Withdrawing his gaze from looking at the night sky, Qin Shaoyou divided the people into two teams.
"Everyone should work harder tonight and rest in two shifts. Monk Ma and I will lead a few people to stay on guard for the rest of the night, and Zhu Xiucai will lead the rest of the people to stay on duty for the rest of the night."
"Yes." The horse monk and the warriors accepted the order in a low voice, and immediately took off the equipment one by one from the horse and placed it in the sleeping place to prepare for the night's watch.
Soon, Zhu Xiucai, who was inspecting the statue, came back.
"How's it going? Did you find anything?" Qin Shaoyou asked.
Zhu Xiucai shook his head: "I walked around the statue several times, but found nothing and didn't sense any danger.
I also asked a few caravan guys who had stayed here to inquire, and they said that the statues had been there since the Wujiabao was built, but they couldn’t tell the identity of the statues..."
This result was within Qin Shaoyou's expectation, and he was not too disappointed. Instead, he informed Zhu Xiucai of the night watch plan he had just decided.
Zhu Xiucai naturally had no objection.
After drinking cold water and eating dry food, Zhu Xiucai and the strongman who was responsible for guarding in the second half of the night wrapped themselves in blankets and lay down on the brown blanket.
They should seize the time to sleep and recharge themselves for the duty in the middle of the night.
However, even when they are sleeping, they are always close to their bodies, and if there is a situation, they can immediately go into battle.
The people who had been watching for half the night also wrapped themselves in blankets and sat down against the earth wall.
Several people seemed to be taking a nap, but in fact their eyes were constantly looking around, full of vigilance.
Monk Ma took out a string of Buddhist beads and began to meditate and chant sutras.
Qin Shaoyou glanced at the statues, took the sword, went to the corner behind the team, and began to practice the sword.
If you want to survive in this world and live longer, you can only be constantly prepared and practice diligently.
Even if he has a mysterious recipe, he still can't slack off at all.
We must work hard to improve our strength!
Of course, since he was away from home after all, he practiced for a while and then gave up, leaving enough strength to deal with emergencies that might arise.
After a while, the caravans and travelers on the other side of the pergola fell asleep one after another.
They also arranged for people to keep vigil at night. They were all guards with knives and sticks, and most of them seemed to be in the ninth-level blood energy realm.
Wujiabao gradually became quieter.
In addition to the night wind blowing the surrounding torches, there was only the sound of snoring one after another.
At this moment, Qin Shaoyou and the others still found nothing.
Time soon came to midnight.
The night is getting darker and darker.
Qin Shaoyou had already finished practicing his sword. He was wrapped in a blanket and leaning against the earth wall, with a shield placed under his butt.
This will make him feel safe.
Suddenly, Qin Shaoyou, who had always been sober, felt intensely tired for no reason.
His head became groggy and his eyelids became heavy. After yawning, he fell asleep directly against the earth wall.
However, he only slept for a few seconds before Qin Shaoyou suddenly woke up and opened his eyes.
"Why did I fall asleep?" He was full of surprise.
Ordinarily, with his cultivation in the Muscle and Bone Realm, he could survive no matter how sleepy he was. What's more, he wasn't very sleepy just now, so why did he fall asleep inexplicably?
Looking at Monk Ma and the others next to him, they all fell into a strange deep sleep, each snoring louder than the other. How could Qin Shaoyou not understand?
Something must have hypnotized them, so they suddenly fell asleep collectively.
Qin Shaoyou was able to wake up. In addition to being sensitive to danger, he should have eaten a lot of purple snow cold silk in the past few days, which strengthened his mental resistance and allowed him to recover quickly after being hypnotized.
Qin Shaoyou, who was secretly complaining, was about to wake up Monk Ma, Zhu Xiucai and others when he suddenly saw a series of black shadows in the darkness. They came out of the statue and quietly pounced on the statue where they were staying for the night. of people.
There was a dark shadow among them, rushing straight towards them.
"There is indeed something wrong with this place!"
Qin Shaoyou cursed secretly in his heart, and temporarily gave up his plan to wake up Monk Ma, Zhu Xiucai and others, so as not to alarm the snake and prepare for the approaching black shadow.
He narrowed his eyes slightly and pretended to be sleeping, but his hand wrapped in the blanket secretly clenched the knife in his arms, holding his breath, waiting for the opportunity to attack.
The corner where Qin Shaoyou and the others were staying was far away from the statue. While the black shadow that pounced on them was still on the road, several other black shadows had already arrived in front of the caravans and travelers around the pergola.
The black shadows swayed and changed into human shapes.
Just because the distance was too far and the light was too dark, Qin Shaoyou couldn't see the specific changes in them.
After the black shadow transformed into a human form, it woke up the sleeping people and asked them in a very strange and scary tone:
"Do you think I look like a human being or a god?"
Is this a request for closure?
Qin Shaoyou had a thought in his mind.
He had heard the stories of those who wanted to be sealed.
Legend has it that after an animal reaches a certain level of cultivation, it will come to ask for a title.
If you say it is like a god, then its cultivation will be greatly improved, but you will have to bear the karma, pay the price, and even drag down your family.
And if you say it looks like a human being, it will ruin its practice, and it will be entangled with its hatred from now on, and it will be difficult to have good results.
However, the feudal fight that took place in Wujiabao was different from the legends Qin Shaoyou had heard.
People awakened by the black shadow obviously have mental problems, and they all look confused.
When they heard the shadow's question, they either answered: "Like a god." or muttered: "Like a human being."
The answer was human, and a dark shadow would immediately penetrate his body from his open mouth.
After a while, when the black shadow comes out again, the original living person will be reduced to just a piece of skin.
Flesh, flesh, organs, even bones, etc. were all devoured by the black shadow.
And those who answer "like gods" will also have black shadows piercing their bodies.
It's just that when the black shadow comes out, he will not be reduced to a human skin, and he can even move as if he is not affected.
But if you look closely, you will find that there is no blood on these people's bodies.
The skin and flesh were pale and withered, but all the blood in the body was sucked dry by the black shadow, turning it into a corpse puppet controlled by it!
When these black shadows ask for a seal, no matter whether the answer is a human or a god, the result is death and they will be eaten by them.
The only difference is whether they will be enslaved and controlled by them after death.
In the blink of an eye, the dark shadow rushing towards Qin Shaoyou and the others also arrived.
With the faint firelight on the earthen wall, Qin Shaoyou could clearly see what the black shadow looked like after it turned into a human form.
He was a thin, short old man with sinister eyebrows and a hunched body. His face was full of wrinkles and he had a small mustache on his lips.
It ignored Zhu Xiucai, Monk Ma and others who were really sleeping, but focused on Qin Shaoyou who was pretending to sleep.
The thin old man smiled sinisterly and blew out a breath of black air.
Qin Shaoyou suddenly felt a bone-chilling coldness pouring into his body. He shivered from the cold, and his mind seemed to be frozen, becoming sluggish and dazed.
Fortunately, the next second, Qin Shaoyou returned to normal.
Zixue Liangsi once again made meritorious service!
The thin old man did not notice that Qin Shaoyou was awake.
It opened its mouth, revealing a pair of yellow and bloodshot fangs, and asked with a strange accent and a sinister smile:
"Young man, look at me, do I look like a human being or do I look like a god?"
Qin Shaoyou pretended to be delirious and muttered:
"I think you look like..."
"like what?"
The short and thin old man couldn't hear clearly what Qin Shaoyou was mumbling, so he subconsciously moved closer.
"Like a dish!"
Qin Shaoyou suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were as wide as a tiger's, his blood was fierce, and he didn't look at all like he was unconscious.
