Chapter 41: The Swirl of Corpse Water
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When he arrived at the edge of the rock, it was a matter of courage to go down, and the treasure was afraid of heights, he stretched out his head to look at the scene under the rock, and then shrank back in panic, and when he hesitated, the strange man on the drawbridge "poofed" a crossbow arrow shot straight at us, looking at his menacing appearance, it was obviously murderous. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The position of this arrow is aimed at the temple of Baocai, if it is poured in, it will inevitably shoot through his head and hurt me again, the situation is critical, I kicked Baocai violently, and I avoided it, all of a sudden, Baocai did not react, swayed on the edge of the rock, looking like I wanted to die, seeing this, I went up and made up for it, he screamed, and his body fell straight down, and I could vaguely hear him cursing my voice.
And when the strange man took out the second crossbow arrow, I looked at the shrine maiden and fell hand in hand, and at that moment the arrow flew in, and I instinctively dodged, but when I heard the sound of the flesh being shot through the side of me, the shrine maiden was hit by an arrow in the chest. And the arrow came fiercely, and in mid-air, she was shot away.
I thought that the sound of us falling into the water would be very loud, and our bodies would be hit by the force of the water and be shot internally, but after we fell into the netherworld water, the water only made a very muffled sound, and melted into the water, I found that the water had a strange slippery feeling, and it was more like someone was dragging your arms and legs.
Bao Cai and I came out of the strange water at the same time, and as soon as we looked up, we saw the strange man on the drawbridge staring at us with a grim face, and the most murderous thing was that his other crossbow arrow pierced the head of the King of Gu Worms, and I looked at him for a moment, and then he turned away and disappeared on the drawbridge.
Watching him leave, I wondered and asked myself, "It's strange, he still has crossbow arrows in his hand, and he wants to shoot us, no problem, but why didn't he do that and left?"
Baocai didn't understand the meaning of my words, and said with a bursed face: "Son, you are playing with art, you are hypocritical, I will send grandpa to tell grandma, invite this strange man away, you still want him to stay, what masochistic thoughts......"
I slapped him on the head and said, "your grandfather, that's not what I meant." ā
Baocai rubbed his head and scolded: "Damn, what do you mean, if you don't talk well, you have to cut me." ā
I didn't bother to pay attention to his nonsense, and said, "You imagine that a monster guarding the tomb still has claws to kill people, but it gave up, why?"
Baocai said casually: "He is kind......"
I shook my head and said, "He knows we're going to die......"
When I said this, Bao Cai's face changed, his brain instantly opened, and he said with a shocked face: "Damn, you mean, there are more dangerous things in this water?"
I nodded, but it was just me and him coming out of the oil and water, so we put aside the topic and anxiously began to look for the Miao girl who had been hit by the arrow.
We shouted, voices echoing through the empty cavern, and worry tickled at my heart, and if she hadn't responded, something might have happened.
I looked anxiously at the two walls of the waterfront, only to find that the craggy stone walls were all dried corpses, those corpses were very similar to the surface of the cave, they looked very hard, everyone's faces were extremely distorted, they seemed to have been drained of blood by something, squeezed together, forming a wall of weathered dried corpses, and this wall looked like fossils.
When I saw this, I couldn't help but be horrified, and the treasure swam from the other side, saying that there was no shadow of a shrine maiden at all. It reminds me of my own foresight, and all the illusions are slowly coming true...... This bad feeling made me panic.
However, I didn't have time to think about this, after the oil and water entered our noses, Baocai and I couldn't breathe smoothly, until the two of us breathed, and we realized that the smell of the netherworld stagnant water was very strange.
Bao Cai is a person with a spirit of study, he stretched out his hand, carefully observed the stagnant water, and then leaned close to his nose and sniffed, and said, "This smell is familiar...... said, he looked at the corpse around him that had turned into a compressed person, and for a moment, as if he had thought of something, his face showed a frightened expression, and he said in a trembling voice: "Damn, I ...... I know...... This...... This is ......" Before he finished speaking, he suddenly retched, but because he hadn't eaten anything, all he spit out was sour water.
I asked him what was wrong, and he waved his hand at me with his head down, looking very painful, and he made me feel that there was nothing wrong with the water, so after he had finished vomiting, I asked again.
At this moment, he eased his mind and said solemnly: "Son, we ...... We have to hurry ashore, this water, the special mother is corpse oil, I don't know what else is mixed up, and it makes such a big ditch. ā
After Baocai finished speaking, a stream of sour water came up in my mouth, and he meant that we are now in a dead river made of human oil, and this is still old oil.
I used to dig out a book in the attic of my grandfather's house, called "Ancient Law and Evil Will", which was an old book from the Qing Dynasty, and it was written about some strange things, one of which was about refining corpse oil. It is recorded: Wu uses corpses as refining, forging butter, condensing the essence of the human body, controlling yin thoughts, and creating the master of all spirits.
