21. Raising Ghosts (Second Shift)
The lake was gloomy, and there was a white moonlight rippling back and forth on the lake.
Bai Yan's figure flickered, like a gust of wind patrolling the lakeside, and the fisherwoman just now was not alone.
Many people have disappeared by the lake, and their families have come to look for them.
But the big wet hands kept sticking out of the lake, as if they were about to drag the people by the lake into the water.
Bai Yan saved a lot of people, but he couldn't save all of them.
He still saw people being dragged into the water and sinking quickly, with bubbles floating on the water.
"Hey, who are you?" Suddenly, a man's deep voice came from the side.
Bai Yan had already seen this person.
It was a tall man in civilian clothes, with short hair, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a slight bulge around his waist, which looked like the handle of a knife.
"Bai Yan, the little servant of the Tang family." Bai Yan answered.
The tall man said, "Why don't you go back to the Tang Mansion at night, come here to save people?" Did you know that something was going to happen here? ”
A tone of interrogation, nine times out of ten, it is tolerance.
Bai Yan shook his head: "I just felt that something was wrong with the lake tonight, so I came and walked, but I didn't expect to walk some distance and see the water ghost arresting people." It arrests and kills, and I save people. ”
The man looked at him in surprise, in fact, he also saw that this young man was a good master, and what was even more commendable was that this young man was very honest, so he smiled and said: "My name is Qian Qing, Qian Qian, Qing Qing." I also saw that something was wrong here, so I took a look. Did you find anything? ”
Bai Yan said: "A few days ago, there was a water ghost named Wang Er in the Tang family, and this water ghost jumped into the lake and was only caught. Now it seems that there is more than one water ghost in this lake. ”
The man named Qian Qing said: "Last night, Guiyun Lake asked for help, don't you know?" ”
Bai Yan was stunned: "Last night, it was my wedding day. ”
Qian Qing was stunned, since he was here, he had read all the recent affairs and even faces around him, and soon understood that the young man in front of him was the groom official of the Tang family last night, and he laughed and said, "Then you won't accompany the lady tonight, and you will come out?" ”
Bai Yan let out a faint "um" sound.
With two sleeves and a long knife, he stood by the lake with his eyes dignified.
Seeing him like this, it was difficult for Qian Qing not to have a good impression of this young man who suddenly appeared, so he even looked much gentler.
Then, he said in a deep voice: "I suspect that there is a ghost hidden in this Sword Mountain City.
And last night, some crazy people were ...... Raising ghosts. ”
"Raising ghosts?"
Qian Qing took a deep look at him and said, "You just need to know that there are not many types of ghosts, and there is one kind of ghost that is 'a ghost with a ghost tide'."
This kind of ghost is extremely terrifying, and if left unchecked, it will soon destroy a city, a house, and even... A country...
However, the conditions for the appearance of such ghosts are also very harsh.
Their appearance requires enough ghost servants, and the more ghost servants there are, the greater their presence.
It is not until the ghost servant reaches a certain level that the ghost will actually appear.
And once it appears, it will be irreversible.
This ghost of you in Jianshan City seems to have something to do with water.
The water ghost in your mouth is just a ghost servant of this ghost.
So, I have reason to think that this is a ghost with a ghost tide. ”
Bai Yan said: "Is this ghost hiding in Guiyun Lake?" ”
Qian Qing shook his head: "I don't know, no one knows, don't use your imagination to judge what it is...... But since its ghost servant is a water ghost, it is likely that it also has something to do with water.
When there are not many ghost servants, these ghost servants do not have a strong desire to attack, and most of them passively pull the people who enter the water into the water secretly...
But last night, someone threw a living person into the lake and forcibly raised ghosts.
The more ghosts there are, the stronger the desire to attack, and now they will pull all the people who are near the water into the water.
And as the number of ghost servants continues to increase, their range of activity will increase.
At the same time, ghosts... It will also start to appear slowly.
When the time comes, the consequences will be unimaginable."
He was silent, looked around, and said slowly, "It is necessary to let the people here evacuate as soon as possible." ”
Bai Yan asked, "Who are you?" ”
Qian Qingdao: "The butcher of the Heavenly Dao Mansion." The Heavenly Dao Mansion is a government established by the imperial court in response to the changes in heaven and earth, independent of the bureaucratic system. ”
Heavenly Dao Mansion?
Bai Yan hadn't heard of it...
But he's more interested in...
"What is a butcher?"
Qian Qingdao: "Great changes in heaven and earth have already occurred everywhere, and this is not the first case on the side of Jianshan City... And the butcher is a special cultivation force in my Tiance Mansion. Specifically, you are not in the house, so it is inconvenient for me to disclose it. ”
Bai Yan nodded, it turned out that the people of this world had already reacted to the changes, he was not the "cicada" who "felt the cicada before the autumn wind moved", but this was normal.
