Chapter 5: The Place of the Dead
Hakuma Shino felt as if she was asleep. He didn't feel strange, he even felt that he was dreaming all day today, a long, long dream, including traveling to Lingshan, meeting people he didn't want to meet, and encountering all kinds of strange things.
Dreams sometimes jump like this, and all of a sudden he appears in a forest, blue sky, dense woods, but he can't smell a trace of nature - he can't smell anything, of course, how can he smell anything in a dream?
Where is this? How did he come here? I vaguely seem to remember that he came by himself, near the Lingshan Giant Buddha, perhaps, this is Xiaolingshan.
Hakumashi continued involuntarily towards the depths of the woods, and as he walked, a large hole appeared in the ground, and when he looked inside, there was a cracked stone slab at the bottom of the hole, like a door to another place. He carefully slipped down the dirt slope, jumped into the door without thinking, and the moment he landed, his eyes went black, and then he couldn't see anything.
I don't know how long it took, but Bai Maxiao felt that his whole body was sore, and in front of him was a dark place, and a ray of sunlight fell in his head and became the only source of light.
He found himself lying on a stone bed, and in the dim light there were neatly arranged stone beds around him, and on each bed lay a person.
Bai Maxiao realized that he was not dreaming! the dark, musty smell of his surroundings filled his nostrils, and the aches and pains in his body reminded him that none of this was a dream.
What the hell is going on?
Just as he was thinking, there was the sound of shoes sliding down the dirt slope overhead, and then there was a "plop", and a man jumped out of the gap that fell into the sunlight. Bai Maxiao didn't dare to make a sound, and he couldn't figure out the situation, so he lay back again, squinting his eyes and pretending to sleep. I saw this man staggering to the stone bed beside him and lying down......
It was all so familiar, as if it were telling him how he got hereβno, all the people on the stone bed, how he got here.
How could such a strange thing happen? Could it be that I was sleepwalking with everyone?
Just when he was conjecturing, he saw a scene that subverted his worldview for twenty years: he saw that on the person who had just fallen down, another "person" got up, and this "person" was expressionless, slowly got out of bed, and walked around.
"Why doesn't this man make a sound when he walks? Could it be a ghost?"
Ghost.
The word suddenly came to him. That's right, this thing is a ghost, it walks lightly, and it can "crawl" up from people, what else can it be if it's not a ghost?!
Bai Maxiao lay on the bed and didn't dare to move, the range of what he could see was limited, and he couldn't see this ghost after walking in front of him, and he didn't know where it had gone.
Gradually, he felt as if his eyes were staring at him, "It can't be that ghost, right?" he said in his heart, trying to resist the desire to turn his head, but the feeling became stronger and stronger, and he even felt that the ghost was looking at him against his face.
That's right, he's right. This was confirmed when he turned his head to see a large face, and after a quarter of a second he felt his heart stop beating, and he opened his mouth wide, but he couldn't scream. The ghost was startled by him, and his body straightened up at once, and he looked at him incredulously. One person and one ghost just looked at each other "calmly".
Luckily, the sight didn't last long, and the sound of a sliding slope was heard overhead, but this time there was more than one person, and they stopped when they reached the door, and did not jump in immediately.
I heard a familiar voice sound, "Senior Jianfeng, it should be here, you see, there are still the remaining exorcism talismans burned!"
Then came Nie Jianfeng's voice: "It was left by those tomb robbers." This exorcism charm is drawn with a cinnabar pen, and it looks good, but it is useless. Teacher Fu, the aura here is quite heavy. β
"Not bad. Luo Yong and Jianfeng took the lead, and you stayed on to take care of it. This voice is always serious, and he made a decision immediately, it should be the teacher Fu in his mouth.
I didn't expect to meet this group of people again in this strange place, but I heard what Mr. Fu said, they wouldn't come here to archaeology, right? Phoenix University is really wonderful, even archaeology is available.
The ghost seemed to hear their voices, and went to the direction of the cave entrance, Bai Ma Xiao curiously turned over and lay prone on the stone bed, just saw the ghost's back, only to see that it had just walked under the hole, a person suddenly jumped down, and hit it in the face, Bai Ma Xiao knew, it was the big man named Luo Yong. When Luo Yong saw it, the ghost screamed, startled the ghost, and turned around to escape, but Luo Yong grabbed the neck and lifted it up.
Nie Jianfeng then jumped down as well, but instead of looking at the captured ghost, he looked at the people on the bed and said, "Teacher Fu, it seems that this is a place to raise corpses." β
Teacher Fu's voice came from above, "Then we arrived in time." It seems that the things below can't help it. β
Tranquility asked, "It's up to us, okay?"
