Seeing the dagger stabbing him, the disappointment in the third prince's eyes outweighed his despair. He felt his mouth was full of pain and his nose was filled with the smell of ashes.
"Ah...um..."
The third prince suddenly woke up, feeling very weak and weak. He almost fell down as soon as he sat up. Just as he was about to speak, he felt a pain in his mouth and then felt a little salty.
He wiped his saliva on the back of his hand. Under the weak moonlight, his eyes were all bright red. Could it be that what just happened was true? But why did he come back to this house again?
When he came back to his senses, he realized that the two figures in front of him looked like Heili and Shouhou. However, after so many things, the third prince did not dare to believe their identities easily. Especially the short knife pointed towards him in Kuori's hand!
"Hiss...who are you?" The third prince's tongue hurt slightly, and he took a breath of cold air and said coldly.
Hearing this, Heili turned the short knife in his hand and inserted it back into Shouhou's waist. Shouhou also turned sideways, squatted beside the third prince, and whispered: "Third prince...are you awake?"
"Skinny Monkey? Is it really you...what just happened?" The third prince looked at it carefully. Although he still couldn't believe it, he still asked.
"Hi! Third Prince... Here's what happened..." Shouhou simply sat cross-legged next to the Third Prince and whispered.
Although Shancheng was eerily quiet at this time, the few people who had traveled long distances for several days could not help but feel a little tired after relaxing a little. They fell asleep slowly after a while. Even Heili, who was usually very alert, felt sleepy this time. It became sinking.
But when several people slept until midnight, Heili suddenly felt a hint of danger and woke up instantly. He looked around but found nothing. When he thought he was too nervous, he looked down and saw that the other people were bleeding to death.
Hei Li felt a buzzing in his head and almost became unsteady on his feet. He finally regained his composure and then gathered his energy to investigate the cause of death of several people.
When he carefully investigated the circle, he found that they were all killed by one blow, and the shape of the murder weapon was very consistent with his short stick. He looked down at his short stick and found that there was blood on the short stick, and he His hands are also very smooth.
Just when he was confused and desperate, he suddenly felt something strange in his heart. Although his eyesight was very good, it was so dark here that it was difficult to see everyone's situation clearly. Why did everything just seem to be imprinted in his mind?
His heart moved and he bit the tip of his tongue. He felt a burst of strength all over his body. When he blinked his eyes, he found that several people were indeed safe and sound in the room just now. However, although a few people were asleep, their expressions were very painful. They must have been hit by some kind of magic.
Hei Li drew Shouhou's short knife and pierced the tip of their tongues one by one, which made them wake up.
"So that's it..." The third prince sighed for a while. The scene of life and death just now was so real that he almost fell into reincarnation and couldn't extricate himself. "Why are the two of them missing?"
"I just saw you, Third Prince, looking ferocious and muttering water... water..., so I asked them to go find water." Heili said.
"Water...isn't there water in this yard?"
"We may have encountered such a strange thing just now because we used the water in Shancheng. It's better to be careful." Shou Hou helped the third prince and whispered.
"That's true." The third prince nodded, walked to the window, and suddenly frowned and muttered: "Did you hear the bell? Where did it come from?"
"Bell?" Heili quickly walked to the window and pushed the window open a small crack. Only then did he hear the sound of the bell that appeared at an unknown time, faintly appearing and disappearing.
"Tap tap tap..." On the bluestone road outside the courtyard, a few light footsteps came from a distance. Although the sound was not loud, it was very dense. In a blink of an eye, they came to the yard and rushed into the house.
The two people were walking in a hurry and looked gloomy. The man among them had a big bag on his head. They were Jin Zhu Pei Hu who had left before. Seeing that the third prince had woken up, he also looked happy, and then hurriedly ducked into the house, quickly closed the door, and breathed heavily.
"Crazy woman, Pei Hu? What's going on with you? It seems like you are being chased by a ghost." Shou Hou looked at the outside and saw that there was no danger, and then he made a joke.
Normally, Jin Zhuer would have had to punish Shouhou again, but this time, unusually, he did not reprimand him, but nodded solemnly.
"Crazy woman... don't scare people! Pei Hu, tell me!" Shou Hou felt a chill on the back of his neck and quickly closed the window.
"What she said is true..." Pei Hu looked a little solemn, swallowed and whispered.
"Just now we were thinking that since there might be a problem with the water in the city, we had to go outside the city and ask those people where the water source was... But when we came to the city gate, we found that the two wooden sculptures had disappeared out of thin air!"
"Looking at the dark corridor, we suspected that someone was ambushing us, so we quietly jumped from a big tree on the edge of the city to the city wall... But when we looked up, the people who had just descended from Shan City had also disappeared..."
"How is it possible...those people have no ability to move? It's impossible that they didn't leave any traces, right?" the third prince asked.
