Chapter 12: The Hanged Man
Night, always gives people a kind of empty fear, and its arrival makes people feel like they are being swallowed by a big mouth of a black hole.
Just like Yang Jun and the other three members of the Paranormal Research Association at this moment, it was obviously a small woodland just now, but now they can't see the edge on all sides, no matter how they go, which direction they go, they will eventually return to the original place, and what they can see is the barbecue grill used by the four people.
Yang Jun and Yang Tian followed behind Duan Hou, and Lu Qingshuang walked in front with the ghost pupil and Duan Hou, at this time, the girl's thin back suddenly had the illusion that the two behind them felt great, it was an illusion, they comforted themselves in their hearts like this, and no boy wanted to admit that he needed a girl to protect.
Suddenly, stick-like things fell quickly from the top of the tree, there were many of them, and the sound of breaking the air was endless, and the four people kept turning vigilantly, they were afraid that those things that they didn't know what would suddenly smash into their heads, smashing themselves into a blur of flesh and blood.
"Ah~" A scream sounded beside her, it was Lu Qingshuang's voice, she was already squatting on the ground, her body was trembling, and her face was buried deep between her legs with her two hands. Yang Jun also saw that what was hanging down was not something, but a hanged corpse. With so many corpses falling on the trees, anyone who sees them will have a numb scalp and even be scared to death.
The bodies of the sporadic ones swayed leisurely in the treetops, their eyes wide open, their eyeballs protruding from their sockets, and a long purple-black tongue coming down from their mouths and licking at the collar of their own clothes. What's even more terrifying is that these corpses all have no legs, the flesh and blood at the base of the two thighs are blurred, as if they were bitten off by something, and the bright red blood flows down from the corpses with a strong fishy smell, like water that has been turned on the faucet, and it can't flow cleanly.
"How can there be so many corpses?" Yang Jun only felt that his scalp was numb, and the two retreats were almost unable to support the weight of his body, not only himself, but Yang Tian was also in the same situation at the moment. Duan Hou was used to seeing ghosts, so he didn't feel weak all over, but his scalp was cold for a while, and goosebumps could almost fall to the ground, especially the strong smell of blood, and the blood flowing from dozens of corpses was enough to drown all four of them.
At this moment, Yang Jun realized what the river of blood mentioned in the book looked like, the dead branches and leaves all over the ground were dyed red by blood, and even the shoes on the ground occasionally made a sizzling sound.
"Qingshuang, use your ghost pupils to see if these are illusions." Yang Tian was anxious, he was unwilling to wait for death without being able to move, especially when he saw the pair of round eyes looking at them.
"No, it's all true, if it's an illusion, it can't make me feel scared." It was Duan Hou who spoke, and he glanced at Lu Qingshuang who was squatting on the ground, but she still buried her head in her thighs and refused to raise it, nor did she listen to Yang Tian's question about her. Duan Hou shook his head, reached into his pocket and took out a fist-sized gossip mirror, this thing is called 'Find Spirit Mirror' in Duan Hou's family, and it is one of the usual props used by many ghost-catching warlocks, people who learn the Tao do not have ghost pupils like Lu Qingshuang, and they can't directly identify where ghosts are hiding in some environments, and 'Find Spirit Mirror' is something developed by the early ghost catching masters.
I saw Duan Hou throw the 'Find Spirit Mirror' in his hand into the air, and his fingers made a gesture to attract him, and the 'Find Spirit Mirror' kept rotating between his hands, and he was chanting some incantation in his mouth. There was a flash of light, followed by several white ribbon-like objects floating out of the mirror. As soon as he floated out, he went straight to a corpse on the trunk of the tree, and just as the ribbon-like thing was about to touch the corpse in mid-air, the corpse's eyes suddenly opened, and the two black hole eyes looked directly at the four living people below.
The ribbon didn't hesitate, and directly tied up the corpse firmly, and the 'Find the Spirit Mirror' flew out of Duan Hou's hand directly and stuck it on the corpse's chest.
