Nightmare Apostle

"Will...will anyone who stays in the village for a long time become those things that are neither human nor ghost?" Wu Ma Haoming was more and more afraid the more he thought about it.

At this moment, Yang Xiao suddenly thought of the crooked tree outside the wall of the Buddhist temple. It looked lush and leafy on the outside, but the whole tree had already died inside. "I'm afraid it's like this. If we can't leave in time, even if the Du family doesn't kill us, we will become the same as them."

Everyone agreed with this. After all, the Taoist priest outside who was quite experienced also ended up like this, let alone them.

At the same time, Cheng Cha recalled one thing. The screen magic circle that trapped many wronged souls and evil spirits in the boudoir of the ancestral house was also set up by the Taoist priest outside if nothing unexpected happened.

"Don't talk too much, it's important to do business."

Everyone gathered together and began to look for the entrance to the wine cellar in the yard with the only little light. Although time was tight, no one mentioned splitting up. After all, no one dared to guarantee that they would meet their teammates again next time after they separated.

Originally, everyone thought that it would take a lot of trouble, but no one expected that in just over ten minutes, they found something in a room in the backyard. The door of this room was not locked, but ajar. It opened with a push, and what came into view was a piece of paper pasted on the wall. On the paper, the words "wine cellar" were written in bold and bold strokes.

The surprise came too suddenly. Yang Xiao and his friends' first reaction was that there was a trick. Everyone didn't dare to go in at the first time.

They chose to open all the doors and windows in the room first, so that the thin moonlight could penetrate and they could see a little more clearly.

The room was not as old as expected, and there was not much dust on the ground, as if someone cleaned it from time to time. What was even more strange was that the paper pasted on the wall was very new, without any signs of moisture, yellowing or brittleness. It felt as if it had just been pasted.

Yang Xiao had a very strange premonition in his heart, as if this piece of paper was prepared for them.

Mi Shu walked into the room tentatively, got close to the paper and looked at it carefully, and soon found the problem, "The words on this are from the same person as the ghost painting outside."

Tong Han raised his eyebrows, "Are you sure?"

"Yes." Mi Shu nodded confidently, "My calligraphy skills are not bad, and these two words are the same as the spell outside, whether it is the brushstrokes or the final ending."

In other words, this piece of paper with the words "wine cellar" was also written by the Taoist priest outside, but if this is true, it will be troublesome, which means that the head of the Du family lied, and this wine cellar has always existed and has never disappeared.

At this point, they have no one to verify, although it is still unclear what the head of the Du family is selling,

but one thing is that it should be true that the jar of wine is needed tonight. After all, according to the order of the five Buddhist precepts, the one to be broken tonight is the drinking precept.

"Mi Shu, you come in with me, the rest of you wait outside." Yang Xiao said, "Let's go in and explore the way first. If we don't come out in half an hour, you...you decide for yourselves."

Bringing Mi Shu with you is not because she is more capable than Tong Han and Cheng Cha, but because she once got half of the heart lock from the wedding clothes ghost. If they really encounter danger, maybe the ghost monk or the ghost villagers of Bujia Village will let them go for the sake of the wedding clothes ghost, although this possibility is extremely low.

But this proposal was rejected as soon as it was made. Tong Han and Cheng Cha strongly requested to go in together. After all, the wine-getting stage was unavoidable, otherwise they would have no chance to escape, and the evil Taoist priest would be guarding outside the door.

If Yang Xiao and the others were in trouble, they would go in again, which would become a tactic of adding fuel to the fire. Besides, without Yang Xiao, they would also lose a great helper.

After the discussion, Mi Shu came forward with a complete concentric lock and forcefully opened a secret door embedded in the ground. Although the secret door was made of wood, it was very heavy. Mi Shu used both hands and spent a lot of effort to barely lift it.

As the secret door opened, a gust of cold wind rushed out instantly, freezing the people present, and then rushed out of the house along the doors and windows, bringing with it a terrifying whimper.

Behind the secret door was a row of stone stairs, which looked very old. The surface of the stairs was slightly slippery. A group of people held on to one side of the wall and walked down very carefully.

It was dark below, but not so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of you. Mi Shu, who was walking in the front, became more and more scared as she walked,

because she noticed that there was light in front of her.

It was not the warm light of candlelight, but a faint cold light, icy and cold, which instantly reminded her of a mission she had once had. A corpse suddenly floated out of the dark lake, almost scaring her to death without any preparation. The face of the corpse was covered with such a cold and faint light.

That corpse was the ghost in the mission, and now the resentful eye has fallen into her hands.

But after seeing the light source, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It was two marble-sized night-shining pearls,

which were embedded in the wall on the right. There were a few old white candles and a fire stick in a hollow box on the wall.

Take out the candles and light them. As the candles lit up, what appeared in front of them was a large wine cellar with many wooden shelves as high as a person. There were several layers from top to bottom, filled with large and small wine jars.

