Chapter 190: On the way
The voice ringing in my head was more shocking than the strange rune that had crept into the palm of my left hand.
Netherworld...... This legendary place where the soul of a man goes after death is real! Moreover, there are many ancient Taoist priests with advanced Taoism, right there?
It's incredible!!
Obviously, the voice of this old man coming from the mysterious passage in the void was only heard by me, so the attention of both the Golden Snake and the Old Demon Hu was on the purple rune on the palm of my left hand.
At this moment, the calm in this room has been restored, and there are no more powerful ancient spirit power fluctuations around, and there is no mysterious power from the Netherworld. There were only three of us left, and the zombie who was still in bed with a rope firmly bound to the corpse.
The golden snake swallowed his saliva and said, "I said, buddy, you are so lucky! I think I've gotten something amazing! The mysterious runes sent out directly through the obstacles of the underworld and the yang, if this were known by the spirit world, would definitely set off turbulent waves. But don't worry, I'm a righteous person. Since you have become a buddy and brother, I will not say it. ”
I'm a little speechless, how powerful can this thing be? Could it be more powerful than the Blood Spirit King and the Dark Spirit King in my body?
Anyway, I don't have a lot of debts, and I'm not afraid of bites if I have more lice. I have accommodated the powerful existence of the Spirit King, are you still afraid of this mysterious purple rune? Even if it is likely to be the inheritance of an old monster in an extremely powerful Dao Sect......
Hu Lao Mo also nodded on the side and said, "That's true, although we don't know exactly what this thing is, and what strange things happened. But I can also feel that there must be something at stake in this, and I will definitely keep everything that happened just a secret. Brother Jiang Ming's pressure is already great enough, alas. ”
Obviously, that last sentence is a hint at my secret. For example...... Both the Blood Spirit King and the Dark Spirit King are sealed in my body! That's why he said I was stressed enough.
At this time, Old Demon Hu suddenly turned his head and said in the direction of the door next to him: "Granny Xu, are you here?" ”
Only then did the golden snake and I react, it turned out that Granny Xu from the corpse inn actually came silently again. An old ghost with such a high level of strength as her is really terrifying. It always appears silently, and even our spiritual consciousness cannot detect it. Fortunately, Hu Laomo's yin and yang eyes can see through many secrets between yin and yang.
Granny Xu slowly showed her form in the void, still the appearance of the silver-haired rickety thin old lady.
She coughed lightly twice and looked around: "I didn't want to disturb the guests casually, but your movement just now was really a bit big. I guess not only me, but also many in-house guests have noticed it. It's just that because of the rules of the corpse inn, they don't dare to act rashly. Hu boy, you have always been steady, why do you follow two ignorant young people to mess around? Come, tell me, what just happened? ”
Hu Laomo's face was calm, he nodded, and told this Granny Xu all the causes and consequences, and the details were also very clear.
I thought he would hide it a little, but I didn't expect it to be so detailed. So from this, it can be inferred that this Granny Xu is likely to have a close connection with Brother Long and Brother Long.
Until now, I wouldn't simply think that the characters centered on my background and the Blood Spirit King and the Dark Spirit King in my body were only Brother Long and my master.
Obviously, this is a small, secretive organization. These people are all connected in some way, secretly plotting something with me as the center. Although this feeling makes me very uncomfortable, at least for now, these people really care about me.
For example, my master, such as Brother Long, such as my stepfather Hong Tianjun, such as Hu Laomo, and now this Granny Xu...... They should all be participants in that mysterious plan.
After Granny Xu listened to Old Demon Hu's words, her brows furrowed tightly, and then flashed to my side in an instant. The speed was so fast that I didn't even have time to react, and her left wrist was already grabbed by her. This Granny Xu looks thin, but her strength is amazingly great, and when I grab it so casually, I feel that the martial arts qi and blood in my body are suddenly not running smoothly, and even the spiritual power has become a little stagnant.
This strength is indeed a bit amazing!
