Following the cry, he stumbled out of the woods.

Wang Qilin grabbed the knife and quickly went up to support him and asked, "What's wrong?"

The big man's face was filled with fear: "Graves, graves, well, there are so many graves..."

Wang Qilin shook his head at Xu Da, who picked up a fire stick as a torch and went into the forest.

There are many trees growing on this hill. They are all old trees as thick as a human thigh. Their lush branches intersect with each other, forming a canopy that blocks out the sky and the sun.

So although it's a nice night tonight, it's dark and dark in the woods.

Xu Da walked in holding a torch, and Wang Qilin chopped off a bunch of thick branches with one knife. A gap appeared in the branches that were blocking the sky. Suddenly, the white moonlight cut through the night like a sharp sword and shined in.

Under the moonlight, the forest was filled with mounds of soil as high as a man's waist.

There is a tall stone monument standing in front of the mound.

It’s all tombs!

Anyone who suddenly saw such a mess of graves in this gloomy dark night would feel scared.

Xu Da spat on the ground and cursed: "It's really unlucky that you chose a mass grave to spend the night."

Wang Qilin frowned: "I've never heard of a mass grave in the countryside."

Xie Toad, who came in from behind, looked at the surrounding terrain. He stretched out his hands to make calculations, shook his head and said, "Let's go, this is a place where corpses are imprisoned. Living people cannot be left alone for too long."

"Corpse place?"

"Yes, look at the trees here, what kind of trees are they?"

Wang Qilin looked around and found something was wrong. There were many trees here, but there was only one category: locust trees.

Tall, short, big and small, they are all locust trees!

Xie Toad said: "Can you see it? They are all trees that attract ghosts!"

The character "槐" means there is a ghost standing next to the wood, so Taoists call it ghost wood.

Xie Toad continued: "The purpose of planting ghost trees here is to prevent the ghosts in the graves from wandering around. Why don't you dare to let the ghosts leave here? The dead buried in these graves are all evil corpses, and there is something wrong with them!"

Xu Da was confused: "If you plant a locust tree on a grave, it will become a place where corpses are imprisoned?"

"Humph, Ignorance, look at the environment here and then look at the tombstones. Are there any abnormalities?"

Wang Qilin held up a torch and looked carefully, and there was indeed something abnormal.

Although due to the season, wild flowers and grass have not yet grown on the mountains, there is still a lot of dry grass in the mountains outside, but the tombs in the forest are bare and not a blade of grass grows.

Looking at the tombstones again, no matter how tall or short the tombstones standing in front of the graves are, there is not a single word on them. They are just bare stone tablets!

Xie Toad said slowly: "You said that you have lived in Paifang Township for twenty years and have never heard of a mass grave here. Obviously, this mass grave has existed for more than twenty years, and all the people imprisoned here are old ghosts.

ah."

After leaving the forest, nine people quickly set up the coffin and changed places.

But if you go further you will still find woods.

This hilly land is a forbidden area in the countryside. There are often rumors of ghosts and ghosts, so no one has dared to go deep into it for many years.

Without human destruction, the trees flourish and flourish.

When the bonfire started again, everyone went to search the surrounding woods together.

No graves or anything like that were found this time.

Just as Wang Qilin was about to go back, Xu Da quietly approached him, poked him with his hand and pointed behind the two of them.

Seeing this, he looked back and saw Xie Toad squatting on the ground and groping for something.

Explore again and again.

Wang Qilin asked tentatively: "Taoist?"

"Huh?" Xie Toad raised his head.

"What are you looking for?"

"Look for leaves."

"Looking for leaves?"

"Well, I want to poop, so I want to find some leaves to wipe my butt. What's wrong?"

Wang Qilin rolled his eyes wildly.

The two of them waited for Xie Toad to pick up the leaves and leave, but Xie Toad picked up one leaf after another and refused to leave.

Xu Da was impatient: "How many leaves are you looking for?"

Xie Toad was also impatient and said: "We need to find a lot, what's the matter?"

"Nothing. With so much preparation, will you wipe your mouth in addition to wiping your butt later?" Xu Da asked curiously.

"roll!"

He went to the big one, and Wang Qilin went to the small one. They entered the forest from two directions.

There are also locust trees with tangled roots in this forest.

There are colorful fallen leaves on the ground.

It feels soft when you step on it, like stepping on rotten meat.

Wang Qilin found a random place, closed his eyes and started to drain. Halfway through urinating, he was about to moan in comfort, when suddenly he felt something poke him in the back.

Being stabbed deep in the mountains and forests, Wang Qilin turned around quickly.

I was so startled when I turned around that I peed on my hand!

