Chapter 10: The Ghost Domain
Midnight, Yuncheng Street.
A wide board car slowly came from a distance, the car board and the wheel squeaked rhythmically from the start, the front of the car hung two dim red paper lanterns, as the board car advanced, the lanterns also swayed left and right, reflecting the faces of the car drivers. The driver was a slightly older middle-aged man, with a round face, a figure-eight beard, narrow and narrow eyes, and a dark cloak that tightly wrapped his body, revealing only one head, and his expression was solemn and arrogant. Guarding the front of the car, the body and the rear of the car are three or five young men, all of them are strong and energetic, all of them cautiously follow behind and take care.
A gust of night wind blew, which suddenly added some cold atmosphere to the silent street, and the guy guarding the front of the car couldn't help but shiver, rubbed his arms, and complained: "It's just a cart of wine, do you need to watch it so excitedly? In the middle of the night, let us change places, this is not a treasure cheats, and it's too fuss!"
The uncle's face immediately changed, and he said solemnly: "Don't talk nonsense! This is the wedding wine prepared by the Phantom Lord for her brother's wedding, and in two days it will be the day of the young master's wedding, and the lord has always loved her brother, so of course the wedding must be carefully prepared." If you dare to say such things behind your back, if others hear it, you don't know how many times you have died!"
The guy who complained just now immediately covered his mouth, looked around left and right, and only after making sure that no outsiders heard it, he breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said: "What Uncle Cheng said is, the little one remembers, thank you Uncle Cheng for your advice!"
Uncle Cheng glanced at him, snorted from his nostrils, did not speak, and continued to catch the car.
After walking for a while, the car turned into a corner at the end of the street, and behind the turn was a tall iron gate about five or six feet wide. Uncle Cheng leaned back in the car and glanced at the guy next to him, the guy nodded, took a bunch of keys from his waist, walked to the iron door and opened the door.
As soon as the gate opened, there was the echo of the iron gate against the wall, and it was pitch black inside, and you couldn't see your fingers. The guy groped his way against the wall and walked inside, and after a while, the wall lamps inside were lit one after another. When Uncle Cheng saw the light, he also jumped out of the car, waved his hand at the remaining people, and ordered, "Hurry up!
A few guys nodded yes, and then moved their hands and feet quickly. These people are really fast, a few people go in and out a few times, and a whole cart of wine is almost moved before half the incense is burned. The guy who complained before put down the last two jars of wine, breathed a long sigh of relief, and was about to raise his hand to wipe his sweat, and suddenly it was dark in front of him, and the guy blinked in a hurry and looked again, but there was nothing in front of him.
I was feeling strange in my heart, and I looked around vigilantly, looked at all the corners, but still didn't see anything, scratched my head, and muttered, "Is it an illusion?"
"Little Liu, what are you rubbing! Why don't you leave quickly, you want to spend the night here!" a young man behind him urged urgently.
"I ...... I just saw a figure passing through here!"
The man snorted and said impatiently: "There is no one in this ghost place? There is not even a cat or a dog, which one has a bad brain and comes here at night! I think you kid is sick again, you are as timid as a girl! If you don't leave quickly, you will stay here alone!"
"Don't go, don't go! It's coming!" Xiao Liu answered, but when he saw that he didn't find anything, he was afraid that they would really be left here, so he hurriedly chased him out.
Xiao Liu returned to the door and pulled the door and locked it, and several companions behind him were still chattering: "The movement is so slow, is there a girl or gold inside! Delay Lao Tzu's time, Lao Tzu doesn't want to stay longer in this ghost place for a moment! I always feel yin and yin!"
Xiao Liu nodded with a smile while locking the door: "Yes, yes, my fault, my fault, don't be angry, I'll ask you to drink to make amends for your sins in a while, how about going to Yixiangyuan?"
When those people heard this, they were not so aggressive, they reprimanded a few times, took another spit, and then left with a lewd smile. The sound of the cart sounded again in the night wind, and soon faded away until it was no longer audible.
