Hit the yin and yang road

No Man's Village, formerly known as Bimen Village, is located in Erguiling, on the outskirts of K City.Ergui Ridge was originally called Hungry Ghost Ridge, which originally meant that the feng shui of this mountain was extremely poor, and many people died of starvation due to famines in successive years.At that time, almost the whole of Ergui Ridge was covered with layers of bones, and dragged his family and Xiaoquan starved to death here.Therefore, it is also called Hungry Ghost Ridge, but later disliked the name as too evil, so it took the homonym as Egui Ridge.

Ergui Ridge is shaped like a big iron wok, and the depression in the middle is Bimen Village.Bimen Village is located in the center of Ergui Mountain, like steamed meat.Because Bimen Village is far away from urban areas and crowds, it is extremely inconvenient to get in and out, so the villagers of Bimen Village moved out of the village one after another a few years ago.Bimen Village has gradually become an uninhabited village, which is full of green plants.Creepers and vines are all over the inside and outside of the building, which looks like a kingdom of green plants from a distance.

It looks very beautiful from a distance, but only when you get close will you feel panic.A deadly panic followed like a shadow, engulfing from all directions, making people breathless.

Chen Yang walked down the hillside, the road was a bit rough and covered with fallen leaves.Du Shuo held Chen Yang's hand tightly to prevent him from accidentally falling.When Chen Yang heard about Bimen Village and Hungry Ghost Ridge, he immediately said: "Xingdu Bimen, human meat wontons. Gongtun Yushui, born as a hungry ghost. I don't know why, when I heard these two names, I suddenly remembered this sentence .”

Xingdu Bimen and Gongtun Yushui are the eight Caos of the 24 Caos in the Song Dynasty, which are the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Industry.The original meaning of this sentence is that the Ministry of Criminal Justice has no way to receive "filial piety money", so it can only scrape some oil and water from the poor people, which is called human meat wonton.And the Ministry of Industry is the poorest, shaped like a hungry ghost.The two names of Bimen Village and Eguiling are indeed related to this sentence. In the past when the cruel officials suffered a famine, the people were the lowest-ranking hungry ghosts among all the ghosts.

However, when this sentence is connected with today's uninhabited village, it is inexplicably creepy.

Du Shuo said: "Most ghosts are cunning, you should pay more attention."

At this time, the two had reached the entrance of the uninhabited village, and they saw a large area of ​​green vines.The buildings in the uninhabited village have local characteristics, shaped like bunkers.Almost every building is a two-story watchtower, with a small two-meter-high door opening due east.There is a half-meter-high window on the watchtower, and the window is so dark that it is impossible to see what is hidden inside.

There are big trees near the entrance of the village, and the roots of the big trees are intertwined at the entrance of the village, and their thick roots are stationed in the walls and watchtowers.Tree roots of various thickness meander and circle on the wall, densely wrapping the large rocks.These seemingly weak rhizomes have terrifying power, they can invade hard stones silently, find gaps to drill in, and crush the stones from the inside.

There are countless green vines entwined on the watchtower, completely covered by green plants.The sun is shining now, so it's just a deadly panic.Once the sun tilts and darkness falls, the place will be completely shrouded in gloom.The whole kingdom of green plants can't make people feel full of vitality. In the absence of popularity and sunlight, all you can feel is the gloomy atmosphere.

Chen Yang took out Wuchang Yi's witchcraft doll and a small bottle from his backpack, and there was a drop of blood in the bottle.It was Yi Wuchang's fingertip blood, ten fingers connected to the heart, so the fingertip blood could also replace the heart blood.Chen Yang poured out the blood in the bottle, touched the Wugu doll's heart and forehead, and drew a spell: "Chi!"

The blood on the Wugu doll's forehead and heart melted into the skin of the Wugu doll visibly, and the eyeballs of the Wugu doll in his hand visibly rolled for a second.Then it blinked, and finally the Witch Gu doll sat up in Chen Yang's palm, holding Chen Yang's middle finger and shouted very obediently and sweetly: "Yangyang, I am a doll."

The witch doll is a girl, who originally looked weird and hideous, but became very cute because of her well-behaved temperament.

Chen Yang was immediately attracted, and greeted with crooked eyebrows: "Hi baby, I'm Yangyang."

The witch doll shyly raised her hair to cover half of her face, and said softly, "Yangyang, are you looking for Shengsheng?"

live?Chen Yang quickly realized that the witch doll's name was Yi Fusheng. In his impression, although Yi Wuchang was a woman, she was unsmiling, serious and dignified, serious and responsible.Definitely not a woman who loves to joke, let alone hook up with Moe.Yi Wuchang and his elder brother, the master of Changdao Temple in Sichuan Province, are two completely different people.

