly bent her legs, and while dodging the attack, her upper body bent forward, and the cross in her hand was firmly delivered to the blood-faced man's heart.

The blood-faced man was startled and stopped moving.

That cross was like an instant narcotic.

Chi Yingxue waited for a few seconds to make sure that the evil spirit had indeed stopped moving, then jumped off him, wiped his face, and raised an eyebrow at his teammate.

It's okay if he didn't wipe his face, but once he wiped it, his whole face was completely covered with blood. It looked like another hellish ghost came up and knocked out the blood-faced man.

But his smile is familiar to the friends, with a bit of complacency and embarrassment.

A childish King of Hades—I don't know why, that's how Xu Wang felt at the moment.

"Did you secretly make up lessons behind our backs..." Qian Ai knew that Chi Yingxue was powerful, but the skill just now was eight steps higher than before. Simply God of War.What else do you use to "try to move me", Chi Yingxue is the deity of this armor!

"Good job." Wu Sheng patted him on the shoulder and praised him generously.

Chi Yingxue nodded her head twice as a response to her teammates, and then continued, looking at Kuang Jinxin without blinking.

The light of the flashlight illuminated Kuang Jinxin's bright smile: "Amazing."

The corners of Chi Yingxue's mouth, which had been tense all this time, finally turned up.

"Zi-"

The blood-faced man's body suddenly emitted smoke.

The five of them shuddered and retreated collectively.

The man with the bloody face turned into a pool of blood in the corrosive smoke.

"Dang bang."

The cross that was originally inserted in his chest fell to the ground.

Chi Yingxue stepped forward to pick up her cross, looked at the blood on the ground, and asked Wu Sheng for no reason: "How do I send this to the church?"

Wu Sheng frowned, pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his eyes: "That's not right."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked downstairs.

The four partners followed immediately and returned to the living room in the blink of an eye.

Wu Sheng picked up the photo frame on the coffee table, his expression sank along with his voice: "What we want to catch is another one."

In the photo frame is a group photo of a father holding his little daughter in his arms. The father is tough and tender, wearing a chef hat, and the daughter is soft and cute, wearing a doll skirt.