34. Grass and Trees VIII 2
The sound of the bamboo pole hitting the ground flickered and flickered, flickering and flickering, flickering and flickering, making it impossible to determine the direction, let alone what was making such an abrupt and strange sound.
Wei Wuxian said: "Come here, stay close, don't move, and don't use your sword." ”
If you rush to use your sword in such an environment, it is very likely that you will not be able to hurt the enemy, but you will accidentally injure yourself. After a few moments, the voice stopped abruptly. After waiting for a while, a child of the family whispered, "It's it again...... How long will it be with us?"
Wei Wuxian said, "It's always following you?"
Lan Si chased: "After we entered the city, the fog was too big and we were worried about dispersing, so we gathered together, and suddenly we heard this kind of sound. At that time, it was not so fast, all at once, it sounded very slowly, and a small shadow was faintly seen in the white fog in front of me. I caught up with it but disappeared. After that, the voice followed us. ”
Wei Wuxian said, "How short?"
Lan Si chased himself to his chest: "Very short, very thin." ”
Wei Wuxian said, "How long have you been in?"
Lan Si chased: "Hurry up and half a pillar of incense." ”
"Half a pillar of incense?" Wei Wuxian asked, "Hanguang-jun, how long have we been in?"
Lan Wangji's voice came from behind the misty white mist: "Nearly a stick of incense." ”
"Look," Wei Wuxian said, "we've been in longer than you, so how can you run ahead of us?" ”
Jin Ling finally couldn't help but interject: "We haven't turned back, we have been walking along this road, heading forward." ”
are all moving forward, so could it be that this road has been passive and turned into a circle of maze?
Wei Wuxian asked, "Have you tried to fly up and take a look?"
Lan Si chased: "I tried, I felt like I had flown up a long distance, but I didn't really rise very high. And there were some vague black shadows flowing in the air, and I didn't know what they were, and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to cope with them, so I came down. ”
Hearing this, everyone was silent for a while. Wei Wuxian said: "Demon fog, there is something weird. ”
Due to the foggy area around Shudong, they did not have a white fog in the Meaning City at the beginning, but now it seems that this is most likely not a naturally formed fog.
Lan Jingyi exclaimed: "It won't be poisonous, right?!"
Wei Wuxian said: "There should be no poison. We've all been in there for so long, and we're still alive. ”
Jin Ling said: "I would have brought the fairy over if I had known." Blame your dead donkey. ”
Lan Jingyi said: "We don't blame your dog yet! It bit first, and was kicked by the flower donkey, who is to blame? Anyway, neither of the two can move now." ”
Wei Wuxian said, "What?!My little apple was bitten by a dog?!"
Jin Ling: "Can that donkey compare to my greyhound?What is the little apple?!"
Wei Wuxian: "My donkey." Why did you take it down the mountain for night hunting? and hurt it?!"
Lan Sichai: "Hmm...... I'm sorry Mr. Mo. Your Apple ...... The donkey is noisy every day in the clouds, and the seniors have complained for a long time, let us go down the mountain for night hunting this time, and we must drive it away, so we will ......"
Jin Ling: "Answer me, what is the little apple? You give the donkey that you name?"
Lan Jingyi: "What's wrong with the little apple? It loves to eat apples, so it's called the little apple." This name is eighteen streets better than if you had a fat dog called a fairy. ”
Suddenly, there was silence.
After a while, Wei Wuxian said, "Is there anyone else?"
There is a "hmm" and "woo" nearby, indicating that they are all there. Lan Wangji said coldly: "Noise." ”
actually banned everyone at once. Wei Wuxian couldn't help but touch his lips, feeling very lucky in his heart.
At this moment, in the white fog in front of the left, there was the sound of footsteps.
The footsteps were heavy as they went. Immediately after, the same sound came from the front, right front, side, and back. Although the fog was too thick to see the shadows, the smell of rancid and fishy smells had already wafted in.
Wei Wuxian naturally didn't take a few walking corpses to heart, and blew a whistle lightly, and the end of the note slipped out, with a hint of repulsion. The walking corpses behind the fog heard the whistle and paused.
Who knows, the next moment, they rushed over!
Wei Wuxian never expected that the rebuke would not only not work, but would stimulate them. It is absolutely impossible for him to confuse the two different commands of "repulsion" and "stimulation"!
However, it's too late to think about anything more at this moment. Seven or eight crooked figures appeared in the white mist. With the concentration of the white mist in Yi City, being able to see them means that they are already extremely close!
