There were footsteps on the stairs, one heavy and one light. It was obviously two people going downstairs.
With no time left, Huan Xiao used the screen light of his mobile phone to circle around the wall. Suddenly his eyes lit up and he found a place where he could hide someone.
Under the urging gaze of the eyebrowless man, Huanxiao pointed to the place she found and motioned for the eyebrowless man to come over.
Following the direction of Huan Xiao's index finger, the eyebrowless man also saw that place.
Seeing such a favorable position for Tibetans, the eyebrowless man's eyes instantly lit up and he gave Huanxiao a thumbs up.
Seeing that he was still in the mood to praise others, Huan Xiao urged him with gestures to hurry up.
Huanxiao, on the other hand, walked to a position symmetrical to that place and hid.
"Tap, step" "Tap, step"
The footsteps gradually approached, and it only took a minute for them to come down.
The owners of the two footsteps did not speak, but slowed down and approached the pile of bones.
The dazzling lights turned back and forth on the black wall, and the temperature in the air was extremely low, as if it was winter.
The sound of heavy breathing came from the basement. Li Dashi couldn't hold it in any longer and said:
"...Uncle Zhang, there is no one here. Maybe some villagers secretly came down and threw bones before. Some people caught the fragrant pig and didn't tell us. Maybe they were afraid that we would find out that they were eating it?"
"Keep looking! Don't be greedy for this little time. This matter is of great importance and you can't be careless!"
Uncle Zhang's cold and stern voice echoed in the basement, and it took a long time for the echo to disappear.
Li Da knew that Xiao Jiujiu, who was afraid of trouble and didn't want to move, was exposed. He smiled sarcastically and continued to walk around with the flashlight.
The white bones were reflected in their eyes. Uncle Li and Uncle Zhang were already used to it, and they were accustomed to the existence of piles of bones and talismans on the wall.
They walked around the pile of bones several times, but didn't see a single person.
Seeing this, Li Da smiled flatteringly at Uncle Zhang and said:
"Uncle Zhang, look, there's no one here... Someone else must have secretly come down to dump the bones. Let's go back and ask the others?"
Unexpectedly, Uncle Zhang directly grabbed Li's flashlight and shined it into some hidden corners where people could easily hide.
Seeing Uncle Zhang searching carefully, Uncle Li hunched his shoulders and did not dare to have any questions.
...After a while, Uncle Zhang threw the flashlight back into Uncle Li's hand and said:
"Let's go, go back and ask them. If it's really who ate the fragrant meat, they should also tell us... After all, now that outsiders are here, the village can't be as casual as before."
"Ah, yes, yes, when we have a meat feast tomorrow, I will ask them one by one."
"Do you still have fragrant pigs to eat?"
"That's for sure. You saw it too. Today..."
The footsteps of Mr. Li and Mr. Zhang gradually faded away.
With a bang, the basement door closed.
The bright light disappeared, and the basement returned to pitch-black darkness. My eyes could not see anything other than black.
After a long time, a voice came from the darkness.
"……gone?"
"Let's go, you can come down now"
After Huan Xiao finished speaking, he added:
"Both footsteps left, they probably didn't see us."
As soon as she finished speaking, a light that was not too strong appeared in the basement.
It’s the light of the eyebrowless man’s flashlight.
I saw the two of them standing four or five meters high in the air like two octopus monsters, with black stone pillars on both sides.
With the light, Huan Xiao controlled the ghost energy and let himself slide down little by little.
Just now, she relied on ghost energy to climb to such a high place in just a few dozen seconds.
The eyebrowless man came down and praised:
"Girl, you're awesome. I was worried just now that you wouldn't be able to get up. I didn't expect your arm strength to be so good. It seems like I was worried in vain."
"No, to be honest, I didn't expect that I could climb so high."
Huan Xiao waved her hands modestly.
After jumping off the ground, the eyebrowless man looked back at the place where he had just been hiding, and said with emotion:
"I didn't even expect to be able to crawl up there and hide. No one would have thought that we were not on the ground, but in the air. Hahahaha, the two of them couldn't use their eyes very well. When they scanned me with their flashlight just now, I almost I thought they had been discovered, but they didn’t even pause and just ignored me!”
Seeing that he was so optimistic, Huan Xiao said silently, yes, if she hadn't used ghost energy to cover them both, Li Da and the others might have discovered her just now.
That Uncle Zhang was so vigilant and attentive that he only wanted to leave after looking for him for so long.
However, the eyebrowless man obviously did not suspect Huan Xiao. He just thought that the two of them had escaped through pure luck.
The two planned to wait in the basement and wait until Li Da and the others were gone before they went out.
Huan Xiao was bored, so she stared at the talisman paper posted on the wall carefully.
The runes on it seemed to be written in blood, with red characters on a white background, which for no reason reminded her of the many ghosts that appeared at night.
There are so many ghosts at night, but the villagers of Huai Village can live in an orderly manner until now. There must be something fishy about them!
But unexpectedly, when Huanxiao looked at the eyebrowless man again, she found that he had something fastened to the wall.
Seeing this, Huan Xiao walked behind him and asked:
"Dazhuang, what are you doing?"
"Put on the talisman paper. Just now you were able to put it on, but I didn't believe that I couldn't, so I decided to try again."
At this moment, Huan Xiao saw clearly that the eyebrowless man was actually holding the talisman paper!
"..."
Huanxiao was silent for a while. In her impression, it was not like a man without eyebrows would do such a thing to actively provoke danger!
I didn't notice for a moment, what happened to him! ?
"Didn't you just say that these talismans might be used to suppress evil spirits? If you take them away, it would be dangerous. So, what are you doing now?"
Huan Xiao's question made the eyebrowless man startled. He suddenly seemed to have come back to his senses and muttered to himself blankly:
"...Yes, why do I suddenly want to take these talismans?"
He thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out.
After a few more seconds, he suddenly threw the talisman to the ground as if he was electrocuted, and said to Huan Xiao in horror:
"Something's wrong, something's very wrong! I feel like something has invaded my mind, and it keeps tempting me to tear off the talismans on the wall... No, let's go, let's get out of here!"
After saying that, he didn't even have time to care about the talisman falling on the ground, and ran out crawling on the ground.
Huan Xiao, who stayed where he was, glanced at the eyebrowless man who was running away, then at the talisman paper that no longer had any ghost energy, and followed him out.
After walking up a long staircase, the two quickly arrived at the entrance to the basement.
Looking at the opaque wooden board above the head, one can tell that Li Da and the others re-buried the soil when they went out.
The eyebrowless man, whose IQ had returned, leaned against the wooden board and listened to the sounds outside. He listened quietly for about five minutes before nodding to Huanxiao and saying:
"There's no one outside, sister, I opened it, please get out of the way"
"good"
Huan Xiao took a step back.
As far as the eye can see, as the wooden board is pushed forward, light and soil are scattered down at the same time.
Fortunately, the two of them were far away and there was no dirt on them.
The eyebrowless man went out and felt relieved when he saw no one outside.
After Huan Xiao came out, the eyebrowless man buried the entrance to the basement with soil, and then left calmly with Huan Xiao.
