Strange Tale

"What should we do now?" Seeing that the half-dead crowd was about to pass by, Long Jiu couldn't help but want to get out of the barrier to find out.

Si Ren grabbed his arm in time, "Don't move, they won't be able to enter the barrier, and they will be found if they go out."

"I know, but I can't just watch them walk past like this."

"Let's see where they go first."

Sitting back on the spot, Si Ren and Long Jiu stared at the group of people intently, one of them hit the barrier and turned around by himself.

"Do you think they are people or ghosts?" Si Ren couldn't see why, so he could only ask Long Jiu.

Long Jiu was also pondering, "Ghosts are definitely not human...it doesn't look like a living person. A dead person? It doesn't seem to be completely dead..."

"Will it be the same as those people who are alone controlled by the magic of harvesting life?"

Long Jiu shook his head, "It's definitely not. Although the people controlled by the harvesting technique have lost all their minds, their actions are no different from ordinary people. But look at them, they walk as if they will fall at any time."

"Have you ever encountered such a situation?"

"No."

"What the hell is that, something you haven't seen before?"

Long Jiu didn't answer.The two continued to stare at the group of people silently, and they staggered towards Ershen Village.

Soon those who were walking entered the village.

"What should we do now?" Si Ren and Long Jiu asked at the same time.

Hearing clearly that the other party also asked the same question, the two looked at each other and said together: "Let's go."

While taking away the barrier, Si Ren used the technique of obscurity to hide himself, Long Jiu gathered the evil spirit, and the two walked towards the village together.

The village was still quiet, but every house was lit with lights.Since they have seen all kinds of anomalies in the village, the lights that were supposed to give people a warm feeling made Si Ren and Long Jiu feel more eerie and weird.They went straight to Uncle Zhang's house together in a tacit understanding.

Under the window, Si Ren quietly opened the window, and Long Jiu looked in with him.

In addition to Uncle Zhang and the child who were sitting blankly by the bed, there were three other people in the room: two men and a woman. One of the men was bound and gagged and thrown on the ground, unable to move or speak.It is obvious: the sanity of these three people is clear.But where did these three people come from?Neither Si Ren nor Long Jiu could figure it out.

The men and women who moved freely were young, wearing the clothes of ordinary villagers, and they were a little dirty.The bound man was about the same age as them, but he was wearing much more gorgeous clothes, so he probably wasn't from the village.He struggled a few times occasionally, but it was useless, he just circled in place.

Si Ren frowned and carefully distinguished for a while: That's right!Although there have been some changes in the past few years, he can still recognize the basic appearance - the man who is not tied up is Uncle Zhang's son!

That woman... Could it be Uncle Zhang's daughter-in-law?The child is the grandson of the uncle?

Feeling that Si Ren's mood fluctuated a bit, Long Jiu turned to look at him.Si Ren moved his lips and told Long Jiu their identities without making a sound.

Long Jiu pointed at the man who was bound, and Si Ren shook his head, meaning he didn't know him.

At this time, Uncle Zhang's daughter-in-law picked up the seemingly half-dead child and cried, "What do you think we should do? Going on like this is not an option!"

Uncle Zhang's son looked helpless, "Let's get through tonight first."

The daughter-in-law wiped her own tears and then wiped the child's face with her hands, "I've been covered in dirt all day long, and I don't know if that monster is a lie. Can Dad and Zhen'er really be saved?"

It seemed that the toddler was sitting upright, neither crying nor fussing, staring blankly in front of nothing as if feeling nothing.

Si Ren patted Long Jiu to make a gesture, and the two of them exited the yard together and left Uncle Zhang's house.

"Did you hear what she said 'monster' just now?" Si Ren asked.

Long Jiu nodded, "I heard."

"What kind of monster? Listen to the meaning: this monster can save Uncle Zhang and the child."

"Well, it seems to mean that."

"Go to another house and have a look again?"

"it is good."

Si Ren and Long Jiu came to another house that they hadn't visited during the day, and they were still lying under the window.

