Chapter 5 The Responsibilities of Mountain Keepers
"It seems that something really happened to Shuanglong Cave." The old man frowned, his face full of worry.
"What then? Lin Jingmei, will she be in danger? "As soon as I was in a hurry, I unconsciously called out the name of the mountain god Niangniang.
"Don't worry, your daughter-in-law is very capable, and she is not something that ordinary people can afford to provoke. Now, we have more important things to do. ”
"What's the matter?"
"The female ghost killed the old yellow dog, mistakenly thinking that she would kill you, at this time most of the resentment on her body disappeared, and her strength declined, it was a good time to eliminate it, otherwise if you wait for the ghost baby to find her, the result is unimaginable."
"To destroy the female ghost?"
I am worried in my heart, my strength is low, even if I have no power to fight back in the face of ordinary evil, not to mention that the other party is a resentful female ghost, although my strength is declining now, but it is not something that a mortal like me can deal with.
People are self-aware, so many years of wandering career, let me deeply understand this, some things are not you can do if you want to do, and some people are not what you want to get.
"What are you still stunned about? The mountain opening axe in your hand is not an ordinary axe, but a weapon held by another master among the three Daomen Heavenly Masters back then. Although you can't exert its power now, it's more than enough to deal with that female ghost, so hurry up! ”
The winter rain is cold and biting, and the cold air penetrates the bone marrow.
I put on the old man's robe, put on a bamboo leaf hat, and carried the mountain axe to chase in the direction where the female ghost disappeared.
The old man didn't follow, he said that it was useless to follow, this matter was the cause and effect of me and the female ghost, and I could only solve it myself.
The mountain keeper has the skill of folding grass to ask for directions, and worshipping trees to inquire about ghosts.
Before going out, the old man showed his magic in front of me for the first time, he cut a tuft of grass stained with the blood of a woman outside the door, and then broke a straw man with a special technique, and asked me to cut my finger and drip blood, and then blow on the scarecrow.
He said, "Although I blow a breath, the straw man absorbs my essence, my energy, and my spirit."
After blowing a breath, the straw man suddenly moved, trotting all the way in a certain direction. There is no difference except that he looks like a straw man and acts like a real person.
I could see that if it weren't for the dull pain in the wound on my neck, I would have suspected that I was dreaming.
Since the old man called me back, what I have encountered in the past few days has shattered my previous perception of the world.
I trotted with my axe and trotted with the villain, and before I had gone far, I heard a whining cry from the col not far away, and the cry was so harsh that the rain could not hide it.
When he came, the straw man fell into the mud and did not move.
In this case, it proves that the woman is in the col ahead.
In fact, I've seen her.
At this time, she was lying on the edge of the reservoir, hiding her face and weeping bitterly, her voice was miserable, and it spread far away on the mountain water.
It turns out that ghosts also have such an embarrassing side.
I don't know why, seeing a woman like this, I suddenly felt a little unbearable, thinking that she was also a poor person when she was alive, otherwise why did she cry so sadly?
The sound of footsteps caught her attention, and when she looked up at me, her pale face was covered with water, and I don't know if it was tears or rain.
She looks thin, no longer has the same fierceness and ferocity as before, and has only a weak and helpless side.
In the water, the corpse of a dog is floating and floating.
She already understood the cause and effect of the incident, and looking at her, images suddenly appeared in my mind.
A college student fell in love with a poor boy from the countryside, and despite the opposition of her family, she resolutely stayed with the man. At the beginning, the man was very good to her, and although life was hard, it was also very warm.
Later, after years of hard work, they finally made a fortune, but the man gradually changed his mind and became friendly with another woman, who was not very beautiful, but very rich.
Their marital life got worse and worse, they quarreled at first, and then the man became more and more presumptuous, taking the woman home in front of him, and the two partnered to force her to sign a divorce agreement.
During the argument, she slapped the man, who stabbed her in the heart with a knife. She was six months pregnant when she died......
His name is Hui Xian, a hard-working woman.
I thought that I would have children when my life got better, so that my offspring would not live a poor life.
Who knew that the hard days were over, and her life had come to an end.
"Humane ghosts are terrible, ghosts are evil, even if I let those people go, my children will not let them go." Hui Xian walked towards me step by step, her face calm, without joy or sorrow.
"But I don't want the child to hurt other innocent people, so I can't let it find me, you can kill me!"
I held the mountain axe and watched Huixian in front of me not fall, I admitted that I had compassion and I didn't want to kill her.
But if you don't kill her, the result of the ghost baby eating her back is not what I want to see.
The old man told me that as a mountain guard, you must have your own principles and beliefs. And his principle and belief is to guard the Heavenly Mountain until death.
The leaves on the mountain trembled, and the terrible cries came from far and near, and I didn't have to think that I knew that the ghost baby had been found.
This is not the time to hesitate, I closed my eyes and slashed down with the axe in my hand.
There was no screaming, and when I opened my eyes, I saw Huixian fall in front of me. She looked sideways at the little baby who was desperately rushing down from the mountain, full of reluctance and doting.
Bang!
The corpse poured into the water and sank to the bottom of the water for a long time.
When the ghost baby saw his mother fall into the water, he was furious, baring his sharp fangs, and screaming and rushing towards me, as if he wanted to devour me alive.
The revenge of killing the mother is not shared.
I don't dare to be careless, although the ghost baby failed to devour the mother, it is not an ordinary yin spirit.
When he lowered his waist and waved his arms, he held the mountain axe and slashed down at it.
The ghost baby seemed to know the power of the mountain axe, and turned around to avoid the mountain axe. Sharp claws left a deep trail of blood on my shoulder.
