lantern!
A lantern as bright red as blood.
They kept swaying in the breeze, like lonely ghosts floating in the air.
The village is very quiet.
There was no sound.
Even when there were three of us in a car, we just barged in grandly without a single bark.
The off-road vehicle drove along the village path for a while, and the road began to gradually become narrower, so Hua Muling slowly stopped the car on the side of the road.
I opened the door and got out of the car, threw the cigarette in my hand on the ground, and stamped it out.
Looking at the strange scene in front of me, I couldn't help but ask: "Fourth girl, where is this place?"
Hua Muling shook her head and said, "I don't know either! But the navigation shows that this is the place we are looking for..."
Xiong Ming suddenly said from the side: "This place seems to be called Duoqu!"
I looked at Xiong Ming and asked, "How do you know?"
Xiong Ming pointed to a large stone on the side of the road and said, "That's what it says on it!"
I walked over and took a look, and sure enough, there were two big characters written in red paint on it, "Duoqu".
I licked my teeth and said, "Maybe this place is really called Duoqu."
Xiong Ming was a little unhappy. He rolled his eyes at me and said, "What is maybe? What's wrong? What I found is maybe, and what you find is the truth?"
Seeing that Xiong Ming and I were about to quarrel again, Hua Muling shouted from the side: "Okay! Are you two done? How come you can bicker at all times? A three-year-old?"
Xiong Ming spat at me and said nothing more.
And I smiled, turned around and said to Hua Muling: "Did your second brother tell you, how are you going to find that Gesang Jin when you get here?"
Hua Muling shook her head and said, "No! The signal on his end was very poor, and it was disconnected after a few words. And when I called again, I couldn't get through."
I frowned and said, "This is strange. Let us come here without telling where the old man named Kelsang Jin is. How can we find him? Should we knock on the door and ask people if they are Kelsang Jin?" "
Xiong Ming interrupted and said: "Hu Tian! Although you are not very reliable most of the time, I am firmly on your side this time. There is not even a clue, how can we find it?"
"Who is where?"
Just when Xiong Ming said this, I suddenly saw a person standing in the shadow not far in front of us.
I saw that the man was wearing a dark blue coarse cloth with many Tibetan patterns embroidered on it.
This person is not tall and has a very thin body. She is so thin that it seems like two ounces of wind could blow her away.
In addition, although I couldn't see clearly what she looked like, I could tell that her hair was very long, with many braids swaying in the wind. She looked like a little girl.
When the little girl saw us looking towards her, she raised her hand and waved to us.
After seeing this little girl, the three of us were stunned.
Xiong Ming cleared his throat, pretending to be gentle and shouted to the little girl: "Hey! Whose child are you from? Come, uncle, let me ask you about someone..."
But who would have thought that before Xiong Ming finished speaking, the little girl suddenly flashed and ran into the village.
Xiong Ming was stunned for a moment, then looked at me and asked, "Hu Tian, what should I do?"
I glanced at the direction where the little girl disappeared, and then looked at Xiong Ming. I sighed helplessly and said, "It's probably because the little girl had to urinate urgently in the middle of the night and got up to go to the toilet. As a result, she didn't go to the toilet, but she met her. You weird uncle."
Xiong Ming stared and said, "Grandma! You are the weird uncle! Your whole family is a weird uncle!"
I didn't argue with Xiong Ming, but said with a smile: "You idiot! Didn't you see that little girl waving to us? Maybe that Kelsang Jin already knew that we were coming here to find him, so he asked the little girl Waiting for us here.”
Hua Muling frowned and said, "Although what you said makes sense. But I always feel that something is not right about this place."
I sighed: "This is not the only place we've encountered that hasn't been right lately. As the saying goes, if there are too many lice, don't be afraid of them. Once they come, take care of them. Come on, let's follow and have a look."
After that, I will walk into the village.
But Hua Muling grabbed me and said, "Hu Tian, I think we'd better not be too impulsive."
And while Hua Muling and I were talking, Xiong Ming suddenly exclaimed.
Hua Muling and I were startled when we heard the sound and hurriedly looked towards Xiong Ming.
Xiong Ming pointed to the back seat of the off-road vehicle and said tremblingly: "Niya...Niya is missing!"
"What? Niya is missing?" Hua Muling and I blurted out these words almost at the same time.
Then, I rushed to the off-road vehicle and saw the empty back seat with the door open and the shadow of Xiao Niya everywhere.
I looked at Xiong Ming and Hua Muling and said, "When did she disappear?"
Xiong Ming shook his head and said anxiously: "I don't know! He was still in the back seat of the car just now, but he disappeared in the blink of an eye."