As soon as she flipped her hand over again, she saw the purple rune mark of the three rings in the palm of my left hand. The moment she saw this strange rune mark, Granny Xu's originally tightly furrowed brows stretched out at this time, and she seemed to be very relieved.
"Good, good! I didn't expect it, I didn't expect that you actually inadvertently got that old guy's Dao inheritance. Haha, providence. It seems that the biggest catastrophe in more than 600 years has gained a little more vitality. But you're still too weak, and this thing shouldn't be exposed too soon. I'll help you cover it up first, and then I'll do it after you meet with the Hundred Mile Dragon. ”
After Granny Xu finished speaking, her right hand suddenly stretched out, and the black light surged on it, and then slapped it three times on the palm of my left hand.
It's strange to say that after Granny Xu hit her like this three times, the purple ring rune mark actually faded gradually, and finally disappeared.
It's really magical!
Hu Lao Mo and Golden Snake may also know what is at stake, so they just stood quietly and did not speak. When I saw that Granny Xu had solved the problem on my body, the golden snake came up and showed an embarrassed expression: "That, Granny Xu." You see, since you're here, and you also found out about me forcibly driving away the dead bodies that don't match, so you helped solve it by the way? Otherwise......"
Granny Xu of the corpse inn glanced at the kid Golden Snake and snorted coldly: "Golden boy, I have a good relationship with your grandmother, and I also know that you have been spoiled since you were a child, so you are a little stubborn by nature." But I still remind you that there are some things that you can't be too willful, otherwise you will suffer one day. I'll tell your grandma exactly what happened this time. ”
After finishing speaking, she flew to the zombie with long nails and teeth and blood-red eyes, and she didn't know what means she used, but she really made the zombie settle down. The fingernails and teeth were retracted, and the violent blood in his eyes had all receded, leaving only lifeless yellow eyes.
"Forget it, since it's urgent, don't wait until the early hours of the morning, let's get on the road now. I'll tell the car to come quickly. After Granny Xu finished speaking, the figure disappeared in a flash.
The golden snake clasped his hands in front of his chest, and pouted unhappily: "What a smugness, but I rely on myself to be an old ghost who has lived for hundreds of years, and I rely on the old man to teach me a lesson, and I also went to my grandmother to make a small report, really." As he spoke, he touched the little golden zombie snake with a small head peeking out of his chest.
I was speechless for a while, thinking to myself that this kid was really a little naughty.
Old Demon Hu shook his head and said, "Since Granny Xu let us leave early, there must be a reason for her." Let's take our things downstairs, the car from the corpse inn should have arrived early. ”
Dare to have a special car to take us away?
We all quickly packed up our belongings, and the golden snake quickly put on a thin black robe, and then tied a thick hemp rope around his waist, and took out a very ugly mask and put it on his face, and took a small bell-like thing in his hand, and walked to each of the three corpses in the room and shook it in front of him, so that the three corpses all jumped up and jumped in a straight line.
I nodded again and again, thinking that this technique of driving out corpses really has some way of manipulating dead corpses.
So three people, three dead bodies, all rushed downstairs. When we got out of the corridor, we saw a car parked in front of the corpse inn waiting for us, and it was a hearse!!
That is, the kind of cart used by hospitals or crematoriums to transport the dead. After a brief moment of stunned, though, I quickly regained my composure. Thinking about it, this is actually normal, originally the corpse chasers drove the dead corpses. It is obviously not convenient in this urban area of Changsha, and it is reasonable to transport them to the suburbs outside the city by hearse and then drive them by themselves.
"Get in the car, boys." Granny Xu didn't know when she appeared again, and urged behind.
We hurried to get in the car. When I got into the car, I accidentally looked at the cab and found that it was empty, and I had to look again with my vision, only to find that there was a ghost of a middle-aged man with a rotten face sitting at me.
It seems that the hearse used to transport the corpse chasers and dead corpses living in the corpse inn out of the city is also a ghost.
