"Ding-dang-dang-dang-dang!"
Shadow Gui chased after him.
Su Wu rang the imperial bell. In the sound of the bell, the shadows moved forward one by one, like a frame dropped.
But it was extremely fast. Even if it kept getting stuck, it still kept a distance of two meters from Su Wu, neither close nor far!
At the same time, Su Wu discovered that every time the imperial bell rang, the black hand connected to his armpit would get stuck, and at the same time, his pain would continue to subside.
This ghost hand can act independently!
Just now, he tore off the fragments of Shadow Hand and allowed himself to grow flesh and blood. Although he was affected by Su Wu's thoughts, it was Ghost Hand himself who reacted.
Su Wu's consciousness can affect Ghost Hand, but this influence is currently too weak.
His brain issued a command, and his own hands could respond instantly. However, when this command was passed to the ghost hand, it would take a minute or more for it to respond slightly.
Within a minute, the day lilies were cold!
"Ding-dang-dang-dang!"
The sound of the imperial bell echoed in the alleyway.
Su Wu dragged a dark and strange ghost hand with ten fingers under his arm, and finally turned the corner of the alley and walked into the dim fork.
Shadow Gui kept trying to poke its figure out at the corner of the alleyway. Its human-shaped head poked out from the alleyway, and its dark face without facial features faced Su Wu.
Su Wu seemed to see a pair of eyes on that dark face, staring straight at him.
There was an inexplicable chill in his heart.
He turned around and looked at the busy street at the end of the branch road.
The streets plunged into darkness—a precursor to the appearance of the lantern.
When the red lantern is about to fly into the sky, all the neon lights within its coverage area will be extinguished and plunged into darkness. Only the skylight can fall on the ground.
Seeing this scene, Su Wu suddenly felt something in her heart.
He turned his head instantly and saw that there was only a faint light from the sky all around. The shadow staring at him from the corner of the alleyway disappeared instantly.
The next moment, it appeared in the shadows around Su Wu!
In an instant, the man stood up, and the distance between him and Su Wu was only two meters!
"Ding-dang-dang-dang-dang-dang-"
Su Wu was so shocked that his hair stood up, but at the most dangerous moment, his wrist made the best choice on its own. It suddenly shook, the imperial bell rang, and the shadow froze in place!
Thoughts exploded in my mind.
"Before the Lantern Trick appears, all the lights will go out. When the street falls into darkness, the Shadow Trick can leave the unit building and continue to chase him."
"This period is extremely dangerous and must not be taken lightly!"
Step, step, step...
Su Wu's footsteps echoed in the fork in the road.
The shadow in front of him pressed forward step by step, but was suppressed by the sound of the imperial bell, always keeping a distance of two meters from Su Wu.
A journey of less than a hundred steps, but Su Wu walked for about five minutes!
Finally reached the fork in the road.
The red lantern rose to the sky, and the crimson light fell on Su Wu's back. A layer of cold sweat broke out on his back. He was worried that the next moment, his perspective would be pulled upwards, overlooking his body on the ground.
But this time, even though it was illuminated by the crimson light, his head was still resting on his neck.
Only the shadow in front of him disappeared without any sign, like a bubble.
Su Wu turned around and saw that under the crimson light, there were headless corpses in shops all over the street. They all maintained the posture of their last moments of life, like wax statues.
He looked ugly.
The worst guess happened.
Illuminated by the red light, he was unscathed.
This shows that Lantern's murderous method is not what he speculated. As long as he is exposed to the red light, he will definitely die.
The way it kills is completely random!
Whether it is illuminated by red light or not does not mean anything.
As long as it rises, everyone within the range may die or remain unscathed!
This is a knife hanging over the head of a living person. As for when the knife will fall, the decision lies not with the person under the knife, but with the knife itself!
"Hah! Hah!"
At this time, a sharp pain suddenly occurred from his right armpit. The pain made Su Wu's heart tighten and she gasped for breath.
He lowered his head to look at his right armpit: the ghost hand was swinging randomly, and every time it moved, Su Wu felt severe pain!
"Damn it! Damn it!"
Su Wu clenched the imperial bell tightly and kept shaking it. At the same time, his brain kept issuing commands to fight for control of the ghost hand.
Under the double suppression, Ghost Hand became quiet.
He looked around and his eyes quickly focused on the small temple next to the shop with a sign called 'Palace Pastries'.
The small temple is built with dark red brick walls, which is completely different from the decoration style of the surrounding shops and can be recognized at a glance.
At this time, orange light emitted from the temple, and it gained ground in the long crimson street.
"Just go there!"
Su Wu no longer hesitated and ran wildly.
I don't know whether it was because he spent too much energy fighting with the shadow slayer or because of his own psychological reasons. Su Wu obviously felt that his running speed had slowed down this time, and his legs seemed to be tied with sandbags.
In the glass display window of a passing clothing store, three models stood silently in the crimson light.
Two models wear fashionable bright clothes;
The third one was standing to the side. Her clothes were neither bright nor fashionable, but her lack of head made her look unique.
The distance between Chadaokou and the small temple is not far.
So even though Su Wu's physical strength was declining, he quickly rushed to the small temple.
Being shrouded in the orange light emanating from the small temple, Su Wu felt that her physical and mental fatigue had been relieved, and she felt an inexplicable sense of security.
Even the ghost hand, which had been making strange movements and needed to be suppressed by the imperial bell, became much quieter.
He frequently used the Imperial Bell to suppress Ghost Hands, and found that the sound of the Imperial Bell could not affect the lanterns.
Every palace lantern that looked like it was stained with blood continued to rotate in the sky, and none of the lanterns paused for a moment because of the sound of the imperial bell.
The crimson disperses quietly,
Neon lights are shining all around,
The whole place was silent.
Su Wu stood in the orange light and looked at the small temple in front of him.
This is really a small temple made of bricks. It squeezes out abruptly between the cake shop on the left and the blind massage on the right. There is no plaque, no house number, and it is not connected to the floors above at all.
"Is there such a temple on the street?"
"Never seen it before."
"It seemed to appear suddenly."
With confusion lingering in his mind, Su Wu pushed open the half-opened black temple door, stepped across the threshold separated by a wooden board, walked in, and immediately smelled the thick smell of smoke and fire.
He remembered that when he was a child, he lived in his hometown in the countryside, and there was a land temple at the entrance of the street where his home was located.
Because a group of old people hide in the temple all day bragging and telling ghost stories. They smoke all kinds of dry cigarettes and light fires in the temple to keep away the cold. The combined smells are exactly the same as the smell in this small temple. almost.
There is no idol in this temple.
There are no incense burners, offering tables, merit boxes, etc.
There is only a bucket-sized stone 'candlestick' connected to the ground, with an orange fire burning on the candlestick.
I don’t know what the flame uses as fuel, but its burning brings infinite peace to Su Wu.
