Chapter 56: The Ghast Comes Out
The floor collapsed with a bang, and the Taoist priest and I both fell, but fortunately, it was not high, I just felt a sharp pain in my buttocks, and there was nothing wrong with the fall.
We were joined by miscellaneous items in the room, including the box. The three girls were startled by the sudden change, and after recovering their senses, they hurried to help us, and at that moment, the box that we had fallen with suddenly fell apart, and the bones inside also rolled out, and the round skull rolled right at Cortana's feet, and she immediately ran out screaming.
I didn't expect her to react so loudly and shouted twice, but she wanted to hear it and ran away in the blink of an eye. It was still early, so I wasn't particularly worried, and I just wanted to tell everyone to leave here first, but I found that the Taoist priest's face was distorted, and his gloomy expression was almost like a demon.
Thinking of his strange behavior last night, a cold sweat suddenly broke out. He stood up, stuffed the Fengyang History into my hand, and said, "I'll chase her!" Then he chased him out without looking back, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The Taoist priest gave me the feeling of being a terrible ghost just now, completely lacking the intimacy of the previous one. I felt bad, I was worried that Xiao Na was in danger, and I didn't care about going to the county chronicles anymore, so I stuffed it into my bag indiscriminately, and then beckoned Yang Mengqing and Lin Qiaoer to chase it out.
However, we still underestimated the speed of the Taoist priest and Cortana, and by the time we ran out of the building and circled back to the courtyard, the two were nowhere to be seen. We hurried back to the house where we had spent the night, and when we found that they had not returned, the feeling of bad feeling in my heart grew stronger and stronger.
"What's going on, where did they go?" Lin Qiao'er didn't know why, so she asked me.
I didn't have a chance to tell Lin Qiao'er about last night's incident, but at this time, the Taoist priest was not there, and I also decided to have a showdown with Yang Mengqing, so I told what I saw last night, and then stared at Yang Mengqing's eyes and asked what happened last night?
Yang Mengqing looked at me in surprise, obviously she didn't expect everything last night to be seen by me, she stayed for a moment and told the truth.
It turned out that when the Taoist priest and Xiao Na kept watch in the middle of the night last night, Yang Mengqing was worried about her parents, and she didn't fall asleep until two o'clock, when she was tossing and turning, she suddenly heard something strange in the house.
Cortana is an introvert and doesn't talk to Taoist priests at all, so the two of them have been quiet during the vigil, but Yang Mengqing heard a strange chuckle, which was a bit like a combination of night owls and crows, and it was creepy to hear.
She squinted to see what the voice was coming from, but she didn't expect to see the Taoist priest put on a posture and confront Xiao Na with a solemn expression.
Because Cortana had her back to her, she couldn't see Cortana's appearance at the time, and thought that the Taoist priest was going to do something wrong to Cortana, so she just wanted to get up and help Cortana, but she didn't want Cortana to suddenly turn around and run out of the door.
In an instant, Yang Mengqing's body was paralyzed, and she saw Xiao Na's face, which turned out to be a hideous grimace that seemed to cry but not cry, seemed to smile but not laugh, and had a big mouth.
Just when she was shocked why Xiao Na had become like that, the Taoist priest suddenly walked up to Lin Qiao'er and clicked, then me, and finally walked to her side and clicked too.
The moment he was pointed by the Taoist priest's finger, Yang Mengqing felt very strange, as if his body had stiffened into iron, but that feeling was just a flash, and the Taoist priest quickly chased him out after doing all this. After the Taoist priest left, Yang Mengqing also got up and followed behind the Taoist priest. Following all the way, she found that Xiao Na chased the Taoist priest to the ghost school, as if she wanted to go in, but then the Taoist priest was discovered, and Xiao Na's crying and laughing grimace suddenly became extremely angry, like a face change in Sichuan opera, frantically biting the Taoist priest.
The Taoist priest took out several talismans drawn on yellow paper and pasted them on Cortana's ghostly face, but each time he could only make Cortana pause for a few seconds, and then the talisman was burned, and after a long struggle, the grimace suddenly screamed and jumped into the grass and disappeared. Seeing this, Yang Mengqing hurried back to his residence, only to find that Cortana had returned to the house, sleeping soundly, and the grimace had disappeared.
