Chapter 5: Crossing the Border
The old woman riding a cat that shook out of the painting, shrunk back, turned around and screamed at us, the sound did not come from the cat's mouth, but from the mouth of the "human", the two are really one!
"Ahem! You are still not good at painting, and it is difficult to draw people's skin and bones......" Jiang Xiaoyun laughed.
"That's... Will it affect our search for corpses? The second uncle asked worriedly.
Jiang Xiaoyun sighed slightly: "This is already the closest clue to the corpse demon, so I can only try to use it first." ”
Following the ghostly old woman, the second uncle continued to hurry with the master on his back, and after walking for an unknown amount of time, he climbed several mountains, and he found ...... Every time he walked, the master took out a pair of scrolls and shook them vigorously, and then threw away the precious silk silk, and the scrolls in the satchel became fewer and fewer......
The second uncle was a little worried, and asked, "Master, you lost all the scrolls and ran into a corpse demon, how can we fight?" ”
Jiang Xiaoyun smiled: "Joke, have you ever seen a scroll used as a weapon for your teacher?" Let's go, you. ”
The second uncle was a little dazed, along the way, he always felt that something was following behind him, and more and more of it, although he couldn't hear the footsteps, but this intuition was very strong. He didn't dare to look back against his master's will, and the more he went, the more bottomless he became.
The mist rises in the mountains, and among the forests of the Hessian forest, the artistic conception is like an ink painting, a hazy and freehand sense of loss.
In this situation, he suddenly had a strange thought, could he and his master also walk in an ink painting...... If that's the case, it's really big enough...... Also, when did they enter the painting?
Come to think of it, Jiang Xiaoyun has been painting in the room for so long, there are at least dozens of them, and she shakes it off and throws away one every time she walks, is it ..... Are you making illusions?
"Master, I have a feeling," the second uncle muttered.
"Oh? What's wrong with you? Jiang Xiaoyun chuckled.
The second uncle coughed lightly: "I feel ...... It's like we're walking in a painting, and everything around us is not reality. ”
"Hahaha!" Jiang Xiaoyun was amused by the second uncle: "You guy, you really think, then tell me, since the surroundings are not reality, what is the reality?" ”
"I don't know... Perhaps, we are still at Sun Zhuzi's house, this ...... It's still a dream," the second uncle was really at a loss.
"Humph! You're just in a dream, let's go! Don't think about it......"
While talking, the two came to a small river, which was already far, far away from the village where they had set off, and the second uncle had already reached the depths of the Xing'an Mountains on foot.
The old lady riding a cat crossed the river in a fluttering way, although the river was not big, but the current was very fast, as if it could reach the thighs.
"Master, this river ..... Why is this color? The second uncle was surprised.
But when I saw the flow of water, it was as black as ink, and under the light of the moon, it was still shining brightly...... Far from an ordinary river.
"Let's go, don't forget what I told you, only a true man can move forward and not be disturbed by the things in front of him," Jiang Xiaoyun said.
The second uncle's heart was horizontal, one foot stepped into the river, the river water was cold and biting, piercing people's bones and hurting, since the corpse changed, the second uncle's defense is amazing, it can be said that he is not afraid of cold and heat, and now it is like this, but let him get back some of the feeling of "being a man".
The river is really deep enough, it doesn't reach the waist, Jiang Xiaoyun is really cunning, she rode on the neck of the second uncle at the beginning, and she was in charge of commanding without dripping water. The second uncle walked slowly in the river, and the feeling of someone following him was even stronger, and the sound and light of the water were made by himself.
"Master, what are we following behind?" The second uncle asked in shock.
Jiang Xiaoyun was a little unhappy, and scolded: "Bad guy, do you want to say it a third time?" Take out the courage of a soldier and don't talk so much nonsense! ”
Master's deterrence calmed the second uncle a lot, however, something even more incredible happened, but in the black river, there were many human limbs suspended, broken arms and legs, as well as internal organs and intestines, and went down the turbulent river......
The second uncle's heart rose to his throat, and the rancid stench in the river came out, and the stench of the sewer mixed with blood was suffocating!
He understood that it was useless to ask a lot more at this time, and if the master didn't explain, there must be a reason for her, and he just moved forward firmly, but ..... A lump of dead woman's scalp hair floated down the river, like a moldy floating colony, and it still made his sick heart.
Seeing a lot of this, the second uncle's state of mind calmed down, these are all fake, they are all tricks, and even ..... This creek too, probably... It's all a ghost made by the master.
However, if it is fake, why is the sense of touch and smell so realistic, and the feet on which he stepped on were not pebbles at all, but clearly pieces of broken skull bones......
On the other side of the river, the second uncle looked down and saw that he was covered with "dirty blood and mud" from the waist down, very disgusting and embarrassed, and all that flowed down was concentrated blood and slime.
He couldn't help retching, and almost threw up, but he saw that the woods in front of him were full of broken and rotting corpses, some nested under the trees, some hanging in the treetops, and some scattered in the grass in the form of skeletons...... Where is this still the world, it is clearly hell!
