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Xu Xingxing and Huang Ying looked at each other and asked, "How did you get here yesterday?"

Chen Peng was a little confused, and walked forward with the two people, saying: "After we passed the woods above, we saw a ravine, and walked down the ravine..."

When he said this, he stopped in horror, and his whole face turned pale.

Huang Ying glanced at him: "What's in the valley?"

Chen Peng rubbed his face: "The ravine is full of tung trees, and there are many children hanging upside down on them..."

He shuddered as he spoke.

Xu Xingxing looked at the sidewalk trees and asked, "Sister Ying, have you noticed that all the trees in this town are locust trees?"

"So?" Huang Ying asked.

Xu Xingxing took a look at Chen Peng and felt that he didn't seem to be lying, so he said: "Only the tung trees in the ravine may be a breakthrough point. And children... don't we just come here to investigate children? ?"

Chen Peng nodded next to him and said, "I accidentally broke into that ravine. I was so frightened that I went crazy. I ran into it with my brother. Who knew that I broke into a school. I couldn't get out after entering. I waited until after the sunrise." When I went to buy some water, my brother disappeared."

Huang Ying asked, "When did you see us? How did you know we were in that hotel?"

Chen Peng hesitated for a moment, a little embarrassed: "Last night, last night I was at the Kangle Farmhouse, and I noticed you... After leaving school in the morning, I saw the two of you entering the hotel. I didn't know until my brother disappeared. went in..."

Xu Xingxing wanted to laugh, but Huang Ying rolled his eyes at him, then turned around and asked, "Have you seen anyone else coming into town?"

Chen Peng nodded: "No. But when you came down, I saw two people passing by. They were talking. I listened to them. Those two people said they were going to the old street to ask."

"You can't find anything by asking." Huang Ying said, "I think the most important thing now is to find out whose territory this town is."

Xu Xingxing knew what she meant. Families of Celestial Masters generally have unwritten land allocation methods. Basically, if something happens on a certain piece of land, whoever is mainly responsible for solving it will automatically belong to whose jurisdiction the land belongs to.

Chen Peng stammered beside him: "I know whose land this is."

"Whose?" Huang Ying asked.

Chen Peng took a deep breath: "My family moved out of this town."

Xu Xingxing thought it was no wonder that the Yin Qi was so heavy last night that it was able to enter.

"The Zheng family is in charge of this place." Chen Peng said.

Xu Xingxing was startled: "Whose family?"

"Zheng's family." Chen Peng repeated, "I only know that my home is in this town, but I have never been here. I only remembered it after I knew the exam location last night. I even called the old man at home. On the phone, my parents said that the Zheng family is indeed in charge of this place."

"Which Zheng family?" Xu Xingxing asked again, "The Zheng family whose ancestral home is Sichuan?"

Chen Peng nodded: "Not all the people in this town have the surname Chen, Zheng... Teacher Zheng's Zheng."

Xu Xingxing glanced at Huang Ying calmly.

Huang Ying spread her hands: "What should I do now? Where can I find someone from the Zheng family? The Zheng family was in charge before, but it doesn't mean it is now."

The three stood silently on the street.

This town can indeed be called a giant town, it is really too big, but there are not many people, and judging from the situation of the proprietress, the people in the town are a little wary of outsiders.

Xu Xingxing felt even more complicated.

Zheng Yi came from a noble family, and I don't know how many people know about it.If the Zheng family is really in charge of this town, then it is equivalent to Zheng Yi trying to tear down his own family.

Is this a battle between the family and Lingguan?

Is Zheng Yi using his own knife?

So what kind of position is he in at the Lingguan now?

Among the three, Chen Peng was the biggest, but he was cowardly and didn't dare to say more.

Huang Ying looked like a leader, and she made a plan in no time: "This... Brother Chen, it is impossible to help you find brother, and we have something to do. Now, my brother and I are going to take a look at the ravine you mentioned. Follow if you want to go? If not, can you show me the way?"

Xu Xingxing thought for a while: "Your brother should be fine, there are insurance measures for Lingguan."

Chen Peng nodded: "Shall I take you there? I just hope that after clarifying the matter, we can catch a few evil spirits and then we can do business."

