Chapter Seventy-Three: Hybrids
Ten miles of avenue, withered grass, black fog shrouded, fishy wind and hot dust fluttering on the tower of the vermilion city, rustling. Gently swaying the incense and cypress fans, the nobles did their best to walk the way of elegance. But the bright brocade of the red plum hanging clothes can't hide the lament of the dry bones of the forest, and the ghosts, gods, demons, and demons exist in the world and reside in everyone's hearts......
The Heian period, an era that was once across the sea from the Tang Empire. It has given birth to a splendid culture that has amazed future generations and is incomparably gorgeous, but it also hides a lot of darkness that is not known to others. In the folk history of Japan, at that time, Japanese demons were rampant, and the people were struggling to make a living, and in order to eliminate the contradictions between heaven, earth, man and ghosts, the "Onmyoji" dressed in hunting clothes showed their skills. They use all-encompassing hexagrams and mysterious spells to exorcise evil spirits, eliminate demons, slay demons and destroy monsters, and become powerful protectors from the royal family to the common people!
As a result, Onmyodo became popular in Japan and became an indispensable part of the Imperial Shrine.
However, the job bowl of the Onmyoji is not easy to hold, and to survive in the deceitful court, they must be familiar with all the elegant things, and songs, Chinese poems, pipa flutes, and incense or tea ceremonies, all of which must be dabbled in. In addition, it is necessary to have the ability to do things with heart and a professional ethics that does not leak secrets. Therefore, those who can become onmyoji are all first-class handsome talents at that time, and the apprentices are extremely harsh, and the requirements are extremely handsome men, so this profession is very sacred in Japan.
As a priesthood, in the later development, the samurai class began to rise in Japan, and most of the clergy became military advisors because of their ability to divinate and measure directions, as well as some mysterious onmyoji. This ancient Chinese army configuration is somewhat similar, for example, Kong Ming, as Liu Bei's military advisor, is a famous Taoist disciple who is proficient in the Five Elements Mathematics.
During World War II, the clergy also spread to China with the flames of war, and Onmyoji were very scarce in Japan, and they were also very respected by their samurai. Before the battle, the encouragement of the Onmyoji was a spiritual weapon for the army, although they did not have the blood of the Chinese in their hands, but they had been borrowing knives to kill!
And the fan on their waist is the guy they eat, also called the military fan, with the sun and the moon painted on both sides. Before the start of the war, the military will ask the onmyoji about the results of divination, and in case of a fierce day that has to go to war, the moon side of the military fan will be displayed on the surface during the day, so that the day and night will be reversed, so as to turn the evil day into an auspicious day. In fact, this is just a trick to cover his ears and steal the bell in Cha Wenbin.
He has some knowledge of the Onmyoji, but he is also very puzzled: "I only heard that the Onmyoji illusion is relatively good, how can there be a way to ensure that the corpse does not rot, these people are not very old, at most they are around thirty years old, and there are no strangulation marks on their necks, how did they get hung up?" ”
"With your fingers!" Ye Qiu said: "You guys try to stay away as much as possible, these things were hanging upside down on the stones above like bats just now, probably because I stepped on the box to alarm them." ”
As soon as Jiu'er heard this, her face turned white, and she covered her mouth and said, "You mean they are alive?" ”
"Whether it's alive or not, you'll know if you try it!" After that, Cha Wenbin had already raised a corpse talisman and pasted a sword towards the forehead of the corpse in the middle! Just when the rune paper was about to be pasted, the corpse slid backwards as if it had wheels on its back, and then pulled it up on the spot, and tried to clamp Cha Wenbin's seven-star sword with both hands!
"Be careful!" Seeing that the situation was not good, Ye Qiu rushed up and squatted, his hands stretched out from the corpse's chest, barely squeezing a gap slightly, and as soon as Cha Wenbin's seven-star sword was sent, he wanted to stick to Ye Qiu's shoulder and stab the other party's chest.
However, at that moment, Cha Wenbin stopped again. Why? Because he vaguely stabbed not someone else, but a fat man!
When he took the sword back, Ye Qiu also dodged out, Cha Wenbin blinked, where is the fat man, it was clearly the corpse just now! Only then did he realize that Fang Cai was not an eye, but the other party's illusion had worked, and he had confused himself in such a short period of time!
"Back off, back off!" Ye Qiu shouted while signaling them to go backwards, Cha Wenbin also felt that these things were not as simple as zombies, zombies would never have such soft bodies and elegant movements, and the corpses would not be so well preserved, if it weren't for the fact that those people had no breath, they would really be no different from living people, and even their pupils didn't spread!
