chasing shadows

"Help me, I don't want to die!"

"Let me go, please let us go..."

"I don't want to die, why are you doing this to us?"

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Xia Ying took a deep breath, they were asking him for help.

Perhaps from the beginning to the end, they didn't intend to hurt them. The woman in white with the umbrella, the swarthy child, and the bell ringing in their ears were all guiding them out of here.

"It's foggy." The puppet stopped and shook Xia Ying's clothes.

Uncle Liu was also surprised: "Why is there such a thick fog all of a sudden, how can we find the direction to the inn?"

Xia Ying leaned on a bamboo stick and said, "Go along the main road and see if you can meet people in the town."

The three of them groped without direction in the thick fog.

"Hahaha, is that really the case? Does this make me beautiful?" A woman's laughter came from not far away.

Uncle Liu shouted happily: "There is someone!"

But this time he learned to be smart, and he would not rush forward rashly. He took Xia Ying and walked forward for more than ten meters, and saw a woman dressed as a woman covering her face while laughing, mouth Li also murmured: "Really? Will it really become a beauty? Great..."

The puppet hid behind Xia Ying and asked, "Firefly, can you see it?"

Don't look at the puppet's bluffing and bluffing at ordinary times. Once something happens, it is also a master who can hide as soon as it can, not much better than Uncle Liu.

Xia Ying touched the puppet's head and said, "I can't see her. She is human. Don't be afraid."

When Uncle Liu heard what Xia Ying said, he had nothing to worry about. He stepped forward to stop the woman and asked, "Sister, where is the direction to go to Pingle Inn? The fog is too heavy, we are foreigners, and we can't find it To the southeast and northwest."

The woman lowered her head and smiled "hehehe". When she slowly raised her head, Uncle Liu sat down on the ground with an "ah".

The woman's face was covered with blood-stained knife marks, and in some places, a whole piece of skin was even cut off, with red flesh and blood, extremely ferocious, not a ghost, but even scarier than a ghost.

"Hahaha, am I beautiful? The man in white in the fog told me that I am beautiful now, really beautiful, isn't it?"

The woman held her face, squatted down, leaned in front of Uncle Liu and asked over and over again: "Am I beautiful? I must be beautiful. I am the most beautiful woman in the world." She opened her bloodshot eyes wide, crazy to the extreme .

"Ah!!" Uncle Liu was so frightened that he scrambled and ran behind Xia Ying, and said to Xia Ying, "Master, we have met a lunatic! This woman is really... really scary! She cut my own face..."

"Hahahaha, it's not enough, it's not enough!" The woman picked up a knife, and suddenly slashed her face fiercely again, making a "tear" sound, which cut off the heel of her nose, bleeding dripping.

Uncle Liu was so frightened that he even screamed. He slumped on the ground, covering his face with his hands, his face pale.

Although Xia Ying couldn't see anything, Xia Ying knew it was an extremely terrifying sight, so before the woman moved the knife, Xia Ying was quick to cover the puppet's eyes.

"Uncle Liu, what happened?" Xia Ying asked.

Uncle Liu stammered and said, "She used a knife...to cut her own face with a knife...Master, she is really scary..."

Xia Ying faced the woman, not daring to act rashly, and asked, "What happened to you? Do you need our help?"

But the woman suddenly clapped her hands and shouted: "Fire, I want fire, she said that I will become more beautiful like this! Ah! Hahahahahahaha! Yes, find a fire, burn it, and burn it!" The woman's eyes were full of frightening frenzy. She waved her hands and danced her feet, as if she had encountered a great blessing.

Xia Ying was about to step forward to hold her back, but she pushed Xia Ying away and ran away laughing.

The puppet kept its eyes tightly closed. After the woman walked away, the puppet opened its eyes and exhaled: "I was scared to death."

Xia Ying murmured: "Just now she said about the divination man in white. Could it be that the divination man in white asked her to do this?"

Uncle Liu called out, "Master, what are you doing?"

Xia Ying leaned on a bamboo stick, "Let's look forward, maybe we can see the man in white."

