Chapter 3: The Walking Dead (4,000 words)
Uncle Ying "took a few steps forward and came to the zombie to take a closer look, not even letting go of the nails, fangs and other subtle places, and deliberately broke the zombie's mouth to observe the zombie's mouth.
After half a sound, "Uncle Ying" stood up and said to Du Xu and the villagers solemnly: "These are walking corpses that have been bitten by Bai Zombie, and they can't be simply burned with fire, otherwise there will be corpse poison." ”
Du Xu noticed the implied information in his words, and hurriedly asked: "Dao Chief, do you mean that these villagers have been bitten by white zombies and turned into zombies?" Uncle Ying nodded.
Zombies are born of the filthy breath of heaven and earth, immortal and immortal, according to their ability, they can be divided into three categories: walking corpses, hair stiffs, and yakshas, which can also be subdivided into:
Walking Corpse: A fresh corpse will become a walking corpse if it is affected by corpse qi or if an ordinary person dies of corpse poison. They are still normal corpses that still decay, but more slowly. The body has corpse poison, and its strength is several times that of ordinary people, because of the rigidity of the body, the defense of the skin and muscles is comparable to leather armor, and the sword is difficult to hurt. The disadvantages are slow movement and sluggish feeling, which can be overcome by ordinary people if they use their wits.
White hair stiffness: Also known as white hair stiffness, the body is covered with a layer of white hyphae, as if white hair has grown, so it is called white hair stiff. If the walking corpse emerges day and night and sucks the blood of hundreds of people, it will sneak into the ground and evolve into a white zombie. Officials, warriors, and ordinary people with particularly good physical fitness, in places with strong earthly qi, their bodies will not rot for twenty years, and they will also become white zombies. Bai Zhuang's body is hard, and the defense of skin and muscles is comparable to iron armor, only the nails and fangs have corpse poison, but the poison is several times stronger than that of walking corpses. The movement is no longer slow, the speed is comparable to that of ordinary people running, the sense of smell and hearing is acute, and it is very difficult for ordinary people to even escape for their lives.
Green hair stiffness: also known as green stiffness, the body is covered with a layer of green mycelium, as if there are green hairs, so it is called green hair stiff. If the white zombie has sucked the blood of thousands of people, or swallowed the moon for more than twenty years, he will find a place where the earth's qi is thick, and lurk underground for three years, and after three years, he will hear the thunder and come out of the soil and evolve into a green zombie. The corpses buried in the treasure land of feng shui are polluted, and the corpses will not melt, and they will turn into green zombies after a hundred years. Green Zombie has supernatural powers, his speed is as fast as a galloping horse, his five senses are keen, and it is difficult for him to be injured by divine weapons.
Purple hair stiff: also known as purple stiff, purple hair is covered in armor. Green zombie kills tens of thousands of people, absorbs the grievances and dead qi of these people, or swallows the moon for hundreds of years, they will look for feng shui treasures to absorb the earth's qi, and after ten years, the thunder will come out, and if the thunder does not die, it will evolve into a purple zombie. Only the corpse that has been buried in the dragon's lair for thousands of years will turn into a purple zombie. Zi Zhuang is born with the ability to escape from the earth, and can travel thousands of miles in a day. It is not afraid of sunlight and flames, and even ordinary magic weapons cannot hurt it.
Nakshatra: Possessing a spiritual mind, he looks the same as a normal person, but his face is pale, and his hands and feet are slightly stiff. Purple Zombie can turn into a Yaksha after passing the Thunder Tribulation.
Flying Yaksha: Wisdom is like a human, and his appearance is the same as that of ordinary people, and he can fly to the sky.
Drought Fish: As soon as the Drought Fish comes out, the red land is thousands of miles.
"Uncle Ying" believes that these walking corpses were all bitten by Bai Zombie and generated. This indicates that there is at least one white zombie near the village.
Du Xu's face became serious at once, and he told the news to the nearby villagers, and there was nothing good for everyone to do.
"Uncle Ying" asked the villagers to give him some glutinous rice and wine, poured the wine into the bowl, took out a talisman with his right hand, and with a pinch of two fingers, the talisman burned, he threw the burning talisman paper into the wine bowl, lit the liquor, and then poured the fire wine on the glutinous rice.
Du Xu felt a stream of yang energy attached to the glutinous rice, and "Uncle Ying" instructed everyone, "Those who have wounds, quickly apply this glutinous rice to the wounds!" Immediately, several villagers came up and applied glutinous rice to their blackened wounds.
"Uncle Ying" took out a piece of yellow rune paper from his arms, pinched the law decision, and the rune paper "Peng" ignited, he threw the burning rune paper on the firewood stack, and the firewood stack burned violently.
