Twilight Boundary

"what is that?"

Today, Hu Ma is capable and bold, but now in the wilderness, in the middle of the night, when he sees such a weird and evil paper man, he can't help but feel frightened.

This seems to come from human instinct, and sometimes it has little to do with ability.

However, a capable person can recover quickly, take a breath, suppress the sudden panic, hold the handle of the knife, and ask in a low voice.

"It's the evil ghost maid here."

Aunt Zhang waited for the two paper figures to float back into the forest before she lowered her voice and replied: "Look, there must be some big evil spirit nearby. It smelled our stranger scent, so it sent little ghosts out to lure us. People."

"I set up an incense array, so they can't find us, so they can only keep wandering around here."

Hu Ma's heart condensed slightly, and he understood the meaning of her words.

The two maids, when I first saw them, still looked like two people. If ordinary people were here, they would probably see two maids carrying lanterns. It had just rained and the surroundings were damp and cold. Everyone is tired and their brains are unclear.

Maybe he was really in a daze and followed these two maids to drink hot soup.

Of course, once you enter the forest, you can't tell who is drinking whom.

I was reminded by Aunt Zhang that I saw them as human beings for the first time, but I was distracted, and when I looked at them again, they turned into paper figures.

Hu Ma said: "Then what should we do now?"

Aunt Zhang watched the paper maidservants and the little light in their hands disappear into the forest, then turned around and gently touched Hu Ma's eyes with her fingers.

Hu Ma was pressed by her fingers, and she could feel the roughness of her fingertips. I guess she usually did a lot of farm work, but after wiping it on her eyelids, something was left, which was slightly moist, and her eyes felt cold.

Just as he was about to ask what it was, Agu Zhang had already put down her palm and held down his arm.

Hu Ma also immediately understood and looked into the distance again.

When I looked again this time, I saw that there was no paper maid. Shockingly, I only saw two will-o'-the-wisps floating out of the forest.

They rose and fell, paused, and wandered outside the forest.

In the ears, you can vaguely hear the faint voice of a woman in the mountain wind: "Passing... guest..."

It seems that these two will-o'-the-wisps are the real bodies. No matter the two maids I saw before or the two paper figures I saw after calming down, they are all evil changes.

Indeed, as Aunt Zhang said, they kept floating out of the forest and patrolling back and forth, as if because they knew there was a stranger here, but couldn't find it, they became more and more anxious, spinning around in circles, like a whirlwind.

"The mud I applied to you is the mud on the bottom of the coffin. You can see the true appearance of evil spirits."

Agu Zhang took advantage of them to float a little further away and said to Hu Ma: "Look out for the people behind you and don't let them make any noise."

"Coffin bottom mud?"

Hu Ma stretched out his hand and touched it carefully, feeling a little chilly in his heart, and said: "Can you see this if you put it on?"

"Coffin bottom mud, grapefruit leaves, and cow tears are all things that allow people to see them."

Along the way, Aunt Zhang got used to Hu Ma's tendency to ask questions, so she explained in a low voice: "The incense array I burned is to prevent evil spirits from seeing us."

"..."

Hu Ma looked forward and saw that four or five bunches of incense had been burned in front of Aunt Zhang. They were all dotted outside. The smoke of the incense floated up, and the red dots were even more obvious in the night. But unfortunately, the two will-o'-the-wisps couldn't be seen.

They floated around, and sometimes they came into contact with the smoke from the burning incense, and then they drifted away again.

"Fragrance formation?"

While watching, Hu Ma memorized the number and arrangement of the incense in her mind, and then looked back at the handlebar type and the waiter behind her.

These people are really lucky. They are still sleeping soundly at this moment, but they have no idea that they are experiencing this weird and weird thing.

The donkey was awake, with its tail between its legs.

Butler Zhou had also woken up now and was leaning against the wall. Although he was young, he was sensible. Although he was startled, he did not make any movement.

In the dark night, they couldn't see each other clearly, and he even made a gesture to Hu Ma, indicating that he wanted to help.

"I don't know what kind of evil spirits are in this forest, how can it be compared to the Red Lantern Lady..."

While Hu Ma was observing the people behind him, if they suddenly woke up and made a noise that alerted Xie Sui, then something bad would happen, and he would need to be ready to knock them out at any time.

But I can't help but be curious about the two will-o'-the-wisps. According to Aunt Zhang, these two are just little ghosts who come out to look for living people. In other words, the one in the forest is the real evil spirit that wants to eat people...

But with my own eyesight, I couldn't tell how powerful this evil spirit was.

So what? Should we find the right opportunity to deal with it?

Thinking in his mind, he looked at Aunt Zhang, only to see that she was just looking after the incense array in front of her. Sometimes the incense burned slowly, sometimes it burned quickly.

But she just watched with concentration, holding the fire stick in one hand, and reaching into the baggage with the other. Whenever a stick of incense was about to burn out, she would replenish it in time. In this way, the incense array always existed, and the will-o'-the-wisps outside kept lingering.

