Chapter Seventy-Four: Re-entering the Elm Gully

Yesterday, when we left Elm Gully, there was a group of people blocking the exit, and I don't know if they are still there at this time, but there are little ghosts exploring the way, and if there are people, the old man will definitely get the news as soon as possible.

After waiting outside the valley for a while, the old man's face suddenly changed, we thought that there was a situation in front of us, and our hearts were all raised, and we just wanted to ask what was going on, but he walked straight out. The Taoist priest and I were not prepared at all, so we had to catch up with us.

The ruins of Taniguchi had been washed away by the torrential rain, and all the blood stains were gone, and the group of people guarding here were gone, but I always had the feeling of being targeted by poisonous snakes, which was quite uncomfortable.

The old man stopped in front of the ruins and looked around, as if looking for something. The bad feeling grew stronger and stronger, and I hurriedly urged him to leave, but at this moment, a half-rotten wooden house about three meters away from me suddenly collapsed, and several planks fell down on me.

Thanks to the decay and dryness of these wooden houses, they were very light, and I opened them with my hands, but what I never expected was that there was something behind the wooden planks, and I only cared about going to the wooden boards, and I didn't even notice what was going on behind them.

"Watch the back!"

The shouts of the Taoist priest startled me, and at the same time, I saw a guy with a bruised face and sharp fangs rushing towards me, his hands were also bruised and black, and the nails on his fingertips were black and shiny, two or three inches long.

This thing appeared so suddenly, no matter how fast my reaction was, I couldn't dodge it in a few tenths of a second, and the Taoist priest was three or four meters away from me, so I didn't have time to rescue at all. My mind went blank for a moment, and my heart was finished, and now I was dead. Just as the corpse's nails almost touched the tip of my nose, an arrow feather swept past my cheek and thrust into the center of the corpse's bruised forehead, and it stopped moving, and fell straight down.

I was so frightened that I almost fell down, and at this time, the Taoist priest also rushed to my side and hurriedly supported me: "Hey, how is it, are you okay?" ”

I waved my hand, and it took me a long time to recover from the horror, and I looked down at the corpse, and found that it was a bamboo stick engraved with runes, and there was no blood spilling from the corpse's forehead, but a large amount of black gas was gushing out.

Seeing this, the Taoist priest gasped, pointed to the corpse and exclaimed, "Damn, this is a real zombie!" At this time, the old man also came over, and I saw that he was still holding several identical bamboo sticks in his hand, and I knew that he had saved me just now, so I hurriedly thanked him.

The old man waved his hand, squatted down to the corpse, turned the corpse's neck, and suddenly we saw several blood holes, the shape of which was bitten out by fangs, and the blood holes had begun to turn black.

This situation suddenly reminded me of the corpse that bit me in the water, and the Taoist priest also said before that the corpse has a violent corpse poison, once a person is bitten, there is no chance of survival, and after death, it will become a zombie in a very short time. The thing bit me in the water and then disappeared, we all thought it had been washed away by the water, but we didn't expect to meet the townsfolk who had been poisoned here, and it seemed that the guy was still wandering around, sucking the blood of living people.

The old man had heard our experience in the past few days and knew about the existence of the corpse, but he shook his head, saying that people were not bitten to death by the corpse, and the corpse's face was covered with black gas, and his expression was frightened.

The Taoist priest stepped forward and looked at it, and was deeply convinced by the old man's statement, I don't know anything about this, but both of them said so, then this must be the case. But if that's the case, we're in a bit more dangerous, you know, there were more than 20 people guarding the valley yesterday, if all of them turned into zombies, and they all ran into the canyon, like the kind of cold sneak attack just now, we are absolutely tired of dealing with it, and there are giant-level monsters like Kui corpses eyeing over, and it's easy to land if you're not careful.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that the road ahead was difficult and there was no hope.

The Taoist priest saw what I was thinking, patted me, and comforted: "Don't worry, you've also seen the methods of the old-timers, and it's no problem to clean up those things, isn't it?" At last, he smirked and patted his ass, but the old man just snorted, and got up and went into the valley.

