my lord celestial

"Hey, what's the matter. Isn't there more and more houses being built now? Last time I went to work part-time in real estate and found that the location where their house was built was in front of a cemetery, but many people still bought it." The boy next to the back of his head said.

"That's right, the pressure to buy a house is so great now that the houses in the city center are basically unaffordable. If you want to buy cheap ones in the city center, you can only buy haunted houses. Now haunted houses are also very popular!" Another boy agreed.

Everyone else laughed out loud, and immediately eased the terrifying atmosphere just now.

Hua Lian laughed when she heard that, and suddenly felt that mortals are really funny sometimes, in order to survive, all kinds of circumstances can be overcome.

He still remembered that in the past, they were very taboo about houses where accidents happened, and they didn't even want to live nearby. Even if a murder occurred in one of the houses in a village, the whole village would move out one after another.

But now mortals don't care about this anymore.

A girl laughed and said, "Please, can you afford the haunted house?"

The deputy squad leader continued: "That's hard to say, it depends on how many stars the level of haunting is. The higher the price, the cheaper it should be."

They were chatting happily in the stone house, the big tree above their heads was blown by the wind and made rustling noises, for some reason, they suddenly stopped talking and became quiet.

They looked at each other, hesitant to speak, no one dared to speak first.

It's like a layer of window paper, no one wants to pierce it, but...

"Did you... hear it?" A girl asked cautiously after breaking the silence.

Everyone else nodded.

They actually heard the sound of a child crying at the same time. It seemed that they were crying miserably far away, and they were crying and gasping.

But they confirmed it when it was dark, and now they are the only ones here, and there is no one else.

"Do you want to take a look? Or just pretend you didn't hear it?" One of the boys rolled his eyes and the others asked.

"Why are you pretending not to hear you crying so loudly?" the girl retorted.

Everyone who cried and cried felt hairy, but no one dared to take the initiative to take a look.

Mo Suchen originally wanted to go, but he was afraid that if he left, something would happen to so many mortals here.

Hua Lian got up and said to Mo Suchen, "I'll go and have a look."

"Be careful."

"En." Hua Lian responded and floated out.

Hua Lian wandered around the overgrown field for a long time, but didn't see anything, let alone a child's soul.

But this open space is really strange, what is it used for?

Hua Lian actually felt a little dizzy when picking this open space. Although it was very slight, it made him feel uncomfortable.

He followed the sound carefully and searched again. He saw a mountain demon next to the mountain spring, imitating the cry of a child.

As soon as Hua Lian got angry, he beat him up: "What are you doing in the middle of the night? You want to use the cry of children to lure mortals to come over and eat something? Can you change your routine after so many years!"

In fact, it's only around eight o'clock in the evening.

The mountain demon was beaten by Hua Lian, and the crying stopped. The mountain demon tremblingly wanted to run, but was stepped on by Hua Lian.

"Say! There is not a single soul here, have you eaten them all?" Hua Lian asked, stepping on the mountain demon.

The mountain demon replied hoarsely: "No, no..."

"No? Then I'll dig you open to see if there is any soul knot." Hua Lian smiled evilly and took out his sword.

The mountain demon looked at Hua Lian's sword in horror, and in order to save his life, he quickly spit out a soul.

Only then did Hua Lian's movements stop, why did this child's soul look so familiar?

He thought about it carefully, this seemed to be the child who crawled into the tent yesterday!

"Dead?" Hua Lian looked at this soul and didn't know why, but felt a little uncomfortable.

The mountain demon quickly shook his head, pushed the child's soul towards him, and let Hua Lian take a closer look.

Hua Lian lowered his head and took a closer look before realizing that these were not all the souls of the child, but only a few of them. The child should be in a coma now.

"Okay, for the sake of being so sensible, let me let you go this time, don't let me catch you again, otherwise..." Hua Lian condensed the child's soul into beads and put it away.

The mountain demon nodded obediently, then turned and ran away.

Hua Lian returned to the stone house, gave the beads to Mo Suchen, and said, "That mountain demon should be crying in this child's voice to trick mortals."

Mo Suchen put away the beads, planning to run after they fell asleep.

After the child's crying stopped, their discussion did not stop.

Knowing that the matter was settled, Xu Yu began to say, "I think it might be a salamander."

"Ok?"

"Aren't there often deciphered programs on TV? It's the kind of sound that you hear a child crying in the middle of the night, and when you walk in, you find that it's the cry of a fish. It's a salamander, and the fish has the same name." Xu Yu said seriously.

"Yes, it should be this kind of fish. The water quality here is better and suitable for growth." Compared with ghosts, this kind of answer is more reassuring.

Originally, they wanted to have a test of courage here, but before they tried, they were already getting scared, so they decided to forget it.

