Yang Laodao waved his fan to open the hand that grabbed the side of the ship, and said to us with a smile: Speaking of this thing, the earliest record appeared in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called change of the world will give birth to demons, Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang opened the Ming Dynasty, and invited the Quartet to subdue demons and eliminate demons, and left a book dedicated to introducing the demons in the world, called "The Demon Record"

As he spoke, he took out a few more charms to ignite, and ran to the water on all sides of the boat, and as soon as the fire flashed, he saw that a layer of white flowers was swimming around about ten centimeters from the water surface

Those things look similar to people, but their bodies have been deformed by long-term immersion in water and decay, and their skin is snow-white, some of them have sound limbs, and some of them lack arms and legs, but they still swim freely in the water, just like white strange fish.

But Yang Laodao was not shocked, stared at the things in the water and continued: In the "Demon Record", the demons and demons in the world are divided into three sects and twelve daos, Qianyuan Sect and Kunxu Sect each occupy three daos, and the five aggregate sect has six daos, and this kind of puppet is the lowest corpse demon in the corpse spirit path of the five aggregate sect. The original text in the "Narration of the Demon Record" says: Those who have the five aggregates are also sentient beings; All beings are formed by the harmony of all fate. These puppets are neither human, nor ghost, nor corpse, they are originally wronged corpse skins, and they are dyed into corpse demons by color, receptivity, behavior, and knowledge

Yang Laodao said and took out a small paper bag from his robe, handed it to Xiaoru and said: If you sprinkle this bag of glutinous rice flour on the side of the boat, the puppet will not dare to approach

Glutinous rice flour?

I was stunned for a moment, smiled and said: Master Dao, I used to watch zombie movies in Hong Kong and Taiwan and always say something like glutinous rice noodles, you won't watch too many movies, right?

Hehe, isn't there a saying that art comes from life, you only know that Hong Kong and Taiwan zombie movies are movies, but you don't know that Lin Zhengying visited the Maoshan Sect in my Heavenly Master Dao many times for the material, and most of the things in the movie are fake, but they are not necessarily not real

After Yang Laodao finished speaking, Xiao Ru, who was carefully surrounding the side of the boat and making glutinous rice noodles, also sighed and said: What do you know about short legs? There is an old saying in our Daomen, the lime ground corpse, the donkey's hooves make the corpse, the black dog blood control the corpse, and the glutinous rice flour to drive the corpse, because of the effectiveness, these old methods can be passed down in the Daomen

She pointed at the halfling woman in the water who was staring at us with a smirk, and sighed again, and said, "You only see their terrible appearance, but don't you feel the pity behind them?"

Wretched? What's so pitiful about this thing? I sneered.

Then you are wrong, why are there so many puppets here? I'm afraid that they were either killed in the war or sacrificed and buried, or there was a large-scale plague outbreak in the local area, so these people eventually died tragically together, you see that there are women and children in these puppets, isn't that pitiful enough? Now, although they can imitate their previous behavior and make some simple movements, they are actually just a layer of empty skin at the mercy of Yin Qi, like marionettes who have been transferred around, without emotion, thought, or even consciousness

As she spoke, Xiaoru's eyes were already red, and my third brother and I were also made by her a pang of cramps.

Indeed, he was miserable in life, and he had to be this kind of walking corpse that has been stinking for thousands of years after death, how tragic is it.

In order to resolve the embarrassment, I asked Xiaoru with a smile: Wife, but according to what you said, these puppets are all dead people in ancient times, and they have been so long, why haven't they rotted? You can see how well preserved they are

If you take advantage of me, I can make you one of them

Xiao Ru glanced at me and didn't continue, and at this time, Brother Monkey, who had been sitting at the stern of the boat rowing, couldn't help but join the topic and said: This is the relationship between your local geology. There is a saying in the Taoist code that those who were born on the red sand day, died on the black sand day, and were buried in the flying sand are easy to get up corpses, among which the flying sand land actually refers to the lime geology, and the surrounding stones are very alkaline limestone, so most of the corpses of the people who died here are only rotten, so many dead corpses gather in the cave and the yin qi is getting heavier and heavier, and the three lights are not visible

At this time, Xiaoru had already sprinkled the glutinous rice flour and sat back in place, not to mention, after the glutinous rice flour was sprinkled on the side of the boat, the puppets swimming around immediately began to stay away, and they didn't dare to approach in the direction of our ship

Yang Laodao looked ahead and was preoccupied, and suddenly sighed secretly, and said to himself: I raised Bailong since I was a child, what kind of wishful thinking did he have in his heart, but I didn't have this hole buried in the ground for at least a hundred years in my heart, why was it easily discovered by him? And why did he set the main altar here? Even if he opens the ghost door and releases evil ghosts, what good will it do him?