As soon as the sound of the car fell, a man in black walked out leisurely on the other side of the corner.
This person is tall and straight, dressed in a black power suit, with a jade belt wrapped around his waist, wrist guards and sleeves, although he is dressed as a martial artist, he is meticulous in his dress, and he is very exquisite. The face is covered with a black mask, covering most of the face, revealing only a pair of radiant bright eyes and slightly curved sexy thin lips, and a black paper fan in his hand, the fan bone is carved with a variety of ancient beasts, complex spells and some totems that don't know what they represent, although the mixture is complex, but put together is not redundant, but there is a deep and mysterious feeling.
Shangguan Yu turned his fan, tilted his head and glanced at the iron gate, his eyes flashed with a child's naughty light, and he suddenly chuckled, and the next moment he turned over and went over the roof.
The roof tiles were opened with ease, and there was a hole half the size of a body on it. Shangguan Yu looked inside through the hole, the light in his eyes became more and more excited, and at the same time, he was a little confident and proud. With a slight jump, he actually entered the half-sized hole easily, without touching the edge.
As soon as he landed, he took a jar of wine from the wine shelf next to him, put his nose to the wine seal and sniffed it, first showed surprise on his face, but then frowned, stared at the wine in his hand and nodded, and said: "Sure enough, it is the wine of the Phantom, it is all of the highest grade, even if you search the entire Immortal Demon Dao, I am afraid you can't find a few that can be compared with it, but it is still a little worse than a cup of snow, but it is okay to make do with it." β
He scoured around again, opening and tasting each wine, but in a moment the floor was full of jars and seals, and several times he nearly tripped over the empty jars he had thrown beside him as he searched for them.
In front of dozens of wine jars, Shangguan Yu sat cross-legged, holding a jar in his left hand, carrying a bottle in his right hand, and a pot on his leg. It's like a child who eats candy, happy and a little naΓ―ve.
"Good wine!It seems that the Phantom really put a lot of thought into it this time, she loves her brother enough, but she didn't expect to cheapen me in the end!haha......"
As soon as the words fell, he raised his head and took another sip, but before he finished swallowing the wine, he seemed to suddenly think of something, his face changed suddenly, and a mouthful of wine stuck in his throat immediately made his face red.
"Poof...... ahem...... Ahem......"
Shangguan Yu covered his mouth and coughed for a while before he breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a sad face while relieving himself: "Her wine was drunk by me, she will definitely find out, won't she miss a big deal when the time comes?"
Shangguan Yu lowered his eyes and thought about it, and after a while, his eyes rolled: "There is!"
It's impossible to fill her with wine after drinking it all, but it's still okay to fill it with water. Although she will be found in the end, but at that time, it doesn't matter if she finds out.
Shangguan Yu looked around and found that there was really a water tank in the corner of the inner wall, and the secret path was really God helped me. Picking up the flask on his lap, he walked to the water tank, poured wine into his mouth with his left hand, and opened the lid with his right hand.
The head of the water tank had just opened a crack, and the wine in his mouth had not yet had time to swallow, but the water tank suddenly shook!
Shangguan Yu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly withdrew his hand, and at the same time, a gust of yin wind poured in from the hole in the roof, Shangguan Yu only felt a chill behind him, and the whole person couldn't help but shiver. As soon as the wind fell, the rustle of leaves suddenly sounded outside, and the whirring sound of the night wind swept by.
Shangguan Yu pulled out the folding fan on his waist and threw it upwards twice, looked sideways at the hole above, and looked left and right at the cold wind around him, his expression was a little deep.
This evil wind seems to be ordinary, ordinary people may only think that it is a cold wind at night, but the people in the Xianmen can see through the hidden killing intent at a glance, and the anger and blood in it are extremely deep, and the one who can attract this evil wind must be a difficult inhuman thing.
Bang!
At this moment, there was a sudden thumping sound of a stone hammer hitting the ground outside the door, the sound frequency was very slow, and the pause was even, as if a thousand catties of giant tripods were smashed on the ground at once, and the ground in the wine cellar was a little trembling. Shangguan Yu listened vigilantly to the movement outside, and did not dare to move, but after listening to a few sounds, his feet were already numb. He was surprised that this thing was so heavy, and the sound was already close at hand.
