Chapter 83: The Guillotine Vortex
I took a closer look at the huge corpse in front of me, and speculated that this Chu Qianqiu was being chased and killed, and there was nowhere to escape in a hurry, although he had become a monster, but the most unforgettable memories in his heart were still there, so he instinctively fled to this cave where he had lived with his mother for a few hours.
After entering the cave, his pursuers followed, blocking him inside and draining him of his life force.
I looked down in the cave, and sure enough, I found some footprints, and judging by the size of the footprints, it should be a man.
"Who wants to kill this Chu Qianqiu?" Yang Chenglin looked around in this cave in confusion.
At this time, I noticed that there seemed to be something on Chu Qianqiu's chest, I stepped forward with a flashlight, and after taking a closer look, I found that Chu Qianqiu had a waist tag hanging around his neck.
I took down this waist card and looked at it carefully, the waist card is rectangular, with auspicious cloud-like holes protruding from it, wearing a brand new red rope, it seems that it has just been replaced, and the waist card has also been polished brightly, and the texture should be silver.
This thing should be very valued by Chu Qianqiu, but it is not his, otherwise he would not have hung his waist card around his neck, it must be something left by his father.
On one side of the waist card is written "First-class Secret Guard Chuxing", as well as "Chongzhen 185", and on the other side is the word "Ling".
Since I came to Shanhe Village in the Republic of China, I also have some understanding of the things of this period, that is, the officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties have also received some waist cards, but the title of "secret guard" is the first time I have seen it, and this waist card is not like it was officially awarded by the imperial court, but like it was secretly issued by some special organizations.
Besides, this Chongzhen 185 is even more confusing, didn't the Ming Dynasty have perished in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, where is there another Chongzhen 185?
I suddenly remembered that the Changshan Taoist in the ghost market by the Black Duck River before, even though he had been dead for many years, he was still thinking about the restoration of the Qing Dynasty, which shows that the people at that time were crazy enough in the matter of restoring the Ming Dynasty, and had great obsession.
I guess at that time, the remnants of the Ming Dynasty must have secretly established an organization with a large number of people, actively planning to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and the people in this organization are still counting the years according to the old era names of the previous dynasties.
If you calculate according to the above Chongzhen 185, it is probably more than 100 years ago, when the Ming Dynasty had been destroyed for more than 150 years, but there are still people running for the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.
"Look at this."
At this time, Yang Chenglin turned around outside and saw that I didn't go out, and I entered the cave again, so I handed him the waist card.
Yang Chenglin stared at the waist card for a long time.
"It is said that a group of die-hard guards were raised in the court during the Ming Dynasty, and a secret organization was established, after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, this secret organization has been plotting to rebel, and it also uses the slogan of 'opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and protecting the Ming Dynasty for thousands of generations', look at this waist card, I don't know if it was issued by this organization, how can Chu Qianqiu have this?"
"I guess Chu Xing written on this sign is Chu Qianqiu's father, it is estimated that the rebellion was exposed, and he was chased and killed by the Qing soldiers, and the mother and son escaped, and they have been hiding in this cave since then."
I looked inside and out of this cave a few more times, but I couldn't find any other information, so I asked Zhao Dong to find someone to fill in this cave.
After going back, Yang Chenglin and I began to plan how to go down to the bottom of the Black Duck River to see.
Although now that I have this Black Tai Chi Mirror and awakened the power of the Great Witch, I also don't have the ability to come and go freely underwater, avoid water or breathe underwater.
What about going down in a wetsuit? No, it's bulky, it's inconvenient, and if something happens underwater, there's no way to do it.
Yang Chenglin suggested that he go into the water in the form of a soul in a settled way, and I would protect his soul from the evil in the water with my strength on the shore, and pull him back in time if he encountered any danger below.
I thought about it for a while, it was absolutely no problem to protect Yang Chenglin's soul with the power of the Black Taiji Mirror, and to pull him back at a dangerous moment, so I agreed.
"You trust me so much, what if I miss?" I asked him jokingly.
"I believe in you, your strength is the same as Jin Tachi's, you are all from the Black Taiji Sect, she can always use her strength to protect my soul, your strength is much stronger than hers, how can you not do it."
I see.
"Brother, what is this Black Taiji Gate, Immortal Dao or Demon Dao?"
