【Kuan Xin】Snake and Venom

Wei Yanei shrank his shoulders, and his legs under the robe trembled uncontrollably: "My mother, this is... too scary..."

Zhao Jian looked at Wei Yanei who was frightening himself: "Do you believe in these strange things?"

Wei Yanei's face was full of horror: "You don't believe it?"

Apart from the surprise and suspicion at the beginning, Zhao Jian has returned to his previous calm appearance: "I don't believe that there are any ghosts, monsters and gods in this world. They are all fabricated by ourselves."

Xue Yingmu said with a straight face: "But what the village chief said doesn't seem to be false."

Wang Kuan shook his head: "What the village chief said may not be true. What is false may be what he saw with his own eyes."

Xiaojing subconsciously looked in the direction of the village head, but was stunned. The village head, who was enthusiastic and talkative just now, was silent at the moment, staring down at the food on the table. The lights shrouded him, but he seemed Rooted in the darkness, the whole person looked sluggish.

Xiao Jing stared at it for a few seconds, and suddenly felt a chill.

Wei Yanei was about to ask the village chief for confirmation, but before he could speak, the wick of the oil lamp on the table was flickering. After a while, the wick went out, and everyone was plunged into darkness. The pitch-black interior undoubtedly made the interior even more eerie and eerie.

Wang Kuan was the first to react before Wei Yanei screamed out. He stabilized the other four people in a deep voice, "Don't panic, sit still, I'll light the oil lamp first."

After a few seconds, everyone saw the light again, but immediately, they realized a serious matter.

The village chief who was sitting just now disappeared.

Wei Yanei yelled and croaked, he was so frightened that he couldn't breathe out, and almost passed out, his body became weak from panic, and fell on Xue Ying on the right, Xue Ying said impatiently, "Don't Yelled, and you yelled out the ghost again", but he didn't push Wei Yanei away.

The screaming Wei Yanei stopped, and clung to Xue Ying's arm cowardly. If he hadn't been taller than Xue Ying, he might have been hanging on Xue Ying's body by now.

Just now she said that she didn't believe in strange powers and gods, and Zhao Jian immediately became vigilant, her eyes changed when she looked into the room, she touched the short blade at her waist with one hand, and protected Xiao Jing, who couldn't use martial arts, behind her with the other.

At this time, the room was lifeless, and there was a strange and cool atmosphere everywhere.

Wang Kuan looked at everything around him in silence. After a long time, he said, "You all stay here and don't go away. I'll go to the kitchen to have a look."

Zhao Jian asked worriedly: "Can you do it alone?"

Wang Kuan nodded, and walked to the kitchen first. The village head's old woman was still cooking hot soup in it not long ago. Now the soup is still boiling hot, but the person is gone.

Wang Kuan's position at the dining table was diagonally opposite to the door of the stove and the gate. If anyone left the stove or the house, he would definitely notice it immediately, but he didn't. Even if it was just a moment of darkness, Wang Kuan Never heard any doors opening and closing.

In the blink of an eye, Wang Kuan was able to make a living person disappear so quickly in front of his eyes. The first thing Wang Kuan thought of was the secret way.

But the kitchen is very simple, and you can see it all at a glance. There is a simple stove, a waist-high water tank, a small pile of firewood, and a wooden shelf that only reaches Wang Kuan's knees. Seasoning for meals—the stove is so small that there is no sign of a secret passage at all.

Wang Kuan had no choice but to leave the kitchen first and return to the dining table. Zhao Jian and the others gave him questioning looks, and Wang Kuan said, "I didn't find anything."

Zhao Jian also expected it, she looked around, "Could it be, is it really haunted?"

Xiao Jing asked in fear: "Isn't Qinghe Town haunted? It's still a little far from Qinghe Town..."

Wei Yanei's teeth were almost chattering: "The haunted one doesn't care about the distance, as long as it wants to, it can kill you from thousands of miles away!"

Xue Ying looked at Wang Kuan: "What should we do now?"

Wang Kuan looked solemn, and suddenly, his eyes looked over the crowd to the gate: "Let's go out and have a look."

Wang Kuan's words reminded them that if the village head and the old woman disappeared, what about the others here?

Wang Kuan and the others opened the wooden door with hope, and the next second, they were all stunned.

The village in front of me was dilapidated. Although the village was simple and rough at the beginning, it was still a place where people lived, and it was still possible to shelter from the wind and rain. The people walking between the paths seemed to have evaporated out of thin air.

The deathly silence that permeates every corner of this desolate place is chilling.

Xiaojing grabbed Zhao Jian's sleeve tightly, his lips trembling in fear: "Sister Zhao, what's going on?"

Wei Yanei was so frightened by the scene in front of him that he nearly twitched. He said to Wang Kuan in a trembling voice, "Wang Kuan, let's get out of here first and find a safe place to settle..."

However, before Wei Yanei finished speaking, Wang Kuan had already shook his head.

The rest of the people were all surprised: What does Wang Kuan mean by this?

Wang Kuan scanned everything in front of him, and his voice became hoarse and cold for no reason: "We can't go far..."

The carriage was gone.

Hundreds of miles away, Yuan Zhongxin was leaning on the carriage with a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth, opening the curtain from time to time, watching the passing scenery outside the carriage, with a relaxed expression on his face.The speeding carriage stopped suddenly, Yuan Zhongxin frowned dissatisfiedly: "Old thief, what are you doing?"

The old thief opened the curtain and vomited a lot of bitterness towards Yuan Zhongxin: "Master Yuan, we have been driving for a day and a night, so we must take a little rest, not to mention that people need to rest. You have to drink water to satisfy your hunger in order to run fast."

