Chapter Twenty-Four: Skeletons
After the insects helped them open the mural to the door, they shook their heads and shrank back with a "snort", as if they didn't want to stay with them longer. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The door opened on the mural and blended into the mural, if it weren't for the help of the insects, digging in the direction of Ge Lao Wu, they might have gone out directly from the other side of the mountain.
Ge Lao Wu squatted down, reached under the altar with one hand and knocked on the place where the insect poked its head out just now and said, "Thank you, brother." ”
Zhou Mushu shuddered, "I said Fifth Master, why don't we find two clothes to wrap up and go in?" ”
Ge Lao Wu grabbed a bundle of grass on the ground and stuffed it to him, "Just wrap this, it's done, you're cold not because it's cold behind the door, it's because the rune paper I gave you has worked." ”
"Do you think you're helping me or hurting me?" Zhou Mushu shuddered again, "I feel like I'm going to freeze here." ”
"Stay up, it's good for a while, this is called attacking yin with yin, otherwise do you think your yang energy will not collide with the great fairy?" Ge Lao Wu raised his hand and threw a fire fold behind the swarthy door, and the fire fold suddenly lit up, as if it had been swallowed into darkness, "It's not a little windy inside, let's go." ”
Zhou Mushu took two steps forward tremblingly, and Ge Lao Wu suddenly said, "Apprentice, where is your home?" ”
"I grew up in an earthen alley under the roots of the imperial city." Zhou Mushu looked around, the wind behind the door was indeed not small, the fire fold had to be covered with his hands step by step, the visibility was very low, he suddenly wanted to ask the underworld if it had kept up with the times to introduce such a thing as a flashlight, and suddenly wanted to smoke himself again, if so, he would need to light a fire fold.
Ge Lao Wu didn't notice his inner activities at all, and only said, "I said, you young and strong-blooded people, you wouldn't have saved that worm there, people came to you to repay the favor, why does it seem to know what you're going to do?" ”
Zhou Mushu smiled bitterly, "I still want to ask." ”
"Are you two going to come out of the White Lady or something?" Ge Lao Wu looked around carefully, Zhou Mushu saw that he was still in the mood to joke, he was relieved a lot, and he also joked, "Our Chinese monsters are affectionate and righteous, and the White Lady is not afraid, but she is afraid that she is a vampire." ”
"Vampires?" Ge Lao Wuhuo swept his face, "We ghosts have food that ghosts eat, and drinking blood is what mosquitoes do?" ”
Zhou Mushu hurriedly dodged Mars and said, "No, vampires are monsters that suck human blood in Western legends. ”
"Isn't that a mosquito spirit?" Ge Lao Wu turned around and stepped on the steps, the two of them walked cautiously in the dark just now, Zhou Mushu followed closely behind Ge Lao Wu, but he didn't realize that he had reached the end.
Ge Lao Wu squinted his eyes and climbed two steps up the stone steps, and said to Zhou Mushu, "Give me the fire fold." ”
Zhou Mushu did not doubt him, Ge Lao Wu threw his hands to both sides, and an open flame suddenly floated on both sides, and the open flame stretched all the way down the road they came, reaching the open immortal gate.
Zhou Mushu's eyes were sour, his mouth and nose were full of fumes, and when he finished coughing, he looked around, jumped back suddenly, and moved his feet away.
There was a man kneeling beside him, holding a jade gui, and the red robe was covered with a gray skeleton, and he had just stepped on the man's robe, and the skeleton had been petrified and hardened, and was shocked by his movement.
The hall was strangely large, but not empty, because all around him were all dressed up as the benevolent brother beside him, and they were all skeletons, kneeling in one direction.
Ge Lao Wu stood on the top of the jade step platform in front of him, half a body taller than him, like an emperor who accepted all his ministers to the court.
Zhou Mushu stood in the middle of the gang, he saw some groups of skeletons, and there was only a flash of surprise in his heart, but there was no fear, the skeleton had no nerves, no flesh, and now it was petrified like this, it was estimated that the elbows would fall apart with a single movement, and they would not constitute a threat.
