Chapter 131: Skeletons
"Don't bother, get out of here!"
Xia Zhician raised his head and looked at the thing that made a strange noise beside him, without the slightest look of surprise, but scolded very unceremoniously.
Da-da-da, da-da-da.
In front of him was a white skeleton, which was making a strange clattering sound from its mouth that was constantly closing and opening, and several teeth were missing from both the upper and lower mouths.
For some reason, the skeleton's head had been smashed into a large hole, and the dirt was mixed with weeds, and several jagged blades of dead grass protruded from the hole, swaying rhythmically with the clattering sound.
If ordinary people see it, they must be scared, but Xia Zhician can only feel a little funny when he sees it, and the other party's appearance is really nothing to be afraid of.
"What do you want to do?"
Da-da-da, da-da-da.
The skeleton raised his two arms and saluted politely, his left arm had no palm, and his right palm was missing several bones, and the most pitiful thing was that the arm bones were still covered with gnawing tooth marks, which did not look like a human, but like a wild dog.
Dada, dada......
The teeth kept knocking, and the sound was getting more and more urgent, but no matter how the upper and lower teeth were tapped, there was no sound at all, only the crisp sound of impact.
Xia Zhician waved his hand, and didn't care whether the skeleton that had only bones left could be seen or not, and rolled his eyes to himself.
"I don't understand. Do you have any other ways to express it? Don't make a big click......"
Da Da Da ......
The skeleton was still clicking, but he probably felt that Xia Zhicicada couldn't understand what he was saying at all, so he helplessly touched the weeds above his head.
Da-da-da-da!
As if he had thought of something, he stretched out his right hand, and only three and a half fingers were left to poke directly into the fire burning in front of Xia Zhicicada.
He took out a piece of burning charcoal from it, and then pinched and wrote a paragraph on the ground that had just been cleaned:
"I was carefree and a scholar, and my family lived in Liujiazhuang, ten miles outside the mountain. On that day, when I went out, I was met by a wicked man, and I was killed in the temple, and my poor bones were uncollected, miserable and desolate. The wild dog took my left hand and licked my right finger ......"
"Okay, okay, it's not enough to write down the place."
Xia Zhician hurriedly spoke to stop him, he glanced at the black article on the ground angrily, and knew that this skeleton was a sour Confucian student who read books before his death, and he had to rhyme with everything when he wrote.
"What do you want to do? Let me avenge you, or overdo you......"
The skeleton was stopped from the article that was still spilling in his hand, and the content of it had changed from crying to proclaiming how smart he was when he was young, literate at the age of three, reciting poems at the age of five, and how he was at the age of seven.
It's a pity that the place is really not big enough, otherwise he could continue to write.
Hearing the other party's question, he was stunned for a moment, although the skeleton would not have an expression, but the stunned action was still noticed by Xia Zhicicada.
"You're not going to write an article for me just to run out, are you?"
When Xia Zhician saw the skeleton's movements, he knew that the other party was a stupid person who couldn't even be a ghost, and he finally came over, but he just wanted to write something to tell himself about his pitiful experience before his death.
Da Da Da ......
The skeleton wouldn't blink, and he could only twist his face to the side in some embarrassment, as if this would cover his shame, and the weeds that had been a mess on the top of his head drooped.
He really doesn't know what to do, you say you want revenge, I don't know how long I have been in this temple, the villain who killed him is very likely to be dead, how to take revenge?
But if you want to talk about overtaking yourself......
The skeleton took a step back a little frightened, he didn't know what method Xia Zhicicada used to exceed, whether to ask the monk to recite the scriptures, or to ask the old Taoist to exorcise ghosts.
Da Da Da ......
The skeleton shoved the half-cut piece of charcoal in his mouth and chewed it several times before seeing a pile of black crumbs fall down his jaw.
"You were killed because you were unwilling to become what you are now, but after so many years, the resentment has almost dissipated."
Xia Zhician didn't care about the skeleton's behavior, and explained to him very seriously why he was now at the point of being eaten by wild dogs and couldn't be reincarnated, just because his current corpse was incomplete and he couldn't look at it.
"Now you are being eaten by wild dogs, because you once killed a pregnant female dog by mistake, and their mother and son have now come to you for revenge......"
The skeleton shook its head vigorously, and then made a gesture of clenching his fists, and bowed to Xia Zhician a few times very sincerely, as if he was begging the other party to save him.
Da-da-da, da-da-da.
"Who can not do wrong things in his life, as long as he knows that he can change his mistakes, he can still remedy them."
Xia Zhician pinched his fingers, and then looked at the skeleton's face again.
Someone said that the skeletons are already white bones, how can they still look at each other? Of course, this is because people have skin and bones, and now although the skin and flesh are gone, the bones are still there.
"Well, I'll make an idea for you, it's up to you whether you listen or not."
The man pointed out the door, motioned for the skeleton to come out, and continued in his mouth:
"They're coming to you tonight to seek revenge, so why don't you go out and let them have a good ......"
Before Xia Zhicicada finished speaking, he saw the skeleton shaking its head like a rattle, and the weeds on its head were also rattling.