Take a deep breath, and the nose is filled with the aroma of wine.

Wu Ma Haoming took a deep breath and couldn't help but sigh: "What a good wine!

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"You know about wine?" Yang Xiao was quite surprised. He didn't expect Wu Ma Haoming to have this knowledge. If he could confirm the specific information such as the year of the wine, it might be helpful for their next mission.

But the next second, Yang Xiao's face became grim, because Wu Ma Haoming said that he didn't understand, he just smelled the aroma of wine.

The group of people kept in formation and shuttled in front of each wine rack, looking for that special jar of "wine". The wine cellar was very cold and cold, and Mi Shu couldn't help but hug her arms tightly.

"Wait...wait!"

Wuma Haoming, who was walking at the end, called everyone to stop. Yang Xiao and the others turned around, only to see Wuma Haoming standing on the same spot, not daring to move, breathing rapidly and looking horrified, as if they had seen some horrific scene.

"What's wrong with you?" Tong Han asked softly.

"I...I thought I heard someone calling my name, just...right behind me." Wu Ma Haoming was so nervous that he couldn't speak clearly.

Yang Xiao and others raised candles to check, but there was nothing behind Wu Ma Haoming. This may also be because the lighting range of the candles was limited. After all, no matter how far away the position was, it was shrouded in darkness. Wine jars were hidden in the shadows, shadowy, as if Huge heads.

Wu Ma Haoming was quite alert. He didn't turn around immediately when someone called his name, but instead called his teammates to check on him.

Although the source of the problem was not found, it also reminded everyone that this wine cellar is not as peaceful as it seems.

There are thousands of wine jars in the wine cellar, and they all look the same. They are just a gray wine jar with a wine seal wrapped in red coarse cloth.

But looking along the way, everyone can find some patterns. These wines are divided into vintages, and the older the vintage, the older they are.

The more dust accumulates on the wine jar, the older it becomes. The further you go, the newer the wine jar inside is and the less dust there is on it.

"Chu Xi."

Just when Yang Xiao turned to look at the wine rack on the right, a yin-side cry suddenly came from behind him. This voice gave him the first impression that it was very familiar. It should be someone very close to him, like a teammate around him. , but Yang Xiao didn't dare to move because he didn't know this person at all.

After receiving Yang Xiao's warning, everyone looked behind Yang Xiao again, except for a row of large wine racks filled with wine jars.

They found nothing.

This was already the fourth time they heard their names being called, and the frequency was getting faster and faster, which was not a good sign.

Now everyone has realized something is wrong, and their eyes looking at the wine jars have become weird.

There was even a hint of fear at the end.

Cheng Cha swallowed his foam. He knew that everyone had thought of it, so it was better for him to point it out, "Do you think...could...could these wine jars be filled with those things?"

His voice became lower and lower as he spoke, as if he was worried about being heard by something. At the same time, his body consciously moved away from the wine jars.

Yang Xiao and others also suspected that these wine jars contained human heads. To be precise, they were soaked in wine for the purpose of embalming. After all, the people in Dujia Village who lost their bodies would not die, and the shack behind the ancestral hall After all, the number of livestock here is limited and cannot sustain the lives of all the heads. The remaining heads of the less important people in Dujia Village are uniformly preserved here.

When there is an opportunity in the future, they will find suitable bodies for them, take out the heads from the wine cellar, and bring them back to life.

The more Yang Xiao thought about it, the more reliable he felt. After all, the people he saw in the village were only a hundred people at most. He could kill all the hundreds or even thousands of people in Hanjia Village. The number of people in Dujia Village would definitely not be small, but the remaining ones whose bodies were taken away He didn't see any immortal heads, and even counting the number in the livestock shed, they were far from enough.

"Keep looking further." Yang Xiao somewhat understood the danger of this mission. If they moved the wrong wine jar, once they exited the cellar door, the heads inside would probably stalk them.

What they are looking for should be a clean wine jar with only wine and no heads in it.

This kind of clean wine jar should be placed at the very back of the wine cellar. After all, it would be more convenient to make a new jar of "wine" in this way. Soon, they found the wine jar at the end of the row of wine racks at the very back of the wine cellar. jars of wine.

There were 6 jars in total, and there was almost no dust on them, and they were visibly fresh. It seemed like the highlight was coming. The next thing they had to do was to select the only clean jar among the 6 jars of wine, and take it away.

"What to do next?" Wu Ma Haoming became visibly nervous. He chose 1 out of 6. If he chose wrongly, he would be haunted by ghosts.

"Move all these jars down to an open place, arrange them separately, and let's try them one by one." Yang Xiao already had an idea in his mind, "Each person stands in front of one of the jars of wine with his back to you. If you hear If someone shouts your name from behind, it means there is a head inside.”

"Elimination method, quick!"