Chapter 25: The Four Noble Truths Lost City
In the witchcraft of the Miao family, ghosts and gods are often invited to help, so they have a close relationship with the ghosts of the underworld.
According to Yin An, the bull-headed horse face is not a yin ghost with a mask, but a bull head and horse brain, and it is not a white armor, and the bull head and horse face he saw are wearing black gold armor, with a lion ring and silver buckle, and a black cloud-piercing cloud pointed boot, nine feet long, holding an iron fork and a hook, which is very different from the bull head and horse face he saw before.
"And what did we just see?" I asked Yin An.
"I can't say right now, but there seems to be something evil about this place. I once heard Daddy say that there is only one Huangquan Road leading to the underworld in my Miao Jiang, and all the people who die here will eventually go to the Ghost Mansion from this Huangquan Road, and if this Huangquan Road is seen from the yang world, the location should be in a secret place in the northeast of Guizhou. What's more, only the Yin ghosts who have been taken away from their souls on time in the book of life and death in the underworld can walk this Yellow Spring Road, and if we don't really die, it is impossible to come to this Yellow Spring Road anyway, so I feel that something seems wrong with this ghost cave. Yin An said.
"Listening to this bull head and horse face just now, the ghost gate here has been closed, I don't know what they mean, so what should we do now, by the way, do you still have any news about your worm Gu" I hesitated a little, I didn't know whether to continue to explore, or return in time, after coming to the bottom of this terrifying and gloomy ghost cave sinkhole, I couldn't help but feel some fear in my heart.
"It's weird, since we were about to climb down just now, my worm Gu has disappeared, I called them secretly just now, and there was no response, Sister Lin, it seems that something is going on, you are still in charge, I listen to you." "It seems that Yin An is also a little afraid of this terrifying ghost cave, after all, neither of us has seen this kind of battle, as a living person, it is impossible not to have a trace of fear.
"Now that we've come down, let's take a look at it again, if there's any situation, let's go back immediately, now that we've lost the worm Gu, we can only take one step at a time." I thought about it and said.
After Yin An agreed to my suggestion, we cautiously walked out of the flowers on the other side, looking at the lights on the other side of Huangquan Avenue, Yin An and I continued to walk forward along the side of the road, I don't know what the unknown scene is, I was a little afraid and a little curious in my heart, unexpectedly, just when we didn't take a few steps, two yin winds suddenly blew around the body, like two small tornadoes rotating on the side, and even the flowers on the other side of the side were also overwhelmed by the wind.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Yin Anqi and I took two steps back, and when the wind stopped in front of us, two white shadows appeared, which were the bull head and horse noodles just now, only to hear one of the two hehe yin laughed twice and then opened his mouth and said: "I didn't expect it, it's really a bit greasy here, just now I deliberately sold a pass and went around, you really appeared, quickly recruit me from the bull head, where are you from the wild ghosts, how did you break here?"
"Wild ghost! it treats me and Yin An as ghosts?" I thought to myself, but I didn't answer.
"Hmph, don't talk again, don't blame the bull-headed lord for being ruthless, I've seen a lot like you, and I've just died with a popular bardo body, since I came to this underworld, it's better to report to my grandfather quickly." As he spoke, the bull untied a silver rope loop tied around his waist, looking like he was ready to tie up and arrest me and Yin An.
There is no way to avoid it, it seems that there is only a hard encounter, Yin An and I exchanged glances, and each made all preparations.
Pulling out a crimson wooden knife from behind, Yin An single-handedly grabbed the rope ring from the cow's head, and threw a small red ball from his arms with one hand to the cow's head.
Seeing Yin An counting the roads like this, Ma Mian on the other side immediately knew that the two of us were not a good way to come, so he immediately waved the weapon in his hand and beckoned him, and I had already condensed the slightest immortal power in my fingertips, and when Ma Mian made a slight movement, two five-colored lights popped out and shot towards it.
At first, the bull-headed horse face had no idea about the colorful light I shot out, and only after a few rays of light did he scream in severe pain, as if he knew the power of the colored light, and they dodged in time, while looking at the opportunity to test the move to me and Yin An, relying on the speed advantage of the body flashing, the bull-headed horse face suddenly caught me and Yin An off guard.
These two ghost officials often appear on the side of the body or behind the body in the blink of an eye, making me and Yin An scramble, Rao is so, they don't seem to have any intention of putting us to death, as if they were playing monkeys for a while, only to see that after a white shadow flashed, Yin An and I were trapped by the silver rope in the hands of the bull head and horse face.
"Hehe, where did I come from, that is, two bardo bodies with three-legged cat kung fu, I dare to come here to make trouble, I said Ma Mian, what a brilliance is shot from the fingertips of this little girl's skin, how can I never see it, in addition, how dare this young man use a peach wood knife as a weapon, aren't you afraid that you will be injured by peach wood?"
"Tsk, it's really strange, I've never seen such a peculiar two bardo bodies, judging from this behavior, it seems to be the behavior of a living person, can it be said?" After Ma Mian became suspicious, he immediately cut Yin An's arm with a weapon, and after seeing a stream of blood flowing out, Niu Tou and Ma Mian glanced at each other, only to hear Niu Tou say to Ma Mian again: "Brother you are thoughtful, these two people are really spies who came in from outside, go, let's quickly escort the two of them back for trial, maybe Lord Zhong can reward you and me." ”
It seems that although the breath of the living is hidden, the blood in the body cannot erase its fresh yang energy no matter what. With cold weapons against my and Yin An's backs, we had to go to the lamp in the depths of the ghost cave under the custody of the bull head and horse face.
Just when I thought that this time, I was afraid that there would be more luck and no way to live, the mutation happened again.
