saint ruthless

nine,

The four parked their cars at the villagers' place in the middle of the mountain and made their way to the top of the mountain.Along the way, the ghostly spirit lingered, making people uncomfortable.The mountain road was eerily quiet, not even a single bird song could be heard.

They found a Feng Shui Eight Diagrams array piled up with random stones in an inconspicuous open space.

Zhao Yunlan frowned and asked, "Old Chu, what do you think?"

"This mountain range is erratic and narrow, and there are several surrounding mountains around it, which should be the main trunk of the dragon's veins, but Shuikou is facing the case, and the lazy otter is lying low, like a dead fish.

Chu Shuzhi's voice was as cold as the cold wind on the top of the mountain. "This kind of place is the easiest place for wandering ghosts to gather, and it is also a good place for a corpse like me to build a mausoleum. The formation in this kind of place is most likely to break some ghost-suppressing barrier. "

Zhao Yunlan also became serious, feeling that something was wrong, "They may really be here for the soul lamp. We'd better go back and wait for news from Shen Wei and the others."

Guo Changcheng's heart trembled when he heard it behind him, and he habitually wanted to run to pull Chu Shuzhi's clothes, and then remembered that the atmosphere between the two of them was awkward now, so he had to move awkwardly to a place far away from Chu Shuzhi to prevent himself Too cowardly to jump on others.

As a result, as soon as he moved a few steps away, Chu Shuzhi grabbed his hand with a cold face, and dragged him forward roughly. Guo Changcheng didn't stop the car, and directly hit Chu Shuzhi's back. superior.

Chu Shuzhi didn't turn his head back, "Follow me closely, this place is not for you to climb mountains and play, and you were accidentally caught by a ghost."

Guo Changcheng said obediently, staring at the hand holding his wrist, feeling a little bit bitter and happy at the same time.

Back at the house where they were staying, Shen Wei and the others called to say that they had found similar stone formations on the mountains in the northwest, but when they were rushing over, a section of the mountain road collapsed and blocked the road.

Everyone except the innocent Comrade Xiao Guo knew that it was ghosts, but Zhao Yunlan said that the enemy will not move, I will not move, let's wait for a night to see what they can come up with.

Guo Changcheng said that he also wanted to watch the night, but was rejected by three votes in an instant, so he had to go to bed miserable and honest.

It seemed that it was after midnight, Guo Changcheng seemed to hear a soft voice calling himself from a distant place in his sleep, he woke up a little bit confused, Zhu Hong next to him was breathing steadily, and Zhao Yunlan was also closing his eyes to rest.

He was guided by something and wanted to go out to have a look, but when he got up, he saw Chu Shuzhi leaning against the door in the dim moonlight looking towards him.

"What's wrong?" Chu Shuzhi asked in a low voice.

Guo Changcheng woke up, and when he got up, he heard the sound of clothes slipping off. He looked, and it was Chu Shuzhi's long black trench coat.

Guo Changcheng rubbed his clothes to Chu Shuzhi's side, and thanked him in a low voice.

Chu Shuzhi hummed, and didn't intend to start a conversation, but leaned on the window sill and looked out sideways.

The moon is dim, and there are only stretches of mountains and old trees in the distance, accompanied by a lingering ghostly aura.

Guo Changcheng trembled, and asked angrily: "Brother Chu, what do you feel when you see such a ghostly spirit?"

Chu Shuzhi's tone was light, "I don't feel anything, I'm used to it."

Guo Changcheng asked again: "Then, was the place where you lived before also so haunted?"

Chu Shuzhi couldn't help chuckling when he heard that he called the zombie's mausoleum "the place to live", and said:

"It's bigger than this ghost."

Guo Changcheng thinks he looks good when he smiles, but his expression is still indifferent, and he feels extremely lonely for some reason.

He remembered that time before Brother Chu was so enraged by the unfair punishment of the merit cannon that he even strangled his neck, and the indifference in his eyes after calming down was the same.

Guo Changcheng asked, "Brother Chu, do you feel lonely after living by yourself for hundreds of years?"

Chu Shuzhi didn't seem to expect that he would ask such a question, and turned to stare at him without saying a word.

Guo Changcheng's eyes are clearer and full of vitality in the dark night, which is different from the eternal gray and dull color in his own eyes.

Guo Changcheng was a little nervous being stared at by him, and stammered:

"I...I want to say, everyone in the Special Investigation Department, as well as Director Zhao, and me...I, we are always by your side now."

Chu Shuzhi couldn't help but laugh. He had originally made up his mind to stay away from this kid, but he always wanted to pinch his cheek, or rub his head and ask him what messed things he was thinking all day.

This thought seems to come up too often lately.

Chu Shuzhi stretched out his hand as if giving up.

Suddenly, Zhao Yunlan's mobile phone sang suddenly in the quiet cabin.

"There is a girl named Xiaowei~cute, beautiful and generous~"

Simultaneously with this ridiculous ringing, there was a terrifying tremor coming from the depths of the ground under his feet.

ten,

Everyone jumped up and rushed out of the room almost at the same time, only to see a dazzling white beam of light going straight into the sky, which was the direction from which the Bagua formation was seen during the day.

