Verse 178
"Oh." The strange thing is that Duan Guang only answered meaninglessly, and he couldn't tell whether it was recognition or just a breath sound.
He slowly walked towards the interior of the village with his hands behind his back, and soon saw the entrance of the village, the entrance of the village was full of countless miscellaneous items, and when he swept it at a glance, almost all the miscellaneous items inside were alive, and at the moment they were just pretending to be ordinary things.
Chen Hu was stunned by the gatehouse just now, and walked inside very quickly, blocked by debris, but it did not block the view, and the sight swept over the approaching village, Chen Hu was even more unbelievable.
"No, isn't this Silver Leaf Village? That family is Aunt Liu's house, that family is Wang Erma's, and that family, the family often grinds bean juice early in the morning with a special fragrance......"
"Master, what's going on!"
Duan Guang said, "That's what you see." โ
Chen Hu couldn't get a clear answer, and wanted to rush directly into the village, reaching out to move the debris blocked at the entrance of the village, but it was obviously just a bench with a broken leg, but he couldn't lift it, he thought that it was stuck in the debris pile, and replaced a broken wood and moved it out, but it still didn't move.
Just when Chen Hu was surprised, the wood suddenly moved by itself, and the back end fell on Chen Hu's back in a twist, Chen Hu was knocked into the debris pile, and then the other half-destroyed ropes, chairs without backrests, doors with only door panels and other messy things in the debris pile were wrapped around Chen Hu's body, or compacted.
"Ahhhh
Duan Guang just looked at it with a smile.
Since Duan Guang was not in a hurry, Zhao Ning was just watching from the side, obviously Duan Guang knew about the existence of these Yin Spirits, and wanted to use this method to make Chen Hu familiar and adapt as soon as possible.
"I know, you're yin spirits, aren't you, oops, don't touch there, it's so itchy, haha, it's so itchy." Chen Hu shouted in the pile of debris in embarrassment, "I am also a corpse movers, and the next corpse movers, we are half colleagues!" Hiss, can't smash! Master, help! โ
It's been a long time.
Duan Guang sighed, stepped forward, and took out a quaint bell from his arms, the bell shook lightly, and made a crisp bell, at this moment all the sundries that had been born were stopped, and then they returned to everyone, no longer teasing Chen Hu, and no longer blocking the entrance of the village.
Chen Hu rubbed his back and struggled to get up, "Master, these things will torment people." โ
Duan Guang glanced at it, and there was nothing he could do about this heartless apprentice, but he didn't say anything, just paced towards the village with his hands behind his back.
It's just a good thing to toss people, but it's a big thing to toss dead people.
Chen Hu followed Duan Guang into the village, Zhao Ning followed behind, and heard Chen Hu say, "It's not exactly the same, I feel that a lot of changes have been made, the layout of the village seems to be similar, the yard is built around a road, maybe it's too dark, I didn't see it clearly." โ
Chen Hu muttered to himself, no one answered his words, Zhao Ning looked at the surrounding buildings, in fact, the houses in the village were already very dilapidated, many doors were opened, and they were full of dust, but if you looked closely, you could still see some deep or shallow footprints, which seemed to have been stepped on before.
Zhao Ning knew that there was only them in this place, and there would be no one else, so could the so-called corpse movers in those places be the ones who moved the corpses in these houses? But what village would have killed so many people at once, and still preserved intact in the house, waiting for the corpse to be moved after thousands of years?
The mystery of these two people seems to be linked to the answer that Zhao Ning wants to know urgently.
This made Zhao Ning follow them to the center of the village, and they all remained silent.
Until Duan Guang paused in front of a house, there was no trace of this house being opened or entered, and the dust accumulated on it was already very thick, probably the deepest house in the entire village.
"Master, this small courtyard is a bit like your residence in Silverpage Village." Chen said.
