Chapter Forty-Nine: The World in the Mist
Through the light reflected by the ice in the river, I saw that the face of this person on the slope of the river embankment was pale, his skin was wrinkled together, his eyes were half-closed and half-open, and there was no luster at all... I couldn't help but gasp, who is this? It's clearly a dead body crawling out of the morgue... This is a male corpse, his facial features are twisted together, he can't tell his age, and his head is locked and locked, just like a person who has just washed his hair in winter, and he doesn't comb it, and he walks around in the ice and snow and freezes it.
Yuxin, like me, was stunned when she saw this person's appearance clearly. Neither of them could figure out what was going on in front of them, could it be that this was the thing that called us in their sleep? How did this dead man live? …
I have this image in my mind... In the gloomy and lonely county hospital, the door of the morgue slowly opened, and a dead body quietly walked out, through the small door, to the hospital's guest house. Then, I went up the stairs of the guest house to the second floor and came to the door of Yuxin's room... Yuxin, who was asleep, heard a 'person' calling her outside the door, got up in a daze, got out of the house, followed the dead man, and came to the door of my room. Hearing the call, I got up and walked outside, only to stumble over the bag containing the magic weapon and wake up. So, the dead man took Yuxin and left alone...
I had a creepy feeling, the pores of my whole body opened open, and I raised my arm and pointed the seven-star sword at the dead body.
"Are you a human or a ghost?!"
I asked out loud, and when I was done, I felt a little bolder. The corpse stood upright, its clothes crumpled and wrapped around its body, and though there was no light in its eyes, I could feel it, it was looking at me...
Master once told me that if you are walking at night and you encounter a ghost in the way, and the other person looks at you with their eyes, then you must not take your eyes off it, and you must look at it bravely. That way, the ghosts won't dare to attack you, and then you can find a chance to get out or attack...
Thinking of this, my eyes widened and I stared at the dead corpse's eyes. I didn't know what it was, so I didn't dare to attack.
It was like this for about two or three minutes, and I whispered, "Yuxin." ”
"Huh?" Yuxin responded nervously.
"Don't be afraid." I took a slow breath, "Behind me." ”
Yuxin seemed to nodded, retreated a little bit, retreated, and jumped behind me with a 'rub'. My heart jumped a little, but fortunately, the dead body didn't pounce.
"Good," I licked my cold, chapped lips, "I'll count to three, and you'll step back with me." ”
"Hmm."
"One... Two... Three, retreat. ”
I protected Yuxin, staring at the dead man, and retreated, and finally retreated down the slope of the embankment, and with a turn, retreated south along the river. I was secretly relieved to see that it was still standing there farther and farther away from the dead man.
Suddenly, I heard Yuxin behind me 'oops', and then said, "Ah Leng be careful." ”
Before I could react to what was going on, I felt my heel tripped over something, stumbled, and fell backwards, and Yuxin reached out to help me.
At this moment, I saw the dead body in the distance 'thump' and lie straight on the slope.
"Ah Leng, what is it doing here?" Yuxin asked in a low voice.
"I don't know..."
Before I could say anything, I saw the dead body crawling in our direction along the river embankment, in a very strange posture, like a big frog, as for the degree, it was about the same as the degree of the mummy guards crawling in the American blockbuster "The Mummy 2"...
"Yuxin, run!"
I pulled Yuxin and turned around and ran, and just a few steps after running, something suddenly jumped down from the river embankment, blocking our way. I fixed my eyes and saw that it was the dead body from before, and after it landed, it stretched out its arms and pinched at Yuxin.
"Be careful!"
I yelled, raised my foot and kicked. This kick up, it felt like kicking on a hard iron plate, the ankle 'clicked', the calf was almost broken, the whole person was ejected backwards two or three meters, fell heavily to the ground, and the sky was spinning, seeing the dead body rushing towards Yu Xin again, Yu Xin flashed to the side and dodged a blow.
I leapt to my feet, reached for a solitary rune, and struck at the corpse, which avoided its side. I threw myself in front of me and slashed at the dead body, which didn't do anything at all, but it slowed it down. I picked up Yuxin and ran north.
The wind sounded in his ears, and he didn't know if the dead body had chased after him, and he ran for nearly half a mile in one breath. Finally, I couldn't run anymore, and when I looked back, I saw that the dead body was also running, and it was only sixty or seventy meters away from us.
Yu Xin couldn't help but cry out 'ah', and I was so frightened that I dragged Yu Xin to continue running. I didn't run 100 meters again, and Yuxin suddenly pulled me back.
"What's wrong?" I asked, gasping for breath.
Yuxin stretched out her hand, I looked ahead, my eyes almost didn't fall, only to see that there was a fog floating in front of us about ten meters away... That ghost fog last night!
