Chapter 71: Death Charm
The ghost market disappeared, there was no bright lights in the ghost market, and then looked around, although it was not as dark as before, but it was also very dim, and by the huge black duck river, only a Tabel Treasure Pavilion was left in place, and Tabel Ye stood at the door with a fan in his hand and looked around.
"Lord Tabel, why didn't you go with the power of that great monk just now?" I asked.
"I won't go with them, it's good now, in such troubled times, it's better to be a human being than being a ghost. The two of you say goodbye, goodbye! โ
As he spoke, he opened the fan in his hand and shook it gently, turned around and walked into the store, and then, the whole store disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Look at the gloomy scene around, I used the excesses of the old monk Huiyuan to drive away a lot of resentment, but there are still a lot of remnants in the sky over the entire Shanhe Village, and it is estimated that it will take two or three days to completely disperse, so I sacrificed the black Taiji mirror above my head, and slowly turned to absorb this resentment.
When Yang Chenglin and I returned to the village, it was already dark, and when we entered Daxiang Street, we saw Zhao Donglai looking through the floating grain store from a distance.
When he saw us coming, he hurriedly rushed out of the door and trotted to meet us.
"Shopkeeper, Daoist Yang, you're back!"
"Well, how's everybody?"
"It's all right, it's just those bandits, they're all dead."
"Dead?"
"Yes, I wanted to interrogate them, but when I got to the cave where they were being held, they looked like they had been sucked dry."
Zhao Dong couldn't help but shudder when he said it, as if he recalled something terrible.
"Check it out!"
I said and went straight to the cellar, and came to the cave where the bandits were held, and smelled a foul smell from a distance, and when Zhao Donglai opened the door, he saw the dried corpses lying on the ground of the cave, and on the earthy yellow coats they were wearing, the original bright red runes had turned black.
"No wonder my formation didn't react, these people were already dead when they entered the tunnel, dead people are just like things, how can you prevent this!"
On the way back, when Yang Chenglin heard me say that the bandits came in, his paper figures did not react, so he kept lingering, saying that it was impossible, those paper figures already carried a trace of his wisdom, and could even easily distinguish people and recognize people, even if he died, the paper people could fight by themselves.
He refused to listen to my advice to him, insisting that he was right.
"Yang Daochang, it's impossible, they were all alive with guns last night, and they can talk, they know that they are afraid, they know that they are in pain and begging for mercy, they are indeed alive!" Zhao Donglai said.
"The talisman on this garment is called the death talisman, which can make a person's soul attached to this talisman within seven days after death, and the limbs are not stiff, and the action is still like an ordinary person, but in fact he is already a dead person."
"Isn't this a living corpse?" I thought of the good man in the ghost market.
"The one who uses the death charm is different from the living corpse, the living corpse is automatically left after death because of the obsession with the soul, and this death charm forcibly retains the soul of the person, and it is not left in the body, it is attached to the rune on the clothes. In addition, the ninja charm needs to be maintained by the essence and blood of the person, so as soon as the gown with the ninja charm is worn and the person is killed, the ninja charm begins to continuously absorb the essence and blood in the body...... cough, this smell, these people have been dead for five or six days, once the death charm is not maintained by the essence and blood, it has no effect, and the corpse smell can't be covered, Zhao Donglai, quickly ask a few people to carry these dead bodies to the hill to bury them deeply, this hot day, it is estimated that there will be a plague in this tunnel for a few days. Yang Chenglin covered his nose and said.
"Daoist Yang Chang, according to what you said, these people went to great lengths to get these bandits just to enter the tunnel to grab food? Will a person with such skills be short of money and food? Zhao Donglai asked beside him.
When Yang Chenglin heard this, he glanced at me helplessly and said:
"Zhao Donglai, when will you be able to open your eyes and think about your little food all day long, although the bandits deserve to die, but they have killed so many lives, just to avoid my Qimen formation and enter this tunnel, how can it be for your little food! I'm afraid it's your treasurer's enemy! โ
Yang Chenglin, with obvious schadenfreude, hummed a little song, bent over and looked back and forth on this place.
"Hey, hey! We ordinary people, don't worry about food, we will starve to death if the food is gone, as long as people live, everything else is easy to care, the enemy is not afraid when he comes, and the bandits have sent more than 30 guns. Zhao Donglai smiled embarrassedly.
Yang Chenglin stopped talking, as if he had found something on the ground, and then bent down and walked all the way along the tunnel.
"Looking for what?" I couldn't help but ask.
"Shhhh See! โ
Yang Chenglin lowered his voice and pointed to the ground, and then I realized that on the dirt ground, there were a row of palm prints, the size of which was close to the palm of a teenager, but there seemed to be webbing between the fingers.
"Daoist Yang, come in with a child?"
Zhao Donglai looked at the footprints and whispered.
"Go, guess what, whose child is walking upside down?"
Follow the handprints on the ground all the way to the exit, that is, along the tunnel leading to the saline land, and when you reach the exit, you can see that the three members of the guard team on duty in this tunnel are all standing at the mouth of the tunnel, staring in the same direction.
When he saw us coming, he didn't even say hello, but moved to make a way for us, and then still stared in one direction on the saline ground.
