Chapter XXXIV. Encountering danger
It had long been expected that there would be oddities behind the wall, and many possible situations had been anticipated. For example, when you break through a hole, you will be greeted by a fierce ghost with bared teeth and something, but none of this happened, and the distant figure in front of you does not seem so real.
When I saw the figure, I stopped, and reached out to pull Qin Bukong, asking him to stop moving for the time being. But Qin Bukong asked me what's wrong, why I suddenly didn't move. I wondered, don't you see a man inside that door? As soon as I said this, Qin Bukong leaned forward a little bit of the kerosene lamp in his hand, looked at it carefully, and said, Where did you come from, are you confused by digging the wall?
I was shocked and cried out. Because at this moment, I have seen that figure very clearly, but why did Qin Bukong say that he didn't see it? Could it be that this is one of the characteristics of ghosts, and whoever wants to see it can see it? The figure standing with his back to me in front of me seemed to be wearing a blue-gray shirt and a pair of dark pants on the lower body, and it was impossible to tell whether it was blue or black, which made me feel very strange, because in this eight-gate array, the ghosts we encountered in the past, although they had their own human forms, most of them existed in strange ways, such as black smoke emitting from all over their bodies, and they didn't seem to be ghosts, but more like monsters. But the person in front of me is so clear and concrete, if I didn't know in my heart that the other party is a ghost, I might really think of it as a living person.
Probably seeing that there was something wrong with my expression, Qin Bukong also became alert. In his experience, he should have quickly thought of what I was thinking about, and he knew that what I was seeing at the moment was in no way a lie to him. So he asked me, what does that figure look like, what does it do. I was nervous and told him the truth. So he picked up a small stone on the ground and threw it in the direction of the doorway, in Qin Bukong's opinion, it was probably as simple as throwing a stone, but in my eyes, that stone actually directly penetrated the figure, and then fell to the ground.
Qin Bukong stood beside me, and he didn't dare to act rashly, he asked me, do you want to send your Yin soldiers up to investigate? I shook my head, the Yin soldiers are guarding the door for us at the moment, what if I am transferred here and the back is attacked? So Qin Bukong squatted down and took out a small bell from his arms, the bell and the bell style he usually used to see before, but this one was painted with something like lacquer or ink, which was painted in various colors. He hung the bell on his thumb, then stretched out his right arm in the direction of the doorway, pointed to the door with his thumb, and pinched the two-finger duel with his left hand, pressing the duel on the inner bend of his right elbow, and then began to shake his fingers, and with the shaking, the bell made a jingle sound.
Just as the sound came out, behind my ears, it seemed that I had been suddenly blown by a gust of wind, and there was a noticeable cold feeling, and then from the ground in front of me, the feeling of dust being slightly raised by something began to appear. In addition to the sound of bells, there is also the feeling of something very light but a little hard, the crisp sound of footsteps crawling on the ground. And this voice started from Qin Bukong's position, slowly drifted away, and walked in the direction of the door.
You don't have to think about it to know that this is another set of Gu techniques of Qin Bukong. The previous Gu Ling was controlling the snake soul, but right now, it is estimated that it is something else, this thing has grown legs, and the speed of crawling is quite fast. Maybe it's a scorpion or a centipede. I watched as the voice gradually approached the figure in the doorway, and then the figure appeared to flicker and flicker like a movie film, and with each flicker, the light of the whole body became a little brighter. It's as if the invisible scorpion or centipede is penetrating its body, because after all, it is all spiritual things, so the body has such a reaction.
But it still didn't move, I turned my head to look at Qin Bukong, and he also shook his head at me, saying that he had probed and there was nothing. If you're scared, just stand still and I'll go up and see for myself.
I wanted to stop him, because I knew I wasn't crazy and I could tell if what I was seeing was fantasy or reality. The situation in front of me, in any case, I don't believe that there is no oddity. But I also know that Qin Bukong's skills are much higher than mine, if he doesn't go, we will be stuck here, not advancing or retreating, but if I follow him forward, in case the two of us are in trouble, we won't even have a chance to help each other. So I said to Qin Bukong, this is fine, but you be careful, because there is indeed something there, don't take risks, if you see that the situation is not right, you will run back immediately, and I will answer it for you.