The puppet hugged Xia Ying's leg and prevented him from going forward, "Firefly, don't worry about it, let's wait here until the fog clears."

Uncle Liu followed suit and said, "That's right, young master, enough things have happened today, you... just let us take a breath."

Xia Ying said: "You are here, I will go and see for myself."

Uncle Liu and the puppet wanted to say something more, but Xia Ying turned her face to them and said in a warm voice, "Uncle Liu, the puppet, if you leave it alone like this, I will feel uneasy."

The puppet let go of Xia Ying's leg and said, "Let's go and have a look together."

Uncle Liu also said: "I can't let you two go, let me go with you." Then Uncle Liu cried again: "Young master, you!"

Xia Ying smiled and said, "Thank you."

The three of them walked in the direction the woman had just walked over.

Surrounded by a thick white fog, after experiencing the incident just now, they all felt a little uneasy in their hearts, for fear that something terrible would suddenly pop out of the thick fog.

Uncle Liu cleared his throat, and suddenly sang: "The weather is really good today, everywhere is beautiful, beautiful..."

The out-of-tune voice seemed very cordial in this quiet environment, and diluted a lot of anxiety between each other, and the puppet also sang along: "I have a little donkey that never rides, never rides, hehehe... "

One big and one small walked and sang loudly in the strange thick fog, and the fear just now was diluted completely in a short while.

Xia Ying smiled slightly in their singing, and occasionally hummed softly along with it. At this time, the puppet would boo and say, "Firefly, you have a song too!"

Xia Ying touched his head, smiled and shook her head.

But after walking for a while, their singing stopped abruptly. The puppet took Xia Ying's hand and stopped. Xia Ying also realized something, and he stood there calmly.

Uncle Liu swallowed his saliva, and whispered in Xia Ying's ear: "Master, did you see it? The person standing in front of us looks like... a man in white who is divining divination..."

Xia Ying shook her head, "I can't see."

Standing on a stone two meters away from them was a man in white. His outfit was exactly the same as when he first met Ah Bo, and his figure was also very similar. If not for the many strange things they encountered today, they really thought that Another prank by Ah Bo.

The puppet rolled his eyes, squatted down, picked up a small stone on the ground, and threw it at the man in white.

The man in white wearing a big coat and hat didn't move, he just hugged the bamboo tube full of bamboo sticks tightly and stood motionless in the white mist.

The courage of the puppet just got up has been suppressed again. If this is Ah Bo, it must have jumped up. Before the puppet took her out together, halfway, the puppet secretly left her. She couldn't find them so quickly. He also changed into a suit of clothes, deliberately to scare them.

Xia Ying couldn't see the man in white they were talking about, that is to say, this is a human?Or is this a ghost that is not to be feared, and the evil spirit is not so strong that it is hidden by the "stainless mask" and cannot be seen?

But is this possible?

If it was an ordinary ghost, how could it bewitch so many people to set fire to suicide?

The talismans she was carrying had been used up, and Xia Ying unknowingly clenched the bamboo stick in her hand again.

correct!He seemed to think of something, raised his foot, and took a few steps forward.

Uncle Liu and the puppet didn't have time to pull it, but when they saw their young master standing face to face in front of the man in white, they couldn't help clasping their arms with both hands, trembling.

But Xia Ying thought: The green light emitted by this bamboo stick made so many burning people disappear in smoke.

Although before this, he didn't know that this bamboo stick had any other great uses besides guiding him to walk, but now it seems that there is a great mystery.I have to find time to ask Uncle Liu in the future.

Xia Ying asked, "Are you a human or a ghost?"

The man in white was still speechless.

"Forgive me."

As soon as Xia Ying finished speaking, under the wide eyes of Uncle Liu and the puppet, Xia Ying raised the bamboo stick high and hit the white man's head heavily.

The man in white covered his head, let out an "ouch" in pain, and squatted down.

Xia Ying felt the force of the punch in her hand, and knew that she had hit the opponent's head, and more importantly, the opponent was human!

And listening to her voice, it was not only a person, but also a very familiar girl. Just as Xia Ying was groping to help her up, the quick-eyed puppet and Uncle Liu rushed over and dragged Xia Ying and ran away.

