Chapter 135: The Adventure of Xiaozhai
The four approached this cottage with apprehension, and it was strange, there were animal skins and yam fungi drying everywhere in the village, but there was no one in sight. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Ji Nineteen's Divine Sense has not found a single living creature after probing multiple rooms, and Huang Dingtian has found the same result after detection, and the other two are even less likely to find anything.
The silence is not loud, and the village walked from the front gate to the back gate when it was not long, the atmosphere was weird, and the four people did not dare to take a breath. They were all speculating about what had happened to the village before a few people arrived.
Did they find out from afar and hide?
From the animal skins and yams that are dried in an orderly manner, the doors and windows are closed intact, there is not a single living thing left in the walled buildings everywhere, and even the residual temperature of the stove and the neat quilt nest, these judgments, the people in the village are definitely not in a hurry.
The four of them stood under the not very majestic back, and stood in a direction with each other's horns, each with their eyes on one side.
"Brother Ji, what do you think?" Huang Dingtian was the first to ask, his voice calm.
Ji Nineteen didn't answer immediately, listening to something, and then slowly replied: "It's a little abnormal, when you get close to the owner of the village, there are few birds and insects chirping, as if you have reached the forbidden area of life, there is no vitality at all, and the same is true for the back gate." There must be quirks. ”
The sound is soothing and flat, and there is not much sense of color in the magnetism, which makes people feel certain.
Especially the second daughter of Lin Wei, who was already nervous, eased her emotions a little after hearing Ji Shijiu speak, and her heavy breathing did not speed up again.
"This broken village is so weird, let's leave early. The little girl who couldn't hold her breath said what she had been holding back for a long time.
"Bailing Adventure can be smooth sailing, with you calling Miss here, what are you afraid of. Lin Wei was a little angry and said loudly, in fact, she also slowly slipped down from the excitement of entering the mountain at the beginning, and then after entering the cottage, she felt the silence around her, with a slight trace of unfriendliness, which made her no longer excited all the way, and she was a little depressed.
However, she finally found some comfort when she had been following Ji Nineteen's side, and she was not oppressed below the critical point by the environment, without losing a trace of reason and trust. Ji Nineteen still takes care of her a little from time to time, and the speed is obviously exploring according to the way she can keep up, and from time to time she can give her a kind look, and occasionally there will be a small hand and a touch of incense shoulder.
Although his heartbeat was accelerating, he could still hold his breath, without much panic, and he didn't take his surroundings seriously. Even sometimes there is a hint of sweetness and pride in my heart.
And the maid Bailing, who searched with Huang Dingtian in a group, also resumed her daughter's outfit on this trip, and even used her real name, and I don't know if it's her real name. Ji Shijiu and Huang Dingtian didn't care even more, especially Huang Dingtian couldn't take much care and comfort for a cumbersome little girl, and he was always looking for the situation of the cottage house by himself, but the little girl was a helpless little tail dragging behind.
The emotions she gained were all negative, Huang Dingtian shook his head and frowned from time to time and muttered some strange, eccentric and other words, and did not communicate with him, and the speed was unusually fast, so that she was tired of running for her life every time, and wanted to leave several times, but due to the surrounding situation, she was very afraid and did not dare to leave.
As a lowly maid, she didn't dare to protest herself, for fear that this high-ranking foundation monk would be even more tired of her existence.
The more time dragged on, the more her negative emotions accumulated, and even later, the slightest sound made by stepping on a dead branch could scare herself hard.
At this time, the four of them gathered together, and she had already wanted to say the idea of retreating, but she still didn't dare to put it forward first, and after the two male cultivators who were obviously the mainstays of this operation said a word, she blurted out her thoughts.
Not surprisingly, it was the young lady who retorted to her.
It's okay, with dialogue, there is anger, and she feels that she is really alive, otherwise she can really be crushed by the silent environment to crush her seedling.
"Brother Ji, the foolish brother has an idea, I don't know whether to talk about it or not. After Huang Dingtian got Ji Nineteen's reply, he asked without hurrying. He automatically ignored the conversation between the two daughters, and always felt that these two people were a burden on this trip, if it weren't for Ji Nineteen's face, he would have treated them well a long time ago.
"Brother Huang, but it doesn't hurt to say it. Ji Nineteen has always been calm and steady, at least he can't hear the slightest ripple from his voice.
