Chapter 8 Returning the Soul to the Dead
Kill the cow ridge, located in the Northern Song Dynasty and the junction of the Western Xia, there is the gourd river in the east, there is the Rou Wolf Mountain Range in the west, the terrain is precipitous, the Xixia has the Xishou Baotai Military Division here, and the Xi'an Prefecture of the Northern Song Dynasty faces each other across the mountain, it is the place where the two countries fought since ancient times. But in recent years, strange fires have appeared in the mountains year after year, and in addition, there has been a plague epidemic, and most of the patients are covered in blisters and pus. At the foot of the mountain, the people moved, and those who fled, and there were almost no people in a radius of 100 miles.
It's the height of summer, and it's the hottest time for dog days. The area around Killing Niuling is a desert, and on the endless barren beach, a few crooked-necked sand date trees look even more dry and scorching under the scorching sun, and the rocks on the ground are hot.
In a small forest at the foot of the mountain, there is a small sake shop called "Fifty Miles". At noon, the heat was unbearable, and the store moved the tables and chairs outside, at this time the courtyard was full of people, and dozens of high-rollers were shirtless, sitting at the big table in front of the door, noisily eating meat and drinking. I heard a big man shouting: "Little Er, where is the wine? I have asked for a long time, why can't I drink it yet?"
The small wine shop is run by an elderly couple, and the teenage son helps greet customers. Hearing someone urging, he hurriedly trotted up to meet him and said: "You have been waiting for a long time, the wine stored in the small shop has been served to the guest officer, and the caravan that delivered wine and food today has not arrived for a long time, so please bear with me." ”
It turned out that Killing Niuling was located in a remote area, and the reason why the small shop was opened here was only to provide convenience for passing merchants. Counting today, it should be the day of replenishment, but for some reason the camel caravan has never arrived, and there are so many people suddenly coming to the small store, and the supply of wine and food is a little short.
The big man slapped the table, only to shake the cups, plates, and bowls on the table to jump, and said angrily: "Guapi baby, it's not that I won't give you money, I asked you to get some wine, and so on." As he spoke, he stretched out his big fan-like hand and pushed it, how could the teenage boy withstand this kind of force, and he sat down on the ground. Everyone at the wine table burst out laughing, and Xiao Er got up in embarrassment and ran into the wine shop.
At this time, there were camel bells in the distance, and at the other end of the scorching horizon, a group of camels appeared, and when they got closer, everyone found that dozens of camels were unled.
As the bells rang louder and louder, the caravan came to the outside of the fence of the liquor store, where dozens of camels stopped and stretched out their heads to eat the leaves of the trees on the heights. Xiao Er poked his head out of the store and cheered when he saw the camel caravan: "The caravan has arrived, father, mother, come and unload the goods...... Ah, isn't that the king's big nose......"
Everyone looked carefully in the direction he pointed, and a man in white was lying between the humps, motionless. Looking at the other camels, there are more than a dozen people lying on the camel's back like this, and I don't know whether they are dead or alive.
The big man who asked for wine just now strode forward and said, "Hey, isn't this Shen Wanjin's caravan in Pingliang Mansion?"
"Peng Laosi, don't move that person......" Someone suddenly shouted, but in the end it was a step too late, Peng Laosi had already grabbed the man's vest and ripped off the hunchback, looked back and said: "Boss, look at this outfit, it seems to be Wang Da's nose, but it's dead...... Ah, what is this, slimy. ”
He shook his hand, and then he saw that the bare skin of Wang Da's nose was covered with blisters, some of which were scratched by him, and pus flowed out, exuding a pus-smelling smell.
The eldest was a tall man, carrying a huge mace, striding to the front and saying, "Bring water and rinse him." ”
A few people came over with water bags to rinse Peng Laosi, and someone asked, "Boss, is there any disease with this Wang Da's nose?"
"This is called a water leopard, I didn't expect our Pingliang Biao Riding Camp to encounter a hard idea here. ”
It turned out that most of these dozens of people and horses were Pingliang people, because they gathered in the mountains and forests, fought wild valleys in the border passes, burned, killed and looted, and there was a nickname in the rivers and lakes "Pingliang Biao Riding Camp". The leader who is called the boss is the leader of the Pingliangbiao cavalry battalion, named Cheng Jinbiao.
