I felt a jolt in my heart.
At the same time, Luo Wu and Zhao Xidu both looked at me, and their faces changed drastically.
"You brother Luo...this phantom of fortune is how...?" Zhao Xidu's eyes shimmered with astonishment and suspicion.
Luo Hu, however, wore a somber expression, lost in thought.
I stared into Lao Gong's eyes, his yellowish-brown eyes, without any dizzying movement, looked directly at me.
"What have you discovered?" I tried to maintain my composure, whispering softly.
Lao Gong smiled at Zhang Gui earlier, and at Zhao Xi. Now Zhang Gui's head is empty, while Zhao Xi seems unharmed, but he must have sustained a serious injury in reality.
Now he is looking at me and smiling... maybe I will also encounter some unexpected thing?
The result was that Lao Gong stood still, as if he was dull or stupid, silent.
"How come he's not talking?" Zhao Xi asked suddenly again.
My heart became even heavier, and I explained truthfully: "On the last time I went to Qixian Village, Lao Gong's soul was affected, becoming slower and often answering questions incorrectly."
Zhao Xi suddenly realized, shaking his head, and said: "This is not a good omen. The soul of the ghost becoming sluggish means that their own consciousness is about to collapse. If there is no way to make up for it, then this old Gong may become a ghost without consciousness."
I did not respond to Zhao Xi, feeling even heavier in my heart.
Knowing that something will happen, but not knowing where it comes from, feels extremely unpleasant.
"Don't worry, Brother Luo, Luo Wu and I will pay attention to protecting you," Zhao Xi said in a friendly manner.
Luo Hu looked at Zhao Xi again.
Zhao Xi smiled and said, "Luo Wu, do you agree?"
"Hmm." Luo Wu replied in a low and muffled tone.
I turned my gaze to the corner where the chicken carcass was lying, and only barely managed to dispel my displeasure.
This time exploring Qixian Village, it is actually not the beginning, but a series of things have happened.
"This place is not suitable for a long stay, find Zhao Kang as soon as possible," Luo Hu said in a deep voice once more.
Indeed, we must find Zhao Kang as soon as possible in order to leave the deep village of Qixian Village.
I pondered about the direction in which Zhao Kang wrapped Zhao Zhi and left, after the old woman cried and the skinless ghost was dispersed.
A shiver ran through my heart, and I said, "The direction Zhao Kang left was exactly where the hungry ghost was led away earlier."
Zhao Xi's face slightly stiffened, as if in thought.
Luo Wu said in a deep voice, "The starving ghosts that eat real food are extremely special. They should have eaten their own bodies, becoming mutilated ghosts with some characteristics of corpses. They can swallow flesh and more is the ghostly strangeness."
"The fact that you were able to lead them away earlier shows that their intelligence is not high."
I nodded silently in my heart, what Luo Wu said is similar to what Huaxing told me earlier.
"As long as they consider us ghosts, we will be safe, human smell is hard to cover. Zhao Xidu's ghost shadow, can indeed cover this atmosphere." Luo Wu said again.
Zhao Xi's thoughts settled, and then he said, "I can use my ghost shadow to protect Brother Luo. Luo Wu, you should be fine. As long as there's no conflict with the starving ghosts, you should be able to evade them. There are so many ghosts in Qixian Village; the main appetite of the starving ghosts may not be for eating ghosts."
"They all want to eat corpses, so the old lady only stayed in the wilderness and did not enter Qixian Village."
Zhao Xi's explanation is reasonable.
Luo Hu nodded, as if agreeing with the statement.
"There's no time to waste, let Brother Luo lead the way," Zhao Xi looked at me.
The ghost shadow beneath his feet surged more, completely covering the shadow beneath my body!
I raised my index finger, piercing the wound on my own body, closed my right eye, and pressed the finger against it.
I'm not sure if it will work, but I'll try.
In the dream, the old man in the suit lost his right eye, which was the second time I felt it when he dug it out himself.
