Chapter 3, The Poison of the Worms
The words that came out of the woman's mouth made Tang Yao completely stunned, and he almost forgot that he was in danger.
"Mother...... "Tang Yao muttered as he stared at the pale face that emerged from the coffin, "You are my mother?" ”
Nineteen-year-old Tang Yao has a good memory, but about his mother, he only left a vague image and his mother's name in his mind.
"Come to me, we're finally reunited." The woman's voice was very gentle, as if it had touched the softest place in Tang Yao's heart.
The voice seemed to have magical power, making him even more unable to control his body, and his will to resist was gradually crumbling, and he walked towards the coffin step by step in the fog, as if he was going to die.
Finally walked to the coffin, the woman's face appeared in front of Tang Yao so closely, and suddenly a pair of hands shaped like dry bones stretched out from the coffin, and grabbed Tang Yao's neck, followed by Tang Yao, he felt a pain similar to a pinprick coming, and when he looked around, he saw that the pair of dry bones had pierced into Tang Yao's flesh.
The pain made Tang Yao wake up instantly, how could this ghost-like thing in front of him be his mother, he immediately struggled, but his body had already kept calling, and those monster-like hands were pulling Tang Yao into the coffin.
After nineteen years of ordinary and poor life, Tang Yao should have been frightened, but at this critical moment of life and death, he didn't know where the courage came from, and he reached out to support the edge of the coffin at the moment when he was about to be pulled into the coffin.
The strength of those dry hands is amazing, Rao is Tang Yao, an adult man is almost unbearable, just when the two sides were deadlocked, Li Xiang's voice suddenly came from the fog on the other side, and he saw Li Xiang holding his head and fleeing here as if he was being chased and beaten, and shouted in his mouth: "Don't beat me, I will pay back the money......"
There was obviously no one around him, but he kept begging for mercy, rushing around with his head covered, and it was estimated that he ran to Tang Yao's side unintentionally, and then hit Tang Yao headlong, this guy has a hundred and sixty pounds to say the least, plus the impact of running, this collision directly knocked Tang Yao out several meters away.
Tang Yao, who had severe pain in his waist, fell to the ground and almost didn't catch his breath, but he slowed down for a moment before standing up again, and opened his mouth to scold: "Li Xiang, are you crazy?" ”
When I looked up, I found that the coffin and the terrible female ghost were gone, and the thick fog that filled the surroundings was quickly dissipating, and the strange and terrifying scene was like a dream.
"What's going on?" Tang Yao's heart was full of question marks, looking down at Li Xiang, this guy seemed to have fainted, but even if he fell to the ground, he was still holding his head, Tang Yao quickly stepped forward and patted Li Xiang on the face, but he couldn't wake him up.
"You're waking up, hey......" Tang Yao simply punched Li Xiang in the stomach, but it was still to no avail.
Just when he was worrying about how he could take this guy to escape from the Beijun Temple, he suddenly heard laughter in his ears again, Tang Yao immediately became vigilant, and then there was a strange sound from all directions, like the sound of the wind and like the sound of many things slapping against each other.
Tang Yao raised his head suddenly, his pupils contracted in an instant, and there was a large dark cloud above his head, but if he looked closely, he would find that it was not a dark cloud but countless crows overlapping each other.
In the heavy rain, these crows still flew in the air, countless, maybe hundreds or more, but the strange thing was that except for the sound of flapping their wings, the crows in the sky did not make the slightest call.
In a short time, hundreds of crows fell from the sky, some landed on the walls and eaves, and some landed directly on the ground, but without exception, they all stared at Tang Yao with dark eyes, as if they were surrounded by him.
Crows are obviously just weak birds, and their single appearance is naturally not as good as lions and tigers and other fierce beasts, and there are no poisonous insects such as snakes and scorpions that are terrifying, but the black pressure here oppresses a large number of crows, but this situation makes Tang Yao feel extremely uneasy and frightened.
Just imagine, if hundreds of crows attacked both of them at the same time, the sharp claws and sharp beaks were estimated to be able to tear him and Li Xiang apart in a very short time.
In the face of this large group of crows, Tang Yao didn't dare to move, but thinking of a series of strange phenomena in the Beijun Temple, Tang Yao vaguely felt in his heart that these crows in front of him were not necessarily real.
The female ghost seen in the coffin is fake, and the bus is also an illusion of herself, so these crows are probably also the illusions she saw.
But he was still careful not to move, and slowly squatted down to pick up Li Xiang's fruit knife, but he still felt insecure.
After a stalemate for a moment, the crows still didn't move, Tang Yao squatted down and helped the unconscious Li Xiang up, and was about to venture through the crows towards the gate of the Beijun Temple.
