In the dark corridor, a creature shaped like a black lion quickly passed through it, and there was a man crouching in the thick hair on its back, but it was too imposing, completely suppressing the existence of that man.

Xie Jin squinted his eyes halfway. The wind resistance caused by Jiu running forward made him feel his hair being lifted up in a mess and intertwined with the hair of the black lion below him.

Jiu's body temperature is very high, especially the hair is too thick, and the whole body is lying in the hair, which makes Xie Jin, who has just escaped from the nightmare, feel a little relieved.

No, can't sleep yet.

Xie Jin bit the tip of his tongue cruelly, forcing himself to stay awake. There is not much time left for him. If he doesn't hurry up to find Ji Duan's soul, after seven days, when he returns to Badong Village, he may only see Ji Duan's corpse .

"Chirp."

The black lion heard Xie Jin's voice behind him. It raised its huge head, as if it was waiting for Xie Jin's next words.

"Please, help me find that girl."

Without speaking, the black lion let out a long series of grunts from its throat. Jiu knew very well that since Xie Jin was allowed to come here alone, something must have happened to that guy and the stinky Taoist priest.

Although it has always been at odds with that stinky young man, it doesn't want to see Xie Jin become what he was before because of anything.

The black lion shook the hair on its head lightly, and when it was about to turn out of the corridor it was in, it suddenly stopped without warning.

Feeling the sudden change, Xie Jin raised his face from the hair, and looked up from where he was, and saw the back of the black lion's head: "Chirp, why suddenly...!"

He looked forward along the gap between the black lion's ears, and at the end of the corridor stood a man with a strange posture, his body was in a distorted state, as if he had just experienced a serious car accident and was amputated at the waist.

"Jiu, let me down."

Xie Jin patted Heishi on the head, and the latter lowered himself half down so that Xie Jin could jump off it.

Raising his hand and rubbing the hair on the black lion's head, Xie Jin cautiously looked at the strange person not far away. He took out the flashlight from his bag, and after a short hesitation, he still shone on the strange person.

In the pale light beam, Xie Jin and Hei Shi could see clearly the true face of that strange man at the same time. The area above the waist was indeed broken and distorted as after being in a car accident, if the other party really belonged to the category of human beings.

The spine must have been bent, which is why this strange "human" has always maintained such a posture, but this is not the most creepy place.

"Hey..." Lian Jiu took a deep breath, shook the hair on his head, and took a step forward to protect Xie Jin behind him, even if it had never seen... such a disgusting existence.

The guy with the weird posture had a mask on his deformed body. The mask alone didn’t penetrate anyone, but on his shoulders, arms, and even his chest, there were several masked faces densely packed. It makes people feel uncomfortable to watch.

This is a monster with thousands of faces, looking at Xie Jin with countless eyes in an extremely weird twisted posture.

"Jin, come up quickly!"

The black lion urged Xie Jin, his black mane moved automatically without wind, but the thousand-year-old monster not far away was completely unmoved, and still kept the posture just now blocking the middle of the road.

Xie Jin didn't hesitate either. He resolutely limped his injured left leg and jumped onto the back of the black lion with some difficulty. He found a sharp object from his backpack. It was the firefighter he had used before he was attacked. The ax was even picked up by Jiu.

Holding the black lion's hair tightly with one hand, Xie Jin picked up the handle of the fire ax with the other hand. He leaned down and whispered into Hei's ear, "Chirp, be careful, we'll rush over there later."

"Oh." Hei Shi raised his head and looked at him out of the corner of his eye, as a response.

A man and a lion were circling a few meters away from the thousand-year-old monster, and then the black lion suddenly accelerated, and Xie Jin on its back lowered his body at the same time. The moment he approached the thousand-year-old monster, Xie Jingao raised his fire axe.

cluck, cluck.

Like the sound of mechanical gears turning, time seemed to slow down in an instant. Xie Jin saw the joints of the thousand-year-old monster wriggling, and countless voices came from behind the masks attached to it.

"Xie Jin, Xie Jin."

