Chapter 123: The Altar
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Ghost Li was stunned, but he saw that Xiaobai's eyes were infinitely tender, watery as if they wanted to drip out, reflecting his own figure and face, and he couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat.
"You're drunk. When Ghost Li said this, he couldn't help but have a slight bead of sweat on his head.
Xiaobai's body seemed to be completely unable to stand at this moment, and all his weight was leaning on Ghost Li's body. But seeing that she bit her red lips lightly, there was still a trace of pity in her laziness, and she moaned low in her mouth, as if she was seductive, and slowly, she leaned her head on the shoulder of the ghost.
"You......" This drunk, feminine and infinite woman said softly.
It seemed that because the alcohol was too strong, she gently turned her head on Ghost Li's shoulder and rubbed it, maybe she had a headache!
"You're just too tired to live! you know, little fool!"
Ghost Li was simply shocked by her last three words "little fool", but listening to these words is full of soft meaning, from time to time from this woman came a faint fragrance, lingering.
The most powerful thing is that her peerless face is so lazy and lazy leaning on her shoulders, and her whole body is nestled against herself, making people dare not move, unable to move.
If this scene is in the middle of the earth, it must have attracted countless rumors, but the customs here in southern Xinjiang are open, and the Miao people don't think it's strange, but most of them think it's a couple, especially Xiaobai's earth-shattering drink just now, it really shook the Miao village, and no one said anything.
Only some young Miao men who admired Xiaobai were depressed for a while.
Ghost Li didn't know what to do, and at the same time, he didn't know what to say in his heart, recalling the meaning of Xiaobai's words just now, the words "too tired to live" slowly echoed in his heart, and he was at a loss for a while.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a few "squeaks" from the side, which was the voice of Xiao Ash. Only then did he remember that Xiao Ash had been playing next to him, and the drinking scene just now was so shocking that he had forgotten about Xiao Ash for a while, and turned his head to look at it at the moment.
Unexpectedly, when I saw this, I almost choked the ghost and couldn't speak.
I saw that Xiao Ash ran back from the river bank at some point, squatting not far from Ghost Li and Xiao Bai, his three eyes were rolling around, and he was very curious to look at the situation in the field.
At this moment, seeing that the two sides were fighting for wine, everyone was busy cleaning up, Miao Renduo walked over to help those drunk soldiers up and take care of them, and Ghost Li was also holding the half-drunk Xiaobai crying and laughing.
And the scene was even more chaotic, not to mention the drunks who fell to the ground, weapons such as long-handled spears, rattan armor, including the large wine bags that fell to the ground after the Miao people were drunk, were all over the ground, and there were still a few liquor bags left in the wine bags that were not stuffed properly, and slowly flowed out from the mouth of the bag, filling the air with a strong smell of alcohol.
Monkey curiosity, little gray is born a spiritual creature, curiosity is also ten times stronger than ordinary monkeys, at the moment while people are not paying attention, sneak to a drunk Miao warrior on the side, look around, see that no one seems to pay attention here, so carefully pick up the wine bag that fell on the ground next to the warrior.
The smell of liquor came flooding up, and Monkey Ash sniffed it deeply, and his three eyes rolled together, bewildered, apparently he had never touched such a thing before.
Sitting on the ground very carefully, the monkey turned his head, and looked around vigilantly, and then slowly put it to his mouth and took a sip.
When the wine entered the monkey's mouth, Xiao Ash put down the wine bag, and the monkey's mouth was so happy that he liked the taste very much, and couldn't help but let out a "squeak" sound.
It was at this time that Ghost Li heard the voice, turned his head, and saw that even the monkey was drinking, and after being shocked, this anger was even more extraordinary. Xindao has been crazy these years, why don't you care about foxes and monkeys start drinking "wine"......
"Ash, come here!"
Ghost Li shouted loudly, Xiao Gray was excited, looked at Ghost Li, saw that the master's face was quite stern, reached out and scratched his head, and then put down the wine bag and ran to Ghost Li.
It had only run a few paces, and suddenly remembered something, and turned back again, ran to the drunkard, grabbed the remaining half-sack of spirits in his hand, and dragged it back on the ground.