I snorted in pain and walked backwards, I didn't expect the ghost baby to be so powerful, and he was not afraid of the mountain axe.
When I saw that its eyes were resentful, and it was about to rush up again, I thought of running away.
Running away is not recognizing grandchildren, and doing it knowing that you can't do it is the real stupidity, I think this is a strategy.
As the old saying goes: retreat is the best policy.
But just as the thought arose in my mind, my shoulders suddenly sank, and a heavy hand rested silently on my shoulder, preventing me from moving half a step.
It felt as if it was pressed down by a mountain, and the power of this hand was too great.
And most importantly, who came behind him silently in the here and now?
Could it be that the female ghost is not dead? Was she pretending to be pitiful before? Killing her just now was just an illusion created in my mind by the other party.
Thinking of this, the hairs on my body suddenly stood upside down, and I stole a glance at the corpse floating from the bottom of the water.
There were two corpses in the water, a dog corpse and a female corpse.
The female corpse was now floating face down and with her back to the sky, and most of her head was split open by me with an axe, and there was no possibility of doing anything.
But at this moment, her posture of floating in the water is very strange, and if you are not a careful person, it is difficult to detect the clues.
The reservoir was built by the concerted efforts of the villagers at the foot of the mountain to transport rocks in the era of land reclamation, with the purpose of storing water to irrigate the terraced fields under the mountain.
But as summer approaches, there are always people who don't heed the advice, go into the water to swim, and drown. Grandpa guarded the mountain for decades, and saw countless drowning people.
He once told me that men and women have different body structures and the posture in which their bodies come to the surface after drowning is not the same. When a male corpse emerges from the water, it is usually face down with his back to the sky. On the female corpse side, this is common sense, unless there are special factors, or there is a problem with the corpse.
It's a long time to say, but in fact, it was only a moment, and many thoughts came to my mind.
At this point, the ghost baby did not attack me again, but retreated.
But a pair of eyes still stared at me, and those resentful and hateful eyes I will never forget.
"The deep mountains are easy to produce demons, and Lin Mao is evil, and I can't imagine that there are really evil people here. Little brother don't panic, I'm here to help you! ”
Just when I was feeling uneasy, a strong voice sounded behind me.
Hearing the sound, I was stunned, and then I dared to turn my head to look at people.
I saw that this person was about fifty years old, with long hair and a bun. With thick eyebrows and big eyes, dressed as a Taoist priest, and carrying a Zhai dipping mage sword behind him, he looks like a fairy wind and bones, and he is righteous and awe-inspiring.
I was a little dazed, the Taoist priest in front of me was by no means the kind of vulgar person who deliberately dressed up to attract attention, because he had a temperament that those who sold their fame and reputation could not have.
The Taoist priest saw me in a daze, and explained that he was a ten-mile evergreen Taoist who belonged to the disciple of the Heavenly Master's Mansion.
The Evergreen Temple is adjacent to Heavenly Mountain, not too far. This person can detect the demonic aura here, and he dares to come to investigate alone, I am afraid that his ability is not small.
Later, I learned that the Zhai Dip Master Sword is not something that all Daomen disciples can wear, and it needs to be both virtuous and respectful. Because holding this sword can walk the two worlds of yin and yang, the Tao is high, and you can also use the sword to cast spells to lead down the thunder and kill strong enemies.
After Changqing Dao and I finished explaining, they stepped forward and faced the angry ghost baby, and there were words in their mouths. Then he pinched the seal with his left hand, dipped it on the sword of the mage, shook his finger and shouted: "Evil animal, don't be punished, look at my heavenly thunder curse!" ”
"Taiyi Zhenren, the art of the six yangs, the train messenger, the thunder is soaring, the sound is thousands of miles, General Zhaoyang, Fu to the order, no stay, urgent as the law, disease!"
As soon as the spell of the Evergreen Daoist came out, I saw the lightning flashing with the sword of the Zhai Dip Mage in his hand, and a thumb-thick lightning shot towards the ghost baby.
Thunder is the nemesis of all evil things, and the ghost baby saw the Evergreen Daoist cast the Heavenly Thunder Spell, turned around and fled.
But the speed of the thunder was so fast, in the blink of an eye, the ghost baby was caught up by the thunder and lightning, and most of the evil qi in the whole body was suddenly defeated.
But after all, it was a ferocious thing bred from the corpse of a woman, not an ordinary yin spirit, and a heavenly thunder spell failed to kill it, only to see it struggle to get up from the ground, screaming and turning into a cloud of black mist, and fleeing towards the mountain.
Changqing Daoren's face was pale, he thought that the Heavenly Thunder Curse could destroy the ghost baby, but he didn't think that it would be such a result, if no one was okay, but I was still watching from the scene at this time.
He turned and glanced at me, paused for a few seconds on the axe I was holding, a hint of discoloration flashed in his eyes, and then flicked his sleeve and chased after the ghost baby with his sword.
I saw that the Taoist priest was powerful, and I wanted to beg him to go up the mountain to help the mountain god Niangniang, but he walked fast. I opened my mouth, and before the words could be spoken, the others had disappeared without a trace.
The rain was still falling, and my heart was shaken, and it took a long time for me to completely calm down.
When I looked into the water, I found that the female corpse was gone, and it was estimated that it had floated somewhere else just now, or had sunk to the bottom.
The corpse of the old yellow dog was entangled in aquatic weeds and did not float away.
Scooping up the dog corpse, my heart was very heavy, if it wasn't for the dog raised by the old man, I am afraid that I would not survive tonight.
I used to think about how to slaughter it, but now I don't have that kind of thought.