Looking at the strange figures in the grave robbery tunnel, everyone felt a little apprehensive. At this critical moment, Hu Wazi stepped forward and said, "Damn it, I'll go take a look!"

With that, he walked forward, brandishing his baton.

Lao Wei quickly put his hand on his waist and said, "Hu Wazi, don't be afraid, I'll cover you!"

Hu Wazi raised his baton and swung it at the nearest figure, but the figure didn't even try to dodge, and the baton hit it squarely in the face.

There was a "smack" sound, but it sounded strange, not like an iron rod hitting a person's face, but more like hitting thatch.

"Damn it! It's a scarecrow!" Hu Wazi cursed. "We've been had! These are all scarecrows!"

Hearing him say that, it dawned on me. No wonder these figures were motionless. Whether we shone a flashlight on them or tried to scare them with weapons, they just stood there dumbly. It turned out they were all scarecrows.

I walked up to a scarecrow and took a closer look. It was very realistically made. It wore a facial mask and a shirt, with a tattered pair of overalls on its lower body. In the dim light of the grave robbery tunnel, it looked just like a real person at first glance.

I looked around and counted. There were six scarecrows in total, arranged in a crescent shape, blocking our way in the grave robbery tunnel. I didn't know if Liu Huangshu, who was ahead of us, had arranged them, or if someone else had put them there.

Xiao Liang had the same question as me. She carefully looked at the scarecrows and asked us, "These scarecrows don't look very old. Do you think Liu Huangshu's group left them to scare us?"

Lao Wei reached out and pinched the straw on a scarecrow's body and said, "Well, this grave robbery tunnel is so humid, these scarecrows would be soaked if they were left here for four or five days, but these scarecrows are still dry. They must have been put here recently."

"So Liu Huangshu put them here?" I asked.

"Most likely," Lao Wei said.

Hu Wazi waved the baton in his hand, hitting the scarecrows with a "pa-pa" sound, and said cursing, "Damn it! What kind of medicine is Liu Huangshu selling in his gourd? Does he think he can scare us away by putting up a few scarecrows? That's a joke!"

Xiao Liang frowned and said, "I don't think it's that simple. Liu Huangshu went to the trouble of carrying six scarecrows into the grave robbery tunnel. He definitely didn't do it just to scare us, right?"

At this moment, Lao Wei seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and he pinched his chin and said, "Could it be that Liu Huangshu knows some kind of witchcraft, and making scarecrows has other uses?"

"Witchcraft?" Hu Wazi squinted his eyes and asked, "What kind of witchcraft?"

Lao Wei said, "Witchcraft is a very broad term. There are all kinds of witchcraft all over the world. One branch uses these scarecrows to do things, including the zha xiaoren (voodoo dolls) that were popular in the ancient pre-Qin period, which is essentially a kind of witchcraft."

As soon as he mentioned this, Xiao Liang immediately said, "I've heard of that. The most famous witchcraft case in history was the zha xiaoren incident during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. Because Emperor Wu of Han suspected that someone was using zha xiaoren to curse him, he killed many princes and ministers in one breath. Even Emperor Wu of Han's eldest son, Liu Ju, was executed because of this case..."

Lao Wei nodded and said, "That's right. At that time, the people used only palm-sized dolls to curse Emperor Wu of Han. Now Liu Huangshu has placed six adult-sized dolls that look exactly like real people. I don't know what kind of tricks he can pull off."

Hearing this, I felt that Lao Wei was a little worried. If Jiang Yongguang was here, he would definitely not be afraid of these strange things.

Jiang Yongguang was a firm atheist who never believed in ghosts and gods, and he certainly wouldn't believe in any witchcraft like zha xiaoren.

But Lao Wei was different from him. Lao Wei himself liked to study things like feng shui and witchcraft. Over time, he naturally believed in them, so he was extremely afraid of these scarecrows.

At this moment, Hu Wazi suddenly recalled that the figure we saw at the beginning was able to move. When the flashlight shone on it, the figure disappeared.

He said, "Do you remember that the figure we found at the beginning was not a scarecrow? It ran away after we found it."

We nodded repeatedly and said we all remembered.

Hu Wazi asked again, "But where did that figure go now?"

We looked at each other, unable to answer at all.

Er Jun suddenly said in a low voice, "Damn! Could it be that the shadow was transformed from this scarecrow? No wonder Lao Wei said that this scarecrow is some kind of witchcraft. It's really a bit evil!"

Hearing him say that, we were all scared into a cold sweat.

When I looked back at the scarecrows wearing Sichuan opera masks, I felt that they looked more and more gloomy and terrifying.

Xiao Liang was probably also frightened by the scarecrows, and she grabbed my arm and said softly, "Chen Rongsheng, I feel like one of the scarecrows moved just now..."

"Really? Don't scare me!" I said nervously, "I'm also afraid of these things."

Xiao Liang closed her eyes tightly, lowered her head and said, "I don't dare to look, but I think the scarecrow next to me seemed to move..."

I turned my head to look, and the scarecrow on the side was still standing there, but I couldn't say for sure whether it moved or how it moved.

Seeing that the six scarecrows had scared us, a group of grown men, into being suspicious, Lao Wei and Hu Wazi were all anxious.

There was still a long way to go, and we certainly couldn't be scared by these scarecrows.

Finally, Hu Wazi simply took out a lighter from his pocket and said angrily, "Damn it! Liu Huangshu, that bastard, is pretending to be a ghost, making these scarecrows to scare me. I'll just set them all on fire and break his witchcraft! Let's see how he can play tricks!"

As he spoke, he lit the fire with a lighter and set all six scarecrows in front of him on fire.

Straw is easy to burn, and it immediately caught fire when it was lit with a lighter.

In an instant, the dark grave robbery tunnel was lit up by the fire, and the fear in our hearts gradually disappeared.

But just after the scarecrows burned, I suddenly felt a little difficulty breathing, my brain was dizzy, my whole body felt top-heavy, and I even had hallucinations!

"No, these scarecrows... are not right!"

I said quickly.

Looking back, I saw that Lao Wei, Xiao Liang, and Hu Wazi also had the same symptoms as me, and several Xiaoling Guards were coughing from the smoke.

At the critical moment, Xiao Liang reacted the fastest, and quickly pointed to the outside of the grave robbery tunnel and shouted, "Quick... get out! Run out! Quick... it'll be too late if we delay any longer! Everyone... everyone, run!"