When I saw the Taoist priest deflated, I laughed in my heart and said to him, "Stupid, right? People are masters, don't eat your set, hurry up! ”

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The canyon is full of rainwater, many places are no longer knee-high, the cliffs on both sides are constantly flowing down the stones, and the caves are all covered by water curtains, forming countless water curtain caves.

When caught last night, the Bald Mayor said they had blown up the cave and trapped the town's living dead and strange birds. It reminds me of the earthquake I felt when I was roasting wild boar, and it seems that the movement at that time was caused by their bombing of the mountain, but from what we saw when we used the river to drift out of the canyon, even if the underground cave system was damaged, the impact would not be too great, otherwise we would not have been able to escape from the canyon so easily.

It stands to reason that the canyon is the closest to the ghast's lair, but the further we go inside, the less and weaker the ghostly laughter we hear.

I wondered in my heart, so I asked the old man, and he told me that these evil spirits were just children, who died unjustly, and were imprisoned for so many years, and that resentment had accumulated, and that the first thing they did after freedom was revenge. The people in the canyon have been killed, and their targets are now on the people in the town who are hiding, so the canyon closest to the ghost school has become a relatively safe place.

I sighed in my heart, and said that I knew this was the case, and I hid in the canyon directly last night and didn't go out, wouldn't there be no bad things behind? But then I thought about it, if we were really hiding in the canyon, maybe we would have been found and killed, and the gains and losses in it really couldn't be measured with common sense.

With the help of the little ghost, we quickly rushed to the vicinity of the ghost school, only to see a huge tornado-like black gas vortex above the school, which was connected to the black clouds in the sky, and the majestic black gas continued to spread into the sky through the tornado, seeping into the ghost black clouds, which was spectacular and chilling.

"That's it, the source of the ghost qi that blocked Fengyang, right here!" The old man pointed to the black gas tornado and said with a solemn expression.

The Taoist priest and I glanced at each other, swallowed our saliva, and said in my heart how to break this thing, do you use your body to block your eyes? Just the three of us, I'm afraid it's enough to choke.

While we were thinking about it, the imp flew out of the school, bared his teeth at us, and quickly pounced on us. The situation was a little wrong, and I saw that the old man suddenly took out the bamboo tube containing the little ghost, recited a spell in his mouth, and opened the lid of the bamboo tube, and the little ghost screamed, and instead of pounced on him, he was put into the bamboo tube.

He closed the lid and sighed solemnly: "What a powerful breath, I'm afraid those are not ghosts, there is a problem under this school!" ”

I don't know what he's referring to, but there's no time to discuss it leisurely at this time, the little ghost has already found out that the ghost school at this time is empty, and we must take this opportunity to cut off the source of the black gas tornado, otherwise when the little ghosts all come back, there will really be no chance at all.

The old man took out three pieces of ink-like from his backpack and handed them to us, about the size of a palm, with many strange images carved on them, similar to the gods worshiped by some ethnic minorities. Before I could ask, the old man told me the origin of this thing, saying that this was the statue of the god Ba Wu, who had been worshipping for decades and had never stopped worshipping him morning and night, and had been psychic, and could borrow part of the magic power of Ba Wu, and wearing it would allow us to avoid being detected by the evil spirits, and that it was only a loan to us, and that we had to pay him back when we went out.

Seeing his reluctant face, I knew that this thing must be a good thing, and hurriedly took it and squeezed it in his hand like a treasure, and when he entered, he once again instructed that the idol must not leave his body, otherwise the ghast outside would immediately notice that we had broken into the ghost school. I repeatedly assured the Taoist priest that he would give up and walk in.

The griddled iron gate of the school had completely collapsed, and the stone monuments on both sides of the gate had exploded into a pile of rubble. We cautiously stepped into the school gate, and immediately found ourselves under the terrifying black whirlpool in the sky.