Twilight Boundary

"Yes, yes..."

Facing Hu Ma's smiling face, the dark and thin woman had never seen outsiders before. She subconsciously hid and stammered when she spoke: "It's a good thing, sir. The men in my family don't know what's going on. They can't do any work anymore..." …”

"My child and I are guarding him, and something has been wrong with me these past few days..."

"..."

"It doesn't matter, I'll just take a look at it for you."

Hu Ma said with a smile and bowed to the woman politely, but she was still polite to the women in the family.

But the country people, who had never seen such a battle before, suddenly became even more panicked. She also vaguely remembered that she had to return the favor at this time, but she couldn't do it coquettishly and couldn't speak. She just hurriedly helped Hu Ma push. He opened the door and asked him to come in and take a look.

Now that night has fallen, there is no oil lamp lit in the house. It is so dark that you can't see your fingers.

But Hu Ma didn't care. He just took out the fire stick from his arms and blew it. When he stepped into the room, he first smelled a greasy fragrance and a salty smell.

He calmly glanced at the table, where an oil lamp was placed, and lit it with a fire stick. Then he swept the oil lamp into the room, and the warm light gradually filled the room.

The woman held the child in her arms, but still just watched outside the house and never came in.

Hu Ma then saw for herself that there were no inner halls or side rooms in the house, but there was an earthen bed on the west side. There were some tattered clothes piled on it and a quilt whose original color could not be seen clearly. Under the quilt, one could vaguely see it. Cover a person.

Just by borrowing the light of an oil lamp, I could see that the man was tall and lying against the wall. The quilt couldn't even cover his body. The two exposed feet were as skinny and dark as firewood.

The head leaning against the wall was illuminated by the lamp, but it was a man with messy hair. He stretched out his hand to cover the light of the oil lamp, reacted briefly, and tried hard to stand up: "Master, where did you come from?"

"But do you want to find someone to work for you? I have plenty of strength. One person can carry four..."

"..."

Although he was talking, he couldn't even get up.

Hu Ma didn't agree to what he said. She just held an oil lamp and approached him. She stared at his face carefully, then smiled at the man, grabbed his quilt, lifted it up at once, and looked at him intently. passed.

The man was taken aback, letting out a few vague moans and shrinking back as if he was shy.

Even the woman outside the house couldn't help but poke her head in when she heard the noise. She felt that the ghost man invited over this time seemed different from the one she knew.

Acting a little rude...

Of course, that's what I was thinking, but I didn't dare to ask, let alone stop him.

"Haha, it's okay, it's okay. Just lie down and I'll take a look."

Hu Ma looked at the man lying on the bed, covered him again, smiled, turned around with the oil lamp, and shined it on the woman and child outside the room. At the same time, she raised her hand and wiped it. Eye.

It looked like his eyes were uncomfortable, so he raised his hand and rubbed them, but the scene in his eyes was already different.

He has already used the tricks of the old man.

Earlier, Hu Ma had learned several methods from Aunt Zhang to make people see ghosts, but now he has started to refine the seven orifices and nourish them day and night. This method of observing yin is even simpler. He only needs to rub his eyes, and his eyes will be filled with yin energy. You can see some things that ordinary people cannot see.

With this look, I finally understood why this man couldn't do any work or get up.

He didn't see any flesh on this man's body. This man had thick bones and was obviously very strong, but his body was full of holes, exposing large chunks of bones.

Layers of shriveled, thick skin lay messily on his body. No intact piece of skin could be found. It looked like a torn sack, casually draped over his body. There were even traces of hissing in the cracks and holes. .

Turning his head to look out into the yard, he also saw clearly the appearance of the woman. Like the man on the bed, she also had a piece missing here and multiple holes there. Under her empty trousers, there were two strips of nothing. A thigh bone with a little bit of meat.

Even the child only used one bone-white hand to grab his mother's cotton pants, and looked at the room carefully with fear in his eyes.

But it was more like a little ghost than a child. His body was covered with hanging skin and peeling wounds. Compared with him, Xiao Hongtang was as beautiful as heaven.

He raised his head again and looked outside the walled courtyard, only to find that the old man from the village who had brought him here was gone.

"so……"

He was not in a hurry, and helped the man on the kang to tuck in the quilt. He turned to the mother and son in the yard, who didn't know whether they were humans or ghosts, and asked, "What happened to him after he finished eating the meat that day?"

"He...he ate meat..."

The woman didn't know whether it was because she didn't know that Hu Ma had seen her current appearance clearly, or because she didn't know what she was now. She still looked timid and cowered, and murmured: "I fell asleep... "

"He, he is greedy. He has eaten ten pounds of meat. My child and I only drank two mouthfuls of soup. We are hungry..."

