chasing shadows

Xia Ying raised her face, shook her head and said, "I'm fine, but just encountered something strange again."

As soon as Xia Ying opened her mouth, she realized that her voice was very hoarse. The puppet said in surprise, "Firefly, are you crying? You are so scared that you are crying, you are so useless."

Xia Ying wiped away the tears streaming down her chin. He knew that the despair and pain just now were definitely not his, but the feeling of that thing was passed on to him.

"My hand, what do you see?" Xia Ying raised her right wrist. Just now, his right wrist was tightly grasped by that thing, and it seemed that the whole piece of flesh had fallen off. I don't know what's going on now.

The puppet leaned to the side and looked at Xia Ying's wrist, then shook his head: "It's nothing. There's nothing strange about it."

Uncle Liu also said: "Master, what happened? I can't see anything."

Xia Ying sighed and told them exactly what happened just now.

Uncle Liu helped Xia Ying to sit on the bed, and was about to say something when he suddenly lowered his head and said in shock, "Master, half of the bed sheet was burned." Then he turned his gaze elsewhere, and found that not only the bed sheet, but also the edge of the bed, The table and even the beams of the house have traces of being burned.

The puppet grabbed Xia Ying and said, "Firefly, let's change to another inn, it's too dangerous here."

Xia Ying shook her head, "It's the same wherever I go. It won't stop looking for me just because I changed places. You know, there used to be something that followed me for five years. During these five years, I have been hiding everywhere, but I still couldn't hide it, and finally an old Taoist priest saved it."

Liu Muppets said anxiously: "Could it be, are you just waiting here for it to come again?"

Xia Ying was about to speak when she suddenly heard screams outside the window.

Uncle Liu hurried to the window, and when he saw the scene, he took a deep breath, and saw a man on fire, bumping around and laughing loudly: "Hahahaha, I'm damned, I'm damned, you too Damn it all, I'll wait for you, we're all damned!"

The onlookers screamed and hid to one side. The person who had turned into a ball of fire tried to pounce on another person, but he had just taken a few steps before falling to the ground with a "poof", motionless, which was strange. What happened was that the fire on his body burned more and more intensely, and finally, with a sound of "咻", he was completely burned, leaving only a mass of black ashes.

"Burn...the burn is gone!" Uncle Liu was so frightened that his voice became sharp. The puppet was too short, but he jumped around on his feet, so he had to see clearly. Xia Ying said: "Master, just now a person downstairs was burned to death."

Xia Ying was startled. He came to the window and listened to the discussion of people outside the window.

"Hey, I knew it would be like this. A few days ago, I saw him talking about meeting the man in white who was divining. The man in white said he was guilty, he deserved to die, and he should be burned. I couldn't persuade him at that time, so I Knowing that Liu Sanchi was going to be like that Shorty Yang again, he was about to burn himself. But, I didn't expect it to be so soon." A middle-aged man who was watching shook his head and sighed.

A weak old man poked the ground with his stick and cried: "Sin! Sin! How many more people will be burned to death! This is his retribution for us! It is his evil spirit who came to take revenge on all of us coming."

The old man's words caused an uproar in the crowd, and the slightly older people showed fear on their faces.

At this time, a serious voice sounded: "Sanbo, you are confused. There are no evil spirits and monsters. It is just a coincidence. You are old, go back and rest first. The rest of the people will follow me to take Liu Sanchi's corpse." ...Pick up the ashes and bury them well."

The old man said again: "Chengzi, that evil ghost in white is him, and he wants us to pay for our lives one by one! We are all going to die, no one can live..."

Gao Cheng interrupted the old man, and said to the young man next to him, "Send Sanbo back to rest, he's tired and started talking nonsense."

The young man nodded, supported the crying old man, and whispered: "Listen to the mayor, don't think so much."

Xia Ying was standing in front of the window at the moment, hearing the voice of Gaocheng only felt familiar, Uncle Liu muttered to the side: "Unexpectedly, the owner of the inn who seems to be good-tempered and easy-talking is the mayor of the town, and the attitude of the people around him is very strange. Those who are majestic cannot be judged by appearances."

Xia Ying asked, "Is it the owner of the inn that received us?"

Uncle Liu replied, "Yes, it's him."

Uncle Liu looked around, then glanced at the dark ashes on the ground downstairs, shrank his neck, his back felt cold, and his tongue started to tie up in fright: "The fire on that man's body suddenly burst into flames, but In the blink of an eye, that person was burnt to ashes, this... this... is definitely done by ghosts, master, this town is full of thick fog and people in white clothes, and then there are ****, just now you met again Such a strange thing, let's hurry up and find Brother Hei, and get out of this ghost place."

The puppet pulled Xia Ying's clothes, and whispered: "I don't like to eat the food here, it's so bad, I want to leave quickly."

Xia Ying lowered her head and touched the puppet's head.

The puppet snorted, "Don't get me wrong, it's not because I'm afraid, there's nothing to be afraid of."

