Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Skull Key
Because what she ate was chocolate, what she held in her mouth was black blood, and what she spit out was strange insects.
And at this moment, the fire has burned down the houses and collapsed, and the nose is smoking.
The little boy ate the chocolate in his mouth, his expression became extremely uncomfortable, and he vomited everything he had eaten before, perhaps he did not expect that such a strange thing was hidden in this black cake.
The bell was smoky and frowned, and spit two bubbles of saliva on the ground in a row, always feeling that he had not spit it clean, and his tongue was numb.
This made the bell angry, and as soon as he stood up, he went up and grabbed the little devil by the collar without saying a word. As soon as the imp looked up, he was caught hanging against the wall. The bell pressed his forehead to the heart of his head and questioned, "Tell the truth! ”
"I'm telling the truth, don't I eat it myself?" The imp was a little out of breath.
The bell smiled coldly, and was about to test the second sentence, when the floor under his feet suddenly cracked, and the whole room shook like a mountain, dozens of black cracks cracked in the board, and the fine stones and dirty lime above his head slipped down the wall like a waterfall.
In the middle, there was a shock, the table turned upside down, the bowls turned over, the wooden benches and basins, all kinds of furniture were messy and fell all over the carpet. The bell's body was tilted around and almost fell to the ground, but in such a desperate situation, he still didn't let go of the little ghost, and his ass was almost sitting on the ground, and his hand was still grabbing the little ghost's neck.
The little ghost reluctantly lowered his head against the wall and said, "If you want to die, can we escape first and die?" ”
This time, the bell fell to the ground with his whole body, and the stone slab on the house had completely collapsed, and a large hole three or five feet long and eight meters wide was broken on the four sides of the top, and two strong rays of light came in along the hole, illuminating the crumbling and broken attic inside and outside three circles.
At this time, the violent shaking suddenly stopped, the floor stopped shaking, and the walls collapsed on both sides. The sunlight shining in from the top hit the two of them.
This lit up and down the bell more and more unbearable, and there was a place in the corner of the wall that was not illuminated by light, and it was extremely dark, so she shrank her head and hid in. The little ghost was also red from the sun, and the two of them couldn't help it, and squeezed into the corner of the wall.
"Who set the fire, who set the fire!"
"It must be those white-clothed soldiers downstairs, they are not fuel-efficient lamps, usually they don't force people if they can't catch them, they just kill people and kill people, these bastards!"
The two of them did not talk for a few words, and the stairwell again came the sound of particularly sad weeping, and the heavy and terrifying footsteps, every time I stepped on the plank, I felt a little closer to myself, but I could not see the figure at the mouth of the ladder.
The bell turned his head in time, and looked at the entrance of the ladder on that floor, there were black linen everywhere within a radius of three or four meters from the top to the bottom, left and right, and if a white face suddenly appeared on the outside of the wall, it could be seen clearly.
The little ghost kept curling up and didn't speak.
After about ten minutes, the footsteps grew weaker and weaker, and they were behind until they were completely gone, and not a single sound could be heard.
The bell let out a sigh of relief, thinking that the unknown creature at the top of the staircase was gone.
At this moment, outside the side of the wall, a white face suddenly appeared, revealing half of the head, and at the same time there was a woman's howl. This voice is very familiar, it is the female corpse that has been on the first floor before.
The female corpse stretched out her head so that her entire face was at the mouth of the ladder, and then she turned her body to the side, completely exposed to the darkness.
But the bell could only see her face, and it felt like a head suspended in the air by white threads moving slowly, especially the two eyes of the female corpse, which were green and purple.
The bell panicked, turned around and pushed the little ghost's arm, and said, "Hey, little ghost, look, is it the female corpse before?" ”
The imp was already asleep by this time, leaning his head against the wall, and snoring.
The bell was furious this time, and he grabbed the little ghost's ear and said, "Wake up, why did you fall asleep so quickly?" ”
The little ghost was suddenly disturbed, woke up from his sleep, blinked his dull eyes, stared at the bell for a while, and said, "What's wrong?" Aren't you very resistant to me? Why are you waking me up now? ”
The bell dragged the little ghost's body, sent it forward, and looked at the white face of the woman in the stairwell, and exclaimed, "Take a look?" Isn't that woman. ”
The little ghost softened his eyelids, looked into the stairwell, stared at it for a while, and said, "What, I didn't see anything?" ”
"It's right at the top of the stairs, don't you see? She's already here. ”
It just so happened that a large stone slab had collapsed in the middle of the attic on this floor, like a meteorite, covering most of the entire attic, leaving only a very small gap where the mouth of the ladder could be observed.
