Chapter 3 - Under the Gu
At noon, the patriarch and other elders arrived and took off the old man Zhou Chongjin's Fengjue ring. After several of them checked, they confirmed that the old man Zhou Chongjin was sitting, explained a few words, and left.
After Zhou Yun followed his father to send off the patriarch and elders, he returned to his grandfather's room and looked at the old man sitting on the bed and closing his eyes peacefully. He sat down on the chair next to the bed and looked at the old man like this.
Zhou Yun looked at it at a loss, his father Zhou Zhi had aged a lot overnight, and there were many new gray hairs on his sideburns.
Zhou Zhi suddenly reacted that Zhou Yun was next to him, and he didn't want to show weakness in front of the child, so he stood up,
said: "Xiaoyun, you go to see your mother." It's good that I'm here. ”
After speaking, he pushed Zhou Yun out of the door and closed the door. Zhou Yun didn't know what to do. I had to go and see my mother.
The tradition of the Zhou family is that people should be buried in a coffin on the third day after death, and Zhou Yun followed his father and mother to deal with the old man's funeral.
Two days later, Ah Yi followed his parents to Zhou Yun's house to mourn.
Ah Yi thought to himself, I had seen it a few times before, and the old man had always been in good spirits, so why did he leave suddenly. Ah Yi's parents were also taken aback when they heard the news that Elder Zhou Chongjin was sitting in the Immortal Two days ago. Elder Zhou Chongjin is currently the youngest among the top ten elders of the Zhou family, why did he leave first, I heard that Zhou Yun's mother, Aunt Xue, also fell ill.
Ah Yi followed his father and mother into the lobby, only to see Zhou Yun kneeling next to the coffin, Ah Yi walked over and said, "Xiaoyun, mourn." Zhou Yun raised his head, looked at Ah Yi, and sighed. Didn't speak.
At this time, an old woman on crutches walked in tremblingly, and Zhou Yun's father, Zhou Zhi, hurriedly went over to help. Said:
"Aunt Lin, thank you for sending my father."
This old woman who was called Aunt Lin by Zhou Zhi, Zhou's family, lived in Dongshan Ferry, and the day before yesterday I heard that Zhou Chongjin was seated, and immediately set off to take a boat to Zhugu. When I was young, I was a blood magician of the same generation as Zhou Chongjin, and I am seventy-one this year. Since I was young, I had a lot of injuries, so my legs and feet were a little inconvenient.
Aunt Lin didn't speak, she just walked to the coffin tremblingly, and Aunt Lin lifted the white cloth covering Zhou Chongjin's face. Zhou Zhi stepped forward and asked puzzledly:
"Aunt Lin, what do you want?"
Aunt Lin did not answer, but carefully observed the faces of the people inside the coffin. After staring at it for a few seconds, Aunt Lin stretched out her hand, ready to touch the back of the body's neck. The person next to her immediately stopped her, "Aunt Lin, you are!" ”
Because Zhou Chongjin was lying in the coffin, Aunt Lin couldn't touch it, so she had to withdraw her hand and say, "I think there is something wrong with his face." ”
Zhou Zhi was puzzled and said, "Aunt Lin, my father has already sat down. How can you tell that his face is wrong? “
Aunt Lin put the cane aside, climbed the coffin with half of her body, stretched out her hands, and wanted to turn the head of the body to the left, but the body was still a little stiff, and Aunt Lin's hands were weak, and said, "Xiao Zhi, turn your father's head a little." “
Zhou Zhi probably felt that Aunt Lin had discovered something, so he helped turn the head of the body around, and there was nothing wrong with the back of the neck.
I saw Aunt Lin, who pressed hard a few times on the back of Zhou Chongjin's body, and saw two black dots the size of sesame seeds printed from the back of the neck.
Aunt Lin suddenly gasped, then sighed and said, "It's so vicious." That's it. Xiao Zhi, go get a needle for me, and give me a tube of chicken blood. And get them all out. ”
Zhou Zhi didn't know what Aunt Lin was going to do, so he obediently found a silver needle and a three-inch thumb-thick bamboo tube filled with chicken blood for Aunt Lin, and then invited the people in the mourning hall out of the mourning hall, and Zhou Yun stayed.
I saw Aunt Lin open the bamboo tube, poke her left index finger with a silver needle, and dripped a drop of blood into the bamboo tube. shook the bamboo pipe, and was about to perform the spell, Zhou Zhi was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly stopped Aunt Lin. said: "It is taboo to use human blood in the blood sealing technique, and those who perform the spell will be counterattacked, but Aunt Lin can't." ”
Aunt Lin pushed Zhou Zhi away and said, "The person who poisoned is insidious and cunning, and knows the taboo of my clan, and your father's death is not so simple. I'm measured, just a drop, and there will be no problems. ”
Zhou Zhi said that he would not let Aunt Lin cast spells, Aunt Lin was the same age as her father, and now she is old, and any little blood devouring is fatal to Aunt Lin. Or just do it yourself.
Aunt Lin was irritable and scolded, "Do you know what spell poisoned your father? You don't understand, how do you know how to crack it, and stop me, if it's any longer, this poison will be dispersed, and you won't be able to find it. So he directly picked up the crutches and hit Zhou Zhi's leg a few times.
Aunt Lin asked Zhou Yun and Zhou Zhi to move the body out of the coffin, and Zhou Yun helped the body to sit down.
