Chapter 168: Cat Ghost 4
The kitten, which became swollen, completely covered the man.
Everyone present smelled a strong smell of blood and other strange smells. It is as if the smell emitted when the pig was killed before the Chinese New Year, there is the smell of blood, the smell of meat, the smell of hair, the smell of noise, and the smell of smell......
The dogs of the Ghost Dealer Bridge barked wildly, not knowing if they were afraid of such a scene, or if they wanted to step forward and get a piece of the pie.
After a while, the kittens spread out and slipped out from the side like a swarm of flies that had been dispersed. Only a bloody skeleton remained on the ground.
Grandpa was taken aback, and finally understood how the two people sent by Miss Iron had turned into two blood skeletons.
And the two women in black were still holding the blood skeleton kneeling on the ground, their expressions as calm as the faces of dead people.
He Liantian frowned, raised his hand and fanned his nose, and said to his grandfather: "I'm sorry, I made the smell here look like in the cowshedβ΅ let's go to the back and talk." β
The white cat returned to the arms of the woman in black, grinned and stuck out her tongue to lick the remaining blood from her mouth.
The black cat returns to the scale and is re-weighed before sniffing the dogs.
The ghost dealers are all looking for souls from the mass graves of the dead, and they are very bold, but they still can't help but tremble when they see such a scene, and they almost want to go first.
Grandpa couldn't stand such a scene, and hurriedly followed Helian Tian back to the back hall.
Helian Tian continued to talk casually about his past with his father's brother, as if he had just slapped a mosquito to death or trampled an ant to death, which was not enough to worry about.
Grandpa especially wanted to know what happened to his brother after leaving Thrush Village and before he died in Hankou, so he also left what had just happened behind him and asked Helian Tian some details from time to time.
He Liantian said that Ma Xinyuan behaved a little abnormally before leaving the capital, often laughing or crying at every turn. Helian Tian asked him, but he didn't say why.
Grandpa's heart tightened, thinking to himself, what else had happened to his brother before he died?
Helian Tian said that Ma Xinyuan seemed to have had a relationship with a woman before the examination, and several people who participated in the examination in the same year had seen that woman, including him. He had a very good impression of the woman, suave and generous. Ma Xinyuan thought that he had failed to perform well and must not be able to make the gold list, so he hurriedly left the capital, not knowing that the reader had submitted ten wonderful articles to the emperor, and the emperor used the vermilion imperial pen to point out the ten copies in the Baohe Palace, and Ma Xinyuan's article was among them.
Daddy hurriedly asked, what is the woman's name? Are you still in the capital?
Helian Tian shook his head and said, Your brother doesn't seem to be willing to let us know about that woman, he has never mentioned her name in front of a few of our friends. I don't know where she is now. Your brother left in a hurry, probably because he was worried that he would not be able to see a beautiful woman after falling off the list.
Grandpa didn't know that my brother still had this past, and he never mentioned it in the letter he sent back before preparing for the exam in the capital. Is the identity of a woman that makes my brother have scruples, or is there something else hidden? Grandpa doesn't know.
Daddy asked for other details about the woman. Helian Tian knew very little.
So, the topic turned to other aspects of Ma Xinyuan.
During this time, the woman in black came and said that all the souls had been bought. Helian Tian asked the woman in black to take Mr. Bai and Mr. Night to rest.
The two chatted and chatted, and before they knew it, it had passed.
At that time, Baoding only had a small power plant, the power was not high, and the power would be cut off when the time came.
After the power outage, Helian Tian asked the woman in black to light a candle and continue to talk to his father about the past.
After lighting the candle for a while, Helian Tian chatted with his grandfather while looking east and west, a little absent-minded. Grandpa thought he had a lot of things to worry about and wanted to say goodbye.
Grandpa was about to say goodbye, but Helian Tian put his index finger on his lips and made a gesture not to make a sound.
Grandpa thought he had noticed an eavesdropper outside the window, so he swallowed his farewell back into his stomach for the time being. But Daddy listened carefully for a while, and did not hear the footsteps or wheezing of anyone outside. He wondered if Helian Tian had been doing things for a long time to buy and sell souls, and he was a little too sensitive.
At this moment, a gust of wind blows the window paper. The window paper may not have been pasted properly, and the wind will make the sound of the window paper hitting the window lattice.
Helian Tian suddenly shook his feet and let out a "heh".
"Brother Helian, what's wrong with you?" Grandpa asked when he saw him snorting.
A sneer appeared on Helian Tian's face, and then he leaned over and reached out to touch the soles of his feet.
Daddy also leaned down to look at the soles of his feet, but saw nothing.
Heliantian's hand picked at the soles of his shoes, as if he wanted to pick off a lump of mud from the soles of his feet. Soon, he raised his hand and placed it in the candlelight.
A big figure landed on the wall opposite the candlelight!
Grandpa looked at it, and it turned out that Helian Tian was holding a paper figure in his hand! The paper figure was cut out of yellow paper, and it was shoddy, but it could tell where the human head was, where the torso was, and where the limbs were. Grandpa was shocked, isn't that a paper figure cut by millet?
A lot of the yellow sheet paper that Daddy used to draw talismans was cut into various strange shapes by Millet when he was bored. Houses, clothes, chickens and ducks, people, etc.
"Who is not long-sighted to do such a little trick in front of me!" Helian Tian snorted and placed the paper figure on top of the flame of the candle.
