Twilight Boundary

Chapter 69: Being considerate

　　 is Li Wazi.

 There are so many guys in Dayangzhai, but Li Wazi is the smart one.

He wanted to follow Xu Ji over, but Hu Ma didn't say anything. Of course, Hu Ma wouldn't care if anything happened.

Now I saw that although the other guys had suffered some small losses and were still alive, Li Wazi fell into the well for some unknown reason. He looked pale and didn't know whether to live or die, but he sighed, raised his hand, and His dull eyelids were closed.

 “Pass the rope down first!”

Hu Ma shouted upwards, and his voice buzzed through the mouth of the well.

 He tied the rope around Li Wazi's waist and asked someone to pull him up first, and then looked around again.

 The water in the well was dirty, smelly, turbid, and bitingly cold. After searching carefully, he found some red rags in the corner of the well.

He squatted down and saw that there was indeed a corpse here, but it had long since decayed. There were some pieces of meat hanging on the skeleton. He could still vaguely see that it was a woman, and her clothes were dirty from the well water. Dirty, it looks like she is wearing a red wedding dress.

 “He is also a poor person...”

Hu Ma thought of what the evil spirit had just said and vaguely guessed a certain story.

　　It’s just that he just sighed in his heart, but didn’t dare to say it out loud.

 Er Ye has taught you that you should not show your weakness when facing these evil spirits. Sympathy and compassion are also a kind of weakness.

Xie Sui doesn't know anything. Even if they can communicate, it doesn't mean that their logic is the same as that of living people.

 He showed sympathy to her here, but maybe she thought he was weak and came to harm her instead.

He just put a stern face on his face, stuck the fire stick into the wet mud on the well wall, and took the bamboo basket.

Little by little, he fished out the dead bones from the water at the bottom of the well, put them into the bamboo basket, and helped her pick up the scattered bones.

Even though the corpse was rotten, it still occupied a lot of space at the bottom of the well and was difficult to move. When Hu Ma picked her up, the bones shook and her head suddenly came to the side of Hu Ma's neck.

In the withered eye sockets, there seemed to be a vague ghost fire floating, and the withered mouth had sharp teeth.

Hu Ma's movements stopped immediately. The bottom of the well was cold and dead, and he couldn't smell his breath.

　　“Don’t be mischievous, I am also well behaved.”

Hu Ma held his breath and said slowly: "The distance is so close, and a blood-yang arrow hits you, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it."

　　　…”

 After finishing speaking, he waited for a long time before continuing his actions.

This is not a lie to her. She dared to come down because she has three pillars of morality. If she really wants to fight, she can only let go when no one is watching her in this well.

 It’s just that, of course, it’s better not to fight this.

I don’t know if he was frightened by Hu Ma’s words, but the withered bones really calmed down, and he put them into the bamboo basket piece by piece.

After finishing everything, Hu Ma breathed out softly and motioned to the people above to pull him up.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　…

At this moment, the withered arm resting on the bamboo basket shook slightly, and a dull gold bracelet fell off.

 It fell right at Hu Ma’s feet, splashing a few drops of sewage.

Hu Ma was startled for a moment, but she understood what the female corpse meant. She sneered, picked up the gold bracelet, and stuffed it back into the bamboo basket.

“Don’t do this, we didn’t come down just to get something.”

At the bottom of the well, a faint sigh sounded, and the bamboo basket was pulled up safely.

 …

When Hu Ma also climbed out of the well, he saw that the guys around him were far away from the bamboo basket, and they were looking at Hu Ma with a look of admiration.

Not only the guys around, but also the villagers in some low thatched huts around, seemed to be looking at me with awe. Outside the thatched hut, in the dark night, something also seemed to be secretly looking at me. .

 “The purpose was achieved…”

Hu Ma breathed a sigh of relief and asked the guys to collect her bones as mentioned before, bury them next to the official road, light a few sticks of incense and burn some paper money.

The guys were still scared, but with Hu Ma around, they became more courageous. Plus, Hu Ma had already fished the person out from the bottom of the well, and nothing happened. He was just helping to restrain himself, so it didn't matter. So, Three or four people came forward to help restrain him.

Hu Ma also took the opportunity to check on Li Wa'er and saw that his eyes were wide open, his face was bloodless, and he had no breath.

 The body is already stiff, but it seems different from a real dead person.

I don’t know if there was something secretly protecting me, but the rest of my life turned out to be extremely smooth.

Together they found **** and shovel, dug a deep pit far away from the village, and buried the bones. During the whole process, there was no further disturbance, and the flax was burned in front of the grave. Xiang, comforted him in a low voice.

　　When we returned to the village, it was already dawn, and an unknown number of people gathered in the village which had been empty all night.

 “Thank you, Archmage…”

"We have been troubled by this behavior for a long time..."

　　　…”

It can be seen that the people in the village are sincerely grateful, but the person they are thanking is not Hu Ma.

Instead, Shopkeeper Wu stood by the well with his hands behind his back.

He ignored the kowtowing villagers around him. He just looked at Hu Ma and said calmly: "Where is Xu Ji?" "I don't know."

