Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Last Step
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Wang Hu took out the vajra axe in his hand and faced his clothes and shoes. Gritting his teeth and tendoning. The mouth is raised to the door of the head, and the eyebrows are drawn to the chin. That move was extremely exaggerated, his fists clenched tightly, and his legs were in a line. Majestic, high-spirited. Pull your face and curl your lips. One step at a time, one leap at a time. Straight to the ground like a python and squirrel.
Zhang Qi was tied to a wooden chair, his body completely immobile, and his limbs could barely move. He looked at Wang Hu who was walking towards him, and couldn't help but yell, "Wait a minute! This official treats you well, how can you take revenge! ”
Wang Hu's moist eyes shot a sharp light at him, and he didn't speak, but kept approaching him until he walked in front of him and put the axe in his hand on his neck.
Zhang Qi hurriedly shrank his head, urinated his pants, and wet his black hair. Panicked: "No! Wait a minute, there are still a lot of gestures on the official, if you want it, the official will give it to you. ”
Wang Hu smiled: "Ha! It's really confused, aren't these things still mine when you die? Go to the west. ”
Zhang Qi said: "Ah, wait a minute, the official still has a vault, which contains countless treasures, you just need to let the official go......"
Before Zhang Qi finished speaking, the head had already rolled to the ground. The chairs and walls were splattered with patches of red blood. As soon as Wang Hu put away the axe in his hand, he walked out with a sneer.
At this moment, Wang Hu's chest was pierced by a steel arrow shot from the window, and he covered the blood flowing from his body with his hand and screamed. And just outside the door, a squeamish figure rushed in, flashing back and forth in the air, and this person was the bell.
Wang Hu slowly turned his head to look behind him, and said painfully: "What...... How are you? ”
After the bell landed, he looked up and sneered: "Hmph! Do you think this girl is so easy to deal with? you. ”
Wang Hu was dying, his eyes widened, his legs were weak, and his torso fell. "Plop!" He fell to the floor with his back to the ground, hot blood still flowing from his mouth.
The bell stepped forward slowly, stretched out a foot and stepped on his cheek, looked down at him with a cold expression, and said with a dark smile: "Girl, I will give you a lot of paper money!" You can hit the road with confidence. ”
Wang Hu swallowed the last breath in his throat, and replied in a trembling whisper: "Uh~~~ The great revenge has been avenged, and there is no regret in death!" ”
When the bell heard this, he hurriedly turned his head to look back, only to find that his torso was reclining on the wooden chair, and his head had been split in half.
Bell looked startled, turned around and ran, leaned next to him and shouted loudly, "Master Zhang!" These three words, but Zhang Qi's body was already stiff like a piece of ice.
Wang Hu reached out tiredly and wiped the blood on his lips, looked at the bell not far away, smiled slightly and whispered: "Hey! Little girl, you have already been killed by me, and you are still a step too late! ”
Bell stood up suddenly, frowned, and said, "No, he is innocent of death, and I had to save him as a last resort." Now that he's dead, there's no need for me to follow him. ”
Wang Hu lay on the ground and said with a dying breath: "Ahem...... It's not too late for you to understand, go find the person you should follow, goodbye, there will be no time later! As soon as Wang Hu finished speaking, he fell to the ground and didn't wake up.
The bell looked back at him, and found that it had suddenly turned into a ball of blood, and only a tiger skin remained on it, which looked pale yellow and yellowish, but its color really looked like a human skin.
The bell dismantled the tiger skin in half, draped it over his body, and walked out of the room with a cold smile.
But as soon as the bell walked out of the door, an old man in white stood in front of her, smiled slightly, and said, "Girl, do you want to be prosperous and rich?" Want a high-ranking official? Old decay can satisfy you unconditionally. ”
The bell saw that its body was pale, mysterious and mysterious, and its whereabouts were like ghost steps speeding and faintly flashing. Curious, he asked with a sideways face, "Who are you?" ”
The old man smiled and said: "When you are in the sky, you are an immortal, and when you are on the earth, you are a saint." In the trees are the earth people, and in the water are the fish people! ”
Bell secretly laughed back: "That girl is a demon?" ”
The old man in white said: "Exactly! If you covet glory and riches, then you are a good person. If you seek to be violent and predatory, then the old man is a bad man. ”
"I don't need anything, I just want to find the lover of my dreams, and the person who fell in love at first sight." ”
The old man said, "This is easy to do, as long as you find nine hundred and ninety-nine boys and girls for the old man, then I will send him to you immediately." ”
Bell said, "Do you know who he is?" The old man replied: "The thin skin and tender flesh look white-faced, the tall is not tall but a young man, timid as a mouse like a swarm of ants, lazy and lazy like waste wood." ”
The bell was very unhappy when he heard this, and he curled his lips and eyebrows, glared angrily, and bared his teeth: "You are not allowed to talk nonsense!" The old man said again: "The old man knows astronomy and geography!" The wishes of the world are all in my heart! As long as you promise me this, I will meet any request you have. ”
"Really?" Bell asked.