I saw her crouching in front of Cortana, who was actually checking on Cortana. After that, as I saw, when the Taoist priest came back, he was surprised to find that Xiao Na had returned, and he also went to check it, but I didn't know the cause but mistakenly thought that there was something wrong with the two of them.
"Hey, why didn't you say it earlier?" I patted my head violently, and I felt extremely remorseful in my heart, I really didn't expect that I let go of the most problematic person, but instead suspected the Taoist priest who had a lifelong friendship with me, it really shouldn't be.
I don't know what happened to Cortana, but now that I know the truth, I should be worried not about Cortana but about the Taoist priest.
"Quick, we must find them before dark!" I looked at the time, it was just after five o'clock, it was dark at seven o'clock, and we had two hours left to find someone.
We searched the neighborhood and found nothing, and our hearts became more and more anxious. When I was at a loss, I suddenly thought of what Yang Mengqing said, Grimace Xiao Na wanted to enter the ghost school, I thought of a possibility, and hurriedly beckoned the two of them to rush in the direction of the ghost school, and at this time, the black cloud shrouded above the canyon had begun to sound a roaring thunder, as if brewing an unprecedented huge storm.
The thunder roared, the wind blew all the thatch around us to the height of the people, and we braved the strong wind, and every step felt extremely difficult. The sudden strange weather made my anxiety more and more intense, and just as we finally reached the mud in front of the school, a huge lightning bolt poured down from the thunderclouds, and the terrifying thunder light was accompanied by a deafening loud sound and slashed on the majestic black gas that shrouded the school.
In an instant, the thunder was overflowing, and the dazzling blue arc jumped and scattered all over the wilderness, splitting the mountains and forests, and suddenly the trees fell and burned; Split the boulder, and suddenly the stone chips flew; Splitting the land, the dust immediately flew up, only the school that was split by the main body of the thunder pillar was unscathed, and only the black gas was dispersed by the thunder.
The earth-shattering blow of the thunder stone did not destroy the school, although there was still an arc brewing in the black clouds, but no thunder fell, but the wind was more violent at this time, flying sand and stones, the sky and the earth were lightless, and it was a completely apocalyptic scene.
We were all stunned by this horrific scene, and at the same time, I saw a blackened, tattered man, with straight hair in his arms, running towards us in the woods where the lightning arc had slashed the wildfire.
I didn't recognize it as a Taoist priest for a while, until I got closer, he also spotted us, and shouted hysterically: "What the hell are you still doing in a daze, run, the seal is broken, those things are coming out." ”
As he spoke, he swooped past me without stopping for a moment. A smell of burnt paste wafted through me, and it wasn't until I heard him speak that I recognized it as a Taoist priest.
The shape of the Taoist priest made me stunned, but then I realized that it was wrong, and I hurriedly looked at the school, and saw the hideous grimaces floating in the sky, and the gate of the school, I don't know when it had been opened, the two stone pillars outside the door were completely broken, through the ghost eyes, I could still see some golden light and black light jumping, but it was already so faint that it was almost negligible.
The terrifying grimaces were dense and all over the sky, flying and whistling, and letting out bursts of terrible howls, just like the ghost laughs we had heard outside the haunted school before. I screamed in horror and ran away, pulling up the stunned Yang Mengqing and Lin Qiao'er to follow behind the Taoist priest, the hairs on my body had already stood upside down, and I didn't even dare to turn my head to look back.
We ran wildly, almost as fast as I could in my life, but it was still too slow, and a whistling eerie aura came to my ears, making me laugh horribly. I turned my head to look, only to see a distorted grimace wrapped in the black fog that appeared like a shadow grinning at me, I was like being shocked, my body stiffened, I felt as if the whole brain was being squeezed by something, and the seven orifices suddenly flowed out of hot fluid.
My ears were no longer hearing, my vision was blurry, my nose was unable to breathe, and just as I was about to lose consciousness, another ghost shrouded in black gas suddenly flew out of my head, grabbed the twisted grimace, and threw it away.
Almost at the same time, the suffocation disappeared, and the Taoist priest in the distance opened his mouth wide and said something to me, but I couldn't hear it, and I stood up with all my might, but I couldn't run anymore, and fell straight to the ground, and the whole world went black all at once.