Cheng Jinbiao saw that every few camels were carrying a dead body on their backs, and said to the others: "Drive the camels away and don't let them get close." No one is to be moved on a hunchback without my orders. ”
Peng Laosi said curiously: "Boss, you just said that you ran into a hard idea?"
"Do you see what is different about Wang Da's nose except for the blisters all over his body?" he said, carefully picking up the dead body with a mace and flipping it over, and everyone all let out an "ah". It turned out that the whole face of this king's big nose was cut off, and the flesh and blood of one head were blurred, which was miserable.
"This ...... Who did this?"
Cheng Jinbiao didn't answer, and said to the others: "Everyone hurry up and find something to cover your mouth and nose." ”
In the scorching summer, everyone only felt a burst of cold sweat on their backs, and some people tore strips of cloth from their clothes and tied them around their mouths and noses. Although the Pingliang Biao Cavalry Battalion is engaged in the business of killing people and stealing goods, it is somewhat hairy to see this cruel method.
Peng Laosi thought of the handfuls of pus he had just scratched, and couldn't help but feel afraid, and reluctantly smiled: "I don't know if this plague will be contagious?"
Cheng Jinbiao said: "The water leopard said that it was a plague, but it was actually a strange poison. The middle one died of blisters all over his body within three days, and after the death of others, it was convenient for the poisoner to suck the human marrow, and then return the corpse to the soul...... What's wrong with your hands right now?"
Peng Laosi already felt that his hands were itchy and unbearable at this time, and when he heard Cheng Jinbiao say this, he suddenly felt creepy, and looked down at his hands, and there were indeed some small red rashes, and after scratching them with his hands a few times, it was even more itchy, and it seemed that all the internal organs were itching. He was so frightened that his face turned dirty, and he said, "This, how is this good?"
Cheng Jinbiao looked around and said, "If you guess correctly, this Wang's big nose was not only cut off from his face, but also two little fingers cut off." As he spoke, he picked at the dead body's arm with a mace, and sure enough, the little fingers of both hands were gone.
"Sixth, you go and see the dead bodies on the camels, if everyone has lost their little fingers, don't touch them with your hands. ”
The sixth man, named Feng Chrombiao, took out his scimitar and cautiously approached the camel, picked up the hands of several dead corpses with the tip of the knife and looked at them, then turned around and shouted, "Boss, there is indeed a little finger missing."
Cheng Jinbiao said hatefully: "The little finger is the main hand of the Shaoyin Heart Sutra, cut off the little finger of the person, and then sprinkle it with water leopards, along the acupoints such as Shaochong and Shenmen, along the meridians and blood into the heart veins, and then from the heart to spread throughout the body, and the toxicity attacks faster." Treating a person completely dead, and then controlling the dead corpse through the power of yin and yang was originally the most vicious method for that person. ”
This made everyone's heart tremble. Feng Zhibiao said: "Boss, is there such a kung fu in the world? Who is that person you are talking about?"
Without waiting for Cheng Jinbiao to speak, he heard a gloomy voice say: "I didn't expect that one of the five rats in Xi'an was not dead, and what kind of hussar camp was created." Hehe, so many fresh human marrow, it's enough to suck for a while. ”
When everyone heard this, they drew their swords and looked around for where the sound came from. At this moment, the dead body of a camel suddenly straightened up slowly, jumped off the hunchback, and floated almost without touching its feet. The corpse looked like a businessman, but for some reason it came back to life, but it was peeled off, drenched in blood, and its eyes rolled up, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and it looked extremely terrifying.
Feng Zhibiao was the closest, and he slashed across the scimitar, and the dead body jumped backwards to dodge, and then pounced forward. Feng Chromian was shocked, the hairs on his body stood up, and he danced a knife so that it didn't leak, and the dead body surrounded him or moved forward or backward, if it wasn't for pus all over his body and his eyes turned up, he would be a martial arts master.
At this time, the rest of the dead bodies on the hunchback also came to life and pounced straight at everyone. Cheng Jinbiao shouted: "Everyone be careful, don't be touched by them......"
