Chapter 8: The Corpse Chaser (I)
Yang Xiaowu doesn't remember how long he fell asleep, only that he had many dreams. Sometimes I dream that he and his eldest brother have become people, living in seclusion in the mountains and forests, living, aging, sick and dying; sometimes I dream that he and Lei Batian are dueling, and finally they are eaten by him; sometimes I dream that Chen Keyi has turned into a zombie, and I don't know why, I actually want to kill myself...... It's horrible......
Yang Xiaowu didn't dare to dream anymore, so he used all his strength and struggled hard, and finally seemed to hit something, and before he could react, he woke up.
"Brother Yang, you're finally awake. But the way you wake up is so different, haha, how can anyone even be unconscious to the ground. Haha......""
Yang Xiaowu heard the voice, opened his eyes, and saw Zhang Yuxin coming over in a blur. He asked Zhang Yuxin: "Why didn't I die?"
When Zhang Yuxin heard what he said, she smiled even brighter, and while helping him up, she said with a smile: "What did you say? How could you die? You can't be sleepy, right? You even forgot that you were a zombie." However, you are so hateful that no one even told me that you are a ...... Oh no, it's a zombie. ”
Yang Xiaowu looked at Zhang Yuxin, at a loss in his heart, and asked, "What the hell is going on?"
"Oh, yes, I forgot, you passed out. Do you know that you've been asleep for three days and three nights! When you were punched by the zombie king called Lei Batian, you immediately became delirious. I looked at you like that, tossing and turning on the ground, like I was going crazy, and I was scared to death. It took a lot of effort for me and the sword slave to finally hold you down. As soon as I hold you down, I see that your hands and feet are beginning to burn. I don't even know what to do, but fortunately, at this time, Sister Keyi fed you something I don't know, and then muttered a spell, and you gradually quieted down. Then Sister Ke Yi also fainted. Hey, I had no choice but to carry you both back to the mountain with the sword slave. ”
"Where's Keyi? Is she okay?"
"Sister Ke Yi! She is still in a coma, but the Taoist chief said that Sister Ke Yi is fine. By the way, Brother Yang, let me tell you, Sister Ke Yi's master is the one who chased corpses as that person, I thought he was no different from ordinary people! If it hadn't been for the sword slave telling me, I would have really thought he came out of the painting!" Zhang Yuxin helped Yang Xiaowu and walked to the table, saying as he walked, "Brother Yang, after you woke up, you first asked if you were dead, and then asked if Sister Keyi was okay." Hmph, you care a lot about Sister Keyi. What is the relationship between you?" Zhang Yuxin said, poured a glass of water for Yang Xiaowu and handed it over.
Yang Xiaowu took the cup, glared at her, and said, "Child, what do you know? ”
"I'm seventeen years old, and I'm not a kid anymore. Besides, I just don't know how to ask. Hee-hee, if you don't say it, I can guess it. You two are ......"
Zhang Yuxin looked at the door and suddenly stopped talking. Yang Xiaowu followed Zhang Yuxin's gaze, and immediately saw that the sword slave didn't know when he was already standing at the door. The sword slave didn't seem to come to see him on purpose, and when he woke up, he was stunned for a moment, and immediately put on a cold face and said, "Master asked me to tell you that you will see him when you wake up." After the sword slave finished speaking, he ignored them and walked away.
Zhang Yuxin grimaced at the back of the sword slave and said, "Big wood." A large piece of wood. He turned his face and asked Yang Xiaowu, "Brother Yang, are you feeling better, are we going to see Sister Keyi's master now?"
Yang Xiaowu closed his eyes, secretly used his skills, and found that his internal injuries had healed seventeen or eighteen, and there should be no problem with his actions, so he nodded. He had never met Chen Keyi's master, and Chen Keyi rarely mentioned her master, but listening to Zhang Yuxin's words, Chen Keyi's master seemed to be quite amiable.