The bell can only be seen with its neck tilted, and this gap is only a few centimeters wide, so only a mouse can crawl through it clearly, and people can't get through it at all.
The little ghost leaned his face forward again, observed carefully for a few seconds, and said: "I really didn't see anything, maybe you were wrong, sister, let's sleep, let's go out together at night." ”
"What do you sleep on? Are you that sleepy? The bell patted the imp on the head, and then looked at the mouth of the ladder, and this time she was surprised to find that the white face on the mouth of the ladder had suddenly disappeared, and there was nothing.
It was still dark, and the bell was a little incredulous, because she could clearly see that there was a woman's white face moving from the darkness, and the face was still smiling.
"Sister, don't be suspicious, if something really happens, I will get up to help you immediately." As soon as the imp finished speaking, he lay down in the corner and fell asleep again.
Bell sighed, perhaps thinking that he had really misunderstood, and after slapping his mouth and yawning, he also slept in the corner.
But only two seconds later, a corpse fell from the top of the eaves and slammed it down on the stone slab, "Bang! The bell was just startled and opened his eyes.
It can be seen that on the stone slab, there is a bloody female corpse, wearing a suit, climbing on the stone slab, covered in blood, hair black and white, limbs deformed and curled on the board, supporting two bloody hands, looking at the bell with a smile, slowly crawling in her direction.
The bell jumped up in shock, and every time the female corpse crawled forward, a mouthful of black blood would spit out from her mouth, and the blood flowed on the board, emitting white smoke, and looked hot.
The suit worn by the female corpse was the same one that the bell had worn before, and its appearance had been deformed. The female corpse looked at the bell like this, a strange smile appeared on her white face, and she slowly lowered her voice and made a series of very unnatural sounds: "Shen Basket ......"
The three words came out of his mouth, and he continued to move his bloodstained limbs as he crawled forward.
The frightened bell hurriedly turned around and patted the little ghost, shook his shoulder desperately with his hand, and said, "Wake up, the female corpse is here again." ”
The little ghost didn't wake up, but snored louder and louder, and couldn't shake it no matter how much he shook it. The bell hurriedly slapped him on the neck with the back of his hand, and the force was very heavy, but the little ghost who was sleeping on the ground only screamed and continued to sleep on the ground.
Bell watched the little ghost die or refuse to wake up, subconsciously twisted his neck to look at the female corpse, and suddenly found that the female corpse was gone again, and she didn't see her figure left and right, and she didn't know where to hide.
Bell stared at every corner, looking everywhere, but still didn't find the body of the female corpse.
Bell wiped his sweat, and when he turned his head, he looked at the sleepy imp in the corner, and saw that his face was white and his body was wearing a suit. The bell felt a little strange inexplicably, and ran his hand over his face.
This time, I was startled again, because the little ghost who was lying on his side in the corner suddenly disappeared and turned into the body of the female corpse before.
This time, the female corpse suddenly opened her eyes, got up stiffly, and quickly pounced on the bell's body, spitting hot air from her mouth. The bell was already weak, and except for looking at the female corpse in amazement, he had no strength to resist at all.
The female corpse leaned her body again, grabbed her hands on the bell's neck, and roared: "I want your life, I want your life, Shen Basket, you also have today!" ”
The bell was almost out of breath, his tongue was half out, his cheeks were blue and his forehead was white, and he was about to suffocate.
While the two tore at each other, the whole attic suddenly shook violently for a second, and a second later, two white-clothed soldiers jumped down from the top of the eaves, landed firmly on the ground, and rushed forward shoulder to shoulder with spears in hand, and rushed behind the bell.
After seeing the two tearing, the two white-clothed soldiers glared at each other, and then looked at the two, one of them said, "Let go of me, you come over for me!" ”
The bell didn't hear it clearly, and a soldier in white stepped forward and stabbed the head of the spear into the woman's face, piercing a hole in the skull. After the female corpse was shot, she quickly fell to the ground, and her body emitted a cloud of green smoke, and her bones turned into powder and fell to the ground, leaving only a black suit.
As the female corpse let go, the bell could breathe for a few seconds, and after that, the two white-clothed soldiers put their guns on the bell's neck and said in unison, "Come with us, Hades wants to see you now!" ”
After the bell sharply stuck out his tongue and took a few breaths, he raised his head to look at the white-clothed soldier, shook his head and said, "Is there something wrong?" ”
"What did you say you just ran? Can you run? The house is just that big, as for it? ”
The bell turned around and swept all the corners around him, turned his back to the two white-clothed soldiers and said, "Did you just see a little ghost?" ”
"See, he has been arrested, you can also go with us, there is no good end to going against us, I hope you can have self-knowledge." The white-clothed soldier said.
