Chapter 17: The Altar of the Kingdom of Wu
Meow! ”
Cheng Xiaoxiao saw the opportunity and jumped to the ground from Chu Yunshen's arms, it must be that altar that is playing ghosts, if the altar is destroyed, these rotting corpses will definitely become puppets without a line, and they can't do anything.
Cheng Xiaoxiao had seen the road to the altar last night, where there were rotting corpses and where there was a road.
Now she only needs to lead Chu Yunshen and them there.
After all, she's just a cat now, and there are some things (qg) that need their help.
"Meow!"
So she deliberately got out from under Xiao Wu's feet, and Xiao Wu was so frightened that she immediately exclaimed, "Little Ancestor, this is not a place where you can mess around!" ”
As he spoke, he leaned out (shēn) and saw the kitten nesting on a rock outside the cave, meowing at him.
"Lord, it seems to be trying to take us somewhere."
Xiao Wu turned his head to Chu Yunshen, who was already standing outside the cave, and said, "My subordinates, let's go and see it." ”
"Wait." Chu Yunshen raised his hand to stop Xiao Wu, and then said to the village chief behind (shēn), "Let's go together." ”
Chu Yunshen and his party followed Cheng Xiaoxiao (shēn), but they did not encounter a single carrion corpse along the way.
Until......
"Lord, look!" Xiao Wu pointed to a high ground and said to Chu Yunshen, "That seems to be an altar." ”
"I didn't have that before."
The old village chief opened his cloudy old eyes and looked at them fixedly for a while, and once again made sure that "no! In the past, there was a clearing on it, and the old man used to lie on it to bask in the sun when he was a child! ”
Chu Yunshen's dark eyes deepened, and he glanced at Xiao Wu, who immediately bowed and said, "Lord, wait for your subordinates to go up and take a look." ”
"Be careful."
Chu Yunshen nodded.
Cheng Xiaoxiao followed Xiao Wu (shēn) to the altar together.
As soon as he got up to the altar, a foul smell rushed towards Cheng Xiaoxiao, what smell, so disgusting?
Cheng Xiaoxiao followed Xiao Wu (shēn) towards a black pit inside the altar, and the stench came from the hole where he couldn't see his fingers.
What's inside the cave?
Cheng Xiaoxiao closed her eyes and silently chanted 'Lingyu obeys orders, (yu) opens the eyes of heaven for you', her eyes opened again, and she looked into the cave, Cheng Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she slipped and almost fell into the hole.
"Little thing! Be careful! Suddenly, Cheng Xiaoxiao was hugged into her arms with a pair of hands, and Xiao Wu's voice came from above her head, "If you fall, your life will be gone!" ”
"Meow~"
Cheng Xiaoxiao glanced at Xiao Wu gratefully.
There are countless fresh hearts hanging in the cave, and there is a green line on these hearts that leads to the distance, Cheng Xiaoxiao looked into the distance, and at the other end of the line was a decomposing corpse.
It seems that the altar really controls the rotting corpses.
"Lord," Xiao Wu held Cheng Xiaoxiao and checked the altar clearly, before getting off the altar and coming to Chu Yunshen, after handing the cat to Chu Yunshen's arms, he said, "Look at the sacrificial vessels placed on it do not look like they are from their own country, and the position of the sacrificial vessels seems to be a kind of sacrifice used by Wu to make the living dead." ”
"It's Wu Guo again." Chu Yunshen's dark eyes narrowed, and he said viciously, "Smash this place!" ”
"Yes!" Xiao Wu was ordered to go to the altar again, swinging his sword and smashing all the sacrificial weapons that could be seen in front of him to the ground.
Bang dang!
A sacrificial vessel flew down from the altar to Chu Yunshen not far away.
For just a moment, Cheng Xiaoxiao felt that the jade pendant around her neck was slightly hot.
Cheng Xiaoxiao closed her eyes and recited, 'Lingyu obeys orders, (yu) opens the eyes of heaven for you'.
The sky has cleared, Cheng Xiaoxiao opened her eyes again, and the sunlight fell into the Huangquan Forest, where the miasma had lasted for a long time, as if a pool of living water had been injected, and the altar full of blood had lost a bit of horror
Huangquan Forest became bright and magnificent.
