C25

Don't let your thoughts run wild, I reminded myself repeatedly.

"There is righteousness in the world, but it is all bestowed upon people. The bottom part was a river, while the top part was a sun. In the human world, one could live freely. The Royal Road should be clear, containing and expelling the Ming Court. Or to strike at the thief Huat, the anti-vertical head ruptured. It was a place filled with a majestic Qi, a place that would last through the ages. "When the sun shines and the moon shines, life and death will be safe and sound …" At this moment, the leopard cat started to sing "Righteousness Song". Her voice wasn't loud, but it was sonorous and powerful. Her voice was filled with determination and determination. This chant made my blood boil. I thought, the flower leopard cat really is yours, could it be that you saw through my heart again?

At the end of the path was the beginning of the trough, and then the path curved up to the top of the trough like a knife carving a groove into the south slope of the trough. The ditch to the right of the path was connected to the drain on the side of the horn ditch. We did not pause, but went straight down the gutter to the bottom of the gully, while on one side of the slope the jujube trees and ghostly needles swayed in the night wind like thousands of hands clawing and dancing. The last time I came here with the glass, I knew very well where Mrs. Zhao's bones were. We stopped in front of a clump of jujube trees. This place was the same place we came to last time. Nothing had changed. The stone slab was still there, but the white stuff on it had long since been blown away by the wind.

"Her bones are behind the jujube tree." Laifu stepped forward and used his right hand to brush away the jujube trees. Laifu's right hand was deformed by the twisting of the two small arms. I thought it would be a waste for him to use his right hand like this, but it didn't seem to have much effect now.

The leopard took a cloth bag out of its pocket, the end of which was tied with a string. It was similar to the old money bag, but much larger. The leopard cat handed the bag to Laifu and said, "Pick up the bones and be honest with yourself." Then he paused and continued, "Jiro, lean back. You can't do it."

Laifu opened the bag and was about to grab the bones when a ball of fire suddenly came out of the small pile of bones. The fire was green, spherical, and bobbing up and down in the air like an eye watching us invaders. We immediately stopped moving, not daring to move.

"What's wrong? Why aren't you moving?" the leopard asked.

As soon as he finished speaking, the green ball of fire flew straight towards the leopard cat. Laifu was right next to the leopard cat, and he quickly used the bag in his hand to hit it. The ball of fire flew to the side before it even touched the cloth bag, just in time to avoid it. Glass and I looked at each other, at a loss for words.

Four or five of these balls of fire flew out from the pile of bones and circled around the four of us, moving up and down, left and right, making the scene very strange for a moment.

"There are five green balls of fire moving around us." I whispered, because the leopard's eyes were blind and I could only describe it to him.

"When life cannot go according to the heavens, death will not take up any of the land. It would be better to return!" After listening to my description, the leopard cat actually said such a sentence, each word loud and clear. I know exactly who this is for, but is she here?

As soon as the leopard cat finished speaking, the five balls of fire flew towards him. Laifu was also stunned for a moment. So many of them flew over at the same time, he really didn't know which one to hit first. I saw the green flames circle the leopard cats to the left, then to the right, then to the brim of his hat, one by one they disappeared without a trace, just then there was a sudden meow from the grass on the slope, followed by a rustling sound that made me and the glass shudder.

"Damned lynx, it scared me!" "I'm sorry," I said, and saw that the paper man was close to my face again. I pushed the paper man aside with my hand.

"Bang!" Glass retreated a few steps and accidentally tripped and fell on the ground. Jiro, you really are wicked! " Glass got up and threw the paper man aside, screaming and dusting.

"What!" "You can blame me for this?"

"It's so dark. If you hate me then just scold me. Why did you try to trip me up? What if I fall down and you carry me?"

"Nutjob, I'm not that bored."

"And you still …"

Just as Glass was about to retort, a burst of laughter came from above the ditches, as if many people were laughing at the same time while covering their mouths. However, they seemed to be afraid of others discovering their laughter, so their voices were very low. The laughter only lasted for a moment before it died down.

Glass's words were just about to reach his mouth when he swallowed it back down. He stared at me with a face that was about to turn green. He asked softly, "Did you hear that?"

I nodded. It looked like the fall in the glass had been unusual, and he said that I'd tripped him, but in fact I hadn't moved at all, and that in connection with that laugh just now, if I had to give an explanation, the glass had been fooled by those things. Not just the glass, but me, on the path, stepping on my heels twice, maybe it wasn't really the glass. I raised my head to look at the loudspeaker ditch. It was pitch black and I couldn't see anything from ten meters away. It was really depressing. If one could look down from a certain height, the entire southern part of the mountain would be in darkness. Only the faint light at the bottom of the gulley would be able to see how terrifying this was.

