Chapter Twenty-Three: Dust to Dust, Dust to Dust
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The hallucinations are gone. The riverbed is still dry, the ring bridge is still standing, and the banks are still barren and grassy.
Xiao Wenlu closed his eyes and let out a long sigh.
Sure enough, it was "driving a stake".
He was unfortunate to be right. He had long heard from Master about the evil legend of "driving raw piles": it is rumored that some construction projects must be difficult and cannot be completed because they have damaged the local feng shui and angered the evil spirits that hovern here. Master Lu Ban was the first to propose this evil and terrifying method of "driving raw piles", which is to bury a boy alive on the construction site to bless the smooth progress of the construction. And this resentful and murderous evil spirit is actually the deceased who died innocently twenty years ago in order to successfully build the bridge ring!
Although his eyes were closed, the tragic image of the little boy's death was still vivid, and the cries of pain and angry curses still echoed in his ears. Xiao Wenlu suddenly understood why the city's climate had changed drastically twenty years ago, why the originally turbulent river had gradually dried up, and why the evil spirits had slaughtered all those involved in the bridge indiscriminately. His purpose is to completely destroy this bridge of blood and tears that has become the place where he is buried!
The scene that everyone saw just now was an evil spirit telling about its tragic past. What will he do next?
With a "plop", a worker suddenly fell to the ground, and mud kept pouring out of the corners of his eyes and mouth. He twitched a few times on the ground and didn't move.
The evil spirit is giving the answer with practical actions, and that is: revenge! Perhaps he had other purposes besides revenge, and the more people who died here, the more likely it was that the bridge would be demolished, the more chances he would have seen the light of day, and the more likely his grievances would be revealed!
Without waiting for the next worker to become an innocent victim, Xiao asked for directions and Xiao Lili did not hesitate to make a move. For so many years, they have always believed in the creed that no matter what the cause of evil spirits harms people, no matter how much grievance they have, no matter how extenuating circumstances, they cannot harm innocent people!
Xiao Wenlu raised his right hand high, and his palm became transparent. He used the "Spirit Search Technique" again, and the white light waves spread out in circles, searching for the whereabouts of the evil spirits. Xiao Lili squatted down and grabbed a handful of sand from the riverbed. His palms turned red, and his palms were steaming. He stood up and jerked the sand in his hand into the sky, and the red sand scattered like fire in the wind and fell on every worker standing on the riverbed.
Everywhere the red sand passed, all the workers were safe and sound, and no one died at the hands of evil spirits.
"There it is!" Xiao Wenlu shouted and threw himself into the depths of the riverbed, followed by Xiao Lili.
In the half-human-tall barren grass, a thin and short black shadow slowly appeared. Xiao Wenlu and Xiao Lili struck left and right, pinched the flower finger with his right hand, and went straight to the evil spirit!
Just as the two of them were about to hit the shadow, the target disappeared steeply, replaced by a concrete pillar! Xiao Wenlu and his son couldn't stop it, and hit the cement pillar directly, and as soon as his fingers touched the cement pillar, the latter disappeared suddenly.
Xiao Wenlu and Xiao Lili hurriedly stopped their hands and fixed their bodies so as not to hit each other. It was the first time they had been teased so embarrassed by an evil spirit, and both of them were shocked and anxious.
Before the two of them could react, a cold children's voice suddenly sounded behind them: "Those insidious people, let me die under this bridge!" ā
Xiao Wenlu and Xiao Lili suddenly felt a strong force pushing from behind, and the two of them involuntarily crashed towards the bridge pier that had been knocked out of the crack. Seeing that the two of them were about to burst into their brains and die, at the last moment, Xiao Wenlu and Xiao Lili glanced at each other, stretched out their hands at the same time, and hit the bridge pier with the momentum. Four palms hit the bridge pier at the same time, only to hear a loud "click", the bridge pier broke in response, the entire vertical ring bridge lost its support, tilted to the side, and the bridge pier was uprooted, revealing the foundation!
Xiao Wenlu and Xiao Grain fell to the ground unscathed, looking deep into the foundation. A pungent stench came out, and a lock of black hair appeared in the rubble all over the ground!
Xiao Wenlu's eyes lit up, jumped off the foundation, and planed it with his bare hands. After a few clicks, a half-rotten head appeared in front of him, the black hair on the top of the head was still soft, although the face was seriously rotten, but it could still be vaguely seen that it was a child!
Xiao asked for directions, slowing down. He didn't care that there was an extremely dangerous evil spirit standing behind him, but patiently and meticulously excavated the corpse buried in the earth, trying to avoid causing further damage to the corpse. And the strange thing is that the raging evil spirit suddenly quieted down at this moment and did not make a move against him.
The body was finally exhumed. Xiao Wenlu carefully held the small corpse, jumped out of the foundation, and gently placed the corpse on the ground.
The clothes on the corpse's body were already in tatters, and half of its face was corroded, revealing white bones. One thigh had become ossified, and the leg was broken and crushed under him. The upper body is basically a skeleton, and the abdominal cavity is full of solidified cement. The mouth of the face that was not rotten was wide open, as if it was crying and as if it was breathing desperately. One eye was half-open and refused to close. Suddenly, a tear slipped from the corner of the corpse's eye!
There was a sobbing sound behind Xiao Wenlu. He turned around and saw a little boy in tattered clothes standing behind him. The little boy was delicate, not tall, thin, with thick black hair, a pair of big eyes filled with tears, and a small mouth flattened aggrievedly, which made people feel extremely distressed.
The little boy held a broken bowl in his hand, sobbed and said to Xiao Wenwen, "I'm just a beggar for food, why do they treat me like this?" ā
Xiao asked Lu Lu with a sour nose and couldn't speak.
