Chapter Seventy-Six: Pinching the Ears
Corpse grass...
A creepy name, but also a bloody herb.
People in the rivers and lakes are no strangers.
As the name suggests, it is related to corpses, and only to human corpses.
After death, the flesh and blood of a person decay into corpse gas, ascend to heaven or into the earth, dissipate and nourish heaven and earth...
whereas
If the dead are trapped in a corner, and the corpse qi is not released and resolved, it will converge into resentment, condense into corpse water, and wander around. This creates the so-called corpse poison...
Corpse poison is weak and strong.
Weak, a corpse turned into poison, the infected person is dizzy and has a high fever, and there will be no major problem after resting for two or three days.
strong, thousands or even tens of millions of corpses turned into evil. If it spreads to one heaven and the earth, it will become what the world calls a plague. On the contrary, if it is trapped in a corner, it will condense and sublimate on its own, turn into poison, and condense into the so-called corpse evil qi.
Those who dye are all dead...
However, there is still a lifetime of death. The only vitality is the only grass that can grow with the corpse qi in the sea of corpses in the sea of corpses...
It's called "corpse grass."
"Eh..."
The closed wooden door opened.
Two figures walked out one after the other. The former stepped with his feet up, and walked down the alley into the depths. The latter grabbed the former's shirt and stepped on small steps, almost close to him, cowering.
"It's really windy in the back mountain, why don't you go back to the house?"
"You say..."
"But, it's really big..."
"If the archmage that the dog baby said comes, you are not an opponent..."
"It's so late, it shouldn't be coming, right?"
"Not necessarily..."
“......”
Two figures whispered in pieces, slowly walking into the darkness deep in the alley.
The wind blows on both sides of the alley,
Up and down the village.
The moon bends its teeth, and the mist wanders,
There is evil in the deserted village, but there is grass in nature.
It was in the ancestral hall of the corpse.
The ancestral hall is located at the foot of the mountain behind the deserted village. Not far from the dog's house, it is more than 200 zhang, and you can walk through the end of the alley. It's not big, less than a hundred zhang long and wide. It is square, surrounded by loess mud walls on all sides.
It's just that it's very weird...
The doors of the hall were locked, the wooden windows were closed, and the bright green light flowed out from the cracks in the doors and windows, like ghost fires. The vine trees on three sides are withered and bare. The fallen leaves on the ground were blown by the yin wind from the house, blowing everywhere...
It's like a piece of yellow paper money burned to a dead man...
"Why don't you wait for me outside?" I'll go in and get some medicine and come out. ”
Two close-knit figures slowly walked out of the dark alley. Come to the door of the ancestral hall where the moonlight can still shine...
Peony cowered and hid behind Xia Xun. The whirring yin wind carried her green silk and tossed backwards, and the endless dead leaves kept caressing her white linen clothes. Something seems to be teasing...
Shake...
Peony secretly shrunk her neck and looked at both sides...
"Don't!"
The strange scene around her couldn't help but startle her, and she quickly screamed decisively.
"But, it's not good-looking..."
"Don't!"
Xia Xun didn't finish his words this time, and the peony was drunk directly.
"Uh..."
Xia Xun only found out tonight that the girl behind him, who looked weak, would be quite unreasonable if she was stubborn...
He smiled helplessly, and leaned back slightly: "Then I'll go in..."
"Sasha..."
Peony lowered her head and squinted, and pushed Xia Xun's back in response through the green shirt.
After the tacit understanding between the two is achieved, there is no need to say more.
Xia Xun inserted the iron key given by the dog baby into the door hole...
A light twist, a push...
"Click..."
The lock was opened, but the wooden door was not pushed open. It was as if something was behind the door.
"Uh..."
"Wait, the wind may be strong, you better hold your breath for a while. Xia Xun reminded softly.
"Well..."
Xia Xun was in front, and he couldn't see Peony's expression at the moment, and when he saw that she should arrive, he didn't think much about it.
He took a deep breath of air, put his hands into palms, and pushed directly and vigorously towards the wooden door...