Hu Ma's heart sank when she saw the old shopkeeper coming to the village.

He knew that this was a critical moment, so he silently adjusted his expression, stepped forward, and said: "Last night, I saw him taking these guys and setting off early. I knew I couldn't compete with him, so I followed him secretly. .”

“I originally thought of grabbing him when he was about to succeed, but I didn’t expect that after a while, I suddenly saw a gust of wind and someone screaming. I knew something was wrong, so I came over with courage.”

“I met this group of obsessed guys on the road, hid from a few evil spirits, and picked up Master Xu Ji’s wooden sword.”

“I saw that there were still few people, so I turned back with these guys to save people.”

“Unexpectedly, everyone else was found. Even Li Wazi, who somehow fell into the well, was also found.”

“But Master Xu Ji has never been found, and we don’t know what happened to him.”

　　　…”

 At this point, he paused slightly, as if he had just remembered, and said: "By the way, there is another person, just at the foot of the southwest mountain, who has been hung on a tree."

"I saw him last night, but I felt that there was a sinister atmosphere there, as if there was something powerful there. I saw that the guy was out of breath, so I didn't dare to get close. I just led the guys to the village. ”

This answer was very candid, and he did not hide his desire to take credit at all.

Even the slightest complaint was expressed directly.

Shopkeeper Wu listened to his words and didn't say much. His face only turned slightly gloomy, and he suddenly turned around and asked the others:

“What did you do when you came here together?”

　　　…”

 “I…we…”

Directly meeting Shopkeeper Wu's gaze was Hu Zi, who was familiar with Xu Ji. His face turned slightly pale and he did not dare to lie. He said in a trembling voice: "We came with Master Xu Ji. Master Xu Ji asked us to light torches and gather around. Stand at the well."

“When he saw something strange, he blew heavily and scraped the surrounding stones and walls with a knife. He also asked Li Wazi to pour something into the well.”

Now Xu Ji is nowhere to be found, shopkeeper Wu's face is gloomy, but he really doesn't even dare to lie.

Even the matter of forcing Li Wazi to approach the well was told truthfully.

 “Is this what was poured?”

Shopkeeper Wu had a sullen face and squatted down by the well. There was some wet, black soil on the ground that Li Wazi had spilled.

 Everyone else nodded. Shopkeeper Wu twisted it a little, brought it to his nose and sniffed it, and his expression became even more gloomy.

 “Brainless thing.”

He snorted coldly: "Let him come over to solve the trouble. He is not the one who caused trouble. Spreading this in the middle of the night, do you really think that you are still being watched over by the Red Lantern Lady?"

 Everyone else was stunned and silent.

Hu Ma thought to herself, could it be that the things used by Master Xu Ji could easily attract evil spirits in the middle of the night?

Unexpectedly, this preparation happened to hide from the tricks he had done secretly.

Of course, even if there is no such problem, he is not afraid.

I used blood food to attract evil spirits, and they had already eaten them cleanly without even a trace left. Who could blame me?

 “Okay, let’s find the person first!”

Shopkeeper Wu didn't ask any more questions. He gave the order with a cold face and asked the gang of waiters to get busy.

Behind him, some elderly people from the village had already come over, holding two pieces of coarse cloth and a basket of eggs in their hands. It seemed that they wanted to follow local customs and thank these people for getting rid of evil spirits in their village. Mage, but he didn't dare to get close.

 “Brother Hu Ma, are you okay?”

Zhou Datong and others also gathered around him, looking at him with concern.

They wanted to follow them yesterday, but Hu Ma refused to let them go. He didn't sleep well that night and followed the shopkeeper over early in the morning.

 “I’m fine.”

Hu Ma shook his head, looked at Li Wazi by the well, and said, "Carry the man back, after all, he came from the same village."

Zhou Datong and others felt a little unbearable when they saw Li Wazi's tragic situation. Just through the conversation with those people, they understood Li Wazi's experience.

Young Master Xu Ji was a man of high moral character and had old things to protect him. However, he did not do the dangerous thing of throwing things into the well to force the evil spirits to come out. He did not let his followers do it. Instead, he forced Li Wazi to do it. , how can you not feel angry?

Of course, deep down in their hearts, although they are a little angry, they are also somewhat resentful.

 I don’t say he deserved it, but it was Li Wazi who asked for it.

 The young man who was born in the village has simple ideas, but he never thinks about the things that are available and not available.

They sent two people to find the people in the village, borrowed door panels, and carried Li Wazi back to Zhuangzi. Others joined the search for Xu Ji.

There is enough light during the day, and there is no need to worry about evil spirits. People can spread out, which is much more convenient than at night. First, they found the guy who was hanged on the tree. He had blue face, protruding eyes, and a long tongue hanging out. cut.

 But when I came here last night, it was still gloomy and creepy.

Now when I came here, I saw that everything was normal and the sun was shining brightly. Only the people hanging on the trees were swaying in the wind.

　　With dim eyes, he stared at everyone condescendingly.

 (End of this chapter)