The old man said: "A gentleman has no jokes, he will do what he says, and he will never break his word!" ”
Bell smiled smugly when she heard this, but when the image of countless babies buried in the sea of blood flashed in her mind, her expression immediately became serious again, she suddenly shook her head, and refused: "No, no, I can't meet your request." ”
The old man in white didn't speak, just stood in place, his legs didn't move, and his body kept moving back, as if he was stepping on skateboard shoes under his feet, "Huh! "Suddenly he was gone.
"No! I can't do that. The bell repeated, and looked up. At this moment, she was surprised to find that the old man was no longer in front of her.
At this moment, the moon is rising, and the stars are high. The ground is quiet and silent. The dazzling moonlight shone on the bell's cheeks, and the little jewel-like stars seemed to smile at her.
The bell stood motionless in front of the door of his house, like a telephone pole that had been flashed to his waist. I don't know what was going on in her head, but she didn't feel tired after staying where she was for hours.
At this time, the bell suddenly raised his head, his eyes stared directly at the dense jungle in front of him, and muttered to himself: "No! I must go. ”
After she said this, she closed the door, glared at her legs, shook her hair, and snorted her nose. Inexplicably, he turned around and rushed into the green grass in front of him without looking back.
This way, she trekked through mountains and rivers, and it was difficult to move an inch. Tired and gritting his teeth, he insisted on the way forward, and never stopped. Maybe she wanted to stop, maybe she didn't want to stop. A small piece of my brain, as if I didn't know what I was doing.
Soon after, she was in the town where she had been, and a terrible scene suddenly appeared. From her left and right, up and down, she could clearly observe everywhere that every stone wall in the streets and alleys was plastered with notices of her arrest, and there were also her portraits on the notices. Although the painting does not look like herself, her fiery eyes can recognize the woman in the painting at a glance.
The bell flew all the way to the wall, relying on its agile and flexible small body, easily jumped over the roof of each layer of the cottage, coming and going without a trace, and the jingling bells were full of films. It's like a moving ink painting.
The three or five ghosts who were patrolling the street faintly heard the sound of bells coming from nearby, and subconsciously raised their heads and glanced left and right upwards.
One of them stepped forward and pointed to the blinking figure above the eaves, and couldn't help but shout, "Yes...... It's her, the thief, let's go get her. ”
When the rest of the people heard this, they all rushed forward one by one, climbing up one after the other.
Bell is afraid of startling the snake, and wants to quickly get rid of all the people in front of him. He jumped to the ground. Look at her fluttering figure, golden string bells. Colorful dresses, alluring appearance. It's simply intoxicating.
Before the ghosts who came up to them started fighting, the corners of their eyes were white, their mouths were foaming, their nosebleeds were bleeding, their legs were loose, and their faces were red and they fell to the ground. After one person fell to the ground, he was still smiling and lewd: "Beauty, hehe, come and miss you." ”
When the bell saw this, it was as if a layer of ice had been smeared on his face, and his whole body was ossified. She smirked and jumped onto the eaves again.
When the bell left, she didn't forget to look back at the expressions on each of their faces, and such a powerful vanity once again summoned up the courage of the stinky beauty in her heart.
But what she couldn't figure out was why she was a wanted criminal, and she thought about it. He slipped to a horn and tore out a wanted notice to take a closer look. And on that blank piece of paper was not only her name, but also the name of her sister.
But Bell wasn't thinking about it at the moment, she didn't care what she would be like, and she didn't care what the future would be, she only cared about what the old man in white said to her.
As soon as this sentence is mentioned in her heart, it can make her heart very happy.
After a while, the bell broke into a house with no extravagant furniture, let alone ornate decorations, and the family looked very poor, with two bowls of wild vegetable soup in front of the stove.
