Chapter 25: Nighttime Movements

"Must be alert tonight. Those refugees have gone crazy; they might just sneak over!"

In the gravekeeper's small courtyard, Old Quezi sent away Old Man Ding and then said to Lin Feng with a solemn face.

"Hmm, I know."

Lin Feng looked at the gradually dimming sky and nodded slowly. He didn't expect those refugees to come so quickly, and they were making such a big scene!

In his view, it was truly unbelievable. After all, refugees who were so hungry that their hands and feet were weak shouldn't be the opponents of soldiers who were resting and building up their strength.

"Sigh~ this world has forcibly forced people into jackals and wolves!"

Old Quezi leaned on his crutch and returned to his room, his whole person appearing incomparably desolate.

The graveyard was not far from Luohe City. Standing outside the courtyard, one could even see the towering city walls. If those refugees had the heart to come over and find trouble, it would still be very simple.

However, this was a graveyard after all. Besides a few gravekeepers, there were only desolate graves and wild ghosts; there was nothing good at all. During the day, those refugees didn't have the intention of spreading to this side at all.

"Woof, woof~"

Wangcai, who was at Lin Feng's feet, pricked up its ears, looking very alert.

"Let's go, go back to sleep!"

Lin Feng took one last look at the dim sky, then kicked Wangcai and returned to the room.

Of course, what Lin Feng needed now was not sleep. Even he was not big-hearted enough to be able to sleep.

"Woo-woo."

Sitting on the newly made chair, Lin Feng put Wangcai, who had grown a little fatter, on his lap, and then slowly closed his eyes.

In the Ding-character graveyard, some inconspicuous mounds of earth suddenly arched, and then wooden puppet arms stretched out from the mud, followed by wooden puppets that looked like they had been painted with red lacquer.

A total of six wooden puppets slowly stood up in the graveyard, and then began to wander around the graveyard according to Lin Feng's instructions.

Soon, darkness descended, and the graveyard was completely shrouded in thick darkness. The refugees who had been making a big scene during the day gradually quieted down.

However, in places where no one noticed, some refugees quietly walked out of the shacks they lived in and the civilian houses they had snatched.

Their skin was dark blue at this time, their teeth were sharp, and their hands and feet became like the claws of wild beasts.

"Bang, bang."

A knocking sound rang out in the night. Chen Dagou, who was also a refugee, alertly sat up from the bed. Beside him were his wife and his eldest son who had not yet starved to death.

"Who is it?"

Chen Dagou alertly gripped a hoe handle and then asked toward the outside of the door.

During the day, he had finally snatched this house. The little grain left in the house finally allowed his family, who had been hungry for several months, to have a full meal.

Now he didn't want to be snatched away by others, so when he slept at night, he was always keeping one eye open and one eye closed.

"Bang, bang."

But the person outside the door didn't answer him, but continued to knock on the door, which seemed particularly creepy in this dark night.

"Which blockhead is it! Knock again and I'll beat the shit out of you!"

Chen Dagou was instantly enraged. He grabbed the hoe handle and walked toward the door, cursing endlessly in his mouth.

Being able to survive among the refugees, he naturally wouldn't be a good person who could be bullied by others. At this time, he only thought that others were jealous of his harvest and didn't think much at all.

But just as he walked to the door, the door was suddenly smashed by a sharp claw, and then a humanoid monster pounced on him from the outside.

"Ah~"

The shrill scream didn't alarm anyone around besides making the other two people in the room terrified.

Immediately after, a fine gnawing sound rang out, clack, clack, as if someone was eating beans.

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In the Ding-character graveyard, the Embroidered Ghost quietly appeared beside Lin Feng, and strands of blood-colored thin threads extended to the outside of the house and connected with the wooden puppets patrolling in the graveyard.

The original wooden puppets would only mechanically execute orders, but after possessing the power of the Embroidered Ghost, these wooden puppets could be remotely controlled by Lin Feng.

At this time, Lin Feng was full of vigilance. He didn't want to expose his identity during the day, but there was no need to continue hiding at night.

And compared to the day, the night was obviously much more dangerous. Lin Feng would naturally be more guarded.

"There seems to be movement on the Wu-character graveyard side?"

Suddenly, Lin Feng, who had his eyes closed, opened his eyes, and then said such a sentence without rhyme or reason.

Of course, it wasn't that his ears were very sharp, but that the wooden puppets he sent out sensed the movement, and then passed it back to him through strands of blood-colored thin threads.

"Clack, clack, clack."

Several wooden puppets were originally patrolling slowly around the graveyard, and suddenly one of the wooden puppets began to walk toward the direction where Lin Feng heard the movement.

In the Wu-character graveyard, which was not too far from Lin Feng, the gravekeeper Li Sanjin was shivering in a water vat in a wooden house at this time.

Just now, he clearly saw several humanoid monsters break into the courtyard. Those humanoid monsters were in rags and covered in filth, but their limbs presented eerie beast shapes, their mouths split to the roots of their ears, and their mouths full of fangs were terrifying to the extreme!

Then there was a knocking sound and a scratching sound. The gravekeeper Ma Laowai, who had come to the next door not long ago, was really lacking in experience.

After being startled by the sound, instead of trying to hide his aura, he wanted to embolden himself and directly broke into curses.

Then, the thing that made Li Sanjin feel his scalp tingle happened. These terrifying things broke through the door directly, and then Ma Laowai's scream before death and the fine gnawing sound rang out.

There was no doubt that those things that didn't look like people were ghosts!

The night in late autumn was very cold, especially since Li Sanjin was hiding in the water vat at this time, it was even colder, but he didn't even dare to breathe at this time.

The method of hiding in the water vat was learned from his hometown. It was said that as long as the body was as cold as a corpse, the ghost wouldn't find it. Relying on this method, he had lived in the Wu-character graveyard for three months!

"Bang, bang, bang."

Suddenly, a knocking sound rang out. Li Sanjin widened his eyes in the darkness. There was no doubt that this time, it was knocking on his door!

Li Sanjin immediately held his breath, and then directly sank his whole body into the water vat.

"Bang, bang."

The knocking sound continued, but Li Sanjin could only hear his own heartbeat.

"Bang! Crack~"

Suddenly, a louder sound rang out. The door bolt of the wooden house was directly smashed, and a ghost broke into the room directly.

"Crack~ bang~"

The sound of sundries in the room being knocked over and tables and chairs being moved clearly reached Li Sanjin's ears.

Just when those ghosts were about to find Li Sanjin, a "clack, clack, clack" sound like wooden collisions suddenly rang out in the courtyard.

Instantly, whether it was the ghost gnawing on the corpse or the ghost searching for living people, they were all attracted by this movement, and one after another, they left the house and pounced toward the wooden puppet.

"Phew~"

Li Sanjin gently poked his head out and exhaled a breath of turbid air fiercely. Following the faint starlight, he saw the messy scene in the room, but at this time, what made him feel incomparably terrified was the scene happening in the courtyard.

Several ghosts with strange shapes were surrounding a wooden puppet that could move by itself and pouncing and killing it crazily!

That wooden puppet looked like it only had the simplest hands, feet, and body, but it could use various moves and constantly counterattack under the attacks of those ghosts.

But those ghosts were even more terrifying. Even if it was a wooden puppet, they would bite it crazily, and soon that wooden puppet began to become incomplete. ===== CHAPTER 26 =====