This made him so angry that he stuffed the guy into his pants and asked, "Who?"

At some point, a man wearing a coarse white coat stood behind him in the shadow of the locust tree.

The light was dim and he couldn't see clearly.

The man didn't say a word, just stood in the shadows.

like a statue.

There is no human breath, it doesn't look like a living person.

After discovering this, he stepped forward to take a closer look.

I suddenly felt a little ashamed.

His courage was still not strong enough. It turned out that this man was just a stone statue.

It's just that the carving is so lifelike, it looks like a living person.

But where did this stone sculpture come from?

Wang Qilin looked around. The woods were deep and dark, and the branches swayed loudly when the wind blew.

The stone sculpture stood quietly in the shadow of the locust tree. He thought for a while. He was in a hurry to urinate and didn't take a closer look at the environment. He might not have noticed the stone sculpture.

But something was strange, so he quickly walked out of the forest.

It took a long time for Xie Toad to come out with his Taoist robe. Seeing this, Xu Da smiled evilly and wanted to tease him, but the old Taoist priest was even crueler: "If you open your mouth, do you believe I have the magic to put something hot in your mouth?"

Xu Da immediately covered his mouth.

Wang Qilin told Xie Toad about the stone statue. After hearing this, Xie Toad's face immediately became solemn: "Is there such a thing? Take me over to see it."

The three of them entered the woods again.

The visibility was very poor at night, and Wang Qilin had just found a random place to urinate, so it took him a while to find the place.

There are still water stains on the leaves on the ground.

But the stone sculpture is missing.

Xie Toad looked solemn: "This wasteland is really evil. No wonder your village is a forbidden area."

Wang Qilin asked calmly: "What was that thing just now?"

Xie Toad pondered for a moment and said, "I guess it's a mountain puppet..."

He was about to elaborate when the night wind blew in, carrying a voice that seemed to be deliberately suppressed: "Master Wang, Master Wang, Mr. Xie, Mr. Xie..."

Xie Toad quickly shut up, and the three of them listened attentively.

The voice was light, soft, and intermittent.

Xu Da looked gloomy after hearing this: "Who is calling? Why didn't you call me?"

Wang Qilin wanted to chop him down: Should we compare ourselves to this kind of thing?

Xie Toad hurriedly said: "Don't agree, it might be a wild ghost summoning the soul!"

They didn't respond, and the squeezing calls in the wind slowly stopped.

Wang Qilin waved his hand, and the three of them quickly evacuated.

The old forest at night is definitely not a good place to talk about ghosts.

As soon as they walked out of the forest, the men carrying the coffin gathered around them. Some even shed tears: "You finally came out. I just asked you but you didn't agree. I thought you were missing too!"

Wang Qilin was depressed: "Were you calling us just now?"

Xie Toad is an old Jianghu, and he paid attention to the important point: "Who is missing?"

Ninth brother Chen Jiutie said with a livid face: "A brother named Su Yaojin, please tell me."

Lao Ruan was a tearful man. He said: "Not long after you entered the forest, Brother Jin also wanted to relieve himself. Brother Jiu was afraid that something would happen and asked me to go with him. We didn't go far..."

"Stop talking nonsense!" Wang Qilin said in a deep voice.

Lao Ruan said hurriedly: "Okay, okay, Brother Jin went into the forest and squatted behind an old tree. Then he suddenly said, 'Who are you?', and then there was no sound. I called his name, but he didn't answer.

Then we went to look for him and found that he was missing!"

"Have you found the right place?"

"We found the right one."

Wang Qilin said to Xie Toad, "When I saw the stone statue, I subconsciously asked, 'Who are you?'"

Brother Ninth asked: "Master Wang, Mr. Xie, what should we do?"

Xu Da muttered: "Why don't you ask me?"

Xie Toad groaned and said, "Did he leave any clothes or luggage?"

"There are no clothes, but there is a grain bag."

"bring here."

Xie Toad took out a piece of yellow paper from his arms and rubbed it on the grain bag, then skillfully folded a paper crane with one hand, turned his fingers and pointed at the head of the crane: "The wind is blowing, the wind is blowing!"

The paper crane flew up with the night wind, but then burned.

Seeing this, Xie Toad's face turned ugly: "His anger is gone."

Lao Ruan lived up to his name, his legs were so weak that he knelt on the ground and started crying.

Chen Jiu asked with a heavy face: "Are you dead?"

Xie Toad wanted to answer, but shook his head: "You better not know."

Everyone shuddered.

That is more terrible than death.

Chen Jiu looked at the remaining seven brothers and said decisively: "Carry the coffin and return."
Chapter completed!