He couldn't believe that he had been a soldier in Qiqihar before, and he had camped in the primeval forest more than once, and he had never seen such a place, and in modern society, if there was really such a weird and terrible place, it should have been discovered by the state a long time ago, and there were more than 10,000 people who died here. It's not like a mass grave during the Puppet Manchurian period!
"What's wrong? Can't bear it? Jiang Xiaoyun above her head chuckled.
"No... No, ahem, Master, this is a trick...... It's too disgusting," the second uncle coughed twice.
"Tricks? Scold? Wherever there is a trick, everything you see in front of your eyes is true! Jiang Xiaoyun replied.
"Really? That's impossible! The second uncle still kept his senses and argued: "If this dead man covered with blood and stumps, as well as the mountain of corpses full of corpses in front of him, is true, the country would have discovered it a long time ago, needless to say that our country has spy satellites flying overhead!" Other countries have the potential to find out! ”
"Hahahaha!" Jiang Xiaoyun laughed out loud, her laughter... Heroic and arrogant, it sounds... It's a bit of an oriental sect leader.,It's not a good feeling anyway.。
"Apprentice, after crossing this river, I can tell you something, do you know where you are now?" Jiang Xiaoyun asked with a smile.
The second uncle's brain was spinning rapidly, and he had already begun to doubt that the ...... sitting on his neck It's not the Master himself.
Where is the real Master? Master, you wouldn't laugh like that, wouldn't... Was she killed?
The second uncle is ready to accept all the bad situations, he doesn't want to survive this time, what he hopes... Just be a ghost. Originally... was slapped in the grave by the old coffin, what hasn't he experienced? Life and death have long been put aside.
"It can't be the underworld," the second uncle said with a smile, he took out a cigarette, lit it, and smoked hard.
Jiang Xiaoyun sneered: "Not bad! You really are my apprentice, and you did not disappoint me. ”
"Oh, yes, will you, Master, disappoint me?" The second uncle took two puffs and threw away the cigarette, the stimulation of the last nicotine had already made him ready for a duel, and the top of his head was this... The Eight Achievements are the corpse demons that tease him, and today even if he dies, he has to compare with it.
"What do you mean by that?" Jiang Xiaoyun asked coldly.
The second uncle put his arms around her calves, and the two evil sharp knives in his hands were facing upward, if Jiang Xiaoyun dared to make a slight move, this machete that killed the devil would be directly slashed!
"My master, elegant and elegant, fairy and graceful, how can you talk like you, who are you?" The second uncle asked in a fierce tone.
"Huh!" Jiang Xiaoyun sneered: "Originally... I should punish you well, I didn't expect that in your heart, I am so beautiful, forget it! Excuse me for your ignorance, and forgive you this time. ”
After saying that, Jiang Xiaoyun disappeared in an instant, and the second uncle's arms were empty, and he turned his head in astonishment, but saw that there was no one behind him, and there were terrible corpses on both sides of the vast river embankment.
"Master? You......! "The second uncle was a little flustered, Jiang Xiaoyun was a big living person, how could he disappear out of thin air? This is completely counterintuitive, isn't it...... Is it a ghost who has followed you along the way?
Before, he had always felt that there were people following him, but now after the master disappeared, he looked back and saw that there was no one except for the dead bodies scattered everywhere, and the dead people all over the mountains made him a little dizzy from "square fear".
"Disciple, you are not wrong, at this time, you are in the underworld, in fact, the concept of the underworld and the yang world is not what the worldly people imagine," the second uncle's skull, the master's voice echoed.
This feeling..... The second uncle experienced it when he listened to the sow's roar outside the courtyard of Tiedan's house, and it was not from the ears, but directly from the resonance of the skull, which seemed to ...... The Master has drilled into his body and speaks within him.
He kind of understood, in fact, along the way..... It was not the master herself who accompanied her, but her spirit, or soul, and she herself did not come, but just sent a remote-controlled "person".
"Master! Is it really you? The second uncle was stunned.
"Nerves! If you doubt it again, I'm angry," Jiang Xiaoyun's tone was obviously stunned.
"Oh..... It's just Master, where are you? Why are you hiding? The second uncle asked nervously.
Jiang Xiaoyun sneered: "If I'm here, you're distracted and can't concentrate on it, so I'll hide it, don't worry, you go, I'll always be by your side." ”
The second uncle felt inexplicable, scratched his head, and continued to ask, "Master, why did we come to the underworld?" ”
Jiang Xiaoyun sneered: "If I tell you that there is yang in yin, yin in yang, and the two worlds of yin and yang overlap, do you believe it?" ”
"What? Are the two worlds of yin and yang overlapping? The second uncle gasped.
"Not bad!" Jiang Xiaoyun replied: "The yang world in our ordinary life is actually overlapping with the underworld, and the hotel you live in is likely to be the yamen of the yin division, next to the warm and comfortable bed, it may be torture on the ghosts......