Chapter 10: The Corpse Gate (3)
My grandmother didn't say much about my reaction, just touched my head silently, sighed, and shook my hand and went home. Read the full text of the latest chapter
When she returned home, her grandmother sealed the bottle with black ink mixed with some cinnabar, and put a few date pits in her pocket, and began to draw charms.
Unlike in the past, when my grandmother taught me to draw symbols, I used yellow paper, this time my grandmother used blue paper.
I stood quietly beside my grandmother and watched carefully what she was going to do next.
Grandma first blew into the blue rune paper, and while holding a brush with her right hand and dipping it in cinnabar to draw the rune, she gently recited the mantra in her mouth.
Grandma's left hand was not idle when she drew the talisman, but the tips of the four fingers of her left hand were bent, and only the second finger was stretched out and the fingertips were pointing upward.
Grandma drew more than a dozen charms in one go, without any pause in between.
After drawing the talisman, the grandmother put the tip of the pen facing upwards and the tip of the pen pointing downwards, focusing on the tip of the pen with all her energy, and hitting the talisman paper three times with the tip of the pen.
After I was done, my grandmother told me that the hand she had pinched with her left hand when she had just drawn the talisman was the best of the day.
The hand decisions often used when drawing talismans include gestures such as the Sun Monarch Formula, the Moon Monarch Formula, and the Heavenly Gang Technique. The purpose of using the mouth of the moon monarch is to take the true qi of the sun and the moon yin and yang, induce qi into the talisman, and use the gods to help drive away evil spirits and subdue ghosts, and increase the spirituality of the talisman. The use of the Heavenly Gang is also to use this fingering method to command the ghosts and gods, and to use the Heavenly Gang to take the Gang Qi into the talisman when drawing the talisman.
After listening carefully to my grandmother's explanation, I followed my grandmother's instructions, dried the charm she had drawn in the sun, and squatted beside the charm to watch the charm she had drawn.
I had learned this cinnabar spell drawn by my grandmother before, but I didn't expect that there would be so much attention to when drawing the spell. It turns out that what I learned before was just drawing a scoop based on a gourd.
I don't have the slightest doubt that I am a yin person now, and I also know that my yin and cold physique are very easy to attract ghosts to covet, so when will I have the ability to protect myself? I can't always let my grandmother protect me, right?
"Xiao Ran, you still have a lot to learn, take your time, don't be in a hurry. My little Ran is smart and learns quickly. Seeing me squatting in front of the charm and dumbfounded, my grandmother also came over and squatted down, took my hand and comforted me.
"Hmm. Grandma, I will study hard, protect myself, protect grandma. Grandma's comfort made my little feelings disappear, and I nodded heavily as I looked at my grandmother.
When I went back to the house, I continued to memorize the contents of the bamboo slips that I didn't understand at all, and I wanted to do what my grandmother told me to do in the shortest possible time. [To read the latest chapters of this book, please search]
In the evening, after dinner early, my grandmother took me out.
I'm about to catch zombies, and I'm a little excited, but more nervous.
During the day, the weather is clear, but at night there is no moon, and it is dark everywhere.
In the past, before the ghost hit the wall, I couldn't see anything in such a dark environment, but now in this dark environment, although I can't see the surrounding environment clearly, I can also see a rough idea.
I know that this is the reason why the seal that my grandmother put in my body is gradually fading, and when the seal is gone, I guess I will be able to see my surroundings more clearly in such a dark environment.
My yin and cold constitution is delicious for ghosts, and blood is even more delicious for zombies. However, my grandmother didn't let me be a bait this time, but only told me to follow her closely and stay away.
Grandma didn't let me be the bait, I knew that my grandma was afraid that I was in danger, and it made me feel that this zombie was a very scary existence.
My grandmother took me around the village, holding a delicate palm-sized compass in her palm, the hands of which were still and motionless.
The entire small village of Purple Mountain, because of what grandma said during the day, made the villagers close their doors early at night to rest, and there was no light, which was weird and quiet.
I tugged at the corner of my grandmother's clothes tightly, not leaving my grandmother's side, and Zhang Huang's eyes couldn't help but look around, lest the zombie that my grandmother and I were looking for suddenly appear.
Suddenly, the compass pointer in Grandma's hand jumped a few times and pointed to the east. Grandma walked briskly in the direction the compass pointed.
It seems that grandma found a zombie in the direction of the compass pointer, and I trotted closely to my grandma with my little short legs, and I couldn't help but start trembling with my hands.
As soon as she walked some distance to the east, Grandma turned back and turned to the south.
To the south, I remember that there were a few houses that also had no walls, only fenced yards, so in this case, the zombies were looking for an easy place to drink blood, right?
This time, my grandmother and I headed straight to the south, and we didn't change direction in between.
When I finally arrived at my destination, I saw a zombie holding a chicken in its mouth and biting the throat of the chicken, ready to suck blood.
My grandmother and I arrived, and the footsteps made the zombie turn in the direction of me and my grandmother.
