Chapter Twenty-Three: The Crow and the Rakshasa Bone
Yang Yi said coldly: "Xiao Yang, this is not the key, right?" ”
Qi Lu was also taken aback, and stammered and replied, "Yes, no, it's not the key." ”
Inside the box was a human bone, smooth, off-white finger bones.
Qi Lu's wine woke up, and he suddenly realized that he had made a mistake, that is, since he could open the box once, why didn't he open it again to check the contents when it was lost and recovered!
The atmosphere of the wine celebration just now was instantly washed away by this inexplicable finger bone. Just when the atmosphere was awkward, Ji Anshan walked up and said, "Xiao Yang, did you take the wrong box today?" ”
All eyes looked at Qi Lu in unison, making him eager to find a hole in the ground and get into it immediately. Ji'an Mountain was obviously given to Qi Lu to go down the steps, but Qi Lu didn't want to follow his words to get out.
"I didn't take the wrong box, but I didn't put this bone in it." Qi Lu explained that he wanted to make things clear.
Yang Yi said with a calm face: "Everyone saw that I just removed the seal, do you want to say that the bones were put in before your father handed the box to you?" ”
At this time, Qi Lu realized that he was getting darker and darker, and things were far from being as simple as he thought. His mind was spinning rapidly, and in a hurry, he really thought of a way to deal with it.
"I don't know who put the bones in, but I put the key in another place before I came to worship my ancestors."
"Xiao Yang, what do you mean by doing this?" Yang Yi's face suddenly became gloomy.
"Because I've found something strange in the village, I can't trust you with the key right now."
Suddenly, the finger bone in the box writhed like a living thing, and there was a strange green light around it.
"There's a ghost!" The village chief's wife, who was watching next to her, was the first to scream.
The finger bone flew out of the box and stabbed Ding Xiaolan's throat!
Qi Lu also reacted in an instant, his right hand stretched forward suddenly, and he had firmly grasped this ghost bone in his hand.
The finger bones actually rotated flexibly like a snake, and the end of Qi Lu's palm that was exposed had turned into a big mouth, biting Qi Lu's thumb fiercely.
"Rakshasa Bone!" Seeing this anomaly, Qi Lu also knew the origin of this bone.
Rakshasas are legendary evil spirits who make a living by eating human flesh. If someone administers a potion containing the caster's blood to a Rakshasa before he dies, then when the Rakshasa dies, any bone that the caster takes from him will have the magic of the Rakshasa during his lifetime. The caster then uses a spell to control the bone, allowing it to inflict harm on others instead of itself.
Now that he knew the origin of the bones, Qi Lu didn't panic, he took out a piece of talisman paper that he made yesterday from his pocket, and pasted it according to the Rakshasa bones. At the same time, he began to recite the Stabilization Mantra in his mouth, and the bones immediately loosened under the power of the incantation.
Seeing that the Rakshasa bone was still moving in his hand, wanting to get rid of Qi Lu's control, Qi Lu dared to be careless, and quickly used the rune in his hand to wrap the Rakshasa bone tightly from beginning to end.
The Rakshasa bone that was wrapped in rune paper suddenly became honest, and stopped swinging like a dead thing in Qi Lu's hands.
Qi Lu said loudly to the villagers next to him: "Please bring me liquor!" ”
A villager hurriedly picked up an unfinished bottle of liquor from the table and handed it to Qi Lu, who desperately stuffed the rakshasa bone into the bottle, and then sealed the bottle with a piece of talisman paper.
Just when everyone was stunned, Qi Lu's hands flew and formed the magic seal, and he whispered the incantation in his mouth again.
"Kunlun Law Realm, down to the dust, what disaster will not be destroyed, what evil will not be eliminated, and the soul will be broken!"
The rune paper soaked in the wine slowly stretched out, and the rakshasa bones that had broken free from the shackles of the rune paper kept struggling in the bottle, flowing up and down like snakes, and from time to time let out a beast-like roar.
Ding Xiaolan had never seen such a strange phenomenon, and she couldn't help but shrink her neck and didn't dare to look closely, as if a cold air was galloping through her back, and she shivered.
Slowly, the roar of the rakshasa bone became smaller and smaller, and finally sank to the bottom of the bottle like rotting wood.
Qi Lu smiled and uncovered the rune paper that sealed the mouth of the bottle, and lit the rune paper with a lighter and stuffed it into the bottle. Just listen to the sound of "hiss", as the Rakshasa bone melts into the wine, the whole bottle is dyed crimson.
Ding Xiaolan wiped her cold sweat and asked, "Is it solved?" ”
"Yes." Qi Lu slowly exhaled a long breath.
Yang Yi said: "I really looked away, but I didn't expect Xiao Yang to be a person who understands spells." It's just that the village has always been indisputable, so I don't know where this monster came from? ”
"I don't know, but I'll be able to figure out who is behind this right away." Qi Lu replied confidently.
"You're saying there are people in our village who know witchcraft?"
As soon as Yang Yi said this, the onlookers were in an uproar, everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and they were surrounded by distrustful eyes from each other.
