Chapter 43: The Sandfolk and the Fox Demon
Fang Yuan's mobile phone was almost out of battery, this was the only thing that saved his life now, since Xie Xin'an said that it was okay, it shouldn't be a big problem, I hung up the phone, looking at the rustling sound that was approaching, Fang Yuan and the others had already entered the car and closed the window.
The rustling stopped in the cornfield, about three meters from the side of the road, where the stalks had stopped lodging.
"Who's coming?" I asked loudly, didn't Xie Xin'an say that it was the "sand people" who came, literally, the people living in the desert? It's just people anyway.
Suddenly, from the gutter on the side of the road, under the ground, a man came out, standing straight in front of me, and I was frightened!
Dirt fell from the top of his head and shoulders, and a scrawny humanoid creature revealed its honor, this Nima...... Corpse?
It doesn't look like it, his eyes are the same as those of a human being, but his body is too thin, close to skin and bones, a big man of more than one meter and eight, 80% of his weight is estimated to be the weight of bones, and the remaining 20% of the skin and flesh are also like sticking to bones, not growing on bones, looking loose and loose and falling off at the touch.
"Are you ......," I asked boldly, "the sandman?" ”
"Skinny" was slightly stunned: "Do you know Shamin? ”
I shook my head: "I just heard that it was Lord Bai Xie Xin'an...... Madam told me. ”
I have to move her old man's house out quickly, it is said that in this part of the northeast, Lord Tibai is better.
"I see." This person smiled slightly, his thin lips were almost gone, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, sharp and sharp, which was more terrifying!
"Dare to ask Your Excellency, why do you show up?" I arched my hand and asked, didn't Xie Xin'an just say that Sha Min was here to help us out?
Sha Min returned the salute: "We have been trapped here for nearly a hundred years, since you and Lord Bai have met, I hope to tell Lord Bai to help us guide Huangquan and reincarnate as a human as soon as possible." ”
I didn't understand it too much, what do you mean, do you want to die?
Sha Min seemed to see my doubts, and explained: "I waited for the soldiers under the command of Zhang Dashuai, a hundred years ago in the battle here, died on the battlefield, and buried on the spot, but for some reason, after I was buried underground for seven days, all of them came back to life, and fell into this array, unable to die and reincarnate, and could not get out alive. This has caused us to lose our corpse qi and turn into yin and yang people, half-dead, which is not tolerated by the underworld, and we cannot return to the human world. ”
It's a bit of a drag, but I generally understand it, anyway, I was killed by a fox demon and died, but I didn't become a ghost, but I became a half-human, half-ghost, half-alive and half-dead - this is the honor I see, so the underworld doesn't recognize their identity, so they can't participate in reincarnation, and can only be trapped here.
"Tell me the truth, I am the new local White Dragon Envoy," I said seriously, he mentioned it just now, and one of my predecessors told him the reason, "Excuse me, how do you need this envoy to help you?" Just tell the white man, is it okay? ”
It shouldn't be so simple, since Xie Xin'an knows about the existence of the "sand people", it is estimated that he already knows something about this matter (the white dragon envoy told her before), but he has not solved their problem, which may not be easy to do.
"It turns out that you are the Lord of the White Dragon Envoy, disrespectful, disrespectful!" The sandman puffed and knelt down for me, the movement was so intense that the minced flesh hanging from the bones even fell off a lot.
"Only by subduing the fox demon entrenched here and returning our corpse qi can we return to the underworld."
I nodded, it seemed simpler that they wanted to die outright instead of being alive again.
"Where's the fox demon?" I asked again.
Shamin stretched out his bone finger and pointed to the chessboard mountain not far away: "It's in this mountain." ”
I suddenly remembered the instructions given to me by the spirit of the hearse, which also said that there were demons, and there were traps arranged by demons, and this trap should mostly refer to the "Bagua Array" that Shamin said, that is, the circle road here, and this demon is the fox demon who arranged the array?
"Okay, I've written this down, I'll report it to Lord Bai when I go back, and strive to help you get rid as soon as possible." I said seriously.
"Thank you, Honorable Envoy!" Shamin kowtowed to me again, then turned around and summoned, "Brothers, they are all out, someone has helped us call the shots, come and see the new White Dragon Emissary!" ”
Hulala, in the drainage ditch of the crop field, there were many sand people, all as honorable as this tall one, they were like a cloth team, neatly arranged on the side of the road in two rows, a total of more than forty, under the command of the first sand people, they all brushed down and knelt and kowtowed.
"Please, everybody...... Brothers, brothers! "I don't know what to call for a while, they are the sergeants of Zhang Dashuai's era, it is estimated that they are the same age as the young marshal, if they are alive, they are all more than 100 years old, I have to be called the ancestor.
"I've written this down, and I'll definitely give an explanation to the big guy!" I promised them, and it can only be a promise, with my current strength, let alone subduing that fox demon, I don't even know where it is, also!
The sand people got up one after another, gradually retreated back to the drainage ditch, and all went back to the ground, and the leading sand man finally retreated, and the lower half of his body went into the soil first, keeping his upper body, and bowed his hand to me again: "Honorable envoy, please!" ”
"Well said, well said."