"Don't be cowardly." Ge Lao Wu suddenly waved his hand, "Isn't it a stone man?" ”
"Stone Man?!" Zhou Mushu just wanted to squat down and look at the skeleton shelf, but when he shouted, he finally broke out in a cold sweat, and pointed to the man beside him, "Fifth Master, this is a fucking skeleton!" ”
"What?" Ge Lao Wu jumped down the stone steps, "Isn't this a fucking person?" ”
Ge Lao Wu pointed to the finely carved stone people in the hall, "Xiangtang is used for worship and sacrifice for future generations, and it is the same reason that the stone is used for people and for paper people." ”
"I said Fifth Master, this person is a ghost...... Will it be different when you see it? Zhou Mushu said in a daze.
"I can't tell." Ge Lao Wu squatted down beside him, "I can see things with people in one piece, except for your unlucky master, I can count you, but generally what I can see, your unlucky master can also see." ”
"That means I'm not deep enough." Although Zhou Mushu didn't know the situation, the experience of the past few days had made him not have a long time to be surprised by anything strange, and he reached out to dust off the skull robe, revealing a piece of embroidery with gold thread on a red background, and suddenly secretly shocked in his heart, "I'll go, my status is quite high." ”
Ge Lao Wu's bull's eyes were round, "High status? ”
Zhou Mushu pointed to the piece of clothing, "Is this embroidery familiar?" ”
Ge Lao Wu only knew jewelry and jade, but he was absolutely familiar with the pattern, and nodded and said, "Pan Claw." ”
"Pan cockroaches belong to dragons, and they are not available to ordinary people, and their identity is not good for ministers or princes of the Han Dynasty." Zhou Mushu made a conclusion, and at the same time, a question came out, "They were put in the Yin Division to guard the ancestral hall of an immortal, will it be too aggrieved, unless they ........" ”
"Unless this immortal has not yet cultivated into an immortal, he is also a prince and noble." Ge Lao Wu answered, but shook his head instantly, "It doesn't make sense, you didn't see the mural just now, who hunted birds and fished, how did you look like a prince and noble?" ”
Zhou Mushu snorted, "Is there anything on it?" ”
"Empty." Ge Lao Wu began to touch the cigarette in his pocket again, and scolded a dirty word before he touched it, "It's a jade platform above, I really want to take it off and take it away, but it's a pity, the dead fairy is called a ghost fairy, and the ghost fairy is also a fairy. ”
"Fifth Master!" Zhou Mushu said suddenly, "You say... What kind of thing is the jade gui in his hand, could it also be a refining tool? ”
Ge Lao Wu was blunt, "Do I have to take it out and take a look, this thing is about to become scum." ”
The skeleton shelf couldn't move, and it would scatter as soon as it moved, but in Ge Laowu's eyes, it was a stone pillar, and when Yugui pulled it out an inch, the skeleton shelf shook with it, and Zhou Mushu was shocked to see it.
"Fifth Master, be a little lighter."
"Don't worry, it can't be broken." Ge Lao Wu gritted his teeth and pulled out, let go of his hand again, spat and rubbed it away to continue.
A few stones fell on it, smashed on Zhou Mushu's head, and touched a few, all of which were stones on Gray Lingzi Mountain, Zhou Mushu looked at him twice in a daze and said, "You are ...... How a little ......"
"What's wrong?" Ge Lao Wu didn't notice anything unusual.
Zhou Mushu looked around uneasily, except for the stone that was still falling, there was no other movement, the skeleton buddies were still kneeling, and the hall was also bright.
Turning his eyes behind his back, Zhou Mushu suddenly shouted, "His uncle's!" The door to the hall! ”
Ge Lao Wu staggered two steps, and Yugui finally pulled it out, and before he could play with it twice in his hand, the door they came in had already closed with a "bang".
