infinite danger

In the woods at night, the sparse moonlight fell on the ground through the gaps in the canopy, intertwined with the dark green phosphorescent fire in the grave.The flags erected in front of the grave fluttered with the wind, and from time to time there were several shrill crows in the forest.

Not long after, a series of footsteps and crisp bells sounded outside the forest.Flames emerged from the horizon, and holding torches, villagers in white masks appeared one by one and stepped into the forest.

The road that the villagers took was the same as Ji Siwei's when he came.

He remembered that walking straight ahead, there would be a clear lake.

I don't know where the end of this mobile ceremony is, ever since stepping into this forest, Ji Siwei has an ominous premonition.

This premonition is accurate every time.

The villagers walking in front sprinkled a kind of paper money with round and square holes. The paper money rustled in the wind. The fire butterfly whirled and danced, and instantly turned into a cloud of fly ash, which scattered in the air.

Perhaps realizing that this would easily lead to wildfires, the leading red mask stopped and raised his hand to signal the team to stop.

A few balls of flames were ignited in front of them, and the paper money was burned at fixed points. The villagers surrounded the flames, bowed their heads, and chanted some kind of spell in a low voice.

It didn't take long before the paper money was burned out, and the villagers extinguished the flames with their hands and feet, ready to set off again.

As soon as the fire was extinguished, the crowd in front suddenly surged.

"Help!!"

"Monster! Monster! Don't come...don't come!!"

Immediately afterwards, a heart-piercing cry for help came from the center of the crowd.

Because of the panic, the cry for help sounded distorted, but there was no accent at all, and it was very standard Mandarin.

It wasn't a villager, it seemed to be the voice of the man with glasses in the team.

problem occurs.

Ji Siwei raised his eyes to look over, and saw the villagers receding like a wave, quickly and tacitly forming an encirclement circle.

The villagers beat the torches with metal and shouted loudly, because Ji Siwei couldn't understand what they were speaking in the local language.

But he could hear the anxious and panicked tone of the villagers.

They seemed to be chasing something.

From the beginning of the night walk, the group headed by Li Yin kept a distance from Ji Siwei intentionally or unintentionally. Across the panicked crowd, Ji Siwei didn't quite know what happened to them.

When the villagers around Ji Siwei heard those shouts, their bodies became tense, and they unanimously pulled out a short metal stick from the back of their waist, hitting the torch pole rhythmically again and again.

In this strange sound, the man with glasses screamed in agony and did not stop for a moment.

This level of shouting has exceeded the limit of the human body.

The little mute poked his head for a look, then looked down at Ji Siwei, his black and white eyes revealed a trace of anxiety.

Having just been stalked by evil spirits, the little mute was still in shock.

Ah Ming patted a young villager on the shoulder, and asked calmly, "My little brother, do you know what happened over there?"

The young villager looked sideways at her, and while speaking in dialect, he stretched out his hand and gestured. It seemed that he could only listen to Mandarin, but could not speak it.

Ah Ming: "What does this mean... I can't understand sign language."

The young villager stopped busy making gestures, pointed to the mask on his face, put his fingers together, and made a downward movement.

"You mean... a mask?" Ah Ming's heart sank, and he asked: "Then you knocked this is..."

Before the young villager had time to respond to her, he was yelled at by other villagers. He turned his back in a panic and continued to hit the torch with a short metal stick.

"Don't tell me? It's mysterious..." Ah Ming whispered, looking at Ji Siwei.

"It seems that someone's mask has been removed, and an evil spirit has entered into his body." Ji Siwei met her gaze: "Listening to the voice, the victim is the man wearing glasses in the team, and there must be someone else who lost the mask."

Ah Ming nodded: "There is a high probability that it is."

In the old house, Ji Siwei once asked the villagers if anyone had lost their mask while walking at night, but the villagers were evasive and did not answer directly.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

Ji Siwei stared intently at the place where the crowd was swarming, and said in a deep voice, "Be careful."

"Brother Li! Help me!"

"Please...don't! Don't! Ah!"

The man with glasses screamed more and more sharply and distorted, as if he had encountered unimaginable pain.

The crowd was so tight that Ji Siwei didn't even see the corner of the man's clothes, but he keenly noticed that the flames seemed to be getting stronger over there.