Duan Guang ignored it, just stared at the house, and suddenly asked, "Chen Hu, do you know why we are called corpse movers?" โ
"Isn't it just to move the corpses underground to the ground and let them rest in peace?" Chen Hu scratched his head.
"Have you ever thought about what we're going to do when we move the corpses to the ground? Or to whom did the body go? โ
"To whom?" Chen swooped and asked strangely, "These corpses have been sealed in stone for more than three thousand years, do they still have relatives on the ground?" Are we going to find those relatives? โ
Chen Hu's face collapsed as soon as he had this guess, does this mean that he will have to help these corpses find their relics in the Yang God Realm like a needle in a haystack in the future?
Duan Guang shook his head helplessly, "That's it, you won't really understand until you experience it." โ
Chen Hu was puzzled, but Zhao Ning was pondering, she always felt that Duan Guang was hinting at something.
But Duan Guang suddenly took a step forward, he walked to the door of the dusty small courtyard, and was about to push the door open, but the strange thing was that the entire hut retreated half a foot.
Chen Hu's eyes were stunned, if it weren't for the distance between him and Duan Guang, Chen Hu would still think that Duan Guang was not close to the small courtyard, but still had a distance of half a zhang from the small courtyard.
This is the first time Zhao Ning has seen the courtyard where the soul is alive, and it has no other operations, but it retreats when Duan Guang approaches, clearly asking Duan Guang not to approach the small courtyard, but what Zhao Ning feels is not stubborn, but wronged.
Zhao Ning didn't understand how she felt the emotions of the Yin Spirit, she looked up at the hazy village in the dark, bleak and deadly silent, even if there was the naughty noise of the Yin Spirit just now, it still didn't make the surrounding atmosphere a little lively, it was full of depression, death and coldness.
In the case of such a small courtyard retreat, Duan Guang's hand was still in the air, and he let out a murmur for a long time, "Those who should come will always come, and they can't escape." And, it's time. โ
He took another step, but the small courtyard yin spirit did not listen to his words, but continued to retreat, Duan Guang's footsteps moved forward slowly, and the small courtyard yin spirit retreated, and so on, until the small courtyard retreated to the wall of another house in the back, unable to retreat.
I saw that all the items in the small courtyard flew to the back of the courtyard gate, and resisted the door, as if I was unwilling to open the courtyard gate.
This is the first time Zhao Ning has seen such an emotionally complex yin spirit, immature but stubborn.
Seeing this, Duan Guang finally stopped at the door, closed his eyes, let out a long sigh, and when he opened his eyes again, the emotions in his eyes were complicated, he raised his hand and shook the bell in his hand.
Another crisp ringtone.
Under the bell, there was a wail in the dark.
This bell seems to have the effect of deterring the yin spirit, no, under the bell, the things in the small courtyard are all returned to their original positions, and the courtyard door automatically opens, this bell not only has the effect of deterring, but also can control the yin spirit to act according to their own thoughts.
The courtyard door opened, and Duan Guang didn't walk in for the first time, but handed the bell in his hand to Chen Hu, "Have you seen how to use it clearly?" โ
"I see it clearly." Chen Hu nodded confusedly.
Duan Guang tore off the two strips of leather on his clothes again, and handed them to Duan Guang again, "Blindfolded? โ
"For ...... Why? โ
Duan Guang didn't answer directly, but looked at Zhao Ning, "If Fairy Lin doesn't want to commit evil things, it's best to blindfold his eyes, let alone use his divine sense to investigate." โ
Zhao Ning looked at him with no expression, this meant very obviously, and he wanted Duan Guang to make it clear.
Duan Guang knew that if he couldn't say it clearly, Zhao Ning wouldn't listen to him, "There is a statue in the house, it is a petrified corpse, once you see his eyes, you will also be petrified, no matter what cultivation you do, this is the rule here." โ
"If I don't go to see it, I'll be safe?"
