Chapter 46 Water Ghost
"A Leng, what you saw last night was jumping around in the village branch. Is it the person just now?" Miss Bai asked nervously.
"I don't know." I shook my head and gritted my teeth, "Let's go, let's go to the room to take a look."
After the villagers ran away, the ground was covered with shovels and wooden sticks. Miss Bai also said that so many people would not have any accidents at night, but as a result, these people even threw away their "weapons" when they encountered problems.
I pulled out the Seven Star Sword and handed it to Miss Bai. I took a stick myself. The two of them turned over the low wall and came to the yard. There were many empty houses in Gaojia Village, and no one lived in the house in front of me. The grass was as high as waist-high. The dense branches and leaves of several old trees were clustered together, covering the entire yard, making it even more deserted and gloomy.
There was a wooden ladder standing on the wall of the house, which was almost broken. When I stepped on it, I squeaked and squeaked. I walked on the ladder carefully and came to the roof, but I didn't see anyone at all.
The roof of this kind of earthen house was wet and sticky when the rain was poured on. When people stepped on it, they would sank down. Every time they stepped on it, they would leave a deep footprint. With the feeling, I carefully came to the position where the man had stood before, squatted down and checked carefully, and I saw many mixed and shallow marks. Those marks were very messy and were definitely not human footprints. Could it be that the person just now was the water ghost who scared Gao Xiaowen to death last night? These were the footprints of the water ghost?... As for whether it was the thing I saw jumping around last night, I was not sure.
I stood up, looked around, muttering, "This house is too short." Suddenly, my neck was touched by a branch. I was startled. I turned around and looked at the trunks on the high place. I patted my legs and said to Miss Bai, "Yuxin, you are waiting here. I climbed onto the top of the tree to see if I could find out where that thing was."
I pushed away the branches that stretched to the roof, shone them with a flashlight, aimed at a thick branch that was about to jump up, but Miss Bai stopped me.
"Silly guy, don't jump, come with me."
Miss Bai pulled me to a place on the roof with a wide view and no trees blocked me. She pointed to the distance and said, "The mountain behind the village is much taller than the tree, why do you have to climb trees?"
"Yes." I patted my forehead.
"You are just stupid."
I smiled "hehe". After I found that the thing was always in this village, Miss Bai and I didn't feel scared, but were both very excited. If this thing was the water ghost that scared Gao Xiaowen to death, then it must have some connection with the thing that kidnapped Yang Shujun. As long as I catch it, you may know where Yang Shujun was captured.
I was scolded by the villagers before, and I was worried that I had no place to vent my feelings.
"Let's go up the mountain, no matter what it is, I must find it and kill it!"
I took Miss Bai's hand and was about to leave.
"Hero, even if you want to go up the mountain, you have to get off the room first. If you pull me like this, how can the two of you go down and jump down?"
"Hmm?" I was stunned, looked down, and said with a smile, "I forgot to be on the roof."
We got off the house and walked very quickly. We soon left the village. We walked around the Gao family's ancestral tomb and walked up the path that the villagers stepped out on the side of the mountain. Soon we arrived halfway up the mountain.
Looking down, you can see Gaojia Village. In the darkness, houses look like black urns, and the reed marsh in front of the village looks like a large field of mature wheat.
"A Leng, look, there is lights there." Miss Bai pointed to a place in the village and said.
I looked over and found that there was indeed a light coming out of a house, flickering and dark, like a ghost fire.
"Strange, who is this family? Why don't you sleep so late... Oh, I remember it, it's the village chief who is replenishing the boat for us!"
"Yes, that's right." said Miss Bai, "But, A Leng, the village is so dark and you can't see anything clearly here. How do you find that thing?"
"The mountain man has his own tricks."
I smiled slightly, took out a four-way divine talisman from my arms, and spread it out, and saw a mud and water mark on the back of the talisman paper. Previously, when I was on the roof of the house, I put this talisman on the place where the thing was settled and printed its "footprints" on the talisman paper. Because I turned my back to Miss Bai at that time, she did not see it. At that time, when we went to Taihang Mountain to look for Yang Niansheng, the uncle of Yang Shujun, because Yang Niansheng was exiled for too long, and without his birth date, he could not start a game, so we could only go to the place where Yang Niansheng was exiled to find a "like image" for divination. Now, we don't know what that thing is, nor can we start a game where it went, but it left footprints on the roof, and these "footprints" were equivalent to "like image".
I held the talisman paper with my right hand and shook it suddenly, and the talisman paper became straight and faced us.