Cheng Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief, and looked towards the gathering place of the rotting corpses in the forest, the sunlight shone through the shade between the leaves on the decomposing corpses on the ground, and transparent souls floated out of the rotting corpses and flew towards her.
Cheng Xiaoxiao closed her eyes in fright, and after waiting for a long time, there was no movement, she opened her eyes tentatively (xg), only to find that those souls were only absorbed by the jade pendant, and as the more souls the jade pendant absorbed, the more transparent the jade pendant became.
Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at the lonely souls who drilled into her jade pendant one by one, and she was a little emotional.
It turns out that this is Bai Wuchang's words to help them solve their obsessions, these people who died unexplained were imprisoned in this forest by the evil method of sacrifice (j), and now they can finally be reincarnated.
"Who's there?"
Standing on the altar, the little five back one (tg) straightened, staring at the corner under the altar, "Come out!" ”
What was hidden there only moved, but it didn't come out.
Xiao Wu was a little nervous at the moment, and walked to the altar with his sword, only to see a little girl about three years old shrunk there.
"Little flower?" Xiao Wu tentatively called out the little girl's name.
"Y-How do you know me?"
The little girl timidly raised her head and looked at Xiao Wu.
"Come, you come up."
Xiao Wu stretched out her hand towards the little girl, but the little girl shook her head and shrunk there tighter, "Mother said don't talk to strangers casually. ”
Xiao Wu looked at the little girl with a little headache, and then returned to Chu Yunshen (shēn), "Lord Wang, I found Xiaohua!" ”
When the village chief heard this, he immediately climbed onto the altar, "Little flower! ”
"Grandpa the village chief!"
Xiaohua heard the familiar voice, poked her head out, it was really her village chief grandfather, and immediately ran out from under the altar, shouting as she ran towards the village chief grandfather, "I'm so scared! There's a lot of bad uncles here who want to eat me! ”
"Xiaohua, what are you doing here?"
The village chief raised his hand to remove the leaves from the top of Xiaohua's head, and then straightened Xiaohua's hair.
"I miss my father, my mother said that my father was in Huangquanlin, but my mother didn't let Xiaohua come here to find my father."
Xiaohua pouted, as if she was angry.
"So you didn't listen to your mother and came here?" The village chief patted Xiaohua's head in hatred, if it weren't for her, they wouldn't have entered this dangerous place now.
"Oh! It hurts! Grandpa the village chief! ”
Xiaohua covered her head with tears in her eyes.
The village chief sighed, gently rubbed Xiaohua's head with his hand, and then said earnestly, "I will listen to your mother in the future!" ”
Then he brought Xiaohua to thank Chu Yunshen, "Xiaohua, thank the prince for saving his life!" ”
"Thank you for saving your life!" Xiaohua's little hand seemed to make a gesture towards Chu Yunshen, and then knelt down and kowtowed to Chu Yunshen a few times, looking at Chu Yunshen with innocent eyes, and said in a voice, "Lord Wang, can you save Xiaohua back, can you also save Daddy!" ”
"Lord Wang, please forgive the little flower boy for his words!" The village chief immediately covered Xiaohua's mouth and didn't let Xiaohua say any more.
"Get out!" Chu Yunshen shook his head and signaled that it was okay.
At this time, Cheng Xiaoxiao, who was nestled in Chu Yunshen's arms, stared at the back of Xiaohua (shēn) with both eyes.
I saw a nine-foot-long, pillar-shaped man standing behind Xiaohua (shēn), the man had tears in his eyes, one hand slowly raised, and he was touching Xiaohua's head at once.
This man is Xiaohua's father.
And Xiaohua was raising her hand to hold the little hand of the village chief's grandfather at this time, constantly begging the village chief's grandfather, she wanted the prince to get her father back.
She would have been happy to know that her father, who had been clamoring all along, was behind her (shēn) at this time, touching her head.
"Thank you."