"Why don't I wait and rest in this cottage for a while, and get some food on the ready-made stove. Huang Dingtian suggested with a relaxed face, speaking in a loud voice.
Secretly, he was transmitting the voice: "Brother Ji, although this village owner is a little weird, but the people here should be very worried about our arrival, rather than us waiting for the mountains and wilderness to play hide and seek with them, it is better to simply wait here to be the hunter who waits for the rabbit to save trouble." To be able to survive in the mountains, and to be able to discover our arrival from afar, there must be some Taoism, at least there are so many cultivators, so we should be secretly careful. ”
"Brother Huang's words are reasonable. It just so happened that the little brother was a little hungry. Let's get some food. Ji Nineteen's jaw replied, and he also replied accordingly to the secret transmission.
'Hey, let's see what's weird here, since you won't show up, let's stop down and wait.' He was thinking about it, but he didn't say anything about it.
"What, Childe. You still want to get food here, aren't you afraid that there is something wrong here?" said Bai Ling, who was not scared, nervously.
She wished that a few people would leave this ghost place earlier, how could she still stay, listening to the meaning of the two of them, it was not as simple as getting some food, and she had a great plan to rest here.
It was the young lady she had been waiting for for many years who knew her the most and was most considerate of her, so she walked quickly and grabbed her cold little hand and said, "Bai Ling'er, let's go to the largest wooden house in the village to clean up." She dragged the maid who didn't want to take a step towards Ji Nineteen, and grabbed the corner of Ji Nineteen's snow-white clothes and walked towards the village.
In fact, she also has no bottom in her heart, but if she can drag Ji Nineteen with her, she is a lot more relieved.
Ji Nineteen didn't stop him, and followed the trend.
The last to turn around was Huang Dingtian, who was still using his divine sense to detect the movement outside the gate.
The four of them hurriedly raised the hearth, boiled some tea, roasted some pieces of meat, and boiled wild vegetable soup.
The smoke curled up, and the flames reflected the dim wooden house, and also reflected the smooth faces of the four people, adding a touch of vitality to the quiet cottage.
The second daughter's emotions were slowly relieved in the busyness, and the food she ate was even more vivid, with a little laughter, and later she almost forgot where she was.
Ji Shijiu and Huang Dingtian didn't have the slightest carelessness, eating unhurriedly, occasionally talking and laughing, but they never stopped exploring the surrounding divine sense.
After half a day of happy together, the sun had sunk and the twilight splashed. A straight line of cooking smoke rose up, the mountains dimmed, the tired birds circled home, and the sound of insects began to crumble, first one, then three or two, and then a large one.
Ji Shijiu listened attentively, and looked at Huang Dingtian, at this time, a big bonfire was already burning in the middle of the fire pond in the wooden house, and the room was illuminated like daylight.
Except for the swaying old black shadow behind the four people sitting around.
Both of them noticed a slight change in their surroundings, the sunset in the western mountains, the birds and insects chirping, as if the life in the mountains that had disappeared had been resurrected, in the ordinary twilight of the mountains, but with the contrast of silence in the daytime, it seemed unusual.
The vigilant duo explored the surroundings until it was completely dark, and the surroundings fell into endless silence again, without waiting for half of the original owner who was supposed to return.
It seems that it is really impossible to hide and hide.
At first, a few people who got up from time to time to lick some tea and twisted some pieces of meat to chew slowly stopped moving, and began to meditate and breathe in the spiritual energy to practice, everything was so quiet, only occasionally the crackling flames in the hearth made a small sound.
Maybe it's because it's foggy in the mountains, and there is no moonlight tonight, and even the usual starry spots are gone.
Suddenly, an upwind floated, from the dense forest outside the village into the pitch-black village, and after turning around in various places, it went straight to the largest wooden house that only revealed a little light.
Before the wind could completely cover the wooden house, two bright and sharp swords quickly burst out from the inside and strangled them.
Immediately afterwards, Ji Nineteen's burst of shouts sounded: "Why don't the demons show their original form." ”
The wooden door also fell from the inside to the outside with a bang, and two figures, one white and one green, shot out, suspended in the air outside the wooden house.
At this time, the two flying swords of the two were entangled with a cloud of black smoke that was constantly distorting and deformed, no matter how the two swords pierced the shuttle, the black smoke was condensed but not dispersed, and the sharp sword certainly did not make any contributions.
From the perception of the two swords that the mind figured out, it didn't stab the body of this thing with a single blow, it was just shuttling through the black smoke.
