To give, or not to give?

Xie Lian remained expressionless, and had not yet decided whether he should continue to sit there calmly or pretend to be a panic-stricken new bride and timidly hide away. However, the owner of the hand was quite patient and graceful. He did not move, and neither did he, as if just waiting for his answer.

After a while, as if possessed by some mysterious force, Xie Lian stretched out his hand.

He stood up and tried to lift the curtain to get out of the sedan, but the other person had already taken a step forward and lifted the red curtain for him. The person held his hand, but not too tightly, as if afraid of hurting him, giving people the illusion of being cautious.

Xie Lian lowered his head and let him lead him out of the sedan slowly. He caught a glimpse of the corpse of a wolf strangled by Ruo Xie Ling lying at his feet. His mind turned slightly, and he stumbled slightly, gasped, and fell forward.

The man immediately reached out and caught him.

After receiving the support, Xie Lian also reached out to shake it, and felt something cold. It turned out that the person was wearing a pair of silver wristbands.

This wristband is gorgeous and exquisite, with ancient patterns, and carved with maple leaves, butterflies, and ferocious beasts. It is quite mysterious and does not look like something from the Central Plains, but rather like an ancient artifact from a foreign race. It just clasps the man's wrist, looking refined and neat.

Cold silver, pale hands, lifeless, yet filled with murderous and evil spirit.

His fall was just a pretense, a deliberate attempt to test her. Ruo Xie Ling had been slowly entwined under the wide sleeves of her wedding dress, ready to strike. However, the man who came only held his hand and led him forward.

Xie Lian was covered with a veil and couldn't see the road clearly. He also wanted to delay time, so he walked very slowly on purpose. The man actually matched his pace and walked very slowly. He would hold his hand from time to time, as if he was afraid that he would fall again. Although Xie Lian was extremely vigilant, he couldn't help thinking when he was treated like this: "If this is really a groom, he is really gentle and considerate to the extreme."

At this moment, he suddenly heard a very light ding-ding sound. Every time the two took a step, the sound would ring out. Just as he was wondering what the sound was, he suddenly heard the suppressed roars of wild beasts.

Wild wolf!

Xie Lian moved slightly, and Ruo Xie Ling suddenly tightened around his wrist.

Unexpectedly, before he made any move, the person holding his hand patted him twice on the back of his hand, as if to comfort him and tell him not to worry. These two pats were so light that they could be called gentle. Xie Lian was slightly startled, and the low growls had been suppressed. After listening carefully, he suddenly realized that these wild wolves were not growling, but whimpering.

That was clearly the whimper of a wild beast in extreme fear, unable to move, and struggling to death.

His curiosity about who the newcomer was became stronger. He wanted to lift the veil and take a look, but he knew that was inappropriate. He could only see through the gap under the red veil. What he saw was the hem of a red dress. Under the red dress, a pair of black leather boots were walking slowly.

The pair of small black leather boots were tightly closed, revealing a pair of slender and straight calves, which looked very beautiful when she walked. Two thin silver chains were hung on the side of the black boots, and with every step, the silver chains swayed, making a crisp tinkling sound, which was very pleasant to hear.

His footsteps were careless and brisk, more like those of a teenager. However, he was confident in every step, as if no one could stop him. Anyone who dared to block his way would be crushed to pieces. This made Xie Lian unsure of what kind of person he was.

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly, something white on the ground caught his eye.

It was a skull cap.

Xie Lian paused for a moment.

He could tell at a glance that there was something wrong with the placement of the skull. This was clearly a corner of a formation. If it was touched, the entire formation would instantly attack this point. But judging from the boy's steps, it seemed that he didn't notice there was something there at all. He was thinking about whether to warn him, but he heard a "crack" sound that was too painful to listen to, and saw the boy step down and crush the skull cap in an instant.

Then, as if he felt nothing, he walked past the pile of crumbs indifferently.

Xie Lian: “…”

He actually, with just one kick, crushed the entire formation into a pile of waste powder...

At this moment, the young man paused. Xie Lian's heart moved, wondering if he should make a move, but the young man only paused for a moment and continued to lead him forward. After taking two steps, there was a sudden "drip drip" sound from above, as if raindrops hit the umbrella. It turned out that just now, the young man had held up an umbrella to block the two of them.

