Chapter Seventy-Four: Walking Corpses
I suddenly thought of the elusive "third brother", if it was him, it was very similar to his style of acting, for the past two years, he has been wandering around Mizusawa Village, and I don't know what the conspiracy is, this time there are nine family generals, but it is not so easy to escape.
Chang Butong neither affirmed nor denied, but just ordered us to hide the three corpses first, and then let me, Runzi, and Long Yiming pretend to be corpses, and he waited for the grimacing old man in a hidden place.
Midnight is approaching, my heart can't help but get nervous, and there may be a fierce battle later, thinking of the vicious methods of the "third brother", I unconsciously clench my fists and wait solemnly.
Minutes and seconds passed, except for the rustling of leaves as they were blown by the wind, only the sound of deliberately muffled breathing.
Tonight is destined to be a restless day, even the moon and stars in the sky are obscured, heralding the coming confrontation.
Suddenly, I heard footsteps approaching not far away, one foot deep and one shallow, and it seemed that there was a third foot landing at the same time, limping, extremely abnormal.
I concluded that Chang Butong also felt something strange, but there was still no next move, and we had to hold still.
After a while, I only heard Chang Butong's "swish" popping out of the bushes, bringing a gust of wind around me, which showed that he had used all his strength.
It came so suddenly that I didn't have time to react, but I could feel the change of events. I immediately got up from the ground and kept up with Chang Butong's footsteps, and when Junko saw me get up, she jumped up from the ground with a "bang", and she was babbling as if she was going to fight.
After running about five or six meters away, Junzi and I stopped, and the flashlight shone on the two people who appeared on the opposite side - Chang Butong and Qiao'er.
Why did Qiao'er come here, and one of her feet was injured, she used the god flag as a crutch, and Chang Butong was walking towards us with her support.
Walking into us, Long Yiming didn't know when he ran out from the side, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, what did I miss?" ”
Chang Butong waved his hand and said two bad news one after another: "We fell for the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and Daoist Qin was arrested." ”
We couldn't believe that the enemy was so cunning, and that there was something else in the shadows that we didn't know, and I felt very uncomfortable wearing a transparent garment, completely exposed to the enemy's eyes.
I don't know whether to say words of comfort or anger at my enemies.
We all looked at Qiao'er, hoping to learn a thing or two from her.
She told us that the stone temple had been opened shortly after we had gone, and that she thought we had come back so soon, and that she had come back to see that it was a stranger. At first, the man was polite, but more and more felt that something was wrong, the man dodged his words, asked questions, and kept wearing a hat on his head, afraid of being seen as if he was dodging, half of the pockmarked face loomed, and it was impossible for people to look at it directly. Qiao'er knew very well that this was the gathering place of the Nine Gates, and outsiders could not know about it at all, let alone enter at will, so she instinctively was a little wary of this stranger. Just now, Qin Ling heard the sound and walked from the valley to the cave, as soon as the two met, they competed without saying a word, and finally Qin Ling's old injury recurred and was attacked by that person, hit him in the head and fainted. At this time, Qiao'er also came to help, but after a fight, he was naturally defeated, but the man did not make a ruthless move, only took away the seriously ill Qin Ling, and left Qiao'er to report to us, as for the purpose of taking Qin Ling away, he did not explain.
That's how it happened, and Qiao'er picked out the key descriptions, and when we tried to ask her what message the man had left, she became delirious due to the effects of her injuries in the fight.
Now I can only go back to the stone temple and discuss the next plan.
Before they went back, they had forgotten that there were still three dried corpses that had not been disposed of, so I reminded, "Master, what about the corpses of the three tomb robbers?" ”
Chang Butong then remembered, and after thinking about it for a while, he said, "Well, you guys bring the body back first, so that the islanders will find out that my identity will be exposed." ”
After speaking, Chang Butong continued to help Qiao'er walk out of the woods.
Only the three of us were left in the room, looking at each other.
Long Yiming yawned and said lazily: "One person, no one wants to fall." With that, he turned and walked back.
I glanced at him, and made a small calculation in my heart, no wonder I didn't see him come over for the first time just now, it turned out that he was asleep, too lacking in heart and eyes, and had to cure his stinky problem. As soon as I thought of the three disgusting dried corpses, the stench on my back had been washed off for ten days and half a month, so I tugged at the corner of Runzi's clothes and whispered, "Runzi, let your master carry the three dried corpses, how about we slip away first?" ”
"That's not good, let him know that I have this mind, and he must kill me." Junko shook her head repeatedly.
I thought about it for a while, had a plan, and whispered a few words in Junzi's ear, he looked at me embarrassed, and then looked at Long Yiming in front of him, and nodded reluctantly.
I didn't play a trick, but used a special spell in the "Thirty-six Techniques of Taoism", and the reason why I was asked to use it at this moment was also due to the current environment and Long Yiming's attitude.
Walking corpses, originated from a vein in Xiangxi, after improvement is easier to manipulate, only need to be on the yin and yang down, turbidity between the dispersion and clear qi (referring to midnight), the corpse needs the body of a child, will drop the blood of pure yang in the eyebrows of the corpse, blow the pure yang qi in the mouth of the corpse, with the charm to cover the eyes, when the charm is withdrawn is the time to abandon the corpse, remember not to repeat on the same corpse, otherwise it will be reversed.
Long Yiming had already moved the three corpses out of the haystack, I gave Runzi a look, he walked up to Long Yiming, told me my method, he smiled happily, and asked me to hurry up and cast the spell.
I deliberately wondered: "Senior Dragon, this is the first time I have used the corpse technique, and what I need is pure yang blood, but the blood of me and Runzi is useless, only your blood is the purest and most yang here, can you contribute a little?" ”
Long Yiming thought for a moment and asked rhetorically, "Why do I think that this pure yang blood refers to the blood of a child, you didn't lie to me?" ”
I was secretly surprised, this old boy knew a lot, but how could he be so easy to see through, so he denied: "Of course not, the blood of pure yang refers to the blood on the tip of the tongue, I can see that there is no one else here with the most yang energy except you, I don't dare to lie to you No, hey, the time is delayed, you don't want to carry the stinky corpse all the way!" ”
Long Yiming squeezed his eyebrows, patted his thigh, and agreed. As soon as I saw the play, I hurriedly took out three yellow talismans from my body and pasted them on the eyes of the three corpses one by one, waiting for him to drip blood and blow air.
Long Yiming lifted the head of a corpse and swallowed his saliva, only to see him bite the tip of his tongue, lick the eyebrows of the corpse with his hand, then break its mouth, get close and spit out, and throw it on the ground in annoyance, and then draw gourds on the other two corpses in the same way, waiting for a reaction.