Mu Haotian struggled in his heart for a long time, and the idea of taking this thing as his own became stronger and stronger.
But he thought Han Wenjing asked his name before leaving, and then entrusted such treasures to him. He must have had no choice but to find them back one day.
If he covets treasures and betrays trust, how is he any different from the male and female hunters?
Things happened one after another that night, and Mu Haotian was so nervous and excited that he didn't even consider that this might be just wishful thinking.
Another moment passed like this.
Mu Haotian thought about tonight's events, the magic treasure, and Han Wenjing. His heart was suddenly sad, happy, and worried, but his hands were not tired. The piles of sand and soil on the ground were getting higher and higher, and there were three grave pits that were two feet deep. The excavation has been basically completed.
In the gentle breeze and drizzle, the new buds and tender grass sway slightly, and the mysterious eucalyptus trees rustle in the deep forest.
After digging, Mu Haotian wiped the mud off his hands. As soon as he jumped out of the pit, he suddenly felt a chill on the back of his head.
Looking back, the five corpses were twisted into a ball, and their limbs were intertwined like zombies and monsters. They looked a bit eerie under the dim light of the mirror.
He shuddered, opened his mouth and read quickly:
"Tai Shang Tai Xing, constantly adapting to changes. It drives away evil spirits and traps evil spirits, protects life and body. Wisdom is clear, and the mind is peaceful. The three souls are eternal, and the soul has no loss..."
Although Mu Haotian is not afraid of dead people and ghosts, he has always been in awe of the theory of soul reincarnation. It is thought that some of these five people died with their eyes open, and their souls were lingering around the corpses. They immediately recited the four great salvation mantras of the Celestial Master lineage in turn.
He chanted but kept moving. He went over to untie the ropes and put the five corpses into three graves respectively.
The Xiu Niang and the woodcutter are on the east side, the ghost boy is on the west side, and the male and female hunters are in the middle. Considering the life and death gap between the first two, the resentment is difficult to eliminate, so the masculinity of the two innate masters is used to mediate in the middle.
This kind of behavior may not necessarily make sense, but it just wants to give you peace of mind.
After dividing the grave pit, Mu Haotian bulldozed the earth and backfilled it, supplemented it with gravel and the bark and leaves of the banyan tree. He stepped firmly on it, and soon three small graves were raised on the ground.
Finally, he cut down a few thick branches, split them, and inserted them in front of three graves as tombstones.
He bowed slightly and said slowly:
"Everyone, I don't know your names, so I can only erect this unnamed tombstone. In the rain at night, I can't light incense and candles for you. I hope you won't be disgusted by such a hasty burial... Although you didn't know each other in life, you died in the same grave. , it’s considered fate, we all have someone to take care of you on your way to hell... This life is over, I just hope that you can rest in peace after death, that all the grudges and grudges during your lifetime will disappear, don’t blame others, and reincarnate as soon as possible.”
Mu Haotian felt guilty for not being able to rescue Xiu Niang and the woodcutter. He was also inseparable from the death of the male and female hunters. His words were sincere.
After finishing speaking, he suddenly remembered that Xiu Niang had mentioned that the couple had three children. She secretly planned to go to Xiaowang Village when she had time to check whether the children had any relatives and see if they could take care of them.
At that moment, there was a sudden and unprovoked coldness in the back of my head, and at the same time I heard a crisp sound of "ting" in my ears.
Mu Haotian was shocked! He turned around suddenly, only to see a beautiful butterfly swinging leisurely in front of him, falling from the top to the ground, resting motionless at his feet.
Leaning over and taking a closer look, it turned out that it was not a butterfly, but a butterfly-shaped petal.
This made Mu Haotian feel strange. There were no such flowers and plants wherever he looked, and flowers of this shape were very rare.
Before I could think about it seriously, suddenly there was a loud sound of wind above my head!
Looking up, the fine raindrops are icy and cold, filling the eyes and replacing the starlight. The encircling tree branches stretch out and stagger like canine teeth, and the sky is as dark as ink.
It's the darkest moment before dawn!
Mu Haotian frowned tightly and noticed an unusual aura. He immediately concentrated his attention, narrowed his eyes, and cast his gaze into the vast void.
The stars have long since disappeared, and the boundless night sky is vast and mysterious. There is only a full moon hidden in the depths of darkness, with a faint red light, looming.
After looking at it for a long time, I felt my neck was sore, but I couldn't find anything special. I was about to lower my head when I suddenly felt a little glimmer in my eyes.
It was like the moon dimmed suddenly.
Mu Haotian's heart also faltered.
He quickly stared at the full moon with a sad red light, not daring to get distracted.
He persisted like this for a long time, and just when the raindrops accumulated on his eyelashes and he had to blink, the hunting wind sounded again in the sky above, and the moon suddenly dimmed again!
Mu Haotian was so shocked that he almost fell to the ground.
Just now he clearly saw that a huge wing suddenly passed over the disk-like moon surface!
I couldn't explain it in detail for a moment, but the wings looked weird, the bones were inversely long, and the quills were protruding forward, as if flying in the opposite direction. It was definitely not an ordinary bird.
There was a heavy blockage in his chest, making it difficult to breathe. He pressed the tip of his tongue firmly against the roof of his mouth, trying his best to suppress his fear. He looked up at the black sky for a moment, but did not see Wei Yu again, and finally let out a long sigh of relief.