The ice-blue sword that avoided the dust broke through the white mist, surrounded everyone, and flew into a sharp circle in the air, cutting off several walking corpses in unison, and then retracted into their sheaths. Wei Wuxian breathed a sigh of relief, and Lan Wangji whispered, "Why?"
Wei Wuxian also wondered why: "Why can't the sentinel drive these walking corpses?" Walking slowly and with a putrid smell, it is definitely not a high-level murderous corpse, I should clap my hands to scare them away." If it were to say that my sentinel suddenly failed, it was impossible, and it was not driven by spiritual power. There has never been such a ......"
Suddenly, he thought of something, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on his back.
No, it's not that "this has never happened".
In fact, it has appeared, moreover, more than once. There is a kind of fierce spirit, which he really can't control and can't drive away.
That is, the fierce corpse and evil spirit that is already under the control of the Yin Tiger Talisman!
Although this idea is terrible, and the situation it represents is very strict, and people do not want to admit and accept it, it is indeed the most reasonable explanation. After all, even the person who was able to restore half of the remnants of the Yin Tiger Talisman was saved, although it was said that it had been cleaned up, but who knew who the Yin Tiger Talisman that he had restored would fall into his hands?
Lan Wangji seems to have lifted the ban on everyone. Lan Sichai was able to speak again: "Hanguang-kun, isn't the situation dangerous? Should we leave the city immediately? However, the fog is thick, the road can't go, and we can't fly out......"
A child of the family said: "It seems that another walking corpse is coming!"
"Why? I didn't hear footsteps?"
"I seem to hear strange breathing......" The boy said only to realize what a ridiculous thing he had said, and shut up, and the other boy said, "I really obeyed you." The sound of breathing, the walking corpse is a dead person, how can there be a sound of breathing!"
Before he could finish speaking, another stout figure crashed into him.
Dusty unsheathed again, and after a silent streak, the shadow's head and body separated. At the same time, there was a strange sound of "splashing", and several children of the family who were close to screamed again and again, Wei Wuxian was worried that they would be injured, and hurriedly said, "What's wrong?"
Lan Jingyi said: "There seems to be something sprayed out of that walking corpse, as if it was some kind of powder." It's bitter, sweet, and fishy!" "Just now, the walking corpse was sprayed with powder, and he just wanted to open his mouth to say Hu, but there was a lot of dust in his mouth, and he didn't care about his manners, so he "bah" several times in a row. The spurt of the corpse is not trivial, the powder must still be raging in that air, if you rush close and inhale it, it is more difficult to do than into the mouth. Wei Wuxian said, "You all stand away from that place! ”
Lan Jingyi said: "Oh. But I can't see you, where are you?"
This one who can't see his five fingers is difficult to walk. Wei Wuxian remembered that every time he unsheathed the dust, its sword light could penetrate the white mist, and turned his head to Lan Wangji beside him and said, "Hanguang-jun, you pull out your sword and let him come over." ”
Lan Wangji stood beside him, but he didn't answer, and he didn't move.
Suddenly, seven steps away, an ice-blue clear sword light lit up.
…… Where is Lan Wangji?!
And who is the person to his left who has been standing silent?!
Suddenly, Wei Wuxian's eyes went dark, and a black face came to him.
The reason why it is black is because this face is covered with a thick layer of black fog!
The misty man reached out and grabbed the Sealed Evil Qiankun bag hanging from his waist, and grabbed it, however, the Qiankun bag suddenly swelled up, the knot broke, and three tangled and angry evil spirits burst out, splitting at him!
Wei Wuxian smiled: "Do you want to snatch the Seal Evil Qiankun Bag? Then your eyes are not good, what are you doing with my lock spirit bag!"
Ever since the last time the Liyang Chang Clan Cemetery took away the torso that the gravedigger had just arrived and let him return, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji had been on guard, guessing that he would not give up and wait for an opportunity to take action, and there might be a snatch at any time. Sure enough, when they entered Yicheng, the gravedigger wanted to take advantage of the fog and the crowd to make a move. He did succeed, but Wei Wuxian had already dropped the Sealed Evil Qiankun Bag and Locked Spirit Bag containing his left arm.
"Zheng" Then, the other side crossed back, drew his sword out of the sheath, and immediately came the screams of the evil spirits full of resentment, as if he was slashed by his sword and scattered in all directions. Wei Wuxian said in his heart: "Sure enough, he is a high cultivator!"
He shouted, "Hanguang-kun, the grave digger is here!"
