The Heartless Mage Chapter 18: Pick the chestnut from the fire

Master Gu is really familiar with Pig Head Mountain, so he didn't even prepare torches and lanterns, he walked calmly against the big moon in the sky. Wuxin and Crescent Moon followed him closely, listening to the chirping of autumn insects, not a lonely night.

Within a moment's time, the leader, Master Gu, began to drill into the grass and jungle. The mosquitoes formed an array, wishing they could eat the three of them. Master Gu murmured and scolded the street while driving against the mosquitoes. He involuntarily ate a lot of mosquitoes; He swayed wildly; inadvertently not attracting mosquitoes, one glance at Master Gu and the other at the crescent moon, following closely behind.

I don't know how long it took, the mosquitoes gradually sparse, and Crescent Moon finally had a chance to speak: "Master Gu, haven't you arrived yet?"

Master Gu handed the rope back to Wuxin, and waved his shovel to cut through the thorns: "It's almost time, I'm hiding gold, so I can't find a secret place?"

The three walked for a long time, and finally Master Gu finally stopped. Wuxin took the crescent moon and squeezed forward to take a look, and saw a small mound like a tomb bulging in front of him. The surrounding woods covered the sky and the sun, blocking most of the moonlight. The hill was covered with weeds. Come on, absolutely invisible.

Master Gu stopped with a shovel, turned back and said to Wuxin: "You see nothing surprising about this place, right? I tell you, if you come with a map in the daytime, you may not be able to find it! Pig Head Mountain! It doesn't look dangerous, but there is nothing else on the mountain except wild vegetables and mushrooms, who goes to this depth? No one who digs graves will come!"

Wuxin raised his hand and touched his chin, then gave Lord Gu a sideways look: "You buried gold in the ground?"

Master Gu raised a finger and shook it: "Wrong! Three boxes of gold, I can dig a pit and bury it on the spot?" Then he stepped forward and circled the earth bag. Looking up at Xingyue and set the direction, he lowered his head and shoveled it in, digging up without saying a word.

He is very strong, and he dug well. After ten shovels and eight shovels, Wuxin and Crescent Moon heard the sound of gold and stone. When they got closer, they found a bluestone slab buried under the soil bag. As soon as Master Gu inserted the shovel to the edge of the stone slab, he bent down and started to pry it. At the same time, he gritted his teeth and said, "Master, come and help!"

Inadvertently loosening the crescent moon, I bent forward and lifted the slate. It turned out that the slate was not too thick, and its weight was limited. Crescent Moon watched Master Gu put down the shovel and lifted the slate together with Wuxin, so he didn't step forward to help. She lowered her head and tucked the handkerchief into the buttonhole under her rib. She suddenly turned her head to look again, thinking, "There are still wild things in the woods."

After the slate was lifted, a dark hole was revealed below. Wuxin leaned over to take a closer look, and found that although the first section of the hole was straight up and down, it was only deep for one person, and the further down was obliquely deep, neither steep nor dangerous, but the cold dampness was too heavy. Mr. Gu was tired and sweating, and panted, "I don't know how this hole came to be. Anyway, once the slate is covered, it is my treasure house. I'm pretty nifty to pick it up cheaply, right?"

Wuxin waved at the crescent moon in front of him, and then asked, "Master Gu, will there be poisonous snakes in the cave?"

Master Gu responded immediately: "Shit! There will be no poisonous snakes on Pig Head Mountain!"

Although Wuxin has no love for Master Gu, he doesn't want him to die in the mountains for no reason. Since there was a box in the cave, he decided to go down first, even if he encountered a poisonous snake. He started, and Gu was in the back of the hall, and the middle was safer, let Crescent Moon go.

The three of them discussed it, and then sat at the entrance of the cave and waited for a while, estimating that most of the moisture in the cave had dissipated, and then they went down the cave. The three of them shared a hemp rope, and Master Gu's hemp rope was tied into a dead knot, and it took a lot of effort to untie it. Smartly jumping down into the hole, he glanced upwards from the corner of his eyes, and suddenly found that Crescent Moon was still standing at the entrance of the hole, as if he wanted to jump but did not dare to jump.

Master Gu smiled, raised his head and asked, "This is scary? If you don't say anything, I can drop you outside." Then he put the rope on his shoulders and stretched his arms up: "Come on. , you jump, jump into my arms, and I'll follow you! Hurry up, or Master will be gone!"

Crescent Moon bent down stiffly, and sure enough jumped towards him. Master Gu held his arms full, thinking that the weight of the crescent moon looking at the big **** of the big steamed bun is actually quite light. Crescent Moon didn't speak, so he took the other's hand on his own, bent down and walked into the sloping hole with great interest. The cave was completely pitch-dark. As Master Gu was walking, he couldn't hear any movement in front of him, so he asked, "Master, where are you walking?"

Wuxin's voice came back quickly, and it turned out to be right in front: "There are really no snakes - what's the matter? There is a turn in the hole?"

Master Gu, hey hey and happy: "I can't turn a few corners."

Immediately, Crescent Moon opened his mouth: "What kind of animal's nest do you think this hole is? I don't think it was dug by a human, but it looks like something was dug with claws. We can walk in it if we bend over, it seems There must be big beasts on Pig's Head Mountain."

