Chapter 53. The alley in front of the door
So the three of us were escorted by the soldiers and horses all the way, but the speed still didn't dare to be too fast, and the ghosts who were forced away by my soldiers and horses felt light and fluttering, like feathers. Once on the road, things got a little better, but the streets I used to know were now crowded with ghosts in all kinds of costumes. I haven't counted them all the way, and if I really want to count them, I'm afraid there are at least a thousand ghosts.
I can't imagine what would happen if these more than a thousand ghosts attacked us.
The road is relatively wide, and it feels quiet when you walk on the road in broad daylight. Seeing that after turning two more blocks, we arrived at the alley in front of Qin Bukong's house, and we couldn't help but speed up our pace again. But the closer we got to home, the more obvious the strange phenomenon became, and the most puzzling thing for me was that we saw some people living in this alley not far from home, who looked like living people, but they were all like ghosts, staring at us without saying anything. This is a bit different from Qin Bukong's original statement, if the earlier ones were all people who had died in the past hundred years, then these neighbors were still alive and well, why did they appear in the form of ghosts at this moment.
Qin Bukong said that he didn't know either, I was afraid that the scene we saw would continue like this until we finished this level. If it drags on too long, we may no longer be able to tell the truth from the fake. Qin Bukong doesn't have much communication with those neighbors on weekdays, but I occasionally greet them, and at this moment, I feel really uncomfortable when I see them turn into ghosts.
When I arrived at the mouth of the small alley outside Qin Bukong's house, there was less than half an inch of the soldier and horse incense left in my hand, which was originally a distance that could be sustained, but when I stood at the mouth of the alley and looked at it, I jumped down in an instant. The whole alley was densely packed with people, and the houses on both sides of the alley had their doors open, but none of the lights were turned on in the houses. The neighbors who we used to see on a daily basis also stood at the door as ghosts, and some people we didn't recognize, as if they had come from somewhere else, stared at the three of us in unison, and had no intention of giving way.
So I was stunned and couldn't leave, Qin Bukong pushed behind me and said, What are you doing when you stop, rush over in one go. I said I'm a little scared, you look at the faces of these people. With that, I snorted at the ghosts closest to me. After Qin Bukong saw it, he seemed to be a little anxious, obviously, he also sensed that something was wrong, because the ghosts in this small alley no longer stared at me with expressions like before, and almost everyone lowered their heads slightly, but at the same time they lowered their heads, they looked at me. So it kind of looked like we're rolling our eyes, and from our point of view, the expression was much more ferocious than before.
Qin Bukong said in a low voice, our path is full of these ghosts, which shows that these people have already been waiting here as early as when we touched the "Wei" Pass. The guys in this alley are different, I'm afraid they're going to attack us. Songzi's voice trembled, he was already scared enough this way, he asked Qin Bukong and said, Senior Qin, what should I do now? Qin Bukong sighed and said, what else can I do? Go as far as you can, even if you encounter an attack, you will get to the door of your home, and you have to climb back!
I know that after entering the house, Qin Bukong will have a way to protect the environment at home, as long as we don't go out rashly, we won't be harmed. So I held my breath, still holding the incense of the soldiers and horses that was about to be burned in my hand, and walked towards the group of "people". But just as my footsteps stepped into the alley, the ghosts who had been standing and looking at me actually ran in the direction of the three of us at this moment.
The reason why I say "run", rather than rushing or pounced, is because they don't seem to move so fast, like the speed of an ordinary person trotting all the way, but with so many numbers of people making such a move, at least the battle is very scary, so that once again I instinctively stopped, and even made a slight backward movement.
At this time, Qin Bukong walked behind me, supported my vest with his hand, and said in a hurried tone, don't flinch, rush over! When a person has no idea, suddenly someone gives you a clear instruction, in fact, I can't let me think too much, and I can't tell whether the instruction is right or wrong, so I can't help but follow it. So when Qin Bukong said this, I gritted my teeth, stiffened my head, stretched out my hand in the direction in front of me, and still grabbed the short piece of soldier and horse incense in my hand, and rushed towards those ghosts who were running towards us with the force under my feet.
Soon, my hand collided with the first ghost, and unlike at first, these ghosts didn't bounce off because of my soldiers' protection, but more like they collided with me. But they were no match for my soldiers, and after leaving a faint sensation of hitting cotton on the back of my hand, they were squeezed to either side. However, when the back of my hand touched them, there was a noticeable burning sensation, a feeling that felt like boiling a towel in hot water for a long time before touching the skin.