There is no need to remind, Lan Wangji knew that the mutation had suddenly occurred just by listening, and suddenly he replied to the dust that was swimming away with a sharp sword qi like a shuttle.
At this time, the situation is not optimistic. The gravedigger's sword was covered with a layer of black mist, and the sword light could not be penetrated, and it was well hidden in the white mist. Lan Wangji's dust-avoiding sword light can't be stopped. He is in the light, the enemy is in the dark, and the opponent's cultivation is not low, and he is also familiar with the sword path of the Gusu Lan clan. is also a blind fight in the fog, he can have no scruples, but Lan Wangji has to be careful not to accidentally hurt himself, which is really a big disadvantage. Wei Wuxian heard a few strokes of the sound from the blade and blurted out, "Lan Zhan, are you hurt?!"
There was a soft muffled snort in the distance, as if he had been injured to the point of being critical, this was obviously not Lan Wangji's voice.
Lan Wangji said: "How is it possible. ”
Wei Wuxian smiled, "Yes!"
The man seemed to sneer, and fought again with his sword. The light of avoiding the dust and the sound of the fairy sword clashing were getting farther and farther away, and Wei Wuxian knew that Lan Wangji was unwilling to injure them by mistake, and deliberately led the battlefield away, so he must capture this person and find out. He went to deal with the gravediggers, and the rest was naturally left to himself. He turned around and said, "What about the person who inhaled the powder?"
Lan Si chased: "They're a little untenable!"
Wei Wuxian said: "Gather in the middle and report the number." ”
Thankfully, a wave of walking corpses was dealt with, and a gravedigger was distracted, and nothing else came to harass him. The sound of the bamboo pole knocking on the ground did not come out to make trouble. The rest of the children of the family gathered together and counted the number of people, and there were quite a few. Wei Wuxian took Lan Jingyi and touched his forehead, a little burned. The same was true for the other teenagers who had inhaled the dust from the walking corpse. Rolling their eyelids, he said, "Stick out your tongue and see, ah." ”
Lan Jingyi: "Ah. ”
Wei Wuxian: "Hmm. Congratulations, the corpse is poisoned. ”
Jin Ling: "What is there to congratulate?!"
Wei Wuxian said: "It's also a kind of life experience, and it's always a matter of conversation." ”
The cause of corpse poison is usually scratched and bitten by the corpse, or the wound is stained with the necrotic blood of the corpse. Immortal cultivators rarely let walking corpses come close to them to grab and bite, and they rarely fall for this kind of poison. Everyone rummaged through the pills carried in the Qiankun bag, but none of them brought any of them to treat corpse poison, they were all pills to restore vitality and heal injuries. Lan Sichai said worriedly: "Young Master Mo, will they be fine?"
Wei Wuxian said: "It's okay now, but when it flows into the blood, it flows all over the body and into the heart, and it won't be saved." ”
Lan Si chased: "Yes...... What will happen. ”
Wei Wuxian said, "What about the corpse, what will happen to you." If it's good, it's rotten and smelly, and if it's bad, it'll become a long-haired zombie, and from now on you can only jump away. ”
The children of the poisoned family gasped in unison.
Wei Wuxian said, "You want to be cured, right?"
Nodding vigorously, Wei Wuxian said, "If you want to be cured, listen well, from now on, everyone will listen to me obediently, and everyone will listen." ”
Although a few of these teenagers didn't know him yet, seeing that this person could be commensurate with Hanguangjun's peers, close to him, and could call him by his name, plus he was in a demonic and ghostly righteous city, and now he was poisoned and had a fever, plus Wei Wuxian always spoke with an inexplicable confidence that he didn't worry about anything, so he couldn't help but be led by his nose and left, and responded in unison: "Okay!"
Wei Wuxian was able to take an inch: "Let you do whatever you want, and you are not allowed to disobey." Do you understand?"
"Understood!"
Wei Wuxian clapped his hands and said: "Get up, those who are not poisoned carry the poisoned ones on their backs, it is best to carry them, if you carry them, remember to face your head and heart up." ”
Lan Jingyi said: "I can walk, why do you want to carry it?"
Wei Wuxian said, "Brother, if you are alive, the blood will flow very quickly and lively, and it will flow into the heart very quickly. So, be sure to move less, preferably at all. ”
The teenagers immediately stood on a stiff board, and their companions carried them. A teenager was carried on his back by his fellow disciple and muttered, "The walking corpse that sprayed corpse poison powder just now can really breathe." ”
The young man who was carrying him panted and complained: "I told you, you can breathe, that's a living person!"
