As night falls, all the villagers in the night village go back to their homes, look for their mothers, and close the doors and lock them. Most of them even go to bed directly.
There weren't many people around the house where Wang Yu and the others were, and it got even quieter at night.
It was so quiet that everyone seemed to be able to hear the heartbeats of others.
However, the silence did not last long, as everyone heard footsteps coming from outside.
It wasn't the footsteps of one or two people, but the footsteps of dozens of people. It sounded like the footsteps of at least dozens of people!
It’s really here!
Everyone knows what the footsteps outside mean.
This means that the man-eating monster mentioned by the old man in white and bearded village head is really here, and it is right outside his door!
At this moment, most people in the room were excited.
Even Lu Ziyi and Nangong Lingxi, who are the apostles of the spiritual realm, will inevitably feel afraid when facing this unknown danger.
Each of them held one of Wang Yu's hands and pressed their bodies against him. Feeling the body temperature of Wang Yu, their nervousness calmed down a little.
Wang Yu, on the other hand, felt the soft touch on his arm and didn't know whether he should be happy or excited.
Not only the two of them, but also the orange cat Dandan had already hid in the arms of Wang Yu's linen clothes, with only his head exposed, looking towards the door.
The people in Wang Yu's team were like this, and the people in the other team were similar.
Although the three crooked melons and jujubes from Minghuang Mountain looked calm and composed, the cold sweat on their foreheads and their slightly swaying bodies had revealed their inner fear.
The woman who had been aggressive with Wang Yu during the day felt like a frightened mouse. She held Wan Zhu's left arm with both hands and her body was trembling.
Wan Zhu, on the other hand, remained as before, with a calm expression, as if she didn't take the man-eating monster at the door seriously.
Compared with these spiritual apostles, the natives of the spiritual realm dungeon behaved even worse.
The duo was a little better, but they were covered in sweat and trembling all over. The scholar had already shrunk into a corner and murmured:
"The Jade Emperor, the Queen Mother, Yuanshi Tianzun, Daode Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, Taishang Laojun, Taibai Jinxing, Tathagata Buddha, Lantern Buddha, Maitreya Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, and the Eighteen Arhats. Please protect me!"
I just don’t know if it’s any use for him to ask so many gods to bless him in one breath.
The white-haired old man's family was not much better. The three adults all had expressions of fear on their faces and felt uneasy.
Fortunately, after they finished eating, they coaxed the child to sleep.
Otherwise, the current atmosphere in the room would make that child cry!
If there were another child crying next to them, some people might really collapse.
Just when the people in the room were nervous, a voice came from outside: "Big brother, second brother, are you in there? I am the third child! Open the door for me quickly and let me in! It's so dark outside. Yes, it’s scary!”
The third child?
The two strong men were stunned for a moment and looked at each other, seeing confusion in each other's eyes.
Wasn't the third child beaten to death by the Wu family?
Why are you here?
Could it be possible that he wasn't dead at that time?
No, he was beaten to the point where he was no longer human, how could he not be dead yet?
But this voice is indeed the voice of the third child.
The brawny duo are mired in confusion and disbelief.
There was no response from inside the room, and many voices rang outside again, but this time it was in a complaining and angry tone: "Brother! Second brother! Why don't you open the door?"
"The three of us have kowtowed, put incense, and drank wine in front of Mr. Guan! But when the Wu family was chasing me, you watched me being beaten by them, but you chose to stand by and watch!"
"I finally saved my life and escaped here, but you didn't even open the door for me! Are you worthy of the word brother? Are you worthy of the oath you made in front of Mr. Guan? Your family Aren't you afraid that Second Master Guan will be angry and punish you?"
"Big brother! Second brother! We agreed back then that we would not be born in the same year, the same month and the same day, but we would die in the same year, the same month and the same day! But now, you are actually watching me being rejected. Do you still have loyalty? Are you still worthy of it? Have I called you eldest brother or second brother for so many years?"
