Chapter 44: Cause and Effect
The white paper money that had been floating in the air for a long time finally fell to the ground, and the moment they landed, they were quickly smashed into the mud by the violent rain, and merged with the soil, and it was completely impossible to see its original appearance.
Successive lightning strikes descended on this cemetery, shaking the small space into light.
The protruding tomb shook its long shadows in the light of lightning, like ghosts scurrying around with teeth and claws, adding a bit of hideousness to the bleak atmosphere.
The rain curtain became denser and denser, and the gray thunderclouds in the sky gathered together, and showed some unusual red light under the reflection of lightning.
The wind howled and brought the trees upside down, some fragile trunks were simply broken in two by the wind, and some more fragile ones were even uprooted, and they drifted in the sky with the wind for a while before they had a chance to fall miserably.
It looks like the end of the world.
The girl under the tree frowned and curled into a ball, her mouth constantly opening and harmonizing, muttering something to herself.
The expression on her face looked very tangled, as if she had dreamed of something that was painful to her. Her eyelashes fluttered slightly, and a line of tears quietly rolled through the corners of her eyes.
The woman in the graveyard was still standing still, her eyes full of anger as she looked at the canopy.
She opened her mouth, as if she was screaming loudly, and when she was excited, she would raise her hand and point a few times at that side.
However, the continuous roar of thunder and the dense rain completely drowned out her voice, and her voice could not reach the other side of the cemetery.
Of course, it could also be because she didn't make a sound at all.
But the male voice that told the story, although the volume was not high, has always remained stable. No matter how loud the rain was and how loud the thunder was, the man still told his story without being salty.
And his storytelling voice always pierces the rain and reaches the ears of those who should hear it.
"If you tell me not to talk about it, I won't talk about it...... Why should I listen to you so much? ”
The man's voice said something teasing with a smile. And then he continued with the previous story.
The general took a few people, and according to what the military advisor said, he picked a bright daylight and went to the cemetery outside the city to dig up the grave of the young lady.
When they were halfway through the digging, they vaguely heard what sound was ringing all the time, which scared several people into a cold sweat.
The sound sounded like something was knocking on the coffin board underneath. It's quite rhythmic.
If a few soldiers hadn't been pressured by their bosses, they would have thrown their shovels and run away at that time. But in the end, they made a fuss for a while, and they continued to dig.
Despite this, when the coffin was finally revealed, none of the people who worked dared to open the lid of the coffin. They pushed and shoved for a while, and then simply dispersed, and it was useless to let the general scold or coax, they always stood far away. I didn't dare to go near the coffin.
It's no wonder they're afraid, the coffin has been on the ground for years, and it's still like new, and it doesn't even smell clean.
And inside the coffin, there was indeed something that kept knocking on the coffin board. The sound continued to grow louder and louder, until at last even the powerful coffin lid trembled with the sound, and the earth on both sides fell straight down, and anyone who was not blind could see that there was something terrible inside.
The general cursed a few words. No one dared to go up, so I had to bite the bullet. Dragged the pit his military advisor to open the coffin lid together.
They thought that the coffin was opened, perhaps to see a rotting and smelly corpse, or a beautiful woman lying in it. Even if it is a dead person, it is still a human appearance that can be seen, and it is still within the scope of human imagination.
As a result, as soon as the coffin lid was opened, a hairy thing slammed into it. Directly from the inside, the coffin lid was lifted, and a smoke escaped.
That thing was quite powerful, and the moment it lifted the lid of the coffin, it directly knocked the two people who opened the coffin open. Immediately after that, while the two of them were still frightened and did not come back to their senses, it turned around and ran on all fours without a shadow.
Even if it was just a brief glance, it was enough for the group to see what it looked like.
It was not much bigger than a newborn kitten. It has a big head, small limbs, and a small tail. He has long green hair, wrinkled, his facial features are crowded together, his eyes occupy half of his face, and he is black without the whites of his eyes......
The man's voice paused, then chuckled softly.
"Hey...... That thing is so ugly that I can't look at it, if someone gives birth to such an ugly child, it is estimated that the mother will be strangled to death directly.
