polar demon

Chapter 88 Rainy Night ([-])

It was a young woman covered in mud and grass clippings, her belly swelled high, and she seemed to be pregnant.

The woman slowly raised her face, a pair of eyes on her face stained by yellow mud revealed a strong desire to survive:

"Save me! Save me!"

She held out a hand to the three of them.

The sword in Yuniang's hand was about to be pulled out; Gong Liangyi's body was motionless, but his eyes were full of vigilance.

Jiang Yuan stood up, helped the woman to sit by the fire, and then closed the door of the ancestral hall, and finally came to the woman and asked:

"Ma'am, what's the matter with you?"

The young woman was already shivering from the cold, and she kept moving closer to the fire.His face was frightened and his lips trembled, and he didn't know if he heard Jiang Yuan's words.

Yu Niang couldn't help calling out in a low voice:
"Young Master Jiang!"

Jiang Yuan smiled and said:
"I am very sympathetic, how can I bear to see a pregnant woman in distress?"

Jiang Yuan didn't feel the ghost's breath. When he helped the woman up just now, Jiang Yuan also secretly pressed his hand on the woman's abdomen. Obviously, the big belly was not fake.

As the fire dispelled the cold bit by bit, the woman slowly came to her senses, and she whispered: "Thank you."

Before Jiang Yuan could answer, the woman's muddy hand suddenly grabbed Jiang Yuan's sleeve:
"They're chasing me! I'm not going back! Don't go back! Ah—!"

The calm woman suddenly became crazy again, Jiang Yuan reluctantly pushed her hand away, and then moved away from the woman, letting her still yell wildly.

After making a fuss for a while, the woman calmed down again. She went mad for a while and became clear for a while, and her spirit seemed unstable.

The torrential rain continued to fall, and as the night deepened, the surrounding damp and cold became heavier.

The fire was crackling, and the smoke poured out along the broken corner of the ancestral hall.

After a long silence, the woman slowly raised her head and looked at everyone in the room through her messy hair.

Gong Liangyi seemed to have realized that the woman was not a threat, so he continued to rest with his eyes closed.

And Yu Niang's hand was still firmly grasping the hilt of the sword, without letting up in the slightest.

The woman finally cast her eyes on Jiang Yuan, hesitated for a moment, she got up and came to Jiang Yuan's side:
"Young master, do you have anything to eat?"

Jiang Yuan touched his body, there was still some dry food, he took it out and handed it to the woman.

The woman started to gobble up the dry food, as if she hadn't eaten for a long time. When she choked because of eating too fast, Jiang Yuan reached out and patted her on the back, and took some cups from the altar table to catch some rainwater for her. she drinks.

After eating the dry food, the woman finally regained some energy.

She looked at Jiang Yuan and asked in a low voice:
"Young master. Can you. Take me away?"

Jiang Yuan smiled and said:

"Sorry ma'am, it's not convenient for me."

The woman began to beg:

"Young master! I'm willing to do anything, I just beg you to take me away and take me home! I beg you!"

Jiang Yuan became impatient, and he showed some kindness, but this woman just stared at him, why didn't she go to find Gong Liangyi or Yuniang.

So Jiang Yuan grabbed Xu Shanding's head and held it in front of him, saying:

"Follow me, that's the end."

The woman saw a dead man's head without warning, she screamed in fright, and at the same time kept shrinking back, and quickly moved away from Jiang Yuan.

Only then did Jiang Yuan throw the head away, and if he didn't scare her, she would really entangle him.

The ancestral hall quickly became quiet again. The woman shivered in a corner, not knowing whether it was from fear or the cold.

The sound of the rain outside gradually diminished, and the torrential rain also became pattering.

The rainwater leaking from the roof spread to the vicinity of Jiang Yuan, so he had to move his position, and at the same time, he was looking forward to seeing a good weather at dawn.

The woman began to cry in the corner, her voice mournful and mournful.

After crying for a while, Gong Liangyi became irritable, and he said loudly:
"If you want to cry, get out and cry outside!"

The woman trembled in fright and covered her mouth in horror, not daring to make any more noise.

Jiang Yuan shook his head and smiled, but didn't bother.Yu Niang also began to feel that the woman was not a threat, and slowly put down the sharp sword in her hand.

The long night passed very slowly, but this night was not destined to be peaceful.

A rush of footsteps began to sound in the rainy night. There seemed to be a lot of people coming, and they kept coming towards the ancestral hall.

The already quiet woman suddenly let out a terrified scream:

"They're coming! It's them! Help me, help me!"

She no longer cared about any heads, and quickly hid towards Jiang Yuan.

"Bang!"

The gate of the ancestral hall was pushed open from the outside, followed by a group of people pouring in.

These people were wearing bamboo hats and coir raincoats for shelter from the rain. The clothes inside looked like ordinary villagers. The only difference was that their faces were all pale, a kind of sickly pale.

The leader was a young man. He took off the bamboo hat on his head and scanned around the ancestral hall. Finally, he focused his gaze on Jiang Yuan:
"She is my wife."

And the woman shrank behind Jiang Yuan, tightly clutching Jiang Yuan's clothes:
"Don't come! Don't come!"

