I was the first one to stand guard, for two hours.
In the middle of the night, the wind was strong in the mountains, rustling the leaves and it was quite creepy.
I remained highly vigilant, standing up from time to time to look around or scan the surroundings, but found nothing out of the ordinary.
Because the night was a bit boring, I could only smoke and time passed particularly slowly.
Finally, after two hours, I called out for Duan Guangyi, who was the second watchman.
"Xiao Duan, nothing happened just now, so don't be nervous, just call out if something happens," I said to Duan Guangyi.
Duan Guangyi nodded and sat under a tree, saying that he had a signal gun and would fire it if there was a situation!
I commented on how a rich man was different, then went into the tent.
Surprisingly, despite the outside of the tent being wet from the water, the inside of the tent was comfortable. The strong wind outside could blow away a lot of the heat inside the tent, but it was still comfortable inside.
As I lay in the tent, I fell into a daze and dozed off. In the middle of the night, I suddenly woke up. Looking at the glow-in-the-dark hands on my watch, it was already four thirty, at this time Da Jinya should have been on the night watch, and I licked my lips, ready to go back to sleep.
Just as I was about to fall asleep again, I caught a whiff of a stinky foot odor, which I knew belonged to Da Jinya, that guy's foot odor was the only one that could be that bad. I kicked Da Jinya, who was snoring, and said: "You're such a lazy guy, it's time for Xiao Duan to sleep, go."
I kicked Da Jinya awake, feeling a bit aggrieved, he said Xiao Duan didn't call him, if he had called him, he wouldn't have been lazy, and as he said that, he began to pat his coat.
As he patted his clothes with his eyes closed, I suddenly had a bad feeling.
If Xiao Duan hadn't called Da Jinya, could Xiao Duan... have had an accident?
I hurried out of the tent, and as soon as I did, I saw Xiao Duan slumped against a tree, asleep.
"Damn! What's the point of guarding when you can sleep outside in such strong wind, this sleepiness is worse than Da Jinya's," I was about to pull Xiao Duan back, and suddenly, I caught a whiff of the smell of "sleeping incense."
Sleeping incense was a common plant found in the deep mountains, its fragrance could induce sleep, it was essentially ancient "aphrodisiac" incense.
Sleeping incense is native to the northeast, and I was very familiar with it, but how could this northeast sleeping incense grow in Henan?
I didn't have time to think about it, so I grabbed a bottle of water, wet my sleeves, covered my nose and mouth, and dragged Duan Guangyi back, shouting loudly: "Everyone come out, come out, there's trouble, let's count the number of people! Everyone should wet their sleeves with mineral water and cover their faces, there's sleeping incense outside."
As soon as I said that, everyone ran out, covering their noses with their wet sleeves.
I splashed water on Duan Guangyi's face to wake him up.
After Duan Guangyi woke up, he asked what happened.
I told him about him being knocked out by the incense.
Duan Guangyi felt very self-reproachful, pounding his chest and said: "Fortunately, Xiao Li is vigilant, otherwise, I would have caused harm to all of you."
I told him not to say that for now, and first see who among us is missing.
After counting-- oh my god, the old lady was missing.
This sleeping incense was probably her doing.
"How is that possible? The old lady saved us in the afternoon," Chengyan and Huang Xin couldn't believe that the old lady would hurt us.
I said not to worry about that for now, and that the opposite side was playing tricks on us with the sleeping incense, we should come up with a plan to get back at them.
I told Duan Guangyi: Xiao Duan, you will have to play along this time, continue to lie under the tree, pretending to be knocked out by the incense. Lao Jin, Lao Feng, and I, the three of us will ambush around Xiao Duan, Cheng Yan and Huang Xin, you guys follow closely behind me, I want to see what this old lady is up to!
Everyone followed my orders.
I hid behind Duan Guangyi, covering my mouth and nose with my damp sleeve.
After about a dozen minutes, I heard a quarrel in the distance.
The sound of the quarrel was getting closer, although I couldn't hear very clearly, I could still make out the general idea.
"Mom! Why didn't you slaughter them in the afternoon? It would have been better to eat them fresh directly."
"Nonsense! Eat what's fresh? You don't know how cunning that 'yin' person is. Who knows if they really have an issue? What if nothing happened, and I got spotted by them? It'll be even more difficult to eat them later! And you also know about that curse. Once cursed, you can't eat for one or two hours. Otherwise, we'll be affected by the curse too."
No wonder that old woman didn't eat us in the afternoon, so that's how it is. As for the curse? I haven't thought about this matter carefully for the time being.
"Can we eat now? Haven't you used ding Kui?"
"No, I used sedative incense. They are sound asleep now. Let's go over together and eat them. The 'yin' person should be the first one to eat, he's quick-witted. If you eat him, it'll definitely be a great supplement."
"Definitely! It's said that the constitution of the 'yin' person is very special, eating him will be beneficial for us. I'm even drooling."
These two guys chatted aimlessly, while the rest of us stared intently in the direction they came from, wanting to see who the old woman's son really was.
The result... was not a person!
But a wolf and a looks.
