Chapter 36: Grass and Trees VIII. 4
Jin Ling and the others' hearts were pounding, for fear that something would suddenly happen to him when he peeked out, and he covered his eyes and fell.
Just listen to Wei Wuxian: "Ah! With a bang, all the teenagers lifted up in unison, and their hair stood upside down: "What's wrong?" β
Wei Wuxian whispered and whispered, "Shhhh I'm looking at it. β
Jin Ling lowered his voice lower than his: "Then what do you see?" What's outside the door? β
Wei Wuxian didn't look away, nor did he answer directly, and said, "Uh-huh...... Well...... It's amazing, it's amazing. β
The look on his side face was full of joy, and the praise and amazement seemed to come from the heart, which attracted the curiosity in the hearts of the children of the famous families and quickly overpowered the nervousness. Lan Sichai couldn't help but say, "...... Mo Gongzi, what's so powerful? β
Wei Wuxian said, "Oops! It's so beautiful. Be quiet, don't scare it away. I haven't seen enough. β
Jin Ling said: "Get out of the way, I want to see." β
"I want it too!"
Wei Wuxian said, "Do you really want to see it?" β
"Hmm!"
Wei Wuxian slowly stepped out of the way, seemingly reluctant. Jin Ling was the first to lean over, aimed at the thin wooden crack, and looked out.
It was nightfall. The night was cold, and the demon fog in Yicheng had dissipated a lot, and I could barely see the streets a few feet away. Jin Ling looked at it for a while, didn't see the "so powerful, really good-looking" thing, was a little disappointed, and said in his heart: "Could it be that I opened my mouth just now and scared it away?" β
Just as he was feeling bored, suddenly, a thin, shriveled figure stood in front of the wooden crack.
Caught off guard and took a look at the whole picture of this thing, Jin Ling felt that the entire scalp had been blown off. He almost screamed, but somehow, a force was held in his chest, and he was actually choked. He stiffly maintained a bent position, waiting for the tingling sensation on his head to pass, and couldn't help but look at Wei Wuxian. I saw this hateful man leaning against the window panel, standing aside, hooking the corner of his mouth, raising an eyebrow at him, and sneering: "Isn't it beautiful?" β
Jin Ling glared at him fiercely, knowing that he was deliberately playing tricks, and gritted his teeth and said, "...... Reluctantly......"
He thought for a moment, straightened up, and said as if he didn't care: "That's it, I can barely see it!" β
After saying that, he stepped aside and waited for the next person to be fooled. Being fooled by these two people one after the other, the curiosity of the rest of the others was led to the peak, and Lan Si couldn't hold it back, so he also stood in that position and bent down.
As soon as he put his eyes together, he was very honest and said, "Ah! He shouted out and jumped back, his face full of fright and helplessness, and he looked around twice in a daze before finding Wei Wuxian, and complained to him: "Young Master Mo, there is a ...... outside There's a ......."