The ghost was angry, and at this time, many Miao people who noticed the situation of the monkeys here laughed out loud. Miao people have a bold temperament, especially men are good at drinking, when they see that this monkey actually has common interests and hobbies, they can't help but feel like a confidant, and they only feel that looking at the world, they are really the first in the world of Miao spirits, if you don't believe it, you see that even the monkey can't help but want to take a sip......
All of a sudden, many Miao people were actually happy, and a lot of bananas and fruits were thrown from the crowd, all of which were thrown at Xiao Ash, obviously liking Xiao Ash and giving it food.
Xiao Ash was startled at first, only to see that suddenly the sky and the earth changed color, and countless foreign objects fell down one after another, and it was impossible to avoid it, and he couldn't help but be angry, squeaky and scream, and make a vicious appearance to the Miao people. Unexpectedly, after a while, I looked at it, it was all fragrant fruits, how I didn't like it, I immediately reached out to the ground and picked up a few bananas, and then slowly trotted, came back to Ghost Li's side, sat on the ground, and ate the banana peel. And the wine bag in his hand was still in his hand and was brought back.
The ghost looked at Xiao Ash, and saw that Xiao Ash was eating with relish, and poked his head out from time to time, put the wine bag in his mouth, and took a sip.
Seeing that the monkey drank several sips of spirits, there seemed to be no redness on his face, and he actually drank a lot of alcohol. The ghost opened his mouth and was about to say something, but when he looked back, he saw Xiaobai, who was leaning on his shoulder, drunk and hazy, suddenly sighed, retracted his words again, and said nothing.
It's the little gray grinning, seeing that the ghost looks at himself from time to time, the monkey stretches out his hand, picks up a banana he picked up from the ground, and hands it to the ghost.
The ghost was silent, his face changed, and finally he slowly shook his head, turned away, and no longer looked at the monkey.
Ash shrugged his shoulders, not knowing why his master was not interested in such a delicacy, anyway, he ate happily and didn't care about him. Looking around, he went out and picked up a few more bananas, put them on the ground in front of him, and tasted them slowly.
This messy scene is what the Miao patriarch Tu Ma Gu saw when he just came out of the altar.
The soldiers in charge of guarding the altar were all drunk, and fell to the ground, and the air was filled with the strong smell of liquor; in the distance, the Miao people were watching from three layers to the outside, and some people laughed from time to time; as for the two people from Middle Earth, the man was fine, standing in place, but his face was quite ugly, but the woman seemed to be drunk, her face was red and gorgeous, and the whole person was leaning on the man, but she could still stand, which was much better than the drunk Miao warriors all over the ground.
Even the strange three-eyed monkey they had brought with him sat at their feet, eating a mouthful of fruit and a sip of spirits, and was elated.
Tu Ma Gu was not a fool, he looked at it a few more times, and then looked at the wine bags all over the ground and the expressions of those onlookers Miao people, and knew that it was not any trick made by those two Middle Earthers, but his own subordinates were not angry.
At this time, when he saw the patriarch walking down, someone had already run up and whispered in his ear, explaining the matter briefly.
Looking at the drunken ghost in this place, Tu Ma was so angry that he thought that these wastes, such a big thing as guarding the altar had been left behind. What's even more odious is that more than a dozen or twenty men actually drank with a weak woman, and if this matter spreads, the Miao people will inevitably lose their reputation and be secretly ridiculed to death by the other four ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang.
After making up his mind in his heart, he turned around and decided to clean up these waste Miao people, Tu Ma Guqiang pretended to be smiling, pretending to turn a blind eye to the mess underground, and walked towards the ghost.
Ghost Li also saw Tu Ma Gu coming over at this time, and he chuckled in his heart, although this drinking scene was not a real gun, but the drunk Miao people in this place, no one could see it, and Miao people lost face. When Tu Ma Gu came down from the mountain just now, Ghost Li looked at him from a distance and saw that the look on his face was wrong, obviously very annoyed.
Although Qiang came over with a smile at this moment, Ghost Li didn't know how unhappy he was in his heart, and couldn't help but complain in his heart that Xiaobai had caused such a big trouble.
When Tu Ma Gu approached, the ghost smiled and said, "Uncle, I, my friend, she really doesn't understand the rules, so she made such a ......."