Teacher Fu said, "That thing hasn't taken shape yet, and it has been pressed by the Buddha for so long, if it weren't for the tomb thieves who opened the underground palace, it is estimated that it would not have been able to come out for the rest of its life." Then he said to Nie Jianfeng below, "Without further ado, catch these resentful ghosts first, and then fill in the hole." β
"Yes!" As he spoke, Nie Jianfeng took out a small black box the size of a palm, tapped it with his thumb a few times like playing with a mobile phone, and heard it make a crisp bell sound. The voice was loud and dense, echoing loudly in the empty stone room, and Bai Maxiao felt that his eardrums were about to be pierced.
This voice sounded for a full minute, and Bai Maxiao was really in pain.
"It's really bearable. β
Bai Ma Xiao felt that Nie Jianfeng was saying this to him, and sure enough, after a few seconds, the bell rang louder and denser, which was simply torture for him, he couldn't help it anymore, he got up and covered his ears, and was about to scold, when a wail came out of his ears.
I saw that there were suddenly a lot of "people" around me, covering their ears and crying wolves.
He was stunned, and immediately remembered that these "people" were all crawling out of these people like the ghost Luo Yong carried.
Could it be that these are ghosts?
Bai Maxiao didn't believe it, after all, it was impossible to completely collapse the godless worldview that had been maintained for more than ten years, and he began to speculate all kinds of possibilities: maybe they were making a movie, or they were collectively tricking him? But it was impossible to think about it, it was too boring.
Just as he was unfolding his imagination, Nie Jianfeng had already taken out another ...... It should be a sword-like thing, and Hakumashi couldn't help but wonder - where did he get it from?
Nie Jianfeng took out another piece of yellow paper, drew some strange symbols with a red pen, picked it up with the tip of his sword, pointed at this group of ghosts, and shouted: "Collect!"
This group of ghosts and wolf howling guys immediately rose into the air, including the one in Luo Yong's hand, and flew towards the yellow paper together, and in the blink of an eye, there was no one left, and there were only people like corpses sleeping in the empty stone beds, and Bai Mashio, who was lying on the bed prone and was already stunned.
Nie Jianfeng took off the yellow paper, folded it twice and put it into a small box, and when he looked up, he found Bai Ma Xiao.
This boy was obviously frightened, how many people would not shatter their worldview when they saw this scene? Not to mention that this white horse was just an ordinary person who had just come of age.
"Hakuba-san, we meet again. β
See your size. Bai Maxiao thought to himself, shouldn't they come and kill me at this time? Even if they are positive characters, they should take out a small metal rod and flash it at me to erase my memory, right? Now it was as if I had seen something that was normal.
Bai Ma Xiao was still wondering, Nie Jianfeng didn't care about him anymore, and said to Teacher Fu above his head, "It's over!"
"Very well, you guys move these 'corpse food' out, and then fill in the hole and go back to school. β
Bai Ma Xiao decided not to think about it so much, not to mention that he had maintained this action for a long time, and now his waist was a little sore, and as soon as he got up, he heard Luo Yong shout, Nie Jianfeng followed his gaze and shouted, "Be careful!"
Before Bai Maxiao could react, he felt as if he had been stunned by something, just like last time, and instantly fell into a dream.
It's still like that, I can feel everything, but I just can't control my body.
In the dream, he ran towards Nie Jianfeng, Nie Jianfeng was shocked, stretched out his sword and was about to stab, but hesitated, at this moment, Bai Ma Xiao had already arrived in front of him, and with a push of both palms, Nie Jianfeng suddenly flew out three meters away and hit the wall. Luo Yong hurriedly reached out to grab him, but he grabbed his hands, pulled them, and then fell to the ground.
Teacher Fu on the ground saw these changes clearly, and shouted to Tranquility, "Hurry down the mountain!"
As he spoke, Bai Maxiao had already jumped out of the dungeon, and as soon as he landed, he jumped out of the hole.
Teacher Fu didn't have time to think about it, and he also jumped out and chased Bai Maxiao all the way down the mountain.
Fu Jian Sheng, who has a lot of experience, knows what the consequences will be once this thousand-year-old ghost corpse sucks human blood.
The big Buddha in the distance still smiled lovingly at all beings, but I don't know when the big Buddha's smile was mixed with a trace of worry.
It seems that it is not just the ghosts, as if something more serious is about to happen......