The snow is falling heavily, swirling and dancing in the air.

  It's already 1:20 in the middle of the night, inside a taxi, the driver is yawning and seems to be lacking energy, while my nerves are still on high alert. I'm sitting in the back seat with my head down, staring at the movement of the chopsticks in the palm of my left hand, thinking that there will inevitably be a fierce battle later. Will the parents of that little beast also look like it? Thinking about the two adults being covered in blood vessels makes me shudder again and get goosebumps.

  As I watched the car drive over the river bridge, I pondered in my heart, could it be that the domain of those monsters is in the suburbs north of the river? It seems like a vast undeveloped wasteland over there. Looking at the chopsticks, they still stubbornly pointed northwest. No choice, I had to follow them to death.

  The taxi driver asked me: "Hey buddy, if we go further forward, it's just a vast wilderness. What are you doing there in the middle of the night?"

  "I replied to him: 'Find someone, it's nothing, you can go.'"

  Obviously, he had his doubts. After all, it was already the second half of the night. Who would normally go out to the wilderness at this hour? Moreover, looking at my bloated and rustic attire, with a broken cotton hat covering half of my face, anyone would be suspicious. Not to mention that I didn't specify where we were going, which would arouse suspicion in anyone.

  He seemed afraid and said to me: "Brother, I can only take you to the front, I didn't make much money. You walk the rest of the way yourself."

  It seems that he didn't take me as a robber, but rather as a ghost who would be taking a taxi back to the grave in the middle of the night. I was going to help people get rid of harm, and yet he abandoned me halfway, in this cold and dark place with no lights, how am I supposed to continue on my way?

  So I asked the master: "Master, I am not a bad person, and the place I want to go should be just ahead, not far away."

  The master's face turned white after listening to me, and it is said that the suburbs of Jiangbei were once a mess of graves, and our current direction is heading in that direction.

  He slammed on the brakes and stopped the car by the side of the road, trembling as he said to me: "Buddy, we don't have any grudges against each other, it's not that I'm dropping you off, but I really need to hand over the car, why don't you find another ride?"

  I'm dizzy, it seems he really took me for a hitchhiking ghost. Looking at the driver with a red face, I thought to myself, you're so angry, even if I saw a ghost, you wouldn't see one either. What's wrong with him? Besides, what do I look like a ghost? This is too much, if I get off now, by the time I walk to my destination, I'll be frozen stiff. No way, I have to think of a way to get him to take me further.

  But what can I do? I rolled my eyes, thinking of a plan. You don't think I'm a ghost, do you? So I'll just pretend to scare you. Then I quietly used my little fingernail to scratch my forehead and the back of my left hand, and then wiped it on my face with the back of my left hand. When I looked up again, my face was covered in blood.

  He saw me lift my head, and his face seemed to have blood flowing on it. He was so frightened that he shouted loudly, the sudden fright made him feel at a loss, even forgetting to run away, just staring at me, trembling uncontrollably, unable to speak.

  I looked at him with a silly expression and couldn't help but feel amused, thinking that this thirty-something old man didn't expect to be so timid. But I couldn't laugh out loud, instead I put on a pitiful look, holding back my voice and whispering to him: "Master, please have mercy, it's been almost eighty years since I last went home. I miss my parents. Please just take me a little further."

  He seemed to be almost frightened to death after hearing what I said, without any movement. I looked at him and thought: It seems that scaring you is still not enough, let me stimulate you a bit more!

  So I pretended to cry and said to him: "Waaahhh... if you don't take me, I'll come find you every night and make sure you can't rest in peace~~"

  He was startled by me and let out a loud cry, then hastily trembled and said: "No no no!!!! Whatever you say I'll agree to!!!"

  I suppressed my laughter and asked him again: "So you'll give me a ride?"

  The old man nodded his head like a garlic press. So I said to him in a low voice, "Then let's get going, what are we waiting for?"