"Not good!" Ah Ming turned his wrist, and the dagger fell into his palm: "The crowd is coming this way!"

I don't know what happened again, but the crowd with torches came towards them. They were emotional, and their shouts became louder and louder.

Inexplicably, Ji Siwei could hear some fear in their voices.

Flocks of blackbirds hiding in the woods flew into the air. Looking up, it was dark, and the small animals in the bushes were also forced out and fled quickly.

Judging from this posture, even if the corpses in the grave were forced out to escape, Ji Siwei probably wouldn't make a fuss.

The encirclement spread out like a wave, and through the growing gap, the three of them finally saw the situation over there clearly.

Surrounded by the crowd in the center are a man and a woman.

There was no mask on the woman's face, and there was a red birthmark on her bluish-purple face. The corners of her lips were raised high, and she kept a weird smile that was exactly the same as the mask, as if... the mask hadn't been taken off, but had grown on it. Same on her face.

The clothes on her body were on fire, but she ignored it, holding the man's ankle with her hand, and dragging him down step by step.

The mask on the man's face was covered with cracks, and blood seeped from the cracks, almost staining the entire mask red. The exposed skin on his body was all bloody and bloody, leaving a trail of blood wherever he passed.

He was also on fire, struggling in pain all the time, shaking his broken hands in vain, endless tears gushing from his eyes, he shouted with all his strength:

"Save me... save me..."

Ignoring the man with glasses calling for help, the villagers stepped back and threw torches on the woman with the birthmark and the man with glasses.

The woman with the birthmark raised her hand to block the oncoming torch with her bare hands.

Some torches just fell on dead trees, and the dry wood was blazing, and immediately burned vigorously.

"I understand..." Ji Siwei held the knife in both hands, and a layer of frost formed in his eyes: "The villagers want to burn to death those who have been penetrated by evil spirits."

This is a lynching, and it is definitely not the first time they have done this kind of thing, no wonder they dare not say it in a secretive manner.

Throwing a torch in this way is not afraid of burning the entire mountain.

"You can't beat it, don't act rashly." Ah Ming pressed Ji Siwei's shoulder.

The woman with the birthmark was full of evil spirits, and the evil spirits that invaded her body were definitely not at the same level as the little gangsters they encountered before.

If you rush forward rashly, you will only give your head away in vain.

"I know." Ji Siwei clenched the knife tightly to keep himself calm.

Looking around, he found the remaining four "teammates" in the crowd.

The fat man in the ball uniform looked like his three views had collapsed, and Wang Yiyi hid behind Li Yin in panic with tears streaming down his face. The blind girl was not with them, but stood alone outside the encirclement.

The knocking sound became more and more intense, the woman with the birthmark paused her footsteps, her face twisted with a strange smile, her eyes protruded outwards, her skin was like plasticine, being rubbed wantonly by invisible hands—there was something in the woman's body Almost forced out.

Ah Ming was a little surprised: "Can the knocking sound restrain the evil spirits that invaded her body?"

Ji Siwei shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not strong enough."

A dozen strong-bodied youths with a bundle of red ropes in their hands walked into the circle, staggered the red ropes, gathered them quickly, and tied up the woman with the birthmark.

Other villagers raised their torches one after another to cheer them on.

The birthmarked woman crushed the man's leg bones with force, and countless black mucus oozed out from the eye sockets and under the skin. The worm quickly covered the body of the woman with the birthmark, and quickly crawled towards the man with glasses.

The red rope tied to the woman with the birthmark burst apart, and at the same time, a dozen young people who were struggling to pull on the rope fell to the ground violently due to inertia.

"Delicious...so delicious..."

The woman with the birthmark laughed and let out a satisfied sigh. The "black worms" covering the man with glasses squirmed and crawled onto the woman with the birthmark in the blink of an eye.

The man with glasses who was still screaming just now had only a dry bone left.

Seeing this fresh bone, it was as if the pause button had been pressed in the woods, and the silence was terrifying.

The half of the woman's face without the birthmark was not covered by black worms. She stuck out her tongue and licked her fingers with a crazy look: "It's so delicious... I want to eat it..."

"Run! Run!"

I don't know who yelled, and in an instant, everyone moved.

The flames flickered, and the whole forest seemed to come alive.