Yang Chenglin seemed to remember something and suddenly asked.
"It's just a human, witch." I'll tell you the truth.
"Oh!"
"Where's Kim Tachi?" I asked.
"I don't know, but she's probably going to be in danger...... Brother, if she is in danger, will you help me save her? Yang Chenglin asked again.
"Don't worry, I'm here to save Jin Tachi, if she encounters danger in the future, I will spare no effort."
Yang Chenglin, as a Taoist with good cultivation, must have calculated Jin Taizhi's fortunes and misfortunes clearly, so he must also know that Jin Taizhi will have a catastrophe behind him, and he alone cannot make Jin Taizhi survive this catastrophe.
So I solemnly assured him that I would reassure him as well.
"Brother, as long as you say this, today's Black Duck River is the Longtan Tiger's Den, and I will also go down to give you a walk."
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At night, after Lu Shanshan's slaughtering work was closed, Yang Chenglin and I came to the Black Duck River, at this time, the moonlight was like a wash, shining on the river, sparkling, very beautiful and peaceful.
Now the Black Duck River looks extremely beautiful day and night, and it is no longer as dark and angry as before.
What a good river, that it has been plagued like this by wicked people.
Yang Chenglin found a place in the pergola and sat down, I also sacrificed the Black Taiji Mirror, and soon, his soul walked out of his body, and I used the power of Black Taiji to protect it, forming a solid protective cover around his soul.
I also attached my spiritual power to the protective shield around Yang Chenglin's soul, so everything under the water could be seen clearly.
It turns out that ghosts can be so calm without being angry, and they will give birth to indifferent feelings, constantly repeating some actions, as if related to some things before death.
Yang Chenglin's soul just entered the water, a little boy's ghost sat in the water, smiling, holding a kitten in his arms, he kept stroking the kitten, and said to Yang Chenglin: The bad guy threw my cat into the river, I came down to save it, the bad guy was still on it, I didn't dare to go up.
He was drowning to save the cat, as if he didn't know he was dead.
"This is not our child from Shanhe Village." Yang Chenglin's consciousness was transmitted through the power of Black Tai Chi.
"Well, be careful."
Moving on, seven or eight girls dressed as schoolgirls held hands in a circle, as if they were dancing, and they looked very happy.
When several female students saw Yang Chenglin, they smiled and circled around him.
"These women are not from Shanhe Village." Yang Chenglin's consciousness came again.
"Ghosts must have been brought here, be careful."
Continuing from the previous period, there were more ghosts visible at the bottom of the river, some were dressed fashionably and avant-garde, some were bewitching and beautiful women in cheongsam, some were sitting there reading with books in their hands, some were laughing all the time for some reason, some were suspended in the water and closed their eyes to recuperate, and some were sitting there with blood in their hands and eating......
More of them swam around Yang Chenglin, but after touching the protective shield formed by the power of Black Taiji, they were so frightened that they immediately retreated.
Obviously, none of these ghosts are villagers of Shanhe Village.
These ghosts, some of them powerful, create a kind of fantasy space around them, such as the man who reads, who sits in a study with a lamp on his desk, and behind him is a large bookshelf with an entire wall, and a servant next to him is serving him tea.
Before his death, he should have been a pampered rich young master.
If there is a central force under this Black Duck River that I guessed, it will definitely form an extremely strong yin and evil aura.
I unleashed the power of Black Tai Chi and felt it in the river, and soon, in front of the right, a evil aura so thick that it could barely be dissolved was sensed by me.
"Yang Chenglin, right front!"
Yang Chenglin moved to the front right.
This yin and evil aura was extremely powerful, and the thing in the center of the aura seemed to immediately keenly sense my power, and actually used this aura to surround Yang Chenglin's soul at an extremely fast speed, and rushed towards me along the black Taiji power that I connected with Yang Chenglin's soul.
I unleashed another force to bounce the evil energy away, and the evil energy dispersed and reunited, but it no longer attacked me.
At the same time, the scene in front of me changed, and the bottom of the river, which originally seemed to be empty, turned into a law field at this time, and rows of prisoners were pressed into the law field, and when I saw the order of the prison officer, the executioner raised his knife and fell, and the heads rolled on the ground.
As this group of people finished chopping, soon another group of prisoners was pressed down, and then another group of heads rolled to the ground......
