Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Yin Soldier Borrows the Way
"Mom, don't eat me, you go eat that little cub, his thin skin and tender meat are fresh, I am covered with bones, and you can't eat your teeth. ”
In the dim cave, the old donkey kicked on all fours, struggling constantly, and his hind hooves were dragged by the hairy palm, constantly advancing, no matter how he struggled, he could not get out, and could only cry wolf-howling, begging the thing that grabbed the hoof to let him go.
"Isn't this the famous Beast Venerable?"
Looking at the frightened appearance of the old donkey's struggle, Jiang Xiaoqi smiled, his words were a little ridiculous, and the furry paws pinched in his hands suddenly let go of the old donkey's hind hooves and grabbed it on its buttocks. Immediately afterwards, I saw the old donkey jumping up three feet high in fright, the donkey hair all over his body stood upside down, and the two ears were straight, and he was crawling with a rolling belt, and he wanted to flee to the entrance of the cave.
But then, the old donkey's ears were a little familiar with the voice, and he vaguely noticed something strange in his heart, and he trembled and looked back, and suddenly saw Jiang Xiaoqi with a smile on his face, holding the big fluffy paw in his hand, and that smile was in the eyes of the old donkey at this time, not to mention how cheap it was. Seeing this, the old donkey immediately exploded, and was about to pounce on Jiang Xiaoqi with his big teeth, but was choked by the latter's big paws.
"I know you're not a good kid. ”
With a mouthful of big teeth, he glanced at Jiang Xiaoqi beside him, and the old donkey's face was full of disdain. At this moment, the straight hair on its body had not been smoothed, and the horror still spread in its little heart.
After the fight, a man and a donkey began to march into the cave, Jiang Xiaoqi was in front, and the old donkey tiptoed behind him, stepping on the broken hands and feet on the ground from time to time, and let out a wail, adding a bit of weirdness to the already dim cave.
Indeed, this cave is full of strangeness, the wind is whistling in the ears, and there are many broken arm remains scattered on the ground, some even with a trace of residual warmth, as if they have just died. The cave at your feet is full of potholes, and some places are filled with blood, and if you reach out and touch it, you will feel a cold and biting chill permeating your heart. The cave was filled with a strong smell of blood, mixed with the stench of decomposing corpses, which was so pungent that people couldn't help but gause.
"Boy, why don't we go back, I have a sense of foreboding. ”
After finishing speaking, the old donkey stabbed Jiang Xiaoqi in front of him with his hoof, looking at the strange dim space around him, and the corpses piled up on the ground, the old donkey's huge body was full of cold hair, and the eyes the size of copper bells looked around vigilantly, and there was a little trembling in his words.
"Brother Donkey, don't be afraid, the black donkey's hooves ward off evil spirits, why don't you contribute some blood?"
Looking at the trembling old donkey behind him, Jiang Xiaoqi smiled knowingly, then took out a dagger from his waist, squatted down and was about to scratch the old donkey's big black hooves.
"Look clearly, brother's hooves are white, white. ”
Holding back the fragrant posture in his heart, the old donkey raised the huge donkey hooves and swayed vigorously in front of Jiang Xiaoqi's eyes, spitting stars flying all over the sky, arguing with reason, and there was a bargaining posture of an aunt in the vegetable market.
"The hind hooves are black. ”
Moving his body, Jiang Xiaoqi avoided the old donkey's flying spit, and looked at the old donkey's hind hooves with a mocking look, with a bit of provocation in his eyes.
"The little cub is over, isn't it? ”
The old donkey was like being stepped on by its tail, staring at the big eyes like copper bells, slanting at Jiang Xiaoqi who was smiling in front of him, and was about to be anxious with his big teeth.
"Whew"
The yin wind swept up and blew in the ears, and the cold breath swept in and blew on both. Suddenly, Jiang Xiaoqi felt goosebumps inexplicably bulging on his body, and the coldness was pervasive, making his back a little cold.
"Holy. ”
Immediately afterwards, the old donkey's terrible scream sounded in the dim cave, and then he jumped up like crazy, jumped three feet high, and immediately swept to Jiang Xiaoqi's side, and the ghost cried wolf howl.