Yuxin and I glanced at each other, and in a hurry, I pointed west, "Go!" ”
He Yuxin rushed to the bottom of the embankment, and I secretly screamed in my heart, the embankment in this area is high and steep, almost vertical. We had no choice, so I thrust the seven-star sword into my waist, jumped to the embankment, and after a few steps, the soles of my feet slid violently. In desperation, I reached out and grabbed an aerial root that had emerged from the mud of the riverbank. At this time, Yuxin also climbed up and grabbed the other one.
The two of them dragged the aerial roots and climbed up, these aerial roots on the embankment were frozen hard and brittle, only one step was climbed, and the one in my hand was broken with a 'boom', and then, Yuxin's root was also broken, and both of them fell.
Fortunately, the clothes I was wearing were thick, but my internal organs were almost out of place, and I struggled to get up with Yuxin, and just as I was holding them together, the dead body fell in front of us with a 'whirl'.
I hurriedly pulled out the seven-star sword, and the horizontal sword was used as my chest to protect Yuxin. To my surprise, the corpse didn't come at us. Between me and it, we fell into the same stalemate as before.
Just as my mind was in a hurry and I was thinking about what to do, I saw something vague emerge from the body of the dead body, it was a person, a person in ancient clothes... When the man came out, the dead body fell to the ground.
It dawned on me that the reason why this corpse moved was because an ancient dead ghost had possessed it... Suddenly, I felt something lick my neck, and when I was startled, I looked back and saw that the fog had unconsciously drifted behind me and Yuxin. As soon as I saw it, it was pitch black in front of my eyes, and I couldn't see anything...
"Ah Leng, Ah Leng, where are you? Yuxin's voice seemed to come from the sky.
"I'm here! …”
I reached out to touch it, and felt that I felt a person, vaguely Yuxin, and hurriedly pulled her into my arms.
"Ah Leng, where are we?"
"In the ghost fog, don't be afraid, good..."
I looked around and couldn't see anything at all, "Let's go and see." ”
I hugged Yuxin and groped my way forward, feeling that after walking for a while, the darkness in front of me was still endless.
"Ah Leng, can the Jade Goddess break this fog?" Yuxin asked.
"Silly girl." I smiled bitterly, "Although you are the medium, the Jade Goddess can only be invited once in her life." ”
"Are we going to be trapped to death?"
"I'd like to think of something else."
As soon as I finished speaking, I felt a softness under my feet.
"What's going on?" I was taken aback.
"I don't know." Yuxin said.
Soft and soft, my feet suddenly emptied, and Yuxin and I fell down leisurely. It was a feeling of being both real and illusory, like a dream.
"Ah Leng, are we dead? When the whereabouts are in the end, will you go to the underworld? Yuxin asked.
"Don't talk nonsense..."
I don't know what kind of situation this is, but fortunately there is a Yuxin by my side, if it were me, I would definitely collapse. I don't know how long it took to fall, but from the senses, it seemed that it had been a long time, and my feet touched the ground, and then, my eyes lit up, and I saw Yuxin.
"Where are we?" Yuxin asked.
Looking around, I was immediately frozen, and there was a strange world in front of me. It was gray, the sky was extremely low, the sun could not be seen, and everywhere was barren.
"Listen, what's the sound?" Yuxin said.
I pricked up my ears and faintly heard a lot of shouts and shouts.
"Let's go and have a look."
I mustered up my courage, took Yuxin in my arms, and followed the voice, and the more I walked, the louder it became. Turning over a wide and long dirt slope, there is a wide ditch in front of him, and in the ditch, countless people are digging the soil, these people are shirtless, old and young. There were also overseers, walking around with long whips.
Yuxin and I looked at each other.
"Is this... Could this be the case when the Grand Canal was dug in the first place? I looked around in horror, "Where the hell are we?!" ”
Suddenly, in a simple house on the dirt slope, several overseers came out, and the first one was vaguely familiar.
"What are you going to do?!" They came to me, and I asked warily.
I couldn't understand a word of what these people were saying. Suddenly, I remembered who this person I knew was, the 'man' who had come out of the corpse. Vaguely, I seem to understand what's going on...
One of the overseers came up to me and shoved a pointed shovel of strange shape into my hand. The rest of the people stared at Yu Xin in a daze.
"What do you mean, the reason why you brought me here was to let me work as a river worker?" I smiled.
The man seemed to understand me, snorted, and pointed at me, then at the river. Then, he pointed at Yuxin again, made a hugging motion, shrugged his lower body, and shrugged again. The rest of the overseers grinned, baring their black teeth.
I was furious, "Go home and shrug your mother!" ”
A shovel slapped on the overseer's head, and I didn't expect that this shovel would go down and actually slap his head off, and 'Gollum' rolled into the river...
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