Huang Ying smiled: "There are plenty of evil spirits, let's wait and see at night. The three thousand evil spirits haven't shown any trace yet."

As soon as Huang Ying said this, Xu Xingxing suddenly remembered the ghost town that the proprietress had mentioned, and his heart sank.

It's hard to say whether these three thousand evil spirits came rushing to this town on purpose, or if some accident happened.

After making up their minds, the three of them had a meal next to the hotel. After the meal, Chen Peng followed his memory and led the two of them towards the ravine.

Xu Xingxing turned his head while walking, watching the school behind him getting farther and farther away, the bell tower gradually disappeared, and the sculpture was in front of him again after a while.

People passed by on the street from time to time, Chen Peng hurried forward a few steps, took out a camera from his bag, took a few photos, and said softly: "So there is really this sculpture."

Huang Ying asked, "Did your family tell you about this sculpture?"

"Ah." Chen Peng smiled, "I heard from my parents when I was young that this sculpture is the center of the town."

Xu Xingxing: "Half of this town is old buildings, why is there such a westernized goddess statue in the center?"

Chen Peng shook his head: "I don't know, mix and match style?"

Xu Xingxing looked up at the sculpture, and it still looked so weird, with a male face and a female body.

He rubbed his chin, thinking that it was not an illusion in the dark.

Huang Ying was also watching the sculpture, so she didn't urge her.

After a while Chen Peng smiled: "Let's go?"

The two followed suit again.

After passing the statue, head west, which is in the opposite direction from the school.

After walking a few steps, Xu Xingxing suddenly turned his head, and Huang Ying asked, "What's wrong?"

"No." Xu Xingxing replied, and after thinking about it, he moved to Huang Ying's side again, "Why do I feel that this sculpture is different from yesterday?"

Huang Ying shook her head.

When no one noticed, the corners of the goddess statue's lips rose slightly, and her head tilted towards the west.

Occasionally, candidates could be seen in the crowd, and at first glance, they didn't match the overall temperament of the town, but Xu Xingxing couldn't tell what kind of temperament the town was like.

After about four or 10 minutes, we arrived at the foot of a low mountain.

Chen Peng pointed to the valley not far away: "It's right there."

Huang Ying smiled: "I haven't arrived in such a long time, I thought Brother Chen was going to sell us."

Chen Peng hurriedly said: "How is it possible!"

"Just kidding you." Huang Ying said, "Don't be nervous."

There are more and more trees around, and the area near the town is full of pagoda trees. Going inside, there are more and more tung trees, and finally completely replaced the pagoda trees.

"Can I see it at noon?" Chen Peng asked suddenly.

Huang Ying: "Why not? The tung tree shades the sun, so it's okay even if you can't see it, just arrange it casually."

Chen Peng smiled: "I don't often deal with ghosts, and I don't know much about them."

"Then why do you want to take the test for the Celestial Master Certificate?" Xu Xingxing asked.

Chen Peng paused for a moment before he wanted to speak, and finally said: "I came with my brother."

Xu Xingxing nodded, paying attention to the changes in the environment on both sides.

Entering the ravine along the path, it is indeed getting more and more cloudy. The trees in the ravine in front of us are obviously all artificially planted, otherwise it is impossible that there is not a single hybrid.

Not too far into the ravine, the road turned a corner, and there was a depression in front of it, sandwiched by two mountain peaks, and there was a small road in the middle that could only be passed by one person. It was very dangerous, and the road was covered with weeds.

A gust of wind blew from the depths of the road, and Xu Xingxing suddenly heard a series of laughter.

The laughter of small children.

He was walking in the front, when he suddenly turned his head, the two people behind were startled and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xu Xingxing frowned: "Didn't you hear that?"

Huang Ying immediately drew out her long knife: "What did you hear?"

This movement was very quick, and Chen Peng, who was walking in the middle, was taken aback, took a step to the side in a panic, and bumped into Xu Xingxing.

Xu Xingxing suppressed his laughter and coughed lightly twice: "Let's go, and look forward."