"Made, who touched Lao Tzu's ass. ”
The old donkey's eyes were round, and his eyes looked around with horror, and the wind blew through the hair on his body, which would provoke the old donkey's miserable screams, and he had the posture of a frightened bird.
"It's all said that you should contribute some blood. ”
Looking at the frightened expression of the old donkey, Jiang Xiaoqi shrugged helplessly, pulled its big hooves off his shoulders, ignored it, and continued to walk forward slowly. With a thought in his mind, he wanted to take out the dark red long knife in the space bracelet to be vigilant, but then Jiang Xiaoqi found that no matter how he urged, the space bracelet on his wrist still did not respond, and this appearance suddenly made him feel a wave of doubts in his heart.
Then, Jiang Xiaoqi began to try to stimulate the spiritual power in his body, but he was surprised to find that at this time, the Qu Chi in his body was empty, and there was no trace of spiritual power left, only the azure origin fragment was floating quietly, and he couldn't help frowning in this way.
"I seem to remember what this place is. ”
Just when Jiang Xiaoqi was investigating whether there was any change in his body, the old donkey who followed him suddenly spoke, looking at the dim but increasingly wide cave in front of him in a daze, the donkey's face was very long, but it could still be seen from its somewhat frightened expression.
"Go further. ”
Unexpectedly, this time the old donkey did not hide behind Jiang Xiaoqi, but instead explored with his body, walking forward with heavy steps, and the cold hair that stood on end gradually eased at this moment, but the ears on the top of his head became straighter.
Sensing the change in the old donkey's expression, Jiang Xiaoqi was curious, and without too much hesitation, he followed with his steps, he also wanted to know what the secret of this strange cave was.
"Whew"
I don't know how long time has passed, a man and a donkey walked along the dim cave like this, the yin wind sounding in my ears became stronger and stronger, and more and more corpses appeared under my feet, whether it was human shape, birds and beasts, as well as the corpses of some races that had never been seen before, they could be seen everywhere here, and the ways of dying were strange.
Some have had their heads cut off, some have been pierced through their hearts by arrows, and some have their hearts cut off alive, the only difference is that the whole corpses of many creatures can be seen here, not the remains of severed arms seen at the entrance of the cave. But in the same way, as they went deeper, the pungent fishy smell became stronger, and the blood under their feet could be seen everywhere, with only sporadic landing.
"Gollum"
Suddenly, the scene before me suddenly opened up, and the gentle light came into view, and instead of a cave surrounded by walls, it became an endless ocean, with the sound of bubbling water, and the yellowing spring water crashing against the surrounding rock walls, rolling up the waves. After a quick glance, in the waves, Jiang Xiaoqi saw a huge skeleton that was rolled up, which was swept up to the surrounding stone walls and shattered.
"It's really here. ”
Looking at the endless yellow sea in front of him, the old donkey's round eyes were a little distracted, his big tongue was on the outside of the gums, and there was a hint of abruptness in his words.
"Brother Donkey has been here?"
Hearing the dumb words of the old donkey beside him, Jiang Xiaoqi asked with a slight sideways figure and a little doubt in his eyes.
"After thousands of years, the soul returns, and the gods go to the earth, and return to the capital. ”
As if he didn't hear Jiang Xiaoqi's doubts, the old donkey looked at the endless yellow ocean in front of him in a daze, and said such an inexplicable sentence in a hoarse voice, his tongue was casually at the corner of his mouth, and his distraction looked like an evil spirit.
"Could it be that this is hell?"
Thinking about the old donkey's stunned words, coupled with the endless yellow ocean in front of him, Jiang Xiaoqi inexplicably burst out of such a thought in his heart, his expression was a little trance, and he muttered in a low voice in place.
In the world of his previous life, in addition to being a puppet killing machine, Jiang Xiaoqi was occasionally sent to do some errands as a 'Tufuzi', so he would also have some understanding of some strange things. Among them, he has seen the term "Xudu" in some classics, which probably means what people often refer to as hell, that is, the world to which people will go after death.
In the past, he just regarded these anecdotes as interesting things and didn't care too much, but since he came to this world, many of his previous concepts have been broken, such as chasing corpses in his previous life, but in this world, he has really become a topic that people like to see, so it seems to subvert his previous concepts.