"Yes! Third Prince, of course we can't believe it. We just assumed they had gathered somewhere to hide at night, but the closest place was the mountain we visited before... and we didn't leave any traces along the road... We wanted to go out to check, but were blocked by an invisible wall. We had no choice but to come back..."
"Invisible wall? Are you too nervous?" Shou Hou waved his hand, "Maybe they temporarily moved their position, bypassed Xiashan City, and hid on that Luozhong Mountain..."
"It's possible... but what's really strange is when we came back! After all, the Third Prince's condition was unknown when we left, and we quickened our pace when we came back. Although our qinggong is not as good as Heili's, we won't be easily beaten by others. I noticed, but the footsteps kept clicking on the way back..."
"At first, I thought it was Pei Hu who was neglecting his cultivation, so I taught him a lesson..." Jin Zhuer glanced at the top of Pei Hu's head in embarrassment.
"But when we stopped, we realized that the footsteps came from the corner not far behind us... At first we thought we were being followed, so we pretended not to hear and led our steps into a straight alley, preparing to fight Pei Hu will attack from both sides and get rid of them! But..." Jin Zhuer hugged her body tightly and bit her lip.
"What I didn't expect was..." Pei Hu shivered when he saw Jin Zhuer was silent, "When we led the sound into the alley... we found... there was no sign of anyone between the two of us. , only the patter of footsteps..."
"It's fine if it's a human being, but it's fine if it's a monster. This ghost... I haven't seen it since I was a child!" Pei Hu said with a sad face and his voice trembled.
"Then what?" Heili frowned.
"Then...we ran away."
"Could it be that the footsteps just now... were terrible!" Heili remembered the dense footsteps and suddenly shouted that something was wrong. He quickly grabbed the table, blocked the door, and then bolted the window firmly.
"Heili... why are you so nervous? We went around a few more times to avoid being caught up!" Pei Hu felt slightly proud.
"Then what happened to those footsteps when you came back?" Shou Hou became restless.
"Ah?" Pei Hu looked surprised. He was so panicked that he neglected it for a moment.
Deathly silence returned to the room again. Occasionally, the sound of swallowing hard due to nervousness could be heard. Ten eyes stared at the door intently.
"Heili... Did you hear it wrong? There was some noise somewhere!" Pei Hu tensed up, sweating profusely from nervousness, and finally couldn't hold it in anymore.
"Knock, knock, knock!" But before he finished speaking, he heard a knock on the door, which immediately made several people furious.
"Knock knock...dong...dong...bang bang bang!" The knocking on the door was rhythmic at first, but then gradually became violent and turned into a very powerful banging on the door, like knocking on everyone's heart. superior.
"What...what are these things?" The third prince could only see shadows on the door constantly hitting the door panel, and some even had their faces pressed hard against the window. It seemed that they were trying to see clearly inside. situation.
"Third Prince, can you see this thing?" Heili was very confused. The third prince has never practiced martial arts, so why is his sense so keen? He was actually aware of the sound of the bell just now and the ghostly shadow now.
"Can't you see these shadows?" The third prince was stunned for a moment and suddenly remembered something.
He pulled a chair, placed the package that Yuan Chu had given him before, then walked away a few steps and looked up at the door.
"As expected!" The third prince's eyes lit up, "Brother Yuan asked me to hand over the contents of the package to Brother Wufan before, so I didn't even think about opening it and kept it with me... No wonder my previous dream was so real. Now that I can see this again...the problem is indeed in this package!"
After hearing this, Heili and the others also touched the package one after another. Sure enough, when they touched the package, those struggling shadows appeared in front of them, and as soon as they put down the package, there was only the sound of banging on the door in their ears.
"Brother Wu Fan, although Brother Yuan asked me to deliver this package to you... but the current situation is critical, I have no choice but to borrow it, and it will be delivered to you intact in the future!" The third prince opened the package as he muttered.
The package was opened, and something tightly wrapped in yellow paper appeared in front of several people. The third prince carefully opened the yellow paper and found that there was a crumpled fruit inside.
"This..." The third prince was stunned, thinking that Brother Yuan was not joking. What is so strange about this fruit? But there was nothing else in the package except the fruit, which made the third prince fall into deep contemplation.
"Is it possible that you can see ghosts after eating this fruit?" Shouhou scratched his head.
The third prince happened to be a little thirsty at this time, so he looked at Guozi and swallowed. Anyway, Brother Wufan's life and death are uncertain now. Even if he can be resurrected in the future, the fruit will probably rot early. At worst, leave the core for him to plant a fruit tree!
The third prince thought this way, and under the nervous gazes of the four people, he took a bite of the fruit without hesitation. After a moment, his expression changed and his voice couldn't stop trembling.
"This fruit...uh..."