Yuan Zhongxin snorted twice, and raised his hands angrily: "I'll give you a quarter of an hour, hurry up."

The old thief put down the curtain and turned his head and muttered: "Damn guy, you are in such a hurry, it seems like you have been reincarnated."

A lazy voice sounded from inside the carriage: "Who is to blame for rushing?"

Old thief: "..." This guy's ears are so sharp, is he a dog? !

After a while, the old thief held two water bags in his hand, opened the curtain and handed one to Yuan Zhongxin, but Yuan Zhongxin didn't drink it, and shouted: "Are you okay, hurry up if you can."

The old thief really wanted to throw the water bag in his hand on his face, but he didn't dare, he gritted his teeth: "Wait a minute! Take another two sips!" Then he raised the water bag and drank a few sips .

Yuan Zhongxin said coolly at the side: "Come on, three bites."

Old thief: "..."

In desperation, the old thief had no choice but to sit on the wooden frame again and drive the horse without complaint. After leaving an unnamed town, the old thief asked: "Yuan Zhongxin, what are you in a hurry for? My people are all looking for them." , it's definitely fine."

There was silence in the carriage for a while, and a slow voice sounded: "I'm not in a hurry."

I believe you are in no hurry!

You told me you were not in a hurry after driving all day and night without sleep? ? ?

I really want to just leave him there like this.

Yuan Zhongxin squinted his eyes while sitting in the carriage, as if he could see through the old thief's thoughts, he rubbed his chest and abdomen, and warned in a deep voice: "Old thief, give me a good way to drive you, this is what you owe me. "

The old thief Mumu replied: "Yes, yes, I owe you..."

An hour later, a gust of cool wind swept over the heat. Before Yuan Zhongxin could speak, the old thief driving the horse said, "It's almost here."

When Wang Kuan woke up, he found that his eyes were bright, and the corners of his eyes were dizzy. He was about to raise his hands to rub them, but he suddenly felt that his hands were tied with thick ropes. He scanned the surrounding scene and found that they were locked in a firewood room. There was an opening on the side of the door, not too big or too small, but Wang Kuan's vision was blocked and he couldn't see what was outside the door.

He moved his body and lowered his voice: "Zhao Jian, Zhao Jian, wake up!"

The eyelids of Zhao Jian beside him moved, and she slowly opened her eyes to see everything in front of her. She was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Wang Kuan, and asked with her eyes: "Where is this?"

Wang Kuan shook his head, he couldn't figure out what was going on.

Zhao Jian approached Wang Kuan's ear and said in a breathy voice, "Let's wake them up first."

Wang Kuan agreed with Zhao Jian's approach, and turned his head to call Xue Ying and Wei Yanei.

When Wei Yanei opened his eyes, the first thing he did was yell, but Zhao Jian stopped him with a look, panic stuck in his throat, scared and wronged.

Wang Kuan calmed down and asked in a low voice, "Is anyone injured?"

Everyone shook their heads tacitly.

Xue Ying turned her head to look at the surroundings of the firewood room: "Our luggage is gone."

Wei Yanei calmed down, and his mind began to turn. He put forward a hypothesis: "We were robbed by... bandits?"

The eyes of Xiao Jing and Zhao Jian are quite subtle, you seem very excited to be robbed?

Wei Yanei naturally knew what they were thinking, and explained: "Being robbed is better than encountering ghosts and monsters, right? If they only want money, talk to me, I will let him have nothing to worry about in the next life!"

Wang Kuan frowned and stared at the origin of the incident. That night, when they left the house and found that the carriage was gone, they thought about leaving the small village by walking. Passed over, woke up, and was in the woodshed.

Wang Kuan: "Zhao Jian, do you have a weapon hidden in your waist?"

Zhao Jian: "Yes!"

"Xiao Jing, it's not convenient for us, can you go and get it?"

Xiao Jing quickly took out a short blade from Zhao Jian's waist, and was about to cut the thick rope for Zhao Jian, when there was a loud noise outside the door, which made Xiao Jing tremble in fright, and the short blade fell to the ground.

Xiaojing looked guilty and reached out to pick it up, but Wang Kuan suddenly said sharply: "Someone is here! Close your eyes and pretend to be asleep!"

The moment the five people closed their eyes, the door of the firewood room was opened. Wang Kuan was sensitive enough to hear the movement of the two people. In the next second, Wang Kuan felt his waist and abdomen sink, and a warm body hit the ground. On himself, Wang Kuan closed his eyes and was stunned.

The door of the firewood room was closed again, and the person who threw him in didn't say a word from the beginning to the end.

After confirming that the person left, Wang Kuan gradually opened his eyes. The moment his eyes touched the person in his waist and abdomen, Wang Kuan froze.

After a while, Wang Kuan broke his voice unprecedentedly:

"Yuan Zhongxin?!"

Hearing this, Zhao Jian and the others all opened their eyes with horrified expressions. They were stunned at the sudden appearance of Yuan Zhongxin, unable to form any words to describe their mood at the moment.

Yuan Zhongxin faced down with his hands bound behind his back. Hearing Wang Kuan's surprised voice, he slowly raised his head to meet Wang Kuan's dazed gaze, and said with a mean smile, "Brother Wang? What a coincidence, you guys Are you arrested too?"

At that moment, Wang Kuan only felt that his chest hurt from anger and he wanted to laugh. For the first time in his life, he wanted to scold:

What a coincidence!The injury is not healed, why run around? !