Chapter Forty-Eight: The Dead Men of Xiangxi
Hou San's face looked a little unfamiliar in the fleeting electric light, and he stood guard at the door, quietly looking at the countless resentful ghosts outside the barrier.
There was also a man kneeling outside the barrier, very thin, looking like a handful of dry wood, and the moment I saw his face, my heart twitched involuntarily. It was no one else who knelt outside the courtyard, but Xiao Shao, who followed us into the village and was hanged at the entrance of Tangjiazhuang Village.
But now, this long-dead man stood silently at the entrance of the courtyard and looked at me, and I suddenly had an inexplicable feeling of unease.
The realm under Hou Sanbu can block resentful souls without corpses, but it can't block living corpses with entities. For Hou San, who invited immortals, Xiao Shao, who had become a living corpse, and the thousands of resentful souls in Tangjiazhuang were not difficult to deal with, but if the two were combined, they would definitely be a little more dangerous than the corpses in the previous bronze coffin.
Countless resentful souls wailed into Xiao Shao's body, and Xiao Shao, who was originally kneeling quietly, trembled all over his body, and his pale face was facing the direction of the room, screaming at us.
The resentment of Tangjiazhuang that drilled into Xiao Shao's body was still increasing, and the green tendons on Xiao Shao's neck also burst out, slowly writhing like earthworms.
"Ahh
Another scream burst out, but not because of pain, but as if to vent something hidden in the body. After a while, Xiao Shao's screams finally stopped abruptly, his neck was broken, and the corners of his mouth were grinning behind his ears in the struggle and tearing.
A human face was struggling to come out of Xiao Shao's mouth, and at the same time, Xiao Shao's body was also changing at a speed visible to the naked eye. His thin body had become bloated, and countless faces had looked out under his taut skin. He dragged his bulky body like this, and stepped over the boundary under Hou Sanbu little by little.
Then, I smelled the smell of carrion being burnt.
The moment Xiao Shao crossed the border, two balls of white carrion fell from his body and fell to the ground and smashed into a mess of flesh. But he didn't care about it, as if he didn't feel anything, and staggered closer and closer to us.
Just when I wanted to drag the semi-unconscious Luo Xiaomin into the back room, Hou San pressed my shoulder and signaled me not to move. He leaned down as if to say something to me, but was interrupted by a thin sob. Dull, oppressive, and yet extremely sad. The moment we heard the sobbing, Gehr and I felt a pounding in the chest, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
We tried our best to cover our ears, but the shrill cry pierced into our eardrums like steel needles, creating an indescribable sense of pain. This voice does not belong to Xiao Shao, who has long since died, but the countless faces hidden in his body, those are the countless souls of silk in Tangjiazhuang back then.
The cry slowly became clear from far to near, but just as he wanted to step into the door, he was once again blocked by an invisible barrier. The monster slammed its bloated arm against the transparent barrier, shaking the room slightly.
It shook the room, and its face kept crying at me, "Don't come...... Don't come...... Who can save me...... Who can......"
Hou San's face became extremely ugly, even if the possessed Second Sister Huang had a hundred years of Taoism, she was also helpless against this collection of resentment that borrowed the corpse to return the soul.
Now he can block it, but when the time for the immortal comes, how can we get out?
Just when a few of us were helpless, we suddenly heard the brass bell ringing outside the hospital, and someone strode closer, while reading aloud:
Heaven and earth have righteousness, and miscellaneous endowment is popular.
The lower part is the river mountain, and the upper part is the sun star.
It is said that it is Haoran, and it is full of gloom.
The royal road is clear, containing and Tuming Court.
When the poor festival is seen, one by one......
Every word and sentence in this "Song of Righteousness" contains the mighty righteousness between heaven and earth, and the cry of the monster was dispersed a lot by the song of righteousness, and a few of us also felt a sense of relaxation on our bodies, and we couldn't help but secretly rejoice that at this moment of life and death, there were masters to help, and this fortune was picked up.
The monster turned around and pounced on the outsider, only to hear the copper bell in the hand of the person who came, and the monster's body was like a thousand pounds, and with every step, the ground cracked, and the bloated carrion on his body fell off his body.
The body grew thinner and thinner, and eventually turned into a bloody handful of dry firewood. He screamed as he smashed the blue and white slate on the ground with his sharp finger bones. But no matter how hard he struggled, he felt like a thousand heavy burdens on his body, and he couldn't get up again.
Soon, the monster's expression changed from anger to horror, and two dark red figures slowly floated in from outside the courtyard gate, and the deep resentment made the temperature around him drop by a few degrees, and the dry corpse's body froze and suddenly became quiet.
I heard Hou San gasp and let out a "hiss" sound from his mouth. Before he could say anything, he heard a crisp "click" outside the door, and the dry corpse that made us helpless was actually crushed by the two murderous corpses that followed in a moment.
When I came back to my senses, a thin figure was already standing outside the courtyard, with his hands in his pockets, a pair of eyes looking around, and from time to time raising his hand to pull the blood-stained yellow sweatshirt on his body. I recognized at a glance who this man was, that Huang Yu, who had disappeared from the world not long after entering the village, and behind him, Lin Bu, who was trembling all over his body and looked like he had gone insane.
What's going on...... Why is he here?
Huang Yu's gaze wandered up and down the whole body of several of us for a while, and when he saw Hou San, he was slightly stunned, and pulled Lin Bu directly into the courtyard, ignoring the two murderous corpses. Huang San walked straight to the door, but he was not in a hurry to come in, he clasped his fists with his hands at Hou San, who was guarding the door, bowed, and said: "The junior sees the Huang family immortals today, and he is very hard in his life, don't be surprised." ”
"In the hour I went to the lower realm, I saw so many hairy boys, but none of them knew how to count etiquette like you." The corners of Hou San's mouth grinned, and he returned to his cynical feminine tone, and asked Huang Yudao: "You walking corpse don't stay in Xiangxi, why did you go to this Tangjiazhuang?" ”
When I heard Hou San say the words "corpse man", my brain exploded, I had heard of this bizarre and somewhat absurd sect a long time ago. There are no more than three people in each generation of this sect, but all of them have the ability to reach the heavens, they act strangely, they are good at controlling and manipulating dead corpses, and they often do some things to dig people's ancestral graves for the sake of cultivation. Therefore, although his ability is not small, he has never been regarded by the famous and righteous path, and even in the eyes of many people in the sect, the walking corpse is no different from the evil sect.
Fifty years ago, after the last generation of corpse man king blind man was killed by the corpse king in Dian Prefecture, the sect of corpse walkers has completely disappeared. For half a century, they existed only in the horror stories passed down by the old people, and even I regarded them as bizarre and absurd local legends.
But I can't help but believe everything in front of me, except for the walking corpses, who has the means to suppress the two remaining murderous corpses in the ancient tomb?
Controlling the corpses and ordering the corpse king, this is the ability of the corpse walkers in Xiangxi to take care of their families.
I remember when I was young, my master told me more than once about the sect of Xiangxi walking corpses.