Chapter Seventy-Eight: Desperate Pursuit

I pursued the sedan chair with almost all my strength, but as in the first half of the night, the sedan chair was a little ridiculously fast, all the way out of the old forest, and then moved so fast along a path next to the forest that I was afraid that I would not be able to keep up. However, the more you are afraid of something, the more you will come, and you will chase about a mile away, although the sedan chair is still in sight, the distance is getting bigger and bigger, and if you chase it like this, you will have to chase it sooner or later.

"Don't push too hard." Maitreya probably felt that the situation was unclear, and there would be some unexpected outcome if he chased after him, so he persuaded me as he ran: "If we can't catch up, we won't chase it, go back to the strong man in the forest, if he doesn't die, you can still force a little result." ”

I don't answer, but I don't stop at all. Maitreya is not me, and he can't experience the feeling of not being able to find Qiqi. The old ghost entrusts me with this one thing, take care of Qiqi, if Qiqi can't find it, am I worthy of the old ghost? The faster the sedan chair, the heavier the innate stubbornness in my bones, gritting my teeth and chasing desperately.

But sometimes, one thing doesn't mean that you can change it if you do your best. I kept chasing after it, but the sedan chair ran faster and faster, and was about to leave sight and disappear into the darkness in the distance.

Just as I was discouraged, a man suddenly stood up far ahead. The man was not tall, carrying an ash pole almost two meters long, I couldn't see his appearance clearly, I could only see him slowly standing from the side of the road to the middle of the road, faintly blocking the way of the sedan chair to escape.

The man was as steady as a mountain, with one hand crossed on his waist and the other hand holding an ash pole of more than two meters, standing majestically in the middle of the road. The sedan chair ran very fast, and in a blink of an eye it reached the man, and the four short-legged things turned their heads and wanted to rush over in one breath.

Just as the sedan chair was about to rush past the man, he took a sharp breath, grabbed the ash pole with both hands, and swept it sideways with a stick. I can't tell how much strength this person has, the stick is extremely fierce, and with a click, the two short-legged things in front of the sedan chair and the sedan bar in front of the sedan chair are broken in two. The ash pole is the strongest wood, and when a stick goes down, it is like destroying and decaying, and almost the whole sedan chair is broken up.

The sedan chair fell to the ground with a bang, and as soon as it was sluggish, Maitreya and I had already run over. It was only when I got closer that I could see the man clearly.

He has a face that makes people's scalp tingle when they look at it, I don't know if he has any disease, or he has been burned by fire, the skin and flesh of that face are pulled together, the nose and ears are gone, and there are a few hairs left on his head, which is ugly to death∡ when he meets such a person at night, he must be frightened and scattered.

The man who was so ugly that I felt frightened slowly withdrew the ash pole, his eyes almost obscured by the eyelids that were pulled together, and I couldn't see much. I don't know who he is, and I don't know him, but judging by the situation in front of me, it looks like he's helping me and Maitreya.

I ran to the sedan chair, just as the blind old man staggered out of the half-collapsed sedan chair, and the extremely ugly man didn't say anything, took his stick, turned and left. His steps were unhurried, but he walked very fast, and in the blink of an eye, there was only a vague back left. Actually, I wanted to ask him, but when the blind old man crawled out, he got up and tried to escape, and Maitreya snorted, walked over and kicked him down.

Taking this opportunity, I saw four short-legged things carrying the sedan chair, the two in front of the sedan chair had been beaten by the man with a stick, and the two behind the sedan chair were still intact. It was only then that I noticed that the two short-legged objects were fastened to the sedan bar, and when their clothes were removed, they could be seen covered with a dusty skin.

The hatred in my heart, no matter what it was, pulled off the broken sedan bar in front of me, and smashed the two short-legged guys hard, they were fixed on the sedan chair, they couldn't dodge, and the two short legs kicked quickly. As soon as the stick went down, there was a sound of wood being cracked.

"Wooden man?" I hesitated for a moment, for I could clearly see that the two short-legged fellows had been smashed as if their bones were broken, and that stubble of broken wood had poked out from under the dusty skin.

"This seems to be the craft of the living Luban family." Maitreya grabbed the blind old man's back collar tightly and said, "If you have anything, ask him first, so as not to have any accidents after a long night." ”

"Is it from the living Luban family?" I thought about it, in the thirty-six side doors of the river beach, Huo Luban is one of them, they are similar to the paper man Zhang's family, they were originally serious craftsmen, because of chance, they stepped into the rivers and lakes, and integrated into the thirty-six side doors. The living Luban family claims to be the real Luban descendant, but in fact, it is not the case at all, but their family's craftsmanship has been passed down from generation to generation, and they are very skilled and superb.

Maitreya and I took the blind old man and walked to the side of the road, the blind old man hummed and chirped and pretended to be a dead dog, and refused to say anything, Maitreya asked him if he was a member of the living Luban family, but the blind old man did not answer, so he asked a few words, I was angry, pulled a rope from Maitreya and tied the old man, and then hung on the tree.