Now that this thing has arrived at the door, let's see what it is. Shangguan Yu moved to the door briskly, gently pushed the door open a crack, and leaned in to look outside.
I saw a barefoot old man standing on the street in front of the door, covered in blood! Although he could see that he was an old man, he really did not look like an old man. This man has sparse white hair, a rickety waist, an unusually tall and strong body, two people tall, and the muscles on his body are bulging one by one, and they are not evenly distributed like the muscles of a living person, but as if he has wrapped something in the flesh, round and round, one "ball" next to another, and his limbs are like a huge sugar gourd! His feet are unusually large, and every step he takes leaves a footprint about three or four inches deep in the same place, and the sharp gravel on the ground is also crushed by his bare feet at the same time, and crushed into foam! This person is not only deformed, but also sluggish, with a pair of pupils full of whites of the eyes, although the eyeballs are still there, they are also very small, and they are about to disappear. A dead gray face with high protruding cheekbones that crept down from the forehead down to the neck. In addition to his terrifying appearance, what is even more surprising is that he also carries a coffin on his back!
The old man with the coffin on his back!
How did he get here?
Shangguan Yu suddenly sank, staring at the old man with the coffin on his back, his expression a little serious.
The old man with the coffin on his back is a kind of corpse puppet of the Ghost Domain Commander, his beloved thing, and his most powerful right-hand man. Because this kind of corpse puppet was forcibly injected with a foreign substance during the refining process, its body shape was deformed, and its lethality was also enhanced, usually dozens of times that of a "human"! Moreover, this thing was painless and harmless, and it was said that it had been separated from the mortal womb of the flesh, flesh and blood were all smelted into steel and iron bones. The most important thing is that he is unconscious, he is completely a dead tool, very easy to be controlled by his owner, and is the most obedient and powerful pet. As for its refining process, outsiders don't know anything, and such a vicious and cruel corpse refining technique can only be used by the Ghost Domain Commander, so this old man with a coffin has become the exclusive symbol of the Ghost Domain Commander.
The old man in front of him still had black eyes in his eyes, which should have just been refined and had not yet completely degenerated. It stands to reason that a subordinate of the level of the old man carrying the coffin will not be sent out easily, but whoever sends him out must encounter an extremely important and thorny event, and a bloody killing is indispensable! Now this thing has actually appeared here! He is just here to steal a drink, and he can encounter this kind of thing, and his luck is really not ordinary!
Just when Shangguan Yu was distracted, the footsteps outside the door suddenly stopped. His ears suddenly cleared, his thoughts were interrupted, and his voice suddenly stopped, could it be that this thing is gone? Shangguan Yu was strange, and just looked up to see what was going on, who knew that this look up happened to hit the pair of fish eyes of the old man in the coffin!
It's been discovered!
I was thinking about not bumping into this thing just now, and if I was entangled by him, I would have endless troubles, but now I was really discovered!
Shangguan Yu clenched the fan suddenly, and said in his heart, "The first strike is stronger!", and he was about to smash it down when he raised his hand, but as soon as his hand was halfway down, he heard a shouting sound in the distance.
"Hurry! Movement is coming from here!"
I guess this guy should be walking too quietly, so he recruited people.
Shangguan Yu decisively withdrew his hand, and hid sideways in the dark, listening to the movement outside. What he didn't expect was that the old man with the coffin seemed to be afraid of being discovered, so he immediately ran away, and his speed was not slower than his!
The sound of footsteps soon reached the door, and there were about forty or fifty people just listening, and the crowd stopped when they came to the door.
"It's the voice that came from here just now, why is there no one at this time?"
The team leader looked around left and right: "The person must not have run far, just search around here, and you must find the person for me!"
The crowd answered "yes" and scattered in all directions.