Wei Wuxian said with a clear face, "There's one, right?" You don't have to say it, there will be no surprise when you say it, let everyone see it for themselves. β
Seeing that Lan Sichai was scared like this, how could they dare to come up, what a surprise, what a fright, they waved their hands again and again: "Don't look at it, don't look at it!" Jin Ling chirped: "At this time, you are still playing tricks, I really don't know what you think!" β
Wei Wuxian said, "Didn't you cheat together?" Don't learn from your uncle. Thinking about it, was that thing scary just now? β
Lan Sichai nodded and said honestly: "Scary." β
Wei Wuxian said, "It's scary. This is a great opportunity for you to practice. Why should ghosts be scary? Because when people are frightened, their hearts are injured and their primordial spirits are agitated, and at this time, it is easiest to be sucked away from yang energy and life energy. Therefore, ghosts are the most feared people who are bold. Because the daredevils are not afraid of it, it has no way to take advantage of people. Therefore, as a child of a family, the first priority is to make yourself bolder! β
Lan Jingyi was glad that she couldn't move, and she didn't look at it curiously just now, and muttered, "Courage is something that is innate." Some people are just timid, what can be done. β
Wei Wuxian said, "You were born to fly the Heavenly Sword?" It's not just about practicing. In the same way, you can get used to it after a few more scares. The toilet stinks, right? Disgusting, right? But believe me, you live in a latrine for a month, and you can eat in it. β
The teenagers were terrified and refused in unison: "Can't !! Unbelief!!! β
Wei Wuxian said, "It's just an analogy. Well, I'll admit, I haven't lived there, and I don't know if I'll really be able to eat it. I'm not telling you anything. But outside the door, you must try. Not only to see, but also to look carefully, pay attention to its details, and dig out its hidden weaknesses in the details in the shortest possible time. Stay in danger and look for opportunities to fight back. Okay, I've said so much, do you understand? Ordinary people don't have the opportunity to listen to my guidance, so cherish it. Don't retreat, come and line up and look at them one by one. β
ββ¦β¦ Do you really want to see it? β
Wei Wuxian said, "Of course, I never joke, and I never tease people. Let's start with Jingyi. Jin Ling and Si Chai have both seen it. β
Lan Jingyi said: "Huh? I don't need it, people who have been poisoned by corpses can't move, that's what you said. β
Wei Wuxian: "Stick out your tongue." Yes. β
Lan Jingyi: "Ah. β
Wei Wuxian: "Congratulations, your poison has been cured." Be brave enough to take the first step and come here. β
Lan Jingyi: "It's solved so quickly?!" Lie to me?! β
The protest was ineffective, so he had to go to the window and take a look, don't look, look at it, don't look at it. Wei Wuxian knocked on the wooden board and said, "What are you afraid of." I'm standing here, it doesn't dare to break through this board, it won't eat your eyeballs. β
Lan Jingyi jumped away and said, "I'm done!" β
Then it was the next turn, and everyone hissed and inhaled as they watched. After waiting for a circle of people to take turns again, Wei Wuxian said, "Finished reading?" Let's talk about the details you see. Let's sum it up. β
Jin Ling preemptively said: "White pupils." Female. Very short and thin. Looks okay. Hold a bamboo pole. β
Lan Si thought for a moment and said, "This girl is about my chest, ragged, and not very neat, like a street beggar. The bamboo pole seems to be a blind cane, and it may be that the white pupil was not formed after death, but that she was a blind person during her lifetime. β
Wei Wuxian commented: "Jin Ling has seen a lot, but Si Chai has seen it carefully. β
Jin Ling pursed his lips.
A teenager said: "This girl may only be fifteen or sixteen years old, with a melon seed face, very delicate, and there is still a vitality in the beauty, with a wooden hairpin pinned to her long hair." Although thin, he has a slender body. It's not neat, but it's not dirty or unpleasant. β
When Wei Wuxian heard this, he felt that this son had a bright future, and praised vigorously: "Not bad, meticulous observation and unique landing point, this child will definitely be a lover in the future." β
The boy blushed and turned to the wall with his face covered, ignoring the laughter of his companions. Another teenager said, "It seems that the sound of the bamboo pole hitting the ground was made by her while walking." If she was blind in life, she would not be able to see it when she died, and she would have to rely on that blind cane. β
Another teenager said, "But you've all seen the blind man, right?" Because of the inconvenience of the eyes, I walk and move slowly, for fear of hitting something. But the ghost outside the door was swift, and I had never seen such a nimble blind man. β
Wei Wuxian smiled, "Well, you thought of that, it's good. It should be analyzed in this way, without letting go of any doubts. Then we'll bring her in now and find out the answers to these questions. β
With that, he removed a piece of the door.
Not only the teenagers in the room, but even the ghost outside the window were startled by his sudden movements, and raised the bamboo pole vigilantly.
