My apprentice is a little weird?

Chapter 189 The Old Man

"Village Chief, we have been here for two days, but there is something that has been puzzling us~"

The village chief's scarred face froze for a moment, and he said slowly:

"I know what you want to ask ~ Is it the unknown darkness that often appears in the village at night?"

Wu Da raised his eyebrows.

"That's true. Please help me, village chief~"

The village chief's eyes seemed vague as if he was lost in memories.

"To be honest, we know very little about this darkness."

"I heard that the village was not so dark before, but everything changed after the village took in a group of outsiders..."

"They were a group of wanderers who were hunted down and came here to settle down. But strangely, they all died mysteriously in a short period of time. After that, the darkness emerged..."

"We are trapped here, unable to leave..."

At this point, the village chief sighed...

Wu Da's eyes showed a thoughtful expression, and then he asked for some details about the outsider, but the village chief evaded them by saying that it was a long time ago...

The two then chatted for a long time, discussing the village’s cultural history and the like, and also talked to the village chief about some things outside.

We had a pleasant chat~

……

In the backyard of the village chief's house, Shen Ming, Ding Yuan, and Zhang Hao quietly climbed over the wall and came to the window of the back room.

Zhang Hao didn't know why, but he became very excited at this moment, and the statue he had been holding in his arms disappeared...

"Break through the window!"

Ding Yuan suggested, but the young master rolled his eyes at him.

"Brother, can you please use your brain? How loud does it make when a window is broken?"

"What should I do?!"

"Tsk, don't worry~ I'm good at window-peeping~"

They saw the young man standing on tiptoe with his back to the three people, fiddling with the window and door, but they couldn't see him.

After only five breaths, this half of the window was removed by him?

"Take it easy~"

The young man carefully handed the window door to Ding Yuan. He took it and handed it to Shen Ming, while he stretched his neck to look inside.

Shen Ming took the window and threw it behind him. The whole action was natural and smooth.

The crackling sound echoed in this quiet and empty place.

"you!!"

"Jiangzi! What are you doing!"

Shen Ming did not make any comment.

"I!……"

The young man instinctively lowered his head and looked inside vigilantly. After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that no one had noticed.

"Be careful when doing things!"

Shen Ming remained indifferent.

The four of them entered the house one after another.

The light here is dim, with an old round table in the middle and a large cabinet in the corner that is large enough to accommodate two people.

The bed was also ordinary, nothing unusual.

As soon as the young man entered here, he looked around for something.

However, nothing was found.

After Zhang Hao came in, he narrowed his eyes slightly, with a faint smile on his lips. He walked quickly to the cabinet and opened it.

He accurately took out one of the ceramic bottles.

I carefully opened the cork and peeked inside. Inside was half a bottle of sticky dark red liquid.

The fragrance that followed was like a breeze gently blowing across his face, making him feel comfortable and happy.

"That's it~"

Zhang Hao's fingers seemed to have lost control and lifted up involuntarily. He tilted his head back slightly and slowly drank all of the sticky dark red liquid.

Afterwards, he fell into a strange state as if he had gone mad.

His eyes were slightly closed, and his expression was vague and a little dazed, as if he was sleepwalking, or as if he was trapped in an illusory dream, as if he was lost in a strange and mysterious world.

"What happened to him..."

"do not know?"

Both Gongzi Ge and Ding Yuan noticed his abnormality and reached out their hands hesitantly.

But Shen Ming didn't pay attention to Zhang Hao himself.

She kept looking at the cabinet, her nose twitching slightly.

Then he slowly stepped forward, stretched out his hand and slapped Zhang Hao, who was standing in front of him, away!

Young master Ding Yuan's eyebrows twitched when he saw this.

"you……"

Without waiting for them to finish speaking, Shen Ming stretched out her little hand and pressed on the inner wall of the closet.

Crunch! Snap! Snap!

The wardrobe, which looked old but was actually heavy, creaked under the weight...

As Shen Ming pressed hard!

The inner wall suddenly broke and collapsed inward, revealing a staircase winding downwards!

"There's a secret passage?! Could it be the exit?"

"I'll go in and take a look!"

The young man immediately perked up and no longer cared about her violent and unreasonable behavior.

Shen Ming ignored him and walked down without hesitation.

"Hey wait for me!"

"Ding Yuan, you stay up there and watch over Zhang Hao first! Let's go down and explore the way!"

Ding Yuan nodded cautiously. He didn’t want to be the first to go down. What if there was a trap?

The young man eagerly ran into the secret passage and followed Shen Ming closely with the faint light behind him.

After a while, the two of them walked up the stairs to an empty inner hall.

There were horrible torture instruments scattered everywhere, with dark red and black marks on the ends showing that they had been used thousands of times.

Candles were lit on the surrounding walls, and a sickening stench filled the air.

There was shit and pee everywhere near the front.

The young man almost vomited when he first came in.

“Isn’t this the exit?”

The young man looked around, and the first thing that caught his eye was the huge statue embedded in the wall.

It was wrapped in dark brown vines and looked at them with a ferocious face.

Hanging below was a thin old man with a haggard face and scars all over his body.

Shen Ming looked at the old man and said coldly:

"Get him out of here"

"Ah I?"

Shen Ming slowly turned his head to look at him, his eyes were calm, but underneath the calmness was an extremely morbid emotion that was suppressed, which was frightening~

The young man's fingers were trembling, wondering why the little girl in front of him suddenly changed?

He was fine yesterday, why did he suddenly...

"Okay, okay..."

He stepped forward tremblingly, and forced himself to untie the old man while enduring the sea of ​​shit and urine around him.

But at the same time, while untying it, his eyes swept over the statue to see if there was any poem engraved underneath it.

However, to his disappointment, the statue did not give any clues.

……

Shen Ming looked at the majestic and solemn statue, looked at the dark and brown vines entwined around it, and looked at its pair of vertical pupils.

"What an interesting place. It can affect the people inside without them realizing it~"

"Let him immerse himself in the beautiful vision he has created~"

"It really makes me reminisce..."

"But I can only try it briefly and not get too deep into it~ Otherwise, Master will find out..."

A blue light flashed in Shen Ming's eyes, suppressing the bloodshot that was slowly extending around his pupils.

"I can't continue to immerse myself in this now~ Otherwise I won't be able to hide it anymore, I have to leave here quickly~"

…………

The young man carried the old man on his back and quickly left the secret room. When they walked out, they found that Zhang Hao had recovered at some point.

Ding Yuan asked with some concern whether it was an exit.