The bull head and the horse face led me and Yin An respectively, and were about to go back to invite the meritorious deeds, when suddenly two extremely bright white lights descended from a Kong Ming lantern high above the head, and these two white lights split on the top of the bull head and the horse face in an instant, like two thunderbolts, but silently.
Perhaps because of the eagerness to invite merit, the bull head and horse face after capturing me and Yin An were not guarded, and after being bombarded by these two white lights above their heads, the two ghost officials suddenly began to spasm like people, and a large puff of gray smoke was emitted from their bodies.
After a moment of spasm in the white light, the two ghost officials completely evaporated in the large puff of gray smoke, leaving only their original armor and clothes, as well as the two masks of the cow's head and the horse's face. Just when Yin An and I looked at each other, a fat black shadow jumped from the lightning-like Kong Ming lantern that shot out, and when this shadow fell in front of me, it turned out to be the mysterious fat man that Yin An and I were following before!
In the forest, the fat man had not yet seen the real thing, and at this time, in front of the person, he saw this man with a roe deer, but he had a huge figure like a sumo wrestler, and the whole person looked extremely uncoordinated, a bit like a huge white mouse.
I only heard this rat-like person look at me and Yin An and said sharply: "Hurry up and eat these two pills, add a little yin qi to your body, now the ghost gate of the cave above this ghost cave has been closed, and the incense from the sea of flowers on the other side will cover all here, once you smell this incense, you will be unconscious, if you inhale too much incense, you will die, right now, only hide with me in the far underworld in front of you, and wait until tomorrow night before thinking about leaving." You just have to believe that I am a member of the road with you, otherwise I will not come to the rescue. By the way, you can call me 'white rat', you can't mix in the unfamiliar faces in this underworld, you quickly put on the armor and mask on the ground, temporarily disguise yourself as the two yin ghosts just now and follow me all the way, don't talk all the way, don't panic when you see anything, just follow me, everything will be solved by me. ”
Yin An and I looked at each other, I didn't know what the identity of this fat man called the white mouse was, and I didn't know if what he said was true, as if we were hesitating, so I just heard the white mouse say: "If you want to follow, hurry up and dress up and keep up, I'll go first." ”
Looking at the back of the white mouse, Yin An and I didn't know where to go, but the surrounding sea of flowers on the other side did have some thick blood-red smoke emitted, seeing this situation, seeing the lights of the underworld far away in the dark, I nodded to Yin An, we hurriedly put on the armor and masks of the bull head and horse face, hung their waist cards, and followed the mysterious fat man of the white mouse towards the underground mansion deep at the bottom of the ghost cave.
The white mouse walked very fast, and his fat body was very incongruous, and after a while, we came to the edge of a large black river, and a large rock by the river had the word "Naihe" written on it. There is a bridge over the river, the bridge is divided into two layers, the first layer is empty, there is an old woman dressed in gray on it, and a big tea bucket beside her, it seems that it should be the one who sent Meng Po soup on the bridge, and the lower layer of the bridge is sandwiched between the stones, and there are many yin ghosts who struggle in pain and moaning and screaming in the middle, it is said that under the bridge is the evil spirits and evil ghosts who cannot enter the reincarnation of the underworld because of extreme treachery.
It seemed that the white mouse was ready, and took out a waist card from his arms and walked to Meng Po and shook it. That Meng Po looked expressionless, and said lightly: "White rat, go in." "It seems that he knows the identity of the white mouse.
Yin An and I followed behind the white rat with the mask of the bull head and horse face, Meng Po glanced at the waist card on our body, and did not stop us from crossing the Nai He Bridge, it seems, it seems that we do not see that we are impostors, in addition to the original head of the bull head and horse mask, the mask plays a camouflage, it seems that the pill given by the white mouse also works, I can feel it myself, for some reason, there is a large cool breath around the body, just like the breath of the yin ghost.
Follow the white mouse, all the way to the underground house in the depths of the ghost cave, it turned out to be a huge city, and the city wall was written "Four Truths Dead City". There is a team of Yin soldiers standing under the extremely high city gate, seeing the white rat and us, very respectfully bent down and saluted, it seems, the identity of the bull head and horse face seems to be higher than these Yin soldiers guarding the door, and then look at the white mouse, ignore these gatekeepers at all, swagger into the city gate and go straight to the city, seeing this, Yin An and I did not say a word, and followed into this ghost house called the "Four Truths Dead City".
The interior of the dead city is full of two- and three-storey archways or mansions, and every house is lit up with green lanterns, illuminating the whole old style of the dead city. There are also ghosts and stalls on the street, selling all kinds of goods that seem to be similar to the yang world, including clothes, shoes and socks, daily necessities, and some snacks, fruits, chickens and ducks, but the color of the food is gray and black, in addition, we even saw ghost slaves with straw sticks on a high platform for consignment, which opened my eyes.
Follow the white rat to the depths of the city, from time to time there are all kinds of ghost soldiers and ghosts wearing different era costumes bowing or nodding to us, as if this bull head and horse face is still a very well-connected character in the ghost mansion, some yin ghosts saw us, and enthusiastically shouted: "Niu Guanye, I heard that there are a few new good chicks, don't you want to try it?" In this regard, I pretended to respond and nodded, and hurriedly continued to walk with the white mouse.
Follow the street signs in the dead city, through the "East Street" all the way to the south, to the southernmost suburbs, there is a gloomy attic, the attic group outside the sign called "ghost cave inn", we followed the white rat in this attic two circles, and finally found an independent attic called "white rat pavilion", the white rat looked around, it seems that there is no ghost with the shadow, and there are no lanterns in the attic around, so I and Yin An found a greeting, signaling us to follow him into the "white rat pavilion".