Great Sui Guoshi

Lu Liangsheng frowned slightly, he wasn't a ghost, could he still be a demon?

"Don't worry about it, old man. Just say what you want. Anyway, the two of us are passing by, so you should listen to the strange stories. If you encounter an expert when you go outside in the future, please come and help you out of the disaster."

The oil lamp flickered, and moths flew around the bean-sized lamp at night, the old man sighed.

"Then let me just chat with the two of you to relieve the boredom. The young master and the Taoist leader don't know something. This town used to be fine. Since the war, there has been chaos for a while. After the fall of Qi, strange things happened. Twenty or thirty miles away, all the dead people who stopped at the mourning hall for errands at home suddenly got up in the middle of the night and sucked the guardians."

The dead get up?Lu Liangsheng has practiced Taoism for so long, this is the first time he heard of it, could it be that there are zombies?

He turned his gaze to the Taoist, and the latter understood it. He quickly calculated with his fingers under the table, and then quietly shook his hand at Lu Liangsheng, roughly meaning:

There is no corpse breeding ground formed by the gathering of Yin Qi nearby.

Seeing that the two didn't have much surprised expressions, the old man thought he didn't believe it, and sat there with a wry smile.

"I didn't believe the old man in the past. The house the two of you live in now was built when your family was still well-off. There is also a good wife and a son in the house. Ten years ago, the old wife died of illness. The son saw that I was old and weak. Wake..."

The voice paused, trembling slightly, and continued.

"...But when I woke up in the morning, the old son's face was black and blue, and his body was already stiff, while the old wife was sitting under a tree in the yard outside the house."

It was dark outside, and while the three of them were chattering around the dilapidated square table, dogs barking in the town occasionally sounded, and the wind blew from the end of the street.

The white lanterns on both sides of the inn swayed gently with candlelight.

rustle...

The branches and leaves of the old trees in the backyard of the inn swayed across the eaves, and the evening lights in the room hung with white cloth shone out. In the middle of the main room, a figure in a shroud was lying down, with a white cloth covering his face.

Separated by a curtain, the shop guy sleeps on an improvised wooden plank covered with a quilt, instead of the shopkeeper to watch the night, staring tremblingly at the mourning hall with candles behind the curtain.

hoo hoo...

The wind squeezed through the crack of the door, the candles were flickering, and the corner of the white cloth covering the face of the corpse in the mourning hall was blown back and forth in the wind.

Chapter 255 Night Corpse

rustle...

The shadows of the trees in the yard are cast on the paper windows, the sound of the wind outside the house is squeezed into the door gap, the oil lamp is dimly flickering, and the buddy who is separated by a curtain is chatting softly with his teeth, staring at the female corpse lying on the coffin without blinking. .

The shop guy looked at it for a long time, his eyes were sore, his eyelids drooped, and he felt drowsy. He only heard a soft click sound in the haze. The sleepy guy woke up with a jerk and wiped his eyes quickly.

On the other side of the blurred curtain, the oil lamp was shaking, and the corpse on the coffin was covered with a white cloth and sat upright.

'My...my...mother...'

Seeing the shopkeeper's dead woman sit up, uncover the paper quilt on her body, put down her stiff legs, and during the movement, the white cloth covering her face slipped off, revealing a pale golden face with gray and lifeless eyes, and a crooked mouth and nose , with the tip of his blue tongue in his lips, he walked slowly through the curtain with a shake.

goo~

The man swallowed, closed his eyes, covered his head under the quilt, and curled up.

"If I had known... I wouldn't have earned the money from the shopkeeper..."

After a while, there seemed to be no movement in the room. The clerk quietly opened a gap in the quilt, and in the dim light, he saw a figure in shroud walking back and forth. Come face to face.

The buddy yelled "Ah--", when he lifted the quilt, he saw a pale gold, lifeless corpse standing by the bed, and suddenly fell off the bed in fright, and ran to open the door in a frenzy.

"Shopkeeper! Your mother-in-law got up—"

Horrified screams resounded through the backyard, and the candles were blown out in the room that was still lit in the attic, and the doors and windows slammed twice in succession.

'Your mother...'

The man was cursing in his heart. He didn't dare to stop when he heard the footsteps of the female corpse from the main room behind him. He rushed to the backyard and opened the side door.

Bang bang bang!

While stumbling, the man ran from house to house and slammed on the doors of other houses nearby, almost crying out in fright.

"Who opened the door and let me in..."

The night wind blew across the long street, and in the direction of the fleeing figures, there was still a light on in the door of a room under an attic.

"...Hey, I went over to take a look. It was the corpse of my old wife. You said everyone was dead, so how could you still get up and kill your own relatives? It's not just my family, the town There are more than ten households in the same situation as my family. Now someone died in the family. The family stopped the body and left overnight. They went to hide outside for two days and then came back. But other nearby neighbors couldn’t leave. Immediately close the door and window, not daring to go out, for fear that the corpse would run in, and deliberately raised the threshold, after all, the corpse is stiff and cannot bend its knees."

