Chapter 282: Deadly Gaze

Inside the thatched cottage.

Dim light flickered, and five people squeezed together, looking very crowded.

Su Xuan held a cup filled with cool boiled water and was talking eloquently.

This thatched house was not large, and the five of them could only squeeze together, staring at each other in the flickering light, waiting for the malevolent entity to come and attack.

This feeling was simply terrible.

It was as if a dangerous guillotine was hanging above their necks, fixed only by a rotten rope. The rope was pulled tight, the fibers breaking one by one, and the guillotine could fall at any time to take their heads.

To alleviate this terrible, uneasy atmosphere.

The five chatted intermittently.

Not long after chatting, Wu Xian asked a question he was very curious about: why did Su Xuan and Li the Li Juxian join the burial faction?

It was normal for Lotus Juanren to take risks to obtain information, but it was very surprising for ordinary people to make this choice.

Unexpectedly, Wu Xian just started the topic.

Su Xuan excitedly talked non-stop, talking for a long time, and Wu Xian couldn't even interrupt.

Finally.

Su Xuan had talked enough.

"In summary."

"I think burying the old lady is completely correct."

After speaking, Su Xuan drank some water, then shook his head in distress. Water really didn't taste as good as alcohol...

Wu Xian looked at Su Xuan in surprise.

This notorious drunkard had analyzed the current situation thoroughly, and except for some misjudgments caused by a lack of understanding of the Fudi, his judgment was not much different from Wu Xian's.

How could such a person end up as a drunkard by the river?

Next was Li the Li Juxian, whose answer was much more concise than Su Xuan's: "I didn't have the chance to bury my mother, so when I saw you arguing, I was impulsive and wanted to help this old lady be laid to rest..."

After he finished speaking, his face dimmed.

Su Xuan, who was gulping down water, also put down the enamel cup in his hand, his mood clearly low.

Wu Xian scanned the two of them twice.

He noticed that neither of them mentioned danger in their words. It was clear that for them, danger wasn't a very important reference factor in this matter.

Were they confident in their abilities? No...

They should be indifferent to their own lives! Then Wu Xian glanced at Jian Lingyu. In order to tidy up the old woman Wang's remains, a strip was torn from this big sister's beautiful skirt.

Through that strip, Wu Xian saw what was inside the skirt.

It was a relatively tight-fitting set of clothes...

No wonder she wasn't cold at all last night. It turned out that she, like him, also chose to wear more clothes to deal with different situations.

After discovering Wu Xian looking at her, Jian Lingyu tilted her head and smiled at him, making Wu Xian's old face blush for once.

"Shh!"

"Listen, there seems to be a sound outside."

Du E suddenly held up a finger.

The four of them silenced simultaneously.

Wu Xian narrowed his eyes. He knew that tonight's test was coming. After careful identification, they indeed heard a faint sound coming from outside.

Bang! Bang bang!

First was the dull knocking sound, then a woman's scream.

"Ah ah ah!!"

"Where is this? Let me out, hurry up and come save me!"

The five looked at each other, all recognizing this as Miao the middle-aged woman's voice. She seemed extremely terrified, almost screaming until her throat broke, but the sound was dull and not very clear.

Li the Li Juxian swallowed his saliva: "Did something happen in the main house?"

"But the sound didn't come from the direction of the main house." Su Xuan shook his head. Wu Xian glanced at the oil paper on the window. Outside the window was pitch black, and there was no moonlight, which meant that what Miao the middle-aged woman encountered wasn't the second type of danger.

"It should be the danger brought by violating taboos, then the five of us are also targets of attack. Let the main house handle the trouble on that side. We five... five..."

Wu Xian suddenly felt his hair stand on end, only feeling a chill surge into his heart, his back ice-cold.

In the time it took to speak, there were only four people left in the room! "Who is gone!"

"I'm here, Du E is here, Jian Lingyu is here, Li the Li Juxian is here... the one who disappeared is Su Xuan, he clearly just talked to me!"

The other three were also startled.

Du E swallowed her saliva: "Did any of you see how he disappeared?"

Wu Xian and the others shook their heads in unison.

He had encountered similar things on Luo Wang Island, but that time it was in an open place, and the enemy had the ability to interfere with senses.

But this time.

They were in an enclosed space, and their five senses shouldn't have been interfered with, yet the person disappeared abruptly and unreasonably! The tense atmosphere spread in the small mud house.

The playing card imprinted with the Minor Thunder Incantation fell into Wu Xian's hand. He looked at the faces of the other three people vigilantly.

Perhaps...

Among these three people, one had already been killed by the malevolent entity. The malevolent entity was hiding among them in their skin, and when the other three were looking at the window, concentrating on listening to the sound outside, it suddenly revealed its true form and swallowed Su Xuan.

Wu Xian looked at Du E first.

Du E looked very panicked on the surface, but looking closely, one could find her eyes were shifty.

So Wu Xian shifted his gaze. Du E was definitely real. This little girl looked harmless, but was actually very dangerous, and wouldn't be finished off by the malevolent entity at the very beginning.

Would it be Jian Lingyu and Li the Li Juxian? He didn't have enough understanding of these two, even if they were replaced, it wouldn't...

"How is this possible!"

Wu Xian was startled into a cold sweat again.

While he was weighing the two, Du E actually disappeared silently! "What is it! Think! Think! What is the commonality of the disappeared people? What method did the malevolent entity use?"

Suddenly.

A flash of lightning crossed Wu Xian's mind.

"I understand, the condition for disappearance is the line of sight!"

"As long as there is someone else's gaze on you, you won't disappear. Once no one is looking at you, this person will disappear out of thin air."

Wu Xian just figured out the key, when he saw a scene that made his scalp tingle.

Because of Du E's sudden disappearance, Jian Lingyu and Li the Li Juxian subconsciously looked in the direction where Du E was to verify.

Their verification behavior resulted in neither of them looking at Wu Xian.

Now.

Wu Xian became the one who wasn't being watched. He hurriedly shouted at the two.

"Don't turn your heads, the key to the problem is..."

Wu Xian's words weren't finished.

Because he also disappeared without a trace like Du E.

In the room, only Jian Lingyu and Li the Li Juxian were left. They were ice-cold, their faces terrified, their eyes not knowing where to look.

Jian Lingyu had experienced many Fudi, so after panicking for a while, she calmed down.

Now she also realized the key to the problem, but when she turned her head to tell Li the Li Juxian that they must look at each other, she suddenly realized that while she was thinking, she hadn't looked at Li the Li Juxian, so...

Li the Li Juxian had already disappeared! Now in the room, only she was left, and no one could look at her! "I..."

Splash! Inside the thatched cottage.

The dim light flickered, and it was empty, looking very spacious.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 283 =====