Chapter 2: The Coming Tribulation (2)
"Xuantian Mother took pity on the world and sent her disciple Yuheng Zhenren to go down to earth to subdue demons and subdue demons and save the world. Wait for ordinary people, why don't you quickly kneel down and worship the true God?!"
The suona is sharp, and the gongs and drums are noisy.
Jiang Yuan's attention was attracted and he turned his head to look.
I saw a fluttering yellow flag, a group of people dressed in uniform and with serious expressions slowly coming down the street.
They are a group of more than 20 people, all dressed in yellow, among them are holding copper bells, or holding peachwood swords, or scattering yellow charms, or holding large flags.
In the middle of the procession, there are four people carrying a Dharma altar, on which sits a high-crowned yellow-robed old man with a crane-haired and childish face. He closed his eyes and kept his mouth shut, his hands and chest were sealed, and he was unusually solemn.
The team chanted as they marched:
"The red dust is like a prison, all living beings are suffering, reincarnation is not stopped, and there is endless sorrow!
Have mercy on me, there is a god descending from heaven, Yuheng is a real person, save the common people!"
The originally lonely and deserted street instantly poured out a lot of people, bowing their heads to this group of people and bowing down:
"Real people are kind, please save us!"
"Please ask the real person to give me a talisman and bless my family with peace!"
"As long as the real person is willing to save my family, I am willing to pay any price!
......
As the people pleaded, two boys holding wooden boxes came out of the procession.
They said with a blank face to the people who were prostrating themselves:
"The real talisman seal is made by consuming divine power, and if you want to get the blessing of a real person, you have to be sincere!
When the people heard this, they shouted, "I'll donate!"
They swarmed up, stuffing the silver taels into wooden crates and collecting the yellow sigils.
......
Jiang Yuan stared at all this blankly, he didn't know if there was really a god in this world...... The world has turned his understanding too upside down.
Although with the experience of his previous life, Jiang Yuan felt that these people were more like demons who took advantage of the troubled times to fool the people and thus accumulate wealth.
But now he still has ghost handprints on his face, and he can't care about so much.
"Help me!" he shouted, walking towards the group of men in yellow.
The boy holding the wooden box glanced at Jiang Yuan expressionlessly, and said in a cold voice:
"Only those who are sincere can get the talisman, and they need to donate—"
Halfway through speaking, the boy's face changed drastically, and he stared at the ghost handprints on Jiang Yuan's face in horror, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.
"Look at his face!" cried the boy sharply, "that and that...... It's a ghost mudra!"
When the surrounding people saw this scene, they were so frightened that they stayed away from Jiang Yuan.
"Don't get near him, don't get caught up in his bad luck!"
Even the people in the yellow-clothed team were in a commotion. The altar was crumbling, and the four yellow-clothed men carrying the altar were already so frightened that they kept retreating.
Yuheng Zhenren, who was sitting on the altar, suddenly opened his eyes and shouted at Jiang Yuan:
"Those who collide with evil spirits, filthy bodies! Dare to collide with true people! Where is the protector of the Dharma?!"
Immediately, several yellow-clothed men held sharp blades to protect the altar, and glared angrily at Jiang Yuan:
"Great sin!
The people who originally bowed down also shouted at Jiang Yuan:
"Don't get out of here, you're going to die alone, don't harm us!"
"You don't have to live tomorrow, why do you want to harm us?"
"Don't let him come, drive him away!"
......
Jiang Yuan gritted his teeth, and finally didn't say a word, turned his head and walked away.
Away from the street, it's deserted.
Whether it was the collapsed ruins, the weeds growing in the cracks of the tiles, or the broken pottery in the corners of the walls, they all seemed to be silently laughing at Jiang Yuan.
The clouds were getting thicker and thicker, and although it had just fallen into the night, it was already dark without the slightest light.
"Whoa!"
The torrential rain finally poured down, and instead of washing the world, more filth flowed out with the rain.
Silently returned home, the roof was already leaking, and the corner of the bedding on the bed had been soaked by the rain.
Jiang Yuan turned out the last two steamed buns and carefully nibbled them one bite at a time.
"Phew!"
He slammed his fist into the broken wooden table.
"I crossed over inexplicably, but I'm about to die, what's the point of that?!"
Jiang Yuan only felt unbearable depression in his chest, and there were thousands of thoughts in his mind, but more of it was despair.
In the face of those weird demons, he had nothing to do.
The most ridiculous thing is that the family is so poor that they don't even have a kitchen knife for self-defense.
"Death is death!" When despair reaches its extreme, it turns into anger, "I want to see how the demon takes my life!"
Then, Jiang Yuan lay on the bed, quietly listening to the crackling rain outside the house, waiting for the evil ghost to find the seal and ask for his life.
The night was long, and the speed of passing was depressingly slow.