At that time, I also lost a thread of my soul.
Perhaps, my loss of soul is because he dug out his eye!
The ice-cold sensation I occasionally feel in my right eye must be related to this incident!
A cold sensation emanated from the eye socket, and when I opened my right eye again, everything I saw seemed to have a hazy change.
Gray mist lingered in the room.
The Buddha's token hanging around Luo Hu's neck had become different parts of the body.
There were hands, feet, and even some parts of the body trunk, which were extremely terrifying.
Zhao Xi is even more bizarre.
He looked exactly like a ghost, his belly bigger than before, as if something was about to come out of it.
And beneath his feet, which were not shadows at all, were crawling one after another ghostly infants.
The ghostly infants remained silent, just surrounding us under our feet. Some of them even looked up and smiled at me with their wrinkled faces.
Do these ghost infants also know that something bad is going to happen to me?
Is it because Lao Gong laughed as a ghost first, creating a guiding effect?
Ghost laughter is not exclusive to fortune-telling ghosts, any ghost who notices that a person is in trouble will rejoice, just like when I didn't know that Han Qiu was a walking corpse and the ghosts in the safe area were laughing at me.
I took a deep breath and tried to remain calm.
Luo Hu and Zhao Xi both looked at me simultaneously.
For some reason, I seem to see Zhao Xi also laughing.
I looked at Zhao Xi again, and his face had no smile, only slightly frowning and meeting my gaze with seriousness, asking: "Brother Luo, what's wrong with you? Your eyes... are so strange..."
He especially fixed his gaze on my right eye, and his eyes were flickering rapidly.
Luo Hu, on the other hand, showed no signs of excitement or movement, just waiting like me.
"I'm fine." I replied hoarsely, pushing the door out of the hallway.
The ghostly infants crowded forward, sometimes as black shadows, and at other times as continuously wriggling babies. This scene was both grotesque and eerie.
Zhao Xi followed me, looking like a malevolent ghost that haunted me wherever I went.
Luo Hu walked on the other side, as if avoiding the ghostly shadow beneath our feet.
He looked somewhat strange as well; it seemed like his neck had elongated, but upon closer inspection, it appeared as if there had been no change.
I felt a slight chill in my heart, and I had a intuitive feeling that Zhao Xi seemed to have something wrong, like he was trying to scheme against me.
I didn't have this feeling earlier, but after touching my right eye with the blood from my index finger to try and perceive, I had a slight chill in my heart. I felt an intuitive feeling that Zhao Xi seemed to have something wrong, like he was trying to scheme against me.
After all, there is an inexplicable connection between my right eye and the old man in the suit.
The attempt to perceive did not succeed, but it was bizarrely enough, my right eye saw some abnormal things.
My thinking seemed to become more divergent and acute.
I just can't say what Zhao Xi might be scheming against me, I can only remain extremely vigilant.
We quickly left the courtyard and walked forward along the small path.
The field on the left was still barren, and to the right, another courtyard soon appeared.
The courtyard was extremely clean, as if it were inhabited by ghosts.
A ghostly infant emerged from the shadow beneath Zhao Xi's feet, crawled up to his chest, devoured his blood meal, and quickly retreated into the courtyard.
A few minutes later, the ghostly infant emerged and climbed onto Zhao Xi's head.
"Inside the house, there is a fierce ghost, but they don't want to provoke us." Zhao Xi said in a low voice: "They should be afraid of making too much noise just when the starving ghosts have passed by."
Without stopping, the three of us continued to walk forward.
The courtyard gradually became less populated, during which we passed a bamboo grove and a messy fruit orchard.
Finally, we did not see any more courtyards, but instead walked to the foot of a small hill.
Qixian Village itself was built at the foot of a hill that resembles an seal.
The terrain at the foot of the mountain was relatively flat, and there was a clear stream flowing.
There was a solitary grave next to the foot of the mountain, surrounded by hawk's tail grass, tendon grass, white flower ghost needle grass and other tombstone grass.