Wei Wuxian stood in front of the window and said politely, "This girl, you have been following them, what do you want to do?" β
The girl's eyes widened. If she were a living person, she would be delicate. However, she has no eyeballs, so it only makes people feel hideous. And two more bloody tears flowed from her eyes.
Someone behind him gasped lowly. Wei Wuxian said, "What are you afraid of." You will see a lot of bleeding in the future, but you can't stand the second trick? "Sure enough, it's a little experience.
The girl had been restlessly whirling around their windows, tapping the ground with a bamboo pole, stomping her feet, glaring, and waving her arms. But now it's suddenly changed its mind. Even with the strokes, it is like to tell them something. Jin Ling said: "Strange, can't she speak?" β
Hearing this, the girl's ghost paused and opened its mouth at them.
Blood poured out of the empty mouth. Her tongue has been uprooted.
The children of the family had goosebumps, and they all sympathized: "No wonder I can't speak." Blind and dumb, it's pitiful. β
Wei Wuxian said, "Is she comparing sign language?" Does anyone understand? β
Nobody understands. The girl was so anxious that she stamped her feet and wrote and scratched on the ground with a bamboo pole. But she is obviously not a woman from a scholarly family, she is illiterate, and she can't write anything. She drew a bunch of villains in a mess, and she couldn't figure out what she was trying to say.
At this moment, in the distance of the long street, there was a rush of running, and the sound of people wheezing.
Wei Wuxian only looked away, and the girl's ghost suddenly disappeared. She should have found it herself anyway, Wei Wuxian wasn't worried, and quickly plugged back into the door panel, continuing to peek out through the cracks in the wood. The other children of the family also wanted to see the situation outside, so they all crowded in front of the door where they entered, and a row of heads were stacked from the top to the bottom, blocking the crack in the door with their eyes.
The demon mist thinned for a while, and now it gradually flowed again. I saw a wolf figure break out of the white mist and rush over.
The man, dressed in black, appeared to be wounded, and stumbled slightly as he ran, with a sword hanging from his waist, also wrapped in a black cloth. Wei Wuxian thought of the misty man, and immediately denied it, the mist-faced man's body was completely different from this person.
Behind the man, a group of walking corpses followed, moving extremely fast, and immediately caught up with him. The man drew his sword and met it, and the sword light was clear. Wei Wuxian applauded in his heart: "Good sword!" β
But when a sword swept and cut off these walking corpses, there was a familiar "splash" and "splash" strange sound. Several of the walking corpses sprayed black and red powder. Surrounded by them, the man had nowhere to dodge, and stood still, puffed on his face by the overwhelming corpse poison.
Lan Sichai said in a low voice: "Young Master Mo, this person, we ......"
At this moment, a new group of walking corpses surrounded the man, outflanking the man, shrinking smaller and smaller. He swept out with another sword, bursting out more corpse poison powder, and he also inhaled more, and seemed to have begun to lose his footing. Wei Wuxian said, "This man is saved. Maybe he knows the details of Yicheng. β
Jin Ling said: "How do you want to save it?" I can't go over now, the sky is full of corpse poison powder, and if you get close, you will be poisoned. β
Wei Wuxian left the window and walked to the inside of the hall. A group of teenagers also involuntarily turned their eyes to him. A group of paper figures with different appearances stand quietly in the middle of two large wreaths. Wei Wuxian walked slowly past them and stopped in front of a pair of female paper figures.
The appearance of each paper figure is different, and this pair seems to have been deliberately made into two twin sisters, with makeup, clothing, and facial features, all carved out of a mold. The eyebrows are crooked, and the face is smiling. It was as if they could hear their "clucking" laughter. Wearing a pair of mustaches, decorated with red bead earrings, a gold pendant on her wrist, and embroidered shoes on her feet, she is a maid of a rich family. Wei Wuxian said, "Just these two." β
He swiped a young man's unsheathed saber lightly, pulled a wound on his thumb, turned around and dotted two pairs of eyes and four eyeballs on them.
