Volume 1 Sacrificial Corpses Towards the Mountain Chapter 3 The Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain
Since Zhang Shouyu left the temple, three days have passed suddenly.
Along the way, his brows were furrowed, constantly thinking about what happened on the eve of the third day, but he couldn't figure out the context after thinking about it.
There is a lot of suspense and a magic barrier in the heart.
Master said that if he couldn't find the Zhang family within the time limit, he would die, what did he mean?
Zhang Shouyu was puzzled, and a sense of conspiracy and fate lingered in his chest.
Hulan River Zhang's house is thousands of miles away from Wumuyin Mountain. Zhang Shouyu was reluctant to go, but it seemed that he had no other useful clues at the moment, so he simply stopped delaying his leg walking.
Taoist, go down the mountain.
Along the way, it was quite lively, although it was a cold day, but also bumped into a lot of villagers who went into the mountains to pick mountain goods, in addition to seeing a few horses and fairies with red hijab corpses.
This realm is full of immortals in this year, and it is even more rampant than the corpse chasers on the Miao Jiang side. Zhang Shouyu naturally looks down on these crooked and evil ways, although no one knows about his eight sects, he still feels that he is an authentic Taoist with upright roots. After all, it's out to mix the rivers and lakes, and the name still has to stand up to smacking.
On the fourth day, he went down to the foot of the mountain, and saw many behemoths whizzing over his head, which really frightened him. The people around them also smacked their tongues, muttering nonsense like "Duan Hefei lost", "The plane went to Mukden", "Beidaying is making money this time".
Zhang Shouyu can't understand these donkeys and horses at all.
Along the way, he made a fortune along the way, and finally ate a normal hundred family meals again. But the bitterness is bitter in the cold winter, the northeast is more than 30 degrees below zero, and the ice skates on the trees are more than one meter long. He was a posterior baby with thin clothes, and after walking for a few days, he began to feel the cold.
At noon on the seventh day, he went down to the northeast side of the peak, where there was a small village called Baihu Village. Opposite the village is the mouth of the Emur River, and behind it is the bear-heavy Great Khing'an Mountains.
"Third princess, we have lard in our house!"
On the dark mountain road at the entrance of the village, a tattered doll staggered down the hillside, and couldn't help but shout before entering the village.
The child held in his hand half a gourd scoop containing a lump of brownish grease.
He ran unsteadily, and occasionally spilled oil and water, all of which he regarded as a delicacy and put it in his mouth.
The oil seemed to taste disgusting and difficult to swallow, but the child didn't care about it and didn't waste it, endured the tumbling of the river and the sea in his stomach, and licked the edge of the gourd scoop clean.
Zhang Shouyu stared at the gourd scoop for a long time, and couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for this child, others didn't know him but knew what it was.
This baby...... I don't think I have long to live!
The boy excitedly jumped into the second house in the east of the village, and an old couple in the courtyard was cleaning the mountain goods. The old woman shook the dustpan, and the old man kept pouring cold water on it.
"Third wife, we have lard to eat!"
"What are the two dogs yelling about! The piglets were slaughtered by bandits ten years ago, where did they get the oil? ”
The old man known as the third prince was lean and capable, and he didn't look at the second dog at all with an old smoking gun in his mouth.
The second dog ran directly to the dustpan and scooped the gourd in his hand under the eyes of the second elder.
"Look! I lied and peed my crotch! ”
"Oops, it's really an ointment! Son, grandma, take a look! ”
"Fucking bullshit, what's possible?"
The third prince was a little dazed by a scoop of grease in front of him, and he was so poor that he was about to gnaw on the bark of a tree, this big scoop of grease was really a rare thing. The third prince stared at the oily liquid, and an old face full of folds suddenly squeezed out a smile.
"Don't touch it! Untouchable! ”
said that it was too late, and a little Taoist priest with a green face rushed in from the fence in front of his house, and it was Zhang Shouyu who was following him.
He snatched the gourd scoop from the second dog's hand, sniffed it before taking it to his nose, and gently twisted his fingers and rubbed it twice, and the next second he skimmed the scoop out like an electric shock!
The second dog didn't expect him to come with such a hand, he reached out to pick it up or was a step too late, fell and fell on the ground and cried, looking at the grinning mouth that was sprinkled all over the ground.
"You pay me for my oil! You pay me for my oil! ”
"What a little bunny! Good end of the oil and water, how to say bad practice, bad practice! ”
The old woman also looked sorry, and complained about Zhang Shouyu with the second dog. Zhang Shouyu did not look repentant, but his face was as pale as a mourning concubine, looking at the second dog and glancing at it a few more times, his face was a little more gloomy than that of his dead relatives.
"Let me ask you, did you drink this just now?"
"It's not yours, why can't I drink it!"
The second dog was so angry that he was furious, but the old man was still sensible and held his grandson in his arms. It is estimated that he saw Zhang Shouyu's Taoist priest dress, and he gave some respect.
"Confused...... I said, two donors, take a closer look at what it is! ”
"Youbei, what else could it be?"
The old woman lay on the ground and was about to cry.
"You don't know what kind of oil it is! Fuck that's corpse oil...... It's corpse wax! ”
After Zhang Shouyu finished shouting, he glanced at Ergouzi again, and his face was a little paler than just now.
The old woman didn't speak anymore when she heard this, she glanced at the corpse oil tremblingly, and for a while a chill went from her head to her feet!
"Little Daoist, don't talk nonsense!"
The third princess had a gloomy face when he heard this, Zhang Shouyu looked firm, and nodded his head again.
"I'm not familiar with other smells, but I used to smell the smell of corpse oil every day, and it's almost the same."
Zhang Shouyu said with extreme certainty.
"This ......"
The third princess's expression froze, and then he looked at the second dog.