"You guy is too heavy...... Tang Yao helped Li Xiang to move forward with one hand, and held the fruit knife in the other hand to remain vigilant.
He moved forward step by step, and the crow flock didn't seem to have the intention of attacking them, but just thinking about it and taking three steps forward, a scream suddenly came from the dense crow flock, like an order, followed by hundreds of crows flying up at the same time and quickly attacking Tang Yao and Li Xiang.
In the blink of an eye, the two of them were besieged in the middle by a flock of crows, countless claws tore at Tang Yao's body, he subconsciously pressed Li Xiang to the ground, and then the whole person pounced on him.
Soon there was a sharp pain all over Tang Yao's body, and he frantically waved the fruit knife in his hand while protecting Li Xiang, but even if he tried his best to resist, he still couldn't stop the attack of the crow swarm, and with the claws falling like raindrops, Tang Yao, who was in severe pain, finally couldn't hold on and fell to the ground.
Unexpectedly, the bronze ring he had been wearing since he was a child was exposed from his clothes at this time, and when the bronze ring fell out, Tang Yao seemed to hear a light "huh" in the chaos, and then there was a scream from the crow flock, and several crows pounced on Tang Yao's bronze ring at the same time, tearing off the rope on it, and then one of them wanted to fly away with the bronze ring in his mouth.
This scene happened to be seen by Tang Yao, and a wave of anger surged in the heart of this young man who was about to be frightened, just because this bronze ring was the only thing Tang Yao's mother left him.
"Put it down!" He roared loudly, but under the siege of the crow flock, he could not move an inch, let alone try to stop the crow with the bronze ring in his mouth, and at the critical moment, he gambled everything on the fruit knife in his hand.
It seemed that some potential in Tang Yao's body had been stimulated because of anger, he suddenly felt as if his heart had suddenly stopped beating, his breathing became very long, and the scene he saw in front of him seemed to be frozen little by little, and even the crows besieging him turned into slow motion, and that short second seemed to have become a lengthy movie in Tang Yao's eyes at this moment.
The fruit knife came out of his hand, passed through the dense group of crows, and hit the crow with the bronze ring in his mouth with incredible accuracy, and the crow stabbed by the fruit knife fell from the air, and the bronze ring also rolled to the ground.
Tang Yao rushed over desperately, grabbed the bronze ring in his hand again, and at this moment, the third scream came, and the crows quickly scattered after hearing the scream, and actually gave up continuing to attack Tang Yao and the others.
The abnormality of his body before gradually disappeared, and the sharp pain after being attacked by the crow swarm hit again, Tang Yao sat down on the ground and let the rain fall on his body, and the action of throwing the fruit knife just now seemed to use up all his remaining strength.
Taking a deep breath, he muttered, "Why are you so tired......"
Before the words fell, a pair of hands reached out from behind and grabbed Tang Yao's shoulders.
Tang Yao's whole body trembled, and he instinctively wanted to turn his head, but the person behind him whispered, "Don't move, otherwise it will kill you." ”
The voice sounded like a woman, but it didn't seem to be young, Tang Yao could smell a strange fragrance wafting from behind, and he immediately asked, "Who are you and what do you want to do?" ”
Because he couldn't see it, he was even more frightened, and Tang Yao even guessed that the person behind him might be the unjust soul monster in the Beijun Temple.
"Where did you get this bronze ring?" The person behind asked.
"This is what my mother left me, I don't know exactly where it came from." Tang Yao said.
The person behind him was silent, but the dead silence at this moment made Tang Yao even more uneasy, he couldn't help shouting: "Who are you and what do you want to do?" ”
"What's your last name?" The man behind asked, only this time the voice seemed to be a little hesitant.
"My surname is Don."
"What's your mother's last name?" The other party asked again.
"I take my mother's surname, I don't have a father." Tang Yao replied almost without thinking, because in his heart, his irresponsible father was a complete bastard.
"I see...... the other party's tone seemed to know something, and suddenly stuffed something into Tang Yao's mouth, and then pinched Tang Yao's throat, forcing Tang Yao to swallow the thing in his mouth.
"Ahem, what did you do......" After the other party let go, Tang Yao coughed again and again.
"The thing you swallow is called a worm, and the poison of this worm will gradually eat away at your spinal cord, and you will only survive for three years at most, and if you want to live, you will bring your mother here in exchange for an antidote within these three years, and you will die if you die."
After the other party finished speaking, Tang Yao's back fell silent, and Tang Yao, who was in panic, waited for a while, and finally couldn't help but turn around, but saw that there was no one behind him.
The Beijun Temple under the heavy rain is like a nightmare that Tang Yao had.