So at first, Chen Yang thought that he had taken the wrong Witch Gu doll, and mistook this soft and cute Witch Gu doll for Yi Wuchang.It's just that now, it seems that he was right.Chen Yang sighed: "I didn't expect Mr. Yi to have such a cute doll."

Du Shuo said: "I have heard Yi Guanzhu lament countless times about the [-]th female change, and I am very annoyed that my sister has become indifferent and serious." The underlying meaning of this sentence is that Yi Wuchang was also a soft girl.

Witch Gu Doll blinked her big watery eyes, and said softly, "Yangyang, I'll take you to find Shengsheng."

"Okay, thank you doll." Chen Yang put the innocent doll on his shoulders, and just as he was about to let the Wugu doll lead the way, the terrifying face of the Wugu doll suddenly became extremely ferocious, and its watery eyes became lifeless. indifference.It jumped out suddenly, so fast that Chen Yang had no time to react.

Du Shuo grabbed Chen Yang who was about to catch up, and said to him, "It's okay. Don't worry about it."

The next moment, the witch doll jumped back to Chen Yang's shoulder again, the beautiful clothes on her body turned into strips of cloth, and one arm was broken.Chen Yang glanced at the Witch Gu doll, and then looked up at the fat man standing on the top of a tree whose fur exploded into a ball.These two had obviously had a hearty and quick fight just now, the Witch Gu doll had one arm removed, and the top of the big fat head was smashed into the Mediterranean Sea.

The voodoo doll is full of hostility: "Cat ghost."

A deep roar came from the big fat throat, which was the sound made when encountering danger or encountering an enemy.Chen Yang looked back and forth between the Witch Doll and Big Fatty, and then explained to both of them that they were friends, not enemies.

Wu Gu Doll and Big Fatty both looked dismissive when they heard the words.Fatty didn't bother to hide it, and showed it directly, but the Wugu doll would show an aggrieved expression and say, "The doll doesn't like fat people."

Fatty almost wanted to run over the ugly witch doll with his fifty catties.

At this time, Du Shuo gave Wugu Doll and Fatty a cold look respectively, and the two immediately fell silent.Du Shuo said, "Lead the way."

The Witch Doll quietly led the way for Chen Yang, and the big fat man followed far behind them, still fearful of Dushuo.Du Shuo said: "They are all Gu, Gu cannot see Gu."

Chen Yang suddenly realized that the so-called Gu not seeing Gu means that two Gu kings who have been refined and shaped to produce spiritual wisdom will become hostile to each other when they meet, and must drive each other out of his territory or directly devour the nutrients that become his body.The Gu king itself forms a new Gu king in the process of constant fighting and devouring, and it is instinctive to have the killing intent when meeting another Gu king.

Fortunately, he and Du Shuo are suppressing at present, so Wugu Doll and Fatty dare not fight.Don't look at the voodoo dolls who are soft, cute and shy, big and fat like a ball, but they are all voodoo kings.

The Wugu doll led them deep into the uninhabited village, bypassing several alleys to see the watchtowers also surrounded by green plants.The difference is that the diaolou inside is better preserved than the diaolou outside, and even the doors are locked tightly and have not been damaged.There is a large dark brown jar outside the door, which seems to be used by people to store dried radishes in the past.

There are some large characters written on the wooden doors of some watchtowers to warn thieves that stealing will kill them and so on.It seems that there are still people living in these watchtowers, if it is not so quiet that even the chirping of insects can hardly be heard.

Chen Yang looked down and found an earth temple. The small earth temple was very dilapidated, and the clay statue of the earth god inside was damaged.Among the five offerings of fragrant flowers in front of us, only incense ashes, overturned oil lamps, and dusty stone incense burners can be vaguely seen. If there is no offering for a long time, I am afraid that there will be no land god long ago.

He looked back again, wondering if it was an illusion, he always felt that the green plants piled up like mountains and seas, and all the roads in the future would be blocked and surrounded by them.Du Shuo's question came from next to his ear: "Yangyang, what's wrong?"

Chen Yang shook his head: "I feel the atmosphere is weird, but I can't feel the weirdness."

Du Shuo glanced at the large area of ​​green plants behind him, looked back and said, "Find Yi Fusheng and the others first."

"Okay." Chen Yang and Du Shuo continued on their way, and when they stepped three or four meters away, the dilapidated Earth God suddenly moved his eyes in the Earth Temple behind him, becoming extremely strange.