"Have you heard of Xudu?"
Suddenly, the old donkey turned his huge head, stared at Jiang Xiaoqi beside him with his eyes, and once again regained his original face, bared his big teeth and asked, and his earnest appearance almost put his hooves on him and shook him a few times.
"I saw it by chance from an ancient book. ”
Obviously, Jiang Xiaoqi would not reveal his true secrets, so he casually found an excuse and pushed the alcohol to those little-known ancient books.
"Could it be that this is really the place where people die?"
Looking at the look of the old donkey beside him, Jiang Xiaoqi followed its train of thought and guided down, wanting to ask some secrets about Xudu. But this guy didn't say anything, he was rarely tight-lipped like a bottle, no matter how he asked, this guy pretended not to understand anything, which made Jiang Xiaoqi unable to speak.
"Buzz"
At this moment, Jiang Xiaoqi suddenly felt the earth tremble under his feet, and there was a very regular roar in his ears, and then, Jiang Xiaoqi and the old donkey suddenly found that a suspended stone bridge appeared out of thin air on the endless yellow ocean in front of them, extending from the stone wall under their feet, surging to the end of the endless ocean, until it was out of reach.
"Come here, little cub. ”
Jiang Xiaoqi, who was distracted, suddenly heard the call of the old donkey, and looked back, the old donkey had hidden in a hidden corner on the side of the stone wall at some point, and was waving his hooves at him, and a look of horror flashed across the elongated donkey's face.
Without much hesitation, Jiang Xiaoqi's figure flashed, appeared next to the old donkey, hid in the corner of the hidden stone wall with him, and poked his head out to look at the edge of the stone bridge like the old donkey.
"Boom Boom Boom"
The sound of heavy footsteps was getting closer and closer, as if it was exploding in his ears, and the next moment, Jiang Xiaoqi saw a burly figure suddenly appear in sight. Wearing armor and holding a halberd, he wrapped his whole body in it, although he couldn't see his face clearly, but the wings that extended from his back Jiang Xiaoqi concluded that he should not belong to the human race.
The appearance of burly figures seemed to kick off the prelude to roaring footsteps, and one after another figures appeared one after another, pouring out of the cave when they came, large or small, of different shapes, some figures could be found from memory, they were the ones they had seen when they came, but the difference was that most of what they had seen were the remains of broken arms, but these burly and huge, army-like figures in front of them were all intact, just like their appearance before their deaths.
Judging from the aura emanating from these figures, it was obvious that they were lifeless, and they should all be dead. However, the killing aura that permeated their bodies made people in a trance, and the appearance of their freedom of movement made people wonder if they were really dead. This group of people is like a sergeant rushing to the battlefield, and everyone has a cold aura of slaughter.
"Are all these people dead?"
Grabbing the old donkey's ear with one hand, Jiang Xiaoqi lay down and whispered softly beside its ear.
Throwing Jiang Xiaoqi's ear away, the old donkey glared at him viciously, and then turned his gaze to the slaughtering figure not far away, and his round eyes flashed with inexplicable color.
"The Yin soldiers borrowed the way, and the one who stood in the way died. ”
"I used to hear it only in rumors, but I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes one day. ”
There was a little excitement in his solemn eyes, and the old donkey shook his ears, licked his lips with his tongue, and rolled his eyes.
"Boy, don't you want to figure out what's going on with the Yin Soldier's borrowing of the Dao?"
The big mouth of the gum bit Jiang Xiaoqi's sleeve, and the old donkey looked at him with bright eyes, glanced out vigorously, and said to him with encouragement in his words.
"Come on, grab a research study, and maybe you'll be able to figure out the secret. ”
"Why don't you go, you also said it, the Yin soldiers borrowed the way, and the people who stood in the way died. ”
Pulling his sleeves, Jiang Xiaoqi looked at the old donkey beside him angrily, smashed his elbow on its stretched neck, and dragged the old donkey's ears to drag it out.
"Don't move, don't move, if you find out, something might go wrong. ”
After being dragged by Jiang Xiaoqi's ears, the old donkey's slightly bloated body lay directly on the ground, and it was difficult to move it no matter how Jiang Xiaoqi dragged it. The four hooves struggled to drag Jiang Xiaoqi back, glanced at the huge army marching on the stone bridge with palpitations, and howled at Jiang Xiaoqi on the side with big teeth.
