Chapter 44: River Horror
I straddled the bag of the magic vessel over my shoulder, and walked out of the Land Temple with Yuxin.
"Is it cold?" I asked Yuxin.
"It's fine."
Seeing Yuxin shrinking her neck like a child, I couldn't help but smile, shook my head, and reached out to help her pull up the fur collar of her coat. Heading east, we came to the canal embankment.
"Ah Leng, do you want to cross the river?" Yuxin asked.
I thought for a moment, "It's not a river, let's go south first..."
Yuxin and I walked all the way south along the river embankment, and since there was no wind, the atmosphere was very peaceful. The white breath from our mouths and noses drifted into the river. I couldn't help but be a little startled at the thought that I might go somewhere in a minute, and suddenly I would see the child's soul. In order to divert my thinking, I looked at Yuxin through the reflection of the ice in the river.
"What are you laughing at?" Yuxin glanced at me.
"No, hehe, I just think that after you dotted this cinnabar mole on your eyebrows, it is very similar to the female disciple of the Emei faction in "Heaven and Dragon Slayer"."
"Is there a copy of Su Youpeng?"
"Of course."
Yu Xin pulled down her collar, and Ying Ying made a blessing, "The little woman Emei sent Zhou Zhiruo and saw Leng Gongzi." ”
I smiled 'haha' and said, "Dare to ask Senior Sister, but exterminate the old nun?" ”
"I'll kick you to death, don't run! …”
After running a hundred and ten meters to the south, I felt less cold, and the tension in my heart was gone, so I stopped, 'snorting' and panting.
I saw Yuxin staring at the embankment in a daze, so I asked, "What are you thinking?" ”
"Huh?" Yu Xin smiled back, "It's nothing... Let's go. ”
We didn't see the child's soul until we came to a stone bridge to the south, and it seemed that we were really going to cross the river. Looking south at night, I saw willow trees planted on the river embankment to the south, which were very thick, and they should have been very old.
"Let's go, let's cross the river." I waved my hand.
This is a very old, long stone arch bridge, on the stone bridge, not a few steps, Yuxin suddenly reached out and grabbed me.
I was startled, "What's wrong?" ”
Yuxin stretched out her finger and pointed to the south, lowered her voice, and said nervously, "I saw something that seemed to flash from behind that tree." ”
I glanced at it, "Which one?" ”
"That..."
I looked over, it was dark, and I didn't see anything.
"You read that right?" I asked.
Yuxin shook her head.
I fixed my mind and said, "Don't be afraid, let's go, let's go and see." ”
I took Yuxin down from the stone bridge and headed south, and soon came to the bottom of the tree, turned on the flashlight, and it was empty, shining above the top of the tree, and there was nothing.
"What did you just see, what does it look like?" I asked in a low voice.
"It's gone in a flash, I didn't see it at all..."
I looked around, and the embankment in this area should not be crowded with people on a normal basis, and it was full of dead grass and broken branches. The willow trees on the embankment are about five or six meters apart.
"That child's soul may not have crossed the river, it is estimated that it is in this area, let's go south and take a look."
Yu Xin followed me, around the willow trees, and walked about sixty-seven meters to the south, I suddenly stopped, turned around, and couldn't help but retreat, because I saw that about two meters behind Yu Xin, followed by a 'person'! … It was a 'little child', vaguely the man's son, vague, like the image of an old slide projector on the wall...
"Ah Leng, what's wrong?" Yuxin asked nervously.
"Don't be afraid, don't look backwards..."
As I spoke, I crouched down, pulled the red rope out of my pocket, and moved it towards the 'image' little by little. I felt my arms stiff because of the tension.
In just two or three meters, I moved for four or five minutes, and finally approached the 'child'.
I didn't even dare to get out of the air, and slowly straightened up a little, just as I was about to use the red rope to trap 'this child'. His 'gaze' suddenly shot at me, and a chill twitched in my back, and I shivered...
At that moment, the 'child' shook a few times, and then drifted into the river like a cloud of smoke.
At this time, Yuxin also saw 'him' and was shocked.
"Go, chase!"
We ran down the slope down the river in one go, stepping on the ice, and running a full half mile south. 'Whoop' stopped, the river was quite wide, and looking around, the 'child' didn't know where to go.
"Alen, there." Yuxin said.
Following Yuxin's fingers, I saw a small 'person' floating in the middle of the river in the distance, vaguely the child.
I pulled Yuxin and leaned towards 'him' step by step. When I was about seven or eight meters away, there was a sudden 'horn' sound under my feet. My heart throbbed, and I hurriedly stopped, the sound just now was the sound of the ice cracking... For someone like me who doesn't have a good sense of water, the ice cracking and falling into the water is much more terrifying than ghosts and the like. Although Yuxin has good water quality, this kind of weather, falling into the water is not a joke, so she is also very nervous.
Suddenly, there was another 'horn' sound, and the roots of my head stood up, and I only felt that my legs were weak.
Yuxin suddenly said, "Ah Leng, sit down!" ”
Sitting has a larger force area than standing, I nodded and sat down. I don't feel the taste of sitting on the ice, and although I wear it very thickly, I can still feel the coolness jumping up from under my buttocks. The 'horn' sound was gone, and I looked down to see a crack in the ice between my legs, stretching in the direction of the 'child'.
The 'child' was still standing there, and the short distance of seven or eight meters in front of him seemed to have become an insurmountable moat.