Qin Bukong nodded, grabbed the vajra peg, leaned sideways, half-hunched back, and tiptoed towards the doorway. In the process, I also quickly pinched Ziwei and Lei Jue with my left and right hands respectively, although for Qin Bukong, my tricks are a bit imbecile, but for me, I can often save my life.
Qin Bukong slowly approached the doorway, and the closer he got to the door, the slower his steps became, until he came to the door, he began to look around, and even put his bearded head into the door to look around. I was very nervous from a distance, because from my point of view, his head was almost attached to the figure, but judging from Qin Bukong's performance, he still didn't see anything.
Perhaps sensing that there was no danger, Qin Bukong stood up straight, turned to face me, and spread his hands as if there was nothing here. At this moment, the figure actually began to shake its body from side to side with a small amplitude, and as it shook, its body began to rotate counterclockwise in the direction of Qin Bukong.
The speed of this rotation was very slow, about the same as the second hand, and every second the figure would appear five or six small broken steps, as if its feet could not move freely at all, and could only move its body in small broken steps. I was shocked when I saw this, I couldn't care about being quiet all around, and shouted at Qin Bukong, be careful! It's starting to turn around!
After Qin Bukong heard this, he immediately put on a counterattack posture, facing the door hole, his agile movements did not look like an old man about the same age as my master. But he looked around, but he couldn't see anything. I didn't dare to rush forward, at this time the figure had already turned half of its body, and it continued to turn, and from one back I saw that the figure was actually with its head down, as if it was a person who had done something wrong, and it was also very similar to the appearance when I was criticized.
So I shouted at Qin Bukong again, you go back, don't stay there! And at this time, Qin Bukong was not moving, facing the direction of the doorway, and stood so stupidly. I could only see his expression on the side, and even though his beard covered most of his face, I could still see his frightened expression.
That's right, not panic, but panic. He looked like he was on the spot, as if he had seen something unbelievable and incredible. It seemed to me that he was staring in the same direction as the figure was slowly spinning. If that's the way it is, there's nothing to be so frightened about, except for being a little weird. This shows that what Qin Bukong's eyes see at this moment is actually not the same thing as what I see, but because the scene I saw has not yet reached the level of fright, I conclude that the picture in Qin Bukong's eyes at the moment is enough to make him afraid.
This makes me feel very uneasy, Qin Bukong is a stubborn person, I thought I wasn't afraid of this kind of madman, but he was still so afraid, if I was replaced, I was afraid that he would be scared to death. I saw that he was not moving there, worried that he would be in danger soon, and I didn't know his situation, even if I wanted to save people later, it would be very difficult, so I shouted at him again, Qin Bukong! Come over to me! Come on!
After hearing my shout, Qin Bukong seemed to suddenly come back to his senses, and ran in my direction with his legs, like that, I have never seen him in such a long time since I met him, he frowned and widened his eyes, it can be seen how much the scene he saw has scared this old Jianghu so badly. But when he was about five or six meters away from me, Qin Bukong sat on the ground as if he had hit something, and then he quickly got up and wanted to continue rushing, but there seemed to be an invisible transparent wall in front of him, blocking his way. He began to reach out in front of him in a panic, as if looking for a gap to pass through, and his mouth kept screaming, as if he was about to cry.
I saw that he could not go any further, and I rushed forward, and I wanted to grab his hand and pull him over, because since we both saw different things, the scene he saw naturally did not frighten me, and perhaps this invisible wall did not exist for me. So I quickly rushed to his side, Qin Bukong saw me passing, stretched out his hand to me, and screamed in his mouth, as if telling me to pull him away quickly, and there was no time to delay. So I reached out and grabbed his hand.
When the hands of the two of us just came into contact, my eyes suddenly went dark, without the slightest light, and Qin Bukong also disappeared in front of my eyes. However, it was as if I had stepped into a bottomless pit, and my body kept coming from the feeling of falling rapidly, and I began to panic, and I reached around trying to grab something, but I couldn't even see my own hands, and I heard the sound of wind whistling in my ears, and my body was completely weightless.
Could it be that this is the feeling of falling quickly before dying?