"Uncle Ying" explained to Du Xu: "My talisman fire is yang fire, which can burn obscure things, and this zombie will not have any trouble if it is burned by yang fire." ”
Du Xu smiled and waved his hand, and said, "Dao Elder doesn't have to tell me this, I'm just a traveler passing by, and I was invited by the villagers to help them remove their corpses, and I can't be their master." Now that the Taoist chief is here, with the level of my half bucket of water, I naturally have to abdicate and make way for Xian!"
Saying that, Du Xu made a gesture of please, "I'll take the Taoist chief now to meet the principal of this village." ”
Du Xu was very excited when he saw "Uncle Ying", and made up his mind to worship "Uncle Ying" as a teacher, learn some common sense and taboos of cultivation, and lay a good foundation. has a desire for others in his heart, and his natural attitude is very humble, which makes that person feel good.
The Taoist priest smiled and said to Du Xu: "So that's the case! You don't need to call me a Taoist, my common name is Mao Xiaofang, because I am ranked ninth, everyone calls me Uncle Jiu, whatever you call it." ”
Du Xu hit the snake with the stick, and respectfully shouted, "Uncle Nine!"
I can't see anything on the surface, but in my heart, Du Xu has already made a fuss: It doesn't matter if he looks like Lin Zhengying, his name is still Mao Xiaofang, even if he doesn't say his name, his nickname is actually Uncle Jiu, uncle, you have crossed over, right! Or did I wear it to Lin Zhengying's zombie film world? I have to say, this world is too weird!
Not to mention Du Xu's crazy complaints in his heart, he respectfully invited Uncle Jiu to come to the ancestral hall on the surface and introduced him to Lao Miaozhu, and the two simply told Lao Miaozhu some information.
Lao Miaozhu heard that there was an even more terrible zombie near the village, and he was at a loss for a while, only pulling two people, and said with tears in his eyes: "Two of you, please save our village!"
When Uncle Nine saw it, he hurriedly helped Lao Miaozhu up and comforted him: "Since I know about this matter, I won't care about it, and I will risk my life to get rid of the zombies." Du Xu also helped: "Although I am just a layman who excludes demons, I will also contribute to everyone." ”
Lao Miaozhu calmed down and said to the two: "The two of you will remove the corpses for us, if you need anything, you might as well mention it to me, and the villagers and I will definitely solve it." Uncle Nine smiled and said, "I need to prepare some magic weapons, if you can, prepare a quiet room for me and this little brother, let us rest for a while, and wait until noon, and then we will go to search for the corpse." ”
When Lao Miaozhu heard this, he hurriedly called a young villager and asked him to take Uncle Jiu and Du Xu to his house for a while.
Uncle Nine and Du Xu followed the young villager to his house, and the two shared a room. Du Xu hadn't had a good rest for several days, and as soon as he entered the room, he fell on the bed, although Uncle Nine had also been on the road for a few days, Uncle Nine had already gotten used to it, and he was very energetic.
When Uncle Nine saw the modern products on Du Xu's body, he couldn't help but ask: "Housheng, what is that strange thing you are wearing?" Du Xu smiled: "That is the watch I wore back from a foreign country to check the time." Du Xu took the watch in front of Uncle Jiu and pointed: "The smallest hand, two revolutions is a day, and two revolutions is an hour." Uncle Nine touched his head: "Foreigners are just strange, and their things are also very strange." ”
Uncle Nine asked him again: "Housheng, have you come back from a foreign country?"
Du Xu smiled: "My name is Du Xu, and Uncle Nine can call me Adu." I grew up in a foreign country, and this is the first time I've come back to China to worship my ancestors!"
Uncle Jiu said: "Then Adu! Do you know what foreign zombies are like? Uncle Nine said, and also learned how to jump a few zombies.
Du Xu smiled and waved his hand: "No, Uncle Nine." Foreign zombies, they are called vampires, and they are no different from people, they just drink blood for a living. ”
When Uncle Nine heard this, he was stunned. "How can they call zombies ghosts? This is ridiculous!"
Seeing that Uncle Nine still wanted to investigate, Du Xu hurriedly diverted the topic, "Uncle Nine, clean up that white zombie today, I don't have any magic weapons on me, Uncle Nine, you have to prepare more!"
Uncle Nine smiled when he heard this: "I didn't count you in the first place, today I can be alone, you are next to the formation!" Du Xu said dissatisfiedly: "Uncle Jiu, you are too underestimated, look!"
Du Xu took out a piece of rune paper from his arms, and with his right hand, the rune paper turned into a paper butterfly, dancing in his palm, Du Xu shook his palm lightly, and the paper butterfly rose into the air and flew around them.
Uncle Nine looked at it and said with a smile: "What's this!" So, with a little paper butterfly in his right hand, the butterfly retreated from the paper, just like a real butterfly.
Du Xu was convinced, and despite his exhaustion, he took out the talisman he had groped and drew and asked Uncle Nine for advice.