Oh, back to business...... The grave diggers watched the monster scurry a few times, and then there was no shadow, and they were all frightened, and they didn't know what to do.
Thankfully, there was something else in the coffin.
When the monster ran away, it left behind a pretty woman. She was lying in the coffin, except that her face was a little paler, and she was no different from a living person, and even her skin was quite elastic to the touch.
is also wearing a very good-looking flower dress, and a lot of jewelry is bits and pieces, and she looks like a delicate girl from a rich family.
These people studied for a while, and decided to ignore the monster that ran out, and directly carry the coffin back to see if the woman would cheat the corpse at night.
They didn't know it at the time, but it was this decision that saved their lives.
If they hadn't brought the coffin back that day, they would have died like the rest of the city, and there would not have been a whole body left.
The military advisor was also a brave man, and after he carried the coffin back, he turned the female corpse out on a whim and looked at it.
This look really shows a bit of a doorway.
You say, that military advisor is usually a figure like a demon king of the world, he is not good at academics, and his brain is confused for a while, how can he see at a glance that day that the female corpse was not drowned, but died of death?
It's quite evil to think about it, probably because it's free in the dark.
The young lady died unjustly before her death, and no one ever found out about it after her death. It wasn't until a few years later that such a person who couldn't be beaten with 800 strokes helped her settle her grievances.
It is estimated that it is not a grievance. can only be regarded as telling the truth, after all, all the living people who know her are already dead.
The resentment of the young lady's death, after her death, not a wisp of her soul went to the underworld, but left a soul and a soul to wander around her corpse. That soul and soul can't be a climate anymore, but it borrowed the essence of something else at that time and then evolved...... Ah, in today's parlance, it's called mutation.
It mutated after that. In fact, it has little to do with the young lady, but it doesn't know about it itself, and always thinks that it is the young lady, vaguely remembering that it wants revenge, but it doesn't even know who the enemy is.
In short, she is so inhuman, not a ghost, half demon and half immortal.
Before that, she was in a daze every day, not knowing who she was or what she was supposed to do. There was nothing to do except look at his face in the coffin and feel sad.
But the military advisor's sentence 'She died unexpectedly' suddenly woke up a wisp of remnant soul in the chaos.
But after that, she wasn't too smart, just like a child of a few years old, anyway, she understood something somewhat.
At that time, her mind was relatively simple, except that she knew who she was. also knew that the military advisor helped her tell the truth, and she was just a good person.
She couldn't even tell the difference between herself and the dead lady. Not even his own name. But he knew that he wanted to repay the military advisor.
So that night, when the green-haired monster came to the barracks again with a group of cow ghosts and snake gods to make trouble, the body of the young lady actually stood up from the coffin by itself.
Or in front of a large group of people.
It also startled the people around it. People thought that after the young lady deceived the corpse, they were afraid that they would follow the monster to kill the Quartet, who knew that after they jumped for a while, they actually saw the female corpse and the monster fighting!
The female corpse has a lot of strength, and she can smash a half-meter-thick stone with a casual slap of her hand. And the green-haired monster is better than being small and fast.
Ah, yes, the little monster would scream when it got into a fight, and it sounded like a child crying, and its voice was sharp and thin, and it was heartbreaking. Listening to it oozes people.
The two of them were entangled for half a night, and finally before the sun came out, the female zombie slapped the little monster against the wall and smashed it into a pulp.
Then the female zombie took advantage of the fact that no one could react to what was going on, and ran away with her coffin before dawn.
It was also a long time before it gradually figured out its own origins.
At that time, the child in her womb was not a mortal thing, but a local mountain god who wanted to experience what it was like to be a human being, so he wanted to come out and be reincarnated.
But she died halfway, and the mountain god naturally couldn't be born.
But it's also a character, so naturally it can't just drown with Miss in the water. So in fact, the thing in the belly was still alive when the young lady was buried.
That thing was supposed to be a prodigy or something, but since the mother was buried, he naturally couldn't get any better.
The underground yin qi was too heavy, and it hung half-dead for a while, and finally became a monster, and even the newly dead corpses in the graveyard became monsters with it.
In the final analysis, the cause of this disaster is still in that little guy. ”
The man smiled again.
"What, you don't know about this?"
