The sky is gradually getting dark.

At first, people lit torches just to boost their courage and ward off evil spirits, but later they started to rely on torches for lighting.

The Liao family residence was extremely lively tonight.

Everyone searched patiently, not missing any corner. Even the mouse holes had to be pried open to see if the golden toad was hiding inside.

Not only do you have to be careful when looking for things, you also have to be careful when walking.

Everyone in the Liao family thought of what the Immortal Master had said in the afternoon, that the Golden Toad was either hiding or knew some kind of invisibility method, so after some discussions and countermeasures, they finally sprinkled a thin layer of light inside and outside the house.

Thin flour, now they have to be more careful when walking in and out, they can only step on the previous footprints.

It was okay during the day, but when it got dark, every time I walked in or out, I had to lower the fire lantern and shine it on the footprints on the ground.

"did you find it?"

"No!"

"Where could this thing be hiding?"

"Look carefully! That thing is inconvenient to move around. When we originally wanted to move it, we were asked to move it. It can't go too far!"

"I've searched all over..."

Everyone was anxious and helpless.

Even as time goes by, and the hard work but no results, the fierceness and courage that were mustered before are slowly fading, and some people are beginning to feel a little drummed in their hearts.

Empress Sanhua was still sitting on the wall of the courtyard with an expressionless face. She only stared down at the people coming in and out below, observing secretly and keeping silent.

An old man with white beard and hair was sitting on a chair. He also turned to look at his descendants. Seeing that they could not be found for a long time, he was silent for a while, then suddenly raised his eyebrows, tapped the ground with his walking stick, and said angrily:

"Find them all for me! Don't be lazy! That thing can't escape from this house! The second brother is going to bring me firewood, and the eldest brother is going to count the valuable things in the house and take them all out. If you can't find them tonight,

If I burn this house down, I won’t suffer any more harm from it!”

"father……"

"Master!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this and tried to persuade him one after another.

Even the neighbors who were watching the excitement at the door and did not dare to come in were shocked. Even the girl sitting on the eaves of the courtyard wall couldn't help but be stunned and stared at the old man with her head down.

"No nonsense! Compared with the whole family being tortured to death by that thing, how much does a house cost? It's a big deal and we can build it again! There is Yangjiang behind our house, and there is still some distance from the neighbors on the left and right, so we can't burn it to others.

,What are you afraid of?”

Although the old man's voice was hoarse and his words were garbled, his words still echoed in the courtyard and everyone could hear them, and the courage in his words was even more admirable.

Then the courtyard became even more chaotic.

Everyone searched more carefully and became more and more panicked. Occasionally, some people moved out gold and silver belongings and valuable furniture, while others moved in dry firewood.

Sanhua Empress was already a little bored sitting on the eaves of the courtyard wall. She couldn't help but change her posture, from sitting upright to supporting her chin with her hands. She was still staring down, but she couldn't help but yawn.

and blinked.

At this moment, she was suddenly startled.

Then there was a brush sound, and she turned her head and stared straight at an open space in the courtyard. There was nothing there, but she didn't even blink.

After looking at it for a few times, he glanced at the old man again, thoughtfully.

Then he continued to stare into the courtyard, his eyes moving slowly.

But wherever she looked there was still nothing.

The old man in the courtyard was still sitting and looking at her from time to time. Everyone in the courtyard was still coming and going, searching carefully, but no one found anything unusual.

Empress Sanhua's eyes moved slowly, her head lowered lower and lower, until the focus of her eyes had moved from the courtyard to a position near the door, her head lowered very deeply, and then she raised her head and looked at the old man.

Then he looked at the other people around him and said:

"Don't let it get away!"

The voice was clear and thin, not loud, but it attracted everyone's attention instantly.

This was the first thing she said after entering the courtyard and jumping up the courtyard wall.

The old man who was sitting in the middle of the courtyard and presiding over the overall situation had been looking at her. Hearing this, he immediately tapped the ground with his walking stick and shouted: "Look more at the footprints on the ground!"

The old man had a high prestige, and when everyone heard what he said, they immediately followed it.

The torches were immediately lowered, and the lanterns were lowered, all close to the ground. Everyone bent down and searched carefully on the ground.

"wrong!"

Suddenly, a sharp-eyed person noticed something was wrong.

It's not that they saw extra footprints out of thin air in the open space, but that there were human footprints where they had previously stepped. The flour had not been completely wiped away, but the flour in the footprints had become very small. But

On top of a series of vague footprints, there are a few more tiny dots, as if they were pressed by fingers.

It was blurry and intermittent, and it was night, so I couldn't see clearly unless I looked carefully.

Just when the man saw this, a few fuzzy small footprints appeared out of thin air among the big footprints in front of him, with very short intervals.

"ah!"

The man was immediately frightened and took two steps back, pointed forward, and shouted: "Here!"

One sentence made countless people look back.

"where?"

"Here! Can't see!"

"call……"

Suddenly someone came over with a torch.

It was obviously sweeping through the air close to the ground, but when it passed over a footprint, it seemed to hit something heavy and hard——

"Bang!"

There was a muffled sound and sparks flew everywhere.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

There was the sound of a metal object rolling on the ground, rolling several times in succession. The thin layer of flour on the ground also showed its rolling trajectory, which did not seem to be very round.

"it's here!"

"Can't see it!"

“Flour!”

"flour!"

"It's running!"

The evil thing panicked for a while, and did not bother to follow the human footprints anymore. It hid its whereabouts and began to run out the door. There was a thin layer of flour on the ground, and it left many footprints, each of which was only the size of a fingernail.

It's about the same size, as if it were pressed out with your fingers, and the flour stained by it is not obvious when you push it away.

"It's going to get out!"

"Here comes the flour!"

"It hit my foot!"

Someone ran over with a basin of flour.

Someone quickly closed the door, but the neighbors who were still watching the theater outside the door had already left in a hurry as if they were avoiding snakes and scorpions.

"call……"

Suddenly there was a gust of wind in the courtyard.

Wherever the dark wind blew, the people who used to live in the Liao family's house suddenly felt their stomachs twitching. They couldn't help but bend down and spit out black water from their mouths with a whoosh.

"Wow..."

The black water smelled fishy and unpleasant, like the water produced by fermenting meat in a barrel on a hot day. Once it hit the ground, it splashed everywhere. When the wind blew, the whole house was filled with a fishy and unpleasant smell.

Immediately, everyone felt like their stomachs were being twisted like knives, and they were in unbearable pain.

The same was true for the man who brought the flour. His hand suddenly lost strength and the flour basin fell to the ground with a clang.

But the relatives from far and near who came to help, and the martial arts warriors who paid for it were not disturbed. At most, they only felt a chill. Seeing that the flour basin fell to the ground and a lot of flour was sprinkled, a middle-aged man reacted quickly and hurried over.

He picked up the basin and sprinkled it forward. A warrior saw this and reacted. He reached out to hold the flour on the ground and sprinkled it forward.

The one who vomited black water is still vomiting, and the flour has fallen to the ground.

The flour stuck to the black water and immediately became sticky, outlining the crawling figure.

It was about the size of a palm and could be vaguely identified as a toad.

But it crawled very slowly and its movements were stiff.

"Over there!"
To be continued...