After getting into the car and sitting down, the hearse starts, speeding down the empty streets in the middle of the night. As soon as you get out of this street, the surroundings start to be lively. Although it is late, Changsha is also a big city after all, so there are still pedestrians on the streets.
At that time, bars and nightclubs were just emerging, and through the car window, you could see some fashionable girls in open clothes, and some people sitting on the side of the street eating supper. When the sexy clubbers walked by, the young people sitting at the street stalls for supper whistled at them.
All of this seems to be full of a luxurious urban feeling and market atmosphere, which seems so unreal compared to the environment we are in now. I looked back at the three zombies standing upright next to each other at the back of the carriage, and shrugged helplessly.
The hearse drove for a long time, and the surrounding city scene gradually faded, and a large area of farmland and wasteland began to appear, apparently reaching the suburbs, and the hearse stopped at this time.
Hu Laomo, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned his head and told me that it was time to get out of the car with the golden snake. So we got out of the car, and the golden snake drove the three zombies from the back of the car.
I slowly walked to the window of the hearse driver, took out a few yellow paper money from my arms and handed it over: "The driver has worked hard, you accept this money, it is your hard work." ”
In my vision, the ghost driver driving the hearse had a surprised expression on his face, and he accepted the paper money I handed over, and then showed me a flattering look: "Thank you, boss, thank you, boss!" If only the people in the corpse inn were as generous as you, that would be fine. Then he drove back with a thousand thanks.
The Golden Snake and Old Devil Hu next to me both looked at me with a look of disdain.
The golden snake sighed: "The designer of the dark money is awesome, and for a ghost with a sense of consciousness, he is simply a big tyrant, and he is very powerful at buying people's hearts!" ”
I shrugged my shoulders and smiled, "No way, there is a specialization in the art industry." If you're going to let me deal with these cold, hard soulless corpses, I'm not going to do it. Okay, let's hurry up and get on the road, isn't there a secret passage to your station, and you have to follow your Jin family?
He nodded a little procrastinatedly, and then drove the three corpses away with me and Old Demon Hu.
A little further from this wasteland, you will go up the mountain, and in the middle of the night in the mountains, you can hear all kinds of strange animal calls, as well as the regular thumping of the three zombies, and the crisp sound of the golden snake shaking the bell to drive away the corpses, which can be heard far away in the dark night.
The night was not clear, with no moon or stars in the sky. I thought it was too dark around me, so I took out two fireballs that had been ignited with spiritual power and turned into two orange and blue edges, floating around us like two small lanterns, illuminating the rugged path of this barren mountain range.
Imagine such a sight. The night is dark and the wind is high, in the wilderness, on the rugged path in the mountains, a corpse chaser wearing black linen clothes and holding a bell, three stiff and beating corpses behind him, two silent people, surrounded by two ghostly fireballs like suspended fires......
I believe that if ordinary people see this scene unintentionally, the more timid estimates will directly faint.
We hurried in the middle of the night, passing several mass graves along the way, but the size and scale were not large, and there were only seven or eight graves scattered around. I also saw some slowly fluttering spiritual fires, which were formed by the overflow of souls in the tomb.
In the eyes of some so-called knowledgeable people, the slowly floating flames that appear in the cemetery at night are called "phosphorus fires", and it is said that they are formed by the flames that spontaneously combust after a small amount of white phosphorus accumulates in the bones of the human body.
This explanation is both correct and incorrect.
Because the white phosphorus in human bones does burn in the cemetery at night, forming phosphorus fire. But this can only mean that there is such a thing as phosphorus fire, but it cannot reverse the "spiritual fire", that is, the real ghost fire does not exist.
In fact, there are two kinds of flames in the cemetery. One is the phosphorus fire formed by the spontaneous combustion of white phosphorus in the bones of the objective human corpse, and the other is that the soul of the dead person has not completely become a ghost, and the change is something between a soul and a ghost. This is also true.
This is actually a very simple logical error, I don't know if those so-called intellectuals deliberately ignored it, or if they really didn't find it!
