chasing shadows

Xia Ying knocked down a Burning Man, and then more Burning Men rushed towards him. His strength was being exhausted. He was completely fighting for his strength. If he had the ability of Uncle Liu's grandfather at this time, he would definitely Not so embarrassing.

Just when Xia Ying was in a daze, behind him, a fire man tightly strangled his neck, and Xia Ying's arms were also grabbed by them, making her unable to move at all.

In fact, even if Xia Ying wasn't imprisoned by them, she still couldn't use her strength.

Xia Ying knelt down, and the neck behind him became tighter and tighter. He leaned up and panted with difficulty, holding the bamboo stick tightly in his hand.

Just when Xia Ying was about to be devoured by these resentful ghosts, the bamboo stick suddenly emitted a green light, forming a circle of light to protect Xia Ying and Uncle Liu inside.

Countless green lights penetrated into Pyro's body near the circle of light, they let out fierce screams, and then disappeared like finely chopped pieces.

Before Xia Ying could be surprised, he hurriedly shook Uncle Liu awake, "Uncle Liu, Uncle Liu, wake up quickly, they can't get close to us."

Uncle Liu got up with an "ah" sound, and he said in surprise, "It is the circle of light formed by the green light from the bamboo stick that protects us." Then, he looked around again, and said with a mournful face, "But we can't go out either. ! There are many more out there.”

Just when the two of them were at a loss, a gust of wind blew by, and a crisp ringtone came from Xia Ying's ears. With a move in her heart, Xia Ying asked, "Uncle Liu, did you hear that?"

"What?" Uncle Liu asked blankly.

The crisp bell rang again, as if saying something to Xia Ying.The words are low, but extremely gentle.Like a gentle and elegant scholar who is talking to others carefully.

Uncle Liu opened his eyes wide and shouted, "Master, they are all back to normal!"

I saw those fire men recovering instantly, the flames on their bodies were completely extinguished, and the darkness on their faces faded away, just like ordinary people who had nothing happened, they scratched their heads, and then went back to doing their own things.Soon there were only the two of them left on the broad street.

Everything happened too fast, as if everything just now was an illusion.

Xia Ying stroked her neck, feeling something was wrong, the bell continued to ring in his ears, and Xia stood up.

"Master, what's going on here...Hey, master, where are you going?" Uncle Liu stood up, seeing that Xia Ying had already picked up the bamboo stick and walked forward.

Xia Ying walked towards the direction of the ringtone, and with every step she took, the scene before her eyes became more blurred.

"Master? Where are you going?"

Xia Ying said, "Get out, get out of this ghostly place." The bell next to his ear continued to ring.

Uncle Liu wanted to say more, Xia Ying turned her head and said, "Let's go like this, we will definitely get out."

Hearing Xia Ying's firm answer, Uncle Liu hurriedly followed without further questions.

Xia Ying went around following the ringing of the bell, but the ringing became smaller and smaller until she could no longer hear it. Xia Ying stopped, and in front of him stood a woman in white with her back turned to them.

It turned out that now they were back in the alley again.

Uncle Liu said "ah, ah" a few times, and then stopped talking.

Xia Ying knew that the woman in white was the one they had seen just now, and of course she was by no means human.

Xia Ying thought for a while, and then continued to walk forward. Uncle Liu gritted his teeth and followed up again.

When they were about to pass by the woman, Xia Ying stopped and asked, "Girl, how do I get out of this place? We're lost?"

Uncle Liu's voice was about to pop out of his throat, and he scolded Xia Ying for being confused in his heart, so he was about to drag Xia Ying to escape, when the woman had already turned her head, but the hideous and terrifying face she imagined did not appear, and there was an extremely beautiful and lovely face. the appearance of a person.

The woman smiled slightly, then pointed to a place, and said softly, "There."

Xia Ying nodded at her, "Thank you girl." Then she walked in the direction she pointed.

Uncle Liu secretly glanced at the woman, but the woman looked at him, and finally smiled shyly.

The two of them were a little far away from the woman. Uncle Liu turned his head and saw that the woman was still standing there holding an umbrella, as if waiting for someone.

It's just that her figure is vaguely visible, which is extremely blurry.

They walked for a while again, and now they came to the alley where the gates of the surrounding houses were pasted with Spring Festival couplets.

Uncle Liu supported his head, and sure enough, he turned around again, wondering if he would meet that scary child again.