"What's going on?" Daddy pretended not to know. Of course, maybe Xiaomi is not the only one who cuts this kind of paper, and it just so happens that the person cuts it almost the same as Xiaomi. But this is quite unlikely. Ordinary people will not use yellow table paper to make paper-cutting, red paper for happy events, and gold and silver foil for white events.
"It's just a little trick of the wicked, who wants to borrow paper figures to see the situation in our museum or eavesdrop on our conversations." Helian Tian said contemptuously. The paper figure in his hand was ignited by the flames, and the paper figure actually struggled and twisted its movements, as if it was about to escape from Helian Tian's hands, and it was also as if the pain of the fire made it unbearable.
This paper figure is intentional!
It's a pity that its mind is weak and its body is fragile, so it was easily stepped on by Helian Tian and caught.
Helian Tian saw his grandfather staring at the burning paper figure in a daze, thinking that he was worried and afraid, so he relieved: "Don't worry, there are more people who want to harm me, but for so many years, I haven't seen a real opponent." β
As soon as he finished speaking, a woman in black walked in, this time she did not come to his ear to whisper, and said in a somewhat anxious tone: "Master Helian, outside...... There are so many cats out there all of a sudden! Although her tone was urgent, her head was still slightly drooping, and her expression was still calm.
"Cats?" Helian Tian asked.
"Yes, Lord Helian. Many, many, many! Those cats barked outside, and they wouldn't leave no matter how much they drove them away. Our kittens heard the barking and ran over. The woman in black said.
"Kittens are not yet formed, they are very fragile, how can you let them escape?" Helian Tian said angrily.
The woman in black said, "I can't stop them, they run out of the window through the crack in the door, as if the cat outside is calling them." β
"The kitten's wildness has not been completely eliminated, and human blood has not allowed them to grow their self-control rapidly. This is understandable. But where did those cats out there come from? Why are they all coming to us all of a sudden? Helian Tian asked.
The woman in black shook her head and said, "It stands to reason that the cats in the neighborhood know how powerful Mr. Bai and Mr. Night are, and they usually don't dare to come close." These cats don't know where they came from. β
Daddy got some information from their conversation. Mr. Bai and Mr. Ye had been instructed by Helian Tian to scare or otherwise warn the nearby cats not to come to the dog meat restaurant. And Mr. Bai and Mr. Night did this to protect the kittens who had not yet cultivated into cat ghosts. These kittens are very fragile, and perhaps they must not have outside interference in the process of cultivating from an ordinary kitten to a terrifying cat ghost. This is the same as other Gu that cannot be interfered with by the outside world during the production process. In the process, they are extremely fragile and fall short if they are not careful. But once the refining is successful, it will be like a butterfly breaking out of a cocoon, like a carp jumping over the dragon gate.
"Take me there!" Helian Tian said.
Grandpa also felt strange, could it be that someone really wanted to deal with Heliantian?
Grandpa followed Helian Tian to the door of the dog meat restaurant.
As soon as he stepped out of the door of the dog meat restaurant, my father was shocked by the scene in front of him. In front of the gate is a whining cat. If there are as many kittens as flies as many as flies that pounce on the infiltrators just now, then there are as many cats as a swarm of tadpoles in a pond in spring! Cats are mostly black or gray, almost melting into the night, leaving only a faint shadow. The clear ones are the cat's eyes, some green like ghost fire, and some yellow like fireflies, which is very weird.
These cats are constantly barking, and the sound is coming and going.
"Meow ......"
"Whew......"
The cat's meow rushed towards Grandpa and Heliantian like a rising wave, splashing on the steps, walls, and eaves of the dog meat restaurant.
The cannibalistic kittens just now stopped in the open space between the dog meat restaurant and those cats, as if they wanted to throw themselves into the arms of their kind, but they were frightened by the barking of their kind, and they didn't know whether to advance or retreat.
Helian Tian said in a low voice: "These cats are not ordinary cats, they are condensed by various resentments. But I don't understand why so many resentments are gathering here. These resentments are more than the number of the whole of Baoding! β
Grandpa looked at the cat's eyes that were as green as ghost fire and yellow as fireflies floating in the night sky, and suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.
Helian Tiandao: "Since you're here, let's see if it's your ghost cats who are powerful, or my cat ghosts!" β
He turned his head to the woman in black and said, "Go and invite Mr. Bai and Mr. Ye to come!" β
The woman in black hurriedly returned to the museum, and quickly brought out two women in black who were holding Mr. Bai and Mr. Night respectively.
Helian Tian walked up to the woman in black and said apologetically, "Mr. Bai, Mr. Night, I'm really sorry, I should have let you rest." But the situation in front of you has to be driven by two people! β
The white cat and the black cat got up from the arms of the woman in black, looked at the dense cats on the opposite side, and then jumped off the woman in black. Their bodies are still fat and round, and their movements are still sluggish. But I have to say that the huge body does add momentum to them, like a tiger entering a group of cats, like a giant entering Lilliputian.
The group of cats on the opposite side saw Mr. Bai and Mr. Ye walking lazily and slowly to the open space, and actually stopped barking. It seems that they realized that these two cats with abnormal bodies were not good.
But the silent group of cats was not afraid, and all the green and yellow eyes were aimed at the two fat cats in the center of the clearing.
A cat-to-cat war is on the verge of breaking out!