Chapter 2: The Living Dead

I was too young to know what it meant to borrow my life!

All I knew was that I had suffered a catastrophe and that I might die.

That day, my adoptive father was busy all afternoon.

He first went to the vegetable market near the village and bought a big black feather rooster. Then I bought a lot of yellow paper and two catties of glutinous rice.

When I got home, it was already night.

My adoptive father drew a circle in the middle of my yard. Let me strip naked and sit cross-legged in it.

I obeyed, and my adoptive father squatted at the door with a kitchen knife to chop chickens. I saw him take a bowl of hot chicken blood. Then I grabbed a handful of glutinous rice and put it in it and stirred well.

Immediately, the adoptive father took out the yellow rune paper and lit it. Then take the yellow paper and turn it three times left and three times right on my forehead. He was still muttering.

"The sky and thunder move recklessly, the five gods move quickly, the traitors block the way, the road is on fire to help life, and the urgency is like a law!"

He recited the mantra and grabbed the glutinous rice mixed with chicken blood with his hand. Sprinkle handfuls on me.

When it came, my adoptive father told me.

"No matter what happens for a while, you are not allowed to leave this circle.

After tonight, your life will be saved. ”

I nodded heavily and sat honestly in the circle.

In the blink of an eye, it was late at night, and it was dark, and I couldn't see my fingers.

Suddenly, an evil wind blew from nowhere. There was a disgusting smell in the wind.

The wind blew open the wooden courtyard door of our house, and two dark shadows slowly approached me.

Wait for those two dark shadows to come in front of me.

I vaguely saw that there seemed to be two ghosts standing in front of me. Covered in flesh and blood, one with a cow's head and the other with a horse's head.

It's the cow head and horse noodles of the underworld!

The bull's hand holds heavy chains. In the arms of the horse, he carried the white sail of the grave of the dead.

"Stone, your life has come to an end, come with us......"

The horse said grimly to me.

My small body was so frightened that it had become ossified.

However, I remembered my adoptive father's teachings, and sat cross-legged in the circle and never went out.

The bull head shook the iron chain in his hand, and instantly hooked the chain around my neck. Then, like hauling a cargo, they will drag me out of the circle.

At this moment, Shi Shan suddenly rushed out of the room.

He was wearing a dark yellow robe, holding a copper coin sword in his left hand and a copper bell in his right hand.

"The second envoy of the soul will not hurt my son's life."

In an instant, the adoptive father was entangled with the bull head and horse face.

I saw that in the courtyard of my house, a yellow figure and two black shadows were fighting.

At this moment, on the ground of my yard. White smoke began to rise in puffs of air.

Puffs of white smoke rolled out from beneath the ground. I looked closely, and there were thousands of terrifying ghosts coming out of the ground of my house.

Some of them had only half a head, some had long tongues, and some had intestines coming out of their stomachs. Also, even half of the body is flat, and the flat ghost should have been crushed to death by something. The body was covered with red and white mucus, and the two blood-red eyes were lying on the front door, like two big cakes.

These ghosts are coming to me in unison. They're all here to get me! You want me to die!

There was a hanged man with a long tongue, stretching out his withered bone claws, and clutching my ankle so hard.

Followed by. A few more bloody ghosts grabbed me by the hair, pulled my arms, and dragged me out of the circle desperately.

I just felt like I was torn apart. Although the body has not moved, the three souls and seven spirits have been pulled out of the body by these ghosts.

I cried out in pain.

"Dad!"

When my adoptive father heard my plea for help, he turned his head suddenly, and his face sank.

"Too much deception!" Shi Shan said fiercely.

Suddenly, the adoptive father began to take off his robe in public.

On a cold and cold night, my adoptive father stood shirtless in the bleak wind, revealing his thin backbone.

And on the adoptive father's back, there is an incomparably powerful purple dragon tattoo.

Lived with my adoptive father for so many years. I don't even know when he had a tattoo on his back.

I only saw that the purple dragon tattoo on my adoptive father's back emitted a sky-high light.

In an instant, the hundred and ten evil ghosts that held me hostage turned into powder in an instant.

The two soul envoys in the underworld were also instantly terrified when they saw the tattoo on the back of their adoptive father.

"You, you're a Xuanyuan hexagram master?"

The adoptive father shouted.

"Under the Xuanyuan Gate, the purple robe is a hexagram, and the heavenly dragon protects the body. I am the 18th generation descendant of the Xuanyuan hexagram master - Shishan is also. ”

Hear the words Xuanyuan hexagram master. The bull-headed horse's face became uneasy when he saw it.

For a long time, that bull-headed ghost said.

"Mr. Shi, the life of the stone has come to an end. It's a routine thing for us, too! ”

The adoptive father snapped.

"My son's longevity was calculated by a traitor, and he forcibly borrowed my son's life expectancy by borrowing his life!"

The horse's expression was helpless, and his tone was extremely respectful.

"Mr. Shi, Xuanyuan is in the same vein, we naturally can't afford to offend.

But the person who borrowed his life was also extraordinary. I am a ghost in the underworld, and I only act according to the book of life and death! It is you who have stopped us today. Your son's three souls and seven spirits are already incomplete, and he is only a puppet living dead if he remains in the world! ”

My adoptive father had a sideways face, standing in front of me.

"Just keep my son's body. Naturally, I have a way to prolong his life.

I also hope that the ghost is poorly included, and sell me thin noodles. Go now! ”

Maybe it's because of his adoptive father's strength. The soul envoy could only transform into two puffs of black smoke. Fluttering and vanishing under my house.

In the blink of an eye, it was the fourth watch.

The rooster in the village crows.

For some reason, when I heard the rooster crow, I had an instant headache. Fell to the ground and convulsed, foaming at the mouth.

My adoptive father hurried to my side. I watched Shi Shan cut my right hand with a copper coin sword.

He pressed his bloodied right hand against my head, and I fell asleep.

By the time I woke up again, it was three days later.

The adoptive father sat on the edge of the kang with a pale face, as if he was seriously ill. Just three days later, a lot of gray hairs appeared on my adoptive father's head.

Later, when I took a bath with my adoptive father, I found that the purple dragon tattoo on my adoptive father's back had disappeared without a trace.

And the purple dragon, at some point, has been transferred to my body, penetrated deep into my spine, and completely merged with my body.

Later, my adoptive father told me.

I'm a living dead now!