"Say what you have to say." Maitreya looked at the old man with a smile and said, "Suffer less." ”

"Hmph." The blind old man was very uncomfortable when he was hanged, but his mouth was as hard as a stone, and he opened his eyes that were not blind, and spat out: "When I raised my head to mix, you two cubs were still in my mother's belly, and you wanted to scare me?" ”

"I won't scare you!" I took out the knife on my body, walked over in one step, stabbed and tore the blind old man's shirt, the knife forced his heart, and said word by word: "If you say a word hard, I will peel your skin!" ”

"You try"

As soon as I gritted my teeth, the knife stabbed forward, pierced two fingers deep, and pulled down hard, and a three-inch-long cut was suddenly cut on the blind old man's chest. My face was flushed, my brain was a little hot, and if the blind old man had been so stiff-mouthed that he wouldn't say anything, I think I might have stabbed him to death.

"Say it or not!" I continue to work harder, there is no reason to talk about such a person who abuses the lives of others at will, how to treat the wicked and evil? Only worse than him, I took the knife and continued to cut, and the deep cut continued to lengthen.

The blind old man trembled a few times, and was finally frightened, and those who kill ruthlessly are not necessarily afraid of death.

I withdrew my knife and glared at him viciously, and Maitreya told me to dissipate my anger, saying that it was not worth being angry with this person. I began to ask the blind old man to explain the matter of the sedan chair.

Maitreya was right, this blind old man was a member of the Luban family. Their sedan chair, called the Yin and Yang sedan chair, is said to be framed in advance, and then covered with a whole human skin, and then installed four short-legged wooden ghosts, running fast, this kind of sedan chair can sit people, can also sit ghosts, and will not be followed by dirty things when passing through the cemetery. Faster than the horse, in the past, the leading figures in the Luban family went out of the house, and never at least took the boat, but took this kind of sedan chair.

When I asked about Qiqi, the blind old man hesitated, for I was afraid that he would lie and force him with a knife. The blind old man was tied behind his back and twisted into a twisted pattern, dodging the knife in my hand with all his might, while loudly arguing that he really didn't know where Qiqi was.

But there is no doubt that Qiqi was taken away by the people of the living Luban family.

"Why take her!"

The blind old man is not the lamp of the living Luban family, there are some things he doesn't know, these days, the living Luban family has been working together with the Lu butcher family of the thirty-six side doors, and he peeled the skin to make a sedan chair in this locust forest.

"That's pretty rare." Maitreya had been listening, and at this time he couldn't help but interject: "How did the first three generations of the Lu Butcher's family die?" Didn't you secretly find the lotus woman borrowed by the people of Yinshan Road and the paper man Zhang family? Blocking people in a bathhouse and killing them? This is a feud, and you have been liquidated in the past few decades? Will Butcher Lu's family join forces with you? It's funny, your mother's funny. ”

"True! It's true! The blind old man looked at the blood that couldn't stop flowing on his chest, his tone was panicked, and he explained repeatedly, he said that this was indeed the case, the strong man who skinned people in the locust forest was from the Lu butcher's family.

"Two feuds! How to say that joining forces is joining forces! ”

The blind old man is like a toad, he has to ask a question before he can say a word, and he has no choice but to explain a thing, which surprised me a little.

The matter of the 36th side door of the Yellow River Beach, I once heard Bazimei say. Time has passed, the seven doors are not the original seven gates, the thirty-six side doors are not the original thirty-six side doors, the recognized leader in the thirty-six side doors, and the Hu family in Huangshachang has already eaten the public meal. Like the Seven Gates, the thirty-six side gates have long been scattered into a plate of sand, each taking care of itself.

But just some time ago, someone secretly connected and reunited the thirty-six side doors together. Inside the side door, more than a dozen have completely disappeared with the dust of history, and the remaining more than 20 have long been on their own.

"It's very light." Maitreya said: "Those more than 20 people have been mixed for so many years, one is more slippery than the other, who has such a great ability to reunite them together?" ”

The blind old man said that at the beginning, when the living Luban's family received the news, they were very unimpressed, and even scoffed, but not long after, not only their family, but also the other 20 or so families, there were accidents one after another, and people continued to die, people died, and no reason could be found, inexplicable.

This must be a kind of deterrent, a big family like Paper Man Zhang, still wants to catch the murderer secretly, but within a few days, the palm lamp of the family died in the bedroom, and the death was quite strange, and he died on the ground with a horse step, and he urinated on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, in the other side doors, the palm lamp and the direct children died one after another, and in the end, no one could stand it anymore and began to compromise, until everyone reached a consensus, and the person in charge of the series appeared in public for the first time.

"Who is in charge of the series?"

The blind old man is not a palm lamp, so he doesn't know the specific situation when the series is connected, and on that occasion, only the palm lamp in the family is eligible to participate. However, the blind old man has a high rank in the living Luban family, and he is still the uncle in charge of the lamp. Afterwards, the lamp mentioned a few words to the blind old man.

The blind old man looked at us and said, "It's from the west." ”