They didn't dare to tell any more ghost stories. Compared with the atmosphere here, it is indeed a bit weird. Fortunately, there were more people here this time, or if there were fewer people, they might be scared to death.

After ten o'clock in the evening, they began to feel a little sleepy. After arranging a vigil, they went back to their tents to sleep.

Just leave a small light in the middle.

Mo Suchen left temporarily, leaving Hua Lian to watch these mortals. Hua Lian was lying on the side of the tent, looking at the night watchmen outside, feeling amused.

This man protects others, he protects him?

However, it seemed that it was not the first time he had done protecting mortals, and he got used to this kind of thing after doing it.

Hua Lian yawned, a little sleepy, but she was afraid that something would happen if she slept too much.

Xu Yu came over from other tents and saw that only Hua Lian was wondering: "Where is the master?"

"Going out, I'll be back in a while."

Xu Yu nodded knowingly: "That's good."

Hua Lian was immediately unhappy when she heard this: "What do you mean? I can protect you without Mo Suchen!"

Xu Yu smiled and said, "Of course! Master Hua Lian is the most powerful!"

Hua Lian cast a glance at him: "I'm trying to protect you in the face of sleepiness. You mortals should be grateful."

"Must! Thank you, Master Hua Lian, for taking care of me!" Xu Yu was also quite cooperative.

Hua Lian yawned again: "Let me tell you, something is wrong here, you'd better leave quickly tomorrow morning. You mortals are fragile, your life is short, and you always like to drill into this kind of place."

"Because we are young mortals! Young people are impulsive and curious. Besides, we don't pay attention to feudal superstition now, and the suppression is quite severe, but the more we do this, the more curious we are." Xu Yu explained.

"Really..." Hua Lian was suspicious.

And at this moment, the leaves above their heads rustled again.

Hua Lian immediately sat up and looked up vigilantly.

In fact, the sound of the wind blowing the leaves had been ringing all night, and Xu Yu didn't hear anything special.

Hua Lian looked outside and saw that the people who were originally in the tent were slowly coming out of the tent.He immediately went out of the tent to check.

Those people have their eyes open, but they don't have consciousness, just like sleepwalking, but how can it be possible for more than a dozen people to sleepwalk at the same time?

Even the watchman seemed to doze off.

When Xu Yu came out of the tent, he saw them staggering towards the open space. This scene was very strange.

"What... what's going on?" Xu Yu's face turned pale with fright.

This is when he suddenly understood a truth. Being besieged by evil spirits is not the most terrifying thing.

"You've been hit by an illusion." Hua Lian frowned.

Those people gathered in the open space. Two boys pressed a girl and put the girl in the middle of the open space.

One of the boys took out a lighter from his pocket, and the others knelt down in a circle, muttering something while kneeling.

Now that Hua Lian understood, he stepped forward and knocked everyone unconscious, and then asked Xu Yu to move back.

Xu Yu asked while moving: "Master Hua Lian, what kind of ceremony is this?" He always felt that he had seen a similar plot on some TV.

"You must have heard of the ancient sacrifices, right?" Hua Lian used magic to move them back one by one.

"Yes!" Xu Yu nodded.

"This place used to be a place for living sacrifices, and there should have been a sacrifice event not long ago, so I feel dizzy if I step on it as a soul." Hua Lian looked at the empty tunnel.

"But isn't sacrifice a superstition? Is it really useful?"

"The name of mortal sacrifices is generally to sacrifice mountain gods, but as long as they are gods, they will not accept this kind of sacrifice, so those who use living people to sacrifice are monsters. Monsters eat the souls of sacrificed mortals to fulfill their wishes, such as Good harvest and good weather." Hua Lian explained.

"But hasn't this place been abandoned for a long time?" Xu Yu looked at the other people lying on the ground.

"The monster who received the enshrinement is still alive, and the altar is still there. As long as there are mortals here in the middle of the night, they will be bewitched, repeat the scene of the sacrificial ceremony, and burn each other to death." Hua Lian floated on the open space, waved his hand, Push away the dense grass.

Under the ground covered by the grass, there are totems used for sacrifices and the remaining stone altars.

As soon as Hua Lian's words fell, the people who had just been knocked out by Hua Lian woke up again, still in a daze, stood up in a trance, and started walking towards the altar again.

Xu Yu hurriedly grabbed the squad leader and shook him vigorously: "Squad leader, wake up!"

"It's useless, they won't believe it unless they burn one or two people to death." Hua Lian said to him.

"Master Hua Lian really has nothing to do?" Xu Yu couldn't hold back even the squad leader.

"There is a way, burn this place down. The altar is gone, and the sacrifice will naturally laugh." Hua Lian's palm ignited flames.

"Wait! No way, Master Hua Lian, if this place catches fire, we will all be locked up in the police station and sentenced!" Xu Yu hurriedly stopped.