After Chen Yang and Du Shuo left, this place seemed to come alive, with countless ghosts and ghosts stationed here, chatting actively.From time to time, he let out a hollow and echoing laugh, terrifying and weird.The leaves made a 'click' sound, and the big fat man fell on the ground and walked forward slowly, flicking his tail. A pair of mandarin duck eyes glanced at the watchtower behind the green plants, and stopped to stare at the statue of the land god for a long time when passing by the temple of the earth.

Big Fatty stretched out his claws, and knocked off half of the head of the statue of the land with a 'snap'.After flicking his claws, his figure flashed, and he quickly and agilely disappeared into the jungle.When it left, the statue of the god of land with only half of its head moved the remaining half of its eyes, and the corners of its lips curled upwards, becoming displeased.

Suddenly there was a black figure in the forest jumping over very quickly, landing on all fours, agile and fast, dry black and deformed like a monster.It hides in the watchtower, making a sound similar to the chirping of insects.

After a few seconds, something was thrown from the window of the watchtower.It was a shriveled rabbit, with only skin and bones left after losing flesh and blood.If you step on it with one foot, you can crush all the bones. There was a 'puchi' sound, like a deflated football.

Chen Yang moved his feet and looked down: "What is this? A dried animal carcass?" Under his feet was a piece of dark brown leather, which looked like a dried carcass. It looked like a cat.

The voodoo doll whispered in his ear, "A lifeless cat corpse."

"Huh?" Chen Yang was puzzled, so Du Shuo explained to him: "A cat whose air has been sucked out, the air is hidden in the flesh and blood, which means that all the flesh and blood have been sucked dry. So only the cat's bones and skin are left, and when you step on it The bones were all crushed to powder. Only the skin was left, which looked dried."

Chen Yang wiped away the leaves with his toes, revealing the two dried cat corpses underneath: "Then it seems that there are things in the uninhabited village that specialize in eating energy. Essence to practice."

Du Shuo: "Let's go, those things will come out after dark."

Chen Yang nodded, and the two continued to walk forward.The Wugu doll led them to stop in front of a building that was different from all the previous watchtowers. This was also a watchtower, but the gate opened right in front.Unlike the watchtowers they saw before, the doors all opened on the side.The door is locked tightly, and the painting of gods and ghosts on the door has faded a lot, but the exquisite and gorgeous paintings of the past can be vaguely seen.

The door couldn't be pushed open, because a large crossbar was placed behind the door to lock the door tightly, and the door didn't move when pushed.The witch doll said in Chen Yang's ear, "The door cannot be destroyed."

Chen Yang and Du Shuo looked at each other and said, "I'll go in and have a look first."

Du Shuo: "Yes."

Chen Yang took a few steps back and looked at the wall and the big tree next to him.The murals of gods and ghosts are carved on the outside of the wall. Although they are somewhat faded, the carvings are still intact.He stepped on a protruding wall and jumped onto the big tree with his strength, pointed his toes on the roots and jumped back to the eaves, and then jumped off the eaves.After walking around to the door, he pulled out the crossbar to open the door, let Du Shuo come in, and then put the crossbar back on.

The entrance of the building in front of me is a small hall, and there are rooms on the left and right sides of the small hall, with a small patio in the middle.There is a well in the middle of the patio, with wooden barrels beside it, and the ground is covered with fallen leaves.There was a big tree growing outside the building, and its overwhelming branches and leaves covered the sky above the patio, so even though the patio was opened, it was still very dark inside.

After crossing the patio, there is a hall with several tables. On the last row of tables is a large incense burner, and there are countless small incense burners beside it.There are many incense sticks on the incense burner, either extinguished or broken in the middle, full of cobwebs.Behind the incense burner is a large altar, and countless tablets are densely placed on the altar from top to bottom.

In the darkness, I suddenly saw countless black and chapped tablets, as if being stared at by countless undead. Ordinary people would probably be scared to scream.Chen Yang: "This is the ancestral hall."

The desk, censer, altar and countless memorial tablets once again show that this place is the former ancestral hall of No Man's Village.The ancestral hall is a place for offering sacrifices to immortals. No wonder it is far away from the entrance of the village, and there are no watchtowers around.After all, it is a place to worship the ancestors, and the side is not suitable for living.

Chen Yang walked forward, intending to look at the spiritual tablets, but saw that there was an open space behind the altar.So I went around the altar to look, and found four dark coffins parked in the open space behind.