As the voice shouted, the faces of the two strong men gradually turned red with embarrassment.
People like them who hang out in the Tao are the most loyal and face-conscious. The "third brother" outside the door has been saying that they have no loyalty, refuse to save people at the risk of death, and are greedy for life and afraid of death. He is simply ruining their face. Rub it on the ground.
And saying it in front of so many people made them feel ashamed.
The brawny second brother turned to look at the brawny eldest brother and said angrily: "Brother, it seems that he really is the third child! Not only does his voice sound like the third child, but even the Wu family knows it! He knows that we treat him... against the third child. ...What’s that?”
"He even knows what we said when we became sworn brothers. Big brother! Maybe it's really the third child! Could it be that the third child didn't die at all at that time, but escaped? How about we go out and see See?"
"Are you stupid?" Although the strong man felt ashamed and panicked, his reason was still there.
He looked at his stupid brother angrily and said, "How has the third child been beaten? He doesn't even look like a human anymore! With this kind of injury, even if he doesn't die, he will have to lie in bed for a year and a half." Zai, how could he still speak so confidently?"
"Also, we were hurrying slowly along the way. Even the Wu family didn't catch up with us. The third child was beaten like that, and he actually caught up with us? And it was such a coincidence that we didn't catch up during the day. You caught up with us at night?"
"As for the vows of sworn vows. Isn't that what everyone says when they make sworn vows? Isn't this so strange?"
"I told you to use your brain, use your brain! Don't think about being brave, but you just don't listen! You have fallen for this simple deception!"
"Let me tell you, those guys outside now must be those man-eating monsters, but I don't know how they used them to imitate the voice of the third child."
"If you really open the door for him, we will be doomed! Do you understand?"
The brawny second brother nodded confusedly, but he didn't understand most of what his eldest brother said.
However, what the elder brother said was that there was a man-eating monster outside, not the third child, and he was told not to open the door. He understood this.
The brawny brother looked at his silly brother and nodded, feeling relieved, then raised his head and shouted at the door: "Damn monster! Stop pretending! Still the third child? Bullshit third child! The third child They were beaten to death by the Wu family a long time ago! Now you are pretending to be the third child, just to trick us into opening the door!"
"Also, stop talking nonsense! What kind of nonsense are you willing to die without saving me? There were so many people in the Wu family at that time, and the second child and I were both pestered by others. How could we save you since we were so busy... ...Ah, no, are you going to save the third child?"
"Besides, it was you...it was the third child who molested the eldest daughter of the Wu family because of his bad mouth, which caused us to be hunted down by the Wu family. Is it possible that we have to be buried with the third child?"
"Yes, we have said that we do not want to be born in the same year, the same month and the same day, but we want to die in the same year, the same month and the same day. But isn't this just a cliché? Who doesn't say that? How can such words be taken seriously?"
After the strong man called out, the voice at the door did not answer immediately. Instead, he waited for a while before ringing: "Brother! I know it's you! I can't remember your voice wrong!"
"If you think I'm lying to you, you might as well take a look at me. Look at my appearance! I can imitate my voice, but I can't imitate my appearance, right?"
The strong man hesitated for a moment, turned his head and looked, then walked towards the window next to the door.
Although the paper covering the windows is specially made and protected by window lattice, the house is in a state of disrepair and has not been lived in for a long time. The paper covering the windows will inevitably be corroded by rainwater or gnaw holes by insects.
There are a few holes of different sizes on the window paper of almost every window.
The strong man found a window on the other side of the door and looked out through the hole in the window paper.
The next second, he sat down on the ground. He felt his scalp numb, goosebumps all over his body, and cold sweat on his forehead was flowing down.
Through the hole in the window paper, he saw that there were many people outside, but among those people, there was a person who looked exactly like Lao San.
The man seemed to be aware that he was looking at him through the hole in the window.
He also turned his head and looked towards the window, as if he could see himself through the window.
The face that looked exactly like Lao San had a weird smile. Just one look at it made people shudder!
