Nightmare Apostle

“Dong.”

“Dong.”

“Dong.”

There was a muffled sound of knocking a wooden fish, coming from behind the curtain, but the strange thing was that the shadow reflected on the curtain did not move at all, like a dead object.

Yang Xiao and the others did not dare to move, and watched the situation quietly. The strange phenomenon soon appeared. The sound of knocking the wooden fish became faster and faster, and the heartbeats of several people seemed to be affected, converging with the strange rhythm.

The situation became more and more serious, and gusts of cold wind blew around. The curtain fluttered in the wind, and the wine bowl on the stone table also trembled for no reason.

Yang Xiao knew that he could not wait any longer. He was the first to walk to the stone table. There were 5 cushions in front of the stone table. He chose the middle one, facing the position behind the curtain. The others followed suit and sat down one by one. Tong Han pulled open the seal of the wine jar and quickly filled the wine bowl in front of her with wine. As the wine flowed in, the wine bowl in front of her suddenly stabilized. .

There is a way!

The wine jar was passed to the next person, one after another, and soon all five people were filled with wine. Cheng Cha, the last person, found something very interesting. As his wine bowl was filled, no more wine spilled from the wine jar.

He could clearly feel that there was still wine in it, and the feeling of the liquid shaking. He shook it a few more times out of curiosity, but then his face changed. He felt that there was something extra in the wine jar, which was round and round. He didn't dare to shake it anymore, and quickly put the wine jar down and sealed it.

There was only a curtain between him and the ghost monk. It would be a lie to say that he was not afraid. Yang Xiao sat upright, as if he was ready to be executed at any time. After a while, the sound of knocking the wooden fish stopped, and the shadow of the ghost monk opposite also moved, and the shadow slowly raised a hand.

Yang Xiao understood, This meant that they were to drink. No one knew what the taboo was this time, and no one dared to move for a while. Tong Han lowered his head and stared at the wine bowl, but did not find anything unusual in it, until the next second, the ghost monk raised his other hand.

Now the meaning was very clear, they were to drink, drink together.

Holding the wine bowl, everyone was a little nervous. This last mission would never be so simple. Wu Ma Haoming's face was very ugly. He suspected that the wine was poisonous, but Yang Xiao didn't think so. Even if the wine was poisonous, it would not be an immediate lethal poison, otherwise this last mission would be meaningless.

The smell of alcohol was very strong. Yang Xiao originally thought that it would be a strong liquor that would burn his throat, but after drinking it, everyone's expressions became weird. Mi Shu's throat surged and he almost vomited. This "wine" was bitter and unbearable, and even... There was a faint fishy smell. This... This was not wine at all, but water, river water! No, to be exact, this wine was brewed from the muddy water in the deep mud of the river bottom. When you drink it, it still carries a long-lasting evil spirit. The evil spirit mixed with the smell of wine made the five people, including Yang Xiao, dizzy for a while. Cheng Cha shook a few times and fell on the table with a "thump". Next came Mi Shu, Wu Ma Haoming, and Tong Han. Yang Xiao supported the stone table with both hands, trying to stabilize his body, but failed in the end. In the dimness, he only saw the figure in front of him shaking, and the curtain was blown open by the wind. In the last consciousness, Yang Xiao vaguely saw a woman sitting behind the curtain through the gap. The woman was dressed in red and bloody, and the evil spirit was pressing. Before he could see her face clearly, he fell down. "Hey, wake up, wake up!" "Can you hear me? "

After an unknown amount of time, Yang Xiao felt someone shaking his body in a daze, and his face was burning with pain, as if someone was slapping him.

Finally, after trying several times, he finally opened his eyes a little. There were several figures in front of him, and the outlines looked familiar. When his scattered vision finally focused, the scene in front of him scared Yang Xiao so much that he almost jumped up. The person holding him was Sui Chengguo, and the one who grabbed his arm and slapped him hard was Hu Yanming.

Seeing Yang Xiao open his mouth and unable to say a word, Hu Yanming finally stopped and boasted to Sui Chengguo as if to take credit, "Look at what I said, a person who is unconscious can only be awakened by slapping his face. This is a folk remedy. I used to wake my father up this way when he was drunk! "

Not only Sui Chengguo and Hu Yanming, but also Lu Youcheng and Liu Haiping came back to life. The four people appeared in front of Yang Xiao intact. The scene was extremely shocking.

Yang Xiao immediately turned his head to look at the scarecrows behind the door, but there were no scarecrows now. The door was empty.

Soon the rest of the people were also awakened. Cheng Cha and Tong Han were okay. They didn't shout when they found something wrong.

They all chose to observe at the first time. Wu Ma Haoming didn't have such psychological quality. After finding out that it was Hu Yanming who slapped him, he jumped up and shouted that there was a ghost, and then slapped again. This time he was scared to death.

"What is he talking about? "Wuma Haoming's performance also frightened Sui Chengguo, Hu Yanming and others. They looked around as if they wanted to find the "ghost".

The temple is now different from when they came. The candles are all extinguished. The whole temple is cold and damp, as if it has been abandoned for many years.