  After I finished speaking, he lowered his head again. He took a few rapid breaths and then stepped on the gas pedal, and the car started moving again. The car was speeding along, it seemed like he wanted to get rid of me in the shortest time possible. At this point, I couldn't hold back anymore and burst out laughing quietly.

  The taxi driver who was driving heard my low laughter and his eyes were about to flow with tears, his whole body trembling non-stop, accelerating further.

  I thought to myself, just scare him a bit and that's it, after all, scaring people can be fatal.

  An incident like this happened on the road, which relaxed my tense mood a bit. I continued to stare at the chopsticks in my hand, and saw that their direction hadn't changed, apparently they were always pointing forward.

  The car drove for about ten more minutes, and the chopsticks in my hand suddenly snapped with a "crack"! At the same time, the "Jia Shen Wen Chang Zhu Xie Fu" on the palm of my left hand also became blurred.

  It seems that they have been discovered. What to do, I thought in my heart, although the clue was broken, but their hiding place should not be far away, through the car lights, it can be seen that it is a desolate wilderness not far away. Can only get off and find by myself.

  So I said to the master who was still trembling in front of me: "Master, it's okay, let's stop here."

  After hearing me say that I could park, he immediately stepped on the brakes and stopped the car. I asked him: "How much money?" He hurriedly waved his hands at me and said: "Don't want money! Don't want money!! As long as...as long as you don't bother me in the future, it's okay!!"

  Looking at him, it seems that he was really scared by me. I smiled and quietly put the 50 yuan on the back seat of the car, then opened the door and got out with the yellow chicken. As soon as I closed the car door, the driver immediately started the car again, made a U-turn, and sped away in the direction we came from at a speed of about 70 yards per second. In no time, he disappeared from my sight.

  As I watched the taxi drive away into the distance, I couldn't help but feel a sense of amusement and sighed to myself: This is it, ghosts aren't scary at all, what's truly frightening is us humans ourselves.

  In the cold winter, there was not even a place to take shelter from the wind in the desolate wilderness of Harbin. Although it's not very cold when snowing, it gets cold after the snow stops. But at this moment, I'm still frozen stiff. Hurriedly pressing down my hat and tightening my collar, I headed towards the direction indicated by '甲申文长诛邪符' in the wilderness beside the highway.

  Looking out at the endless wilderness, I can vaguely see the bare trees in front of me in the darkness. How am I supposed to find them? It's so cold now, even if I found them, I'd be frozen stiff. And even if I could eliminate them, how would I get back from this desolate place? Heaven! I'm really at a loss for what to do now.

  But since I've come this far, I have to keep going. As I walk towards the woods, I think to myself that whether or not I can find them, I'll have to head back after 3 pm. This icy weather is no joke. At my current pace, it'll take me about 40 minutes to walk back to the university in Jiangbei, which is the closest one to the suburbs. With a university nearby, I won't have to worry about not having an inn, and with an inn, I won't have to worry about freezing to death.

  I took a look at the time and it's around 1:50 now, which means I still have about an hour to find those monsters.

  The north wind rose again, swirling snow hit my face, just like sand hitting my face, it hurt. The ground beneath me was still old snow licking new snow. It was already knee-deep, and I walked with one foot deep and the other shallow. Now my heart is a little regretful, damn it, why do I always find trouble for myself when there's nothing wrong?!

  But I wanted to go back, my feet didn't stop, still walking step by step towards the forest. As I walked, I suddenly felt something was wrong. On the snowy ground not far in front of me, there seemed to be some marks.

  I hastily pulled out a small flashlight from my bag, turned it on and shone it towards the snowy ground. A row of clear footprints appeared before me, stretching all the way to the direction of the woods. I followed the footprints with my flashlight and saw that they came from the direction of the highway.