As soon as the people dispersed, a pawn stepped forward and said, "Leader, this is the lord's wine cellar, do you want to ...... Go in and check in case something goes wrong. β
The team leader seemed to remember that this was the lord's place after listening to his subordinates' report, and immediately looked grim and said, "Come in and have a look!"
As soon as the door opened, Shangguan Yu hid behind the wine shelf and jumped out, blending in the shadows and quietly jumping out of the hole in the roof.
As soon as the searchers entered, they saw that all the wine jars on the ground were lying crookedly on the ground, and the whole wine cellar was filled with a strong smell of wine, and the holes in the roof naturally did not escape their eyes.
When the leader saw this scene, he seemed to be frightened, and said anxiously and angrily: "Who is so bold that even the lord's wine dares to steal!" The lord has repeatedly instructed that there must be no mistake in the things used for this wedding banquet, and if the lord knows this, we don't want to live!"
The subordinates were also worried, and their faces were full of sadness: "Team leader, there is a hole in the roof, presumably the wine thief escaped from there, we are going to chase it now, maybe we have time to make up for it, and maybe we can save a life!"
"Then don't chase it quickly! Find it all for me! If you can't find anyone, don't come back alive!"
Before the words fell, everyone scattered as birds and beasts, and they scattered all at once, and they all ran as fast as they could in all directions.
Shangguan Yu sat on the roof and watched the people on the ground running around as if fleeing for their lives, raised his hand and stroked his forehead, and said helplessly: "It's just that I haven't had time to fill the water into it......"
After making sure that there was no one around, Shangguan Yu jumped down again and looked at the mess in one place, he, the culprit, felt a little headache. Yu Guang glanced at the water tank and there was still half a pot of wine he had just drunk, such a good wine could not be wasted, and he walked back and picked up the wine jug. Everyone has come to search, and no one will come now, right? He just happened to be able to drink it steadily, and he didn't have to worry about others finding out, so he was going to sit on the water tank as soon as he picked up his clothes, and planned to drink the pot comfortably.
His hand propped up on the lid of the water tank, and his body was just about to lean up, but his subordinates suddenly emptied, and the whole person almost fell in, Shangguan Yu was shocked: "What's going on today......?
"Ahh
The black shadow seemed to be frightened, screamed, rushed out with a rolling belt, and hit Shangguan Yu, just throwing himself into his arms.
Shangguan Yu was just about to catch him when he heard footsteps outside, and the secret way was not good! Originally, he had already escaped the search, but because of this black shadow, all his previous efforts were wasted!
He really didn't know what to say, his right hand punched in the air, it was impossible to run in this situation, there was no point in running, he could only resign himself to his fate and go out to show his face, and go out with a long breath. When he walked outside the door, the whole street was as bright as day, and nearly a hundred people were waiting for him to come out with torches and swords. The black shadow just now was also stopped by them, and it was being staked by his men. However, after this pause, Shangguan Yu saw that the black shadow turned out to be a little girl.
The little girl was very thin, her whole body was so skinny that almost all that was left was her skeleton, and her clothes were tattered, full of dust and stains, and she could no longer wear them, and she had lost one of her shoes, and her little feet were covered with blood. The little girl seemed to be terrified, her little face covered with mud was lowered deeply, and her whole body was curled up and trembling, but she never said a word.
"Dare to be a thief! Dare to trespass into the Phantom Lord's place, it should be a capital crime!
Before the words fell, the crowd was already agitated, and they were about to rush over with their swords raised. However, before everyone could take the second step, a clear and clean voice suddenly came.
"Stop!"
A young man slowly walked out of the back of the crowd, this young man's face was white, his eyes were clear, and his handsome face was still a little childish, even if he held a sharp sword, it was not afraid at all, because he did not have the slightest anger and murderous aura that matched the sword, but some were pure and clean. It is precisely because his temperament is too pure, so with the sword at his waist, it is a bit nondescript.
The young man walked to the front, raised the torch and looked at it carefully, and after a while, he took two steps forward to confirm again, and exclaimed, "Brother Jueying!"
Shangguan Yu said: "Hua Xie, it's me." β