That's it!
"Sew!"
A violent storm struck, surging head-on.
"Ahh
Immediately after, a scream startled and pierced the sky.
At the moment when Xia Xun pushed open the wooden door, in the ancestral hall behind the door, a seeping wind that seemed to have accumulated for many years rushed out of the door like a flood with cold and cold air...
Although I was prepared, I was still panicked, because the wind was too strong...
The wind rushed out of the door, and for a while, debris flew upside down around the entrance of the ancestral hall, and clothes and hair were churning. Xia Xun's facial features were blown out of shape, and his first reaction was to reach out to cover his face. The endless dead leaves were rolled into a yellow dragon and went straight to the alleys of the deserted village. The doors and windows in the alley were beaten by Huang Long again, and they made a loud noise...
Afraid...
A girl's scream, more permeable than the wind, burst out almost at the same time as the wind. The howl was more miserable than fear, directly breaking through the wind and the silence of the night, and exploding in a corner of the deserted village, for a long time...
"Whew..."
"Ahh
The wind, screaming, broke all silence. In the deserted village, as long as there is still a conscious person, it is estimated that he will be scared and tremble.
“......”
After seven or eight breaths, the wind in the ancestral hall was exhausted.
The girl's screams also gradually weakened... Finally stopped.
Here is back to the silent world, only the remaining yellow leaves on both sides are still drifting...
A few wisps of cold sweat slipped down Xia Xun's temples...
"Uh... That, can you loosen your hand a little?" Xia Xun gritted his teeth and said in pain.
"Huh?"
Peony, who was frightened by the sudden wind, has just come back to her senses. Hearing Xia Xun say this, she realized that her hands were pinched on Xia Xun's left arm at some point.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."
How hard to pinch people, Peony herself knows very well. She hurriedly withdrew her hand and apologized repeatedly.
"You've got a lot of strength. Xia Xun couldn't help but stretch out his right hand and gently rubbed his painful left arm.
"The wind was really strong just now," Peony pursed her lips and said aggrievedly.
"Okay..."Xia Xun shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly. The wind was really scary, not to mention that Peony was a timid girl, so she couldn't be blamed...
Then, Xia Xun didn't delve any further, turned his head directly, and turned his gaze back to the ancestral hall behind the door...
"Silk...", I couldn't help but gasp for a breath of cool air.
Xia Xun didn't have time to take a closer look because of the pain before, but this time he took a look... Xia Xun's eyelids suddenly stretched and he was stunned! Even his right hand, which was kneading his left arm, stopped his movements at the same time.
"I guess you'd better stay outside..."
"What's wrong? Is it really scary?...
Peony knew what Xia Xun meant, but she still couldn't help the girl's curiosity. While asking faintly, he grabbed Xia Xun's green shirt with one hand and poked his little head out of his shoulder...
It is said that curiosity kills cats, but sometimes it scares people to death.
"Ahh
Peony's reaction was ten times better than Xia Xun's!
When the interior of the ancestral hall came into view... Her bright eyes were instantly half widened, a miserable white floating face, and a small mouth that couldn't stop trembling with one hand...
"Ahh Whew..."Rapid breathing, under the delicate hand of peony, kept rising and falling, faster and faster...
It's not just fear, it's also fright. Just because of the scene in front of me, it really makes people scared.
It's purgatory on earth, it's miserable...
Follow Peony's gaze... I saw that in the ancestral hall, which was less than a hundred zhang long and wide, one hundred and ten locust coffins were neatly arranged. Countless human corpses at a glance are like pickled salted fish filling the entire ancestral hall...
The purple face, the black hands, the tongue sticking out, and the eyes cracked by fear are almost all the same horrific deaths.
The green corpse oil, oozing along the seven orifices of these corpses, flowed on the blue bricks and stone slabs, blended with each other, forming a thin pool of corpse oil, scattering gloom.