There was a small room inside, and perhaps a child rushed out of the door when he heard the sound of a bell. The child was dressed in a straw coat, wearing tattered shoes, looking like he was about seven or eight, and when he saw the back of the bell, he smiled and said, "Mom, you're back." ”
After hearing the bell, he suddenly couldn't understand it, turned around in a daze, opened his legs, looked at the little boy and asked curiously, "You kid, whose mother are you called?" ”
The little boy said, "If you weren't my mother, why would you come to my house?" ”
Bell laughed and said, "Hey, you silly boy, don't you even remember what your mother looks like?" ”
The little boy touched the back of his head and said with a hippie smile: "Of course I remember, but you look like my mother." ”
The bell looked left and right, and hurriedly said, "Are you alone at home?" ”
The boy said, "Yes, yes, everyone in the family has gone out to pick wild vegetables, and I am the only one left at home." ”
Bell smiled secretly: "Then can I take you to them?" ”
The little boy jumped up happily, running left and right, jumping up and down, happily clapping his hands and saying, "Okay! Okay! Let's go find Mom. ”
The bell stepped forward and stretched out a wrist, lowered his head, leaned over, and said with a wicked smile: "Sister, I'm going to take you there, it must be halfway up the mountain." ”
The little boy stopped moving, shrank back, retreated to the wall, and replied with a sad emotion: "No! I can't go, I've heard a lot about the wolf coming since I was a kid. ”
After hearing the bell, he couldn't stop laughing, and said with a smile: "That story is to tell us to believe in all the kind people around us, and my sister is the protagonist of the story." ”
When the little boy heard this, he laughed again. He pounced on him, drank twice, and said, "We will definitely find them." ”
Bells laughed, and led the boy to the dock outside the town, under a large tree, surrounded by jungle and wild flowers.
The boy looked up and asked, "Where's Mom?" ”
The bell pointed to the big tree in front of him and laughed, "Your mother is in that tree!" ”
As soon as the voice fell, a trace of an old man in white suddenly flashed in the gap in the bark, like a white robe blown by a gust of wind, with no head or tail.
The boy jumped on the spot and said, "You lie, my mother is not in the tree." ”
The old man in white was suspended in the air, stretched out his two palms, stuck to the little boy's vest, grabbed his entire body, and swallowed it in one gulp.
After the old man in white floated to the ground frivolously, he looked at the bell in front of him and said, "Very good!" Now there are nine hundred and ninety-eight boys and girls left, and I will try to bring as many as I can, and the old man is hungry. ”
The bell nodded and said, "I'll do my best, but don't break your promise!" ”
The old man said: "A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase." Go in your direction, and the old decay will be here day and night until you bring all the blood with you. ”
The bell said: "Don't worry, I will definitely bring you all the old things." ”
After the old man in white finished speaking, he turned into a leaf, which was blown up by a gust of wind and stuck to the branch.
After that, the bell went back to the town, breaking in from house to house, fooling one child after another. Brought them all to the dock. At first, the bell carried two or three at a time, but when she got to the back, she felt that the speed was too slow to flicker, and she didn't even bother to flicker, so she broke into the house, assassinated his parents, and snatched the children directly.
As time passed, day after day, people died every day in the town. There are fewer and fewer people.
After about half a month, the bell brought more than a dozen children each time, sometimes dozens of them, two or three times a day, and never thanked him at night, lying in the grass nest when he was sleepy, and continued to work after getting up.
Soon, she had gathered all nine hundred and ninety-nine boys and girls. When she brought the last boy under the tree, the tree suddenly stopped moving, as if it were dead.
Bell thought at first that the old man was just not there, but she waited on the dock for a whole afternoon, and still couldn't see the trace of the old man in white flashing through the cracks in the bark.
Not believing that he had been deceived, Bell sat quietly alone on the dock, waiting for one sunrise after another. But as the days passed, the old man in white never appeared in front of her.
Finally, one day, she completely lost her confidence, angrily cut down the big tree, and returned to the town alone.
Bell went back to his home and ran to the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep. Thinking about the demon tree that he had cut down during the day, he suddenly ran under the bed and returned to the dock alone.
But when she came to the dock, she was surprised to find that the huge tree that had been cut during the day suddenly opened up again, and it was taller than before.
Bell ran to the tree, kicked it angrily, and yelled, "You old thing! Come out for me, you dare to deceive this girl. ”
But there was no movement of the big tree, and there was still a quiet area around it, not a trace of wind and grass, only a few crows croaking in the forest.
Bell sighed, sat down on the grass, looked up at the countless little stars in the sky, and felt that his heart was like those stars, like scattered sand.
At this moment, the huge plane tree suddenly cracked. The whole tree was divided into two halves, and it was not the old man in white who appeared in the middle of the stem, nor was it a clump of blood. Rather, it is a black wooden coffin, towering in the center.