Tu Ma Gu shook his head and said to him: "You don't have to say it, I know everything, it's really useless to say that these people are under me." ”
The ghost was silent, and then said cautiously: "Is the great wizard willing to see us?"
Tu Ma Gu glanced at him, and then at Xiao Bai, who was leaning on Ghost Li's body, with his eyes half-closed and gasping softly, smiled bitterly, and said, "You guys go up! The Great Wizard has promised to see you." ”
The ghost was overjoyed, and said repeatedly: "Thank you, old man." ”
Tu Ma Gu said lightly: "I am the patriarch of the Miao tribe here, you can call me Tu Ma Gu." ”
Ghost Li was stunned, although he saw that this old man was very prestigious among the Miao people, but he didn't expect that it was actually the patriarch of the Miao people, and nodded at the moment: "Thank you so much for the patriarch." ”
Tu Ma Gu shook his head and said, "Go up quickly! The Great Wizard is still waiting for you!"
The ghost replied, and was about to walk towards the altar halfway up the mountainside, but was tripped by Xiaobai beside him, but saw that the soft and boneless body leaned softly on her body, if she walked directly like this, she would not have to fall to the ground.
At that moment, he whispered to Xiaobai: "Xiaobai, I'm going to see the Great Wizard, stand up by yourself, wait for me here, okay?"
Xiaobai didn't know if he could hear it clearly in his drunkenness, but he heard the ghostly voice ringing in his ears, and he didn't open his eyes, he smiled lightly on his face, very charming, but he didn't speak, just grabbed the hand of the ghost's shirt, but it was a little tighter.
The ghost is helpless, and after all, this place is a strange place, Xiaobai is drunk like this, and she can't help but feel uneasy when she is left here alone as a woman. The thought turned in his mind, and he had to sigh, stretched out his hand to hug him, held Xiaobai up, and walked towards the mountain together.
Tu Ma Gu led the way in front, and Ghost Li helped Xiaobai to walk, Xiaobai's body was still soft, and he walked lightly, and most of the weight was on Ghost Li's hand. Ghost Li frowned, an indescribable feeling in his heart, and suddenly, he thought of something again, and turned his head to look.
Sure enough, I saw that Xiao Ash still didn't move, sitting on the same ground eating fruit and drinking spirits, squeaking and laughing from time to time, and couldn't think about it.
The ghost kicked a banana and flew up, smashing it right on the little gray head, startling the little gray, and the monkey turned around violently and touched the place where it was smashed with his hand.
Ghost Li said angrily: "Let's go." As he spoke, he helped (hugged??) Xiaobai and followed Tu Ma Gu to the altar on the mountain.
Ash scratched his head, stood up, and dropped the fruit in his hand (which he had almost eaten), while shaking the wine bag. The soldier had drunk a lot of alcohol just now, and he had already drunk a lot, and the wine bag had fallen to the ground just now, and a lot of wine had flowed out. After being drunk like this by the monkey for a while, it has already bottomed out.
Xiao Ash threw the wine bag on the ground, and was about to follow the ghost to the past, when he suddenly slammed his body, burped, and the monkey's face slowly turned red.
However, Xiao Ash is a spiritual creature after all, although his face is turning red, he still acts as usual, and hurriedly runs over to keep up with the ghost.
It's just that when I walked up the mountain road in the back, the Miao soldiers who were standing guard just now were drunk here, and there were drunkard wine bags all over the ground. Ghost Li helped Xiao Bai to walk over first, Xiao Ash walked and walked, suddenly stopped, picked up a big wine bag from the ground, raised it to his hand and shook it, gurgling and making a sound, it seems that there are still a lot, and he can't help but be happy.
Under this surprise, Ash suddenly became happy, picking up a wine bag in the east and shaking it twice, and picking up a wine bag in the west and shaking it twice. While walking and picking up, there were only two monkey hands, picked up one and dropped one, but the little gray was greedy, unwilling to give up, and picked up a total of seven or eight wine bags together, but could not take them away together, only anxious to make a "squeak" shouting sound.
I was about to look up and ask the master for help, but I was startled at this look, and I saw that the master had followed the old man of the Miao people and had gone far away, and was almost to the altar on the mountain. Little Ash squeaked, jumped over and over, scratched her ears and cheeks, and was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. In the end, he finally got ruthless, grabbed two wine bags casually, dragged them on the ground behind him with both hands, and ran towards the mountain with all his might.
