Chapter 31: Ghosts on a Rainy Night

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Ryazan's words were not answered for a long time, but after a while, the footprints on the ground disappeared completely, little by little. I saw that Ryazan closed his eyes slightly, and he exhaled a long breath, showed a smile, and said: "The ghost agreement has been reached, and I also know the meaning of the Taishi chair on a moonlit night and looking for ghosts." ”

I don't know why, but later, I heard Old Man Yuan tell me that the so-called ghost covenant refers to one body and two souls. To put it in the popular vernacular, that is, the ghost upper body, the living Ryazan promised to fulfill his last wish for the dead Yongguo ancestor Ba Ran, but Ba Ran did not trust Ryazan, so he reached a ghost covenant with him, if Ryazan kept his promise by then, then, Ba Ran's soul will directly leave Ryazan's body and have a past life; If Ryazan does not keep his promise, then Baran's soul will forever be entangled in Ryazan's body until he is tortured to death.

This is also to dissuade Ryazan from signing the ghost covenant, because the ghost covenant is fundamentally an unfair contract, and its initiative is completely in the hands of Ba Ran, so even if Ryazan keeps his promise and Ba Ran is unwilling to leave Ryazan's body, there is no way.

It is precisely because Ryazan's body is now in a unique state of one body and two souls, so he can communicate with Balan in his own body, which is why he immediately understood the meaning of the sentence "The Moonlit Night Taishi Chair, Looking for Ghosts and Shadows".

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It was already midnight, and the heavy rain in the Shennongjia area seemed to have no intention of stopping for a moment, the muffled thunder in the air, the occasional lightning, and the surging rain fell from the sky like a monstrous beast, smashing down on the trees and the land, and seemed to send out a trace of sorrow. Deep in the mountains and old valleys, you can hear the "cooing" of frogs from time to time.

All of us were now in this room, only Ryazan sat on the chair, and everyone else stood around the chair, the red wooden door was blown by the wind, but no one paid any attention to it, and everyone held their breath and was on full alert, looking forward to what was going to happen next.

Time passed minute by minute, and through the crack in the door, we saw the black and oppressive distant mountains and deformed trees outside the door, the shadows of the trees with teeth and claws, some like a hunchbacked old man, some like a hanged woman, all kinds of things, all kinds of strange.

We all felt a little strange in our hearts, and our hearts said that it wasn't the "Moonlit Night Taishi Chair", but how could there be any moon on this rainy night? However, Ryazan's explanation to us was that when my father, Jiang Daolin and others came here, the phenomenon they encountered was somewhat accidental.

Ryazan tells us that the Baran within him told him that ghosts appear every night to guide those who want to gain immortality. When we asked who those ghosts were, Ryazan said that this Baran didn't know either, so we had no choice but to wait.

However, the time waited until one o'clock in the morning and there was no response outside the door, just when all of us were a little tired, suddenly, there was a "click" outside the door, and a huge lightning bolt was like a giant dragon, lying across the dark night sky, and suddenly illuminated the woods outside our door, that is, at that moment, all of us suddenly felt nervous. In the woods twenty meters away from the door, when the flash of lightning just now flashed through the light, we saw a slender and thin black figure that seemed to be naked appeared in the woods.

"Coming?" Chen Bing said nervously.

"Wait." Ryazan said.

Then there was another flash of lightning, only this time, it was much brighter than before, but because our attention had been focused on it beforehand, we could still see the situation in the trees in the distance.

This time, we could see clearly, and, compared to just now, there were more figures this time, there were more than a dozen people, but the leader was still standing in the first place, and they seemed to be motionless, just standing there, looking at us in a strange posture.

While we were still surprised, Ryazan had already stood up, patted the dust on his buttocks, and said, "Let's go." ”

"Let's go?" I said, "That's it, it's raining outside......"

