Chapter 28: Lu 9
After the deathly silence, Xu Ran faintly heard a squirrel.
From far to near.
Zhang Siyang clenched the peachwood sword in his right hand, touched the rune paper in his pocket with his left hand, and continued: "Lao Wang traveled all over the world like me before his death, and the old house he went home was broken. β
The sound grew closer, closer and closer, gradually turning into a dry creaking sound, as if bones were colliding out of place.
"She didn't treat you as a daughter-in-law very much, but now it's okay, she insisted on saying that you had an affair with Lao Wang, scolded her, and attracted all the people in Banpo Village."
"The women in this village chew the root of their tongues to such an extent that it will spread in less than two days, and you are not willing to be angry, so you jump into the well in the yard."
Zhang Siyang raised the wooden sword, blocked Xu Ran and Li Wuyuan behind him, stared at the front, and said:
"But there was no water in that well for a long time, so you were thrown to death."
Xu Ran's eyelids jumped suddenly.
The strange sound suddenly disappeared, and only the aftermath of Zhang Siyang's speech was still echoing in the empty hole.
Zhang Siyang waited for a long time, seemed to feel that he had miscalculated, reached out to pick up the flashlight, and leaned forward.
"No, above!"
Xu Ran suddenly spoke, and as soon as Zhang Siyang looked up, he saw Liu Xiaoping climbing upside down on the top of the cave with his hands and feet.
Her head hung upside down, staring straight at them like a crawling worm.
"Up!"
The rune paper that was just spinning in the air was urged by Zhang Siyang to come to him again, and it was neatly arranged into a rune array, and the pale yellow light seemed to erect a barrier for the three of them.
"Liu Xiaoping! I know you're innocent, but so is Lao Wang! When you went to ask for your mother-in-law's life, Lao Wang went over to help for your man's sake, but he didn't kill you! Now that the old woman is sick and dead, why did you find Lao Wang's head? β
Liu Xiaoping tilted her head against the rotten flesh on her face, as if she was looking at the three people behind the talisman array.
"Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee......"
There was a crack near her jaw, which presumably was her mouth.
"Don't fucking follow Lao Tzu, let it go if you have a fart!" Although Zhang Siyang was panicked, he was still calm on the surface.
Li Wuyuan snapped his knuckles, clicking.
"What do you have to talk to her?"
After speaking, he bent his knees, jumped to the top, grabbed Liu Xiaoping's hair, and dragged himself down.
Zhang Siyang looked at his defensive talisman array, and he had a mixed feeling. But in the end, he took the rune paper and rushed forward with his sword.
Liu Xiaoping and Li Wuyuan scuffled together, the speed of the two was extremely fast, Li Wuyuan bounced so hard, he was thrown out and bounced back tenaciously, while Liu Xiaoping was no matter how he was beaten apart, his whole body squeaked twice like a spasm, and his body recovered.
Li Wuyuan gradually lost the upper hand, and was inattentively choked by Liu Xiaoping's neck, slammed it to the ground, and smashed it to the ground with a bang, and his back almost fell apart.
Xu Ran kicked over and directly kicked Liu Xiaoping a few meters away.
As soon as he lifted Li Wuyuan up, he heard the familiar sound of bones rubbing.
Liu Xiaoping's limbs were twisted and twisted, her feet seemed to be connected to the ground, becoming a foundation, and her body relied on the support of the soles of her feet to get up and recover little by little.
She raised her hand and pressed down on the protruding misplaced ribs, her face facing Xu Ran.
"You can't die." Xu Ran looked at the peachwood sword in Zhang Siyang's hand.
Zhang Siyang: "Nonsense, how can a ghost beat him to death with his fists." - But she hasn't answered me yet! β
Li Wuyuan: "She will say it after beating her!" β
Xu Ran stopped her in time and said, "No, physical attacks won't help." β
Li Wuyuan: "What? β
Xu Ran patted her head, and then said to Liu Xiaoping:
"Since you just came out, it means that you can understand people's words - the ghost asking for his life is nothing more than to be reincarnated, you killed your mother-in-law and finally killed Mr. Wang, but you are still staying in the world, I think, you should not kill him to be reincarnated, right?"
Liu Xiaoping tilted her head slightly in a strange way, standing lifelessly, and didn't say anything.
Xu Ran continued to ask meaningfully: "Do you hold a grudge against Mr. Wang?" β
"βor was it your intention to kill him?"
Liu Xiaoping slowly raised her head, as if attracted by his question.
Zhang Siyang instantly thought of something, and pointed at her angrily: "Is someone instructing you!" β
What answered him was Liu Xiaoping's torn mouth slit, as if a knife had fallen on a pile of rotten flesh.
Then, there was a cacophony of noise throughout the tunnel.
This wild well is not the well that Liu Xiaoping jumped on, but the wells extend in all directions and are connected to each other, and Liu Xiaoping has been entrenched under it for a long time.
All of a sudden, unknown beetles poured out of all the passages, densely packed like pushing waves, and pounced on the positions of the three of them.
Xu Ran saw that his scalp was numb, and he hurriedly piled up the dead branches on the ground around, formed a circle, lit them with a lighter, and the three of them were temporarily protected in the center.
However, the insects crawled around the ring of fire and did not flinch, and still scrambled forward, and after the continuous crackling sound, the smell of burnt meat filled the air.
As the pile of insects gathers higher and higher, the already small flame becomes weaker and weaker. Li Wuyuan suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, and when he touched it, there was an extra insect in his hand.
