Listening to his confession and reflection, Yafu couldn't help but smile bitterly, originally thought that he rejected and rejected Xiao Xiao in order to cherish the love between the two, but in fact, things were not as simple as she thought, maybe he didn't treat Xiao Xiao with a rejection mentality from the beginning, and all this was not what he wanted, the loyal love between the two was just a wall that hindered the interaction between him and Xiao Xiao.

Thinking of this, she was a little unconsciously lost, as if she had lost something beloved, and walked on the road with a sense of self-loss. Xuan Tianle saw that her expression was gloomy, and her whole person seemed to have lost her soul, so he asked, "Fu'er, what's wrong with you? Is there something uncomfortable? Why don't we stop and rest for a while before leaving?"

He just came out of Shushan and walked not far away, how could he be tired, he didn't understand the thoughts of girls too much.

Yafu woke up from her trance, shook her head, and said, "I'm fine, let's hurry up, and try to leave Zhongguancun before dark and find the next station." Despite her efforts to express her feelings and let go of the baggage of her so-called troubles, it was in vain.

Seeing her distracted back gradually disappearing, Xuan Tianle secretly said in his heart: Did I say something wrong just now to make her unhappy? It was fine just now, how can I say that I will change my face when I change my face? It's really incomprehensible!

The sun is rising, the weather in the south is different from the north, the four seasons are smooth and rainy, no matter how the season changes, the climate is almost the same. As the sun rose, the temperature around him began to rise gradually, and Xiao Xiao pressed on his back, and it did make him a little unbearable after a long time.

The road was desolate and unremarkable, and there were no people for a hundred miles, until a few figures were seen in a sparse grove in front of them. Xuan Tianle couldn't help but rejoice, pulled Yafu and said with a smile: "Fu'er, look, there are people in front, are we about to arrive in Zhongguancun?"

Jave lifted her spirits, shielded herself from the sun, and glanced ahead, her brow furrowed. I saw about a dozen people in the distance, all of them with panicked expressions and hurried steps, and when I looked at it recently, everyone's faces were full of panic, as if they were fleeing for their lives.

Jave was about to ask the man who had rushed at the head, but the man was so hurried that he could not speak, and in an instant he ran over, followed by several others. Someone came and slammed into her thin arm, causing her pain for a while. Xuan Tianle stepped forward, reached out and grabbed a thin man with a disheveled head, and asked him, "What are you running? The man began to tremble, and only said, "Hero, you can let go of the small one, well, these things are given to you, and there are twenty taels of silver in them." ”

The man stuffed a bag, and I don't know what it contained, it was quite heavy. Before he came back to his senses, the man was about to flee again, Xuan Tianle grabbed his hand back, firmly clasped his arm, and became angry when he spoke: "Do you treat me as a robber?" I just asked you what happened, why did you give me these things!"

Yafu rushed to mediate Xuan Tianle's emotions, made him let go of the thin man, and returned his burden, and then asked in a gentle tone: "This little brother, we want to go to Zhongguancun, I don't know how far it is from Zhongguancun?"

The man on the other side was suddenly surprised, and the panic on his face increased a little: "You, you, why are you going to Zhongguancun? No, you can't go there, you must not go there!"

The two of them were surprised, glanced at each other, and Xuan Tianle said curiously: "Why? We want to go to the south to do something through there......

"No, no matter what you do, you can't take that road, Zhongguancun, Zhongguancun no longer exists!"

The two of them were taken aback, Yafu became nervous, and hurriedly asked: "How do you say this? Isn't Zhongguancun the only way to the north and south......?"

"River water...... The goblins in the Yangtze River are starting to eat people like crazy......"

The two of them realized a little, and Xuan Tianle said: "The water spirit beast you are talking about, the water spirit beast has lived in the river all these years, although it has been obstructed by traffic, but it has never endangered the people, how can she kill innocent people indiscriminately and make innocent people fall into dire straits?!"

The man recovered from the nightmare, hugged his burden tightly, and said, "Take care, the little one has to go first!" After saying that, he fled with a smoke, and when the two of them realized it, his shadow was already far away in the field of vision.

Yafu pondered slightly, and said: "Childe, it seems that the people who fled just now are all villagers of Zhongguan Village, and the reason for the escape is already very clear, the water spirit beast has flooded the only entrance to the south. Childe, didn't the goddess give you a blue sea divine pearl at that time, it seems that the god emperor had already expected that we would suffer this catastrophe, so he gave us a divine treasure to subdue the water spirit beast. ”

The two quickened their pace, and within two miles of further they could see a small village. Looking closer, it was not like what the man said just now, Xuan Tianle was still wondering in his heart whether that person was deliberately making up lies to trick them. Suddenly, Yafu's voice sounded in his ears: "Childe, come and see." ”

Xuan Tianle heard the sound and saw that Yafu was poking the soil on the ground with her fingers, the soft mud could easily accommodate her slender fingers, even longer and deeper, Xuan Tianle was a little confused, and asked, "What are you looking at?" Yafu made the same movements back and forth, explaining: "Under normal circumstances, the land is not so wet, unless it rains heavily, but this village is not far from us, if it rains, we should be able to feel it, besides, today's weather has been very good, there are no dark clouds!"