A little fire flashed in the canopy, and soon a wisp of smoke rose from the layers of leaves, and was quickly blown away by the strong wind, and disappeared.
The thunder was almost the same as the rain curtain, and the huge cemetery had turned into a bright white, and the figure of the woman standing in the center of the cemetery was almost completely invisible under the flickering of the strong light.
"So you really don't know about this!"
The man who told the story sighed with emotion, and then continued slowly:
"That little girl's grandmother has worshiped the mountain god all her life, and since the mountain god has received incense, she naturally wants to do something to repay others.
And the young lady who is obsessed with the ghost is the return of the mountain god to the old lady.
According to the number of lives, the man should have been poor all his life, childless under his knees, and even a straw mat was broken when he died.
was intervened by the mountain god, and it was changed to a group of rich and noble wives and concubines.
If there had been no later changes, the little girl should have married the young lady, and after the young lady's parents inherited their family property a hundred years later, the children and grandchildren would have been around their knees and enjoyed the joy of family.
When the mountain god is reincarnated into his house and rolls in the world, he can still get a good son of a very human minister.
Basically, all the good things are taken up by him, and he is simply a winner in his life.
But it's not that easy. If you think about it, a mortal who changes his life has to die nine times a lifetime, and he may not be successful, he is just a mountain god, how can he have such great ability?
Of course, it is not difficult to change the number of lives, but the difficulty is that this matter must come quietly and not let others know. As long as it is known, then trouble will follow.
The mountain god didn't know if he knew about it, or if he was a simple artist who was bold. Anyway, when he did this, he did it with great fanfare, and he was not hidden at all.
This incident attracted a Taoist priest who subdued demons and eliminated demons to help justice...... Oh it's not me, and it doesn't matter to me, I never do that thankless thing.
The Taoist priest is also a capable person, and he actually fought with the mountain god, and in the end both were defeated.
At this juncture, Miss had another accident. The mountain god was too weak to save his future mother, so he had to be buried in a coffin with her. ”
A dense wave of thunder gradually stopped, and darkness returned to the graveyard once more.
In the heavy rain, a woman was kneeling next to a grave bag, holding the broken tombstone beside her with one hand, bowing her head slightly.
The original gorgeous satin clothes on her body are now completely unrecognizable, and large pieces of scorched black marks remain on the clothes, which are more seriously damaged in some places, and the white skin of the woman under the clothes is faintly exposed.
"I said, do you really not eat it?" The man asked suspiciously: "It stands to reason that something like you should have lost seven emotions and six desires for a long time, but you ...... It's always been so inexplicable to do things, and it's quite interesting. ”
The woman lowered her head and looked at her blackened right hand, which had been struck by lightning, and her eyes blinked.
"I don't mean anything else, I just ask...... I finally saw something very interesting, but I ended up dying like this, and I think it's a pity now. ”
The thunderclouds in the sky were almost brewing again, and a lightning bolt fell, kicking off the second wave of thunder.
"I don't think you're bad, it's just ...... I can't tell, but since you've decided, let's do it, I'll wait here to collect your body. ”
After the man said this, he stopped telling the story, but hid quietly in the canopy, not knowing what he was doing.
Wisps of white smoke rose from the canopy of the trees and quickly dissipated after touching the wind outside.
"Oh, by the way, there's one more thing, I don't know if you know."
The woman in the graveyard looked up and looked in the direction from which the voice had come in confusion.
The man said lightly: "Then the general led his troops to pass by a river, and a gang of robbers blocked the way. The boss of the gang of robbers was a water thief before, and he had an old enmity with the general.
The two of their enemies were very angry when they saw each other, and the general waved his hand, and a group of people went up and wiped out the gang of robbers.
The robber boss jumped into the river to escape, relying on his good water skills.
It happened that there was a water snake under the water, and before it could swim far, it bit the leg of the robber leader, and the robber leader drowned. ”
The sleeping girl under the tree let out a few more muffled nasal sounds, then let go of her furrowed brow. The pained expression on her face faded away, and an imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of her mouth again.
Except for the tear stains in the corners of her eyes, there was nothing to prove that she had a heart-rending nightmare.
(To be continued.) )