The executioner then vanished, and the severed body stood in place and stood in line.
Suddenly, a piercing scream came from the necks of those headless bodies, the sound was so loud that even on the shore, it was extremely uncomfortable for me to perceive it through the power of Black Taiji, not to mention that Yang Chenglin's soul was in direct contact below.
I increased the strength of my hand, and the black Taiji mirror slowly rotated over the Black Duck River, and more power was submerged in the water, thickening the protective cover around Yang Chenglin's body by a few inches.
But the screaming also intensified, and at the same time whirlpools began to appear on the surface of the river, first the size of the basin, then widening and expanding.
Eventually, the entire surface of the river was covered by this maelstrom, and in this maelstrom there was a terrifying power, and all the ghosts in the river were swept into the whirlpool by this power, and their heads were immediately cut off.
The ghosts who created the illusion shattered in an instant, and they were also swept into the whirlpool, and their heads disappeared in an instant.
This is the central force of the Black Duck River, a team of resentful spirits who died by beheading, forming a whirlpool of decapitation in the river, which can decapitate ghosts and stimulate their resentment, presumably it will also be able to decapitate people.
The power of the guillotine became more and more violent, and more ghosts in the river were pulled in, and the anger of the ghosts who had been calmed down by Lu Shanshan's sacrifice was re-aroused, and the anger aroused made the power of the guillotine even stronger, as if forming an endless cycle.
The Black Duck River in front of him, the river water regained the angry tumbling scene before, and the moonlight sprinkled on the surface of the river, as if swallowed by the boundless darkness, and there was no reflection of light.
The whirlpool surged towards Yang Chenglin's soul, and the huge power kept beating and attacking the protective cover, I was worried that something would happen, so I decided to let Yang Chenglin come up.
"Yang Chenglin, come up, I probably know what it is." I said that I was going to pull Yang Chenglin up.
"Wait a minute, I see Chu Qianqiu."
Immediately after, Yang Chenglin's soul tried its best to resist the power of the whirlpool, and slowly moved forward.
At this time, I also saw clearly, next to a stone at the bottom of the river, Chu Qianqiu's huge ghost was as dark and ugly as when he was alive, with a red light shining in his eyes.
But at this time, Chu Qianqiu seemed to be very scared, he curled up and shrunk into a woman's arms.
This woman is in her twenties, her face is very beautiful, her hair is neatly combed, and there is a red mole in the center of her eyebrows, at this time she is stretching out her arms and wants to hug Chu Qianqiu, but she can only hug Chu Qianqiu's small half of her body.
Chu Qianqiu's mother, they are here, but their heads have not been cut off like other ghosts, is it ......
Thinking of this, I gathered my strength and shouted:
"Chu Xing, don't wake up and see your wife and children yet!"
With the shouting, I divided another force to wrap the souls of Chu Qianqiu's mother and son and send them to the team of headless people.
The headless man at the head seemed to be stunned, and then slowly turned his body in the direction where the mother and child were, and at the same time, the speed of the whirlpool slowed down.
"Chu Xing, you kept your obsession during your lifetime, and after your death, you were used by others because of your obsession, causing your wife and children to die tragically, you still haven't woken up?!" I shouted again.
The whirlpool in the river turned more slowly, until it gradually subsided, and the ghosts that had been caught up in the whirlpool scattered and fled, and the severed heads were gathered back together.
I saw that this Chu Xing could be persuaded, and I was about to continue to persuade him, when suddenly, I felt that the power of the black Tai Chi in my hand suddenly became extremely violent, and there was a faint feeling of uncontrollability, and then, a familiar smell rushed straight to my mouth and nose - dirty silk grass.
Just now, I was paying all my attention to Yang Chenglin and the situation at the bottom of the river, but I didn't even notice that someone came behind me and burned the filthy silk grass!
"Ho-ho-"
A dark laugh sounded behind him, a voice that sounded very old, but somewhat familiar.
There was a wall in my heart, as if someone in the depths of my memory who didn't want to recall came to me—depressed, anxious, bored, angry...... All kinds of complicated feelings appear together and erupt.
I felt that my eyes were black, and the power of the Black Tai Chi in my hands was even more uncontrollable, and under this power, I had a faint urge to kill everyone around me.