  This is absolutely a new footprint, judging from the degree of snow accumulation, it's estimated to have appeared within this hour! My cold sweat came down immediately, this footprint must be an adult's footprint, not that little kid's, let alone that Night Fox's cubs are non-corporeal and can't leave footprints.

  But what kind of creature does this footprint belong to? It's so late, and apart from me, it's impossible for anyone else to come to this desolate place. Could it be... not human? A tangible monster?

  Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shudder, and immediately thought of the things that Jiu Shu had mentioned, those zombies that exploded into corpses. It's said that many of the fox spirits and mouse spirits have the ability to control corpses, and although this night fox didn't look like a fox, its name did indeed contain the character for "fox".

  Was it those high-ranking night foxes who knew that the brothers were coming to get rid of them and specially summoned these corpses? As soon as I think of zombies, those in Hong Kong, Taiwan or European and American movies appear in my mind.

  Western ones are better, because most of them are just bloody. It's too late at night and I can't see clearly. The worst thing is the zombies in Hong Kong and Taiwan zombie movies. As soon as I think of those wearing Qing dynasty official uniforms, with pale faces, long fingernails, sucking human blood, I feel scared.

  Damn it, when I was still very young, these reactionary movies cast a shadow over my childhood. The more I think about it, the scarier it gets. Forget it, let's just head back.

  No, no, what am I thinking? You have to know that at this moment, a child's life is in my hands. If I go back now, I will feel guilty for the rest of my life.

  Thinking of this, although I was very scared, I still turned off the flashlight and continued to walk towards that forest. Sighing bitterly in my heart: That little fatty, you may have eaten baozi at my expense before, but today I will still risk my life for you, even though we don't know each other. Alas.

  There's still a sense of injustice in my heart, the more I think about it, the more I feel like I'm just someone who likes to find fault and suffer for no reason. Seeing this, I think you readers at your computers probably have similar thoughts as me. Until now, I still haven't figured out what I was thinking back then. Maybe it's because I've watched too many movies and my personal heroism is acting up. Or maybe it's just that I'm someone who can't help but get involved in other people's business and can't bear to see others get hurt.

  Let's just say it's accumulating virtue and doing good deeds. Let's just say it's exorcising demons and upholding the heavenly way of justice. Let's just say it's my duty after studying the "Three Pure Ones Scripture". Let's just say I'm a fool!

  As I walked, the forest was right in front of me, and the footprints on the snowy ground also extended into the forest. I thought to myself, since there's no lead now, why not just follow these footprints? Maybe I can find some clues.

  But I didn't dare to be careless, and I rubbed my already frozen red hands. With my fingernail, I reopened the wound on my left index finger that was about to congeal, and the pain transmitted from my fingers calmed my fearful heart for a moment. After drawing a '甲午玉卿破煞符' palm symbol in the center of my right palm, I cleared away the accumulated snow and put down the yellow chicken in my hand. I couldn't bring it with me because I knew that what was about to happen would be extraordinary.

  After doing all these things, I entered the woods with a spirit of twelve points. In the pitch-black night, the snow under my feet was faintly illuminated by the weak light of my mobile phone, emitting white light. My left hand remained in the bag, holding the token just in case.

  Just as I walked along the footprints for about five minutes, I was surprised to find that the footprints had disappeared just ahead! I stepped forward quickly to check and indeed they were gone, because there were no more marks around.

  Just as I was feeling puzzled, a severe pain suddenly came from behind! It felt like someone had heavily pounded my back from above, and the intense inertia caused my body to lose balance. I fell forward and plunged into the snow pile.

  I was knocked to the ground by something with great force, and this sudden change and fright caused me to involuntarily let out a loud cry.

  My chest seemed to have hit a stone buried in the snow, and a sharp pain came, but at this time I couldn't care about the pain. Fortunately, it was snowy ground, with thick accumulated snow underneath me, making it easier to move around. I reflexively swung my palm symbol backhandedly towards that thing with all my might, slapping it with a loud smack.