Although it was inappropriate, Xie Lian couldn’t help but praise him for being so considerate, but he was still quite puzzled: “Is it raining?”

qq Black Mountain, vast wild forest. Far away in the mountains, wolves howled at the moon. I don't know if it was because of a fight in the mountains just now, but there was a faint smell of blood in the cold air.

This scene was extremely strange and charming. But the young man held his hand with one hand, held an umbrella with the other, and walked slowly forward, but there was an inexplicable charm and boundless love, and tenderness.

The strange rain came and went strangely, and soon the sound of raindrops hitting the umbrella disappeared. The young man also stopped, as if he had put away his umbrella, and at the same time, he finally withdrew his hand and took a step closer to him.

The hand that had been holding his all the way gently grasped a corner of the veil and slowly lifted it up.

Xie Lian had been waiting for this moment the entire way. He stood still, watching the lingering red curtain in front of him slowly lift up.

Aya moves!

It’s not that the young man is murderous, but we must strike first and subdue him first!

Unexpectedly, the Ruo Xie Ling flew out, bringing with it a gust of wind. The bright red veil left the young man’s hand, flew up and then fell down. Xie Lian only had time to see the afterimage of a young man in red before the Ruo Xie Ling passed through.

The young man was broken into thousands of silver butterflies, which dispersed into a brilliant star wind with shining silver light.

Although it was still inappropriate, Xie Lian could not help but marvel in his heart after he took two steps back. This scene was really beautiful and dreamlike. At this time, a silver butterfly flew past him. He was about to take a closer look, but the silver butterfly flew around him twice, then merged into the butterfly wind, and together they became part of the silver light in the sky, flapping their wings and flying into the night sky.

After a while, Xie Lian came back to his senses and thought to himself, "Is this young man a ghost groom?"

In his opinion, it didn't seem like that. If so, the wolves in Yujun Mountain should be his subordinates. Why would they be so scared when they saw him? And the formation on the road should have been set up by the ghost bridegroom, but he just casually... trampled it.

But if not, why would this young man come to rob the bridal sedan?

The more he thought about it, the more strange it seemed. Xie Lian threw Ruo Xie Ling over his shoulder and thought, "Forget it, maybe she was just passing by. Let's put it aside for now. Business is more important." He looked around and exclaimed, "Huh?" It turned out that there was a building not far away, standing there solemnly.

Since the young man brought him here and this building was painstakingly hidden in a maze, he had to go in and take a look.

Xie Lian took a few steps and suddenly stopped, thought for a moment, turned back, picked up the veil on the ground, patted it, held it in his hand, and then continued walking over there.

This building had red walls and a tall courtyard. The bricks, stones, and tiles were slightly mottled. It looked like a city god temple that was quite old. And according to Xie Lian’s experience, this structure was most likely a martial god temple. As expected, when he looked up, he saw three huge characters on the top of the gate:

"Mingguang Hall"!

The Northern Martial God, General Mingguang, was the General Pei who Lingwen mentioned in the spiritual array last time and was very popular in the north. No wonder they didn't find the Mingguang Temple nearby before, but found the Nanyang Temple. It turned out that the Mingguang Temple here was in Yujun Mountain, but it had been blocked by a maze. Could it be that this ghost groom had some connection with General Mingguang?

However, this General Mingguang was a high-ranking and popular high priest, and his position in the north was also very stable. Xie Lian personally did not think that such a priest would be willing to have anything to do with a vicious creature like the Ghost Bridegroom. It was not uncommon for him to be unknowingly possessed by a vicious creature. We still had to wait and see what the truth was.

He walked forward, the temple door was closed but not locked, and it opened with a push. After pushing it open, a strange smell hit him in the face.

It was not the gray smell of years of no one, but a faint stench.

Xie Lian closed the door with his backhand, making it look like no one had been in before, and walked into the temple. In the center of the main hall was a statue of the God of War, which was naturally the Northern God of War, General Mingguang. Many human-shaped objects, such as statues, dolls, and portraits, were easily contaminated with evil spirits, so Xie Lian first went up to carefully examine the statue of the God of War.

After looking at it for a long time, he concluded that this statue was very well made. He held a sword and wore a jade belt. He had a handsome face and a majestic bearing. There was no problem, and the stench was not coming from the statue, so Xie Lian ignored it and turned to the back of the hall.

With this turn, Xie Lian froze and his pupils contracted instantly.

A group of women wearing bright red wedding gowns and veils stood upright in front of him.

That faint stench of decay was emanating from these women in wedding dresses.