Aunt Lin sat cross-legged behind the corpse, poured out some of the blood from the bamboo tube, stood on her fingers, wiped the blood on her eyelids, closed her eyes, condensed her soul power, and shouted, "Open!" When Aunt Lin opened her eyes again, her eyes changed from the previous black pupils to golden pupils, only to see Aunt Lin press twice on the back of the neck of the corpse with her hand, and then Aunt Lin threw the bamboo tube into the air, and quickly opened it after the palm was closed, only to see that the blood in the bamboo tube fell on the palm of Aunt Lin's hand, and the blood splashed, and the right palm slapped the back of the neck of the body, and the blood splashed quickly returned to Aunt Lin's palm as if it was attracted.
Then, with his right hand, he quickly wrote a character on the back of his neck with two fingers, which changed from blood red to gold, and then struck the soul spell into the body with a strong palm with his right hand.
In an instant, the body began to gradually turn black and dry, and suddenly Aunt Lin screamed in pain, and quickly withdrew her right palm, only to see a seven- or eight-inch, blood-red insect writhing in Aunt Lin's hand, but after a while, the insect turned black, became dry, and then turned to ash.
Aunt Lin said: "Your father was investigating some things before his death, and he told me that if he encountered an accident, he would let me come to Zhugu. ”
Aunt Lin wiped the ash off her hand and said slowly: "It's this thing that killed your father, it can't be lured out without human blood, it's in the body, whether it's a doctor or a blood magician, you can't notice this thing." “
Before Aunt Lin's words fell, she spurted out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground, and Zhou Zhi hurriedly helped Aunt Lin.
Old man Zhou Chongjin, he has been hooked in the past few years, and he has never been out of the island, who would want to harm him. Could it be someone from the Zhou family? and even made it impossible for the patriarch and the elder to find out.
And the power of this blood devouring, just a drop, Aunt Lin, as a fourth-order blood magician, can't bear it. The person who went down to Gu knew the taboo of the Zhou family's blood magician, could it be that he was really the father of the Zhou family?
Zhou Zhi asked Zhou Yun to send Aunt Lin to the side room to rest first, and he would deal with the rest first. According to what Aunt Lin said, his father was not sitting, but killed, who had been so harmed, even the patriarch and elders could not find out. Is this related to Ling Yi's murder?
When Zhou Zhi thought of this, his back was a little faintly cold. After putting the old man's body back into the coffin, Zhou Zhi sighed and reopened the door of the mourning hall. The people outside were very surprised, and asked Zhou Zhi what happened, Zhou Zhi said that he suspected that the old man was tricked, and the patriarch and others would come over later.
Zhou Yun helped Aunt Lin to go to the side room to rest, and after settling down, Zhou Yun still didn't hold back the doubts in his heart and asked:
"Grandma Lin, do you know what my grandfather was investigating before his death? And by whom was he victimized? A few days ago, the patriarch and the elders went to check and found nothing. “
Aunt Lin sighed: "I don't know what your grandfather is investigating, your grandfather just told me that if something happens to him, let me come over." By the way, what about Ling Yi? Why didn't I see Ling Yi? ”
Zhou Yun informed Aunt Lin of the discovery of Ling Yiyi's Juejie a few days ago, and said, "Grandpa said that he had sent someone to find the eldest brother a few days ago. ”
Aunt Lin was shocked when she heard this.
"Ling Yi is afraid that he is more auspicious, do you know where Ling Yi has gone during this time?"
Zhou Yun shook his head, it is estimated that only Uncle Li knows.
"This Gu person is so good, I'm afraid something big will happen." Aunt Lin sighed.
Zhou Yun was a little puzzled and asked, "Why do you say this?" ”
Aunt Lin said: "The thing that killed your grandfather is called Blood Zhi Grass, although it is called grass, it is actually an insect. Usually it lives in the grass disguised as grass, and after entering the human body, it will quickly absorb the essence and blood of the person, and within ten days, the person will die, but from the outside, the person seems to be fine. But basically, it's non-toxic. “
"And how is it... Zhou Yun couldn't help but ask, since it is non-toxic, why did he kill his grandfather?
"Because it only lives in the valley of medicine, but as soon as it is taken out of the valley, it will die. Whether you transplant it with the soil or the whole field, or if you have it in your body, it will die as soon as it comes out of the medicine valley. If you are parasitized by him, as long as you get out of the medicine valley, you will heal yourself. “
"But we just saw that the worm was alive." Zhou Yun also saw the live blood sesame grass just now.
"Yes, but I don't know if there is anyone who can let this Blood Sesame Grass get out of the Medicine Valley alive and go to our Hook Islands to Gu." Grandma Lin sighed and said.
Aunt Lin was silent for a long time, and suddenly thought of something. The people who have this ability in this world are not people to be precise, the gods or the spirit races, and the lord of the evil spirits, they have the ability to bring the blood sesame grass out of the medicine valley alive.
But Moro has not been known since the battle between gods and demons for 3,000 years. The Protoss and my Zhou Clan have never had a grudge, and it is impossible for the Spirit Clan to be kind and sincere. Who is that?
After Zhou Yun settled Aunt Lin, he prepared to return to the mourning hall. On the way back to the mourning hall, I passed by Ling Yi's room. Zhou Yun walked into Zhou Ling's room, and his father rummaged through the room once before, trying to see what clues he could find, but found nothing. Uncle Li said that he had not sent a mission to Zhou Lingyi recently, so where Zhou Lingyi went, Uncle Li didn't know, because Ling Yi was already a fourth-order blood magician, and with his own ship, he could basically go in and out of the hooks at will.
A set of black regular clothes hung in Zhou Lingyi's bedroom, a very ordinary black cotton deep coat, this dress is said to be Ling Yi's biological father's clothes, sewn by Ling Yi's eldest brother's biological mother. And the eldest brother regards it as a treasure and never goes out in this outfit.
Zhou Yun looked around the room, when he was a child, he often played in this house, and his eldest brother followed him, afraid that he would fall.
"Big brother, where the hell are you now?" Zhou Yun muttered.