"Ergouwa, the princess asks you, where did you get this oil? Dare to lie and break your legs! ”
“...... Scrape...... I scraped it off! ”
The second dog sobbed and his face was full of grievances, and he didn't know what he had done wrong.
"Where did it come from?"
The third princess continued to ask, and a pair of drooping eyelids widened.
"From a group of uncles and aunts...... There are also many ...... on the ground They have a lot of oil on them...... It's exactly the same as the lard I listened to when I was a kid! ”
"Where are those guys now?"
“...... It's in the mountains! After walking northwest along the mountain road for two hours, you can smell the oil! ”
Ergouzi stretched out his finger and pointed to the Great Khing'an Mountains outside the village.
Zhang Shouyu looked at the distance along his fingers, and his eyes suddenly became as deep as an abyss.
That night, when Zhang Zhenshan performed the technique of Qimen Dunjia to seal the temple, a strange sound came from the foothills of the northwest side......
Zhang Shouyu's heart moved slightly, and he immediately asked Ergouzi for detailed directions, and then turned to leave.
Seeing this, the third prince panicked, and stepped forward to grab Zhang Shouyu.
"Xiaodao Chief, are you going to the place where the baby said?"
"What, are you okay?"
"I am the village chief of this White Tiger Village...... Eighty percent of this corpse oil may be the mountainman of my village, if it really kills someone, I can't ignore it! Old woman, you are optimistic about the second dog, this matter has to be hidden from us since we are here! Find me some pickaxes, I'll have to go into the mountains and see! I advise you not to follow, the corpse wax is a big thing, I see that you are not very old, don't be scared anymore! ”
"The legs are on me, and I don't need to worry about this."
Zhang Shouyu's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he couldn't help but glance at the three princesses. But at the moment, he didn't have the heart to put it on him at all, after all, corpse wax appeared in the northwest foothills at this time...... No accident!
There are still many days left in 7749, and Zhang Shouyu naturally wants to explore. It's really troublesome for this old man to suddenly intervene sideways, but the road to the sky is not his dojo, and his feet are on other people's bodies, so he naturally has no reason to control too much.
Zhang Shouyu, who originally intended to go down the mountain, took the northwest foothills with the third prince and diverted the route.
Along the way, the two occasionally chatted, and Zhang Shouyu also learned a lot about the surrounding situation through this old man.
The third prince is the village head of Baihu Village, and he presides over the mountain god sacrifice ceremonies on weekdays, and enjoys prestige in the village. Baihu Village relies on the mountains to eat the mountains, and this mountain refers to the Wumuyin Mountain.
Like Zhang Shouyu, he believes in tradition, and has not cut off the braids on his head, and he wears a cotton jacket in the late sunny period on weekdays. The Northeast Frontier is already closed and backward, and there are many people dressed like him, so he doesn't feel anything nondescript.
Not far from the foothills, the third prince stopped and pulled out the package, lit three incense sticks in the north direction, and twisted up the ashes when the incense burned and dropped the first handful of incense ashes, and smeared them on the left and right tiger mouths and Yintang points.
"Worship the mountain god?"
"Yo, the calf's nose is really a bit insightful."
"This is a necessary ritual for the starry night to disturb the mountain god's grandmother to rest, and there are many shamans in the Miaojiang region who will reuse this way, and my master has recited it to me, so I can see it through."
The third prince was silent when he heard this, and quietly completed the ceremony, his expression was unusually pious.
The northeast of Layue is the year of cannibalism, and the mountains are even more bitterly cold. Neither the Siberian tiger nor the bear blind can see it, only some hardy mountain goods are growing tenaciously. Fiery red schisandra, wild winter mushrooms and gastrodia are everywhere, but neither of them has the heart to pick and choose.
According to Ergouzi's statement, he walked to the northwest, and gradually lost sight of the figure.
"We don't walk on this northwest mountain road on weekdays, to put it bluntly, this is the shady side, the direction of Wumuyin Mountain is in the southeast, the northwest foothills can't see the sun all year round, the mountain goods are not good, and our villagers don't bother to make that effort, it has long been a no-man's land, how can there be corpse oil miles......"
The third prince kept muttering along the way.
Two hours later, the third lady took pictures of the bright yellow kerosene lamp, and the visibility around it was less than ten meters.
There was a buzzing sound from nowhere in the dark night, and there was a faint smell wafting from an unpleasant smell, which was the volatile smell of corpse wax.
He put the oil lamp on top of his head and climbed up by the faint light.
Suddenly, the oil lamp bumped into a certain place, and when I looked up, it was a rotten and bloated human hand!
Carrion!
The third prince was so frightened that his old legs trembled, and Zhang Shouyu frowned when he saw this, but he didn't have too many gaffes. Compared with him, an old guy who was half-cut into the ground, Zhang Shouyu's courage was obviously better than him. After all, he'd dealt with this thing too many times, and he had more or less the courage to be unfazed.
The third prince slowly moved the kerosene lamp upwards until it shone on the head of the rotting corpse.
He covered his nose to block the strong smell of corpses, and his face was dull as he looked at it.
"This ...... Or are you human? ”
Zhang Shouyu took a look, the corpse had been frozen for a long time, did not lie on the ground, but hunched over and stood on the stone steps of the mountain road like a sculpture, looking at its movements as if it was climbing the mountain, just stepped out of the left foot and suddenly died violently!
The corpse was male, and although his back was to Zhang Shouyu, his facial features were clearly visible.
The neck under the light of the kerosene lamp was completely twisted, the head was completely twisted at 180 degrees, and a hideous and strange bloody face was facing the lampshade of the kerosene lamp, and the facial features under the firelight were actually laughing, but the eyes, nose and mouth were covered with tear-stained blood scabs!