Chapter 91. A human head
I remember saying that I was not afraid of the dead, but of the silent silence after death. So death and silence have always been equated in my heart. According to common sense, I have a human head in my hand at the moment, so at least this guy has been dead for a long time.
But the pale face in front of me, in addition to making me feel the coldness of death, there is also a strange indescribable weirdness. Its facial skin is almost white, like one that hasn't absorbed sunlight for too long, or has been soaked underwater for so long that the color of blood has been lost. The eyes are quite large, and there are eyeballs in them, but I don't understand why the eyeballs are like a black and shiny ball, and there is no whites in the sockets at all.
Its hair was grabbed by me, and judging by the length of its hair, it looked like a woman. When the hair was caught, it showed its forehead, and I don't know if it was my delusion at the time, but I noticed that under the hairline of its forehead, there were two symmetrical protrusions on the left and right, like fleshy horns, about the thickness and length of half of the thumb. And I could see it more clearly now. It has no eyebrows, maybe it's too light for me to notice, and the flesh between the two eyebrow bones is constricted together, it looks like it's very angry, but the expression on the mouth is laughing, this sharp contrast makes me feel particularly terrible, and its mouth is open and smiling, but the teeth are bitten together, and its teeth are not very good at the teeth of the people in it, only the upper and lower tiger teeth are sharp, and this guy is full of established teeth, It looks a little similar to the movie poster of the big shark at the entrance of the Cathay Pacific Theater earlier.
Its weird smile startled me a lot under the faint flashlight of the pine nut, based on instinct, I quickly raised my hand to throw the human head out, but at the moment I let go, although the hair was sliding along my fingers, but my wrist seemed to be tightly grasped by something, and when I looked closely, I found that the broken neck of the head, I didn't know why there was a stream of black smoke, and a little opaque strip came out, it looked like a small hand formed by smoke, Grabbed my wrist with all his might.
The seven or eight puffs of smoke looked very soft, like the softness of silk drifting in the water, but when they grabbed my wrist, the force was very great, accompanied by a tingling feeling, especially when I had just come out of the water, my body was already soaked, and this feeling through the clothes seemed more distinct. Seeing that I was caught, I began to frantically shake my arm, trying to shake it out, but it actually felt light, and it didn't have the dragging feeling that normal shaking things seemed to have, just grabbed a few of my tentacles, and instead began to crawl quickly towards my shoulders along my arms.
From the outside, the head didn't seem to have any other means of hurting me than its fangs, so when it crawled down its arm towards me, it made me feel like it was going to tear off half of my face in one fell swoop. As soon as I panicked, I took advantage of the fact that it climbed to the position of my upper arm, and fell on the shore on its side, using almost all the strength of my body and the weight of my body to press the head on the ground, but when I fell to the ground, I found that this guy was very clever to dodge, not only that, but also from my shoulder over the back of my head, crawling to the other side of my neck and shoulder.
I thought to myself that this is the end of the matter, if I bite down on this position, there will be a lot of big blood vessels there, and I am afraid that I will stain this big pool with blood. In a hurry, I didn't have time to think about it, and I easily struck the thunder in my hand in the direction of my left shoulder. I didn't expect this slap to really hit, so I slapped myself in the face, and the guy dodged again, but this dodge gave me time to react, so I quickly rolled over and stood up, and ran to the shore where Matsuko was standing, while feeling that the guy was there. It staggered up to the back of my waist, and this place made me a little embarrassed, because it was not easy to exert strength no matter how hard that hand struck, so I simply stopped fighting, but twisted a little so that my hand could reach through, and then I grabbed its hair again, and with force on my hand, as if I was tearing a dog skin plaster, trying to tear it off my waist.
This process accompanied me as I ran in the direction of the pine nut, which was originally only a few meters, and soon I was close to the shore, and although the other party grabbed it very tightly, I felt that it was not big after all, and the strength was not as great as I thought, and with great effort, I still pulled it off my waist, and at the same time, one of my feet also stepped on the shore.