Hua Muling said: "Could she have gone elsewhere? Or..."
Hua Muling didn't say anything anymore, because at this moment, the little girl who ran away before turned back.
This time, the little girl stood under the red lantern of a house not far away, and the blood-red light enveloped her.
The little girl was still waving to us, and when I saw the little girl's face clearly, I couldn't help but take a breath, because the person standing under the lantern at this time was none other than Xiao Niya.
However, at this time, Niya seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit, her eyes were as dark as ink, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and she was muttering something silently.
Xiaonia spoke very fast and in a language I couldn't understand at all. It sounded like she was singing or reciting some ancient scripture.
When Xiong Ming saw this, he shouted in surprise: "Xiao Niya, what are you doing? When did you run out, you girl? Do you know you want to scare me to death?"
With that said, Xiong Ming strode towards Xiao Niya, reaching out to grab Xiao Niya's arm.
But at this moment, Xiao Niya turned around and burrowed under Xiong Ming's arm like a fish.
Xiong Ming failed to catch Xiao Niya at the first try, and turned around to grab Niya's wrist.
But who would have thought that Xiao Niya suddenly started to vomit heavily, and black liquid spurted out from her mouth one after another, landing not far in front of Xiong Ming.
Xiong Ming subconsciously took two steps back, but at this moment, pale yellow flowers faintly grew out of the dark ink-like vomit.
Hua Muling said in surprise: "This is... this is a mandala flower! It seems that this flower is about to take root in Niya's body. If that's the case..."
I didn't let Hua Muling finish speaking, and rushed forward to catch Niya who was about to fall due to exhaustion.
I held Niya in my arms, looked at Hua Muling and asked anxiously: "How long do we have?"
Hua Muling said: "About four hours!"
Xiong Ming said from the side: "What? Four hours? Didn't you say it was nearly a day before? Why is it only four hours now?"
I said from the side: "Dali Bear, please shut up first!"
After saying this, I turned to Hua Muling and asked, "If the poison of this mandala cannot be detoxified in four hours, what will happen to Xiaonia?"
Hua Muling gritted her teeth and thought for a long time before finally spitting out one word: "Death!"
After hearing Hua Muling's words, Xiong Ming angrily kicked the courtyard wall of the house next to him. However, he had a good sleep. He only heard a "crash" and the white courtyard wall was kicked by Xiong Ming. A big piece collapsed.
Xiong Ming looked angrily at the collapsed wall in front of him, spit, and said, "Why is the wall here so weak? It broke like this with just a light touch?"
I looked at Xiong Ming and was about to say something, but I heard an old voice not far behind me.
This person's accent was very strange, and his Mandarin was rather blunt, but his meaning was very clear, "Because this place in Duoqu is not meant for people to live in."
Hearing this sound, the three of us couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly turned around and looked in the direction of the sound.
I saw an old man with gray hair and ragged clothes standing under a wall not far away and looking at us.
This old man was very slovenly, and his whole body was dirty. He was wearing a felt blanket that seemed to have not been washed in several years, and he looked like an elder of a beggar gang.
But such an old man was holding a crutch made entirely of gold, with a ruby bigger than his fist inlaid on the head of the crutch.
The gems glowed under the light of the lantern, and there was a faint dragon swimming inside.
Looking at the weird old man in front of me, I couldn't help but frown and asked, "Who are you?"
The sloppy old man didn't answer when he heard my question. Instead, he walked over step by step with a cane.
When he walked in front of me, the sloppy old man leaned down slightly and gently placed his index and middle fingers on the artery in Xiao Niya's neck.
When Xiong Ming saw the sloppy old man "touching" Niya, he was the first to quit. He stood up and said loudly: "Hey! Old man, what the hell do you want to do?"
The sloppy old man glanced at Xiong Ming out of the corner of his eye and did not answer. Instead, he concentrated on taking Niya's pulse.
This sloppy old man's method of feeling the pulse is very special, and it's different from the method I've seen before from the Ghost Doctor in the Eight Gates.
After checking our pulse for a while, the sloppy old man slowly stood up, scanned the three of us with his knife-like eyes, and finally stopped at me.
After a while, the sloppy old man said slowly: "This child can still be saved! If you want to save her, follow me!"
After saying that, the sloppy old man turned around and walked towards the entrance of the village without giving us a chance to refute.
Looking at the sloppy old man's back walking away step by step, Xiong Ming swallowed and asked, "Hu Tian, what's going on? Are you following? Or not?"
I thought for a while and then said: "Let's go! Follow and have a look! At least this is the only hope to save Xiao Niya at the moment."