"Ah Leng, what should I do?" Yuxin asked.
I shook my head.
"Is there a way to recruit 'him'?"
The one used to summon ghosts in Qimen is nothing more than the 'Jade Girl's Anti-Closure Technique', but at the moment, this 'child' is not a ghost, and I don't know if it will work for him. There was no other way, so I decided to give it a try.
I took a deep breath, calmed down, steadied my feelings, pinched the finger of the sword in my right hand, pointed at the 'child', and recited the mantra. Once, twice, three times, it didn't work, the 'child' didn't move, and I was about to recite it a fourth time when I suddenly heard a faint 'snort' sound.
"What sound?" I turned my head to look at Yuxin.
"It seems," Yuxin pointed to the ice, "it seems to come out from here." ”
Below? … I bent down to make a faint 'snort' sound that seemed to come down the crack in the ice between my legs.
As soon as I looked up, I saw the 'child' floating in our direction. I was overjoyed, and I couldn't distinguish the 'snort', and when I saw the 'child' coming to me, I hurriedly used a set of red ropes, and the 'child' disappeared.
I didn't dare to pause, hurriedly tied the red rope to my ankle, let out a long breath, and reached out to push Yuxin.
"It's okay, Yuxin, let's go."
Yu Xin didn't move.
"Yuxin?"
"Ah Leng, look there!"
I turned my head to look, and there was a 'buzzing' sound in my head, and I saw that the place where the 'child' was standing was somehow floating in a cloud of fog.
The fog was moving slowly towards us as if it were alive. The thought of the 'snort' sound from before made the tendons in my head swell. This fog must have come out of this crack in the ice. My mind is spinning fast, could it be that there are ghosts in this river, and I have been summoned by reciting the 'Jade Girl's Anti-Closure Technique'? …
In the blink of an eye, the fog was only three or four meters away. I suddenly realized that there was indeed something in the fog, it was one by one, the first one, dressed neatly, carrying a whip in his hand, and the back, hunched over, all shirtless... I suddenly thought of what the teahouse owner said, looking at the situation, these 'people' in the fog are dead ghosts who died in the river when the Grand Canal was dug back then...
I quickly pulled out a 'Lonely Void Rune' from my bag and struck at the fog. In a trance, I saw that the 'person' raised the whip at the moment, and it seemed to hit the talisman, and the talisman flew back to me with a 'whoosh', and I stretched out my arm and copied it in my hand.
It may be because these 'people' have been dead for too long, and the 'Lonely Void Rune' does not bring out its power, and it does not work against 'them' at all. Even so, the mist that the talisman had blocked stopped moving.
I shoved the talisman into my pocket and shouted, "Yuxin, run!" ”
The two of them turned around and ran towards the riverbank, just a few steps away, there was a loud 'horn' under my feet, I was taken aback, my footing was unstable, and I fell, Yuxin reached out to pull me, and also fell, and the two slid out four or five meters away. The 'gurgling' sound continued, and depending on the situation, the ice could break at any moment.
"Can't run anymore." Yuxin pointed towards the riverbank, "Ah Leng, let's roll over!" ”
I nodded, rolled over with Yuxin, and headed towards the riverbank. Both of them have skills, and the clothes are very thick and do not hurt, so it is not difficult to roll.
When the river bank was finally in sight, I straightened up and jumped for life, and Yuxin pushed me from behind to help me jump to the shore. As soon as my feet hit the ground, I heard a 'pop' sound, and the ice broke. Fortunately, the water here by the river bank is not deep, and Yuxin only fell into the water with only two legs.
"Hurry up!"
Yuxin grabbed my outstretched hand, and I tugged hard to pull her up. Looking from afar, I saw that the fog had not yet dissipated, and was drifting in the river.
We didn't dare to pause, and ran back to the temple in one go. The candle had already burned for the most part, and the man was crouching beside the altar, and when he saw us returning, he hurriedly got up and stood up.
"How?" The man asked.
I looked down at my ankles, and the red rope was still there, so I nodded.
"You can save my son now, right?"
I looked at my phone, then at Yuxin, and saw that she was squatting on the ground, holding her hands on her chest, shivering.
"There's no hurry." I said to the man, "It's still early in the morning, please go out first." ”
The man didn't say a word, and walked out. I closed the temple door, pulled Yuxin up from the ground, and couldn't help but say, follow me.
When I got to the corner of the temple house, I picked up a wooden plank and put it on the ground, "Sit down." ”
"What?"
"Let you sit down."
Yuxin pouted and sat down. I took off her boots and pulled down my socks, only to see that her feet were not bloody, white and blue, and cold as ice.
"Hey, you bastard, what are you doing..."
"Don't move."
I pulled the zipper of my down jacket down, grabbed Yuxin's feet, and put it in my arms... Yu Xin struggled a few times and then didn't move, her face like a red apple.
"Stupid, isn't it cool?"
I laughed but didn't answer, and after a while, asked, "Are you better?" ”
Yuxin didn't seem to dare to look at me and nodded. I took her feet out, she bowed down, stroked the air at her feet with her hands, sniffed, and said, Your stomach stinks to death.
I smiled, got up and went outside, found some loose wooden boards, went back to the temple, and lit a fire next to Yuxin.
"You don't move here and dry your clothes, okay?"
"Hmm..."Yu Xin nodded faintly.
When I came to the middle of the temple house, I shouted outside, "Big brother, come in." ”
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