Chapter 46: Death
On the street of Jiukangfang, the shadow of a person and a fox is long.
"Oh, you've found my clothes!" Zhou Hong, who turned into a red fox, now walked on his short legs and jumped towards the dress he had abandoned on the ground in order to get out.
Xie Qiao followed behind it, although he knew that the fox in front of him was Zhou Hongxian, but when he heard the pleasant female voice from its mouth, he couldn't help but feel a sense of wonder in his heart.
The red fox is Zhou Niangzi, which is indeed unquestionable, but compared to the behemoth and vicious and obscene rat demon, it is so lively and smart, and the face is so delicate and cute, and it is even far from the cunning image that has been passed down from mouth to mouth.
Is that true for every demon? No, there is a rat demon in front of him, of course Xie Qiao will not think so, but the red fox in front of him makes him believe that demons are also good and bad, just like mortals.
"It's so heavy! Xie Ziping, can you please do me a favor? ”
"Mrs. Zhou, please speak!"
"Help me pick up my clothes and put them on my back, I'll go find a corner to restore my human form, and then I'll take you to the county government to move the rescuers."
Xie Qiao showed a smile that he hadn't seen for a long time, he leaned down to help the red fox, and then watched the red fox turn into a small alley with his clothes.
Xie Qiao has seen with his own eyes how Zhou Hongxian changed from a human to a fox, but he has never seen how she changed from a fox to a human again, if there is no curiosity and nostalgia in his heart, it is impossible, but Xie Qiao still stopped his own thoughts in time, after all, his wife Liu Qian is still missing at the moment.
"Mr. Xie!" Suddenly, someone in the distance of the street was shouting Xie Qiao, and his voice sounded familiar.
"Who is it?" When people approached, Xie Qiao finally saw the faces of the comers through the moonlight. "Wu Qing?"
It turned out that the person who came was an official in the county office, and the official was also called a bad person in the Tang Dynasty, and this bad man named Wu Qing ran towards Xie Qiao in a panic, he was covered in blood, and his face was even more frightened.
"What's wrong with you, why are you alone?" Xie Qiao knew in advance that Cui Shen would send more than half of the officials of the county government to track down the whereabouts of the Rakshasa ghost tonight, and he still felt very puzzled in his heart when he saw this situation in Wuqing.
"I and a few colleagues went out on an errand on the orders of Cui County, but on the way we met a husband, who said that he saw a monster running to Jiukangfang, so we went here to investigate. Later, a monster with a pig's head and a human body suddenly came out from behind, and he killed several other colleagues, and I escaped alone. Mr. Xie, that monster may be catching up, without further ado, you can run for your life with me! When Wu Qing saw Xie Qiao, as if he had seen a relative, his face showed a hint of excitement.
When Xie Qiao heard the words "pig's head and human body", he knew that it was an old ghost in Songpa, and he couldn't help but change his face. But Zhou Hongxian has not yet returned, he is afraid that if he runs away at this time, he will not have time to inform Zhou Hongxian, if she turns back and meets the old ghost of Songpo head-on, then wouldn't he be in danger of her?
When Xie Qiao hesitated, he saw that Wu Qing had already run to him, his collar was covered with a large area of blood, and he was obviously seriously injured.
The words were divided into two ends, and Cui Shen led the officials to rush outside the Jiukang Fang.
A forerunner suddenly shouted: "County order, it's not good, there are many dead people ahead!" ”
"Huh?" Cui Shen was shocked, and hurriedly quickened his pace to check, only to see several corpses with incomplete limbs and broken limbs scattered in a pool of blood.
"County order, these dead are our own people!" Some people have been the first to identify the deceased by their clothes.
"This is Lu Erbao! This is Zhang Shengwang! And a headless one! ”
"It's Wu Qing who has no head, I recognize his shoes, these are the new shoes that his mother just made for him!"
"Oh my God, why did they die so badly, and who killed them?"
"It's certainly not human! Could it be the Rakshasa ghost? ”
A group of people felt that the chill on their bodies was gradually deepening, and some people had already retreated: "The county-county order, also-do you want to continue to investigate?" ”
Cui Shen's eyes were trembling, he reached out and touched the location of the treasure mirror in his arms, and couldn't help gritting his teeth: "Chase, keep chasing!" For the sake of the people in the city, for the sake of your dead colleagues, this county must be traced to the end! ”
Back to Jiukang Fang.
"Wait, you stop!" Just when Wu Qing was only three steps away from him, Xie Qiao suddenly stopped him.
"What's wrong with you, Mr. Xie?" Wu Qing looked puzzled.