The man stepped forward and continued to say to Jiang Yuan:
"My wife is suffering from hysteria and has gone crazy. She ran out of the house in the middle of the night, and we also searched for her in the middle of the night. Now I want to take her back, brother, please don't stop me."

Gong Liangyi's eyes opened at some point, as if he was deep in thought.

And Yu Niang also clenched the long sword tightly again.

Jiang Yuan smiled, turned sideways to let the woman out.

Several villagers walked out from the young man and grabbed the woman.

The woman panicked, she firmly grasped Jiang Yuan's clothes:
"Please! Please don't let them take me! They will eat me and the baby! Please!"

Jiang Yuan turned a deaf ear, pushed the woman's hand away, and the villagers carried her away.

A villager suddenly caught a glimpse of the human head on the ground, his eyes began to flash with greed, his mouth opened slightly, and he stretched out his hand and quickly grabbed the head.

"Put it down!" Gong Liangyi said coldly, "It's mine."

Seeing that head, the expressions of the villagers in the ancestral hall became weird.

Their eyes were all attracted by the heads, their breathing became short of breath, and they swallowed saliva in their throats.

A villager licked his lips and said:
"We pay for it."

Gong Liangyi replied coldly:
"You can't afford it."

All the villagers stepped forward together, their eyes became fierce.

Yu Niang stood up from the ground suddenly, and the long sword in her hand was out of its sheath.

The young man in the lead said at this time:
"Forget it, let's go."

The villagers reluctantly followed the man to leave, and the last villager also put the head away, and when he left, he stuffed his blood-stained finger into his mouth and sucked it continuously.

As the villagers left, the woman's miserable cry became farther and farther away, and was finally covered by the sound of rain.

It was quiet again in the ancestral hall.

Jiang Yuan closed his eyes and started to sleep, and Gong Liangyi did the same.

After being silent for a while, Yu Niang finally couldn't help but said:
"Those villagers... have a problem!"

However, no one paid any attention to her.

Yu Niang frowned slightly, and she asked Jiang Yuan:
"Aren't you sympathetic, why didn't you save that pregnant woman?"

Jiang Yuan closed his eyes and kept silent.

Yu Niang snorted angrily, then leaned against the wall and closed her eyes.

The ancestral hall fell silent, and as time passed, everyone seemed to have fallen asleep.

The sound of the pattering rain outside was getting smaller and smaller, and it was almost inaudible in the back.

At this moment, Gong Liangyi suddenly opened his eyes and stood up from the corner.

He scanned Jiang Yuan and Yuniang slowly and sternly for a while, then opened the gate of the ancestral hall and walked into the wet and cold rainy night.

The ancestral hall seems to have returned to calm.

After a while, Yu Niang also opened her eyes.

She stared at Jiang Yuan, who was sleeping soundly, with her beautiful eyes, as if she was waiting for something.

However, after a while, Jiang Yuan still didn't move at all.

Doubt and impatience flashed in Yu Niang's eyes, and finally she also got up, as light as a white cat, and left the ancestral hall.

After waiting for both of them to leave, Jiang Yuan suddenly sat up:
"interesting."

The group of villagers who came in before had a gloomy aura on them.

The breath is very close to that of a ghost, but it still smells like a living person.It gave Jiang Yuan the feeling that it was when the ghost energy entered his body, but he had not been eroded by the ghost energy and turned into a ghost.

Even an ordinary warrior like Yuniang noticed something was wrong with the villagers, and it was impossible for Gong Liangyi, who was a child of a noble family, not to notice.

However, Gong Liangyi has never moved or reacted, which made Jiang Yuan curious.

He secretly guessed that Gong Liangyi did this because of two possibilities: one is not wanting to meddle in other people's business;

Gong Liangyi's departure also proves that the second point is the most likely.

Gong Liangyi exuded a mystery all over his body. He clearly had the power of inheritance, but he still cultivated internal power.He has a noble status, but he still pretends to be a warrior to join the gang.Deliberately let the gang of villagers go, but followed them in the dark.

This made Jiang Yuan feel that the temperaments of Gong Liangyi and Yuniang were similar to a certain extent.It is a kind of temperament that can only be possessed by people who are constantly exploring and peeping into various secrets.

Yu Niang is cautious, while Gong Liangyi seems to have a slight indifference to everything.

I don't care about being traced, I don't care about being discovered, I don't care about being suspicious.Jiang Yuan didn't know whether it was because of his boldness.

Jiang Yuan expected Gong Liangyi to leave, but Jiang Yuan was a little surprised that Yuniang also left.

But he was relieved, undercover intelligence officers like Yuniang were naturally curious about secrets.Although Yu Niang is good at patience and camouflage, when the villagers are about to go far and difficult to track, Yu Niang finally can't hold back.

Jiang Yuan himself was also full of curiosity about the villagers.

There are so many villagers, all of them were infiltrated by ghost energy, and the ghost energy eroded them very slowly, which was very different from other situations that Jiang Yuan encountered.

Behind them, there must be a benevolent ghost.

Jiang Yuan also likes such ghosts who are not stingy.

He stood up and moved his body, and then walked out of the ancestral hall.

He felt that it was time for supper.

(End of this chapter)