Zhang Yuxin saw that Yang Xiaowu had just woken up and his movements were not very neat, so he helped him up and walked outside, took two steps, and couldn't help complaining: "Brother Yang, how can you say there is a person like him in the world." All day long, from morning to night, I can't say three lively words. I really don't know if he will feel bored if he follows Sister Ke Yi all day long. ”
Yang Xiaowu was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted, knowing that she was talking about sword slaves. For the sword slave, Yang Xiaowu knows his past and understands the reason for the formation of his character, but it is really inconvenient for him to say anything to Zhang Yuxin.
They walked through a corridor about 20 meters long, and when they came to the end, there was a room, and before they could enter, Yang Xiaowu smelled a fragrance. This fragrance and elegance, with the smell of natural orchids, were already smelled by the two of them outside the room. Although Yang Xiaowu is not proficient in the tea ceremony, he also knows that this must be the taste brewed by the best Tieguanyin.
Yang Xiaowu was about to knock on the door, when he heard an old voice coming out of the room, saying, "The door is not locked, Poor Dao has already cooked tea, please come in and sit." ”
Yang Xiaowu woke up for so long, and his physical strength gradually recovered, he let go of Zhang Yuxin's hand holding him, indicating that his body had recovered. Zhang Yuxin grimaced, turned around and was about to leave.
"Little girl, come in too!"
Yang Xiaowu was taken aback, he didn't know if it was a coincidence, or if that person was really so powerful, he didn't hear the sound, and he could know that there was another person outside besides himself. Yang Xiaowu said secretly in his heart: Forget it, if you come, you will be safe, and you will go first and talk about it.
When I walked into the room, the first thing that caught my eye was the word "quiet" in the face of a large face. Look at the word knot is square and dense, the strokes are horizontal and vertical, the pen is strong and round, and the momentum is solemn and majestic. The person who wants to write this word must be a person who has a heart for the world and a majestic atmosphere.
"Little brother, please come and sit here. ”
Yang Xiaowu followed the prestige, and saw an old man, dressed as a Taoist, with a childish face and crane hair, with a bit of otherworldly taste, thinking that it was Chen Keyi's master, the Taoist who was known as the Taoist who drove corpses. In front of that person, there was a very complete set of tea sets, and there were many utensils, and Yang Xiaowu couldn't even name them. Next to the tea set, there is a charcoal stove grilling, which looks like it is blue-green and shiny, as if it was made of bronze. In comparison, the kettle on the stove seems very ordinary, but the curling green smoke rising from the kettle makes people have an illusion that is both real and illusory.
As he brewed tea, the Taoist said, "The Chinese tea ceremony originated in the Tang Dynasty and was passed down to future generations, but after a hundred years of rule by the Yuan Dynasty, it was completely annihilated on the land of China. Our Chinese tea ceremony absorbs the essence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Each family has different opinions. Buddhism emphasizes the "taste of Zen tea", with tea to help Zen, with tea to worship the Buddha, while tasting the bitterness from the tea, but also in the tea ceremony into the Buddhist Zen machine, which is good for the tea people to take the tea ceremony as a way to cultivate self-cultivation, so as to achieve the purpose of clear mind. Our Taoist doctrine has injected the philosophical idea of "the unity of heaven and man" into the tea ceremony of the tea people, and established the soul of the tea ceremony. It is precisely because the Taoist philosophy of "the unity of heaven and man" is integrated into the spirit of the tea ceremony, and the hearts of Chinese tea people are full of incomparable love for nature, and Chinese tea people have a strong desire to return to nature and get close to nature, which is also the reason why poor people live in seclusion in the mountains and forests. ”
Yang Xiaowu suddenly thought of the word "Jing" that he saw when he first came in, so he said: "In the tea ceremony, "Jing" is one of the "Four Truths". Taoism has the saying of "sitting and forgetting", that is, forgetting one's own body and forgetting one's own intelligence, so that one's state of mind when tasting tea reaches the ethereal realm of "no selfishness, no spotlessness, and no delusion". ”
"Young people are really extraordinary!"