"At least the old man has been moving corpses up and down for decades, and he has never been in danger when blindfolded." Duan Guang softened his tone, "Fairy Lin is here to find a way to leave the Yang God Realm, you can leave this village and walk two hundred miles to the northwest, there is a small town where a meteor once fell near the town three thousand years ago, and was enshrined on the top of the tower in the town as a sacred object by the residents of the town. โ
Zhao Ning didn't say a word, only listened to him and said, "If Fairy Lin wants to get it, it's best to listen to the old man." โ
The two looked at each other in the dimness, and after a while, Zhao Ning no longer insisted, and a gauze ribbon appeared in his hand, and the gauze ribbon automatically floated up, wrapping around Zhao Ning's eyes several times until he couldn't see his surroundings at all.
After being quiet for a while, Duan Guang instructed Chen Hu, "Go, Chen Hu you go and open the door, carry the statue in the room on your back, and ring the bell to chant the spiritualist poem that Master has repeatedly taught you." โ
Chen Hu subconsciously took off the strip of cloth tied up on his eyes, but was stopped by Duan Guang, "From now on, until you put the statue on the ground, you can't take off the strip of cloth." โ
"But...... Master, I can't see the road clearly, let alone walk such a long staircase, and if I fall, I will be crushed. Chen Hu couldn't help but want to resist, but Duan Guang slapped him on the back of the head as before, "What I just said, didn't you listen to a word, you can't take it off, you can't look at the stone statue, otherwise you will be more painful than broken bones!" โ
"Master, Master, don't fight, the apprentice knows, the apprentice just does."
Chen Hu wanted to jump away to avoid being beaten, but blindfolded, even his movements were much smaller, he groped into the courtyard, and then tried to move forward step by step.
After a while, Chen Hu touched the door, pushed the door in, but followed by a flick, Duan Guang hated that iron could not be made of steel, "When you were in the yard, you still knew how to try to probe your feet step by step, how could you enter the house and become reckless, even a broken stool leg can knock you into a daze, if you drop the statue on your back when you move the corpse, I will ...... you ...... you"
Somehow, Duan Guang didn't continue.
Zhao Ning paused slightly, her ears subconsciously deviated towards Chen Hu's position, she heard a slight sound, it was Chen Hu's feet moving away from the side of his feet, the thing was not heavy, the shape was irregular, and the sound of wood moving was made by rubbing against the rough ground during the movement, even if Zhao Ning listened to the details like this, there was no way to deduce that Chen Hu was blocking a broken stool leg just by his ears.
Isn't that illustrated...... Duan Guang was not blindfolded, he looked at everything with his eyes open.
Why did he go against the warnings he himself gave to the two?
If they see the stone statue and their eyes are petrified, what about him? Since Chen Hu is also a corpse movers, this means that he is only a corpse movers and will still be petrified, and that section of light at this moment may be in the ...... His connection to the stone statues in the room.
Thinking of the strange retreat of this courtyard, and thinking of Chen Hu's initial statement that this courtyard was like Duan Guang's home...... Zhao Ning was silent.
At this moment, Chen Hu groped into the inner room, and found a dusty, completely petrified humanoid stone statue on the bed in the inner room.
He let out a slight exclamation when he touched it, but he didn't dare to touch it, only heard Duan Guang's voice coming from outside, "If you find it, carry it on your back, and ring the bell when you go out." โ
"I know Master, you've said it several times, and my ears can hear calluses."
Chen echoed, groped and dropped the humanoid stone statue on his back, and with the other hand, he pulled the rags on his body, tied the stone statue on his back to prevent it from falling, and was afraid that the stone statue would fall somewhere, disturbing the remains of the ancestor Shi Feng, so he protected the corner of the stone statue with one hand, and walked out step by step, even slower.
Duan Guang seemed to be a little anxious, "What are you rubbing inside, are you ......picking up the blindfolded cloth strips?"