After Yang Laodao finished speaking, none of us talked to each other, because I am afraid that only Zuo Bailong knows these mysteries in his own heart.

The boat continued to move forward, estimating that it would not be long before it reached the shore, and I began to be distracted as I stared at the corpses swimming in the water, the future of which was unknown, and the uncertainty of life and death.

When she was staring into the water, she saw that the half-female corpse that had been floating on the water and following the boat suddenly turned over, shook her long hair and got into the water, and her body shook, and by the light of the fire, she saw that two more puppet corpses were revealed under her

But the two puppets are a little different, each with a rope tied around their waists and dragged behind them, and they swim very slowly.

Out of curiosity, I asked Yang Laodao for a piece of igniting yellow rune paper, and looked behind the two ropes in the light on the water, and immediately gasped, so frightened that I almost fell directly into the water

Sea! Brother Hai?

I screamed suddenly, Yang Laodao, Xiaoru and others heard the sound and hurriedly looked over to the water, and saw that under the water, at the end of the rope behind the two puppets, there was a struggling figure tied to it, and it turned out to be Li Shuhai, who was covered in bandages

Brother Hai! How did you end up here?

The third brother also exclaimed, but Li Shuhai, who was sunk in the water, couldn't answer at all, just stared in the water and struggled silently, we took a closer look, his two legs were tied with a rope and were being dragged forward by two puppets, and he also had a rope tied around his waist, and a stone fell under the rope, so he couldn't float to the surface.

Seeing that his face was flushed, obviously about to suffocate, the third brother and I were panicked when we saw it, and we wanted to jump into the water to save people.

But Yang Laodao stopped us in time and said in a panic: Don't be impulsive, those puppets on the boat won't hurt you, and they can bite you in a few bites!

As he spoke, Yang Laodao snatched the oar from Brother Monkey's hand, aimed at a puppet in the water and poked it down

Although the puppet didn't know the pain, it was stabbed in the shoulder by Yang Laodao, and its body still sank into the water by inertia

Yang Laodao saw the opportunity to pick up the rope with the oar, and roared: Hurry! Drag people up!

The third brother and I hurriedly went to grab the rope, but as soon as we leaned into the water, I saw that the half-naked woman who had been following the boat before had quietly swam from the front of the boat and bit the third brother's neck

Third brother! Get out of the way!

Although I found out, but the third brother was so engrossed in trying to save Brother Hai that I didn't notice it at all, seeing that it was about to bite the third brother with its mouth open, I couldn't care about anything else, so I quickly reached out and grabbed the third brother's collar and pulled it back, and the third brother happened to pull Brother Hai too, and with a bang, the two of them sat on the boat together

And when I dragged the third brother, my body lost balance, and my body shook but plunged into the water

Legs short

The moment I fell into the water, I saw Xiaoru anxiously trying to jump into the water through the shaking water, I shouted at her in the water not to come down, but a mouth was filled with a few mouthfuls of water, and she couldn't make a sound at all, but fortunately, Brother Monkey and Yang Laodao stopped her in time, and I was relieved

As soon as I calmed down, I immediately felt something grab one of my legs, as if dragging me down, and I looked down to see that it was the half-cut woman, with waist-length hair floating in the water, and a strange smile on her snow-white face

I struggled desperately to swim upstream, but I still couldn't stop my body from sinking, and I looked around by the light of the sparkling fires on the ship, and the snow-white faces were already facing me, and dozens of puppets were gathering towards me, and I was completely powerless

The intense struggle and the fear in my heart made me completely lose my coolness, and after choking on a few mouthfuls of water, I felt that my head was heavy, and I began to have symptoms of suffocation, my movements became slower and slower, and I knew very well in my heart that this time, I am afraid that I am really dying

Seeing the half-cut woman grabbing my legs and waist and gradually crawling in front of me, I was no longer even able to resist

But when she opened her mouth to bite my face, I don't know if it was real or hallucination, and vaguely, I saw a red flower slowly blooming behind the long-haired woman, round and beautiful, as bright as blood

On closer inspection, it was not a flower, but a blooming red umbrella

The moment the red umbrella opened, a strong air flow suddenly rolled up under the water, rolling the half-body woman who was about to bite me aside, the woman's body was shaken away by the current, and the figure of a little girl in red was immediately revealed behind her, with upright and childish features, and she was carrying the red umbrella on her shoulder and wiping her nose and smiling at me

Without you there would be no me, you gave me a life, and now I will give it back to you

As the girl spoke, she shook the red umbrella again, and the current swirled, and my body began to float upward, and when I was about to be swept to the surface of the water, I saw a smaller figure break through the water and lean into the water, stretching out its arms and grabbing me anxiously