Chapter 4: The Red Coffin
"You...... Come...... ......"
Each syllable does not seem to come from a human mouth, but rather from the striking of some kind of bone. The sound of the broken hollow permeated the sky over the mass graves on the western slope.
"Meow~~~"
The blue-eyed black cat's tail flicked, and the four paws that were originally walking with cat steps stopped. She tilted her head and let out a cat's meow that seemed to be a response to the mutated mound not far away.
The red thread swayed.
Countless white hand bones emerged from the mound, densely packed like ants of all sizes scattered out of an ant's nest.
Half of the broken tombstone, the handwriting on it has long been worn and unclear, but the word "Zhang" can be faintly seen. And the countless hand bones seemed to have been agreed in advance, and they all converged in front of this tombstone.
Slowly, the silhouette of a person is formed.
Bang! A dark green ghost fire burned in the eye socket made of phalanges, and the dark green color blended out, outlining the vague facial features where it should be the face.
The knuckles of the fingers strike each other, making a caco-rattling sound:
"Stuff...... ...... Go out...... Come ......"
Meow Woo –
With a long roar, the black cat demon who had caused trouble many times in Qingtian County appeared in this world again.
Sharp claws bounced out, and every sharp tooth in the wide open mouth glowed with a cold glow. The black breath exhaled from his mouth carried a fishy smell, and the grass on the side withered in an instant.
Like a whip's tail, the bluestone next to it was beaten into powder, and billowing smoke and dust were raised.
Click, click, click.
From the hands made of white bones grew sharp spikes as sharp as knives.
"Kill!"
The skeleton man bowed his body and surged forward. Like an arrow, accompanied by the sound of breaking wind, it rushed in the direction of the cat demon.
Meow!
The cat demon raised its claws and slapped it, and the black demon qi that rose up was like the hardest protection, so that those seemingly sharp bone spurs could not be pierced no matter what.
And the claw that fell, slammed half of the skeleton's body into irregularly sized bone pieces, and scattered and rolled down with the wind.
Meow~ (That's it?) )
The cat demon raised her right paw and stretched out her scarlet tongue to lick it on the fur of her right paw.
Click. The bones that had rolled around rolled back again, forming a chaotic white mass of bone in front of the tombstone. The twist changed for a moment, gradually turning into a fuzzy beast shape that landed on all fours.
If you don't look at the colors and details, it looks exactly like the black cat demon in terms of general shape.
Meow! (Fake!) )
The cat demon leaped high, and two black cat's claws slashed through two bright arcs, tearing towards the bone beast that had just formed a shape.
With two thuds, two cracks cracked across the white bone beast's back, and before it could raise its head and let out a roar, it was swept away by an oncoming tail whip.
The white bone beast that had just been formed was once again beaten and scattered.
The cat demon fell lightly, she raised her proud head, her blue eyes scanned around, and the black tail whip was still sweeping back and forth on the ground.
This time, instead of slowly gathering together again as before, the pile of bones slowly burrowed downward, disappearing under the cover of the yellow earth.
Meow?
The cat demon turned her head around with some confusion, her green eyes were full of doubts, and the words on the half of the tombstone closest to her slowly oozed blood. But as a cat demon who has just been repaired, after all, the spiritual intelligence opened is limited, and she did not find anything abnormal.
At this moment, even after the cat demon became bigger, the red silk thread that was still hanging on her neck suddenly tightened, and then a huge force was transmitted, and the black cat demon was actually involved.
At the same time, a sharp bone spur the size of an arm's length and a fist drilled out from under the loess beneath the cat demon's location.
This bone spur was different from the others, and it had a dark green, almost black color. The bone spurs did not completely pierce into the cat demon's body, but only the junction between the spikes in the front section and the cat demon's abdomen easily cut through the black demonic qi, and a huge bloody cut was cut on the cat demon's flesh and blood.
If it weren't for the red silk thread that suddenly lifted the cat demon, the cat demon would have been pierced by that special bone spur by now.
"Yes...... Bear...... Person...... ......"
The black cat demon was lifted by the red silk thread, spun and became smaller as it whirled, and flew into Xia Zhicicada's arms.