Immediately, he took a step back, smiled slightly, and said, "The eyes are shy, and the Dan lips are smiling." Regardless of good and evil, the eyes call for the future. β
A gust of wind blew from nowhere, and suddenly filled the entire store. The young men involuntarily grabbed the swords in their hands.
Suddenly, the twin sister paper figures trembled violently.
The next moment, there was literally a "giggle" laugh wafting out of their bright red lips!
Eye-catching summoning technique!
As if they had seen and heard something extremely funny, the pair of paper figures laughed and trembled, and at the same time, the pair of eyes with the blood of living people turned around in their sockets, this picture was really charming and eerie. Wei Wuxian stood in front of them, bowed his head and bowed his head to them.
The courtesies are still exchanged, and this pair of paper people also owe him a debt and return a greater gift.
Wei Wuxian pointed out the door and said, "Bring the living inβnothing else, and nothing else." β
A shrill and high-pitched laugh came from the mouths of the paper people, a gust of wind struck, and the doors slammed open to both sides!
The two paper figures swept out side by side, swept into the encirclement of the walking corpses. It is hard to imagine that the dummies made of paper have such ferocious lethality, they step on delicate embroidered shoes, wave their fluttering sleeves, and with a wave they cut off one of the arms of a walking corpse, and then cut off half of their heads, and the paper sleeves seem to turn into sharp blades. The coquettish laughter echoed throughout the long street, stirring and creepy.
In a short time, fifteen or sixteen walking corpses were all cut into pieces that could not be put together and rolled down all over the ground by this pair of paper figures!
The two paper maids won a great victory, obeyed the order, and carried the exhausted fugitive into the door, and then jumped out of the door, and the door closed automatically. They stood outside the door like lions of the town.
In the past, these children of the family had only heard some descriptions of the crooked ways of the evil sect in books and from the mouths of their predecessors, and they only felt incomprehensible at the time: "Since it is already an evil way, why do so many people still want to learn?" Why are there so many imitators among Yiling Ancestors? And seeing it with his own eyes at this moment, he knew that the evil sect has its own attractive magic. Moreover, this is only the tip of the iceberg - the "eye-catching technique". Therefore, most of them were full of excitement that could not be concealed, and they felt that they had greatly increased their knowledge, and they could have new conversations with their peers when they returned. Only Jin Ling's face was very ugly.
Lan Si chased after him to help Wei Wuxian, Wei Wuxian said, "Don't come here, beware of getting corpse poison powder." It can also be poisoned through the skin. β
When the man was brought in by the paper figure, he had no strength and was half unconscious. Now that he was a little sober, he coughed a few times, as if he was worried that coughing up corpse poison powder would infect others, so he covered his mouth. He whispered, "Who are you?" β
The voice was so tired that he asked this not only because he didn't know who was saving him, but also because he couldn't see.
The man had a thick white bandage around his eyes. I guess I'm blind.
And he was a good-looking blind man, with a straight nose and thin lips showing a light red, almost handsome. Very young, somewhere between teenagers and young adults. It's a pity. Wei Wuxian said in his heart: Why have you met so many blind people recently? What is heard, what is seen. Alive, dead.
Suddenly, Jin Ling said: "Hey, we don't know what this person's identity is, whether he is friend or foe, why rush to save him?" If he had been a wicked man, wouldn't he have saved a serpent from coming in? β
That's true, but it's a little embarrassing for him to say it in front of people.
And the man was not angry, let alone worried that he would be thrown out again, smiled slightly, showed a pair of small tiger teeth, and said, "The little boy is right." It's better for me to go out. β
Jin Ling didn't expect him to react like this, but he was stunned, didn't know what to say, and snorted indiscriminately. Lan Si hurriedly said, "However, this may not be a wicked person." β
Jin Ling said stiffly: "Okay." You are good people. Don't blame me for who folds it then. β
Lan Jingyi said angrily: "You ......" Before he finished speaking, his tongue was knotted.