The head of the leading sandman sank into the drain, and all was calm except for some dirt on the ground.
I opened the car door and called Fang Yuan and her colleague down, the two little girls were all pale.
"I thought I had a zombie!" Fang Yuan's heart palpitated.
"What zombies are there!" I laughed.
"Why not, haven't you seen Natsuki scared the walking dead? It's all true! The female patrolman was not convinced.
"Those shabi authors, sitting at home all day, will talk nonsense, don't worry about them, let's think about how to get out." I lit a cigarette, I actually read that book, but I only read two chapters and gave up, it was too spicy to write.
After answering correctly, I left the sand people—I now understand that the reason why they are called sand people is not because they came out of the sand, but because they died in battle—sent the sand people, and I climbed on the roof of the car again, called Xie Xin'an, asked how to get out of the gossip array, and by the way, reported the request of the sand people just now.
"It's not that this pavilion doesn't want to help them, but it can't beat that fox demon," Xie Xin'an confessed bluntly, "The white dragon envoy they said was an old Taoist priest in the early days of Jianguo, and his skills were above me, he couldn't help the fox demon, and this pavilion couldn't help it, unless, over time, your strength reached its peak, and maybe you could break the formation and save people." ”
"Oh......" I think she's saying a bunch of nonsense, how could it happen, my skills? To put it bluntly, zero! I have a fart skill, which is an ordinary person, "So how do we get out?" ”
"Just drive out."
"But we're still in the gossip array."
"The Bagua Array was set up by the fox demon to trap the sandmen, and it has no effect on you."
I was confused: "But we are trapped, I have driven three laps and I haven't driven out!" ”
“…… Aren't you trapped by the fox demon, but by the sandfolk, don't you understand? ”
I suddenly realized, so it was, it was Sha Min who wanted me to deliver a message to Xie Xin'an, so he deliberately stopped me, he was very accurate in seeing people, because Mao knew that I knew Xie Xin'an?
After hanging up the phone, I asked Fang Yuan and the two of them to follow my car and continue to drive forward, and sure enough, they quickly left this area, and the familiar village appeared in front of them: Qipan Village.
Passing by the village shop, I stopped and bought three bottles of pulse, which needed a little energy after the thrill.
Fang Yuan's female colleague seemed to know a lot, and quietly asked me, is it in a hurry, and I am embarrassed to solve it in the crop field, and I want to solve it in the car with them on my back?
"That's it?" I shook the pulsating bottle disdainfully, "Sorry, the mouth is too small." ”
I don't know who sent the pulse stalk, I tried, but it wasn't enough.
After going back to the city through the village, they still had a task, so they went directly to the patrol room, I went home first, took a shower, changed into sportswear, and prepared for the night action.
Just as I was about to eat something, a phone call came from the duty room, and there was a person in the south of the city, who jumped over the guardrail and fell to his death, and asked me to collect the body.
A very conventional kind of horizontal death, inch strength, this kind of thing is more common in the local area, the vast majority of people who die unruly, not only because they are unruly, but in daily life, they are used to being unruly, and they are always rubbing and tempting on the edge of the ghost gate.
Go to the south of the city to pull back the body, after completing the formalities, it is close to dinner time, Xie Xin'an is not in the funeral home, I don't know where to go, I didn't reply to WeChat sent to me, I slept too late last night, and I was frightened again today, I was a little sleepy, but I didn't have time to make up for sleep, I decided to drink a cup of coffee to refresh myself, go to the supermarket in front of the funeral home to buy, the sales here are not large, the daily delivery frequency is low, the date of bottled coffee is not very good, I am afraid of diarrhea, I dare not buy.
So, I drove back to the city - in the metal coffin in the trunk of the car, there was an extra corpse, Li Xiaotao, which I smuggled out of the morgue, Uncle Qin saw it, but didn't say anything, maybe Xie Xin'an greeted him.
When passing by Yincheng Street, I suddenly remembered that there is not a ready-made café here, although it is a place where wandering ghosts gather, and there are unknown strange taste drinks, but his coffee is okay, quite delicious.
Thinking of this, I turned into Yincheng Street and parked in front of the Yuantai Cafe, because it was dinner time, this time there were finally some guests inside, living people, all on the first floor, you can see through the window, basically they are young people, there are more couples, I analyzed, they don't know the taboo of Yuantai Cafe - some of the old people in the city know, basically do not come to Yincheng Street, let alone enter Yuantai Cafe.
I entered the café, and there was a newcomer standing at the front desk, how did it look a little familiar!
“…… Liao Xin? Is that you? I asked tentatively.
"Who are you?" The beautiful woman at the front desk looked puzzled.
I leaned over and took a closer look, it was Liao Xin! Although the appearance has changed - the Liao Xin I know is the one who has been soaking in the water tank for a long time, her face is a little swollen and chubby, and the Liao Xin in front of me has a melon seed face - but I have seen her photos in the system (Fang Yuan checked it with his mobile phone at the time), it must be her!