When he fell back into Xia Zhicicada's arms, he was already a black kitten the size of a palm. She whimpered a few times, as if she was complaining to Xia Zhician or complaining about her grievances.
With a flip of his hand, he retracted the kitten into the left cuff.
"Stuff...... ...... Come out ......"
The white skeleton man came out of the dirt again, his dark green eyes dancing with ghostly fire, his body stiffened, and the bones on his body were still wriggling, like a large pile of maggots piled together.
Xia Zhician shook his head, and with a flick of his right hand, he brought up a gust of wind.
Bang! The white bones turned into a sky full of bone chips, only a little dark green did not dissipate, but attached to the largest piece of bone chips, and once again escaped into the ground.
"Aren't you going to come out yet?"
Xia Zhician shook his robe, and the action of directly smashing the bone man with Gangfeng just now was as easy as dusting off.
Bang bang bang. With a few muffled sounds, another white bone crawled out from under the ground. It's the same as before, and it's assembled into a bone man. Turquoise flames flickered in the eyes of every skeleton.
"Delivery...... Come out...... Finish...... Immortal ......"
"You're saying that handing over that thing will spare me from dying, right?"
Xia Zhician chuckled:
"Are you kidding......"
In the middle of the night, the waning moon on the canopy of the sky shed a silvery white light, which was like a thin veil, covering everyone's eyes.
……
The East Valley is brightly lit.
A few officials just held torches for lighting, and then looked at the people of Qingtian County gathered in the middle of the valley with the eyes of ghosts.
Those people were all smiling like flowers, looking around at the black holes, the valley cliffs where there was nothing, and their mouths kept admiring:
"Alas, look, look, there's a monkey show!"
"Oh, there's still a big drama here."
"Bring me a string of sugar gourds...... Well, that's sweet. ”
"Hehe, whose little lady was born so beautiful......"
In short, it's gibberish, and there are people who say anything. You know, not to mention any monkey play circus around, there is not even a good-looking flower.
Some officials really couldn't help it, and ran over and whispered to ask Guo Zida, the commander of Qingtian County, whether these ordinary people were all evil, and why did they talk nonsense about what kind of drama they watched?
"It's okay, it's just a little harmless illusion. Let's wait until tonight......"
Although the officials were confused, they could only obey the orders.
I don't know how long it took, but suddenly a servant ran over, and he knelt on the ground with a puff, and his voice was split:
"Great, big man! Oh no, it seems that there is a fire in the county, and the small ones can't see clearly, but they just see the red light in the sky......"
"My lord, I'm willing to go back and see ......"
"No!"
Guo Zida shouted, he first lowered his head and hesitated, and then as if he suddenly remembered something, he slapped his hand at the official who came to report the news just now.
There was a clatter, and thunder rang out.
The official who was originally kneeling on the ground was split into a black mist by a sudden palm thunder. When the black mist dissipated, there was only a white skeleton left where the official knelt on the ground.
The bones of the corpse shattered, and in the place that Guo Zida didn't see, a little dark green thing in the bone marrow fell into the dirt with the wind and disappeared.
"Sure enough, fortunately, Xia Lingguan left me this palm thunder when he left, because I was afraid that the demons would take the opportunity to deceive the people."
Guo Zida opened the palm of his hand, and drew a strange talisman in pale gold handwriting. The talisman was faintly visible, and a few small silver-white lines crossed it.
"Xia Lingguan said that if that monster sees the blood light and sucks people's souls, then the Daluo Immortal is coming, and they can only scratch their heads and be at a loss."
It was precisely for this reason that Xia Zhician instructed Guo Zida to drive all the people of Qingtian County out of the city and go to the East Valley to avoid trouble before midnight.
"Listen to all the officials, but anyone who trespasses into the valley or intends to leave can be killed on the spot! No matter who it is, even the official is no exception! ”
Guo Zida's eyes were cold, his heart was horizontal, and he sheathed the sword at his waist, and Leng Sensen's sword body reflected Leng Sensen's eyes. He scolded the officials in a stern voice, and his voice echoed throughout the East Valley.
"Yes!"
The officials did not dare to slack off, and each drew his sword out of its sheath and replied in unison.
……
The wind whined through the bones of the bone-made body.