His voice stopped abruptly, Chen Hu's footsteps landed right at the door, he followed Duan Guang's previous explanation, slowly rang the bell, and sang, "The soul has no escape." The Soul Returns! Far away. The soul is back! There is no east and no west, no south and no north...... โ โ
Accompanied by the ringing of bells and chanting, Chen Hu walked past Zhao Ning with some heavy steps, and after a while, Zhao Ning sensed another person walking in front of him, following Chen Hu.
It may be Duan Guang, or it can only be Duan Guang, but the steps are extremely light, as if a person is walking on tiptoe, and at this moment, Zhao Ning only feels a trace of extremely shallow vitality, and like the last flame when a candle burns out, it will be extinguished at any time.
There was a strange uneasiness in Zhao Ning's heart, she also followed in Chen Hu's footsteps, the cultivator's keen five senses, even if he sealed his eyes, the remaining four senses could accurately guide Zhao Ning.
Chen Hu is not a quiet character, he can ring the bell like this and chant for so long, it is purely Duan Guang's shock just now, but now that Duan Guang has not spoken for a long time since he came out, Chen Hu slowly stopped and muttered, "Master, my mouth is dry when I sing, can I drink saliva?" Soon fine. โ
No one answered him, but he seemed to be afraid of being stopped, so he quickly unscrewed the water bag, poured a mouthful of water, and the moment he stuffed the plug, Chen Hu said with a smile, "Master, I said it quickly, hehe." โ
His voice was a little scowling, but no one slapped him on the back of the head, and he scratched the back of his head strangely, but first touched the stone statue on his back.
He asked again, "Master, where are we going up the long stone steps, it turns out that the place where we came down is too far away, and there are still a lot of Yin Spirits, so we can't get over it now." โ
It's still quiet.
Chen Hu's breathing became light for a moment, "Master, Master, are you still following me, are you still there?" โ
"Master, Master, what's wrong with you, what's wrong."
He seemed to have a sense of crisis in Duan Guang's long-term absence of a reply, and just as he was about to tear off the blindfold and try to look for it, he only heard a very soft response, "Chen Hu." โ
It's a light voice, but it's a little ethereal.
Zhao Ning fell behind her, standing with her arms crossed, she already realized something.
At this moment, Duan Guang has ......
"Huh! Master! You're here! It scared the hell out of me, I thought you hadn't caught up yet! Chen Hu stopped pulling the strip of cloth and muttered a big grin.
But listening to this time, Guangguang said lightly, "The long steps up the way down, go quickly, you must remember Master's words, don't take off the cloth strip until you step on the ground." โ
Before Chen Hu could react, as soon as he moved, he felt a step appear at his feet.
In Zhao Ning's perception, those living steps paved down from the endless darkness above his head, until they reached Chen Hu's feet.
Chen Hu reflexively stepped up the first step, he seemed to realize something at this moment, but the living steps pushed him up a long way.
"Master, Master!"
His tone was suddenly filled with indescribable horror and sorrow, "Master, are you going to let me go straight to the teacher, Master!! โ
His voice grew higher and farther away, as if it had penetrated deep into the darkness of the sky.
"Fairy Lin." Duan Guang's voice was still flickering, but he didn't follow Chen Hu to the heights, "You can take off the blindfolded ribbon now." โ
The ribbon loosened on its own and slipped on Zhao Ning's shoulder, Zhao Ning opened his eyes to look at Duan Guang in front of him, sure enough, Duan Guang's body had blurred at the moment, his toes were hanging on the ground, he was no longer a person, but a soul.
"What I said to Fairy Lin is true, those stone statues really can't see the eyes, three thousand years, there is something terrible hidden here, it will seal all those who see it through the stone statues, and strip people's souls."
"The fairy should have guessed that the stone statue I asked Chen Hu to carry out is myself, and when the soul and the stone seal โกโก reunite, it will not wake up from the โกโก again, but will completely die."
"Why do you have a body that has been sealed in stone for 3,000 years?"