In the evening, the cicadas in the trees chirped weakly, and their hoarse voices made people inexplicably anxious.
Xu Yi and Zheng Yibai followed the tracking talisman and came to the village in front of them.
They came by taxi, but the taxi driver said he would not go up the mountain no matter what. He just dropped them off at the foot of the mountain and drove away.
It was as if there was something on the mountain that scared him.
"Why is it so quiet? Has everyone in the village gone to dinner?"
Xu Yi looked at the overly quiet village in front of her and said to Zheng Yibai.
“Woof woof woof…”
The sound of a dog barking was heard, and the village came alive.
Zheng Yibai also felt uneasy. Just as he was about to say something, Xu Yi patted his shoulder and walked inside.
"Boss, wait for me, I always feel that something is wrong here."
"Let's go quickly. Let's take a walk around the village and find a place to stay." Xu Yi said.
"Boss, look!" Zheng Yibai suddenly pointed ahead and shouted in surprise.
Looking in the direction Zheng Yibai pointed, they saw a lifelike doll sitting on a large rock at the entrance to the village, its eyes looking at them strangely.
The doll has long hair and wears a red lace hat. She has big round eyes that emit an unusual luster, a hand-sewn dress that is a little faded, and a pair of brown leather shoes on her feet.
It's terrifying no matter how you look at it.
Xu Yi exhaled and walked forward to take a closer look.
"It's okay, it's just an ordinary puppet doll, there's nothing dirty about it."
Xu Yi smiled and teased, "Xiaobai, why are you so timid today?"
"Boss, please stop laughing at me. I don't feel comfortable here." Zheng Yibai scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed.
He is a man, but he is not as brave as a girl.
Although the boss is not an ordinary woman.
"Let's go, it will be dark soon." Xu Yi stopped teasing Xu Zhengyibai.
The two continued to walk in, and the more they looked, the more frightened they became.
More and more dolls were scattered around the village.
Some were sitting on the roof, some were sitting on the grass, some were looking outside through open windows, and some were standing on the road, as if they were really walking.
"Boss, could it be that these dolls will come back to life at night, and then..." Zheng Yibai remembered the fairy tales his master told him when he was a child, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.
Imagine a full moon night, and a doll that is beautifully dressed during the day suddenly moves in the moonlight and does things like a human. The thought of this scene makes one's scalp tingle.
"It's okay, we are all Taoists, are you still afraid of this? Look, we have this, all the demons and monsters will get out of the way." Xu Yi patted Zheng Yibai's shoulder, took out a stack of talismans and handed them to him.
Zheng Yibai took the talisman and felt less uneasy.
"Why don't I see anyone? Where did the dog that just barked go?" Xu Yi looked at the puppets around her in confusion.
Looking at the small courtyard built with bricks and stones in front of him, Xu Yi walked in.
In the yard, three dolls were sitting in front of a stone table. In front of each of them was a small teacup, and in the middle was a plate of fruit. However, the fruit was no longer fresh and had already turned black and spoiled.
Xu Yi walked around quickly. Apart from the three dolls, there was nothing else and no one around.
"Xiaobai, let's stay here tonight." Xu Yi said to Zheng Yibai who was sitting at the stone table to rest.
"Okay, boss." Zheng Yibai moved his eyes away from the eyes of the puppet in front of him.
"I'll go see if there's anything to eat here."
Xu Yi stopped him immediately, "Xiaobai, don't touch the things here, just in case. I still have some compressed biscuits and dried meat. Boil some water and we can eat them."
Zheng Yibai looked at the somewhat strange doll and nodded.
"Then you boil some water, and I'll go around the village." Xu Yi said.
The two of them went their separate ways, Xu Yi carried her bag and walked outside.
After thinking about it, she walked back and put a talisman on the heads of the three dolls before walking out with peace of mind.
"Don't say that. As soon as the talisman was applied, I instantly felt that you guys were much more pleasing to the eye. Just sit here and don't do anything weird."
Looking at the doll with a talisman put on it by the boss, Zheng Yibai curled his lips and made a joke.
He didn't notice that a strange light flashed in the eyes of the doll on the far left.
"Hi ya hi hi yo, hi ya hi hi yo..." Zheng Yibai hummed a song while pumping water with a water pump.
"I wish you can ride on thousands of waves, stay by your lover's side, and listen to your mother's childhood stories when she grows old..."
Outside the courtyard, the sky gradually darkened, and the cicadas that had been noisy all day long also quieted down.
There was not a single cloud in the sky, and countless stars hung in it.
Zheng Yibai threw a handful of wild vegetables into the boiling water in the pot. He had just picked the wild vegetables outside the yard.
"Why hasn't the boss come back yet? Did he find something good?"
Watching the water gradually boil, the soup turned green, the dried meat and wild vegetables complemented each other, and the air was filled with the aroma of meat.
"It's cooked, take it out of the pot."
After pouring the wild vegetable and dried meat soup into a large bowl and covering it with a lid, Zheng Yibai walked to the door, ready to greet Xu Yi.
At this time, Xu Yi was standing in front of the most dilapidated courtyard in the village, holding Amao (a brush) tightly in her hand, looking at the dog in front of her with red eyes that kept barking.
"This dog has mutated. It's so evil."
The dog was a common rural dog, but it seemed to have lost its mind. Its eyes were glowing a strange red, saliva was dripping from its eyes, its tongue was sticking out, its legs were stretched straight, and it was staring at Xu Yi.
Xu Yi looked at the greedy eyes drooling over her and became angry. "What are you looking at? You're unlucky to have run into me, the Taoist priest, today! Get out of here right now and find a place to lie down!"
Waving Amao, he rushed forward.
The local dog was not a pushover either. It jumped out and opened its big mouth to bite Xu Yi.
Bang, bang, bang...
Xu Yi swung A Mao vigorously and hit the dog hard on the mouth.
The local dog's head was hit crooked, but it seemed not to feel any pain. It quickly turned its head and bit Xu Yi again.
For a moment, the man and the dog were fighting each other till they couldn't separate.
The local dog felt no pain and attacked Xu Yi tirelessly.
Xu Yi kicked the dog away, and with a bang, the dog hit the dilapidated wall, leaving a big hole in the wall.
"The dog ate the dead body?"
The local dog stood up again from the broken bricks, its mouth covered in blood and a line of blood hanging from the corner of its mouth.
A slow sound of footsteps came from the yard. "Where did this girl come from? How dare she hit my dog?"
A somewhat sloppy old man, leaning on a bamboo cane, slowly walked out of the dilapidated yard.
Xu Yi maintained her defensive posture and rolled her eyes at the old man. "I'm not going to hit your dog. Your dog bit me. If I don't hit it, am I going to wait for it to bite me?"
"The world is going downhill. Young people nowadays really don't know how to behave. Not only did they trespass without permission, but they even hit my little Huang. I really need to teach them a lesson.
Since I have nothing to do anyway, I will teach you a lesson today on behalf of your elders."
The old man was leaning on a cane, looking at Xu Yi with sharp eyes.
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