One skeleton after another stood up from the ground, gradually gathering into an army of the undead. They held up the long knives made of white bones in their hands, opened their mouths wide, and made a tooth-aching bone grinding sound:
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
With neat steps, it is as if it is really a well-trained regular army. The sword and shield men in the front row are approaching, the spearmen in the back row are raising their spears, and the archers in the back are already making a gesture to pull the bowstring.
A hundred white bone demons, even two or three thousand soldiers in an ordinary army can't resist it.
But as the saying goes, brine points tofu - one thing drops one thing.
Xia Zhicicada's face did not change, he first shook the sleeve robe on the left, and a faint cat meow came from it. Shaking his head, he shook the sleeve robe on his right side again, and there was no movement inside:
"I forgot ......"
Xia Zhician raised his forehead and smiled, he found that his forgetfulness was a little big. Some things are not commonly used, and they are slowly forgotten after a long time.
He stretched out his right hand, grabbed his middle finger with his thumb, and then reached out and flicked it on the golden crown above his head. The ancients had a saying that they celebrated with a crown, which was an action to express joy.
There was a buzzing sound, and a golden aura visible to the naked eye emerged from around Xia Zhicicada. Then it slowly spread out in all directions as it swirled.
Puff puff, those skeletal soldiers who originally looked extremely powerful and vicious were like thin ice directly irradiated by the scorching sun under that golden aura, and they dissipated directly almost instantly.
It's the kind that dissipates directly, and there is not even a little bit of bone meal and bone chips.
Xia Zhicicada waved his sleeves, and a fierce whirlwind suddenly blew on the originally silent wilderness. He kept looking at the huge tombs around him, and walked forward step by step.
"Aren't you going to come out yet? I've got a good ......."
Finally, he landed in front of the half-headstone just now. The loess bag behind the tombstone is almost impossible to see the shape, if it weren't for this half of the tombstone poked there, no one would have found that this pile of dirt bags was actually a grave.
"If you don't come out, then I'm going to go in, I'm really going in......"
Xia Zhicicada kept probing on his mouth, but there was no slackening in his eyes, still like a falcon soaring in the sky and searching for the cunning prey hiding in the grass and dense forest.
The guy who really caused the chaos has never appeared.
Bang!
The grave, exploded!
Xia Zhician put his hands into his sleeve robe, and each pinched the trick. His eyes stared at the mound in front of him, which had torn apart a huge gap.
Along the huge gap that cracked, you could see a mouthful of vermilion ...... Coffin.
Wait, coffin, vermilion?
A dark cloud floated in the sky for no apparent reason, covering the waning moon that was not bright in the first place.
"Official, the slave family is waiting for you so hard......"
A weak woman's voice came from the darkness.
Xia Zhician turned around and looked in the direction behind him. From there came the silhouette of a man faintly.
Yun'er, who didn't know each other, was finally willing to open a corner of the curtain, and the waning moon worked hard to exude the little brilliance she had left.
At this time, the woman had already walked in front of Xia Zhicicada.
The woman's green hair fluttered casually behind her back, and only occasionally a few strands of hair stuck to her cheeks. It must have made her feel a little itchy, so she wiped the hair on the side of her neck to the back of her ears with her white and flawless jade hands.
A pair of spring eyebrows and a pair of autumn wave eyes. Even before you speak, those eyes have already told you countless love words.
"Official, the slave family misses you so much."
The woman's red lips spit out a mouthful of orchid fragrance, and as soon as her feet softened, her whole body crashed into Xia Zhiciao's arms.
Start, indescribably soft.
The woman wore only a layer of see-through tulle, and then she was no longer in a wreak.
For a while, even the moon was a little bloody, and the moonlight was a lot brighter. This made Xia Zhician more able to see every detail of the beautiful woman in her arms.
"I ......"
The jade finger pressed against the man's lips, blocking his words.
"Don't talk, kiss me."
Xia Zhicicada couldn't help but lower his head. It's a pity that there is no third eye on the back of his head, so that he will not be able to see it, and the tomb that is now behind him has been completely cracked.
The red coffin in the tomb has been opened, and the coffin lid is diagonally inserted into the yellow clay beside it.
Coffin, inside is empty.