She looked up and saw the swarm of insects crawling to the top of the cave in countless branches, eventually converging all the way like a river flowing into the sea, and the gathered insects began to fall down continuously.
The vertical pupils glowed with a cold glow under the flames, reminiscent of the cold moonlight.
With a slight push of her fingertips, she pinched the moving bug.
Then he jumped up, the demon wind was cold, and the huge cat's tail swept out, and the insect swarm scattered in all directions.
Zhang Siyang patted off the insects on the back of his hand and said, "It's a corpse eater!" β
Xu Ran picked up a wooden stick that lit a fire, forced back the insect swarm, and said to Zhang Siyang: "Think of a way, Lao Zhang!" β
Zhang Siyang: "I can only catch ghosts, not insects!" β
In a panic, Xu Ran glanced in the direction of Liu Xiaoping.
"She's controlling these bugs!"
Zhang Siyang scolded: "Fuck! β
As soon as the words fell, Li Wuyuan on the top of the cave pounced in front of him, pinched Liu Xiaoping's neck and rolled forward more than a dozen times, Zhang Siyang took advantage of this opportunity, and immediately pinched the trick and recited the spell, and the spell flew out again, passing through the bustling insect swarm, and sticking to the ghosts and demons who were scuffling together.
Xu Ran looked at the more and more dense spells in disbelief, and his anger rose from his heart: "Zhang Siyang! What are you doing! β
"You're in a hurry, my talisman won't do anything to her!"
"She" refers to Li Wuyuan.
Perhaps to confirm his somewhat sloppy statement, the glittering rune paper was bounced open not long after it gathered.
Li Wuyuan was thrown out.
Xu Ran was so anxious that he subconsciously reached out to catch it, and was carried by a force and rolled on the swarm several times.
When I looked at the position just now, Liu Xiaoping, who was dressed in tattered white, had already stood up straight and straight, rising higher and higher.
To be precise, it was a dense swarm of insects that surged into her lower body and lifted her up.
The female ghost in front of her suddenly became a behemoth. The insects climbed, renovated, and gathered together like tiny conveyor belts, piling up the fortress higher and higher.
Zhang Siyang unloaded the cloth bag behind him, let go of his fingers, and then held the peachwood sword hard, and stung the horse, as if he was cheering himself up.
Xu Ran looked at Li Wuyuan's body, and there were no serious injuries, before he gasped and asked, "You are a goblin, don't you have any abilities like spells except for beating people with your fists?" β
Li Wuyuan seemed to be slightly stunned, looked at him and said, "I can't use it." β
Xu Ran moved his lips, and was about to ask why, but he heard Zhang Siyang scream.
With a twist of his head, the peachwood sword was cut in two, and the person had already been beaten to the corner, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and then fainted.
Xu Ran's fingers clutched Li Wuyuan's shoulders tightly.
"Then you don't need to."
Liu Xiaoping's featureless face was hidden in her dusty hair, and from time to time one or two insects quickly crawled over it.
The swarm of insects below her swelled and pushed her big ship in front of Xu Ran.
"Hey, your mother-in-law is dead, and you can't be reincarnated, do you still need to kill them all like this?"
Xu Ran pulled Li Wuyuan back, while talking to her in a seemingly understated tone, trying to delay time.
Liu Xiaoping didn't answer, and walked over unhurriedly.
"Since your man is willing to come forward to tell Lao Zhang the truth, it means that he also knows that you and Mr. Wang are innocent."
Liu Xiaoping stopped.
Xu Ran paid close attention to her movements with bated breath, because she had no face, and she really couldn't see some inner portrayals from it.
"If he believes you, why do you have to care what your mother-in-law says? You don't live with her. And the women in the village, you can also treat them as if they don't exist, instead of taking your own life on impulse. β
Li Wuyuan saw that the other party seemed to have room for discussion, and finally asked the sentence he wanted to ask the most:
"What do you men eat? Why didn't he stop you then? β
Liu Xiaoping stood in front of the two of them for a long, long time, and the rotten flesh on her face worked hard before she brewed two words.
"Not in ......"
"What's not there?" When Li Wuyuan heard her answer at first glance, he didn't have the time to think rationally at all.
Xu Ran: "You mean...... He's not at home? β
Liu Xiaoping didn't answer, but she already answered.
Li Wuyuan: "Then why do you still want to kill Wang Shanghuai?" He's been wronged just like you. β
Liu Xiaoping suddenly raised her head, her throat seemed to be dragging on the sand.
"Damn."
Xu Ran and Li Wuyuan glanced at each other.
"If you really think he deserves to die, why didn't you do it sooner and kill him the first night we came?"
Liu Xiaoping stopped talking again.
Li Wuyuan felt that communicating with her was really worse than death, and a few low whimpers came out of his throat.
Xu Ran held her down and said slowly: "Since you don't want to say it, then I'll guess it." β
He raised his eyes and stared at Liu Xiaoping's miserable face.
"Mr. Wang drove you out and didn't kill you, and it can be seen from this that he also wants to compensate you as much as possible. And your mother-in-law was euthanized, so you are unwilling to see Mr. Wang as an enemy, but you should not have thought of killing him, or you dare not do it, because you don't have that ability. β
"But someone should have helped you improve your abilities," Xu Ran glanced at the mountain of insects beneath her. "And the condition is, kill Mr. Wang, right?"
"More than ......," Liu Xiaoping replied slowly.
Xu Ran's breathing was close to stagnation.
"And you."