The zombie, with a blue face and two fangs exposed, a mouth stained with chicken feathers and chicken blood, two black pupils more than doubled, squeezed the whites of the eyes into the corners of the eyes, and the eye sockets were almost all jet black, just staring at me and my grandmother like that.
When I saw the zombie's appearance, my hairs stood on end, and I hid behind my grandmother to peek at the zombie.
As soon as I ducked behind my grandmother, the zombie started to move, threw the chicken in his hand, and jumped in the direction of me and my grandmother.
Although the zombie looks a little stiff on its limbs, it can jump far away with that jump, and it jumps in front of grandma in a few clicks, and stretches out his hands to grab grandma.
I saw the zombie jumping up, and then I saw that the fingernails of the zombie's outstretched hand were black and sharp, and the frightened body was stiff and shaking.
But at this time, grandma also began to move. Extremely fast, he took out the charm from his pocket, accurately attached it to the forehead, upper body and back of the oncoming zombie, and poured the ink mixed with cinnabar prepared during the day and drew a circle around the zombie to surround the zombie.
Grandma's charm was attached to the zombie, and the zombie was immediately frozen, standing still with her arms outstretched.
But it was my grandmother who stuck a charm on the zombie and fixed the zombie and began to draw circles around the zombie, and I directly became face-to-face with the zombie.
Face to face with the zombie at close range, his outstretched arms almost reached the top of my head, looking at the zombie's eyes were almost all jet black, his bruised face and the fangs and blood stains at his mouth, I directly squatted on the ground with weak legs, and crawled away from the zombie.
After the grandmother fixed the zombie and drew a circle around the zombie, she did not pause, but took out a few yellow charms from her pocket. The spell was tossed at the zombie and ignited, and my grandmother retreated to my side, her fingers flying and she began to pinch it.
I recognized the charm, which my grandmother used when she was crying at night, and it was very powerful.
The spell burned incessantly, igniting the zombie's body, and the zombie that was fixed began to wail, the voice was so sharp and piercing that I trembled even more when I heard it, and hugged my grandmother's leg and didn't let go.
As the fire grew bigger and bigger, the zombie who was destined to become a burning man actually began to move, trying to rush out of the circle drawn by grandma, but as soon as he reached the line drawn by grandma, he was blocked from his body and couldn't come out, as if there was a transparent glass cover blocking the way of the zombie.
The zombies began to jump wildly in the circle, and the grandmother only concentrated on pinching the burning spell of the decisive control zhì without extinguishing it.
In the dark night, the shrill and piercing voice of the zombie echoed in the small village of Purple Mountain, which sounded particularly numb.
I opened my eyes wide in horror at the besieged zombie, lest he would suddenly jump out and pounce on me and my grandmother.
For me now, I can't get up from the ground with weak legs, and if a zombie suddenly jumps out of that circle, I don't even have the strength to run.
I silently thought to hurry up and let the flame burn the zombies, I don't want the zombies to jump out of the circle that my grandmother drawn.
But the god didn't fulfill people's wishes, and after jumping around wildly for a while, the zombie roared violently, and actually escaped from the circle drawn by grandma with its feet, and pounced in the direction of grandma and me.
I hugged my grandmother's leg even tighter, shaking all over.
The zombie pounced, and the grandmother stopped pinching her fingers, took out the date pit from her pocket, and threw it at the zombie.
Such a fierce and terrible zombie grandmother actually threw him with a jujube core at this time, which made me instantly feel that I would not be able to escape tonight, and I would definitely be bitten by the zombie and suck the blood in my body.
My heart beat faster, and I looked at the zombies that pounced, and my eyes widened in fear.
But it was the grandmother who seemed to casually throw the jujube pits in her hand, and those jujube pits sank into the body of the zombie, and the zombie was frozen again.
My life seemed to be saved, and I patted my chest with palpitations as I looked at the zombie that was fixed by my grandmother again.
The raging flames burned more and more, and finally burned the zombie's body to the ground.
Seeing the zombies being wiped out, I let out a sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat from my forehead, and got up from the ground. My legs are still limp, but they're much better, and at least I can walk.
My grandmother took me by the hand and told me on the way that the only way to destroy the zombie was to burn it with fire.
The blue charm that grandma used at the beginning was called the ghost suppression charm, which could fix the movements of zombies.
The ink used mixed with cinnabar can make zombies fearful, and once the zombies pass guò, the lines drawn by the ink can cause a lot of damage to the zombies' bodies.
Jujube cores are a powerful weapon against zombies, and seven nails into the zombie's back at a time can make zombies no longer move half an inch.
The zombie was unwilling to be burned and disappeared and finally jumped out of the circle drawn by the ink, its strength has been greatly reduced, and it has no ability to resist when it is fixed by the jujube.
I listened attentively to what my grandmother told me about this knowledge and kept it in mind, the shock of the zombie just now was too great, for the sake of my life, I also had to follow my grandmother to learn skills.
Pushing open the gate of the yard, my grandmother and I had not yet stepped into the yard, and my grandmother paused abruptly and took out the compass from her pocket.
On the compass, the pointer turned wildly a few times again, and then the pointer stopped in the west.