"What? Disagree...... That's okay, you just keep it this way, even if you can hide from today, you can't hide from tomorrow. ”
"If you owe something to others, you will have to pay it back sooner or later."
The skeleton was poked in the heart by Xia Zhiciao's words, and his mouth, which had been chattering non-stop, finally stopped, and his head turned to Xia Zhicicada for a while, and then turned to the outside.
After a long time, the sun outside had completely set, and the last little light had disappeared into the depths of the dense forest.
The skeleton man who didn't know how long he had been doing it finally made up his mind, and he finally saluted Xia Zhicicada who was sitting by the fire, and then pushed the door and walked out.
"Remember, no matter how much they eat, you have to hold back, or in the end the bones will be incomplete and the grievances will be over, and you will be scattered."
Finally, I heard Xia Zhicicada's words.
The skeleton walked out of the ruined temple, where he'd been hiding for years, and if the wild dogs attacked, he would find a way to block the gate from them or hide in the apse from being discovered.
Today, he is not hiding.
As soon as it was dark, there was a sound of a rope in the grass not far away, and then several half-sized variegated wild dogs came out, staring at the skeletons that had come out calmly.
Wang——
As the largest of them barked, the dogs pounced at the same time, some biting their arms and some gnawing their thighs.
The skeleton sat down on the ground, allowing the wild dogs to gnaw at it, and the bones that had been weathered for a long time made a clicking sound, and the white bone chips visible to the naked eye fell.
Those wild dogs are not to fill their stomachs, after all, skeletons are bones, not a bit of meat, although dogs sometimes gnaw on bones, but it is impossible to eat enough by eating bones.
Click, click......
In the darkness of the night, wild dogs gnaw on white bones and make a cacophony, screeching sound.
Click—With a thud, the skeleton's left arm snapped first, and the wild dogs bit off his left hand and continued to pounce on him and gnaw at his other bones.
Soon, the slender ribs also began to break, and pieces fell to the ground, some diagonally on the ground, and some of them went out for a long time.
Click, click, click......
The sound continued, and the skeleton went from sitting cross-legged on the ground to sticking it on the ground, because both of his leg bones had been completely bitten off, so the pelvis was directly inserted into the dirt.
Now all his limbs had been gnawed away, and even his ribs and other bones had been bitten off by the wild dogs, leaving only the last of his spine and the skull with weeds on top of it.
The wild dogs also stopped their attack, and instead of knocking down the skeleton and biting off the last of his remaining backbones, they took a few steps back, apparently intending to leave.
Wang——
The eldest of the wild dogs barked a few more times, and the rest of the wild dogs obediently returned to his side, and the group of wild dogs of unknown origin was about to leave, when they saw the grass not far away swaying slightly.
Then a pair of scarlet eyes were revealed.
The wild dogs flinched and took a few steps back, then quickly turned and entered the forest, and it was not long before they were out of sight.
The scarlet eyes slowly burrowed out of the grass, and it turned out to be a lone gray wolf covered with scars, it seemed that it should have been squeezed out of the wolf pack, and it should have been a long time since it had eaten.
It leaped out of the grass lightly, and in three or two steps it ran to the skeleton that had been eaten and only its spine was left, and happily spun around several times, first licking the bone fragments on the ground, and then staring at the skeleton.
The long, fanged mouth was opened, and the foul saliva dripped down.
I'm finally able to report a meal today.
It arched its back, kicked its hind paws hard, and pounced in front of the skeleton, its two front paws were already on the skeleton's backbone, but I don't know if it was because the skeleton was too deep in the ground, or because it had been hungry for too long and had no strength, in short, it didn't knock the skeleton down.
Xia Zhician only said that those wild dogs were grievances that skeletons had to repay, but he didn't say that a gray wolf would come, and he didn't know if it was because of chance or fate.
The skeleton lowered his head, and his eyeless eye sockets looked at the gray wolf who was close to him, and he suddenly felt that the gray wolf's expression seemed to have been seen somewhere, but he couldn't remember it.
Suddenly, a thought flashed through him, and the skeleton suddenly realized.
The gray wolf in front of him is very similar to the villain who killed him in the first place. How can a wolf be similar to a person, it's just that their greedy looks are the same, even if they can't remember their appearance, but this look will not change.
The skeleton opened its mouth and let out a silent laugh.
Half of the charcoal stuck in his throat fell, and it had been completely extinguished, but now it suddenly ignited red flames again, and fell directly on the gray wolf's body.
Then there was a raging fire, which did not ignite anything, but only completely burned the gray wolf to a pile of ashes, and the wind blew and dissipated.
The skeleton grows its mouth, laughs and falls to the ground, then stops moving.
The grudge is over.
Xia Zhicicada, who was sitting by the fire, suddenly reached out and grabbed it, as if he had caught a flying insect, and then threw it into his sleeve robe with shaking his hand, and then patted his left hand uneasily.
"Good cat, he can't eat it."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly saw that the place where the skeleton was writing just now had changed, and the original article was gone, only the black charcoal was broken, and it was twisted into two big words:
"Run."