"Village, the villagers wanted to come to my house to borrow meat, but he ate all the meat in my house, and the children also clamored to eat meat..."

"..."

"Understood……"

Hu Ma glanced at the kang and saw that the man was still looking at the ceiling with his eyes blankly, without any reaction, but he moved from time to time, as if he was not dead.

There was not much flesh left on his body, but the marks of the axe's cuts could still be seen.

There happened to be an ax thrown in front of the bed.

"call……"

He vaguely guessed something, and was about to speak when he suddenly heard a burst of chaotic footsteps in the village, followed immediately by the sound of countless wooden doors being hurriedly pushed open.

A gust of night wind blew and he smelled the faint aroma of meat in the night wind.

"oops……"

The woman who had been answering Hu Ma's question blankly just now suddenly lit up her eyes and shouted hurriedly: "Da Mao, go get the bowl quickly."

"Someone's home is stewing meat, so we have to go and beg for two pieces to eat..."

"..."

Needless to say, the child with only bones left in one arm and an empty sleeve rushed into the kitchen and ran out with a bowl in his mouth, still shouting vaguely:

"Come on, come on, mother, it's too late and I'll be eaten up..."

"..."

The couple hurriedly ran out, and there was a clanging sound behind them. It was the big cow on the bed who was desperately trying to escape under the bed, trying to follow him.

Hu Ma didn't stop them either. He just comforted Xiao Hongtang, who felt something beside her, and was about to get hairy. Then he picked her up and used the skill of ghost climbing.

With his feet along the wall of the house, he climbed to the roof and looked in all directions.

Now that he is condescending, looking over at this moment, he only feels a burst of Yin Qi hitting his face, almost freezing the blood in his body.

This is no longer Yin Qi, but a dark aura that makes people feel uneasy from an instinctual level, and makes the hairs all over their body feel like they are about to explode.

In other words, evil spirit.

I saw that the village, which had been completely silent just a moment ago, with only a few oil lamps lit, had become lively. Every household opened the door, and ghost-like people came out of the house, holding bowls and basins in their hands. There are even knives.

They rushed to a house. There was no light in that house, but there was a faint light in the stove. Two dark figures stood guard in front of the stove, staring at their pots.

The smell of meat emanated from his house. He was secretly stewing meat in the middle of the night. Everyone in the neighborhood smelled it. Hearing the noise outside, the man hurriedly picked up the hoe and jumped to the door. He pushed hard and yelled at the mother-in-law to hide quickly.

"Oh, I'm from the Zhang family. I even helped you plow the fields..."

"Auntie, your family eats meat, why don't you call me nephew?"

"Zhang, how lucky you are that you can do such a thing. The couple closes the door and stews meat in the middle of the night, but doesn't open the door when the neighbors come?"

"..."

How could this man's strength withstand these crazy neighbors? He was pushed away by others, and countless people poured in. Some even climbed over the courtyard wall and jumped into his home.

They all rushed into his kitchen and saw that his mother-in-law had just picked up the meat and stuffed it into her mouth hungrily. Others hurriedly grabbed it and went to her pot and bowl. inside, even the meat in her mouth to eat.

He was greedy and crazy, his eyes seemed to be glowing green, and the village seemed to have suddenly turned into a ghost.

Some people reached out to dig out the bowl, some people crowded in the back and their heads were squeezed off, and some people got into the crowd from under their crotches. After a while, they cut a bloody piece out, for fear that others would snatch it. Running, stuffing it into his mouth.

He stuffed the bloody piece into his mouth, opened his mouth to chew it, and swallowed desperately, as if he was afraid that someone would run away.

Hu Ma stood on the roof, looking far into the distance, taking in the appearance of every house in the village, then sighed softly, raised his feet and jumped off the roof.

"Mr. Ghost, what do you think?"

Suddenly someone behind him asked with a pleading voice: "Is this person still saved?"

Hu Ma looked closely and saw that these were the old people who had just led her into the village. Now when she looked closely, she found that they were all wearing shrouds and hats. Their bodies were blurred and their pale faces were full of pleading looks. .

They were the most normal people in this village, but Hu Ma could see that they were not human beings.

When I first entered the village, the big house at the entrance of the village was actually the village's ancestral hall.

These are the ancestors in the ancestral hall.

They didn't let me come at first because they were afraid that they would be eaten. Later, when they found out that they were walking ghosts, they hurriedly invited me in because they expected me to help them see their descendants!

It is said that when people pray for blessings, ghosts create evil, but in this village, it is actually the other way around. The dead people look more like good people.