Master Gu considers himself an aboriginal, so he immediately dismissed it: "There are no big beasts, even raccoons are rare on this mountain, I tell you—"

At this point, he suddenly shuddered. After a short pause, he said softly, "Crescent Moon, what kind of big beast do you think it could be?"

Crescent Moon's voice came from the front: "I can't tell you, I don't understand."

A layer of cold sweat broke out on the head of Master Gu immediately—Crescent Moon was walking in front of him, so who was the person holding his hand?

Master Gu is now very knowledgeable about ghosts and gods. Forcibly suppressing a scream, he casually wanted to let go of the hand behind him. Unexpectedly, when he loosened his five fingers, that hand tightly clasped his palm. Stopping to make a vibrato, he opened his mouth like a ghost cry: "You... draw a match..."

Only hearing the sound of "chi" in front of him, Crescent Moon turned around with a little flame in his hands, babbling impatiently: "You brought us here, we are not afraid, you are still afraid up."

When the voice fell, Crescent Moon bent down, and her round eyes froze. In the faint firelight, she saw Master Gu raised his right hand tremblingly, and a pale severed hand was wrapped around his right hand!

Then the two of them slowly turned their heads together as if they were in a good mood. On the wall of the cave a short distance away, there was a long female body with two braids hanging down, covering half of the snow-white face, revealing only a pair of black Bottom-up crooked smiling eyes.

The flames went out all of a sudden, followed by the screams of Crescent Moon and Master Gu's wailing. A match suddenly lit up in the vicinity, but he turned around and squeezed it unintentionally. The female body swam along the wall of the cave to the top of the cave, and a face was completely exposed, with two curved black smiling eyes on the top, and a bright red lips upturned at the corner of the mouth below. Master Gu pulled out the machete and stabbed it upwards, stabbing it into the woman's chest. The female body couldn't move any longer, but her arms stretched down longer and longer, and finally she was about to touch Master Gu's neck. Master Gu had his back against the wall of the cave, and there was no way to hide. Just as it collapsed, a little flame flew into the air and hit the head of the female body. A ball of fire in the sky lit up and extinguished instantly, and the three people in the cave heard a shrill cry, and the female body was already gone!

Master Gu withdrew the machete, and the top of his right hand was clean, only a few pieces of paper ashes remained in the palm of his hand. After wheezing for a while, his strength came back: "Master, what's going on?"

In the darkness, an unintentional voice sounded: "Don't be afraid, there is a soul attached to the paper figurine, coming out to make monsters and monsters. A fire burns its substitute, and its soul will naturally disperse."

Master Gu immediately tied the machete to his waist and took out a match from his pocket. Crescent Moon was also clutching a box of matches tightly, and said with a weeping voice, "Where did this thing come from? Is it inside the hole or outside?"

As soon as these words came out, Master Gu's hair stood up: "In the hole... can't you?"

Wuxin bent forward and said in a low voice, "Let's go out first, the cave is too cramped, and if the paper figurines come again, there is nowhere to fight!"

He moved nimbly, pulled the crescent moon and bent down and walked fast, and the crescent moon couldn't care less about Master Gu, so he grabbed the sleeve of Master Gu and walked out. However, before walking far, Wuxin saw a piece of moonlight in front of him suddenly disappear, and it was actually a stone slab that was about to cover the hole!

Wu Xin was in a hurry - he himself could not be afraid of confinement, but Crescent Moon and Master Gu had been in the cave for a long time, but they couldn't endure it! But Master Gu saw it clearly at a glance, shoved away the crescent moon and rushed forward unintentionally, swinging the machete at the last moment. Only hearing a muffled sound of "Tom", the blade was just cushioned between the slate and the hole.

The slate was completely smashed, but the machete did not break. Mr. Gu's eyes reddened, and he began to curse: "Damn, what is wrong with Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu took his own gold and didn't steal or rob it. Who is in the way?"

The voice fell, and heavy footsteps sounded on the slate. Wuxin took the crescent moon to squat down, stretched out his hand and patted Mr. Gu's calf again: "Paperman is going to pile dirt on the slate! You step on us and lift the slate!"

Master Gu didn't even look at it, just stepped on it. After stepping on the backs of the two, Master Gu pushed up the slate with both hands, and shouted, "I'm **** your mother!!"

The slate that the two of them worked so hard to lift is now being held up by Master Gu forcibly. Wuxin and Crescent Moon were used as stepping stones, and he was almost stepped into the soil in the hole. As soon as there was a gap between the stone slab and the hole, a pair of pale hands stretched in and pinched Master Gu's neck accurately. Master Gu immediately suffocated, but he was extremely resentful and refused to let go and admit defeat. Just when life and death were at stake, his body suddenly slanted upwards, but he had no intention to stand up with his two thighs on his shoulders with his own strength! And Crescent Moon was free, and hurriedly stood up on tiptoe and ignited a fluffy thing, and threw it out from the gap with smoke and fire.

The hands that were wrapped around Master Gu's neck immediately turned to ashes. At the same time, a whimper came from the depths of the back hole. It was the sound of a woman crying. The three of them were stunned for a while, among them, Crescent Moon and Master Gu were numb with fear, thinking that it was a paper figurine again; Wuxin was moved in his heart and urged loudly: "Master Gu, quickly open the slate, there is something in the hole! "