Fortunately, the skin of the wine bag sewn by the Miao people is thick and firm, otherwise it would have been broken if it was dragged around like this. Looking at the interesting appearance of this monkey, among the Miao people watching at the foot of the mountain, the sound of laughter came from afar, echoing in the Qilitong Valley.
Xiao Ash hurried all the way, and finally caught up with Ghost Li and the others in front of the altar, panting.
Ghost Li turned his head to look at it, only to see the monkey open its mouth and stick out its tongue, panting for breath, but it was clutching the two wine bags in its hands, stunned for a moment, and after a moment shook its head and turned its head away.
Tu Ma Gu made a gesture in the direction of the altar and said, "Come with me!"
Ghost Li nodded and said, "Thank you." ”
Tu Ma Gu smiled, and walked into the Miao altar first, and Ghost Li followed behind him and also walked in.
As soon as you enter the altar, a dark feeling envelops you, very different from the sunny world outside. I don't know if the Great Wizard ordered something to come down, but along the way, Tu Ma Gu and Ghost Li didn't see the other people in the altar.
Xiao Bai was drunk, and the ghost was so preoccupied that he didn't pay attention to the surroundings, only Xiao Ash dragged two large wine bags behind them, and after a short time, he burped and looked around curiously.
In the gloomy altar, on top of the stone walls, there was a faint red color, which looked like blood was smeared on it. And in the corners of the stone walls, there are often skulls of animals and beasts, hideous decorations.
Little Ash squeaked twice, as if he was a little uneasy, and took two steps faster, following the ghost, but the wine bag in his hand was tightly not let go.
Along the way, they encountered no obstacles, and soon they reached the deepest part of the altar, outside the stone room where the great wizard was.
Ghost Li suddenly frowned, although he was in a nervous mood at the moment, but subconsciously, the cold breath emitted by the blood devouring beads in his body suddenly made a little commotion, and in this stone room, there seemed to be a mysterious and unpredictable power, which stimulated the soul devourer.
Tu Ma Gu turned his head and said to the ghost: "This is it, the great wizard is inside, let's go in!"
Ghost Li nodded, followed Tu Ma Gu into the stone room, and saw the rickety figure sitting in front of the fire with his back to them.
Tu Ma Gu motioned for them to wait, then walked forward, stopped where he had just been, and said respectfully, "Great Wizard, they are here." ”
The voice of the great wizard slowly sounded, and in the ears of the ghost, it was actually very fluent and authentic Middle-earth, and said, "Please come over!
Tu Ma Gu responded, turned his head and said to the ghost: "Then you can talk to the Great Wizard! ”
Ghost Li nodded to him and said sincerely, "Patriarch, thank you very much." ”
Tu Ma Gu smiled and said, "It's nothing. As he spoke, he looked at Xiaobai in the crook of the ghost's arm, and it was incredible that there was such a woman in the world who drank so much. Thinking so in his heart, he slowly walked out.
After the figure disappeared, Ghost Li turned around and looked forward.
The back of that rickety flickered in the firelight, and the illumination was gloomy and uncertain, faintly unreal, full of mystery.
He was hesitating to open his mouth to plead when the archwizard's voice rang out.
"Come here, young man!"
Listening to the old man's voice, Ghost Li suddenly felt some respect in his heart, and immediately responded: "Yes." Helping Xiaobai to walk over slowly, six feet behind the great wizard, he hesitated for a moment, and then did not continue to move forward, but stood in place.
Xiao Ash dragged two large wine bags and followed, closely following at Ghost Li's feet, but the three eyes kept looking east and west, looking at the surrounding scene, and finally their eyes fell on the strange stone statue of the dog god in front of him, and he couldn't stop watching.
"Sit down!" said the archwizard's old voice quietly.
Ghost Li sat down according to his words, Xiaobai's body was no longer stable at the moment, and it seemed that the wine was overflowing, and he had the intention of sleeping, so he subconsciously leaned on Ghost Li, rubbed his head on his shoulder twice, and fell asleep.