At the same time, the originally sparse stones above his head began to grow larger, Ge Lao Wu wiped the stone foam from his hair, and suddenly roared, "Lie down, climb up to the high platform!! ”
There were several thunderous sounds of "boom boom" from the heights, Zhou Mushu's chest suddenly tightened, and he hurriedly pushed his leather bag to his chest, and crawled desperately on the ground to the high platform.
Several large deformed stones fell, and the kneeling skeletons were instantly crushed, and one of them, which was round and collided with the previous ones, rushed towards them like a leg.
The two of them climbed up the high platform with a rolling belt, Ge Lao Wu pulled him, and the boulder hit the edge of the steps, instantly shaking down a large patch of gray-black dust, and then stopped quietly after a while.
The hall had become a world of stones, the way to come was completely blocked, and they were being squeezed on the jade platform, a small triangular area, and it was difficult to move around.
Zhou Mushu gasped and touched the package on his chest, "It's over, how do we get out?" ”
"I can't slip out for a while." Ge Lao Wu stretched out his legs and kicked the stone, but he didn't move.
"Aren't you a ghost? You can't go through a wall or something? Zhou Mushu was angry.
"There's something wrong with this Yugui." Ge Lao Wu didn't think he had listened, and muttered, "Hey, I didn't want to take it away, I can't take it out and take a look, you say there is such a stingy immortal?" ”
Trouble comes from the mouth, Zhou Mushu wants to study and study Yugui, Ge Lao Wu pulled it out, this responsibility has to be borne by two people, Zhou Mushu can't scold Ge Lao Wu, he can only scold himself on the side.
"Yo, yes, come on with this!" Ge Lao Wu suddenly threw over a round thing.
Zhou Mushu stretched out his hand, it was a half-broken skull, and he threw it away with some disgust, "What is this?" ”
"You look at a skeleton, I look at a broken stone, so you can help me see if this skull has a missing sphenoid bone?" Ge Lao Wu knocked on Yugui on the way, leaned in and listened to the sound, put Yugui into his bag in disgust, and made a conclusion, "Xiuyu, dead thing." ”
"Then you'll get it quickly." Zhou Mushu picked up the skeleton again, the sphenoid bone grew in the human skull, the location was easy to find, he looked at it carefully, and threw it back, "It's hollowed out, there is no sphenoid bone." ”
"You're right, apprentice, I remember something." Ge Lao Wu suddenly knocked on the jade platform under his buttocks, "It's not good, this place was built by that Taoist priest, right?" ”
Zhou Mushu said, "What do you say? ”
"The yang world is different from the underworld, just like you can see skeletons and what I see is real stone people, there is a saying in this." Ge Lao Wu turned the skeleton twice, "I also heard from people that back then, that Taoist priest had the power to reach the sky, went to the yang world, and dug up the graves of many people to protect the immortal spirits, and the location of the sphenoid bone happened to be the heaviest place for your eyebrows, blood and soul, would he divide the corpses of these people in two?" ”
"You mean that there is an empty shell here, and the sphenoid bones are buried somewhere else with their souls?" Zhou Mushu scratched his head, "What's the picture?" ”
"What did you say you hollowed out a thing?" Ge Lao Wu looked at the stone through the skeleton.
"Stuff something else in?" Zhou Mushu said, he looked at Ge Lao Wu sideways, and suddenly got goosebumps when he thought of this, "Fifth Master, you won't ......"
Ge Lao Wu was looking at the stone in front of the skeleton, and suddenly "Hey." With a sigh, Zhou Mushu didn't know why he looked in the direction of his "hey", the goosebumps on his body fell off, and all that was left was "His uncle's!" ”
The stone was very high, and there was a skeleton crawling on it, a mutilated skeleton to be exact, whose arms and legs had been smashed by stones, and a red official robe that had been shattered into slag, but it was still crippled, and it climbed up tenaciously, poking out half of its head from behind the stone, and was peeking at them cowering in the corner.
Zhou Mushu swallowed his saliva, and the idea that the skeleton could not pose a threat instantly exploded into slag in his brain.