After suffering for about half an hour now, the two will-o'-the-wisps became more and more anxious, and suddenly exploded with a pop.

Immediately afterwards, a strange wind suddenly blew in the forest.

The wind blew so hard that the trees swayed this way and that, the vegetation and gravel rustled, and the incense in front of them became bright.

As it swirled into the forest, something seemed to be slowly flowing out.

In the night, Hu Ma's eyes widened, and she couldn't see clearly what it was, or whether there was anything real. However, she could feel something coming out of the forest and squeezing through the trees bit by bit. , as if a sinister gaze was scanning.

"Is that the evil spirit in the forest so impatient that he came out to take a look?"

Aunt Zhang didn't need to explain, Hu Ma understood what happened and quickly looked back.

I saw the handlebar type and the two guys who were sleeping soundly. They were also soaked by the cold wind and felt a little uncomfortable.

The two of them turned over and went from sleeping huddled together to hugging each other.

There was another one who swayed slightly and looked like he was about to wake up. Hu Ma quickly raised the handle of the knife in his hand and prepared to hit him on the forehead.

But Butler Zhou over there hurriedly waved his hand, and then stretched out one hand, as if pressing somewhere on the man's neck, and the man who was about to wake up fell asleep again.

Hu Ma gave him a high look. This week the housekeeper came from an acting background and had a few tricks up his sleeve.

But when I turned around and looked again, I couldn't help but feel a sinking feeling in my heart. I saw something in the forest coming out. The incense array in front of Aunt Zhang was burning rapidly at the same time. So many incense sank to the bottom quickly at the same time. In any case, it is too late to add.

He hurriedly let go of the hand holding the knife, picked up the mahogany sword, and was ready to take action.

But Agu Zhang also looked at the incense array in front of her that was about to bottom out, and did not continue to add incense. Instead, she sat silently, slowly holding something with both hands, placing it against her forehead, and silently reciting something.

Hu Ma felt that there was suddenly a cold and eerie feeling around her.

The fragrant mist that finally burned out did not disperse in the night wind, but gathered in one place and filled the air in front of them.

It was like an ethereal, translucent curtain, covering the distance between everyone and the evil spirit in the forest.

Hu Ma didn't dare to make any noise, for fear of affecting Agu Zhang's spellcasting.

Just watching, the evil spirits coming out of the forest slowly moved around. After watching for a long time, they finally calmed down quietly and slowly floated back into the forest. The surrounding temperature also gradually increased. The feeling just now made people feel uncomfortable. The coldness that chilled the body disappeared.

Aunt Zhang also slowly let go of her clenched palms, put away the things in her hands, and added the incense array again.

The fierce battle that Hu Ma expected did not happen. Agu Zhang just stayed up all night, staring at the movements in the forest. It seemed that the things in the forest did not appear again because no one was found.

It wasn't until time passed by one breath at a time, the deepest period of the night passed vaguely, and some light appeared in the east, that everyone finally felt relieved.

"never mind?"

It was only at this moment that Hu Ma finally asked Aunt Zhang in a normal voice.

"Um."

Agu Zhang said: "It couldn't find us, so it went back. We are very lucky to have escaped this disaster by borrowing the incense array."

"So this is how a ghost walks around the world?"

Hu Ma was a little curious. If it were the person who kept the New Year's Eve, in this situation, he would probably have to do it with real swords and guns.

Of course, the Shou Sui can refining his life into death, which can avoid this situation.

"This kind of evil spirit that can drive imps and transform into humans to deceive living people is usually very powerful."

Aunt Zhang was also embarrassed and explained: "It was late at night again, so we may not be able to defeat it if we fight it."

"Besides, there are many people around us, and it won't be worth it if anyone gets hurt by it."

"..."

Hu Ma thought about it and felt that Agu Zhang's approach was truly safe and reliable.

After waiting patiently for a while, until dawn, the workers and the handlebars also woke up, stretched out, and complained: "It's really uncomfortable to sleep in this cave. It's rainy again, and rheumatism is going to happen." ”

"But this is because I came out with a capable aunt. Otherwise, I would have lost half my life just sleeping in the wild at night, but now I can sleep peacefully for a night."

"I went back to see my old friend, maybe I blew it."

"..."

"You guys slept peacefully all night, but you didn't know that my aunt kept watch all night..."

Hu Ma found it funny in her heart, but there was no need to say it to scare them.

He didn't sleep all night, but he could bear it, so he got up to collect firewood and lit a fire to roast dry food to eat. While he was paying attention, he saw that Aunt Zhang didn't get up to catch up on his sleep, but took out a red cloth strip from the baggage. , rooted in the surrounding trees in a conspicuous position.

Hu Ma brought dry food for her to eat and said, "Auntie, what is this?"

"I want to remind passers-by..."

Aunt Zhang said: "There are powerful evil spirits that cannibalize people here. You must not stay here."

"Well, the world is in chaos now, and I can't get enough of it."

"I heard from my mother that when something like this happened before, I had to find out the other person's background, either to make him feel at ease or to get rid of him."