In ancient times, there was an idiom "wolves and looks in alliance". It said that wolves are naturally agile and fast, but they are not very smart. They are not good at things that rely on intelligence. The looks are naturally very clever, but they have a natural defect, their front legs are very short, making their movements inconvenient, so it put its two front legs on the wolf's back, the wolf and the looks, walking shoulder to shoulder, coming to eat people.
What we see now is the looks walking on the wolf's back.
However, the rest of their appearance is all looks, but their faces are human faces.
The looks's face is the old lady, and the wolf's face is... Xia Bao.
The same Xia Bao who was in our car that morning, and told us about the "lift coffin" matter.
I even kindly gave him a lot of money, he said he wanted to go to the hospital to get painkillers, to make the cancer less painful, but... but he actually followed us all along, trying to eat our flesh!
"This scum." I quietly cursed, it turned out that when we entered the Fengmen Mountain, it was actually a trap set up by that old lady and Xia Bao. We wanted to investigate the fox ghost coffin, but these two animals wanted to take our lives!
"Mother of my legs." I asked Fengying and Dajinya: can the two monsters be dealt with?
Fengying sneered: I could kill ten of them.
"These two monsters are really cunning. If it weren't for Xiao Li's quick thinking last night, pouring a lot of water outside the tent, we would have been eaten by them!" Dajinya cursed.
"Hmph! Xiao Li, give me a signal later, and watch me kill them." Fengying said softly.
I nodded and crawled down again, carefully to Huang Xin's position, gently hugged her shoulders, and said: Xin Xin, you did well this time, hold on a little longer.
The two sisters were afraid of affecting our work, so although they were very scared, they tried not to make a sound.
"Mom! I've changed my mind, let's eat the two 'girls' first, their flesh is fragrant." Xia Bao said to the old lady.
The old lady shook her head and said they had eaten them yesterday. The flesh of the man and woman in the tent was hard to swallow, they didn't even want to take a bite. She said that the flesh of the 'yin' person was fragrant, while the city 'girls' used perfume. Eating their flesh makes one nauseous.
After hearing the old lady's words, Xia Bao nodded and walked towards our tent!
As soon as he reached the edge of the tent, Fengying flew into a rage.
He stood up and said loudly: Humph, the monsters have become clever, but our Xiao Li is smart, seeing through your scheme. Today, I, Lao Feng, will not rest until I skin you alive!
When Xia Bao heard Fengying's voice, he quickly turned around, and the looks on Xia Bao's butt couldn't steady themselves, and fell to the ground.
Lao Feng shouted: still want to run? Let's see where you can go!
He raised his hand and threw a chopstick directly. Feng Ying shouted: Xiao Li, give the signal!
I stood up, looked at the surroundings, and said: Qian position ten steps forward and insert a chopstick, Kan position ten steps left and insert a chopstick, Dui position ten steps right and insert a chopstick.
Because Fengying's eyes couldn't see too far at night, I acted as Fengying's eyes.
Feng Ying firmly inserted eight chopsticks in the positions I mentioned, forming an octagonal array!
The octagonal array, composed of the eight trigrams, Qian, Kun, Kan, Li, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Dui.
Each position had a chopstick inserted. This was the simplest octagonal array.
However, Fengying was a master of formation and also a dragon seeker. His understanding of formations was not something an ordinary person could match. He walked quickly to the front of the octagonal array and recited: the gate of the eight trigrams, life and death sealed, beasts, kneel down, what are you waiting for!
The looks in the octagonal array kept spinning but couldn't get out.
At this time, the looks's intelligence came into play.
Listening to the old lady say to Xia Bao: Son, quickly run! Once the octagonal array is completed, the eight gates will form a golden lock, there are eight gates, respectively, the resting gate, the life gate, the injury gate, the du gate, the scene gate, the shock gate, the opening gate , the dead gate! Kan and Li are life and death, run from the middle of the Kan and Li positions, and you can get out!
"Hmph! If you let these two monsters run away, I'll throw away the face of master dragon seeker." Feng Ying walked leisurely around the octagonal array made of chopsticks: Life and death are at stake, life is found, not found is death, the eight trigrams are connected, the five elements are all alive, the five elements are running, block every gap.
He finished speaking, and the octagonal array actually started to rotate on its own.
Each position of the chopstick kept changing. (=only mention half of a sentence because the full sentence does not exist)
In this way, Xia Bao really couldn't find a way to get out. He kept hitting walls in the octagonal array, and each time he tried to get out, he was pushed back by the eight trigrams.
I asked Dajinya to take out the corpse oil and light the candles for these two monsters: damn monsters, why are you playing hide and seek with us in the mountains? Lao Jin, kill them!
"Alright." Dajinya didn't say a word, and took out the corpse oil.
The old lady quickly begged for mercy: Summoner, summoner, don't light our candles. We just wanted to eat your flesh. We haven't eaten it yet, so we haven't done anything wrong. Let us go, otherwise, you won't be able to lift the curse on you.
"Curse?" I now remembered this matter. Before the old lady wanted to eat our flesh, she said we were cursed.
"Yes, it's really a curse. Don't believe it? Look at your sleeves." The old lady kept shouting.
Author's note: Wow, two updates.