Chapter Seventy-Three: Preparing to Enter the Ghost Village
The car drove fast on the road, and the scenery outside the window changed from a city full of high-rise buildings to a mountain village with endless mountains. And Old Man Xiao and I were a little motion sick, so we leaned on the seats and slowly fell asleep.
"Poof," there was a muffled sound, and I suddenly threw myself uncontrollably towards the back of the seat in front of me, and I immediately felt a sore nose and then a pain in my heart. Then a warm stream of liquid remained, and I touched it with my hand and looked at it, and it turned out that I had just hit my nose and was bleeding. Old man Xiao, who was sitting next to me, also had a nosebleed.
"What's going on? Dream dreams?" I wiped the nosebleed from my nose, and then asked Jiang Yimeng to see what was going on.
"Lao Wang, I just saw a child crawling on the ground! Then I was afraid of hitting him, so I stepped on the brakes, and you're all right! Jiang Yimeng said with a little apology.
"It's fine, just a little nosebleed. You just said you saw a child on the road? Where? I hurriedly looked around the car, but I didn't find the child Jiang Yimeng said.
"I really saw that kid, and he was crawling on the ground! I really didn't lie to you. Jiang Yimeng saw that we didn't believe her, so she shouted anxiously.
The old man Xiao next to him opened the car door and walked to the front of the car, then squatted down and carefully looked for it on the ground.
"Boy, she didn't lie to us. Come and have a look! Old man Xiao seemed to have discovered something, and hurriedly asked me to go over and take a look.
I opened the car door and ran to the side of Old Man Xiao, who pointed to a few lines of crooked crawling marks on the dusty road and said, "There is indeed something crawling, and this trace was just left." But why didn't you see it? ”
Jiang Yimeng also turned off the engine and got out of the car and came to us: "I said I didn't lie to you!" There's really a kid crawling here! ”
"What does that kid look like?" Old man Xiao asked Jiang Yimeng.
"Just like a child? However, his skin seemed to be purple. What a strange child! It disappeared right under our noses. Jiang Yimeng recalled the scene just now.
Suddenly, I felt one or two vicious gazes looking behind me, and a dangerous aura coming towards me.
"I say! Since we didn't knock it down, let's go quickly! Something is wrong here, so be careful! I turned my head vigilantly, only to find that behind me was a half-man's tall grass.
"Hurry up and get in the car and keep walking." Old man Xiao also seemed to sense this dangerous aura, and hurriedly pulled Jiang Yimeng to the car.
Jiang Yimeng, who was sitting in the cab, glanced at me and Old Man Xiao curiously: "What's wrong?" ”
"Let you go, hurry up! Hurry up and drive! Old man Xiao's eyes stared at the half-human-tall barren grass, and he shouted without looking back.
"Let's drive! Mengmeng, there's something wrong here. Let's hurry to the front! The sooner the better. I took out a piece of yellow paper from Old Man Xiao's pocket and bit my middle finger.
As the saying goes, ten fingers connect the heart, and the feeling of pain in my fingers cleared my mind a little. I drew a talisman with the blood coming out of my fingers, then leaned over and pressed it against the glass in front of the car.
"Mengmeng, you can just drive with peace of mind. Don't care about anything, wait until what you see or hear. Don't even stop, you know? "I mobilized the protective qi in my body to surround the body.
Old man Xiao looked at me, and also mobilized the true qi in his body to condense into an enchantment. Tightly wrapped around my body protection barrier.
"Your body protection qi and the enchantment formed by my Taoist true qi are extraordinary, I want to see what kind of demons and monsters can break through this enchantment." The corners of Old Man Xiao's mouth rose slightly, revealing a very confident expression.
"There is an enchantment, but we won't last long. Otherwise, the true qi will be exhausted and he will die. "I didn't dare to let my guard down.
Fortunately, the car was still driving steadily on the mountain path, and nothing strange happened along the way.
Perhaps because he was afraid of the enchantment synthesized by the two true qis, the dangerous aura that made the tail bones chill never appeared again.
Finally arrived at the legendary ghost village, this village was originally called Dingwang Village, but now it is called a ghost village. Because of a mudslide a hundred years ago, the villagers died and walked. Dingwang Village, which was originally thriving, has become a devastated village that has been abandoned for nearly a hundred years.
Some spirits prefer this kind of place because they don't have humans to disturb them. The location of Dingwang Village is in a good water vein, because water can prosper and gather wealth, so the aura in this village is much richer than other places. But because of the human habitation, the aura in the village has also become very thin.
And now there is no one in the village, and the aura has gradually returned to its former thickness, which is what those evil creatures and ghosts who cultivate the demon path like the most.
I got out of the car, holding a five-thunder talisman tightly in my hand, and then stood at the entrance of the village and looked at the village.
Because at this time, the sky has begun to slowly darken, and the village is so lifeless and quiet that you can't even hear the sound of insects.
The village is full of devastated Qing Dynasty buildings, and as far as the eye can see, there are ruins everywhere. The ground was covered with thatch, which was more than a man tall.
There is a stone monument on the side of the road at the entrance of the village, which is engraved with the three big characters of "Dingwang Village".
"Lao Xiao, let's go inside and have a look!" I looked at the old man Xiao who was squatting down to drink water by the car and said.
"If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger. If you don't go inside, how can you find out what secrets are hidden inside! Old man Xiao threw the empty water bottle in his hand into the grass on the side of the road, and a dark crow was so frightened that it fluttered its wings and flew out of the grass.
"Ahh Jiang Yimeng was frightened by the crow that suddenly flew out and screamed in fear.
"Don't be afraid! It's just a crow. I put my arm around Jiang Yimeng's shoulders and comforted.
"Crows? I'm most afraid of crows, because crows always follow death. Jiang Yimeng said as the little bird leaned on my shoulder.
"Lao Xiao and I are going to enter the village, you can wait for us in the car! Don't wander around! It's wicked here. I looked at the slowly darkening sky around me and said to Jiang Yimeng.
"Don't! I'm going with you. I don't want to stay here! Jiang Yimeng grabbed my arm tightly, expressing his reluctance to stay here alone.
To be honest, not to mention a weak woman like Jiang Yimeng, even a strong man with strong martial arts will be terrified when he sees this long-abandoned village, not to mention staying here alone at such a late hour.
I looked at Old Man Xiao: "Old Xiao, why don't the three of us go in together!" It's good to have a response! What if the two of us are in the village and she is alone outside so late and something happens? How do you explain to Patriarch Jiang? ”
Old man Xiao handed me a cigarette: "Actually, I think the same way, she follows us, we can protect her." If a person stays outside ... And it's so evil here... ”
"Mengmeng, then you will walk in the middle! I have the mountain demon pupil, I can see everything clearly in the dark, I'll go to the front! Lao Xiao, you use the Taoist spell to pass the eye of heaven in the back of the palace! "After I arranged the position, I skillfully used the mountain demon pupil to take the lead towards the village. Jiang Yimeng took out a Tang knife from the trunk of the car, and then followed closely behind me.
Old man Xiao drew a spell on the center of his eyebrows with his hand, and then slapped the Tianling cover vigorously. I vaguely saw that Old Man Xiao's eyebrows emanated a peaceful and sharp light. It turns out that this is the Taoist eye of heaven, in addition to being able to see in the dark, you can also see through some blind eyes.