Chapter 159: East-West Confrontation
Asking for news in the village, Ye Sen couldn't do it, but it was no problem for Mu Dong at all, and he came back before dark: "I heard that the immortal master over there is surnamed Sheng, and I didn't inquire about the others." β
"Surname Sheng? Sheng family? "I was in such a bad mood that even if I didn't look in the mirror, I knew that my face would be wringing out water.
The Sheng family is really endless with me, and there must be the Sheng family behind this mission. Although the Sheng family makes me feel cold, I don't have the idea of fighting with them until today.
However, what should I do if the other party provokes me again and again?
That night, I didn't say a word, and sat until dawn, when I slept for a while. The whole Anping Village seemed unusually calm in those two days, and there were even very few people who came out to walk around, and the little girl no longer came to look for Mudong. It seems that everyone knows that Shen Yin Wood is coming.
On the morning of the third day, Du Miao arrived as promised. When he saw Du Miao again, he had lost a lot of weight, but it felt like he was more dangerous. It seems that during the time we have been apart, his skills have taken a step further, and it seems that he is getting closer and closer to the level of the Heavenly Spell Master.
After Du Miao came, he had been wandering around the village until the evening, and he didn't return to the courtyard until evening: "I didn't notice any signs of being cursed here. To test your hypothesis, we'll have to investigate further......"
"How?" I saw that Du Miao wanted to speak and stopped, and I knew that there must be a certain degree of difficulty in her method.
"Open coffin autopsy." Du Miao said very seriously: "The corpses of the villagers who died outside must be found to find the clues." Otherwise, even if I have the ability to reach the sky, I will be helpless. β
"No way!" Mu Dong spoke: "The people in the village will not agree to you doing this. If you dare to open the coffin, the villagers will guarantee that they will play with you. β
Du Miao shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and I could only speak: "Let's postpone this matter." Shen Yinmu is coming tonight, so let's hurry up and prepare for the battle. Ye Sen, have you prepared the things I asked you to prepare? β
Ye Sen nodded and said, "It's all right, no problem at all." β
"Okay, cheer up and wait until it's dark."
I asked Du Miao to accompany Mu Dong, and I jumped on the roof with Tan Yue and Ye Sen, waiting for Shen Yinmu to appear. Ye Sen took the compass and said: "Look at the river behind the village, after coming down from the upper mountain, it is divided into herringbone shapes near the village, and flows from the east and west sides of the village to different tributaries. This is the reason why the wood that drifts down the river is not sure where it will appear. β
I turned my head to look at the west of the village: "It seems that we have a 100% hope that we will not meet the Shen Yin Wood." β
"So to speak......" Ye Sen was as he was speaking, when a deafening drum beat suddenly came from the river. Listening to the dense drumbeat like rain in the ears, it can't help but make people feel frightened, as if the frequency of the heartbeat is changing with the drum beat.
Du Miao shouted in a low voice in the house: "Here, be careful yourself." β
Mu Dong told me that every time Shen Yin Wood appeared, it would be accompanied by the sound of drums, and as soon as the drum sounded, I had to quickly burn incense and kowtow, praying that Shen Yin Wood would not drift to his side.
After a while, I heard a burst of music from the west end of the village, and although I didn't hear what instrument the other party was playing, I felt that the music was very solemn and majestic.
"Lile!" Ye Senyi frowned: "These bastards, in order to let Shen Yin Wood come to our side, even Lile is used." It's like praying for blessings...... Wrong! They are robbing us of our luck. β
Lile had a special status in the feudal era and was also an important part of Chinese civilization. However, in the final analysis, Confucian warlocks still can't get rid of the restrictions of "art", and Lile is just a kind of "art" in their hands, and to put it bluntly, it is a means to fight with ghosts and gods.
The Sheng family's side looks like they are using ritual music to sacrifice and pray for blessings, but in fact, they are using magic to rob us of our luck. Once our side is unlucky, Shen Yinmu has a nine-in-a-ten chance of turning to the east.