Uncle Nine looked at the talisman he drew, and couldn't help but smile: "I can see that you have a good foundation, but I'm afraid that no one will guide you and make some small mistakes of common sense." Du Xu sat down and said sincerely: "Please ask Uncle Nine for advice." ”
"The way of the talisman has a long history, since the ancient ancestors painted the talisman sacrifice, there are constantly ancestors of the development and innovation, summed up a set of effective norms, although your talisman is sufficient, but the next pen is constantly doubtful, the pen is also stagnant, just care about imitating the talisman on the book, completely forget the meaning of the talisman. ”
"This talisman is the first of God's will. In order to prevent the leakage of their secret talismans, some seniors often scribbled the talismans, and they did not affect the effect of the talismans, just because the talismans were not chaotic. You only care about pursuing the shape of the talisman, but it affects yourself, and the pen is carefully condensed, how can you write the divine meaning of the talisman?" Uncle Nine said and took out the talisman pen and yellow paper from the cloth bag and put them on the table.
"Today we are going to remove the white stiffness, it just so happens that I need some talismans, I see that you can be created in this afterlife, so I specially allow you to watch from the sidelines. This talisman is originally a mana borrowed from the spirit of heaven and earth, and it is not durable to put it for a long time, and the mana is often lost since the painting is completed, and the original ten points of power can only be left with five or six points. Therefore, our Maoshan Taoist priests always have to carry the talisman pen, cinnabar, and yellow paper with them, just in case. ”
After Uncle Nine finished speaking, he went to the back room to fetch a bucket of water, cleaned up his own refreshing, and held the banner and hand stove, water purification bowl, runes, and gods, one by one, please put the god in the center, and the hand stove in front of the god seat, respectfully offer three incense, and then wash the whole body with clean water, pinch the trick in his hands, step on Yu step, and read words in his mouth In the step of the word, Uncle Nine finished reading a step of the word, only solemnly picked up the pen, in the inkstone to absorb the cinnabar, he did not put down the pen, very solemn and slow, but as soon as the pen touched the yellow paper, he did not hesitate, the pen condensed but not sluggish, and the mana poured out like a cloud. Uncle Nine put down his pen like a god, and after a while, he drew more than a dozen pictures, and then he was still respectful and put away a dry of utensils.
When Uncle Nine came back to his senses, he saw Du Xu looking at him intently, and couldn't help laughing: "If you have anything to ask, hurry up." ”
Du Xu smiled and said embarrassedly: "I am indeed a little shallow. But he immediately asked: "Uncle Jiu, do you have to do this before drawing the talisman?"
Uncle Nine said: "It's not necessarily, but it's better to do it." He saw that Du Xu was a little unimpressed, and reprimanded: "Don't care, these rituals can not only calm distracting thoughts, but more importantly, the rituals themselves are a kind of cultivation process." Through this series of steps, the mind and the mind can reach a state of ethereal calm, all distracting thoughts will no longer fluctuate, and no matter how you draw the talisman and visualize, you can get twice the result with half the effort. Even if an ordinary person meditates, his mind is full of thoughts, and his thoughts fluctuate, so he acts according to the rituals and concentrates on his thoughts, and no matter how hard he works, he will not be like this. ”
"Besides, every time you solemnize the ritual, it is a spiritual practice, a meditation and meditation, and when the kung fu arrives in the future, it is just a thought to restrain your thoughts, which is very beneficial to the cultivation of life. What's more, as a cultivator, our words and deeds should contain the path of cultivation, visualizing and practicing qi is practice, drawing runes and rituals is also practice, and every move is practice, and this is the right path of cultivation. ”
"Shenxiu Zen Master has clouds: the body is like a Bodhi tree, and the heart is like a mirror platform. Wipe it from time to time, don't stain it with dust. This is the avenue of cultivation, just a diligent word. ”
Du Xu listened to this teaching, like a slap in the face.
"Indeed, since I got the Kunlun Mirror, everything went well, I lost a heart of fear, practice is a thorny path, all the time on the edge of the cliff, once complacent, often fall off the cliff, broken bones. Although the Kunlun Mirror is wonderful, cultivation is its own business, and external objects are not enough to rely on. I've been a little slack off in my practice these days, and the tiredness of the journey is not an excuse, practice should be an act all the time, and I must improve my shortcomings every moment, and Master Shenxiu's words are indeed the wise words of my generation of practitioners. ”
Du Xu looked back at his behavior, sweating profusely, and immediately swept away the smug, slack, and arrogant thoughts in these days, not only the cultivation of the soul was refined, but even the true qi was active.
Du Xu straightened his clothes and made a big salute to Uncle Jiu, "Be taught!"
Seeing that he had reacted to his shortcomings so quickly, Uncle Nine sincerely introspected himself, and couldn't help nodding secretly.