For suddenly he saw the man's sword leaning against the table. The black cloth wrapped around the sword slipped in half, revealing the blade.
The craftsmanship of this sword is very high. The scabbard is bronze with a hollowed-out frost pattern carved on it. The sword body exposed through the hollow pattern is like a silver star, shimmering with snowflake-shaped brilliance, and there is a kind of ice and jade, bright and bright beauty.
Lan Jingyi's eyes widened, as if she had something to blurt out. Although Wei Wuxian didn't know what he was calling it, he instinctively didn't want him to startle the snake, and since this person covered his sword with a black cloth, he must not want people to see it, so he stretched out his hand to cover Lan Jingyi's mouth. At the same time, he put his index finger in front of his lips and motioned to the other teenagers who also showed surprise on their faces not to make a sound.
Jin Ling mouthed him two words, and then reached out and wrote two words on the dusty tabletop:
"Frost Bloom".
β¦β¦ Frost Sword?
Wei Wuxian asked silently, "Xiao Xingchen's - Frost Sword?"
Jin Ling and the others nodded in agreement.
Although these teenagers have never met Hyosungchen in person, "Frost Blossom" is a rare famous sword, not only strong in spirit, but also beautiful and unique in appearance, and has been painted into countless versions of the fairy sword catalogue famous sword atlas, making it unforgettable. Wei Wuxian pondered: If the saber is frosty, it is blind......
A teenager also thought of this, and involuntarily touched the bandage wrapped around the man's eye with his hand, wanting to remove it and see if the man's eye was still there. But as soon as his hand touched the bandage, the other man's face showed an expression of extreme pain, and he stepped back imperceptibly, as if he was very afraid of being touched in the eye.
The young man realized that he was out of shape, and quickly withdrew his hand, saying, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. β
The man raised his left hand, wearing a thin black glove on his hand, trying to cover his eyes, but he didn't dare to touch it, it should be a light touch, the pain was unbearable, a thin layer of sweat had appeared on his forehead, and he reluctantly said: "It's okay......" The voice trembled slightly.
With this kind of appearance, it is almost certain that this person is Hyosungchen who disappeared after the Liyang Chang case.
Xiao Xingchen didn't know that he had been identified by someone, and groped for his frost bloom. Wei Wuxian quickly slid the black bula that had slid down. He touched Shuanghua and nodded, "Thank you for saving me, I'll go first." β
Wei Wuxian said, "You've been poisoned." Stay. β
Hyosungchen said, "Is it very strict?" β
Wei Wuxian said: "Very strict." β
Hyosung said: "If you are very strict, why do you want to stay?" Anyway, there is no cure, so it is better to kill a few more walking corpses while they have not yet turned into corpses. β
Hearing him put life and death aside, Lan Jingyi's blood surged, and said, "Who said there is no cure?" You stay! He will heal you! β
Wei Wuxian: "Me? Sorry, are you talking about me? "I'm really embarrassed to say that if the poisoning is too deep and the corpse poison powder is too much smoked, the glutinous rice porridge is no longer useful.
Hyosungchen said, "I have killed a lot of walking corpses in this city, and they have been following me, and there will be a new batch of them later." I'll stay, and sooner or later you'll be overwhelmed by the corpses. β
Wei Wuxian said, "Your Excellency, do you know who turned Yicheng into this?" β
Xiao Xingchen shook his head and said, "I don't know." I'm just a wanderer...... Wandering here, he learned of the vision of this place, and then went into the city to hunt at night. The number of living corpses in the city and the power of the city are too great for you to comprehend. After being killed, they will burst with corpse poison powder, which will poison them when they get into them. If they don't kill them, they will pounce on them and bite them, and they will be poisoned. Swift and unguardable. It's hard to deal with. We advise you to leave as soon as possible. I listen to your voices, there are a lot of young boys in there, right? β
As soon as the words ended, the giggling of the paper figure sisters came from outside the gate. This time, the laughter was sharper than ever.