When I turned to look over there, a hand had reached for the backpack behind me, where I had prepared explosives.
By the time I got the explosives in my hand, the drumming on the river had turned from crisp to dull, sounding like a deliberate attempt to suppress anger and warn about something. As soon as the opponent ignores the warning, the drummer will launch a fierce attack on the opponent.
"Don't blow things up yet, I'll think of a way first!" Ye Sen snatched a few detonators from my bag, turned around and jumped out of the room, flashed his body a few times, and disappeared.
After a while, the drums began to advance slowly towards the fork in the river, and the warning in the drums became more and more obvious.
Standing in our position, the view was blocked by a water temple. If the wood coming down from the upstream does not turn to the fork, it will not emerge from behind the water temple, and we naturally have no way to determine which direction the Shenyin wood will drift towards.
According to Mu Dong, the water temple was deliberately built there by Dapaitou, who founded Anping Village, in order not to let people see the way the wood came from, as a sign of justice. No matter where you stand in Anping Village, it is impossible to see the main river behind the Qingshui Temple.
I couldn't tell exactly where it had come downstream, but I could roughly tell how far it was from the water temple by the sound.
The closer the drums got to the water temple, the more urgent the sound of the Sheng family's ritual music became, and the more irritable my mood became.
The elders say that people will be inexplicably upset before they are unlucky, just like a ghost grinding people, they have planned things, but they forget all about it, or they temporarily want to go in other directions, and finally they will definitely be unlucky to go to their grandmother's house.
According to the Technique, this is a sign of the loss of luck.
Luck is such a thing, you can't see or touch it, but every time there is an increase or decrease, people will feel it. Once people's luck is low, the wandering ghosts who didn't dare to come over will also take the opportunity to sneak over to create some trouble for others, and grab some luck by the way. This is what the older generation called "little devils grind people's hearts".
Now, the Sheng family has forcibly robbed me of my luck, so it's no wonder that I don't get upset.
I gritted my teeth and held on for a moment, and when I felt the sound of the drum and was about to reach the back of the water temple, I raised my hand and pulled the explosive fuse, and looked at the back of the water temple with a loud dynamite tube.
The drumming in the distance also stopped at this moment. I reckon that by the time the drum beats again, it will rush from behind the water temple.
I didn't have time to wait any longer, and when I grabbed the explosives and was about to throw them into the distance, there was a muffled bang from the west side of the village, followed by screams and curses. Someone shouted angrily, "What are you doing in a daze? Let's play music now! Played! β
I was only stunned for a moment, and the lead of the explosives in my hand suddenly burned most of the pieces in an instant. Seeing that the explosives were about to explode in my hand, Tan Yue suddenly swept a sword towards the back of my hand. The blade of the sword flashed against my fingers, cutting not only the explosives in two, but also the flesh off my hands.
With a shake of my palm, Tan Yue immediately pulled me and jumped off the room. As soon as we landed, there was a burst of fire on the house. By the time the two of us got up again, the fire on the roof had burned more than a foot high.
The explosives in my hand were cut in two by Tan Yue, and although they did not explode, they set the roof on fire. The two of us didn't have time to put out the fire, so we greeted Du Miao in the house and jumped onto the roof of the other room.
I originally wanted to use the explosion of explosives to suppress the music in the west of the village, but I didn't expect that in a short moment, it became unluckyβthe lead of the explosives in my hand suddenly accelerated to burn, not to mention, and I almost didn't throw it out; Tan Yue is a sword, which is out of standard; The mutilated gunpowder set fire to the roof. It's all because of our luck.
If it weren't for Tan Yue's quick reaction, I would have lost an arm even if I didn't die. The Sheng family played too hard with this hand, and it is likely that they not only robbed me of my luck, but also dispelled the bad luck on Gao Qun's side.
If I hadn't been interrupted in the middle of the journey, I wouldn't have had to fight the ghosts and gods first, and it would have been difficult to turn things around.
Does the Sheng family want my life?