Dazhu came to Cheng Xiaoxiao's jade pendant and said to Cheng Xiaoxiao, "Thank you for saving her." ”
When he wanted to escort Xiaohua out of the forest, he was suddenly spotted by the carrion, and he could only lead the carrion away, and when he led the carrion, he saw the kitten running towards his daughter.
"No thanks."
Cheng Xiaoxiao found that she was able to talk to lonely souls.
Dazhu smiled, glanced at Xiaohua again, and then got into the jade pendant.
After destroying the altar, Xiao Wubu walked in front of Chu Yunshen, clasped his fists with both hands and said, "Lord, all the sacrificial vessels have been destroyed." ”
"Let's go! Go to the long spoon county office! ”
Chu Yunshen's hand holding the cat tightened, watching the miasma in the forest dissipate, and his black eyes glanced at the surrounding altars that had become ruins, if it weren't for the assistance of the local magistrates, who would dare to build an altar in their jurisdiction.
When the group came out of Huangquan Forest, they saw Mu Bai, who was guarding outside, pressing the scarf on the top of his head with his hand, and running towards them with a medicine box on his back.
"Lord Wang, let your subordinates take a look!" Mu Bai saw that the six guards who followed the prince in did not come out, and he was shocked at the moment, and it was obvious how dangerous it was in the forest.
Chu Yun Shenquan (shēn) was quickly examined, and everything was intact except for the wound on his arm that was scraped by a tree branch.
Mu Bai took out a medicine bottle and muslin from the medicine box, and said poorly while bandaging Chu Yunshen, "Lord Wang, you didn't take me with you when you went to Huangquan Forest to bring the cat this time, but you took me everywhere before!" ”
Chu Yunshen touched the cat's hand for a moment, raised his eyebrows and looked at Mu Bai, "The cat will go up the tree, can you?" ”
"Go up the tree~" Mu Bai dragged a long tail note, wrapped the muslin one last time, looked up at Chu Yunshen and said seriously, "I can learn." ”
That seriousness made Chu Yunshen silently say, "Okay." ”
Chu Yunshen nodded, and then looked at Xiaohua who was tightly nestled next to Xiaohua Sheniang (shēn).
"Come here."
Xiaohua and her mother came out of the lost and recovered (qg) thread, and when she saw that the prince was called Xiaohua, she immediately pulled Xiaohua to the prince.
"The prince is a living bodhisattva in the next life! The woman kowtowed to you! The prince didn't just rescue Xiaohua! It also removed the miasma in the Huangquan Forest! ”
"That's right! The prince is a living bodhisattva in the next life! ”
The villagers who rushed to hear the news were overjoyed to see that the miasma in Huangquan Forest had been removed, and Wang Ye and others came out of Huangquan Forest safely.
Qi Shushu knelt on the ground.
Chu Yunshen looked at the people kneeling in front of him, and his always cold face showed a hint of emotion.
"Mu Bai, look at this little girl."
"Yes!"
Mu Bai hurriedly pulled the little girl to inspect it.
And as soon as Xiaohua and her mother heard that the prince asked (shēn) to treat her daughter's illness, Xiaohua and her mother were moved and speechless, and kowtowed to Chu Yunshen again and again, "Thank you, Lord Wang!" Thank you! ”
Xiaohua raised her head and glanced at Chu Yunshen with a pair of innocent eyes, this time she found out that there was a kitten in the arms of this prince, and she glanced at the cat again, and curiously put her little finger in her mouth and said, "Kitten cat~"
"Little flower! Don't be rude! Xiaohua's mother's stern voice sounded from behind.
Xiaohua immediately (nǎi) sound (nǎi) qi dao "mother, there is a cat cat~"
"Lord Wang, she's just a little frightened, and there's nothing hurt on (shēn)."
Mu Bai walked up to Chu Yunshen (shēn) and replied.
"Okay." Chu Yunshen nodded, and glanced at Xiao Wu next to (shēn), Xiao Wu immediately understood, took out a bag of silver from his arms and handed it to Xiao Hua and her mother, "This is the prince's reward for you, live well." ”
"Thank you, Lord Wang! Thank you! ”
Xiaohua's mother hurriedly pulled Xiaohua and kowtowed to Chu Yunshen!