The dog barked in the night, the oil lamp was burning on the quiet table, and when he heard the old man tell the strange things in the town, Lu Liangsheng thought about it carefully. He was not afraid of evil spirits approaching him, but he just felt a little strange. It stands to reason that the corpse transformation pays attention to conditions, or it is very dark. , or other external causes.

Moreover, as long as this party just dies, the corpse will be raised the same night, which is a bit too strange.

"Old man, is there an earth temple in this town?"

"No no..."

Speaking of this, the old man paused, suddenly remembered something, and looked at the scholar in front of him.

"It happened many years ago. At that time, the old man was in his forties. It seemed that there had been heavy rain, lightning and thunder. Later, I heard that the earth temple at the entrance of the town had collapsed. At that time, there was a lot of chaos, and no one responded. They came and went. , have all forgotten, the young master thinks it is because of the Earth Temple?"

Lu Liangsheng suddenly heard the sounds of the street outside, and said with a smile on his face, "Maybe."

"Hey, it's really time for the Earth Temple to be repaired. By the way, the young master and the Taoist priest have been on the road all night. I'm afraid they haven't eaten yet?"

The old man got up from the bench, took the oil lamp, lit a handful of straw and passed it into the stove, and broke off a few branches to make a fire.

"If you don't mind, this old man will cook a meal for the two of you. Anyway, I'm the only one in the family, and I still have rice left over."

Turning around, only the scholar was still sitting there, bowing his hands to thank him, while the Taoist at the side left without knowing when.

"Where's the priest?"

Lu Liangsheng smiled, and pointed to the backyard: "He went to the latrine to use the toilet, and he will be back later."

On the street outside the house, the Taoist who was said to be going to the hut was running across the street with a yellow cloth bag on his shoulders. The mist filled the air, and a faint figure came towards him, crying and knocking on the door.

Stumbling and running, he turned his head, and when he turned his head, he happened to see Sun Yingxian in a Taoist robe, and cried out excitedly, "Wow!"

"Daozhang, help!"

He ran over, threw himself directly at the Taoist's feet, hugged his ankles, lay on his side on the ground and pointed to the misty street behind him.

"My shopkeeper's mother-in-law has changed."

"He keeps catching me and chasing me, I'm so scared!"

female corpse?

With a serious expression, Sun Yingxian threw the guy on the ground aside with a hook and rolled away. He took out a few talismans from the yellow cloth bag on his waist and held them between his fingers, and turned his head to look at the guy on the ground.

"How old is the corpse, and its appearance is terrifying and hideous?"

The buddy didn't react, his words were trembling: "Scare...can scare a person to death."

In an instant, the few talismans held between the Taoist's fingers were immediately put into the pocket, and the red line and a small sword were wiped out again, ignoring the man, and through the fog, a figure swayed and ran towards him, with a strangled finger , and directly photographed it.

The red rope strangled the neck of the female corpse, Sun Yingxian quickly circled her arms, and pierced the back of the opponent's head with a small sword, and the dark red blood stains slid down the front for a moment. He raised his hand and pressed the forehead of the corpse, as if the end of the thread seemed to be glued to it.

The Taoist stepped back quickly, stretched the red thread and pulled it out. The black color spread across the red thread along the lady's forehead, and the body froze in place, motionless.

"It's done."

Sun Yingxian rolled up the blackened rope, took out Zhang Fulu and wrapped it up, then lit it and threw it to the side of the street to burn.

Pushing the corpse to the ground, one jumped up and stepped on the roof next to him, stepped on the tiles and went to the alley where he came, stepped on the courtyard wall, and fell back into the courtyard lightly, patted the Taoist robe and walked into the room Here, he raised his chin towards the scholar and made a reassuring gesture.

Not long after dinner, there was a shout outside, the old man ran out to look, then came in shaking his head, probably the female body had been found.

Thinking that there were still two guests there, he didn't say anything more, so as not to scare the two of them, he took out two quilts and walked up to the attic.

"My wife and child have passed away, and the upstairs has been unoccupied for a long time, so don't be disgusted by the two of you."

"Don't dislike it, the two of us have always lived in the wilderness."

"That's fine, that's fine."

Maybe being alone for too long, and the town was depressed, the old man spread the quilt, talked a lot with Lu Liangsheng and the Taoist, and chatted for a while, then the old man raised the oil lamp and went down to wash and sleep.

call.....

The night wind was blowing, there were still some human voices in the street outside, the branches outside the window swayed lightly on the paper window, the Taoist moved the bookshelf, threw down the bed, fell asleep after a while covered by the quilt, and occasionally murmured softly.

'Jingqiu...Xiaoxian...hehe...'

Lu Liangsheng glanced at him, shook his head, and brushed his sleeves, showing that a cup of tea was warming up. He took two copies of "Mountain and Sea Illustrated Records" and sat under the window lattice by candlelight to read them carefully for a while. The "Zhi De" annotated by the teacher is read aloud softly.