But now that the court has come, a chivalrous half-hanger like him can also "take a back seat", so he asked: "Then what are you going to do?" ”
Qian Qingdao said: "I'm here to inspect tonight, but the situation is much worse than I thought... I want to cordon off the area around Guiyun Lake and get everyone to evacuate here.
Cut off the source of the ghost servant, and then we will slowly destroy the ghost servant...
As long as the ghost servant is gone, the ghost cannot appear. ”
Bai Yan suddenly said: "But Guiyun Lake connects the Yangtze River and runs east to the East China Sea... Can you stop it? ”
Qian Qing said with a smile: "Many sluices have been urgently set up to seal Guiyun Lake, and it can't flow out."
And the ghost, right here... Otherwise, these ghost servants would have been abolished long ago.
All the power of the ghost servant comes from the ghost, so... If the ghost servant is still active, it means that the ghost has not yet moved away. ”
Bai Yan asked, "Ghost... What is it? ”
Qian Qing shook his head, "No one knows... However, it is generally believed that ghosts are 'causal weapons', and the so-called 'causes' are the laws of killing.
But... No one wants to be a ghost. Before the ghost appeared, the powerful and the powerful dominated the court, and the martial arts dominated the rivers and lakes... But from now on, everything will change. ”
Bai Yan nodded.
Qian Qing's gaze swept over the blackened lake, just now he was also doing the same thing as Bai Yan.
Through the efforts of the two, many rescued people have spread the news that "there are water ghosts in the lake", and no one will approach for the time being.
"Brother Bai, I'm going to get busy first... If the situation continues to deteriorate, tomorrow at noon, a forbidden line should be set up two hundred meters outside the lake, and then the surrounding residents will be slowly evacuated..."Qian Qingdao said, he had a very good impression of Bai Yan, and he didn't put on an official because the other party's identity was a small guy, he looked down, and even wanted to recommend this little guy to Lord Shi.
"Goodbye." Bai Yan returned the salute.
Qian Qing retreated and disappeared into the forest beyond the lake.
Bai Yan watched him leave, and then looked at this Guiyun Lake.
To be honest, he was reluctant.
He is an extremely nostalgic person, and the Tang family moved away, which means that he can no longer sit in a daze in the Wangshan Pavilion, nor can he see the wild cats wandering around, let alone fishing in this lake.
Bai Yan had a determination and left in a flash.
Back at his and the sparrow's small home, the sparrow was about to "die of anger" in early breath.
Pouting...
Pout...
Don't eat...
Don't eat vegetables...
Leave somebody in the cold...
Bai Yan asked, "What's wrong?" ”
The sparrow looked at him, looked at it for a while, didn't speak, and suddenly didn't know what he thought, and suddenly he didn't get angry again, but said softly: "That... Yan Yan, you eat quickly. ”
Bai Yan was very curious about his lady's face, and asked again, "Why?" ”
Lingque said: "It's getting cold, I'm done eating... You take a shower and change your clothes early, and then we'll go to bed. ”
Her apricot-like eyes were like spring water, and a pair of white legs wrapped in a tulip skirt were also tightly joined together, twisting slightly.
"What do you see, it's cold, it's cold, don't you have to go to bed early... It's cold, it's cold, it's cold...", the sparrow emphasized eloquently.
Bai Yan asked, "Do you still want to be like last night?" ”
The sparrow blushed and said, "What nonsense? Eat fast, eat fast..."
As she spoke, she pushed the dish to Xianggong's side and poured wine for Xianggong.
After a meal...
Bai Yan bathed and changed clothes.
Newlyweds slept together.
"Xianggong, can you take the initiative?"
"How to take the initiative?"
"I... Hey, don't move, I'll teach you. ”
A short pillow talk, spring is like a dream.
After a long time, the sparrow fell asleep happily, and her little face hung with the happiness and contentment of a new wife.
Bai Yan sat up and took out a mask bought for more than ten cents from the secret compartment under the bed, the original pattern on this mask was long gone, and he painted it with white paint, in order to prevent others from recognizing the style of this mask.
At the same time, he changed into a thin gray cloak, pushed the window, and swept out.
The moonlight at midnight illuminates a miserable white waterway on the surface of the lake.
And under the surface of the water, from time to time you can see one after another strange human heads and human faces,
The gray-clad masked man walked to the lake, entered the range of the water ghost's attack, and then began to walk along the lake, as if after tea and dinner, he took a walk in his own yard.
In the moonlight...
There was a sudden "whooshing" sound in the lake.
It was as if the sharks smelled blood and came over.
But this scene is not weird enough.
The strange thing is that the gray-masked man who walked suddenly had an extra head...
The head, slowly, horribly, twisted backwards, turned a hundred and eighty degrees, and looked straight at the ...... who were pursuing him Kelpie.
For a while, it was impossible to tell who was the ghost.