"What? He was arrested by you? But I just saw him in this place. Bell asked, confused, not even believing it at all.
"Don't talk so much nonsense, tell you to go, you'll go!"
The white-clothed soldier looked a little impatient, took out the red rope around his waist, stepped forward and locked the bell's neck, the two of them pulled one end, violently forced, and fled to the ground, and the bell was followed to the outside of the first floor.
After coming downstairs, the wall was already full of rows of white-clothed soldiers, some carrying flags, some riding horses, some holding guns, all kinds of troops lined up in a row, and there were seventy or eighty people as far as the eye could see, all gathered in the walled garden.
They looked neat, silver armor glittering in the sun, black turbans fluttering in the breeze, faces looking fierce, feeling like trained sharpness, and in the middle stood a female beggar, lani scruffy, with a gray face, but she was the only one with the most haughty look, her hands crossed over her chest.
The two white-clothed soldiers pulled the bell in the crowd, pushed it to the female beggar with one hand, and said with their fists: "Hades, people have been caught!" ”
The female beggar stepped forward to look at the bell, looked up and down, and said with a smile: "Isn't this an old acquaintance?" They all know each other, so why tie them up? If people really wanted to do it, you wastes would have already become dead souls. ”
The two white-clothed soldiers quickly understood what the female beggar meant, and when they went up, they untied her, in fact, they had a rope around their necks, but this may be a way for the ghost to hook the soul.
After the bell was released, he touched his neck, shook his head, and squinted: "What are you holding me for?" Listening to the tone of the bell, the two seemed to know each other well, and they knew each other very well.
The beggar stepped forward slowly, unloaded the long sword from her waist, and threw it in the bell's hand, but laughed.
Bell took the sword and asked, "What do you want me for?" The beggar said, "I need your help." The bell said, "Why should I help you?" The beggar smiled again, "Won't you help me?" I'm the Immortal now, and if you help me, I'll give you what you want!" ”
"It's ridiculous, I don't want anything now, I'm upset, unlucky!"
"Hah! You're still the same, let's go, have a drink! ”
"What the hell is going on?"
"You're still in such a hurry! What's the hurry? ”
"If you don't say it, I won't help you!"
The beggar immediately took out a key from her sleeve, and a skeleton was embedded in it, and when she got it to the bell, she shook it and said, "Do you know what this is?" ”
"I know, the skull key, the treasure of the underworld, if it is gone, the entire underworld will be burned, and at that time, the ghost envoy will not be able to hook the soul, people can live a long life, and the entire underworld will cease to exist!"
"Looks like you know very well, huh? In that case, I'm not going to talk nonsense with you, and you don't want to see that happen, right? The beggar said.
The bell took the key in his hand and put it in his mouth. The beggar smiled proudly: "Okay, I'll give you a part of the white-clothed soldiers, you can go and catch those ghosts who took away the keys now, and you don't miss any of them." ”
The beggar said, and with a gesture of her hand back, more than a dozen white-clothed soldiers walked behind the bell and stood up straight. Then the beggar said, "Follow her, and the rest will follow me." ”
With that, the beggar turned around and led her white-clad soldier out of the garden, through the wall, and soon disappeared.
Bell looked back at the white-clothed soldiers behind him and asked, "Do you have anything to eat?" ”
A soldier in white said, "Yes! Immediately he took out the blood-red stone from his baggage and stuffed it into the bell.
The bell took the stone, put it to his mouth, chewed the stone with his teeth, chewed it completely, swallowed it, and said, "Is there any water?" ”
The white-clothed soldier took out another gourd, and the gourd smelled of blood, and after handing it to the bell, the bell drank it in one gulp, not looking at what was inside.
The white-clothed soldier would suddenly say, "My lord! Go now? ”
"Let's go, look everywhere, maybe you'll find it."
Bell and the dozen soldiers all walked out of the courtyard, rushed out of the alley, and came out into the busy street.
Walking on the street, more than a dozen soldiers lined up, closely following the bell, although there were more pedestrians passing by on the street, but those were all living people, not dead people, and they couldn't see the bell at all, and they turned a blind eye to each other.
Until the whole city was circumambulated, and the hidden ghosts were not found, in the evening, the bell was a little hungry, and took the white-clothed soldiers to a mourning hall, and many people in the mourning hall gathered in front of seven or eight mahjong machines to play mahjong.
There are also a few people I don't know, with a white filial piety bag on their heads, holding burning paper money in their hands, and there are several plates of fruit and cooked meat skewers on the spiritual table.
The bell walked over from the spiritual seat with the white-clothed soldier, picked up the fruit bowl on it, and took it down.
