Chapter 16 Doubts about the construction of villages
The nets were still lying there peacefully, without any movement. "Alas, it's really boring to let him run away!" Tie Zhu sighed helplessly. "It's okay brother, let's come back tomorrow, it doesn't have much ability, let's just pay attention tomorrow." With that, I began to pull the rope out of the water to see where it had broken from.
"Hey~~ Be careful!" Uncle Li shouted as he stood up from the opposite shore. Before I could finish speaking, the water splashed, and the shadow corpse jumped ashore from the fishpond and stood straight in front of me, still tied to the rope. It turned out that the rope was not broken, but the "shadow corpse" completely gave up resistance. Now it stood in front of it, much clearer than it had just been, and I saw that the long wet hair was sticking to its face indiscriminately, dripping with water, and its face was very ruddy and a little bloated, as if it were a living person, its eyes were closed, its hands were stretched out in front of it, and its black nails were more than three inches long, and it pounced straight at me.
Seeing the shadow corpse pounce on me, I instinctively flashed to the right rear, dodging this pounce, and then, the shadow corpse turned straight to the right in place, and the long nails swept towards me, I lowered my waist, flashed over, and then took a step forward, and slammed the waist of the shadow corpse with my shoulder, "bang", as if on the hard wood, the shadow corpse pushed back more than a meter, and then turned around and kicked the shadow corpse back more than a meter.
"Brother, give you this!" Seeing that my brother and the shadow corpse were fighting, Tie Zhu hurriedly pulled out the heavenly thorn from his waist and threw it to me, and at the same time took out a few yellow talismans from his pocket. I took the thorn, and the shadow corpse seemed to be so afraid of the sword that it didn't dare to come forward. Just then, a spell flew out from behind me and landed right on the head of the Shadow Corpse, which immediately stood motionless like a telephone pole.
Seeing my brother use the talisman to fix the shadow corpse, I breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately I also learned boxing and kicking from the master for a few years, or I really couldn't get this guy just now, although it was only a few seconds, but it made me deeply appreciate the importance of kung fu.
"It's really dangerous, if it walks a few meters out, it will be out of the Gathering Sun Array, and it will definitely be even more difficult to deal with at that time!" I said, looking at where the Shadow Corpse was standing.
"Well, yes, under the suppression of the yang energy in the formation, you can still exert such a great power, if you go outside the formation, it will really be enough for the two of us to drink a pot, it's really hanging, you are not injured!" So the two walked in front of the shadow corpse, and only then did they see clearly that the pieces of things hanging on its body should be cowhide armor scattered due to too much time, and it seems that this person should be a soldier in ancient times.
Seeing that the shadow corpse had been fixed, Uncle Li did not hurry and started to walk from the other side. "Brother, what are we going to do with it?" I asked.
"Tie it up with a rope first, and wait for the master to come and ask him what to do, hehe, look at this guy's face is the same as a living person, and I don't know what age he is. With that, he lowered his head and picked up the rope next to the shadow corpse, preparing to tie it up. But just when Tiezhu picked up the rope and straightened his waist, the straight arms of the Shadow Corpse quickly swept towards his body, and it was too late for the Iron Pillar to dodge, only to hear a "click", the hard arms of the Shadow Corpse were hitting the back of the Iron Pillar, and the Iron Pillar closed his eyes and thought to himself, "It's over!"
But when he opened his eyes, he didn't feel anything unusual about his body, and I was standing next to me with a thorn in my hand. On the ground, two severed arms were dripping green liquid. It turned out that I, who was standing next to my brother just now, saw the shadow corpse attacking my brother, and instinctively slashed at its arm with the sky thorn, just the moment it hit the back of the iron pillar, it was cut off, and the sky thorn slashed at the hard arm, like cutting tofu, very sharp.
And after the shadow corpse was cut off in the arm, while the brothers were stunned, they jumped into the fish pond and quickly swam in the direction of the fishing net. "Chase!" Iron Pillar quickly recovered and hurried in the direction of the fishing net, and I hurried over.
At this time, the fishing net seemed to have received a great impact, and the willow tree that was tied to the net had begun to tilt in the direction of the pond, and the brothers each pulled one end up vigorously, and pulled the net up little by little. Suddenly there was another loosening, this time the brothers did not fall, and hurriedly pulled up the net, and when they looked, there was a big hole in the middle, which seemed to have been bitten by the shadow corpse with its mouth.
The two of them had learned from the past, and hurriedly came to the fish pond to carefully find the trace of the shadow corpse.
"Hehe, don't look for it, it's already gone!" At this time, Uncle Li walked over with a smile, "How is it?
"Well, let it run, don't say cool words, I don't believe it, we will come back tomorrow, we will definitely catch it!" I complained.
"Tomorrow, you cut off its arm, and he won't come out again for a few years!" Uncle Li said.
"Huh?
"Hehe, it's okay, now that we know its traces, let's go to its nest tomorrow, it will harm people elsewhere after a long time!" Uncle Li said.