Uncle Liu said in a hoarse voice while running, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Uncle Liu and the puppet are now sure that the white-clothed man is that Ah Bo who is here to pretend to be a ghost, so they quickly hit and run to save time and trouble.

Anyway, in this foggy day, she was always wearing a white hat and lowered her head. As long as she ran fast enough, she might not be able to see clearly that it was Xia Ying who hit her. If she really saw clearly, she would let her young master Not admitting it.

Xia Ying was led by them to run quickly, almost falling down several times in the middle.

Xia Ying shouted: "Stop! Stop!" They stopped.

Uncle Liu said: "Young master, you just gave that Ah Bo a stick, and when you go back, you must absolutely refuse to admit it."

The puppet also nodded in agreement and said: "That girl, it's hard to deal with! I've been around for a long time today, and it took me a long time to get rid of her. Young master, if she knows that you hit her with a stick, it will probably be endless."

Xia Ying thought deeply, "Is that really her just now?"

The puppet rolled its eyes: "Except for her, who would be so boring and play tricks!"

"Hey, hey, hey, hey..." A figure loomed in the white mist, and when they got closer, Uncle Liu and the puppet realized that it was a man carrying firewood, singing profusely, singing to him. They come this way.

When the man saw Xia Ying and the others, he also looked at them a few more times and smiled and said, "The foggy ones don't go home early, aren't you afraid that the white-clothed evil spirits will divination for you?"

The puppet said: "Aren't you outside? Are you not afraid?"

The man laughed, "I'm afraid, I'm just singing folk songs to strengthen myself." He took up the burden again, and said, "It's useless to be afraid, I want to support my family, baby, Hurry up and go home, and nothing will happen."

After finishing speaking, he continued to "hey yo hey yo" and walked towards the direction they just ran over.

Uncle Liu looked at the back of the man who disappeared in a short while, turned his head and just wanted to say: "Young master, let's go quickly." Before he could say anything, he heard the voice of the distraught girl: "If you hit me with a stick, you will die!" Want to run! No way!"

Uncle Liu turned his head and saw that it was terrible, indeed Ah Bo in white clothes was standing in front of them aggressively.

"You gangsters, run away after hitting someone! I want my father to drive you out!" Ah Bo put his hands on his hips, pointed at Xia Ying and cursed: "Look at you gentle, I didn't expect it to be so bad! It's too bad! It hurt me so much, and I ran away after beating, you think I don't know you!"

The puppet said forcefully: "Hey, don't accuse good people, we are innocent, besides, you are dressed like a ghost and standing by the roadside in the fog, anyone who sees them will be scared and want to give you a few sticks!"

Uncle Liu also raised his Nanhua finger, and said firmly: "It has nothing to do with us at all, the little girl's family should not be bloody."

The girl was furious, and when she was about to come up and tear her apart, Xia Ying, who had been silent all this time, said, "When you came, did you see the man carrying the firewood just now?"

The girl swallowed the words in her mouth, and said "ah" without reacting, then she scratched her head: "I didn't pay much attention."

Xia Ying pulled Uncle Liu and called, "Uncle Liu, quickly take me back to the place where we just met the man in white."

"Master..." Uncle Liu wanted to ask why, but Xia Ying said eagerly, "Don't ask, just take me there!"

Uncle Liu hurriedly pulled Xia Ying back and walked back again. They were in a hurry, Xia Ying muttered something in a low voice, and the puppet and Ah Bo followed behind.

When they came to the stone just now, they found that the man carrying firewood was sitting on the stone, lowered his head, thinking about something, and seemed to be muttering words.

When Xia Ying and the others got closer, they heard the man laughing and said, "This way I will be smart, so I can make a lot of money? Hehehehe."

Xia Ying yelled secretly: Oops!This situation is very similar to the woman I just met.

Sure enough, Uncle Liu stepped forward and called out, "Big brother, what's wrong with you."

It was only when the man raised his head that they realized that the man was holding a sharp stone and was beating his head constantly. What was creepy was that white brains had already started to emerge from his head.