Yang Xiao and Tong Han looked at each other and began to ask "Sui Chengguo" what he said, and got another "fact" from him. It turned out that in the memory of Sui Chengguo and others, they were not dead. Only one Quan Doufeng died in the first four missions, and there were a total of 9 participants in this last mission.

For the sake of safety, these 9 people were divided into two teams. Among them, Yang Xiao led the first team of 5 people to set off first, while Sui Chengguo led the remaining 4 people as the second echelon. After waiting for Yang Xiao and 5 people to no avail, Sui Chengguo decisively led The second echelon set off and came all the way to support them. Unexpectedly, they finally found the entrance to the temple. As soon as they entered, they found Yang Xiao and five others lying on the ground, smelling of alcohol.

What was really scary was listening to Sui Chengguo talk about what he had seen along the way. In Sui Chengguo's recollection, the four of them were first encountered in the fog and chased by ghost villagers, and then they finally escaped to the other side of the river through the wooden bridge, and found them again on the tidal flat. He followed the ghost footprints and came to this ruined temple.

This discovery made Yang Xiao's and others' hair stand on end. This...: This was clearly their previous experience. How come it was all strangely grafted onto the bodies of Sui Chengguo and others?

Also, what is going on with the four Sui Chengguo people now? Are they humans, ghosts, or have they been cursed and turned into something neither human nor ghost like Dujiacun?

Cheng Cha made an excuse to avoid Sui Chengguo's people and came to one side with Yang Xiao alone. "These people have come back from the dead, and there is something wrong with their memories. Let's put aside other issues first. We must confirm who they are." thing."

"What do you think?" Yang Xiao lowered his voice. This was the first time he had seen such a scene.

"Have you heard of the two-body corpse?" Cheng Cha asked in a low voice while paying attention to the movements of Sui Chengguo and others.

"No."

Cheng Cha didn't know how to explain it to him, so he had to tell a story as quickly as possible, "It is said that in the late Song Dynasty, a good official was going to be executed on trumped-up charges. The night before the execution, the executioner secretly came cell, saying that he could save him, and stuffed a note into the officer's left ear, repeatedly warning not to take it out, and that when his ghost-headed sword fell tomorrow, his head would not be chopped off, but his head would be chopped off. Cut the rope around his body, and when he hears his voice calling out, just run as fast as he can and never look back.”

"The official was doubtful. After the ghost-headed sword fell the next day, he got up and ran after hearing the words "Go." Strangely enough, there were so many people watching around him, but no one stopped him. He ran all the way out of the city, and he also I don’t know how far I ran. In short, I finally came to a strange and remote countryside, where I started a small business anonymously.

He also married a wife and had children. "

"One day after he was drunk, he muddle-headedly told this story to his wife. She didn't believe it and laughed at him for talking crazy because he drank too much. As a result, the man took advantage of the drunkenness and stuffed the note into his left ear. Picking it out with a needle, the couple approached the candle and took a closer look. After unfolding the note, the words "Two Body Corpses" were clearly written on it. Before the wife could react, she heard the husband scream strangely, and his whole body moved towards the candle. Then he fell to the ground and turned into a pool of blood."

"You said that Sui Chengguo and the others are like two-body corpses? They don't know that they are dead, but as long as any of us expose it, or they discover it themselves, they will die immediately." Yang Xiao understood, this is very important to Sui Chengguo. It was said to be an opportunity. As long as they lived in such a muddle and finally left the nightmare world smoothly, they could return to their original state according to the rules of the nightmare world.

But Yang Xiao's understanding of the nightmare world made Yang Xiao not so optimistic. Cheng Cha said that the two corpses turned into a cup of dust after learning the truth about his death. However, Yang Xiao believed that the nightmare world was not so kind. Once Sui Chengguo and others realized When they are actually dead, they will probably turn into evil ghosts immediately. Taking these people with you is like bringing four time bombs with you.

Not only did they have to face many dangers on their way back, they also had to constantly deceive the four Sui Chengguo people into thinking that they were still alive.

The difficulty of this can be imagined.

"Do me a favor first. Gather them together and have them turn their backs to me. I'll see what they are." Cheng Cha suggested in a low voice.

When Yang Xiao returned, he naturally brought Sui Chengguo and the others together and held a brief meeting. Cheng Cha, who had his back turned to them, took advantage of them and bent down to look at the four of them through his arms.

It didn't matter. The coldness immediately made him shiver. He saw Sui Chengguo and the four of them standing stiffly on the spot. Their bodies were made of rough straw, and the severed heads on their necks were barely fixed by a few straw ropes. It kept shaking as he spoke, as if it was about to fall down the next second.

"It's almost time to rest, let's get on the road quickly." Sui Chengguo couldn't help but urge. At this moment, Wu Ma Haoming also woke up again. His face looked very bad, very bad, and he didn't speak much. He didn't know why.

Yang Xiao and others walked towards the door. Before opening the door, they suddenly noticed that there was still an old pair of couplets posted on the back of the door: One Curtain, One World, Second Couplet: One Bag, One World. Looking up, there was also a horizontal comment: Peace of mind.