Huang Ying put away the knife expressionlessly, and moved swiftly. Chen Peng blushed immediately, and hurried to the front.

After walking forward for nearly 10 minutes, Chen Peng stopped: "We came down from above last night."

He pointed to the high place with his finger, and the path was vaguely winding upwards, and he could vaguely see the woods on the edge of the town.

Xu Xingxing had already seen the scene in front of him clearly.

He was a little speechless.

The ravine in front of me was wider, and there was an open space below, and even a small stream flowed down, and I don't know where it meanders.

The stream is full of tung trees, and the trees are full of children.

The ones on the tree were swinging, and the ones were running around on the grass. Those children were all smiling and looked this way from time to time.

It was clear that he saw a visitor, but he didn't care about it.

After two more glances, Xu Xingxing got goose bumps all over his body.

Those children, the oldest ones are no more than two or three years old, as for the young ones, their foreheads have not grown together, and if you look closely, you can still see the pink tissue exposed.

Others didn't even open their eyes, but their faces were obviously smiling, and their whole bodies were leaning towards the three of them.

"Fuck." He finally whispered.

Seeing his reaction, Huang Ying said, "Brother Xing, what did you see? I can't see it."

Chen Peng said beside him: "I can't see it either. Can the blood of a black dog be used?"

At this moment, a little ghost suddenly appeared in front of him, jumped up suddenly, and directly climbed onto Xu Xingxing's thigh.

The white and tender flesh on his body was shaking.

Xu Xingxing lowered his head and looked at him, thinking that this kid is not afraid of my evil spirit?

Before he could make up his mind, the little doll suddenly smiled, opened his mouth and bit his leg.Reflexively, he kicked his long legs and quickly threw the kid out.

Huang Ying was good at formations, so she understood something from his movements, and quickly drew a ghostly appearance formation in front of the three of them.

Xu Xingxing and her looked at each other, the two of them chanted a mantra at the same time, and pushed forward.

Maybe it was because of the tung tree, the spell was much more effective than usual, the air shook slightly, and after a while, the scene in the ravine came into Huang Ying's eyes.

Her expression twitched a little, and she looked back at Chen Peng.

Chen Peng took several steps back, his face was pale, and he looked at the two people anxiously: "It was like this last night."

"Disgusting is a little disgusting." Huang Ying said, "What are you afraid of? These brats don't bite."

"It's strange not to bite people!" Xu Xingxing said.

Huang Ying remembered his actions just now, couldn't help laughing, and then shuddered: "It looks really scary, there are so many brats, I think about how to take them away."

Chen Peng handed over a bag from behind: "I brought a kit."

Huang Ying took it and said, "Thank you."

Xu Xingxing looked at the kid who was kicked away by him just now, and stretched out his hand to pinch the ghost binding formula. The kid was suddenly unable to move, he took two steps forward, and stretched out his hand to lift the kid.

The little ghost still had a smile on his face, and looked at Xu Xingxing with his big eyes.

Xu Xingxing sighed, turned around and wanted to put it into the kit bag in Huang Ying's hand.

Just when he was about to put it down, the kid laughed and bit his wrist, then jumped off the ground and ran behind the tung tree.

The place bitten by the little ghost immediately turned black.

Xu Xingxing was astonished, while Huang Ying laughed beside him: "Brother Xing, why can't your ghost-binding formula not even bind a little ghost?"

She was smiling when she saw Xu Xingxing's expression suddenly became quiet.

The children in the distance gathered together and laughed, turning their heads to look at them with a smile from time to time, Xu Xingxing asked softly, "Sister Ying, there are no children in this town."

Huang Ying's face suddenly turned pale, and she nodded.

Xu Xingxing asked again: "Can ghosts grow up?"

The two faced each other silently for a while, Huang Ying smiled: "Don't scare yourself, these little ghosts may have used their spiritual power to change their shape."

A gust of wind suddenly blew up behind her, and Huang Ying turned her head abruptly, and within a few words, Chen Peng behind her disappeared.

Xu Xingxing twitched his eyebrows and shouted: "Chen Peng!"

No one answered.

The laughing and joking voices not far away became more and more noisy, and after a while, the ground suddenly shook.