Just as he was about to open the coffin, Du Shuo held his hand and said, "I'll open it." While opening the coffin lid, he said, "I don't know how long these coffins have been placed, if there are corpses inside, there should be a corpse gas. "

Ordinary people will get seriously ill if they inhale corpse aura, even a celestial master will get seriously ill if they inhale corpse aura without taking precautions in advance.After all, corpse qi is both poisonous and yin, which is not good for the body.

After the coffin lid was pushed open, a rotten coffin and the stench of rotting corpses filled the nostrils.Chen Yang covered his nose with one hand, covered Du Shuo's nose with the other hand and said in a muffled voice: "It stinks." He glanced into the coffin twice: "There is a corpse, the bones rotted out, and the color is black. The head looks like... He was bitten off in half by something. The same goes for his legs, one leg to the crotch is missing. Judging by his clothes, they should be of the latest style. He was the one who broke into the uninhabited village by mistake and died."

Du Shuo saw that Chen Yang was covering his nose and wanted to inspect the corpse, his posture was quite strenuous.So he took the initiative to stand behind him and cover his nose for him. He also looked at the corpse in the coffin and said, "It looks half-eaten." He saw the corpse with only a small piece of face left, and the facial muscles were all rotten. Corpse worms crawled around and out of his eye sockets.

The eye sockets of the corpse were empty, and the eyes seemed to have been gouged out.But it can be seen from the posture of the hands of the other half of the body-"When half of the body was eaten, he was still alive."

Half of the body was eaten alive, so the remaining half of the body was tense and in a strange posture.Chen Yang said: "He should not be eaten here, but outside... where there are fallen leaves." He saw that there were many fallen leaves on the body.The coffin is placed behind the altar, and the fallen leaves cannot enter, so the only possibility is that the fallen leaves are brought in from the outside: "However, it is also possible that the things that ate him had a lot of fallen leaves on them, but I don't understand why he was put in the coffin Is it... used as a food reserve?"

Du Shuo: "It doesn't seem like it. It should be dragged back from the outside and put it in the coffin for the time being. Since those things eat people who are still alive, it means that they don't eat carrion and there is no need to store it."

In the past, the ancestral hall was a place for worshiping ancestors, and it was also a place for holding weddings, funerals and birthday celebrations.Especially for funerals, ancestral halls in some places no longer hold weddings and birthday celebrations, but funerals will definitely be held.Therefore, coffins will be parked behind the altar and funerals will be held.Now there is a rotten corpse in the coffin. Since it was not caused by some monsters in the uninhabited village, it should be someone else who put the corpse in the coffin.

Chen Yang turned his head and asked the Wugu doll: "Did Wuchang Yi and the others make this?"

The voodoo doll shook her head: "The doll can't say that."

Can't tell, not don't know.Chen Yang suddenly remembered that there was an article in "The Book of Cursing Ghosts" that mentioned witchcraft, and witchcraft were very loyal to their masters.Some are loyal out of sincerity, and some are loyal out of necessity.No matter what kind, the loyalty of witchcraft to the master is necessary, and mandatory loyalty cannot be avoided during the refining process.

The witchcraft doll is fused with Yi Wuchang's painstaking efforts, and it is her witchcraft doll.The Wugu doll has only one mission, and that is to lead Chen Yang to find Wuchang Yi, and nothing else about Wuchang Yi can be revealed.

Chen Yang figured this out, and asked from another angle: "Is this the work of the celestial master who entered the uninhabited village?"

Wugu doll: "Yes." It has integrated Yi Wuchang's painstaking efforts, and can sense the memory of Yi Wuchang's violent emotional fluctuations.

"Who is the deceased? Killed by what?"

Witch Gu Doll: "The one who wants to die, I don't know."

Chen Yang: "It seems that Mr. Yi and the others don't know what is causing the trouble so far."

Du Shuo looked past Chen Yang and stared at the half of the corpse in the coffin, looking at the bite marks on it, he seemed to think of something, his eyes were slightly cold.The witch doll sensed the fear, trembling and trying to slip from Chen Yang's shoulder into his pocket.Du Shuo glanced over with indifferent eyes, and it didn't dare to move.

Du Shuo silently ordered 'go back and stay here', and the voodoo doll cowardly crawled back to Chen Yang's shoulders, sobbing silently and crying, feeling that the partner beside Yang Yang was so scary.Yang Yang is so pitiful, she will definitely be bullied.

"Some guesses, but not sure." A calm and pleasant female voice suddenly came from behind. Chen Yang and Du Shuo looked back and saw a woman about 27 or [-] years old standing at the entrance of the hall.

