Chapter Ninety-Five: The Hanged Man
What happened just now was something I didn't expect, and at the same time, it also aroused the vigilance of Lao Yu, was it influenced by the old locust tree, or was there another reason?
Looking at Songqi, who was not far from us, he was holding a wooden stick and hammering the strips of cloth hanging from the branches. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After this incident, I couldn't help but feel a little more suspicious in my heart, thinking back to the accident that happened just now, Lao Qi didn't say anything excessive, but just said, "If it's a goblin, it should be killed", so it was because of this sentence that she was angry? For what, she is not a goblin, shouldn't the monk kill the demon and eliminate the demon? Although what Lao Yu said was a bit extreme, it was also reasonable, and Song Qi had no reason to be angry at all.
When we were in Qianshan, Songqi took advantage of us to walk the mountain road at night, followed behind and pretended to be a ghost to scare us, such a prank was more than once or twice, the only difference from the past was that this time it was very heavy, and he actually lifted the old man by pinching his neck.
Therefore, I always suspect that Songqi may have been influenced by the old locust tree, so he has to guard against it.
Thinking of this, I looked at Songqi again, as if I had been wronged. Even though she had her back to us, she could tell from the gasp that she was really angry.
I glanced at Lao Yu and said meaningfully: "She should just be joking with you again, you think too much." ”
"I think about it too much, is there such a joke, I can guarantee that either she is under the influence of the old locust tree, or it is not a good thing at all!"
"Okay, give it to you, don't you want to start with a heavy one, as for saying that people are not good things, you just let her order. ”
"Hmph!" Lao Xiang snorted coldly, squinting at Songqi, obviously still very uneasy.
I walked over to comfort the child, the angry Songqi, she didn't notice that I was behind her, still whipping the strips of cloth in front of me, just when I was about to say something, the wooden stick and the strip of cloth in Songqi's hand were entangled together, and under the force, suddenly pulled something out of the dense branches, Songqi was also startled by the thing that fell from the sky, screamed, turned around and crashed into my arms.
"Lie down, dead man!"
With the roar of Lao Zhi, which was worse than that of a male duck, I woke up from the shock and hurriedly stepped back with Songqi.
"What the hell, it scared me to death!"
Looking at the dead man dangling in the air, his eyes were bulging, and a blood-red tongue was exposed outside his mouth, and he didn't need to look at the white cloth hanging around his neck to know that this thing in front of him was a hanged ghost!
The confusion in our hearts suddenly became clear, and the reason why we walked back to the same place was not the old locust tree, but the ghost hitting the wall! What should have been thought of a long time ago was that the old locust tree that grew like this was so rare that it made us mistakenly think that it had become a sperm, and we did not notice that the branches of the old locust tree had escaped my yin and yang eyes.
Looking at the yin qi surrounding the hanged ghost, and then looking at the yin qi that was still seeping outward from the branches of the old locust tree, an astonishing thought suddenly scared me out of a cold sweat: "It's difficult... Could it be that there is a hanged ghost on each strip of cloth?"
"Oh, no, how many hanged ghosts there will be so many strips of cloth!"
It's no wonder that Songqi is afraid, even me and Lao Yu are also very afraid, people are born with an inexplicable fear of this ghost or something, and we as descendants of the Xuanmen are no exception.
As we stared at the hanged man, his bloodshot eyes suddenly moved a few times, and then a strange smile rose at the corner of his mouth, causing us to take a few steps back in unison.
"Sleep... Crouch... it, the hanged man laughs!" the old man shouted at the bull duck.
At the same time that the old man was surprised, a gust of wind blew in the distance, and the branches that blew were all rattling, and the strips of cloth hanging down on them began to sway from side to side, and the air was filled with a strange atmosphere.
The half-moon in the sky gradually faded away from the faint light, hiding behind the clouds and not daring to come out, so that we were completely plunged into darkness, leaving only the hanging ghost with a faint glow in mid-air.
"Nangong Dongluo, let's go quickly, this... This is so mad!" Songqi grabbed my arm tightly and refused to let go.
Lao Yu took out the string of Buddhist beads, scolded it in his hand, and said: "His uncle, the first strike is strong, and then the first hand suffers!" After speaking, he was about to rush over to start, he just took one foot, and then took it back.
The dense branches of the old locust tree were full of yin qi, and slowly stretched out a pair of glowing human feet from the branches, followed by pants, clothes, and finally the miserable white and miserable faces of the dead also appeared, these hanged ghosts were like puppets hanging in the air, swaying from side to side with gusts of yin wind, the only difference with the puppets was that they oozed blood from their seven orifices, their eyes were bulging, and a blood-red tongue was hanging on the side of their mouths, and the most terrifying thing was that there was a trace of a strange and crazy smile on the corners of their mouths.