"I'm in so much pain, why did you kill us, I just want to live well!"

"It hurts, it hurts! It's all your fault, you're the plague god, it's you who made us like this, it's you!"

Those vicious voices cursing him came to Xie Jin's ears, Xie Jin's hand that raised the ax froze in mid-air, and he heard the familiar voice in the dream again.

"Xie Jin." That was Ji Xiangye's voice, the voice Ji Xiangye called his name before falling from the building in real memory.

"You're not him, you're not!" Xie Jin's wrist suddenly exerted strength, and veins burst out between his already clearly defined wrists, and tears welled up in his eyes at the same time. Xie Jin swung the sharp ax and slashed at the deformed body of the thousand-year-old monster.

"You are not Aye! Aye is dead, I know he has left me! I don't allow you to blaspheme him like that!"

Xie Jin clenched his back molars, and chopped the sharpest blade of the ax into the flesh of the thousand-year-old monster. The stench of blood splashed his face, but Xie Jin didn't intend to stop.

He was fed up with this place, where his most fragile secrets would be cut out from the deepest part of his heart, and misfortune would be repeated and magnified over and over again, making his inner world that he thought he had recovered to be once again stained red with the most painful blood.

The ax pierced the air, and Xie Jin slashed to the place where the mask of the monster with thousands of faces connected to the meat.

Accompanied by a crisp "click", the black lion noticed that the mask on the head of the thousand-faced monster was broken. It took Xie Jin on its back and took a step back, watching the action of the thousand-faced monster from a relatively safe distance.

The mask was made of unknown material. Although it did not shatter into pieces after falling on the ground, it was split in two. The face originally hidden under the mask also appeared in Xie Jin's sight.

The skin on the face has shrunk a lot, spreading out from the center of the face, and the face is covered with spider-like scars, so ugly that it makes people feel physiologically uncomfortable.

"Ah, ah!" The thousand-faced monster noticed that something was missing on his face, he raised his two arms covering the mask, and scratched at his empty face indiscriminately, like a vampire who is afraid of the sun exposed to the sun. Uncomfortable, he shrank into the darkness with a howl.

Chirp had obviously never seen Xie Jin so ferocious. It stood there staring at Xie Jin for a few seconds, then raised its scaly tail with only one hair on the tip, and rubbed against Xie Jin's calf.

"Jin, you've changed a lot during the time I've been away from you." The black lion's strong voice seemed incompatible with that coquettish tone, but Jiu didn't lie, it did feel that there was something different about Xie Jin than before .

Did his soul become harder, or did his never-before-seen courage make him tougher? Jiu couldn't explain clearly, but the smell on Xie Jin's body didn't change, he was still the same Xie Jin he knew.

"Snoring snoring." The black lion relaxed, and his throat couldn't help snoring. It rubbed Xie Jin's hand that was touching his head again, "Jin, we..."

The next words came to an abrupt end as if the pause button was pressed, and the black lion's body that was as tall as a small mountain shook again and again. Xie Jin hadn't realized what happened, the world was spinning before his eyes, and he fell to the ground together with the black lion.

what happened? Why did Jiu suddenly fall down?

Xie Jin raised his head after the ground stopped spinning in front of him, and he found that his left leg was pressed under the body of the black lion, and he couldn't use his injured leg, and he couldn't get out.

The dark wind hit from the front, Xie Jin's eyes widened, he seemed to see a touch of bloody red in the darkness.

"Hello, we meet again." A cold hand was placed between his neck from behind his head, the fingertips were colder than Xie Jin's body temperature, soft as a flexible reptile, and could be tightened at any time He choked.

Xie Jin frowned suddenly, and he desperately wanted to look back, but the owner of that hand didn't seem to want to stop him.

Out of the corner of his eye, he followed the gray and white slender hand all the way, and Xie Jin saw a touch of red at the corner of the skirt.

He suddenly realized something, and then another hand jumped onto his chest. It was the hand of a woman whose nails were dyed blood red. Like the one behind his head, it was a severed palm!