"My Lord Peixi, you should be prepared for this when you come here." Ryazan patted me on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, don't be a mother-in-law." ”

Within four or five steps of walking out of the house, we were already soaked in raindrops, and the raindrops the size of beans fell on the top of our heads, passed through the roots of our hair, and slowly flowed down the center of our eyebrows, making it difficult to open our eyes.

To our surprise, when we were about ten meters away from the strange figures, the guys began to turn around and start walking into the forest.

At first, we looked at it from a distance and felt that these guys were thin and thin, but when we got closer, we realized that these figures were frighteningly tall, at least two meters tall, and with their bamboo pole-like figures, the overall feeling was very weird. Those guys took a big step, but the pace was not fast, Gao Peng couldn't help but wonder: "Fuck, this shouldn't be the wild man of Shennongjia." ”

"No," I said, "don't you all say that the wild men of Shennongjia are tall and burly, these guys are really tall, but the whole thing is skinny and bone, and there have always been people who have said that they have found the hair of the wild men of Shennongjia, but you look at those guys, they don't have any hair, they are bare." ”

Hong Yi said: "Indeed, and this group of guys seems to really exist, and they are not ghosts." ”

Old man Yuan snorted and said: "You can't teach it, the so-called ghost and other things are just a general term, it is very likely that the group of people who came before didn't know what these things were, they just felt weird and abnormal, so they called it a ghost." When I look at these things, they look more like rice dumplings. ”

"Zongzi?" Gao Peng said: "That means zombies? ”

Old Man Yuan didn't speak, just nodded silently in the rainy night.

In this way, we silently followed the group of ghosts step by step towards the hinterland of the Shennongjia primeval forest.

The rain was so heavy that it did not stop until about four o'clock in the morning, when it was nearly five o'clock, but the clouds were still thick and the sky was very dark, and although the dawn was coming, the darkness before that was getting worse.

Suddenly, Ryazan, who was walking in the front, stopped, and Chen Bing then waved his hand to remind everyone to stop. Gao Peng and I were both exhausted and out of breath, and to my surprise, the eldest old man seemed to have better physical strength than both of us.

As soon as we asked him, Old Man Yuan said proudly: "Didn't the old man say it, I am a traveler who goes out of the rivers and lakes, and I am a runner on weekdays, how can I do it if my legs and feet are not good?" ”

But we didn't have time to listen to him boast at the moment, because we were all wondering why Ryazan was doing something and suddenly stopped, and when we looked up, we found that the strange figures that had been walking in front had also stopped.

"What's going on?" Chen Bing asked alertly.

Ryazan looked back and smiled: "Captain Chen, it's also my first time here, you ask me everything, where do I know so much?" ”

We looked at the figures again, and saw that they were just standing in front of us, but they didn't mean to move, just a few figures standing there, as if watching something.

I heard the sound of the pistol being loaded, Shu Jingcheng, Hong Yi, Liu Yi and others were vigilantly prepared for an emergency, and Liu Yi asked coldly, "What now?" ”

Chen Bing thought for a while and said, "Hold your arms and see how they react." ”

I don't think Chen Bing would have thought about what happened later when he said this. We waited for three hours, until the light around us began to light up, and we couldn't hold back.

The dark clouds on the horizon are still very thick, and there is no intention of clearing, it seems that the rain has only stopped for a while, and there is still the intention of continuing to fall.

Chen Bing was also a little anxious, hesitated for a while, and still said, "Let's go forward." ”

In this way, we cautiously approached the group of figures step by step, and when we came to the side of the figures, we could not believe our eyes when we faced the scene in front of us.

I saw that the figures that could still walk back and forth not long ago - now they have turned into strange stone sculptures, their size, shape, and posture have not changed in any way, but they are a group of stone sculptures, a group of black stone sculptures, these stone sculptures stand in place one by one, with a small head on their slender necks, looking up at the distant horizon together, and their hands are clasped together, placed on their chests, in the shape of a bowl, as if praying.

"This, this, the old man has been walking the rivers and lakes for several years, and he has never seen such a strange thing." Old man Yuan sighed.

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