Chapter Eighty-Four: Wandering into the Devil
The reputation of the ghost country cave is great, Rao is Qi Xuansu has the blood of a martial artist, and ordinary ghosts dare not get close, and at this time, there is also a drum in his heart. It can be seen that Yigao people are bold, and the key lies in Yigao.
So where did the pair of grandchildren go? Is it a real person who doesn't show up? Or is it a ghost?
Qi Xuansu thought so and continued to move forward.
As he walked, Qi Xuansu noticed that something was wrong.
There are few pedestrians on this street, after all, it is not a festival or a day of rest, most of them are in the workshop, and few people are wandering in the "ghost pass", it is reasonable to say, why is it that even the spiritual officer who patrols the city is gone?
The "Ghost Pass" has always been known for its strict garrison, and the spiritual officials here should not neglect their duties.
Just thinking about it, Qi Xuansu found that the fog had risen around him for some time, and the inferior horse he was riding began to snort uneasily.
After all, Qi Xuansu is a person who has walked through the line of life and death several times, but when the matter came to an end, he calmed down, he reached out and brushed the mane of the inferior horse, and then grabbed the horse's belly with his legs and continued to move forward.
Qi Xuansu did not rashly exude the blood of a martial artist, but instead hid his blood and qi deep inside, protecting his body with the true qi of the scattered people. Because Qi Xuansu understands a truth very well, water can extinguish fire, and a big fire can also overcome water. The blood of the martial artist can make the ghosts and the like not get close, but if they really encounter a powerful ghost who has practiced for thousands of years, it has become a dazzling light in the dark night, a big piece of fat.
Qi Xuansu looked up, and the original blue sky and spring sun above his head were all gone, and he could only see a gray canopy. The surroundings were also empty, with no half of a human figure in sight, not much different from ordinary cities, the same residential streets, with trees on both sides of the road, and lanterns hanging on the upper floors facing the street. It's just that there are no people, and the buildings are like an ink painting, with only black and white left, and no other colors.
The gray-white mist was scattered everywhere, and it was difficult to distinguish it from the dark canopy overhead, as if to connect heaven and earth into one, and the heavens and the earth were all dim, as if they had suddenly come from the yang world to the underworld.
Qi Xuansu looked at it with great eyes, but he couldn't see through these gray and white mist, so he didn't know where the end was, and where the road under his feet led, so he had to follow the road under his feet all the way forward.
Suddenly, there was a gust of wind blowing, and along with the wind, there were a few faint sounds that were far away, like the sound of water droplets at night, and like the sound of whispering, more like the sound of rats squirming, and later, the sound slowly became louder, and a little laughter could be heard, but it was not normal laughter, but the kind of snickering that hid in the shadows, which made people creepy.
Although this scene is enough to make ordinary people frightened, for Qi Xuansu, it has not yet reached the point of fear, but it is inevitable that there will be some worries, if someone sneaks up in such an environment, it will be difficult to deal with.
Walking out of a section like this, through the fog, Qi Xuan's eyes
Suddenly, there was a bright light, and the noisy and noisy sounds came like a tide, and the voices of people were boiling.
In front of Qi Xuansu was a lively long street.
The houses on both sides are lined up one after another, with tea houses, wine shops, foot shops, butcher shops, temples, and public houses.
In the shop, there are silk and satin and a variety of ready-to-wear garments.
There are also all kinds of vendors on the roadside, such as clay people, candy people, sugar gourds, fortune tellers, cooking cakes, ducks and pears, all walks of life.
There are even a few spring buildings that are not considered to be courtyards, and there are colorful buildings in front of the door, hanging the banner of the city to solicit business.
There are businessmen, gentry watching the street scene, officials on horseback, hawkers, family members in sedan chairs, monks with baskets, tourists from other places asking for directions, children in the streets and alleys who listen to stories, children of wealthy families who drink in restaurants, disabled old people who beg on the edge of the city, men and women, old and young, farmers and businessmen, three religions and nine streams, everything.
At the entrance of the long street, there is a three-room four-pillar five-floor type archway, four zhang high, five zhang wide, the square building is embedded with the horizontal cardboard craftsman carved the word "ghost street", at first glance it is black, but if you look closely, it is as if the blood is coagulated after the red and black, these two words seem to drip blood.
In Qi Xuansu's opinion, the ancient temple of the deserted tomb is nothing, at most it is to scare and scare the scholar who has not raised a mouthful of righteousness, and he is really going to meet it, even if he can't beat it, he can escape. Then the backhand was reported to the Daomen, and in front of the Daomen, all the ghosts and ghosts would disappear.