He looked at her watery eyes, which seemed to be covered with a mysterious fog that made people wonder. "What do you mean......"

Jave stood up and said, "The water just flooded here, before we arrived. ”

Xuan Tianle scratched the back of his head and muttered, "Could it be that the water spirit beast knows that I'm coming and is scared?"

"Ah...... Hmmm......"

A coquettish scream attracted Xuan Tianle's attention, but there was no shadow of Yafu in the surroundings, he was suddenly startled in his heart, and shouted: "Fu'er, where are you?" He carried Xiaoxiao on his back and hurried away.

It turned out that she wanted to take a look at the situation around her and see if the truth was as she expected. When you open the door of a nearby room, you will find a stale smell that makes you feel sick. There was a water on the ground, obviously not completely dry, and by the door fell a young man who had long since died, his skin was white and clear, and the white was terrifying. The expression was full of fear, and when he opened his eyes, a pair of eyes had already been soaked in water and turned white, and he looked like a ghost. Her exclamation was also made because of this, and just as she wanted to shout Xuan Tianle, his embrace had already arrived. Although Nangong Pavilion is a family of divine doctors, it is not unheard of all kinds of dead people on weekdays, but this is the first time that this kind of terrifying death has occurred.

Xuan Tianle glanced at the dead corpse on the ground, and said with slight disgust: "Oh, why don't you call me when you come here, fortunately it's a dead person, if it's a living person, it's terrible." Okay, okay, don't be afraid, it's just a corpse, what's so scary. Besides, don't I still have me? As he spoke, he covered the man's face with a straw mat, but at that moment he noticed something strange. At present, the death of this person is beyond imagination, I remember that when he was a child, he heard Xuan Tianqi say, saying that if the devil dies in a person's body, he will show full fear and struggle at the moment of destruction. At that time, he was still fantasizing about what a terrifying expression it was, but now it seems that the fear on this man's expression is the same as he imagined, which can't help but cause him to wonder in his heart: Could it be that these people were drowned while possessed by demons? But there is one doubt that even the unjust ghost has already died once, how can he die again?

Such a question was stirring in his heart, and gradually led him to explore the truth of the matter, making him more excited.

He ran out of the door to find the answer, but threw Yafu and Xiaoxiao at the door, Yafu looked at the shadow of him running away in a hurry, and shouted, "Childe!"

He searched from house to house, saying that he was looking for it, but in fact he wanted to see if the expressions of other people were the same before they died, and if it was as he guessed, then perhaps all questions had basic answers. One household, ten households, and by the time he searched for the twentieth household, the truth seemed to have gradually surfaced. The doors of each family were closed, and each family died at the door, almost in the same position, and their expressions before death were the same. He didn't understand why, but there must be a lot of work in it!

He was still standing in front of the door of that house, staring at the corpse in a daze, and Jave was already out of breath when he ran with him, and when he saw him standing here in a daze, he was both puzzled and a little annoyed. She took a breath and asked him, "Childe, did you notice anything special?"

Xuan Tianle pondered, his deep brows were mixed with a lot of confusion, he shook his head lightly, but did not answer.

In fact, after running so many households with him, she also found some irregularities, she always felt that the death of these people was a bit exaggerated, even if the flood came, it was impossible to be scared like this, judging from this demeanor alone, it was by no means ordinary. She crouched down and took advantage of his thoughts, carefully examining the corpse in front of him to see what was unusual. As soon as she moved the corpse, a pair of water-white eyes rolled suddenly, she shuddered, watched the man get up mechanically slowly, and raised a pair of pale hands to grab her. This scene really stunned her, she didn't even have the strength to retreat, she wanted to shout Xuan Tianle, but the voice was choked in her throat, and she couldn't make it.

Just as she was panicking, a crisp sound sounded behind her, and a dazzling light flashed in her eyes, only to see the head of the person in front of her slip off her neck, and then a strange trace of green smoke flowed out of her body, dispersed into the air, and was no longer found. As the headless body fell to the ground, Jave slumped to the ground. Xuan Tianle put away his sword, leaned over, and asked softly, "Fu'er, are you okay?"

She took a short breath, and Shicai's panicked mood also relaxed, she looked at Xuan Tianle and shook her head cowardly.

This matter was just over, but after a moment, I heard a trembling cry not far away again, this voice was quite familiar, Xuan Tianle suddenly felt relaxed behind it, and then he woke up, it turned out that Xiao Xiao had long been gone.

(End of chapter)