Chapter Thirty-Eight: There Are Ghosts in the Cold Mountains
Hanshan City is surrounded by mountains, showing a huge basin depression, and there are three curtain waterfalls hanging from the top of the mountain in the back mountain.
The three rivers fall and converge into a clear river to go around the city and go to the east.
Li Yan and the others entered from the north along the winding mountain road, and the avenue under the mountain was suddenly open and led straight to the city gate.
On the riverside, the green willows are hanging down, and they are separated by a few zhang and a tree, and they have been spreading around the city.
Half a mile away from the city gate, a wooden bridge spans the river, and two white lanterns are set up at the head of the bridge, and there is no light and no shadow floating in the wind.
"Appeal ......"
The carriage stopped on top of the wooden bridge, and the water was rushing under the bridge.
"Why did you stop, did you arrive?" Li Yan poked his head out and asked in a low voice.
"Childe, there is a situation!"
Zhou Hu stretched out his hand and pointed, the avenue in front of him led directly to the city gate, but on both sides was white silk flying, and the white lanterns were neatly arranged, and there was no end in sight.
"How so? There is little life between heaven and earth, and the yin qi is swirling...... "Li Yan condensed his eyebrows, he had never seen such a scene in his life.
The sky was gray and lifeless.
"What's going on?" Li Yan jumped out of the carriage, took a few steps forward, and stood there for a long time.
Su Muxian also followed, and her dress landed with her.
"This ......" Looking at this situation, Su Muxian was also shocked, "How can this place become so gloomy!" ”
"Let's go, since you're here, I'm going to go in and have a look anyway." Li Yan paid attention and reminded, "Be careful, go!" ”
On the avenue outside the city, there was no one but them, and there was no living creature except a few crows gathering on the branches and crying non-stop.
The city tower is nine zhang high, and the city gate is also a blood-red gate six zhang high.
The large plaque of the city gate is engraved with the word 'cold mountain', and the city gate is closed and unguarded at this time.
Li Yan and the others pushed open the city gate by themselves, and they were greeted by gusts of cold wind, dust and ashes all over the sky, and white lanterns scattered on the street.
The deeper I went in, the more panicked I became, and there was no figure in the huge capital city.
"Anyone?"
"Open the door!"
"I'm passing by here, and I want to come to the inn for a night......"
I don't know how many doors I knocked on, but there was still no one to be seen.
"Childe, there doesn't seem to be anyone in the city ......"
"How can there be such a desolate empty city in the territory of Qiguo?" Li Yan strode forward, his face full of disbelief, and looked back at Su Muxian with an inquiring gaze, "Have you ever heard that Hanshan City has become like this?" ”
"No one has reported the situation in Hanshan in three years!" Su Muxian shook her head, although she had been a fake emperor for three years, she had never known about the situation here.
"Lu Wuchen should enter the city!" Li Yan raised his head, looked at the empty streets, and ordered as he spoke, "Zhou Hu, you wait and go to investigate everywhere to see if you can still find a living person!" ”
The group continued to walk forward.
The cold wind blows the residual leaves on the street.
A street, lined with houses lined up, but the doors are tightly closed.
"Childe, there is someone in this room!"
Zhou Hu came to report, deep ahead, there was an old man hiding in a compound.
"Say, why don't you close your door?" Zhou Hu escorted the old man out, and forced him to tell the truth.
"Where are you from?" The old man was frightened for a while, cautiously looking left and right, and finally set his eyes on Li Yan's body.
"This is my son-in-law, from the capital." Zhou Hu glared angrily and said loudly, "You only need to answer the question......
"Childe doesn't know, there are ghosts here!" The old man's face was flustered, and he whispered, "Hey, you come in quickly, don't be outside." ”
"Ghosts?" When Li Yan heard this, he was puzzled, so he asked, "Why did the old man say this!" ”
led everyone into the courtyard, and the old man beckoned the children inside to hide in the house.
In the hall, Li Yan looked up.
This is a magnificent courtyard, and it is also the residence of a rich and noble family.
"It all started a month ago, ala......s," the old man slapped his thigh and sighed, "A month ago, two young men drowned in the river outside the city, and I didn't expect those two bodies to be defrauded that night......"
Li Yan listened attentively, it turned out that after drowning a month ago, the person who was killed would come out to bite at night after the corpse, and the person who was bitten to death would also cheat the corpse after entering the night, and come out to bite people like them.
Over time, many people in the city have been bitten to death, and those who survived did not dare to go out again.
"And this?" Li Yan raised his head, fell into deep thought, and muttered to himself, "Could it be the legendary vampire?" ”
"There are probably not many people alive in the city now! My son and daughter-in-law have all been bitten to death, and only me, an old man, is left with his grandchildren to survive......"
"Do you know where the biting corpses are?" Li Yan asked.
"Xicheng, around Yizhuang, the entire houses in Xicheng are occupied by them!"
"Have you ever seen a man in Tsing Yi with a medicine basket on his back before?" Li Yan asked again.
"See, he went in the direction of Yizhuang, and now he doesn't know life and death!"
"Old man, why don't you run away?" Li Yan asked again.
"If you can't escape, this city can only enter and exit for some reason! It was as if something was blocking the outside of those four gates, and there was no way to escape! ”
"What?"
Everyone was shocked!
Li Yan also looked solemn, but he still raised his hand to Zhou Hu Academy and said, "Zhou Hu, give the old man some money and let him help us prepare some meals!" ”
At dusk, Li Yan climbed to an attic in the courtyard.
The attic has six floors, and standing on the top floor, you can look down on the entire Hanshan Castle.