Twelve unusually glamorous red flags were inserted in the twelve ground branches in the ancestral hall, and they looked extremely strange in the Yingying Green Pool. A two-zhang tall statue of the smiling Buddha is placed in the center of the ancestral hall. Raising the five fingers that are closed, it seems to be a smirk that is not a smile, just like greeting the people outside the door...
"It's... This..."
The rapid breathing couldn't be stopped, and the little hand that was on the shirt couldn't help but increase a little bit of strength and grabbed Xia Xun's left arm. Peony couldn't say a word for a long time.
The arm that was grabbed by Peony hurt very much, but Xia Xun didn't say anything to warn him. He looked at the nearest red flag at the door, and solemnly helped Peony finish speaking:
"This is the "Twelve Places Trapped Town", and it can use the thousand-year-old Huai Mu Heart to refine the array flag, and the origin of those archmages is probably not small. ”
"Well... Ahh
Peony's eyes widened and she struggled to respond. Shortness of breath does not stop, and there is no trend of slowing down, like asthma.
"Uh..."
Xia Xun felt that something seemed to be wrong with the girl behind him, and he quickly turned around and looked at Peony...
But at this time, Peony's big eyes were like a demon, and he looked directly at the ancestral hall. His brows were furrowed, and a trace of cold sweat broke out on his forehead. The small breasts that have not yet grown up are up and down with the rapid heartbeat and breathing...
It seems that she was really scared this time...
"Why don't you close your eyes first?" Xia Xun said with a gentle smile.
"Well... Ahh
The response was difficult, panting, and the body was still trembling slightly.
After answering, the eyelashes on Peony's eyes trembled, as if they wanted to close. It's just that it has been shaking for a long time, but it has never been able to close its eyes. It's uncontrollable...
Lose one's nerve.
"You're trying to relax?"
"Well... Well..."
"You take a deep breath, take a deep breath... Inhale..."
“......”
"Let's shout and try?"
“......”
"Uh..."
Xia Xun was a little at a loss. No matter how he guides, Peony just can't slow down and can't answer a word. His expression was sluggish, his face was frightened, and his pale face became more and more pale...
No one would have thought that a cultivator who was not good at Taoism would be so frightened by the scene in a corner...
But it's no wonder that anyone who has experienced so many weird and terrifying scenes in less than three hours can't stand it...
What's more, Peony is just a timid girl who has never been involved in the world?
The night's fright had already broken her heart, and the sudden attack of the wind made her even more frightened to the freezing point, and finally with the scene of the corpse mountain and blood sea in this ancestral hall, how could she withstand it?
"Uh... It's like losing my soul..."
“......”
Xia Xun thought for a while, revealing a hint of embarrassment: "Why don't I try?"
“... "Peony shook out a word with difficulty.
"Uh... Then don't you mind..."
Xia Xun said softly, and at the same time slowly raised his hands and pulled through Peony's long hair. Reach out two fingers and gently pinch her earlobe.
The ears of the peony are small and delicate, soft and soft. Xia Xun's four fingers were divided into two sides, stroking two cotton-like earlobes back and forth...
"Relax... Relax..."
"I remember, when I was four or five years old... Once, I secretly went to the mountains to catch hares by myself... As a result, that day, I met a mountain wolf and went down the mountain... However, luckily his father was hunting around there at the time, and that saved me..."
"At that time, I was so scared like you... Grandpa said I was scared away..."
"Next, that's how Grandpa pinched my ears and ears and summoned my soul back..."
"It works..."
The two figures seemed to merge into one in the moonlight. The infiltrating yin wind no longer seems to be so infiltrating, but it still makes people feel a little warm...
Gently kneading...
The breathing gradually calms down...
Peony's eyes slowly closed, and the small hand that was gripping Xia Xun's arm slowly loosened.
There were a few bloodshots on his pale face. It's just that the bloodshot didn't last long, and it turned into two shy red flowers...
In this way, one stood quietly, the other gently rubbed, talking...
For a long time...
For a long time, the crescent moon in the sky couldn't help but move a position shyly...
For a long time...
Peony's eyelashes, can't help but blush, shyly unfolded:
"How long do you want to pinch it?"