In addition, because of the collision, my hand trembled, and the little remaining terracotta incense ash fell onto the back of my hand, burning the back of my hand. About seven or eight meters in front, maybe the other party was also caught off guard, and the resistance I encountered was not great, but soon these ghosts seemed to see through our plans, and we had already rushed into the alley, so they were no longer squeezed out of the way by the soldiers and horses, but continued to be crowded, and planned to fight with us.
I saw that I couldn't move forward, and now there were still about thirty or forty meters away from Qin Bukong's door, and I tried to break through a few times but it was still fruitless, and I was a little anxious, so I turned my head and asked Qin Bukong what to do now, Qin Bukong didn't hesitate, and only said one word: "Fight!" ”
So he and I sat back to back and sandwiched the pine nuts between the two of us. I threw away the incense of the soldiers and horses in my hand, and with my left hand Ziwei and my right hand thundered, and began to fight at the ghosts that rushed towards us. Such a ghost being beaten away is actually easy for me and Qin Bukong's level at the moment, but because there are too many opponents, if we continue to consume like this, we are not opponents after all. So while we were fighting, we slowly moved towards Qin Bukong's door.
At the end of the alley in the distance, there seemed to be some ghosts joining us, and not only that, but on the roofs of the residents on both sides, some ghosts in various costumes appeared from nowhere, knowing that they were not our opponents, but moths rushed towards us.
Qin Bukong didn't have to fight by himself, but used the Gu bell to command all kinds of animal souls to fight, relatively speaking, he was more relaxed, but I was different, although there were soldiers and horses, it would take time for me to light incense and chant mantras, obviously if I lit incense again, I am afraid that I would have been pounced by those ghosts before I lit the fire. So I could only pick up the slap and fan, and every time I hit them, a tender sensation came from the palms of both hands. It takes more than a dozen to be able to advance a short distance of more than a meter, and if we continue like this, we will soon be physically exhausted.
When those ghosts ran over, almost all of them opened their mouths wide and their eyes were round, all of them looked hideous, and their hands were claw-shaped, as long as they had the opportunity to get close to us, they would scratch us with their sharp claws, for which the three of us all suffered some skin trauma to varying degrees, and my face was even scratched by a ghost like an old grandmother with a long blood mark, although I gradually felt that my body was out of strength, but also because I had fought for so long before, and gradually killed red eyes. At that moment, there was a buzzing sound in my head, and then any sound I heard, the sound of ghosts running in their footsteps, the sound of my palms hitting them, Qin Bukong's unique witchcraft cry of Miao Jiang, and the repeated screams of pine nuts, at this moment, in my ears, it turned out to be like a sound coming from the water, muffled.
I mechanically saw one by one, only about ten meters away from the door, I saw that except for Qin Bukong's door, which was closed, the rest of the houses in this alley were wide open. Suddenly, I missed my hand, and I slapped out in the air, because of the inertia of my arm, before I had time to retract my palm, from the pile of ghosts, jumped up a child of about ten years old, wearing a white shirt, black trousers, and a pair of sworn tennis shoes on his feet, it jumped up from the ground violently, and took advantage of the gap between me and retracted my hand, and suddenly hugged my neck.
I remember saying that my neck is a very sensitive part of my body, so that when it hangs on my neck, although it is light and weightless, the burning touch really comes from the skin of my neck, and suddenly I have goosebumps all over my body, and I suddenly wake up. I was scared, and instinctively used my hand to pull the child around my neck. I have seen this child before, and he is also a resident of this alley, and he is a well-behaved schoolboy on weekdays, and he always wears clean clothes. When I thought of this, I suddenly realized that since we reached the mouth of the alley, every ghost in the neighborhood that we have seen turned into is actually the last time we saw each other, the voice of the person dressed up, the purpose of which is to force us to quickly match this ghost with the living person!
Then I understood, let go of the hand that was pulling the child, and just as it was about to bite me down on the neck, I struck the child on the head left and right with both palms together.
"Bang", the child exploded in front of me like a balloon, there was no blood, no flesh, but as if someone had slapped the chalkboard in front of me, a feeling of dust came to my face, and there was a strange smell in my nose.