This family is an old couple and a young man about 20 years old, who look like grandparents.Those with dull eyes and slow movements are old couples, and those with normal behavior and melancholy expressions are young people.And in the same way, beside them was a person whose hands and feet were bound and unable to move freely, but a bag was put on the head of that person, and his age could not be seen.But judging from her figure and clothes, she seemed to be a young girl.

The young man did not speak, and silently wiped the faces of the two old men with a wet towel.The two old men stared blankly ahead, as if they saw something, but they seemed to see nothing.

Si Ren and Long Jiu returned to the dirt road in the village again.

"Why does every family kidnap someone?" Si Ren thought hard, as if he was asking Long Jiu, but he was actually talking to himself.

Long Jiu raised his head suddenly, "Something is coming."

Si Ren didn't feel it yet, but he raised his head.

Soon, Si Ren heard some noises, he pulled Long Jiu up and jumped into a yard at random and set up a barrier.

After a while, a big black shadow flew in the air.Si Ren and Long Jiu widened their eyes and glanced at each other at the same time, because they both felt Qilin's evil spirit and Huan'er's Yin spirit.

The black shadow slowly approached, and finally landed on the ground.It appeared to be a tall man wearing a black cloak.The hat on the man's cloak covered his head, and Si Ren and Long Jiu couldn't see the face inside clearly.

The breath of Qilin and Huan'er got closer, and Si Ren could not bear to be a little nervous.

Suddenly the door of the house behind the two of them rang, and then almost every house in the entire village opened the door.The silent village suddenly became noisy. The whole village came to the dirt road, and each family brought out a person who was tightly trapped.Si Ren made a quick and rough estimate: Ershen Village has about [-] households, which means that there are more than [-] people who were arrested.

The black shadow in the cloak began to move, and the crowd immediately fell silent.The black shadow walked back and forth twice among the villagers standing in two rows, and finally stretched out a hand to pull out a man and a woman whose hands and feet were bound.The woman was the one with the bag on her head that Si Ren and Long Jiu saw just now.But now the bag on her head is gone, I don't know if it was taken off before she came out.It was indeed a young girl.

Because of the ropes tied to their feet, the two fell down one after another after being dragged out.The rope was also strangled on the mouth. After humming a few times, they lay on the ground and began to struggle.From a distance, it looks like two wriggling worms.

Black Shadow looked at them motionless for a while, as if admiring something he liked.

While the two people were wriggling, their mouths never stopped "hmmm", as if they were dying at the last moment.

Heiying squatted beside them and said a word: "Be more obedient, and I will save you from suffering in a while."

The two people looked at each other first, and then their "hmm" sounded louder, and their bodies twisted more violently.

The black shadow stood up, and while slowly loosening the cloak, the hat on the cloak also slipped off.Si Ren and Long Jiu froze together after seeing his face clearly.It was a Westerner's face, somewhat resembling that of Father Martin, with the same high nose and deep eyes, the same blond hair and blue eyes.The difference was that the man in front of him was taller and thinner, with paler, bloodless skin.

Before Si Ren and Long Jiu could recover, he grabbed one side of the cloak and threw it back, revealing the loop under his arm.Huan'er tightly hugged the unicorn which had already shown its original shape, and remained motionless, under the hazy moonlight it was completely unclear what their situation was now.

Long Jiu raised his foot and was about to rush out.Si Ren quickly grabbed him, "What are you doing?!"

"Didn't you see Huan'er and Qilin?!"

"Of course I saw it! But now it is very likely that you will be discovered immediately if you leave the enchantment."

"Then you can't just look at them as dangerous."

"There is not much danger for the time being, otherwise you and I won't feel them. It's important to find out what kind of monster it is first, and we can't go out so rashly."

"I don't care what kind of monster he is, just kill him."

"No! I don't know what the people in the village have to do with him."

……

The voice inside the barrier set up by Si Ren cannot be heard outside.The two were arguing, and the monster moved again: he opened his arms and threw the completely motionless Qilin and Huaner on the ground, and then picked up the young girl who had struggled to the point of sweating profusely.