The cold sweat on Xie Qiao's forehead had already bubbled up: "I was in Jiukang Fang because of an accident, why didn't you see me at all?" ”
Wu Qing was stunned, and then replied: "Mr. Xie, I am in a hurry to run for my life, where will I take care of this?" ”
This answer is reasonable, but Xie Qiao's cold sweat did not stop at all: "The moon is hazy tonight, when you call me, I see that you are still a half-human-tall shadow, but you can recognize who I am at a glance, is this normal?" ”
Wu Qing grinned, his smiling expression was stiff and terrifying, and he raised his hands to hold his neck, and took off his head as soon as he raised his hand. Under Xie Qiao's trembling gaze, Wu Qing held his head on his chest, and the gloomy voice of the old ghost of Songpo suddenly came from his abdomen: "It's not a loss to Cui County's staff, this clue is actually for you to see!" Hahahaha, hahahaha-"
Xie Qiao turned around and fled, but the old ghost of Songpa unhurriedly put his head back on his neck, and suddenly his figure flashed, and he directly turned into a black gas and rushed towards Xie Qiao.
"Ahh
"Still want to run? Hey, hey, hey, what a handsome head, wouldn't it be a pity for me not to keep it for the old ghost? ”
"What did you—you—do you do to Qianniang?" A large mouthful of blood poured out of Xie Qiao's mouth, and the appearance of his wife Liu Qian still appeared in his mind before he died.
"You don't have to worry about Qianniang, I just punished her slightly, and I was reluctant to let her soul disappear! I think if I hold your head in the future, Qianniang should be able to die for me, right? Hahahaha, hahahaha-"
"Xie Ziping!" At this time, Zhou Hongxian, who had already turned into a human form and dressed up, happened to arrive, and she was surprised to see this scene.
"Yo, Fox Lady, you're finally here! Seeing that you are intact, presumably my indisputable second brother should have died at your hands, right? The old ghost of Songpo pulled out his claws, and let Xie Qiao's body slide to the ground, only to turn his head to look at Zhou Hongxian and laugh gloomily.
Zhou Hongxian glanced at Xie Qiao's corpse, her eyes showed unbearability, she said to the old ghost of Songpo with a sense of anger: "You evil ghost, you have occupied other people's wives for so many years, and you want to kill him, won't hell accept you?" ”
"Hahahaha, hell?" The old ghost of Songpa laughed very wildly, and he looked at Zhou Hongxian with a mocking look: "Fox lady, you are really a fox demon in vain, you are even more innocent than that three-year-old child, you probably don't even know what hell is like, right?" Let me tell you, there is no different from the world, it is nothing more than the rampant evil ghosts such as me, and the weak ghosts suffer! At the beginning, I just offered a few beautiful women and ghosts to bribe the ghosts who came to arrest me, and they were willing to find another headless ghost to impersonate me, and left me to continue to wander in the world, hahahaha! ”
Zhou Hongxian was speechless, but the old ghost of Songpo had turned into a black qi approaching, Zhou Hongxian could no longer take care of it, so he had to turn into a breeze and swirl with him in the air, but the old ghost of Songpo turned into too much black gas, almost blocking her way, she could only move back and forth in this only space, and carefully avoided every black gas.
The smug laughter of the old ghost of Songpo came from the black air: "Fox lady, you look really coveted, with a gorgeous face and a straight posture, you must have killed my second brother with hue as bait, right?" Don't worry, I will avenge him, and then use your Neidan to help me become a demon, turn your soul into a ghost slave, and you will serve me well with Qianniang in the future! The second brother's happiness that he can't enjoy will be enjoyed by me for him, hahahaha! ”
Zhou Hongxian was even more angry after hearing this, and she had already scolded the old ghost of Songpo to the eighteenth generation of ancestors in her heart, but she didn't dare to scold back, because her Taoism was not good, but she was afraid that this would consume more energy, and she would fall into the hands of the old ghost of Songpo.
"County Order, what do you think is in the sky?"
Cui Shen had already led many officials to arrive, although they couldn't see the breeze that Zhou Hongxian had turned into, but the black aura of the old ghost in Songpo had already stunned them.
"County order, it seems that Mr. Xie is lying on the ground in front of you!"
"What?" With the guidance of one person, Cui Shen had already seen Xie Qiao's body, and his eyes suddenly widened.
"Mr. Xie seems to be dead!"
"Ziping!" Cui Shen shouted in pain and wanted to run to check Xie Qiao's body, but was stopped by several officials who stretched out their hands. "County order, you can't go! Those black qi hovered above Mr. Xie, don't be in danger! ”
Cui Shen and Xie Qiao were also teachers and friends, how could they not be angry when they saw him dead: "Then shoot it with an arrow!" ”
When several officials heard this, they hurriedly opened their bows and arrows and fired several arrows at the black qi of the old ghost in Songpo.
Although the old ghost of Songpo is not afraid of bows and arrows, the actions of these officials have already angered him, especially when he found Cui Shen, you must know that it was Cui Shen who beheaded him in the first place, can this revenge not be avenged?