While Uncle Liu was thinking about it, another weight fell under his feet, and he secretly cried out. Sure enough, the dark child who had just thrown off wrapped his legs around his legs again, "giggling" with his dark face upturned.

Xia Ying lowered her body and asked gently to the little boy, "Can you tell us how to get out of this place?"

The little boy's black eyes widened, and the snot flowed down his nose. He raised his hand and wiped it indiscriminately, pointed at one place, and grinned again.

Xia Ying also smiled and said, "You actually wanted to tell us how to get out just now, didn't you? We misunderstood you, I'm sorry."

The little boy wiped his nose again, then stood up from Uncle Liu's feet, and ran away bouncing around.

Uncle Liu was stunned: "Master, what's going on?"

Xia Ying thought for a while and said, "Maybe they wanted to help us from the very beginning, but we misunderstood them."

Xia Ying and Uncle Liu continued to walk towards the direction the boy pointed, and the bells rang again, but Xia Ying knew they were coming out, because the things in front of him became more and more blurred, and he would soon lose sight of them.

As long as they are invisible, it means that they have returned to the real world.

When Xia Ying and Uncle Liu were standing at the corner of an alleyway, the bells colliding with each other became louder and louder, and someone coughed softly amidst the louder bells.

At some point in front of them stood a man, with his body bent and his back facing them, he kept leaning forward due to coughing, a string of wind chimes hung on his left waist, as he coughed, The wind chimes collided with each other, and the collision became louder.

Xia Ying looked at the man's back and said sincerely, "Thank you for bringing us out."

But I feel a little sad in my heart, this is a good... good ghost, but not a living person.

"Master, let's go." Uncle Liu tugged on Xia Ying's sleeve and whispered.

Xia Ying shook her head and said nothing, just stood there, waiting for the man's response.

After a long time, the man said hoarsely, "Help... him."

"Save who?"

"he..."

Xia Ying wanted to ask again, but suddenly her eyes went dark, and the puppet's voice came from her ear: "Firefly, where have you been?"

Uncle Liu was also surprised and said, "Young master, we have come out."

The puppet jumped down from the low wall and asked, "What's the matter with you? How did it take you so long, did you find Brother Hei?"

Uncle Liu wiped off his sweat: "We met something bad, Brother Hei couldn't find it, we were almost scared to death, by the way, how did you find us?"

The puppet said disdainfully again: "You think everyone is as idiotic as you two."

Xia Ying was leaning on the bamboo stick, and he was completely invisible at the moment, which made him feel relieved and uneasy, and he asked, "Where is this?"

After asking this question, Uncle Liu was surprised to find that in front of them were rows of dark ruined walls and earthen walls that were about to fall down, but it could be vaguely seen that there used to be a lot of low-rise earthen embryo houses gathered here, and perhaps many people lived there. people.

At this time, the puppet shouted: "Fireflies, you really know how to run around, this is a big tomb!" He pointed to the big white tombstone in front of him, pulled Uncle Liu and shouted, "Uncle, come and read!"

Uncle Liu said word by word: "In the fifth year of Changjia, 520 and seven people died in the fire."

Xia Ying leaned on the bamboo stick and asked, "What else is written on it?"

Uncle Liu shook his head, "Not anymore."

No wonder the face of the child I saw just now was dark and dark, so many burning people suddenly appeared, and the dark door, it turned out that there was a fire here.

Uncle Liu hugged his arm belatedly, and said in a trembling voice, "Master, the people we met just now were all people who died in the fire! We broke into the lair of these ghosts."

He said again: "Master, let's get out of here quickly! Those evil spirits who were burned to death in the fire are very aggressive and want to harm people! Let's go, go!"

At this time, it was already evening, or maybe these dilapidated walls were really dark, they all felt that the surroundings were gloomy and terrifying, and a gust of wind blew by, bringing a gloomy chill.

The puppet's expression changed when he heard it. He pulled Xia Ying and said, "Firefly, let's go back to the inn first. It's getting dark, brother black, we'll look for it tomorrow!"

Xia Ying nodded: "Let's go back to the inn first."

But feeling something was wrong, Xia Ying asked Uncle Liu and the puppet, "Is there something wrong with my neck and arms?"

The puppet pulled Xia Ying forward and trotted forward, saying as he ran, "There's nothing, oops, Firefly, don't be so inky!"

No, really not.

Just now those fire men strangled his neck fiercely and grabbed his arms. Obviously, those things were covered in fire, but he couldn't feel any burning. They just held him tightly with brute force, like yes... like...