Lan Si chased: "Young Master Mo, let's carry it, where are we going?"
The most obedient, obedient and worry-free person was Lan Sichai, Wei Wuxian said: "The city will definitely not be able to leave for the time being." Go knock on the door. ”
Jin Ling said: "What door are you knocking on?"
Wei Wuxian was surprised, "Is there any other place with a door besides the house?"
Jin Ling said: "You want us to go into these houses? It's already in such danger outside, who knows what else is hidden inside the house and watching us." ”
As soon as he said this, everyone immediately felt that there were really many pairs of eyes, hiding behind the dense fog and houses, and they were closely watching their every move, word and deed, and they couldn't help but feel creepy.
Wei Wuxian said, "Yes, it's hard to say whether the outside is more dangerous or the inside of the house is more dangerous. But it's already like this on the outside, and it's not much worse on the inside. Let's go, without further ado, we have to detoxify. ”
Everyone had to do as they were told, and according to Wei Wuxian's instructions, each one pulled the scabbard of the previous person to prevent them from getting separated in the fog and banging on the door from house to house. Jin Ling knocked hard for a long time, but didn't hear a response from the house, and said, "There seems to be no one in this room, let's go in." ”
Wei Wuxian's voice floated from afar: "Who said you should let you go in without anyone?" You have to go into a room where there are people. ”
Jin Ling said: "You still want to find someone?"
Wei Wuxian said, "Yes. Knock well, you just knocked too hard, it's rude. ”
Jin Ling was so angry that he almost kicked the wooden door down, but finally ...... He stomped his foot on the ground hard.
Every house and house along this long street had their doors closed tightly, and no matter how much they knocked on it, they would not move. The more Jin Ling knocked, the more irritable he became, but the force he used was already a lot lighter. Lan Sichai has always been calm, knocked on the thirteenth shop, and still repeated the sentence that was repeated several times: "Is anyone there?"
Suddenly, the door panel moved.
A thin black slit is opened.
It was dark inside the door, and it was impossible to see what was in the room, what was behind the crack in the door, and the person who opened the door did not speak.
Several teenagers who were close to each other involuntarily took a small step back.
Lan Si calmed down and said, "Is it the shopkeeper?"
In the middle of the night, an old and strange voice leaked out of the crack in the door: "Yes." ”
Wei Wuxian walked over, patted Lan Sichai's shoulder, asked him to step back as well, and said, "Shopkeeper, we came out of your place, the fog was too big, we lost our way, we walked for a long time, and we were a little tired, I wonder if you can let us borrow the store to rest?"
The strange voice said, "My shop is not for people to rest. ”
Wei Wuxian didn't seem to feel that anything was wrong at all, and said with a normal expression: "It's a pity that there are no other people in the store, and the shopkeeper really refuses to make it convenient? ”
After a while, the crack in the door was slightly opened. Although I still can't see the furnishings in the house, I can already see the person behind the door.
Behind the door stood an old lady with a gray head and a blank face.
Although this old lady is hunched and looks very old at first glance, she actually does not have many wrinkles and age spots, and she can be said to be a lady.
She opened the door and stepped out of the way, apparently willing to let them in. Jin Ling was surprised and said in a low voice, "She is really willing to let people in?"
Wei Wuxian also whispered, "Of course, I got one foot stuck in the crack of the door, and she couldn't close the door even if she wanted to." If you don't let me in, I'll just kick the door. ”
Jin Ling: "......"
This righteous city is already strange and forested, and the people who live here will definitely not be Anshun good citizens. This old lady is so suspicious, this group of teenagers muttered in their hearts, although a thousand and ten thousand are unwilling to go in, but the inside and outside are not roads, dead horses are live horses, they can't, so they have to pick up their companions who were frozen after being poisoned and dare not move, and enter the door one after another.
The old lady stood by coldly, and when they entered, she immediately closed the door. The room was dark again.
Wei Wuxian said, "Why didn't the shopkeeper light the lamp?"
The old lady muttered, "The lamp is on the table, light it yourself." ”
Lan Sichai happened to stand at a table, slowly groped, touched an oil lamp, and touched the old gray in his hand. He flipped out a fire talisman and lit it, just brought it close to the wick, and inadvertently raised his eyes and swept it, and in an instant a burst of cold air rushed from under his feet to the top of his head, and his scalp was numb with a bang.
The hall of this shop was densely packed with a whole room of people, all with wide eyes and staring at them without blinking!