The process of refining corpse oil is very complicated, and it is not something that ordinary people can refine, it is the crystallization of people, used by the Supreme Witch, and after being made, it can perform a mysterious evil magic at her will. It is said that once this evil art is activated, it can make one's own country win without a fight, which is similar to the saying of borrowing Yin soldiers, and this may also be the reason for the supremacy of the witch of Chu.
Just to gather into a river of this size, it may kill thousands of people, and Baocai and I speculate that part of the oil here must be animal oil, and from the dried corpses staggered along the water's banks, we confirm this. There, we saw a lot of horned animals, and Baocai said that most of these were cattle and sheep, and they should all be used for sacrifice compared to the status of the witch who was high up in the tomb of Chu.
Neither I nor Baocai wanted to stay here for long, and we searched for the shrine maiden to see if there was a safe place to stay, but neither of these results were as good as we expected. But all the visible corpses on the banks of the river are weathered corpses, and the treasures are too frightened, he is the kind of person who especially believes in ghosts and gods, in this kind of place where the yin qi is extremely deep, he feels cold, and I am about the same, I always feel that there will be something below that will suddenly grab our feet.
At this moment, he wondered: "Son, this trip is really a cheat, you said that I didn't catch any treasures, but I almost stepped in." Just as he was complaining, the green light on the corpse oil suddenly began to gather, Baocai looked at it in horror, and figured out what he understood, he said with a sad face: "Damn, I finally know why this place is called Netherworld Backwater, and there is really a Netherworld in feelings!"
When he said this, my scalp was numb, and I instantly understood the meaning of his words, according to what I said before, corpse oil is a crystallization of the dead, so it undoubtedly condenses the grievances of many people, these grievances have been gathered for a long time, floating on it, it seems to be a layer of poisonous gas, but it is actually a deadly yin qi.
Baocai and I had never seen such a scene, and I didn't know what to do at once, but I just watched the green light floating in the air, like a ghostly fire, shuttling around us, I covered my ears, and my ears were full of a kind of "woo" like the sound of the cloister wind rushing wildly, and this voice melted into some evil, sharp laughter, which stirred people's hearts up.
Seeing this, Baocai said with a crying voice: "Heroes from all walks of life, sisters, your death has nothing to do with me Liu Baocai, if you want to find it, you should find the master who killed you, don't come to me!"
However, Baocai's bitter pleading did not change our doom, and I dragged him to dodge an attack, and said urgently: "Don't beg, where can these people understand our Mandarin!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the miserable green ghost suddenly flew down, and I could even see his facial features clearly in this light, it was a man without a scalp, his face was like a dead man's bones, but he had eyes, and those eyes were extremely fierce, very terrifying.
These things seemed to want to vent the resentment that had been silent for a hundred years, and one by one they came straight at us with their mouths open, and I pressed the head of the treasure and shouted, "Hold your breath!"
My breath-holding skills are quite good, but the treasure is much inferior, when he struggled to show his head, the thing bit him all of a sudden, he was in pain, and shouted: "Son, save me, save me!"
At this time, we don't have any magic weapons that can be used, and the only thing that can still ward off some evil is the Mongolian knife, this thought, I took out the Mongolian knife of treasure and waved it randomly, at this moment, the whole stagnant water actually surged, and countless ghosts screamed one after another, so it was not lively. I heard it standing on end, this is not a good outlet, it is not easy to be in the corpse oil, weighing the pros and cons, the only thing to do now is not to taboo those horrible dried corpses. With this in mind, I returned the Mongolian sword to Baocai, and let him lean against me, swinging it desperately, while I dragged him in the corpse oil and swam him into the cave to dry the corpse pile.
Just as the two of us were about to reach the shore, Baocai suddenly exclaimed, "Son, it's not good, there are a lot of corpses gushing out of the water!"
Hearing this, I looked back, all of this special mother were some dead corpses, and they looked like fresh goods, they were rolled up by layers of corpse oil, holding up a one-person-high corpse wave, and the corpses in the corpse wave swayed with the oil and water, and they looked as much as they were demonic.
Immediately, a thought crossed my mind, and I asked Baocai to see if there were any corpses of Chen Yu and the witch, and he said, "I can't stand this pile of dead people, and there are so many!"
The fact is that those things are so disgusting that no one can look at them directly, so I can only grit my teeth and take him to continue to lean on the pile of dried corpses, at this moment, I suddenly felt a huge suction force on my legs, my body sank, and the force pulled me down, I looked back at it in confusion, it was a sharp flow of whirlpool, it suddenly appeared between me and Baocai, and it was getting bigger and bigger, I and Baocai were separated, he exclaimed, and a lot of oil and water entered his mouth.
Seeing him being brought into the center of the whirlpool, and not caring about the disgusting corpse oil, I plunged into it and swam to the periphery of the whirlpool with all my might, but just as I was about to get close to the treasure, the dead bodies were stirred up in the whirlpool, and the dead hand shook me several times, and in an instant a fishy sweetness welled up in my mouth.
I cried out in agony, not thinking about why there was a whirlpool in the calm Netherworld Stagnant Water, but as it "boomed" and the shocking sound came out, my body was also swallowed up.