"Cui County Order, you came just in time!" The old ghost of Songpo had no time to take care of Zhou Hongxian, he dropped several black qi on the ground and condensed it, and said to Cui Shen with a hideous face.
When several officials saw the face of the old ghost in Songpa, they were all startled: "Ah, why is it Wuqing?" ”
"Cui County Order, do you still recognize who I am?" The old ghost of Songpa sneered.
Cui Shen's eyes were full of doubts, his intuition told him that this would definitely not be Wuqing, but he really didn't recognize the old ghost of Songpa: "Who are you?" ”
Zhou Hongxian broke away from the old ghost of Songpo, and wanted to take advantage of this to slip away, but she knew that Cui Shen was Cui Yu's father, and then looked at Xie Qiao, who was dead, and couldn't help but feel unbearable, so she also landed on the ground to show her figure. "Cui Xianling, he is a warlock who was beheaded by you a few years ago, and now he has become an evil ghost bent on seeking revenge on you and Xie Ziping, he is now killing people like hemp, you run away!"
Zhou Hongxian also surprised everyone, Cui Shen listened to her words, and immediately recalled the case a few years ago, and suddenly realized. However, he was even more puzzled about Zhou Hongxian's identity: "This lady, it doesn't look like you are human, so dare to ask what you are?" ”
Zhou Hong is in a hurry: "Don't care who I am, run for your life!" ”
The old ghost of Songpo sneered: "Fox lady, you are really stupid and cute!" After that, he turned into black gas and rushed straight to Cui Shen: "Cui County Order, pay for your life!" ”
"County Order, run, that evil ghost has been killed!"
Cui Shen's forehead was also sweating slightly, but he carefully put his hand into his arms.
"You're all going to die!" The old ghost of Songpa said viciously in the black air, and suddenly, he felt that his eyes were white, and he couldn't open his eyes.
"What is this?" The white expanse dissipated, and the old ghost of Songpo regained his sight, and his claws were about to reach Cui Shen's face, but a violent burning sensation came from the claws, and it spread to his whole body in just an instant, making him feel as if he was in a fiery hell.
In Cui Shen's perspective, the claw of the old ghost of Songpo was only half a step away from the bridge of his nose, and suddenly the other party's whole body seemed to be on fire, and it was swallowed by the flames from head to tail in an instant, and finally turned into a wisp of ashes and scattered in the wind. Is this - the end of it? Cui Shen couldn't even believe it, only feeling a burst of soreness coming from his legs.
"Prefectural order!" All this happened so suddenly, even if the officials wanted to escape, they couldn't do it in time, and at this time, they saw that Cui Xianling was a little shaky, and hurriedly held him steady.
Zhou Hongxian was also dumbfounded, she couldn't talk about the old ghost of Songpa being ended so easily anyway, she was deeply shocked by the power of the mirror in Cui Shen's hand At the same time, she was also glad that the light of the mirror did not flash to her at that time, otherwise the consequences would not be predictable.
"County order, that lady is not a person, should we also take a mirror to look at her?" At this time, a famous official suddenly looked at Zhou Hongxian with a sharp gaze.
Zhou Hongxian was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Don't, I'm a good person, I'm a good person!" ”
"You're not human, what kind of good people are you talking about?"
There are also officials who disagree: "No, the lady just now also reminded us, at least there is no malice!" ”
When Zhou Hongxian heard this, he felt that there were still sensible people in this world.
However, suddenly someone spoke: "No, I remembered, I saw this lady when I was suppressing bandits in Qingfeng Village before!" I was standing next to Mr. Xie, who picked up a torch and found her and told her to stay, but she disappeared in the blink of an eye with a panicked face. Now that Mr. Xie's death is unknown, and she has appeared next to him again, could it be that there is some kind of connection between these two things? ”
What happened tonight, including the death of so many people at once, these officials were actually shrouded in a sense of fear, and when this sentence came out, everyone exploded at once.
"She's in league with that evil ghost, maybe she deliberately acted to trick us just now!"
"Yes, she ran away as soon as she saw Mr. Xie, but now she is standing next to Mr. Xie, Mr. Xie may have been killed by her!"
"County order, she's not a person anyway, just in case, take a picture of her with a treasure mirror!"
"Yes, if she is good, it probably won't make any difference if she is illuminated by the treasure mirror. Just give it a try, prefectural order! ”
Cui Shen looked at Xie Qiao's corpse from afar, his heart was already grief-stricken, and at this time, he was even more disturbed by everyone, and subconsciously wanted to raise the treasure mirror in his hand.
Zhou Hong saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly shouted: "Cui County Order, don't!" Although Xie Qiao is dead, I still have a way to save him, if you kill me, everything will not be saved! ”