Xie Lian quickly calmed himself and counted one by one, one, two, three, four...all the way to seventeen.

They are the seventeen brides who disappeared in the Yujun Mountain area!

Some brides’ wedding dresses were faded red and very old and torn, so they must be brides who disappeared earlier. Some brides’ wedding dresses were brand new, with new styles, and the smell of old decayed corpses was very faint, so they must have disappeared recently. Xie Lian thought for a moment and lifted the veil of a bride.

Under the bright red veil was a pale face, so pale that it was slightly greenish, and it was very scary when illuminated by the dim moonlight. The most terrifying thing was that the woman's face was already distorted when she died, but on this distorted face, there was still a stiff smile.

Xie Lian took off the veil of another woman, and his lips curled up in the same way.

The dead people in this room were all wearing wedding clothes and smiling.

Xie Lian seemed to hear the strange ballad sung by the child again: “The bride, the bride, the bride in the red sedan chair… her eyes are filled with tears, as she crosses the hills, do not smile from under the veil…”

Suddenly, he heard a strange sound coming from outside the temple.

It was a very strange sound. It was so strange that it was hard to describe. It sounded like two sticks wrapped in thick cloth, banging violently on the ground, or like something heavy was hanging and dragging on the ground. The sound came from far away and came very quickly. In a moment, it reached the gate of Mingguang Temple. With a long "squeak", the gate of Mingguang Temple was pushed open.

Whatever it was, it was most likely the ghost bridegroom. And now, it has returned!

There was nowhere to escape and nowhere to hide in the palace. Xie Lian thought for only a moment, then when he saw the row of brides, he immediately covered his head with the veil again and stood inside, not moving a muscle.

If there were only three, four, five or six corpses standing here, it would be easy to tell at a glance that the number was wrong. But now there were seventeen corpses of brides. Unless he counted them one by one like he had just done, it would be difficult to immediately notice that someone had sneaked in.

As soon as he stood in, he heard the strange sounds of "dong dong" and "dong dong" and "walked" in.

Xie Lian stood still as he pondered, “What on earth is that sound? From the long and short pauses, it sounds a bit like footsteps, but what kind of footsteps sound like that? This is definitely not the young man who brought me here just now. He was so relaxed and at ease, and his footsteps made a tinkling sound.”

Suddenly, he thought of something, and his heart tightened: "Not good, the height is wrong!"

These corpses were all women, but he was actually a real man, and he was naturally taller than women. Although it was not obvious at first glance that there was an extra person, it was obvious at first glance that there was one person who was particularly tall among the corpses!

But, thinking again, Xie Lian quickly calmed down. He was indeed tall, but the girl Xiaoying simply tied his hair up and didn’t do much else, while these brides were all dressed up, with their hair buns soaring high into the sky, and some wore phoenix crowns with a large piece of hair on their heads. Some of them were probably not shorter than him, so even if he was tall, it shouldn’t be very eye-catching.

Just as he was thinking this, he heard another "swish" sound, two meters away from him.

After a while, there was another "swish" sound, and this time, it was a little closer to him.

Xie Lian realized what this ghost groom was doing.

It lifted the bride's veil one by one and checked the faces of the corpses one by one!

"boom!"

If we don’t strike now, when will we strike? Ruo Xie Ling flew out suddenly and hit the ghost bridegroom.

There was a loud bang, and black fog rushed in front of him. Xie Lian didn't know if the evil fog was poisonous or not. He had no spiritual light to protect him, so he immediately held his breath and covered his mouth and nose, while urging the Ruo Xie Ling to dance out a flowing wind to disperse the black fog. There was only a "dong dong", "dong dong"! Xie Lian squinted his eyes and saw a short black shadow flashing past the temple gate. The temple gate opened wide, and a ball of black fog rolled towards the woods.

Xie Lian made a prompt decision and immediately chased after him. Unexpectedly, after he had only taken a few steps, he saw flames shooting up from the woods and heard shouts of fighting and killing from afar: "Charge!"

A young man's voice was particularly loud and clear: "Catch the ugly monster and get rid of the harm for the people! Catch the ugly monster and get rid of the harm for the people! The reward will be divided equally among everyone!" It was that little Pengtou. Xie Lian groaned inwardly. This group of people said they would go up the mountain, and they actually went up the mountain. It would have been fine if there was a formation covering them, but the formation was just trampled to pieces by the young man, and they were just lucky enough to find it. Looking again, the direction they came from was exactly the direction that the ghost bridegroom fled!