I naturally have no interest in phosphorus fire, but absorbing some spiritual fire can increase my spiritual power, and it will also help me make some special divine banknotes. Anyway, the soul that will become a spiritual fire also means that it is almost a soul scattering ending, and you can't enter the underworld to reincarnate, so I don't have to be polite, but I can also make them come in handy and make a little more contribution.
So when I passed through the wilderness graveyard along the way, I was in a good mood and collected a lot of spiritual fire. Of course, I also encountered some real ghosts during this period, but in front of us, it was not enough to see, and it was easily solved.
After a night of traveling, we were all a little tired. However, as time passed, the darkness around became thinner and thinner, and the eastern horizon was faintly white, and dawn was about to come
I looked at my watch and said a little tiredly, "It's almost five o'clock, we should find a place to rest, right?" You can't run around with these three corpses in broad daylight, right? ”
The golden snake nodded: "Two miles ahead, there will be a small village." Let's just leave the bodies in the abandoned village village. If we want to sleep, we can sleep directly in the abandoned village, and if we don't want to sleep, we can just walk around the village. I have a good relationship with the village chief, and I have to go to the village every time I drive corpses through this road. So the villagers know me, so it shouldn't be a big problem. ”
Since the golden snake said so, I can also rest assured. It's best to have a place to rest during the day.
This is the same as Wangmei's thirst. Although we were all extremely tired at this moment, the thought that as long as we held on for a short while, we would have a place to rest after walking two miles, and a force surged up in our bodies again, and we quickened our steps and walked quickly on this rugged and bumpy wilderness mountain path.
It didn't take long for me to see a small village appear on the open plain ahead. It was the darkest time before dawn, so the villagers were all sleeping, and it was very quiet, without a sound.
It stands to reason that this situation should be normal, but I don't know why, but I just have a very strong feeling of uneasiness in my heart. I can't say why, but I just think something is not right with this dark and quiet village on the plains ahead.
So I lowered my voice and said to the Golden Snake and Old Demon Hu in a very serious tone: "Golden Snake, Old Demon, I feel that something is not quite right in this village. Maybe there is something wrong with the village this time. ”
As soon as I said this, I didn't expect Hu Laomo to also nod lightly in agreement: "That's right, there must be a problem in this village." I was born with yin and yang eyes, and I can see through yin and yang things. But now I can see that the village in front of me is shrouded and covered by a very thick gray-white gas, and I can't see what is going on at all. It was clear that this grayish-white gas came from an evil power. And the root of this power is in the village. ”
Hearing me and Hu Laomo both say this, although the golden snake was a little skeptical, he still agreed with us. He asked us, "So we won't be in this village this time?" Just find a place to rest in the middle of nowhere and wait until the evening to continue your journey? But for such a whole day, we didn't bring enough dry food and water. If you don't have supplies from the village, it's a bit of a problem. ”
When I thought that what the golden snake said was also very reasonable, I couldn't help but frown.
But in the end, after some discussion between the three of them, they decided not to go through this strange village and go another way. It's a big deal to speed up a bit and find a place where you can store these three bodies before the sun comes out. You must know that the corpses that have been temporarily transformed into "half-zombies" by the corpse chasers using the corpse chaser secret technique are different from ordinary dead corpses, they cannot see the sun.
If it is exposed to sunlight, it will immediately turn into a wisp of black smoke and disappear.
So we have to go another way, and this decision is also very helpless. But there is no way, it can only be so.
The three of them, with three corpses, turned directly onto another path, not wanting to pass through this strange gray-white mist village again.
But just as we were moving to another road, I heard Old Demon Hu say to me and the Golden Snake in a low voice behind me: "Little Brother Golden Snake, Little Brother Jiang Ming, let's be vigilant, there seems to be something coming from behind." ”
Something is coming after you?
The Golden Snake and I were shocked, looking very surprised. Because along the way, we didn't feel anything, how could we be followed by something?
But Hu Laomo is very steady, and he has yin and yang eyes, so he shouldn't be mistaken or lyed. So it's clear that we're really being targeted by something. (To be continued.) )