When the bell looked back, the whole person was immediately refreshed. His eyes were fixed on the black coffin in front of him, and he couldn't help but take a step forward.
In an instant, an old man's voice suddenly came from the coffin, not like crying, not like laughing, not like coughing, not like panting. The sound was very strange, and it made people feel numb after listening to it, and from time to time it would emit a string, but sometimes it was quiet.
Bell's face suddenly became angry, and he kicked the coffin lid head-on, and scolded loudly: "You old thing, don't pretend to be a ghost for me, I'm not afraid of you, you have the ability to come out, see how I clean you up." ”
The sound suddenly stopped, and the bell felt incredible, so he went up and kicked it again. The lid of the coffin was very hard, as if it had a layer of stone slab inside, indestructible, unbreakable, not even a trace of echo.
Bell suddenly felt a little scared at this time, and subconsciously asked: "Old thing!" Don't play tricks on me, get me out. ”
There was still no response from anyone in front of him, and in a fit of rage, the bell kicked the coffin lid again. But this time, the lid of the coffin suddenly fell down.
The bell shuddered and looked down at what was inside the coffin. But the night was too dark, let alone inside the coffin, and even the green grass in front of me couldn't see clearly.
Bell was startled, and suddenly turned around and tried to escape. But the moment she turned around, the voice of the old man in white came from behind her. However, this time the voice was obviously much weirder than before, and I only heard a faint sentence emanating from the coffin: "Girl...... Girl! Don't go, don't go, the old man is sleeping. ”
When the bell heard this, her legs went limp, and the cold sweat flowing on her forehead slowly moved her neck, squinting at the situation behind her, but she didn't see any unusual behavior in her afterglow.
The bell was stunned for a moment, then turned around and ran away, running away about a dozen meters away, and the old man in white shouted to him under the tree: "Girl, don't you want to fulfill your wish?" Come back! Decay will help you. ”
When the bell heard this, he stopped. She vaguely looked at the black coffin in the distance, turned around and immediately ran over.
Coming to the coffin, Bell asked, "Can you really help me?" Then why didn't you talk the other day? ”
The old man in the coffin replied, "You take two steps forward, and the old man will help you fulfill your wish." ”
After hearing this, although he was a little reluctant in his heart, he still took two steps forward and came to a position less than three meters away from the coffin.
The old man in the coffin spoke again: "Girl! You're getting closer, you're still a little farther away, you're taking a step forward, this step is a little bigger. ”
Bell couldn't help but ask, "Why?" Can't you come out? ”
The old man did not speak, and the whole jungle was suddenly silent, and the coffin was stacked motionless next to the two broken trees.
Seeing that no one responded, the bell thought for a long time before he decided to take a step, but this time the bell seemed to be on guard, and his body posture had been completely opened, and if there was an accident, he would turn around and run.
But when she took that step, the old man spoke again, and although she could not see the old man's face or torso, she could only hear the faint voice from the coffin, but the voice seemed to echo in her mind, and made her a little delirious.
The old man said, "Girl, you have already taken three steps, why don't you take one more step?" Come on, go all the way to the coffin, and look at the old man and take a good look at your charming little face. ”
The bell finally got angry at this moment, frowned and shouted: "You old man come out quickly, if you don't come out, I will kill you." ”
There was a burst of laughter from the coffin, "Haha! Let's take a step forward. ”
At this time, the moonlight came to life again, and the light shone straight on the jungle. The bell slowly saw the situation of the coffin in front of him by the moonlight.
When the bell took a closer look, he suddenly found that there was no one in the coffin, only a stinking shroud hanging inside, and not even a human head and skull were found on it.
But despite this, the old man's voice kept coming from the coffin, saying, "Girl, the last step must be the last step." ”
Bell exclaimed, "Where the hell are you hiding?" How I can't see you. ”
The old man said, "Of course you can't see me, but if you take a step forward, you will definitely be able to see me." ”
Bell really couldn't think of any other way, so he had to endure and continue to take another step. At this step, a pair of hands suddenly appeared in the coffin and grabbed her arm tightly.
The bell panicked and screamed. She tried to get rid of it, but the force in front of her was so great that it was really hard to shake it off. A few seconds later, the bell's entire body was pulled into the coffin.
The coffin suddenly fell to the ground, and the lid of the coffin was blown up by a strange wind, and the whole coffin was firmly covered on it.
The coffin kept moving, and the screams of bells kept coming from inside!
(To be continued)