As for Xiao Ash, it seemed that he was also affected by the quiet atmosphere in this stone room, and he didn't dare to breathe, so he sat down quietly next to Xiao Bai at the moment, put two wine bags beside him, quietly picked one up and put it to his mouth, and took a sip. The monkey's eyes turned to look at the figure of the Great Wizard.
"What did you come to me for?" the archwizard still faced the fire, not turning his head.
The ghost said sharply: "Great wizard, I have a friend of mine, she has lost two souls and seven spirits, only one soul remains, and now it has been ten years, like a fake dead. I heard that the Great Wizard has a soul revival thaumaturgy, and you can save her, so please the Great Wizard, you must, save her......"
At the end of the words, his voice seemed to tremble a little.
Ten years of sad waiting, hard searching, seem to be welling up in my heart at this moment.
The Great Wizard did not speak, it was silent, and there was silence in the stone room, only the pile of flames in front of the Great Wizard, crackling and burning, flickering and extinguishing.
After a long time, the Great Wizard broke his silence and said, "How did that friend of yours have this disease?"
Ghost Li hesitated for a moment, and said slowly: "Ten years ago, I was with ...... The enemy's fighting method, the opponent's Taoism is unfathomable, and I am powerless to resist with the huge mana fairy sword. She, she didn't hesitate to die, burned all her blood, and merged into the three souls and seven spirits, which saved me, but she herself became a ......" His voice was a little choked, and he paused for a while before continuing: "But fortunately, she still has a strange treasure 'Hehuan Bell' on her body, which detained a soul in her soul at a critical moment, and took it in the bell, so that there is a glimmer of life." Great Wizard, please save her. ”
The back of the Great Wizard suddenly seemed to be a little older in the firelight, and he said slowly: "The friend you just talked about, but he is a member of the Demon Sect?"
The ghost was shocked, just now he was afraid that the reputation of the Demon Sect was not good, so he didn't dare to make a special statement, but when the Great Wizard heard it, he suddenly said it directly, and when he was shocked, the Old Wizard's voice had already said: "She must be a woman, right?"
Ghost Li was surprised, surprised and delighted, surprised that the old man in the depths of the dark altar on the southern border turned out to be an unborn alien, and the joy was that the greater his ability, the greater the hope of saving Baguio.
At the moment, he didn't care about anything else, nodded again and again, and said, "The great wizard is really discerning, it is true." However, although there are many slanders against the Demon Sect in the world, this friend of mine is really kind-hearted, and I ask the Great Wizard to use your rejuvenation magic hand to save her once!"
The Great Wizard's shoulders seemed to move slightly, and there seemed to be a slight sigh in the sound of the flames burning, and the voice was faintly sad, faintly sad.
"You decent demon cults in Middle-earth have nothing to do with me, a frontier wilderness, so you don't have to worry about that. ”
The ghost was overjoyed, and was about to say something, but the great wizard continued: "I do know a little bit about the kind of soul rejuvenation thaumaturgy you mentioned. But whether I can save your friend, I'm not sure......"
Ghost Li's heart trembled, and his eyes were hot, in the past ten years, today, he finally saw a faint hope in the layers of darkness.
It's just that the voice of the great wizard continued: "However, before that, I have one more question, you have to answer me first." ”
Ghost Li nodded again and again, and said, "Great Wizard, please speak." ”
The Great Wizard said slowly: "Who told you that the Great Wizard in the Miao altar has inherited this kind of soul rejuvenation technique?"
Ghost Li was stunned when he heard this, and subconsciously turned his head to look at Xiaobai. I saw that Xiaobai didn't know when it started, his body had slipped off his shoulders softly, he pillowed his head on the thighs of the ghost, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he was sleeping sweetly.
Ghost Li was so engrossed in talking to the Great Wizard just now that he didn't even notice her.
At this time, he looked farther away, and saw that the monkey Xiao Gray was also flushed, and the two bags of residual liquor seemed to have been drunk by him one by one. At this moment, it leaned on Xiaobai's body, the monkey's head was pillowing Xiaobai's belly, its limbs were spread out, and it was lying on the ground on all fours, its stomach bulging and sleeping loudly.
Ghost Li turned his head and looked at the back of the great wizard, not knowing what to say for a while, shaking his head and smiling bitterly.