I should get out of here as soon as possible. I pointed at the paper man on the floor behind the glass, indicating that he should pick it up. But the glass didn't know what I was talking about, it wanted to look back but didn't dare to, so it tremblingly asked, "Two... Jiro, you … Don't be scared... "You scared me!"

"Take the paper man, you're so unpromising!" I cursed.

When Glass heard this, she let out a long sigh and pointed at me with her finger, indicating that she didn't know what to say. Then, she turned around and was about to go get the paper man when something strange happened.

Glass was so scared that she jumped back, "There's …" There's a ghost! "

The paper man was still slowly crawling forward, but it was more accurate to say that it was crawling or moving, as if someone were dragging it. That's not right. Logically speaking, my forehead should be itchy, but why is there no reaction at this time? The glass heart and I were both in our throats, staring at it with rapt attention. I could not only hear my own heartbeat, but also the beating of the glass heart. Laifu, who was standing nearby, also seemed to have noticed that something was wrong. He also stood there and stared at the paper man. We forgot all about that strange laugh.

When the paper man moves, something must be pushing at it. What is this thing? It could not be the wind. The current wind was very small, and could only move the paper man's paper at most. Even the wind could not move the entire paper man close to the ground.

"The paper man is moving!" I tiptoed over to the leopard cat with the lantern in my hand and said softly.

The leopard cat frowned, it seemed like he did not know the reason behind this, "We shouldn't move now, there's a problem."

The flower leopard said that they shouldn't move now, which meant that the time wasn't right yet. The implied meaning was that the paper man would move sooner or later, but this wasn't the case. Especially when he said, "There's a problem," which made me worry, because things went out of control right from the beginning.

However, we can't just sit here and watch, we still have to do what we have to do, so I said, "Laifu, use the flag to poke and see!"

The leopard also nodded, indicating that it could go take a look. The flag pole was made with three reeds twisted together and tied together on the outside. As for the flag surface, it was even simpler, it was unknown where the leopard cat had gotten a cloth from, it was not even washed, one corner was tied to the end of the pole, the other corner was tied to the lower end of the pole, even the Phantom Talisman on top of the cloth could not understand what was inside.

Uncle Laifu wrapped the flag around the flagpole and took two steps forward, holding it with both hands. Because Laifu's right arm was deformed, it was very inconvenient to hold it. In addition to his nervousness, his hand was shaking so badly that he couldn't do anything. He couldn't even poke Laifu twice.

I motioned for the glass to be jabbed and it shook its head at me. I walked up to him with the lamp in my hand, kicked him, and glared at him. Seeing this, Glass could only muster up the courage and accept the flagpole. Then, he jabbed it at the paper man.

The flagpole broke through the outer layer of paper and stuck it into the paper man's body. The glass hand tried to pry the paper man away. Just as the paper man was lifted off the ground, my glass face changed. I threw the flag to the side, turned around, and ran behind me to hide. My whole body was trembling and I was on the verge of crying.

"What? Did you see something?"

Glass's lips were trembling, her face was a mask of panic, and her eyes were full of fear. She could not speak.

I was about to burst with anxiety and scolded, "What the f * ck are you crying for? What do you see?

"Snake..." Snakes... "There's a big snake!"

I let out a long breath. He said snake, which meant that there was a snake under the paper man, and the snake was crawling under it, moving the paper man forward on the ground. I know about glass being afraid of snakes. I remember when I was in university, a classmate from Guizhou teased glass. While he was immersed in the game, I secretly hung a snake around his neck. Glass found his neck was cold, and after scratching a few times to see no effect, he finally discovered that there was a snake hanging from his neck. At that time, he was so scared that he immediately collapsed, and his eyes were frothing at the mouth. To me, it seems incredible that a man should be afraid of a snake, but there are many such people in life.

Snakes, they become worms in our world. This is what the older generation call them, but very few people call them that these days. Most of the snakes here were non-venomous, called grass serpents, and were generally divided into two types: one appeared in dry and residential areas, red and black, called mottled snakes, which were generally very large, and the other, which was often found by the water's edge and in the grass, was entirely green, and became blue serpents, rather long and thin.

I walked up to the paper man and hooked it open with my foot. There was a snake down there, a mottled snake, about the size of a wrist. The back half of my body had been coiled together. I thought to myself that the eyes of the glass was really good to be able to see a snake clearly without lanterns illuminating it.

I kicked the snake far away and shouted through the glass, "Come on, I've kicked the snake away!"

Uncle Laifu picked up a cloth bag and cleaned up Old Madame Zhao's bones. The glass panes trembled as he picked up two paper men and let me press them before he walked out of the loudspeaker ditch. As soon as I stepped out of the loudspeaker ditch, my forehead started to itch. I turned around and saw a person standing at the bottom of the loudspeaker ditch. He wasn't tall, and his green eyes were staring at us.

Shit, he finally came.