Xie Lian rushed over with Ruo Xie Ling in his hand, shouting, “Stop, don’t move!” Everyone was stunned. He was about to speak when he heard Little Pengtou eagerly ask, “Girl! Were you kidnapped into the mountains by that ghost bridegroom? What’s your name? We are here to save you, you can rest assured!”

Xie Lian was startled, and then he remembered that he was still wearing women's clothes. There was no mirror in the Nanyang Temple, so he didn't know what he looked like now. But judging from his reaction, Miss Xiaoying's hands must be very skillful. This group of people were so surprised that they actually thought he was a real bride. This little Pengtou probably hoped that he was the seventeenth bride so that he could collect the reward. In any case, this situation couldn't let these villagers run around, but he couldn't guarantee that the ghost groom didn't continue to flee. At this moment, two young men in black rushed over, and Xie Lian immediately called out: "Nanfeng Fuyao, come and help me!"

Unexpectedly, the two of them came following the reputation, but were both startled and took two steps back. Xie Lian had to ask them several questions before they reacted. Xie Lian asked, "Where did you come from? Did you encounter anything on the way?"

Nan Feng said: "No!"

Xie Lian said, “Okay. Fuyao, you must immediately search along this road and search all around to make sure the ghost groom is not on the run.”

After hearing this, Fuyao turned around and left. Xie Lian said again, "Nanfeng, you guard this place and make sure no one can leave. If Fuyao didn't find the ghost groom in the mountains, then it must be among these people now!"

Hearing this, the big men were in an uproar. Little Pengtou also saw that he was not a woman, and was the first to jump up: "No one can leave? Why do you say that? Is there any law left? Let's not listen to them..."

Before he landed on the ground, Nanfeng chopped with his palm, and a tree that a man could hug broke and fell to the ground. Everyone immediately remembered that this young man would chop things when he disagreed with them. If they used him as a pillar, it would be useless to pay compensation, so they kept silent. Little Pengtou said again: "You said that the ghost bridegroom is among us, so he is among us? Everyone here has a name. If you don't believe me, shine a torch on everyone's face and see it one by one!"

Xie Lian said, “Southern Wind.”

Nanfeng took the torch from Xiao Pengtou's hand and shone it over one by one. Every face was covered in sweat, some were nervous, some were confused, some were excited, and all were extremely lively. Xie Lian couldn't figure out what was going on, so he walked in front of the crowd and said, "Everyone, I apologize for the offense just now, but I injured the ghost bridegroom, and it ran away, and it definitely can't get far. My two children didn't encounter it on the way here, but I'm afraid this thing may be mixed in with you. Please take a close look at each other, look at everyone's face clearly, and see if there is someone you don't know mixed in."

When they heard that the ghost groom might be among them, they were terrified and did not dare to be careless. They looked at each other. After looking at each other for a long time, someone suddenly shouted: "Why are you here?"

Xie Lian's eyebrows jumped, and he rushed over and asked, "Who?"

Little Pengtou grabbed someone else's torch, shone it into a corner, and said, "This ugly bastard!"

The person he pointed at was Xiaoying. Xiaoying's face with crooked nose and slanted eyes looked a little distorted under the firelight. She seemed to be unable to bear being exposed in the light. She raised her hands to cover her face and said, "I... I'm just worried and want to come up and take a look..."

Seeing her terrified, Xie Lian took the torch from Little Pengtou and said to everyone, “How are you guys doing?”

A group of people shook their heads and said, "There is no one I don't know." "I have seen them all."

Nan Feng asked, "Will he attach himself to someone?"

Xie Lian hesitated for a moment and said, “Probably not. It’s a solid one.”

Nan Feng said: "But since it is already a 'ferocious', it is hard to say whether it can change its form."

As they hesitated, Little Pengtou was the first to shout, "The ghost bridegroom is not among us. Did you see clearly? Even if you saw clearly, why don't you let us go?"

Everyone agreed sparsely. Xie Lian glanced at them and said, “Please everyone stay in front of this Mingguang Temple and don’t leave.”

Everyone wanted to complain again, but seeing Nan Feng's stern expression, they didn't dare to do so. At this time, Fu Yao also came back and said, "There is no one nearby."

Looking at the sea of ​​heads in front of the Mingguang Temple, Xie Lian said slowly, “Then, it must be among this group of people now.”