Finally, a cold, clammy and cold breath arose in the house for no reason, lingering for a long time.
In the dead darkness, a green figure appeared out of thin air, it floated horizontally in mid-air, face to face with Jiang Yuan lying on the bed, close at hand.
That's the horrible little girl in the alleyway!
I saw her bulging eyes staring at Jiang Yuan in a daze, and her purple-black mouth brought a weird smile:
"Big brother, I'm so cold...... Can you come and play with me?"
Jiang Yuan, who was lying on the bed, stared at this weird little girl, his muscles tensed, and he gritted his teeth and said angrily:
"Lao Tzu is not Lolicon!"
The little girl still smirked, she stretched out her hands that were so rotten that almost only skeletons remained, and slowly grabbed them towards Jiang Yuan:
"You're going to play with me...... You're going to play with me...... You're going to play with me......"
Jiang Yuan decided to strike first, and he kicked towards the little girl suddenly:
"Let's play, right? Let's play Lift!"
However, this kick was empty.
The little girl seemed to have no substance, and Jiang Yuan's kick was like a kick in the air, although it seemed to penetrate the little girl's body, but there was no sense of force.
"Hey, hey, hey, ......"
The little girl laughed eerily, her scarlet eyeballs bulging outward, almost falling out of their sockets.
Then, I saw that the little girl's whole person suddenly turned into a black gas, and instantly penetrated into Jiang Yuan's body and disappeared.
Jiang Yuan was horrified in his heart, but suddenly found that his body was uncontrollable, as if another consciousness was manipulating.
He felt the corners of his mouth curl up, but it wasn't his intention.
Then, his hands involuntarily climbed up to his neck, and his ten fingers pinched tightly on it.
"What's going on? Could it be...... Possessed?"
Just when Jiang Yuan thought that he was about to strangle himself to death, the control of his body suddenly returned to him.
He sat up from the bed suddenly, a cold sweat already forming on his forehead.
What's going on now? I can control myself again, is the ghost gone?
Puzzled, a poignant voice sounded in Jiang Yuan's mind:
"You...... You're living in this shell, too? You're one of your kind! No...... What the hell are you?!"
Jiang Yuan was shocked, this voice was obviously that little girl's!
She's in my body!
Get out!
Get out of here!
Jiang Yuan desperately tried to get the little girl out of his body, but there was nothing he could do.
"Ah——! don't devour me——!!
The terrible scream suddenly exploded in Jiang Yuan's brain.
The little girl's voice became poignant and sharp, becoming more and more high-pitched in Jiang Yuan's mind.
Jiang Yuan was stunned, and he didn't know what was going on. Listening to this, it seems that ...... The little girl was suffering from intense pain.
After reaching its peak, the shrill screams gradually weakened and finally came to an abrupt end.
And Jiang Yuan's body, from the original cold, suddenly became hot.
This heat flow came extremely fast, and this sudden alternation of hot and cold made Jiang Yuan unable to adapt for a while, and couldn't help but let out a sneeze:
"Ah~sneeze!"
Suddenly, I saw two flames erupt from Jiang Yuan's nostrils.
The flames were yellow and red, and they sprayed on the bed at once, and the bedding ignited in an instant.
The house, which had been dark, was bright in the light of the fire.
"This, this, this, this ......" Jiang Yuan was dumbfounded.
Frightened, Jiang Yuan hurriedly jumped off the bed and tried to extinguish the flames with his hands.
"Bang!"
When Jiang Yuan's hand slapped on the bed, the board of the wooden bed shattered instantly.
The force was so great that the entire bed collapsed to the ground.
Jiang Yuan looked at his hand incredulously, followed him and grabbed a bed leg, and his hands slammed hard, only to hear a click, and the wrist-thick bed leg was actually broken in response.
"How do I have so much strength? and...... Where's that little ghost?"
Since the little girl-like ghost entered his body, he left only a few inexplicable words, and then there was no movement, as if he had completely disappeared.
"She said I was one of the same kind who dwelt in this shell...... It makes sense, I was originally a soul who inexplicably crossed into this body. But she also said not to devour her...... What does that mean? The flames that erupted from my nostrils just now are getting stronger...... Does it have something to do with that?"
Jiang Yuan was puzzled.
At this time, in the rainy night, bursts of terrible screams continued to sound outside the house.
Listening to this creepy scream, Jiang Yuan understood that he was not the only one who encountered something terrible tonight.
The screams came from far and near, the most recent one sounded at his neighbor Uncle Li's house, and it was Uncle Li who screamed.
Jiang Yuan was shocked, it seemed that Uncle Li had also suffered a mishap.
An eerie and cold aura began to linger outside Jiang Yuan's house, and Jiang Yuan could clearly hear a low gasp lingering outside the door.
He couldn't help but clench his fists:
"I wonder what kind of demons and monsters are coming this time?"