"Huangquan Bank, but the three life stones under the bridge, the soul of Meng Po forgets this life, recalls the past, and the flowers bloom on the other side. ”
For no reason, such a passage sounded in Jiang Xiaoqi's mind, which he saw in a tomb in his previous life, and was engraved on the stone slab of the coffin.
In the previous life, there was such a legend, outside the capital, there is a road called Huangquan Road, there is a river called Lechuan River, and there is a bridge on the river. Walking across the Nai He Bridge, you will see an earthen platform, which is Wangxiang Terrace, and there is a Meng Po selling Meng Po soup on the side of Wangxiang Terrace. There is a stone standing by the Lechuan River, called Sansheng Stone.
Meng Po soup makes you forget everything, and the Sansheng Stone records your past and present lives. Walk across the Nai He Bridge, look at the last glimpse of the world on the Wangxiang Terrace, and drink a cup of Meng Po soup boiled in the Lichuan River.
However, the bluestone bridge deck of the bridge, five grid steps, the west of the bridge is female, the east of the bridge is male, the left yin and the right yang. He died at the age of ninety-seven, and waited on the bridge for three years. A thousand years of retrospective, a hundred years of agreement, a lifetime of husband and wife, began in Si, and grace was broken here.
However, under the bridge for thousands of feet, the clouds and mist are entangled, and no one knows what the way to wait for the next life. The promise of the next life is just a follow-up to this life, after drinking Meng Po soup, everything has been forgotten, and the meeting in the next life is just a new beginning.
What a bridge, what a parting in the past life, how to meet in this life, but how to reunite in the next life.
Now, Huang Quan has seen, the Yin soldiers have passed, Jiang Xiaoqi thought of the reason for his present life, could it be that he had died in his previous life, and he only came to this world after stepping through reincarnation? However, this idea was quickly overturned by him, if he was really as recorded in that sentence, why did he come with memories? Could it be that there is really reincarnation in this world?
"Boy, what are you muttering?"
Looking at Jiang Xiaoqi's eyes beside him, the old donkey was startled, and hurriedly raised his hooves to smash him, pulling his consciousness back, because it found that Jiang Xiaoqi's state just now was like a demon, as if he wanted to merge with everything here.
"Brother Donkey, have you heard of the other side flower?"
After coming back to his senses, Jiang Xiaoqi looked at the sluggish old donkey beside him, and asked in a trance.
"Boy, how do you know about the other side of the flower?"
I thought that Jiang Xiaoqi was just infected by the environment here, and his consciousness sank a little, but after hearing his whispering words, the old donkey stood up suddenly, his shyness became a little solemn at this moment, and he asked in a low voice.
"What, does the flower have any secrets?"
Seeing the old donkey's reaction like this, Jiang Xiaoqi was sure in his heart, this guy must know something, otherwise it wouldn't have reacted so much after hearing the flower on the other side.
"These things are taboo, you can't mention them, you can't say them. ”
I don't know why, whenever Jiang Xiaoqi mentions the matter of Xudu, the old donkey is as tight-lipped as a bottle, no matter how he induces, this guy will not let go, and he will not let go of his mouth, completely soft and hard, so that Jiang Xiaoqi is also helpless for a while, so he has to give up asking what plans he wants from his mouth.
"Let's go, this is not the place we can come, it's better to leave as soon as possible. ”
The Yin soldier queue was coming to an end, and the stone bridge that appeared on the endless ocean was slowly dissipating, as if it had never existed. Then, the old donkey quietly leaned out from the side of the stone wall, drooped his head and took one last look at the yellow ocean in front of him, turned his head and opened his mouth to Jiang Xiaoqi to urge.
Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoqi nodded slightly, his eyes also glanced at the endless ocean behind him, and followed the old donkey's footsteps into the cave, walking in the direction he came.
"Po"
At the moment when Jiang Xiaoqi's figure looked back, in the endless ocean, a red flower slowly appeared, peanut leaves fell, staring at Jiang Xiaoqi's figure gradually moving away, at that moment, the flowers in the ocean seemed to have experienced a long time in their lives, and the leaves fell peanuts.