"Uncle Yang, you are too worried, you live in this isolated mountain village, you are all indifferent people, how can you do such a despicable and shameless act."
Qi Lu's words were no less than a reassuring pill, and the villagers who were still gossiping and talking just now suddenly quieted down, and they were all waiting for the next step.
"And who could he be?" Yang Yi voiced the doubts in the hearts of the villagers.
"He's a youkai lurking in the village on our festive day." Qi Lu put his mouth in his ear and whispered, trying not to let others hear this.
"Ahh Yang Yi let out a low snort, but then forced his composure. At times like these, he has to set an example in front of the villagers.
Ding Xiaolan, who was standing beside Qi Lu, also heard this, and she suddenly woke up, she had already sensed that there was a slight demonic energy flowing in the air. The little hand instinctively reached into the pocket of his pants, ready to take out the spirit rune to help Qi Lu.
Qi Lu saw it in his eyes, he chuckled and motioned to Ding Xiaolan with his eyes not to act rashly, so as not to startle the snake and let this monster escape.
"You really don't want me to help?" Ding Xiaolan was not at ease, after all, Qi Lu's true qi was exhausted, and he suffered internal injuries during the day when he broke the illusion.
"A little demon, I can still handle it." After Qi Lu finished speaking, a spirit rune flew out of his hand, hitting the sky with lightning speed.
"That's right, I put the Rakshasa bone in your box." Something seemed to have been injured by a spirit rune in the sky, and a hoarse and low man's voice came from mid-air.
The voice was like someone saying through a voice changer, it was very muddy and unpleasant, and it sounded like the voice of a dying old man.
"Is it the voice of a youkai?"
Before Ding Xiaolan's words could be spoken, a black shadow suddenly appeared in the sky above Qi Lu's head, with the sound of wings flapping. When the crowd looked up, they saw that it was an ugly crow.
No one dared to answer Ding Xiaolan's words, because the crow that stopped above Qi Lu suddenly straightened its body and stood up like a human.
"I underestimated you, and you saw the flaws." The crow used its eyes as green as jasper to look at Qi Lu from above.
Qi Lu replied coldly: "It's not that you underestimated me, it's that I'm too stupid, and now I realize that something is wrong." ”
"Obediently complete your mission in Guta Village and return to China. Be nosy, and you'll not be able to eat and walk around. Every time the demon spoke, a drop of black blood fell to the ground. Everyone ducked so as not to be contaminated with the disgusting blood of the bird.
"It's a pity that I don't want to go back to China yet."
"Then you have only one way to die!"
"How do you want me to die?"
"I have a thousand ways to kill you, and I can let you at any time"
Before the demon crow's words were finished, Qi Lu had already stepped on the gang, and another spirit rune in his hand hit the demon crow.
But Qi Lu's trick failed, and there was nothing above the demon crow just now. The rune paper burned automatically, and the ashes fell on Qi Lu's head, making him quite embarrassed.
"Don't waste your efforts." The raven reappeared on top of him and spoke.
"Disperse, everyone!" Qi Lu said as he formed a handprint, ready to fight the demon crow again.
"Do you want to subdue me with this broken spell?"
"Quack!" The crows' cries became more and more frequent, and the black blood that fell on the ground turned into fireworks and burned, and the blue flames were like ghost fires in the cemetery, surrounding Qi Lu.
Qi Lu stood still, the blue fire burned on the ground without leaving any traces, and he immediately realized that this fire was nothing more than an illusion projected by the demon crow in the bottom of people's hearts.
"If you don't show off your cleverness, I really can't do anything about you." Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qi Lu saw the empty door of the demon crow, and in an instant, a spirit rune flew out of his hand, firmly clinging to its right claw.
The ghost fire burning around Qi Lu immediately faded in color and slowly faded.
Like a wild ghost wailing, the demon crow let out a low moan/moan, and one of them fell to the feet of Qi Lu and died.
"You got rid of this demon?" Yang Yi was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.
"Nope." Qi Lu shook his head and said, "This is just an ordinary crow, a puppet controlled remotely by the caster, deliberately trying to convey his meaning." ”
"Where is the demon practitioner?"
"I don't know, maybe ten miles away, maybe a hundred miles away, he has already fled at this moment, and we can't find any trace of him."
When Ding Xiaolan heard Qi Lu say this, she became worried again, she pulled Qi Lu aside and asked in a low voice, "Puppet?" Do you think the person who manipulated it would be Hong Yi? ”
"This is very unlikely, if the troublemaker is really him, why didn't he reveal my true identity in front of the villagers just now?"
Ding Xiaolan breathed a sigh of relief, admitting in her heart that Qi Lu's inference was reasonable.
"Could it be that our ancestor worship etiquette is disrespectful, causing the heavens to see the sin, send this bad omen, and harm the villagers?" Yang Yi sighed and said to the onlookers: "Today's monsters are haunting, the banquet is over, everyone should go home, and I will take everyone to ask the ancestors for their sins another day." ”
"Wait!" Qi Lu grabbed Yang Yi's hand and said to him, "Everyone go to a place with me, maybe there will be an answer there." ”