"Tian Miao, the two of us are really going to die."
Zhu Tong tightly grasped her brother's arm, her emerald eyes filled with despair. Her eyes were misty and she murmured, "It's all my fault. We should have washed our feet in separate rooms. I was careless. I killed you..."
"Why do you take everything on yourself?" Lan Zhi saw that she looked distracted and had no way to communicate. She could only reach out and hug Zhu Tong, gently patting her back, hoping to give her strength in this way. "Sister, believe me, I will protect you."
Zhu Tong's body froze, and she had no idea where to put her hands. This seemed like the first time she had been hugged by someone...
No, just now, in a moment of desperation, her brother carried her in his arms like a princess...
Full sense of security.
Perhaps, dying in the arms of my brother is a very good way to die.
Zhu Tong's mood stabilized a little, but she was still very sad. She hugged Lan Zhi and said incoherently: "I just saw them. They were wearing white mourning clothes. They are demons walking in the night, the reapers of life. We have violated the rules of Chihu Village..."
Lan Zhi asked: "What rules?"
"When night falls, there can be no more than two people in each room. If there are more than two, everyone in the room will die..."
Lan Zhi said: "But we two have already changed rooms in time."
"I don't know if it's timely, and I don't know if the village chief's two sons will be implicated. I hope they can survive. Anyway, the two of us went out at night and saw them. We wouldn't survive..."
Before he could finish his words, there was a rhythmic knock on the door, "Knock, knock, knock."
Zhu Tong hugged her brother tightly with her backhand, her body trembling slightly, "He's dead..."
There was a "click, click, click" sound coming from outside the door, as if asking: Is anyone there?
Lan Zhi moved her feet gently and let Zhu Tong face the wooden door with her back. The two of them hugged each other. In this way, if the wooden door was opened, Lan Zhi would be able to see what was happening outside the house.
Zhu Tong shed silent tears. She thought to herself, since she was going to die anyway, it was good to have her back to the door. If there was any danger, she could die before her brother. Besides, she wouldn't have to see what kind of monsters were hidden in those white cloaks before she died, and she could die peacefully...
“Knock, knock, knock.”
The White Mantles were patient and continued to knock on the door.
Lan Zhi was worried about the situation next door, and didn't know whether her two brothers were wearing white cloaks outside. A cold light flashed in her eyes, and her body maintained its original posture, but her soul walked out of the sea of consciousness.
Shenhun's skin and clothes were all green, only his hair and eyes were bright gold. Shenhun tilted his head and thought for a moment, then smoothed his chest.
The soul is very malleable and can make simple changes to the body shape, but the appearance cannot be changed. This soul looks nothing like Zhu Tianmiao, it is Lan Zhi's original appearance, so she put on a green mask and then walked across the room.
Then she noticed that the doorway was full of people in cloaks, and it was all white, which was particularly eye-catching in the dark night.
Fortunately, only she and Zhutong had white cloaks in front of their doors, but not in front of her two brothers' doors.
"Ka?"
They seemed unable to see the soul, but inexplicably felt that the temperature in the air had risen.
“Ka-ka…”
The white cloaks whispered and knocked on the door again, but there was still no movement in the room, which made them gradually irritated. They were also restricted by rules in the secret realm. If the villagers abided by the rules, they would not be able to harm the villagers, but Zhutong and Lanzhi violated the rules and went out at night.
Theoretically, the White Mantles could kill anyone who broke the rules, but the problem was that Lan Zhi ran too fast. Before they could catch her, the two had already hidden in the room and closed the door.
The rules that the White Mantles need to abide by are:
[1. You cannot enter a closed room.]
[Second, you can only break into a room if there are more than 2 people in the room.]
[Third, if a villager breaks the rules and is lucky enough to escape and run into a room, the White Mantles cannot enter, but they can intimidate the villagers. As long as they make the villagers in the room feel fear, despair, and terror, and their minds are filled with negative emotions, they can ignore the first rule and enter the room.]
Therefore, the White Mantles have been knocking on doors, trying to scare the people in the room.
They could sense that the girl with green hair and green eyes was already very scared, and the only problem was "Zhu Tianmiao".
"Zhu Tianmiao" is too calm.
“Ka-ka-ka…”
They discussed in a low voice, and then two men in white cloaks came to the window and put in two white jade skeleton hands.
The skeleton's arm extended out, bones growing one by one, and the finger bones touched Lan Zhi's shoulder.
Lan Zhi's soul was outside, with only a little consciousness left in her body. She lazily raised her eyes to look at the long skeleton arms, then calmly lowered her eyes and let them slap her.
Just take pictures, it won’t cost you anything anyway.
"Ka?"
"Kacha?"
The two men in white cloaks in front of the window were dumbfounded. Isn’t “Zhu Tianmiao” afraid?
How can I make her afraid?
Just as they were thinking, Zhutong caught a glimpse of a white hand bone. She turned her head and took a closer look. It was a long skeleton hand...
"ah!!!"
The shrill screams were so deafening that they almost blew the roof off the house.
Lan Zhi's ears were buzzing. Zhu Tong hugged her tightly, her voice breaking as she cried out, "Help!"
The thatched house's soundproofing wasn't great to begin with, and Zhu Tong's loud voice startled the Lan Zheyu brothers. "What's wrong?"
"Are you all right?"
Lan Jinyu was so anxious that he wanted to rush out of the room. At this moment, he didn't care about any rules. As long as he thought about Tian Miao getting into trouble, his heart became panicked and he couldn't just sit back and watch.
Lan Zheyu grabbed him and said in a deep voice, "Hold on!"
Lan Jinyu shouted, "Let me go! I want to save Tian Miao! Even if I can't save her, I will die with her!"
Lan Zhi heard the noise from the next room and quickly shouted, "Don't run around, you two."
"Tian Miao, are you okay?" Lan Jinyu shook off his second brother's hand, leaned against the wall, and asked.
"I'm fine." This was Lan Zhi's slow and powerful voice.
"Wuwuwu..." This is Zhutong's crying.
Outside the house, the soul quickened its actions. She originally wanted to study what these white cloaks were, but now there was not enough time. Lan Zhi's soul could only come to the outermost edge of the white cloaks, randomly selected a "lucky white cloak", and threw a flame at it.
“Crack!”
The moment the flames started, the burned white cloak let out a shrill scream. The cloak was actually not clothes, but a part of their body, equivalent to the skin on the surface of the body. The burning cloak howled and pounced on its companion.
The fire spread rapidly.
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