Conquer demons and catch ghosts, and it's right to find the door. At the same time, it also takes into account the business of eradicating evil demons and exterminating cults and demons.
But the situation in front of him is obviously not this kind of petty fight, not to mention that this place is already under the nose of the Daomen, and it happened in the famous "Ghost Pass".
In this world, there are strange people who can pass through the yin and yang worlds, and there are also mortals who have strayed into the netherworld, and most of the results of the latter are not very good, and most of them are strayed into the netherworld when the soul is out of the body. But Qi Xuansu was very sure that he was not leaving his body, but directly entering this place with people and horses.
Then everything is very clear, if it is not for any master to deliberately set up a situation, then there is only one explanation, everything in front of him is related to the ghost country cave heaven that is close at hand.
Qi Xuansu still remembered the truth of the three yang lanterns, and did not dare to turn back rashly, and after taking a deep breath, he walked through the archway and entered this strange street.
At the moment when Qi Xuansu passed through the archway, it was a sudden change in the wind and clouds.
The peddler's pawn on the street changed his face in an instant, his face was pale and bloodless, like a dead man, although he was still doing his own thing, but he revealed a sense of dazed numbness, as if he were a marionette, lifeless.
Looking at the shops on both sides, the silk and satin have become dead life clothes, and the gold, silver and copper coins used for trading have also become paper money.
There are steamed buns on the street
The moment the cage drawer was opened, the steamed buns all turned into one small head after another, with lifelike faces and different expressions, including pain, sadness, laughter, and crying.
The sugar gourd sold is not a red hawthorn, but has turned into blood-red eyeballs, strung up by bamboo skewers, and dipped in syrup, red and glowing with a faint golden yellow.
There are those who sell cooking cakes, and when they open the basket, where is the cooking bread inside, but the heart and liver of the woman.
Qi Xuansu remained silent, and silently recited in his heart: "It's all an illusion, don't be blinded by it, don't be afraid, otherwise you will be taken advantage of by these ghosts, and you will never recover." ”
The so-called suspicious ghost is a dark ghost, if the heart is fearless, the ghost will be helpless, and the reader who has no power to restrain the chicken can drink away the evil ghost because he is fearless, if he is afraid, it is like the flaw in the trick when the two fight, and the ghost will take advantage of the void, resulting in a cluster of illusions in front of him, and it is difficult to extricate himself.
Of course, hundreds of years of Taoism or even thousands of years of Taoism, the ghosts that have become the climate can hurt people no matter whether they are afraid or not, they are like the spells of the alchemists, they have been out of the void and into reality, and even some people in the Dao Sect believe that the ghosts themselves can be regarded as a kind of normalized, solidified and have their own spiritual magic.
However, these "people" didn't seem to see Qi Xuansu, they ignored him and still did their own thing.
Qi Xuansu breathed a sigh of relief and rode forward.
After walking out for a while, Qi Xuansu suddenly felt that the scene in front of him was a little familiar, and he couldn't help but stand on his horse.
Qi Xuansu not only went to Yujing, but also followed Qi Niang to Dijing.
Because of the rush of time, Qi Xuan did not have a deep memory of the imperial capital, and there were only two places that impressed him, one was the Yuqing Garden outside the city, and the other was the vegetable market in the city.
Caishikou is just a common name, the official name is "West Market", the emperor is in the inner city, there are two entrances in the east and west, and each has an archway. Because there are two different criminal laws, namely killing and mutilation, they are also divided into two places. Those who were killed were under the archway on the west side, while those who were cut down were under the archway on the east side. Where the prisoner is in the city, there are Qingluanwei, the criminal officer, the director of the criminal department, the supervision of the imperial history and the official of the two counties of Wanda are present, after the execution, the leader of Daxing County is thrown into the Leak Zeyuan, and the leader of Wanping County is in the storehouse, so that he can not be completely corpsed after his death.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like the entrance of the vegetable market in the imperial capital.
At this moment, I saw a group of ghost guards dressed in soap official costumes escorting the prisoners from a distance, and the surrounding area was full of "people" waiting to see the excitement.
Looking at the costumes, it is not the style of Daxuan, nor the style of Dawei, but it is like the style of Dajin.
For another moment, it seemed that the butcher's executioner was late, wearing a red scarf on his head, shirtless, revealing black heart hair, a huge ghost-headed knife, and the blade shone with a faint blue luster.
The "crowd" suddenly became noisy.
Just waiting for the knife to be cut.