Zhang Yuxin smiled awkwardly and said timidly, "Well, that...... Dao Chief, Brother Yang, can you say something that I can understand. No, you two are chatting happily, and I am sitting next to me like a fool, unable to understand or speak, very bored. ”
"Haha, the little girl is smart and smart, with a straightforward personality, and she is really an ordinary person. ”
"Haha, thank you for the compliment! But, Dao Chief, I'm seventeen years old, and I'm not a little girl anymore!"
Yang Xiaowu knew that Zhang Yuxin didn't understand, so he explained: "To put it simply, what the Taoist chief means is that he already knows that I am a zombie, but he will not accept me." ”
"Isn't it a very simple thing? two sentences can solve the problem, why bother so much!"
"Well, the little girl is quick to talk, so the poor road will not chatter. The poor road number is 100 losses, and people are called 100 loss Taoists. The apprentice Chen Keyi went down the mountain this time, suffered many disasters, and I thank you for saving me so that I can come back safely. ”
"The Taoist is polite. Yang Xiaowu hesitated, and was about to ask Chen Keyi's condition, but Zhang Yuxin had already said: "Dao Chief, how did you know that I was also outside just now? I remember that Bo didn't speak!"
The Taoist chief smiled slightly and said, "What you said is mysterious, you can't understand it." Put it this way: If you put your mind to it, you will be able to hear and see things that you can't normally hear or see. ”
"Oh, do you care?" Zhang Yuxin muttered a few times, but still couldn't figure it out, but didn't ask again.
Although Yang Xiaowu didn't quite understand what the Dao Chief said, he seemed to know Chen Keyi's situation more likely, but he had scruples in his heart and couldn't ask.
Seeing the hesitant look in Yang Xiaowu's eyes, the Taoist chief thought about it for a while, and then understood, and said: "The apprentice Chen Keyi was attacked by the zombie king Lei Batian, and Mr. Yang sacrificed his life to save him, and fortunately this little lady was sent back to the mountain, and finally was able to get treatment in time, and there is no major problem at the moment. ”
Yang Xiaowu heard what the Taoist chief said, and his hanging heart finally let go.
Zhang Yuxin heard the Taoist chief talk about Chen Keyi, and suddenly asked: "Daoist, Sister Keyi doesn't seem to be seriously injured, why did she faint suddenly." And a few days into a coma?"
"I've heard the sword slave tell me the whole story. Under the condition of excessive blood loss and serious physical exertion, Ke Yi forcibly cast the world-destroying spell of "Great Sun Nyorai Heart Mantra", which is a domineering spell that uses all his mana to die with his opponent. To activate this world-destroying curse, you not only need extremely strong mana, but also need to consume your own soul power! The stronger the lethality generated by the world-destroying curse, the stronger the damage caused to yourself. ”
When Yang Xiaowu heard this, the heart he had just put down couldn't help but hang again. Zhang Yuxin was also very nervous, and hurriedly asked: "So what happened to Sister Keyi? Didn't you say that it was okay? Why did this run out again and end up together?"
The Taoist chief made a cup of tea and said, "Fortunately, you came back in time and were able to treat you immediately, and now it is finally nothing serious." Ke Yi is just a mortal body, no better than Mr. Yang's immortal body. According to Keyi's situation, it will probably be tomorrow before she wakes up. ”
At this moment, Yang Xiaowu and Zhang Yuxin finally put their minds at ease.
"Daoist, there is one thing I would like to ask. Before I fell unconscious, I was probably conscious. I felt like I was going to die, but I ate something and recited a spell, and now I didn't die. Yang Xiaowu remembered that the food that Chen Keyi gave him was taken out of his pocket, so he opened his pocket and looked at it, and there was really only the ancient book in his pocket, and the eldest brother's Neidan was missing. He felt that something was wrong, could it be that Chen Keyi gave him food turned out to be the eldest brother's Nedan, "Dao Chief, I think what Keyi gave me should be the eldest brother's Nedan!"