Just when I was about to go ashore with my second foot, the human head I was holding in my hand was fluttering, but at this moment there was a relatively large force, this force was the opposite of the direction of my running, as if the head wanted to drag me back into the water, but I was running more violently, coupled with the inertia of the body itself, that force was not my opponent, I was like dragging a heavy object, and suddenly pounced on the shore.
Strangely, when I went ashore, the human head suddenly became so heavy that I could have stretched out my arms to lift it, but now it was as heavy as a hemp bag full of water, and I couldn't bear such a weight in my hands, and I didn't intend to hold it in my hands all the time, now that I was on the shore, I was relatively safer, at least I could use my hands and feet easily, so I let go of my hand and threw the human head on the ground, and I moved myself farther in the opposite direction.
When the human head fell to the ground, I thought it would rush up again to bite me or something, and I had even reached into my satchel and felt the hexagonal seal, but what I didn't expect was that not only did this human head not rush towards me, but crawled towards the water's edge with great difficulty and slowness, and the black smoke-like tentacles that came out of the broken neck were also crawling the ground at the moment. It felt like a jellyfish stranded on the shore, struggling to get into the water.
When I was confused, Songzi suddenly shouted loudly, Situ, catch it! Can't let it go into the water! I also instantly understood the meaning of Matsuko, this guy seems to be full of strength only in an environment with water, and his movements will become very fast, and after leaving the range of water, he will become bulky and sluggish. When I thought of this, I saw that the human head was still about a meter away from the nearest water, but although it seemed to be struggling to get into the water anxiously, it was even slower than a turtle.
So I stood up and unhurriedly took out the master's order from my bag, intending to finish off this guy. According to the records of the "Dragon" in the ancient books, it is a kind of ghost that will only become very powerful if it exists in the water, and now it seems that the ghost of this "Dragon" is probably the head of the person in front of him who is fleeing in confusion. Since I just fell into the water, all the charms I had prepared in my bag were soaked, and the blank rune paper was also soaked, and there was no way to use the talisman to destroy this guy, and now it was only a beating, and it was also my best chance to destroy it.
I walked behind the human head, stretched out my foot and stepped on its hair scattered on the ground, it couldn't continue to move forward when I stepped on it like this, I also squatted down by the way, and saw the expression on this guy's face at the moment from the side, it no longer looked like the fierce and weird smile it had before, but was stunned and frightened, and even very frightened.
It wasn't looking at me, but I could see its expression. In fact, just like the ghosts we have eliminated before, there is no right or wrong in this group, just different positions from each other. I'm a passer, it's a gatekeeper, and the role has long doomed us to contradictions, even if we have no grievances before that. When I thought of this, I felt a trace of compassion in my heart, and I was also a little helpless. So I recited a mantra on my lips, even though I didn't know what the ghost was or whether it was a gathering of some kind of soul energy, I only hoped that after I killed it, it would be able to quickly transcend it and enter reincarnation as soon as possible.
After reciting it, I drew five thunder talismans in the void just as I destroyed those doppelgangers during the "Spirit", and then poured my power into the six square seals, and hit the top of the human head with a fierce seal.
It didn't move for a moment, the expression on its face froze, and the black smoke-like tentacles that were still shaking around on the ground really turned into smoke and faded at this moment, and then disappeared. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, I also made up a trick with the master's order, the so-called murder is to kill, this time in order to destroy it completely.
Although the ghost guarding the gate of "Dragon" was thrilling, I was not injured by it, except for the loss of a flashlight, it can be described as a complete victory. Neither Matsuko nor I thought that this level would seem difficult to beat, but because I accidentally ran towards the shore, I discovered the opponent's weakness and killed the opponent.
This is not the time to breathe, because Qin Bukong is still in the middle of the pool, he has been in a coma for a long time, if he doesn't sit down and falls into the deep water in the middle for a while, it is estimated that he will not be able to save him again. So Songzi and I just worked together to lift the human head and throw it farther away from the water's edge, and I continued to walk in the direction of Qin Bukong.