Under the cover of the divine consciousness, it is impossible to go deep into the black smoke to find anything, as if there is an invisible wall blocking the entry of the divine consciousness.
After the two glanced at each other, Ji Nineteen threw out a large number of fire-based talisman spells to slash his head and cover his face towards the black smoke, although the innate fire-based spells could restrain the black smoke of these demons, but after all, they were low-level spells, and they had little effect.
The little sparks were extinguished one by one around the huge black smoke.
At this time, the second daughter had already stood up, pacing back and forth restlessly by the fire, they were already lowly in cultivation, and it was impossible to be able to help substantially.
I was worried that Ji Nineteen and the two of them would not be able to help the monster that appeared, and when they were about to run out, a mutation protruded.
As the second daughter stood up, there was a wisp of light smoke that slowly approached the figure of the second daughter along the elongated shadow of the two, and at this time it really crawled to the foot of the second girl.
They were about to make a move when their feet tightened, and it seemed that two pairs of iron hands clamped their ankles.
The two girls were immediately shocked, and both screamed 'ah', and when they remembered to raise their mana to fight, their bodies had already been dragged sideways and hit the windows of the wooden house.
There were two 'clicks', and the two girls both crashed out of the wooden house.
Ji Nineteen, who was inseparable from the black fog outside the house, heard the exclamation inside the house, and they already knew that it was not good, and the fastest reaction was Ji Nineteen.
The magic weapon in his sleeve had already swam out, and it quickly slashed towards the black mist that wrapped Lin Wei's ankle.
The incoming magic weapon was not disadvantageous, but it did not cause substantial damage to the ethereal black mist that had no fixed form, and it did not even hinder its speed at all.
Seeing that the second daughter was quickly dragged away by two puffs of black smoke and disappeared into the dark forest, Ji Shijiu, who chased out, had to return in vain.
At this time, the black smoke that was fighting with Huangdingtian had already fled from the other direction.
The two stared at each other speechlessly, this is still a collection of deflated.
Ji Nineteen is a little familiar with this kind of exercise, isn't this the same as the fat man's exercise that has a soft spot for his ninth sister?
However, when the ghost is missing, although it can make a ghostly feeling, most of the time it is normal, and the smoke is also very weak. And the few puffs of black smoke and black fog I saw just now all had a cold feeling that made people feel cold all over the body, as if there was a trace of demonic energy mixed with it.
The speed of escape was very fast, so that both of them could not catch up with each other.
The two of them couldn't figure it out, so they had to wait for something to change.
The morning sun rose, the fog in the mountain cleared, and the two were about to search the mountain, when a noisy sound sounded from behind the cottage.
A group of mountain people wearing animal skins and holding hunting bows and knives poured into the cottage in a chatter, but everyone was surprised when they found the extra Ji 192.
But looking at the bright clothes of the two, they don't look like demons, so they are entertained as guests who haven't seen each other for a long time.
When a gray-haired old man learned what happened to the two yesterday, he had to tell the truth. It is true that there were several monks of the Great Qi royal family in this mountain in the past, but they were all people who were close to life, and they were the descendants of the wild boys who were no longer willing to let the slaves of those people.
I don't know when it began, some people in that group of people got it from somewhere or studied it themselves, a strange technique that can keep the soul of those who are about to die of longevity and enter the realm of ghost cultivation that they call it.
However, they mortals don't know what kind of exercises it is, and their duty to survive is to take care of the cemetery of that group of people.
It can be regarded as a grave keeper, but there will be a day every month when a black fog will cover this mountain, and there will be inexplicable black smoke and black fog pouring into the cottage to carry living people and livestock to the mountains.
At first, they didn't know how to deal with it, but then a relatively smart one proposed to go out to escape that dark night, so there was the empty scene of the four of them yesterday.
After learning that the two had lost two companions, the people in the village were also excited, and it was conceivable that these people did not have a good impression of the ancestors they guarded.
They often take away their livestock for free, and sometimes they will attack their offspring, so it is strange that these people can have a good impression of them.
As for why they didn't move away, it was that it was too remote and they were afraid of the ambitions of those things. Historically, there have been so many people who migrated out in anger, but nothing good came of it, and they were either directly captured or attacked and killed in person.
Although this is a world with ghosts and gods, they only call those things unmountainous, because these things don't need incense and are not as safe as the land and mountain gods, and they are even more elusive.