Duan Hou took out two small black balls from his pocket and bounced them over, "poof" two muffled sounds, and the black balls hit the two palms of the corpse, but they did not penetrate but went deep.
"Babble~" The corpse shook desperately, its mouth open, and it spat out an inhuman scream from the depths of its throat, which sounded more like an animal's cry.
"It seems to be a half-ghost, but I really didn't expect that a half-ghostly body would actually kill so many people. Luckily, this isn't the area of the First Realm. Duan Hou was talking to himself, but he was confused by the two people behind him, they could always hear fresh words from Duan Hou's mouth, and sometimes they would feel that they were people from two worlds.
"What is a half-ghost??" Seeing that Duan Hou seemed to have lowered the corpse, Yang Jun lowered his mind a little and stopped looking at the corpses on his head, and asked with his hands covering his mouth and nose.
"The half-ghost body means that the soul of a person after death has not left the body, but there is a phenomenon of mutation towards the ghost, such a ghost cannot be completely mutated, and their spiritual power will be much weaker."
"Isn't that a zombie?" Yang Tian glanced at the sturdy corpse tied above his head, then came to Lu Qingshuang's side and patted her on the back gently.
"No, a zombie is a kind of living dead whose body is stiff after death, but the consciousness is resurrected, zombies are not called ghosts, ghosts are produced by soul mutations, zombies have no souls."
The familiar laughter of "giggles" came into Yang Jun's ears again, and it raised its head suddenly, and horror instantly spread all over his face. The dozens of corpses that had been quiet just now suddenly giggled, their tongues shaking, and their eyeballs rolling down their sockets like bombs falling from the sky.
The sound of "pop pop" burst into the nerves of several people, and those eyes burst open in mid-air, and patches of blood mist filled the air, and the surrounding scenery became a little distorted.
"Quick, find the fire, there's another ghost nearby, it's using the illusion to cover our real area, and it can move away with this place when the time comes." Duan Hou became very anxious, a yellow rune paper was sandwiched between his fingers, Yang Jun immediately looked at the barbecue grill they were using when he heard that the situation was wrong, and when he was about to move, a figure next to him rushed out with a flying stride.
It was Yang Tian, but before he approached the barbecue grill, he saw that Yang Tian's feet were entangled in many vines and couldn't move, and Yang Jun, who was about to go over to take a hand, suddenly felt that his feet were very heavy, and he couldn't lift them no matter how hard he tried, and when he looked down, he saw that the vines had climbed up to his thighs.
"Hurry! It's too late! Duan Hou seemed to be unable to move because he was holding the rune paper in his hand, and could only anxiously urge in place. Yang Tian hurriedly touched into his pocket, but saw that he took out the lighter he was carrying and put it into the oven not far from him.
A half-meter-high flame was gathered with a 'rub' sound, and Duan Hou decisively shot the rune paper in his hand when he saw this, muttering in his mouth. The rune paper passed through the flames and turned into a cloud of white light hitting a tree, and the surrounding scenery immediately faded like a tide, and Yang Jun also felt that his feet were loose and he had regained his ability to move.
Yang Tian gasped and sat on the stone pier, just now if he had been a little later, the lives of the four people would have been buried here, and he couldn't help but spit out when he saw that the surroundings began to return to the appearance they had when they were in the barbecue forest. The hanging corpse was gone, and of course the lively crowd around it did not appear, and what was left was the half-ghostly body that was tied up to death by Duan Hou.
"You seem too relieved, don't you?" A woman's voice sounded, and the nerves of several people instantly tensed up again, of course, Duan Hou never relaxed from the beginning, he kept staring at a clearing without taking his eyes off.
They had all heard this voice, it was the voice that belonged to Li Hong, and sure enough, Li Hong's straight and straight body appeared in the direction that Duan Hou was looking at, it was still the old-fashioned student system, a face was in tatters, and the flesh on his face was almost gone, and he could see the white bones inside.
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