She was wearing a slim and improved minority costume, a red and black skirt and cloth shoes, and a silver chain, bracelet, earrings, and silver collar.Her appearance is not very good-looking, but she has a special style and temperament, which makes people attracted enough to ignore her appearance.She was expressionless and indifferent: "Chen Yang?"

Chen Yang nodded and recognized her: "Mr. Yi."

Yi Wuchang's expression softened imperceptibly, and nodded to Chen Yang.Her attitude made Chen Yang feel a little strange, as if she didn't know herself, she had to check it out.But they had met each other before, when Chen Yang conferred the inscriptions, Wuchang Yi was one of the masters of the inscriptions.Later, I also had several contacts, so I shouldn't have misunderstood them.

Wuchang Yi saw that Chen Yang was puzzled: "There is something in No Man's Village that can pretend to be someone else. Before that thing pretended to be you and tricked me out."

Chen Yang nodded and said with a smile, "Will Chief Yi be afraid that I'm also pretending?"

Yi Wuchang: "You have my witchcraft doll and," she nodded towards Du Shuo, "Du Ju."

Du Ju also nodded.

Yi Wuchang: "Baby, come back." The baby refused to come back, holding Chen Yang's clothes and refused to leave.Yi Wuchang frowned, his expression serious and displeased, but the baby was stubborn and refused to leave.

Chen Yang said: "Let it stay on my shoulder, I don't care."

Yi Wuchang: "Witchcraft dolls are not easy to control. It's not your own witchcraft dolls that can easily produce spell power, which is not good for you."

"I know." Chen Yang said with a smile: "Its spell power won't affect me, don't worry."

Witch dolls were originally used as curse dolls, and they were made to be used for curses, so they more or less have the ability to curse.Chen Yang is also a descendant of ghosts, so he naturally understands these things.The reason why he is not afraid is that the curse of the doll has no effect on him, and the ability of the witch doll depends on the owner.When Chen Yang said this, it could only show that Chen Yang's attainments in the way of ghosts were not inferior to Master Yi's.

Wu Chang Yi felt relieved, and wanted Chen Yang to return to the Wu Clan even more, and formally recognize him as returning to the Wu Clan.Only in this way can the next witch leader of the Wu clan be settled, and it will not cause the Wu clan to decline from now on."You come with me," she said.

Chen Yang and Du Shuo followed her through an inconspicuous small door on the side of the ancestral hall. Outside was a narrow alley, which only allowed one person to pass through.Above the head are green plants that block out the sun, which also blocks the sun, but at least it can penetrate some light.After walking for about 4 minutes, I arrived at a watchtower without green plants. Yi Wuchang knocked on the door, and there were three longs and two shorts.

The door opened from the inside, and a man with a goatee who was about forty years old opened the door. When he saw Chang Yi and Chen Yang and Du Shuo behind her, he immediately smiled: "Duju."

Du Ju nodded lightly and didn't reply.The man and Yi Wuchang were both accustomed to the appearance, and locked the door after letting them in.Goat Hu introduced to Chen Yang: "My name is Liu Quanning, I am the Guanjian Institute of Beimiao Palace, and I am also the president of the Cantonese Taoist Association."

Chen Yang: "My name is Chen Yang, the director of the Dafu branch."

"I've heard that she solved many high-difficulty tasks at a young age. She is also a rare descendant of ghosts, and Yi Wuchang has always shown me that she has successors." Liu Quanning stroked his goatee and smiled.

Chen Yang felt that Liu Quanning was very similar to Ma Shanfeng, not in appearance but in smooth temperament.Wu Chang Yi interrupted the conversation between the two of them: "Go in and talk, don't stand at the door." When entering the hall, he said to Chen Yang: "It's enough to believe Liu Quanning's words three points, and the remaining seven points are all exaggerated."

Liu Quanning said: "I'm just grooming, talking is an art. Fellow Daoist Chen, don't believe Wuchang Yi's words, trust me, it's easier to do things better than holding a gun and a stick."

Chen Yang rubbed his nose, silently walked in beside Du Shuo side by side.With Du Shuo by his side, Liu Quanning restrained himself and did not say anything more unscrupulous.

There are also two celestial masters and nine ordinary people in the hall, including a baby.Chen Yang was surprised: "Didn't you say that eight youths broke into? Why are there nine people and a baby?"

Yi Wuchang said: "Three of the eight youths died, two got lost and the remaining three were lost. The remaining six people, including the baby, were separated because a bus broke into them by mistake. It is not known whether they are dead or alive."