According to a rough judgment, there are as many as 50 corpses, including men, women, young and old, rich and poor.
At this time, we... Trapped in the middle, stared at by a hanged ghost with a distorted face, our mood at this time is by no means a sentence of horror that can be hastily described.
But I have had the experience of ten thousand ghosts crying and mourning, and Lao Yu and I are not enough to be like a mess of chaff, and after calming down immediately, the three of them formed a back-to-back formation to look at them.
"I said Nangong, what should I do now, these ten or eight are not a problem, but... But that's a lot of fucking things, dozens of them?"
"Do you know how to count, which eye sees that there are dozens, elementary school is math taught by physical education teachers. ”
"If you don't talk nonsense, I shouldn't have brought you here, drag the oil bottle, pull the hind legs! If I didn't have you, I would have rushed out a long time ago!"
"I'm pulling back, I'm embarrassed to say that I'm pulling you back, you take care of yourself first!"
I saw that Songqi and Lao Qi started a war of words again, and immediately spoke: "When is it, can you two stop arguing, I don't have a lot of talisman paper in my hand, and it's not all to suppress evil spirits and drive away ghosts, so I first chanted a spell to temporarily restrain myself, if I see an opportunity to escape immediately, they should all be regional spirits, and they can't get out of the range of this old locust tree." Therefore, it is safe to escape from a hundred meters away from the old locust tree. ”
After speaking, without waiting for the two of them to agree, he pinched his fingers and recited the purification mantra: "The four-eyed old man Tianyuan God, Tiangang Eight Evil Sweeping Demon Atmosphere." My eyes look at the mountains, and my water is all over the world. The first group of demons is extinct, and the mountains and seas are clear. The law of the heavens is too high, and the demon god has no way to return. Haste as a law!"
Practicing the purification mantra is dedicated to driving away yin and evil, and the place where it is practiced is pure and unclean. After the mantra was recited, the hanged ghosts visibly felt uneasy, and began to agitate, no longer hanging in the air and staring at us, but with a twisted face and a strange scream. Instead of achieving its goal and causing them to disperse on their own initiative, the purifying mantra slowly approached us, and the old man and Songqi around him became even more panicked and uneasy.
Seeing that the situation was not good, I immediately changed my fingers and recited the opening mantra: "Fire crystals fly black, phoenixes and dragon scales." Fly the way forward, cut off the demonic atmosphere. Dare to have demons, cut off the trace. Shenwei is everywhere, and the ghost eater is as urgent as the law!"
After the incantation was recited, the finger was volleyed into the air, and a huge fire crow shot straight forward, and the hanged ghost in the place was covered in fire, and the ghost cried wolf.
Lao Zhi saw that the opportunity came, and rushed over with an arrow step, the speed smacked my tongue, the rabbits were his grandsons, and he didn't mean to wait for me and Songqi, and after scolding the uncle, he pulled up Songqi's sleeves and walked out.
I really didn't guess wrong, this group of hanged ghosts is a group of regional resentful spirits, and their souls are imprisoned under this old locust tree, unable to move, and now they are safe to escape from the range of the old locust tree.
Songqi on the side said: "Look at the clothes of those hanged ghosts, it should be the appearance of the last ten years, I saw a little boy wearing Nike shoes inside, if it wasn't for the way into the mountain, there should not be so many people who were killed by the hanged ghosts." ”
"Well, it makes sense, it makes sense!" Lao Yu nodded yes to the side.
Song Qi glanced at Lao Qi and continued: "But with them in the way, how can I get there?"
I've also been thinking about this problem, if we rely on the strength of the three of us to deal with them one by one, we are likely to fall into it, and if we don't make trouble, they will be killed together, after all, there are so many hanged ghosts who died unjustly, and the resentment should not be underestimated.
What if you let the old man invite immortals?
This is not suitable, you can't always ask the immortals to help if you have something, so why do we need to go through the experience, it's good to say that it's not good, and we must not use the power of the immortals again until the last resort. What's more, now that it has been out of the three northeastern provinces, it is not under the jurisdiction of the five shaman tribes, except for a few sect leader-level figures in the main hall, the rest of the earth immortals are considered goblins outside the three northern provinces, if they encounter indiscriminate and high-level monks, then the immortal family will also become an enemy.
What's more, those few sect leader elder-level earth immortals all have priesthoods, and they can't be invited if you want to.
It seems that we are still up to ourselves!