The small temple is not big, clean and tidy.

It was cold and cold, and there was only one table for the table, and nothing else.

Xu Da looked at it with a torch and asked, "Which god is enshrined in this temple? Why is there nothing?"

Xie Toad said coldly: "How could it not be? Isn't it right in front of you?"

Xu Da hurriedly raised his mace and prepared to fight, but his eyes widened and he found nothing, and suddenly felt a little chill in his heart: "Old Taoist, I don't have anything in front of me, what the hell are you?"

Xie Toad smiled: "No hell, I'm just teasing you." ”

Xu is atmospheric and wants to jump to his feet.

But the temple is indeed abnormal, Wang Qilin walked to the altar to see, most of the places on it fell a thin layer of dust, and the clean place was four paw prints two circles larger than his palm.

It looked like there used to be some kind of beast standing here, but there was no dust on the four paws of the beast.

He greeted Xie Toad, Xie Toad didn't need to look at it, and said, "The master of the small temple has gone on a night tour, my lord, you should be able to see the weirdness, right?"

Wang Qilin felt that the most strange thing was Ma Ming, this military man seemed to be fearless, and found a place to sweep the dust with dirty clothes and prepare to make a fire.

He gave Ambassador Xu a look, and Xu Da asked, "Brother Ma, what do you mean by what you just said outside the temple?"

"I'll show you something. Ma Ming gestured and undressed.

Xu Da hurriedly stopped: "Let's talk seriously, we don't need to take off our clothes." ”

Ma Ming smiled: "If you don't take off your clothes, I'm afraid you won't believe it, look, this thing." ”

He took off his shirt to reveal a chest covered with heart hair, and there were hideous scars on his chest and back, and he didn't know how many injuries he had suffered.

Among the scars was a grimace the size of a walnut, with all facial features and a crooked smile.

Seeing this, Xie Toad's face sank: "Ghost Seal!"

Ma Ming nodded and said, "The Taoist is extraordinary, yes, this is a ghost mark, so you don't need to be afraid, I guess the owner of this temple is out to spy on me." ”

Wang Qilin asked, "What is the ghost seal, and why are you still being spied on?"

Xie Toad said in a deep voice: "As the name suggests, the ghost seal is the seal withheld by the ghost, which means that Brother Ma has an agreement with it. When the agreement is completed, the seal disappears, and if the agreement is not completed, then the person who has been detained will wait to be tortured. ”

"What torture?"

"Fear of the unknown. Ma Ming said as he got dressed.

Wang Qilin didn't understand, Xie Toad continued to introduce: "This thing is actually the Qi of ghosts, people have yang essences, ghosts have **, and Qi is a kind of **." It is a good thing for ghosts, and the ghosts on the body will attract the nearby evil ghosts, but the ghosts are the most powerful, this Qi contains the power of the master, and the ordinary ghosts only dare to covet and dare not snatch it. ”

So, the pony will encounter demons at night, and he doesn't know what kind of demons he will encounter in the next moment or even tomorrow night, and the unknown is the most terrifying, so he will live in fear and suffer for a long time. ”

Wang Qilin was shocked: "So terrible?"

Ma Ming said: "It's not terrible, I have been a soldier for many years, and I am used to licking blood on the knife." It's like that's when you encounter war in the army, you don't know if you're going to be alive in the next moment. This feeling is much more torturous than encountering ghosts, what is there to be afraid of? They only dare to come out and look at me, but they don't dare to really kill me, I didn't understand what was going on before, but the Taoist chief said that I understood, it turned out that I still have the power of that ghost on my body, is this a fox and a fake tiger?"

He laughed at the end.

It's not a reckless laugh, it's a real free and easy laugh.

Wang Qilin asked, "How can you have a ghost mark on your body?"

Ma Ming said: "When I was sending the bones home to one of my brothers, I strayed into a white bone tomb, and the owner of the tomb was a terrible ghost. It wanted to kill me and another little girl from the Southern Wilderness who accidentally entered the tomb, but I still had a heavy responsibility to do, so I told it the conditions, and I returned the bones of my brothers one by one, and then went back to receive their deaths. ”

Xu Dayi shook his mace and said angrily: "There are still ghosts who bully such a loyal and courageous man as you? You have done a good thing that is enough to move the heavens and the earth, and it even dares to be presumptuous at you? Where is this ghost? Didn't you go to the local Tianjian to report the case?"