Old Man Ding also said to Cha Wenbin while retreating: "This is not a zombie, it is a Shijin!" ”
What is Shikigami? To put it simply, it is a doll that is manipulated by people, which is very similar to the breathtaking and controlling methods in Taoist evil arts. Different from puppetry, he operates living creatures, dedicating his body to the gods in the form of contracts, transcending his own thoughts in the form of spells, and leading the gods and his own bodies to become one, which is somewhat similar to the possession of Chinese Taoism.
This kind of possessed onmyoji is usually used to protect some big families, and only a very small number of onmyoji can cultivate to the Shikigami stage, and if they hand over their bodies to the gods, it is said that they can achieve a state of immortality and immortality, which is probably the appearance in front of them.
As we all know, people have three souls and seven spirits, and the Shikshen that is worshiped as a god from the Taoist point of view is actually very simple, and there are many ways to ensure that the corpse does not rot.
People without their own main soul is a walking corpse, relying on the contract agreed by the two parties to maintain, which is equivalent to a zombie with a demon attached to the body, it has a dual existence, simply understood as a zombie and a ghost complex!
So when Cha Wenbin heard the old man say that it was this thing, he also had some drums in his heart, and the people who could toss this kind of thing would not be righteous people, but they all used evil magic to cover up their ugly true colors. It has both the strength of a zombie **, and the ferocity and cunning of a ghost, no wonder Ye Qiu's intuition is so accurate, when encountering this kind of thing, it is the first time for everyone.
And the most headache for Cha Wenbin is that he can't attack with fire here, those piles of explosives can't see open flames at all, and none of his talismans can be burned, which makes him a little passive.
"Cha Ye, you lie down, it seems that if we don't touch those wooden boxes, it won't matter, could it be that it was put here to guard those treasures?"
As they stepped back, the corpse lay down on its own again, as if nothing had happened before, and remained as it was. The fat man's analysis made sense, it was precisely because Ye Qiu stepped on the wooden box that they "fell from the sky".
Ding Shengwu said: "The more things are guarded, the more it shows the value of those things." I heard that several generations of onmyoji can't come out of a few generations, and now there are a few in front of us, I estimate that this is already half of the country put here, and the eight achievements in it are the treasures that Pu Yi brought out of the palace, otherwise how could he have made such a big blood. ”
The fat man asked, "Can you deal with it?" ”
Cha Wenbin also said truthfully: "I've never encountered this kind of thing, I'm not sure, Qiu'er, what is the difference between you and zombies when you just fight?" ”
"The strength is greater, and it will charm the mind, but the murderous aura will be reduced in an instant if you don't get close to there, and the zombies won't think about it so much, they will go crazy when they see blood, they seem to have their own consciousness and thinking."
The fat man rolled up his sleeves and said: "Their ancestors have been driven out by us, and even a few birds will definitely be swept into the garbage heap of history. ”
Cha Wenbin also really has this intention, this zombie has always been able to deal with the ink bucket line, you half-stiff and half-ghost thing from Japan don't know if you recognize me Chinese Luban!
The long ink bucket was led by one person, and Ye Qiu walked to the side that was only four or five meters away from the three corpses, the fat man suddenly felt a pain in the tiger's mouth, and lowered his head A small cyan snake was biting his tiger's mouth, and he immediately subconsciously reached out and shook it.
Others but he threw off the ink fountain line, with a terrifying look on his face, Cha Wenbin estimated that he had encountered an illusion, and before he could open his mouth, a huge black old cat on his side pounced on him from the front.
He secretly thought in his heart, this must also be an illusion, but even if you understand, the claws are coming from your eye sockets, do you hide or not? He raised his hand to stop it, only to hear a "squeak", and three or four cuts were suddenly scratched on the sleeve, and he felt a burst of pain when he connected his arm.
Cha Wenbin took a step back, and immediately said in his mouth: "Lingbao Tianzun, comfort the body; The soul of the disciple, the five internal organs; The green dragon and white tiger have many team sticks; Vermilion Bird Xuanwu, guard me really! Haste as a law! ”
Biting his middle finger and poking it forward, there was an extremely subtle "pop" sound, as if the glass was broken, the old cat suddenly disappeared, the torn crack on his suit and the scratch mark on the back of his hand were still faintly painful, and he secretly said in his heart, is this yin and yang illusion different from ours, can it be materialized?