"Well, it's really dangerous just now, by the way, master, why didn't my immobilizer just now work?" Tie Zhu didn't understand that the shadow corpse that had just been pasted with the talisman could still move.
Uncle Li walked to the place where the shadow corpse was fixed just now, picked up the talisman that fell when the shadow corpse escaped just now on the ground, and looked at it, "You can see it yourself!" Tie Zhu took the talisman and looked at it, and immediately understood, it turned out that the shadow corpse came out of the fish pond just now, and it was wet all over, and the water in his hair washed away the mark on the talisman, so it lost its effectiveness.
Seeing the dejected appearance of the two brothers, Uncle Li smiled and comforted: "Don't be discouraged, letting you catch the shadow corpse today is actually to let you carry out actual training, whether it is in formations, spells, or random abilities, you two are quite good, but you lack some practical experience, this can be slowly improved in the future, let's go, let's take it again tomorrow." After saying that, the three masters and apprentices packed up their things and went home.
After school the next day, Uncle Li and I came to the fish pond early. According to the place where the shadow corpse escaped yesterday, Uncle Li used the method of finding the finishing touch to determine that the cemetery of the shadow corpse was on the northern hillside twelve meters away from the pond. So I dug with a shovel at the place that the master had determined.
When I dug to a depth of more than two meters, I finally found a huge pine lotus coffin, which was inserted straight into the ground. Seeing that the coffin was buried vertically, Uncle Li couldn't help but say: "No wonder this shadow corpse is more powerful than the ordinary, it can still have so much momentum in the Gathering Sun Array, it turned out to be a standing burial." ”
"Is there a difference between a standing burial and a flat burial?" I asked after listening to Uncle Li's words.
"Of course, there is a difference, standing burial may allow the body to receive different depths of yin qi, and the larger the coffin, the greater the range of acceptance. Uncle Li explained. After a while, the coffin was dug up, and at first glance, a large hole had been broken at the other end of the coffin, and there was a hole in the ground underneath, which must have been a passage to the fish pond.
When I opened the coffin, the armless corpse appeared in front of me again, his face no longer as ruddy as yesterday, but very pale, and his body was still wet. So, according to Uncle Li's instructions, he poured gasoline on the coffin and the corpse, burned it clean, and finally buried the remaining charcoal and ashes in the tomb. Since then, the samurai fish pond has regained its former peace.
At noon that day, when the three masters and apprentices were sitting around the dining table, enjoying the soft-shelled turtle soup sent by the Wu family in gratitude, Wu Jianguo ran in in a hurry, and said loudly as soon as he entered the door: "Uncle Li, it's not good, go and take a look, there are several families in our village that have been poisoned!!"
Although there are only about 200 households in Jianjian Village, they are scattered at the foot of the mountain. According to Wu Jianguo's description, the three families under the dam and the six families in the southernmost part of the village all had people in the condition of being poisoned, with blue skin and cold bodies. Uncle Li immediately rushed to the village with two apprentices and related items.
The first thing he came to was a family surnamed Huang in the south of the village, and after entering the house, Wu Jianguo introduced him to the family as an old Chinese medicine doctor as Uncle Li had instructed in advance. Hearing Jianguo say that Uncle Li had treated a similar illness, Xiao Tieshan, the owner of the house, was very enthusiastic, and told his mother's situation in great detail.
It turned out that Xiao Tieshan's family had a total of six people, and it was his seventy-year-old mother who was sick. Although it is a rare year, but the body bones have always been very tough, deaf, blind, walking without crutches, but from a few days ago after a cold, the body began to become more and more weak, mixed with blue, always feel very cold, take a few pairs of medicine is not good, now lying on the bed, covered with several layers of quilts and shivering, and then the neighbors also have the same disease, everyone is very flustered, is not sure what to do.
After listening to the owner's narration, Uncle Li came to the bed and took a closer look at the patient's condition, and it was true that the skin on his face, neck and arms was slightly blue-black, but the color was very shallow, not as deep as Wu Jianguo and his father.
"How long has your mother been like this?" asked Uncle Li.
"Well, it's been about three or four days like this, but it wasn't so strict at the beginning. Xiao Tieshan replied while thinking.
It's been three or four days, no, no, this is definitely not corpse poison, if you are poisoned by corpses, you can only live for three days at most, and your body is black and purple, and the blue color on the old lady in front of you is very light, it is not a sign of corpse poison, so what will it be? Uncle Li kept thinking in his heart.
Just then, as soon as the door opened, a little girl of fifteen or sixteen entered, and I saw that she felt as if she had seen it there, but could not remember.
"Doctor Li, this is my youngest daughter Xiao Xian'er. Xiao Tieshan hurriedly introduced: "Xian'er, hurry up and call Grandpa Li." ”
"Hello Grandpa Li, you are here to help my grandma see a doctor, please save her, she is the best for us!" Xiao Xian'er looked very anxious.
Hearing Xiao Xian'er's voice, I suddenly remembered that she was the girl with big pigtails who spoke on the rostrum on behalf of all the freshmen at the beginning of this year's school year, but I didn't expect to meet her here.