Before he finished speaking, he saw the dead body with Wang Da's nose standing up straight in front of him, and pounced on him with both hands stretched. He was not slow, and the mace in his hand smashed against the opponent's head, but he knew that he was about to be hit, but he was dodged by the other party. He didn't wait for the old move, and the old tree swept towards the feet of the dead corpse. The dead body jumped up and dodged away, but Cheng Jinbiao just wanted him to jump into the air as an opportunity, and with a wave of one hand, ten steel darts burst out, and all of them hit the dead corpse. But the dead body was unconscious, still rushing forward with two hands open, Cheng Jinbiao saw the other party's bloody face, screaming with his mouth open, his hair was scattered and draped on his body, and he was covered in pus, and he couldn't help but feel a chill rise from the bottom of his heart.
He peeked at the other brothers, some were entangled with the dead corpses, struggling to support, Peng Laosi couldn't resist it, and was put to the ground, the dead corpse lay on him, scratching and biting, Peng Laosi screamed again and again.
After a few more rounds of fighting, five dead bodies surrounded Cheng Jinbiao's side, looking at the figures, two were women, and three seemed to be children. Cheng Jinbiao danced his mace, not daring to let them get close. But the mace is heavy, the most consuming physical strength, although Cheng Jinbiao is strong, his forehead is also sweating, the flaws in the moves are gradually revealed, the movements are slightly sluggish, and he is not paying attention to being pounced on the arm by a petite dead corpse and bites hard. Cheng Jinbiao didn't wait for the dead corpse to let go, and slapped him on the head with a palm, only to burst his brain. But after such a stop, the other four dead bodies pounced on him, and Cheng Jinbiao suddenly felt pain in his legs, arms, and back, and thought that it was over, and this life would be confessed here.
Suddenly, there was a whistle in the air, and several hovering black shadows flew over like lightning, and before everyone could see clearly, they saw that the dead bodies had their heads on the ground and their bodies fell to the side. There were also those who lay on the ground and bit them, and their heads were cut off, and pus and blood were scattered everywhere. Only then did people realize that those black shadows turned out to be a few boomerangs, but the speed of the spinning was too fast, and the dead bodies were suddenly cut off their heads.
These rabbits have risen and fallen, which is really beyond people's expectations. Cheng Jinbiao let out a sigh of relief and bowed down in the sky: "I don't know which senior helped me, Pingliang Biao rode the camp to thank you for saving your life." As he spoke, his hands were still shaking.
The gloomy voice from before said: "Old limelight, why do you come to spoil my good deeds at this time?"
No one answered in mid-air, and after a while, the voice said, "Come out! Windbeard, dare to make trouble in secret, but dare not see anyone?"
"The word mischief is used well, if someone pretends to be a ghost, someone has to make trouble. ”
Wind Beard has not walked around the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, but everyone knows that he is an old man in his seventies and eighties, and this person's voice is clearly a young man.
The gloomy voice from before said, "Okay, I want to see how long you can hide?"
The young man suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "Don't scare me, I'm not afraid to scare me, the best way to eliminate fear is to face fear, persistence is victory!"
Everyone present listened and looked at each other, and said in their hearts that this person had been babbling for a long time, what was he talking about?
I heard him say again: "You don't see, kill Niuling, no one has collected the white bones recently." The new ghost is annoyed and the old ghost is crying, and the sky is cloudy and rainy, and the wet voice is chirping. Mr. Yin, what you have been doing in this area lately is very vicious, where have these businessmen offended you? ”
"Get me down!"
With a loud shout, I saw a man in black under the saddle bridge of a camel, and he rushed straight to a poplar tree in the grove, and his speed was rare in the world. Only then did everyone see that between the branches of the poplar tree, there was a thin young man wearing yellow cedar half-squatting.
"Ouch, Yin Wuyang is going to kill again......" the young man shouted, and jumped like an ape to a tree beside him, his body agile. The man in black pounced, twisted in mid-air, and followed. Seeing that he was about to grab the young man's vest, Leng Buding and another gray shadow pounced, and two cold lights flashed, directly hitting the back of the man in black.
"Hey, Kun Gong Twin Blades...... The man in black reacted very quickly in mid-air, pulled out a soft sword from his waist, and returned a sword, "dang" The double knife behind his back was opened, and sparks splashed everywhere, but it was just such a moment, and the three figures all fell to the ground.