Wiping the cold sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand, he secretly cursed that there were so many strange things going on tonight! I planned to leave here as soon as possible and go to the top of the mountain to wait for dawn.
He turned to the three tombs and paid his last respects. Suddenly he noticed something strange, and the hairs on the back of his hands stood up. He suppressed his panic and focused his eyes carefully.
The next moment, he suddenly saw a dark shadow resting on the bluestone behind the grave!
The black figure was huddled and motionless, and half of the Bagua mirror embedded in the stone cracks was blocked, causing the light to be dim and difficult to see clearly.
But it can be vaguely seen that he is very tall, facing the Bagua Mirror, it seems...
Looking in the mirror?
Mu Haotian was so angry that he didn't dare to say a word, his heart was beating fast, his eyes were locked on the ghost thing, and he quietly and silently moved back.
I didn't expect that I just took two steps back and accidentally stepped on a dead branch, making a "click" sound.
The dark shadow behind the grave moved and turned its head quietly!
In an instant, Mu Haotian felt as if his heart was about to jump out of his mouth, and his exclamation was stuck in his throat, and he was trembling.
Next to the Bagua mirror that emitted dim yellow light, there was a human face hanging upside down!
The upside-down face is eerie and strange.
Where the chin should have been, a pair of eyes filled with white appeared, staring blankly at Mu Haotian.
Nostrils pointed toward the sky.
The mouth on his forehead split open, as if laughing silently.
Mu Haotian's hair stood on end. The rainwater that fell on his body during the burial process soaked into his clothes and mixed with the sweat. All the cold air came out at the same time, making his body feel chilly. His shoulders shook and he shivered several times.
Under that frightening face, the black shadow gradually expanded, spreading nearly two feet.
The mirror light behind him revealed the shadow's appearance.
The black feathers are sparse, the bones are growing backwards, and the feathers on the wing tips point to the sky. They are a pair of monster-like huge wings!
Overall, it looks like a bird or beast with a human head hanging upside down.
"The Shadow Night Owl!"
The moment Mu Haotian recognized this monster, he felt as if he had fallen into the depths of the cold and windy "Canglan Sea", lying on the eternal frozen soil and ice floes, covered from head to toe by the bone-chilling forest. Cold, whole body shaking uncontrollably.
He was frightened and mad, but it was not because of the Shadow Night Owl itself, but because of the appearance of this evil thing, which foreshadowed an unparalleled misfortune!
There is an ancient legend:
Fierce tigers cannibalize humans and will deliberately not eat them completely, leaving behind mutilated corpses and trapping the souls of the dead in the mutilated corpses for them to drive and enslave. After a person is eaten, his soul is imprisoned and becomes a "ghost", which helps the tiger continue to do evil and harm others, and he will never be reincarnated.
That is the origin of "acting as a tiger's assistant".
This night owl is the ghost of another extremely dangerous thing in the world, the "phoenix demon".
According to folklore, the demon is a ferocious and evil demon that can transform into a human being. It always hides in darkness, but is extremely fond of bright things. It often appears on the eve of dawn when everything is silent and the sky and earth are extremely dark. It roams the villages and chooses. Eat people.
If that's the case, that's all. Most of the monsters and monsters widely spread in the world are inseparable from cannibalism.
What is really frightening about the demon is its terrifying way of "eating people alive".
It is rumored that the succubus has a set of evil rituals to eat people.
After it kidnaps a living person, it will transform itself into the person's closest relative, first creating a terrifying atmosphere of "human cannibalism".
Then light a lamp with corpse oil in the northeast corner of the lair. The yin energy emitted by this lamp is said to penetrate deep into the heart, making people feel the overwhelming resentment of the previous victim during his lifetime.
Finally, the demon will clean the person and eat it from the feet up.
The saliva of the demon has paralyzing and analgesic effects, and can also help wounds heal quickly. Therefore, people do not feel pain during the process of being eaten. They can only watch their bodies in a numb and numb state, being treated by the most familiar and closest people. The person bites, chews, and swallows inch by inch, quietly experiencing this boundless horror and despair.
Until death.
The demon likes to chew slowly, and due to the special effects of its saliva, this brutal process can even last for several days. During this period, the victim is so frightened and helpless that it is unimaginable, and he is often frightened by the time he is eaten up to the waist. Broken gallbladder.
In the end, the demon only eats the neck, leaving the victim's head, and then mixes the remaining bones with the body of the headless night owl, trapping the undead with evil magic, and turning it into its own "ghost".
This is the "齬影夜小".
In order to work for the demon, the shadow night owl specializes in collecting and selecting targets for it——
——Wherever this beast appears, the rightful owner will follow closely!
Mu Haotian was familiar with all kinds of spirits and monsters. When he remembered the relevant legends, he already understood what their appearance meant.
My heart was filled with fear, and I felt that cold air was coming from all directions. I wanted to take a quick look, but I was stared at by the night owl and dared not move.
The forest is as quiet as death.
I don’t know when, all the noisy beasts roaring and birds chirping fell silent. The mountain wind stopped, the darkness solidified, the shadows of the trees did not move at all, and even the continuous rain seemed to have subsided.
You can hear needles dropping in the oak trees.
It seemed as if something dangerous was coming quietly.