"Why did you come up too?" Li Yan looked back and looked at Su Muxian calmly.
"A city, how to say that there are hundreds of thousands of people, if they all become walking corpses, then can it be repaid?" Su Muxian's tone was solemn, and he also felt the horror of this place.
"Actually, someone should find a way to solve it!" The corners of Li Yan's mouth twitched slightly, and he smiled mysteriously with deep meaning.
"Who?" Su Muxian raised her head and asked.
"Lu Wuchen!" Li Yan touched his sparse beard.
"He? That Xiao Langzhong of the Divine Doctor Gate? Su Muxian was a little unconvinced.
"That's right, you stay here first, I'll go out and have a look!" Li Yan is convinced that all those who are lucky will have great creation.
Now, all you have to do is wait and see what happens, and sit back and enjoy the results when you hide behind him.
Xicheng is even more shrouded in yin qi.
Broken doors and windows, and houses in tatters.
The piles of bones rolled down the streets, and skeletons were everywhere.
Going deeper, there is a huge Yizhuang.
I wonder why such a large-scale village was built here.
Like a palace, the gate is high.
Pushing the door in, there were coffins all over the place.
The entire Yizhuang is actually built according to the Five Elements Bagua Array, and each small courtyard is neatly placed with various coffins.
In the middle of the blood-red coffin were two large black and white coffins, and there was actually a man prying the lid next to the black and white coffin.
"Who?" The man turned back and glared angrily.
"Brother Lu, it's me!"
"Yan Huang?" Lu Wuchen stopped the movement in his hand, and the serious expression on his face was also a little relaxed, "How could Brother Yan also come here?" ”
"I heard that there are ghosts here, come in and have a look?" Li Yan walked over to him and asked, "Brother Lu, do you know what the situation is?" ”
"Yin and Yang are chaotic, it is a ghost!" Lu Wuchen's expression was solemn, and he said softly, "This place has been gathered by people with a blood yin array, and it should be regarded as a white bone land!" ”
"Bone Ground?" Li Yan heard it for the first time and was puzzled.
"The so-called white bone land is the yin land that condenses the yin qi of heaven and earth and is used to raise lonely souls, wild ghosts, walking corpses, zombies, and so on!" Lu Wuchen beckoned to Li Yan and continued, "I don't know what kind of evil demon did it, the corpse in this black and white coffin has grown into a zombie!" ”
"Zombies!" Li Yan was shocked, and immediately strode over, with a faint expectation in his heart.
Are the zombies here the same as those caught by Uncle Nine?
"Squeak......
The lid of the coffin was opened by Lu Wuchen, and Li Yan looked over and saw a black gas coming out of the coffin.
The black gas was thick, with an unpleasant stench.
"Vomit ......"
Li Yan was careless, and his stomach was like turning over the river and the sea, and he almost vomited.
"Brother Yan is okay, right?"
"It's okay, it's careless." Li Yan waved his hand, turned left to stabilize his mind, and looked around the back.
In the coffin, a corpse lay quietly.
Black hair, shriveled face covered with fine white fluffy hairs.
There are still some differences from what he imagined, not wearing Qing clothes, but wearing a funeral dress for Qiguo.
The whole body is black, and it looks like he used to be a rich child, and the clothes are gorgeous and the materials are good.
"Is this a zombie? Why is it covered with white hair? Li Yan retracted his gaze and turned his head to look at Lu Wuchen suspiciously, "Is this the case with the others?" ”
"White hair is all over the body, the night eyes are red like dansha, the fingers are like curved hooks, the teeth are exposed and the lips are like sharp blades, kissing and shouting, bloody through the nose, this has become a stiff hair!" Lu Wuchen was busy covering the coffin, and explained to Li Yan, "This should be the bodies of the two drowned people who died at the beginning......
"Lang Lang Qiankun, there are people raising corpses here? What do they want to do? ”
"Let's go, go back and prepare, and you will know the cause and effect at night!" Lu Wuchen picked up the small medicine basket, got up and walked outside.
"Brother Lu, why don't you burn all these zombies at this time?" Li Yan chased after him.
"Mao stiff is generally open flame can't be burned!" Lu Wuchen stopped, looked at Li Yan and explained, "This zombie thing is too evil, and everything else can't be dealt with unless it's a secret method of the Dao Sect!" ”
"What? The secret method of Taoism? ”
"Brother Yan, have you ever heard of the Xuanshi Sect?"
"Xuanshi Gate?" Li Yan walked side by side with him, but he thought carefully in his heart, but he didn't think that it was this Xuanshi Sect after all.
"Ghost hunting, demon shocking, demon subduing, Xuanshimen are all masters among them!" Lu Wuchen looked back, glanced at the countless coffins in Yizhuang, and sighed, "It's a pity that the people from the Xuanshi Sect are not here, otherwise they must have a way!" ”
"How's that for good?" Li Yan asked deliberately, pretending to be afraid.
"My Divine Doctor Sect has always had a close relationship with the Xuanshi Sect, and when I go back, I will pass on the news to the nearby Xuanshi Sect people, hoping that they can come sooner......" Lu Wuchen looked up at the sky, it was already dusk at this time, and night was coming.
But I don't know if it's too late, if the Xuanshi Sect can't come tonight, I have to take action to stabilize the form first.
"It's almost dark, is it too late for Brother Lu to deliver the news at this time?"
"I have a secret method to transmit sound thousands of miles." Lu Wuchen's face was calm, and he said to Li Yan in a reassuring manner, "Moreover, I have also learned some Taoist techniques from the Xuanshi Sect, and I will stabilize the situation here first tonight!" Brother Yan, you'd better not go out tonight! ”