Ma Ming smiled: "This ghost is very particular, it accepted my conditions and let me go, how can I turn around and go back on my word?"

Wang Qilin said: "Impossible, with all due respect, the ghost is the most treacherous, how can it believe your words?"

Ma Ming said: "Maybe I met a good ghost." ”

Xie Toad shook his head and said, "No, this ghost is very treacherous. As the so-called heroic spirit is too empty, Dan's heart is eternal. The life has not been reported to the country, and it is left as a loyal soul supplement. Brother Ma is loyal, and he often follows the fourteen loyal souls behind him, and the ghost does not dare to get close, and the ghost can't help you at all, so it treacherously puts a ghost mark on you, and when you send the fourteen loyal souls back to your hometown and go back to find it, then it will be able to attack you. ”

Xu Da was angry.

Ma Ming was stunned and said, "So that's the case?"

Then he laughed again: "It's okay, my biggest wish in life is to send my brothers back to their hometown, this is a mutual promise we made when we were in a team, so as long as we can send them home, it doesn't matter if the rest is okay." ”

Wang Qilin was a little moved: "How can Brother Ma think like this......?

Ma Ming shook his head gloomily: "I don't want to live, so I'm not afraid of death, and now I don't dare to die because there are still brothers who have bones on me." ”

Saying that, he laughed heartily again: "Lord Wang doesn't have to feel sorry for me, I have killed Rakshasa ghosts vigorously in my life, drunk general wine happily, ridden good horses, held good knives, and traveled all over the country in the past two years to see the magnificent mountains and rivers, and I have no regrets in my death!"

Wang Qilin was silent for a moment, and then asked, "How many of your brothers' bones have not been sent back?"

Ma Ming patted his burden and said, "This is the last brother." ”

Wang Qilin said: "You send him back, and then the three of us will accompany you back to find the treacherous ghost." ”

Xu Da smiled: "Look at the seventh master if you don't chop it into dumpling filling." ”

Ma Ming shook his head again: "Lord Wang is righteous, but there is no need for this, I once promised that the ghost that I would go back to see it alone in the future, and when the time comes, it can take my life at will, and I will never resist." It has fulfilled its promise to me, am I going to break my promise to it?"

Saying that, he shook his head even more: "I have no university education, no illustrious family background, no great skills, the only thing that can comfort my life is that I still have some credibility, I can't give up this only thing." ”

Xie Toad also wanted to persuade him, so he smiled first: "Dao Master is promising, he must know the power of the demons in his heart." The humble life is still above board, and he thinks he has no demons. ”

"Therefore, I am not afraid of death, I can go to the underworld frankly and openly, and when the time comes, whether I see my father and mother or my brothers who died in battle, I dare to straighten my chest and say that Ma has a clear conscience in his life. ”

"But if I break the promise of life and death promised to others, what face will I have to face my dead father and brother in the future? That will be torture for me!"

He patted his chest and continued: "What's more, this promise is still stamped, and the lowly position cannot be reversed. The kindness of the three adults is lowly and despicable, but the lowly duty is a dead brain, and I really can't appreciate it. ”

Hearing these words, Xie Toad could only say solemnly: "Immeasurable Tianzun, Lord Xu brought wine, I want to have a big drink with Brother Ma tonight!"

Xu Da sneered: "Let's go out to do something, where do I have wine?"

Xie Toad flicked his sleeves, and the water bladder he hung on his ass flew out.

Xu shouted: "Then I also want to have a big drink with Brother Ma." ”

Ma Ming said with a smile: "It's not like you're going to die right away, the two adults don't have to be like this." ”

Wang Qilin went up and patted him on the shoulder and said, "As long as what you say is true, you shouldn't be able to die." Also, do you believe in fate?"

The fate is just one word, and it is wonderful.