With a thick cry, the little boy continued: "I am so painful, so cold. It's so dark down there, I can't see anything, I'm so scared, but I can't move. I tried to call for help, but I couldn't make a sound...... The man, he said he was going to raise me and give me a good life, but he tied me up and threw me underneath......"
The little boy rubbed his eyes and cried with tears rolling down his face.
Xiao Wenlu slowly stood up and walked towards the little boy. He put his hand on the little boy's thin shoulder and whispered, "Your revenge has been avenged, and so many innocent people have also died, you can stop it." Let's go. ā
Xiao Wenlu's hand on the little boy's shoulder suddenly became cold, and the tentacles were sticky and slippery. I saw that the little boy's appearance instantly became eerie and terrifying, and his body was covered with cement again. He raised his head and looked at Xiao Wenzhi, and said with a dark smile: "I've been alone down there for so many years, and I still want more people to accompany me!" "The little boy who became a "stake" twenty years ago has once again turned into an evil spirit!
The evil spirit was about to launch an attack on Xiao Wenlu, but found that he could not move a single bit. It turned out that Xiao Wenlu's palm on the evil spirit's shoulder emitted a dazzling golden light, firmly pressing the evil spirit to the ground.
The evil spirit was frightened and angry, looking up to the sky and roaring, the screams of the spikes stimulated everyone's eardrums, and all the workers present covered their ears, with unbearable expressions on their faces, and even Xiao Lili couldn't help frowning.
But Xiao asked for directions but was indifferent. His palms continued to emit golden light, and the golden light eroded the body of the evil spirit, and the dirty cement gradually receded, and the little boy's original body was slowly revealed.
The evil spirit's eyes suddenly turned blood-red, and he slammed into it, actually breaking free from the control of Xiao Wenlu's palm. Xiao was so shocked that he couldn't care about anything, so he squatted directly on the ground and hugged the evil spirit tightly with his arms!
The evil spirit let out a piercing howl, the sky became extremely dark, the temperature of the air around them plummeted, several workers were frozen and fell to the ground, and the rest were shivering, and their eyebrows were covered with hoarfrost.
Seeing that someone was going to die at the hands of evil spirits, Xiao Wenlu's eyes widened angrily, and his entire body suddenly emitted a dazzling golden light!
Xiao Wenlu, who was covered in dazzling golden light, hugged the evil spirit tightly and used his entire body to use the "Soul Locking Technique" so that the evil spirit could not continue to abuse. He yelled at the conscious workers on the side, "Quick! Bury his body! ā
Several workers were the first to react, and they ran back to the dormitory and took a few shovels out. Xiao Wenlu shouted: "Quick, bury him on the riverbank!" ā
The workers ran to the riverbank and picked up the iron to dig a pit. There is a lot of strength in people, and it didn't take long to dig a pit more than one meter deep.
A bold worker ran over, endured his nausea, carried the corpse of the evil spirit, and gently placed it in the pit. Several workers worked together to fill in the deep pit and pile up a small grave bag. A worker found another wooden board, and after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't know what words to write on it, so he simply inserted it directly into the grave bag.
Xiao Wenlu hugged the evil spirit tightly, pointed to the grave bag, and whispered to the struggling evil spirit: "Look! You already have a place to live, and those who have harmed you have been rewarded. Dust to dust, dust to dust, stop being evil, go! ā
The evil spirit struggled desperately, but he couldn't break free from Xiao Wen's "Soul Locking Technique". He suddenly burst into tears, and he didn't know if he was unwilling, sad, or relieved.
Xiao Lili walked over, and the five fingers of his right hand were pressed against the eyebrows of the evil spirit in the shape of a flower. The evil spirit suddenly stopped struggling, and he stared at the small grave on the bank of the river not far away, his expression strangely calm.
Xiao Liliang's fingers emitted a dazzling red light, stabbing the workers who were hiding in the distance and watching from afar. When the red light faded, the workers found that the terrible evil spirit was gone. The fierce wind stopped, and the thick black clouds dispersed. A drizzle of rain fell from the sky, moistening the riverbed, which had been dry for a long time.
Xiao Wenlu looked up at the sky full of clouds, and thought to himself, the twenty-year-long drought here should be over. I hope that the sins born from this bridge can be washed away by the river, and the sins under the sun can no longer happen. Those who are innocent and become dead souls can no longer linger in the world, and there will be no disasters in the next life.
Xiao Wenlu turned around and shouted to the workers who were standing aside: "Workers, please gather together in a circle, holding hands. ā
The workers did not know his intentions, but they all knew that he was here to help them. And after witnessing the mastery of their father and son, no one dared to disobey his orders. Workers came over one after another, gathered in a circle, and held hands with each other.
Xiao Wenlu walked behind one of the workers, pointed to his fingers, and the golden light shone through his fingertips, and wrote the word "forget" on the back of the worker's head.
The word "forget" seeped into the back of the worker's head in an instant, and then the worker's legs went weak and he collapsed on the ground. The workers holding hands with him, one after the other, all collapsed to the ground, as if they had drunk too much, and sat on the ground holding their foreheads, their eyes foggy.
Xiao asked for directions and didn't say anything, took Xiao Lili's hand, and boarded the riverbank. Before leaving, Xiao Lili glanced back, only to see that the workers had regained their senses, all of them looked at each other, and asked each other in surprise: "What happened just now?" "Why am I here?" "What's wrong with this bridge?"
Xiao Wenlu slowly started the pickup truck, took Xiao Li, and left here.
No one noticed, and in the lush grass on the shore, Xie Rui, who was lying on the ground, put down the pistol he was holding tightly, with a shocked look on his face.