Xia Ying rubbed his hair, and said: "Brother Hei is in this small town, I can feel his aura, we have to act faster." He paused, then smiled: "I also want to leave quickly Here, I'm terrified."

The puppet pouted: "Coward."

The three of Xia Ying took a short rest and left the inn. The owner's daughter named Ah Bo stopped them, "Are the three of you going to town for a stroll? I'll show you the way!"

The puppet rolled its eyes and said: "Go away, go away, don't disturb our business."

"What business are you doing? Are you going to catch that evil ghost in white? I'm going too, and I promise I won't disturb you." Ah Bo excitedly squeezed to Xia Ying's side, "Little brother, I saw you dressed up differently. It's definitely not an ordinary person, so just show me." As she spoke, she pulled Xia Ying's long sleeve and shook it.

Xia Ying had a headache, "You really think too much, I just went for a stroll."

But Ah Bo was determined to follow them. She patted her chest enthusiastically, "Let's go, let's go, I'll take you for a walk in the town, and let me tell you, I'm familiar with this place. If you meet me Your luck." She took Xia Ying's hand, bouncing and dragging Xia Ying ahead.

Uncle Liu followed behind and yelled: "Oh, ouch, little girl, slow down, my young master can't see, don't let my young master fall."

The puppet looked at the backs of the three of them angrily, and suddenly rolled its eyes, and immediately ran to the girl and held the girl's hand, "Sister, I know there are many delicious places here, take me there, I'm starving to death."

His strength was no less than that of the girl, and he grabbed the girl's wrist in pain and screamed "Aww". Ah Bo let go of Xia Ying's hand, and hurriedly said to the puppet, "Okay, let go first, I'll take you there."

But the puppet kept pulling her to go in another direction, "Sister, let's go, I'm starving to death, I'm starving to death!"

Ah Bo was dragged away by the puppets.

Uncle Liu looked at their backs and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's true that one thing falls one thing." Then he took the compass in Xia Ying's hand, closed his eyes, recited an incomprehensible spell, and said, "Young master, it's a good thing." It is indeed in this town, now it is west of it, we are going west."

Xia Ying leaned on a bamboo stick, "Uncle Liu, let's go."

There seems to be an invisible thread between Brother Hei and Xia Ying. No matter where Brother Hei goes, Xia Ying can always sense it.

Xia Ying knew that Brother Hei couldn't feel his approach. After all, Brother Hei was a ignorant foreign object that wasn't even considered an entity, so every time before Xia Ying found it, it was still wandering leisurely and leisurely. Quite a breeze and a bright moon.

When it found Xia Ying, Xia Ying was already face to face with it, and only then did it jump up and down in panic. If it weren't for its amazing speed, Xia Ying would have caught it more than a hundred times.

It's not hard to find it, it's hard to catch it.

Xia Ying and Uncle Liu kept walking towards the west of the town, but they didn't expect that the town would be so big, and they didn't expect that the black brothers would keep changing directions. Xia Ying could almost think of the "black brothers" happily Stroll from small stalls to wine shops and then to a narrow alley.

Fortunately, except for Xia Ying, no one else could see such a dark thing running around, otherwise it would be troublesome.

The two followed Hei Brother's track, going around in circles. They didn't know how long they walked and how many times they went around. When they came back to their senses, their backs were already soaked in sweat. At this moment, they were standing in more than a dozen alleys. in the middle of the intersection,

Uncle Liu looked around and said in astonishment: "Master, we are surrounded by eleven alleys now, and we are in the middle of the intersection where the alleys meet. I don't know where I got out from."

Xia Ying said: "Let's go into an alley at random and ask the people who live here."

Uncle Liu responded, "Okay." He helped Xia Ying choose a random alley.

At this moment, Uncle Liu saw a woman in white in front of them. The woman was holding an oil-paper umbrella, her back was facing them, and she was walking slowly.

Uncle Liu hurriedly called to her loudly: "Girl, please tell me how to get out from here, my young master and I can't find our way."

The woman didn't turn her head back, nor did she answer, she just stood in the distance, motionless, as if she was waiting for Xia Ying and the others to arrive.

Uncle Liu was going to ask again, but Xia Ying immediately grabbed him, shook her head, and said softly, "Let's change the alley."

Uncle Liu felt that Xia Ying's grip on his arm was getting stronger, and his expression changed. He immediately helped Xia Ying back out of the current alley, and walked to another alley.

Uncle Liu supported Xia Ying and walked for a while before asking Xia Ying in a low voice, "Master, was that girl weird just now?"

Xia Ying said softly, "I can see her."

Both Uncle Liu and the puppet knew that Xia Ying's half-section mask was covered with cinnabar mixed with his blood, which completely blocked the light of the mask, making Xia Ying completely unable to see the outside world.Of course, there is one exception, that is, the ghost ghost came to Xia Ying again, so at this time, Xia Ying can see those things.

When Uncle Liu heard this, not only did his face change, his lips trembled, and he quickened his pace, fearing that the woman, no, that thing would catch up.