The food offered under the incense can be taken by the ghost at will, but if the soul of the deceased does not agree at that time, it is a violation of the law of the underworld, and the ghost will send the soul to hell and fry it in an oil pan.
But there is no problem now, the underworld has already become a pot of porridge, and the ghosts and ghosts of the yang world are scattered everywhere, and they will not be hooked because of such a small thing for the time being.
And the dozen or so white-clothed soldiers behind were also grumbling with hunger, looking at the fruit bowl on it, their saliva was about to flow out.
The bell took the fruit bowl and gave it to the people, and they all began to eat.
One of the white-clothed soldiers, when he ran to the spiritual seat to get the fruit plate, unexpectedly touched the incense in the basin, knocked over under his feet, and the burning incense fell on his shoes, and he couldn't help but roar.
At this time, many people who were playing mahjong in front of the mourning hall looked back one after another, and countless pairs of eyes were locked on the white-clothed soldier.
Everyone had a strange look on their faces, looking at the strangely dressed white-clothed soldiers, they all turned their heads to each other and discussed.
"Who is this man? Why are you dressed so strangely? "Mahjong table aunt said.
"yes, how did he get in?" An old man slapped the chicken in his hand on the table.
"Hey, that young man, could you please move your feet? You can't stand in that place! "A man dressed in filial piety clothes walked over.
The white-clothed soldiers panicked at this time, and the dozen or so white-clothed soldiers around him also turned their heads to look at him, and the one at the front said: "Take off your shoes quickly, you have a fire sticking to your body, and it will be exposed." ”
The white-clothed soldier's heart was beating violently in panic at this time, and the reason why he was so panicked was because ghosts must not be seen, this is the first commandment. If the living are discovered, the living must die.
The white-clothed soldier sat on the ground, dragging the burning black shoes desperately. But he couldn't take it off, and he didn't know what he wanted, and the shoes seemed to have completely covered his feet.
Many of the people around him who were playing mahjong immediately stood up from the stool, turned around and walked towards the white-clothed soldier and kept approaching him, but only a part of them, a small part of them, still turned a blind eye and continued to play their own mahjong.
One person held the dice in his hand, looked back impatiently and said: "Look at you, you haven't seen the world one by one, isn't it just a play, hurry back and play mahjong, Lao Wang, you lost the last hand, ninety yuan, or buy three catties of pork back, don't rely on the account." ”
This didn't seem to have any effect at all, and the people around him were still getting closer to him, and some people even took out their mobile phones and took two photos. The white-clothed soldier spread it all the way to the ground, and the bell looked at his scalp and said, "Take it off quickly, drag your shoes." ”
The white-clothed soldier kicked his legs back and forth on the ground, priing his feet desperately on the ground, wishing to quickly take off the damn shoes, but he couldn't do anything.
Until suddenly a person in the crowd took out a basin of water from behind the mourning hall, rushed up and threw it on the body of the white-clothed soldier. As soon as the fire was extinguished, the white-clothed soldier disappeared with him.
This time, everyone around was a little puzzled, and they rubbed their eyes one after another, and continued to look at the place where the white-clothed soldier disappeared before.
"Hey, did you see that? The white-clothed drama suddenly disappeared, it can't be a ghost, right? ”
"I saw it, I saw it, and it disappeared directly, it's weird!"
Some people who didn't believe it even looked at the board of the house and swept it around, thinking that the white-clothed soldier had already flown into the sky.
The bell on the side suddenly loosened, ran to the back of the spiritual seat to look, inadvertently, there were several people hidden under the table, wearing ghost uniforms, and the bell kicked the table open.
The ghosts under the table were startled at the same time, and looked around left and right, and the first thing they saw was the bell, and each of these ghosts was holding a chicken leg in their hands.
"Ouch, the little life is very moist, I have eaten chicken legs."
The old fox glanced at her, and then said, "I said Woman, what are you doing here, aren't we just eating a chicken leg?" ”
At this time, the white-clothed soldiers outside the mourning hall also realized it, and soon rushed into the mourning hall and besieged the city.
The old fox threw down the chicken leg in his hand and explained in a panic: "We are just passing by, passing by." ”
"You flamboyant old fox, let me ask you, if you have taken a bunch of keys, if yes, take them out now, we will leave immediately, and we will definitely not delay you from eating chicken legs."
At the same time, when the ghosts heard this, they were so frightened that they threw the chicken legs in their hands on the ground, and said, "No, no, we didn't eat chicken legs." ”
"It's okay, I'm just going to give it to you, or I'll show it to you? You can eat as much as you want, but tell me the truth! ”
The white-clothed soldiers around him had the most vicious expressions, and they went up and aimed each spear at the old fox, looking like they were about to eat people.
(To be continued)