Then, I slowly pinched a sword finger with my left hand, and my fingertips were facing the center of the talisman paper. I turned my right wrist and first let the back of the talisman paper face the reed marsh in front of Gaojia Village. I took a deep breath and silently recited the magic spells in all directions. Seeing that the talisman paper had not changed, I turned my wrist to adjust the angle, and the back of the talisman paper faced the houses in the village. From front to the village, and then to the end of the village, when the back of the talisman paper faced a certain place at the end of the village, suddenly, the talisman paper seemed to become transparent, and the "footprints" originally printed on the back slowly appeared on the front!…
"It's here!"
I put away the talisman paper and pointed at the village. It turned out to be the place where the lights were on in the village we saw before! Could this ghost guy have gone to the village chief?!…
"Let's go and have a look!"
Miss Bai and I rushed back to the village and finally arrived at the house. They walked lightly in front of the house. I first raised my head and looked at the roof, but saw nothing. The door was open, and the light was still on inside. I listened with my ears, and there was no movement in the room.
I had already thrown my previous bold words out of the sky, took out two lonely and empty divine talismans, and held them in my hands with Miss Bai. The two of them held their breath and walked into the room lightly...
As soon as I arrived at the door of the house, a sudden thunder sounded in the room, which scared the two of us. I raised my hand and was about to smash the talisman in the direction of thunder, an old man suddenly stood up from behind the pile of waste, and the three of them shouted at the same time.
This old man is the village chief. The thunder we heard before was sneezing.
"I'm so scared. Why are you two running back when you don't sleep?" the old man asked while patting his chest.
After seeing clearly that it was the village elder, I breathed a sigh of relief and looked around the house first, and then I told the old man about our previous experience and the reasons for our coming.
"You mean, that thing came here to me?" the old man asked in horror.
"It seems that I don't know where I've been running now." I sighed, "Master, this kind of talisman is very powerful, please lend it to you for self-defense."
I threw the Guxu divine talisman in my hand to the old man and pulled Miss Bai out of the house.
"A Leng, what should I do?" asked Ms. Bai.
I shook my head and smiled bitterly, "What can I do? Keep looking for it, this ghost seems to be playing hide-and-seek with us..."
"Pu" suddenly, a drop of raindrops fell from above and fell on Miss Bai's head, and it actually condensed there.
"Don't move."
After saying that, I reached out and brushed the raindrops into the palm of my hand. As soon as I started, the raindrops melted immediately, and it was very cool. When I was about to shake off the rainwater in my hand, I suddenly felt something was wrong. After the rain absorbed the temperature in my palm, it became sticky. I hurriedly shone with a flashlight and saw that there was a lot of mud in my palm.
Miss Bai and I first stared at each other, then raised our heads and looked upwards. Under the flashlight, we saw a person standing motionless on the tree trunk above!
"Who?!"
I flew up and kicked the tree. As the tree swayed violently, the rain fell down like hail. The water in the yard was hazy. After the first kick, I immediately kicked it. The man "Hola" jumped off the tree and landed about two or three meters away from us.
I didn't bother to wipe the rain from my face, so I took the Seven Star Sword from Miss Bai and pulled her behind me. I held the Seven Star Sword tightly and raised the flashlight to shine at the man. When I saw the man's appearance clearly, I almost jumped up with a strange scream.
This man looked so terrifying, a kind of terrifying that cannot be described in words. Although the evil evil he saw in Yang Shujun's village was rotten and swollen, he was somewhat human-like, and the person in front of him didn't even look like a human-like person.
This man was wearing a big dress, a hat on his head, a big hole in his face, and a bunch of mud-like things were clustered in the hole. It seemed that something was still in the mud, and it was squirming...
Is this the water ghost? Judging from the clothes of this ‘man’, the thing I saw jumping around last night should be it.
The village elder ran out of the house when he heard the movement. After seeing the appearance of this "person", he was frightened and stayed there.
I stared at the "person" in front of me, and didn't even dare to blink my eyes. Goosebumps on my body came over and over again. After a while, I and that "person" stood in front of me. It didn't move, and I didn't dare to move. My lonely and empty talisman was given to the old man, and I didn't dare to reach out to take it out in my pocket.
Suddenly, something jumped out of the grass nest in the yard and rushed towards the "man". It turned out to be the fox that we had rescued before! As the fox howled, bit the sleeve of the "man", the "man" jumped up violently, but the fox grabbed the sleeve and couldn't jump up at all. Then a dog barking, and Xiao Hei also jumped out of the place where the fox had jumped out before, biting the other sleeve of the "man".
A dog and a fox bit the sleeves of the man tightly and pulled them to both sides. With a sound of "chilala", the man's clothes were pulled open.
Chapter completed!