Following the gaze of these three people, I saw that not far away, a large green-skinned frog half a meter high, fat, as big as a dustpan, was standing and walking like a human, its white belly bulging one after another, and its two forelimbs were swinging back and forth like human arms when walking.
The big frog walked back and forth on the saline-alkali ground, sometimes throwing its arms forward, sometimes walking with its hands behind its back and its belly shy, sometimes walking slowly with its head down and arms folded with its chest as if thinking, and then raising its head and walking forward with its head held high......
This thing is learning to walk!
"Poofโ"
Yang Chenglin looked at the fat frog and suddenly laughed "poof".
The fat frog also heard the laughter, and looked this way, and saw that several of us were staring at it, and seemed embarrassed, and immediately got on all fours, crawled on the ground a few times, and then jumped behind a clod of earth in the saline ground.
I hurriedly stepped forward and walked behind the clod of dirt, and found that there was nothing, and all around me was bare ground at a glance, where was such a big frog hiding?
"Don't look for it, this thing escaped with a blindfold."
Yang Chenglin said and pointed to the distance, and more than ten meters away from here, there seemed to be a large piece of soil on the ground rolling for a while, and then disappeared.
"Daoist Yang, is that a frog spirit?"
One of the three guards at the entrance of the tunnel, Liang Dayou, asked.
"Strictly speaking, it's not enough, this thing is not high, maybe just learn to breathe, you want to change into a human form, and the first step of the illusion is to learn to walk, and you can only call it a spirit after being able to transform into a human form, this thing is still far away, it comes out of the tunnel?" Yang Chenglin asked.
"Yes, we were sitting next to the entrance of the cave, and it swayed out of the tunnel, as if it didn't see us, and then walked back and forth like a human for half a day." Liang Dayou said.
"Strange, how did this thing come out of the tunnel?"
I thought about it for a moment and said:
"This toad is estimated to be living in a hole in the tunnel, we dug the tunnel and dug through its hole, it felt blood and death, curious to see, and then close contact with people, plus the surrounding yin and evil qi is full, and the spirit is yin, so it was inspired for a while, and suddenly people walked up."
This is also the reason why some crypt animals like to live in the catacombs.
The yin and evil aura can help the cultivation of the spirits who belong to the same yin, which is extremely common in my Li Mountain space, and there are countless things like this big frog in Li Mountain, that is, that group of Xiaoice foxes are much more talented than that goods.
After chatting for a while and returning, the villagers were still gathered in the cellar under the grain store and did not leave, Zhao Donglai began to find someone to carry the corpse and bury the corpse,
"The danger is gone, let's all go home, the timid ones will dig through the cellar at home quickly, and I will find a way to get some protection for you, if there is danger, hide in it, and it is not a way to gather here."
Yang Chenglin glanced at everyone, looked at the chickens and dogs jumping everywhere, disgusted with the authenticity.
As soon as I turned around, I saw Liu Si tied up on the ground again, and at this time, Liu Si was tied up and placed in the corner of the wall, humming with his eyes closed.
"Oh yes, this time the bandits were able to find the entrance to our cellar and come in all the way, all because there was a mole, this mole colluded with the bandits and Maozi, and it was our whole village that wanted to harm it, let's talk about how to deal with it?"
Yang Chenglin stared at Liu Sidao on the ground.
"Kill!"
"Beat me up and drive him out of the village!"
"Hand it over to the township and let the chief deal with it."
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The bandits entered the village to rob, and everyone knew that it was Liu Si who secretly communicated with the bandits, and the brothers of the Liu family were landlords in this village, and they didn't do anything good on weekdays, so the villagers hated it so much.
No matter what era it is, bandits rob homes and houses, and if they are caught, they will directly behead them, and collusion with bandits is even more hateful.
Since Li Zheng He Wencai jumped into the river on the night of the 3rd, now I have been looking at it for ten days, and no one has yet elected the new Li Zheng, I heard that the village is voting for the election, and those who can serve are all respected people in the village, and they must come from the big family surname, so that there will be support.
But He Wen is an exception, I heard that he had something to do with the chief of the township, and he was directly appointed.
After He Wencai jumped into the river, there have been accidents these days, and no one has taken the lead in electing Lizheng, so now that this kind of thing has happened, no one has come forward to deal with it, it seems that we have to find an appropriate opportunity to elect here, otherwise it will be troublesome to gather together no matter how big or small.
I propose that the cost of fighting the bandits this time, mainly in terms of bullets, as well as the losses caused in the fighting in this tunnel, such as the wall being broken or something, the tables, chairs and benches being pierced, etc., should be made a list, calculate a price, and let Liu Si compensate, if he does not pay, he will be killed.
Xu had my support, and everyone agreed, so I asked the money shopkeeper to calculate the bullet loss and the price, and then asked the security team to tie up Liu Si and go back to his house to get the money.
Looking at these messy people in front of me, I felt a headache, and I was happy and quiet, and this kind of noisy feeling was really uncomfortable, so I saw that basically things were almost handled, so I dismissed the people, and the surroundings finally quieted a little.
Now this management method is too chaotic, and it seems that it is necessary to rectify internal affairs, formulate some detailed rules and regulations, and strengthen management.
In addition, the mountain and river protection team has to be expanded, and a women's medical team must be added.