"Cultivating one's morality first corrects one's virtue... There are people who are virtuous, people who have land, who have soil, who have wealth, who have wealth, who are useful, and whoever is virtuous is also, and what people are virtuous is good words and deeds. …”

The hot air of the tea is lingering, and the clear sound of reading can be heard from the window lattice. In the alleyway below, a small black shadow is winding and climbing, and the thin scales shrink and climb up the tree trunk, and fall along the swaying treetops to the lighted window lattice.

hiss~~~

hiss--

The snake neighed, Lu Liangsheng raised his face, a small green snake was coiled around the window, and when the scholar noticed him, his tail wagged back and forth.

"You actually came here to seek fate? Forget it, then you can listen quietly at the window lattice."

The candle is bright, and the little snake coils quietly, listening to the scholar's clear voice, swallowing the snake's letter.

Chapter 256 Toad's former defeat

Wang Wang Wang --

The town is quiet, with occasional barking of dogs. There are lights on the window lattice of the attic. The Taoist rests one foot on the end of the bed and the other hangs on the ground, covering the drool in the corner of the quilt. Inside the small door of the compartment, a toad covers The little quilt lay on its side, as if feeling a slight tickle scratching its swollen belly, smacked its mouth twice, and continued to snore.

The candlelight was flickering, Lu Liangsheng turned over a page of paper, his voice was clear and powerful, it was late at night, but he didn't feel much sleepiness, he thought about praying to the Huo Cult, whether Yan and Zuo had gone there Wait, read the books of sages and sages, suppress your irritability along the way, and cultivate your grandeur.

sizzle~~

The coiled little snake neighed at the window, and suddenly slid down the window lattice. The slender body walked along the edge of the bed to the oil lamp on the desk, and raised half of its body high, as if talking to Lu Liangsheng, but what he said was unavoidably laughable. .

"What do you want to say, I don't know either?"

Putting down the book, Lu Liangsheng smiled and teased the little green snake's chin with his fingertips: "But you are psychic, do you have spiritual consciousness?"

The little green snake lightly swayed its half-length body, turned its head to the northeast direction from time to time, and neighed one short and two long. Seeing that the scholar was still puzzled, as if in a hurry, he meandered along the extended finger Zing climbed up the back of the hand, and the warm skin only felt a slight coolness spreading.

hiss~ hiss~~

Spitting out snake letters and neighing a few times, there was a wind blowing in the room, and black smoke billowed in front of the bookshelf. The little green snake trembled in fright, turned around, dragged its tail, and slid into Lu Liangsheng's sleeve. Stick out your head and take a peek.

The black smoke rolled past, forming a silhouette of a woman with a bumpy figure. She stepped on the creaking wooden planks and took small steps. With her hands behind her back, she leaned over her face with a smile and looked at the little girl hidden in her cuff. green snake.

"Old demon, old demon, I know what this little snake is saying."

"you know?"

"Yeah!" The Dryad squatted down against the square table, resting his chin on the table, looking at the little green snake in his cuff, "Did you just say that there is danger in the northeast and tell us not to go?"

From the scholar's cuff, the little green snake wandered out a little bit, spitting out the snake letter and nodding, as if meeting someone who could communicate, it crawled out excitedly, turned around, and neighed a few more times.

"Old demon, it said that there is a river over there. It used to be there to practice cultivation. Later, a big fish swam from nowhere and took it, so it fled to the pool we passed by..."

The dryad stared at the little green snake's swaying left and right, and hissed the snake, and told Lu Liangsheng what he understood.

"Hmm... seems to be able to use spells. The people who died in this town are related to that big fish."

Lu Liangsheng tapped the table with his fingertips, knowing that there is a monster is easy to handle, but he doesn't know how deep his Taoism is, but before the Taoist used Taoism to calculate this direction, there is no evil spirit... I am afraid that this monster will return Will hide the evil spirit.

While thinking, there was a creak, and the small door of the bookshelf compartment was pushed open. Taoist Toad yawned, came out with frog webs on his back, and dragged the gourd out of his back, with a solemn expression.

"When you meet an evil monster, good life, you can't ignore it. You must uphold justice in your life and practice. How can you let it cause harm to the world and devour people's lives wantonly... It just so happens that the teacher's injury needs a demon pill to repair it. Go! Take it!"

After finishing speaking, carrying a gourd that was taller than him, he walked across the wooden planks, jumped up and hooked the corner of the table, and climbed onto the table with all his strength, resting with his round waist crossed.

Uh......

The second half of the sentence is what Master wants to say, right? !

Lu Liangsheng looked at the tree demon, the Taoist was sleeping soundly again on the bed, forget it, let him not be with him.

"You are not allowed to run around here."

Worried that the tree demon's cultivation base was too high, so that the fish demon would not come out, he told her to stay in the house, got up and put the little green snake in his wide sleeve, and with a move, the Moon Misty Sword stuck in the bookshelf trembled with excitement, swish With a flash, it fell into the master's hand, and pushed the hilt of the sword away.

"Can it be boned and thorned?"

"No! Then, shut up."

Lu Liangsheng patted the head of the sword, pushed it back into the sheath, hung the master on his shoulders, lifted his robe lightly and jumped, stepped to the big tree in the alley outside the window, the branch swayed instantly, and jumped to the roof , tapped the tiles with the toes, and disappeared into the darkness in the blink of an eye.