Surrounding the beam of light is a dense black mist, which seems to be alive, rushing towards the beam of light from all directions.Every time he got closer to the beam of light, he seemed to encounter some resistance and was blocked from the outside, circling around indefinitely.The howls of thousands of ghosts came from the depths of the ground, misty and mournful, as if the earth would crack in the next second, and the ghosts who had just been suppressed in the underworld would reappear in the world.

On the other end of the phone, Shen Wei's anxious shout was so loud that all four of them could hear it.

"Yunlan, there is a gap in the lamp body of the Soul Relief Lamp, so the ghosts from all over the world who are still in the world are gathering towards you, and they want to follow the crack to forcefully break through the barrier! I'm rushing over, all of you Don't worry! Wait for me!"

This is really a bit bad...

Zhao Yunlan's expression was extremely solemn, and he led a few people towards the center of the Eight Diagrams formation. "Listen, I want to see if I can temporarily suppress the leaked energy, Old Chu, help me contain the crazy ghost who wants to get close, Zhu Hong, take care of Xiao Guo, stay away and don't approach us .”

The gossip array was already visible not far away, but as soon as the voice fell, the thick black mist surrounding the beam of light suddenly turned around like Zhao Yunlan, as if they had been sensed.

This is really unexpected, even though Zhao Yunlan has the power of Kunlun, he is only living in a mortal body now, and he was surrounded by black mist in just a second, as if he was swallowed up.

Chu Shuzhi and Zhu Hong shouted "Zhao Yunlan!!" at the same time

With a wave of the corpse king's hand, thousands of zombie skeletons exploded from the center of the earth in the next second, forming an impenetrable wall hundreds of meters high in the air around Zhao Yunlan, preventing more howling ghosts from approaching.

Zhu Hong's eyes were scarlet in an instant, and she didn't care about safety or insecurity. She picked up Xiao Guo who was next to her, and the huge snake tail brought dust all over the sky and flung it violently around.

The frenzied black mist retreated for only a second or two, and then it seemed to have discovered a new enemy, and it pressed down on Chu Shuzhi and Zhu Hong overwhelmingly.

Almost immediately, the surroundings were plunged into darkness, and not a ray of light could penetrate.

Chu Shuzhi only felt that his vision had completely disappeared, and instinctively cut down all the ghosts that rushed over. Although these mountain ghosts could not get close to him in a short time, they were so numerous that they weighed a thousand catties on their heads, making it difficult to move.

A thought suddenly flashed in Chu Shuzhi's mind. While beheading another ghost, he roared with all his strength:

"Xiao Guo! Where is Guo Great Wall! Zhu Hong, is Xiao Guo still by your side!"

The only response to him was the howling ghost cries and the sweeping dust.

Chu Shuzhi's expression was extremely gloomy, and the anxiety in his heart reached its peak.

With a low growl, he roared out a powerful ghostly aura that was similar to the aura outside but more eerie and terrifying, swallowing all the little ghosts that were rushing towards him in an instant.

The world of ghosts has always been so prey to the weak, Chu Shuzhi no longer suppressed the evil spirit in his body, and his pupils turned into pure black.

At about the same time, a more powerful aura swept past, which was Zhao Yunlan's Kunlun Power.

His vision suddenly became clear, and he anxiously looked towards Zhu Hong and the others, only to find that Guo Changcheng had disappeared.

A strong sense of fear that had never been seen before weighed heavily on my heart.

Great Wall.Great Wall.

Guo Changcheng, you are not allowed to do anything.

Zhao Yunlan was being entangled by a new batch of ghosts who came after him. He struggled to open a hole for Chu Shuzhi in the direction leading to the cliff not far away, and shouted:

"They want to entangle me, Xiao Guo is their target, go there!"

Chu Shuzhi responded, disappeared in place almost instantly, and rushed out.

eleven,

Chu Shuzhi saw that the black fog on the edge of the cliff was thicker and frightening, even thicker than that on the beam of light, but there was a faint orange light in the center of the black fog, like the only light source in the darkness.

It came from Guo Changcheng.

Guo Changcheng is walking towards the edge of the cliff step by step. There are only low guardrails in disrepair on the edge of the cliff, which is very dangerous, but Guo Changcheng walks forward as if ignorant.

After walking a few more steps, he was about to fall off the cliff, Chu Shuzhi felt his heart was hanging in his throat, and at the same time as he immediately threw out the puppet line, he himself jumped to the edge of the cliff regardless.

Seeing that he was about to grab Guo Changcheng's sleeve, Chu Shuzhi felt that his hands were empty, and saw Guo Changcheng being pulled back by a force and pulled back to a safe place.On the contrary, his strength was relieved, and he could hardly hold back his momentum and flew out of the cliff.

His heart skipped a beat, and he was surprised that their target was himself. He raised his hand to summon the skeleton as a buffer, but was suddenly entangled tightly by the flying black rope, and then found that he couldn't use all his spells.

Ghost rope?

Chu Shuzhi lost his center of gravity and knocked straight to the edge of the cliff, unconscious from the pain for a while.After waking up for a while, I found that there was already an invisible bottomless abyss under my feet, and I was hanging in the air a few meters below the cliff.Someone above held one end of the rope and looked at him coldly.

It is said that there are people, but in fact it does not seem to be a person.

To be precise, it was a half-ghost, half-empty thing wrapped in black mist, which seemed to have a woman's face and hands, and seemed to be just a puff of smoke.However, unlike ordinary ghosts, which can only penetrate objects, the hand holding the rope really exists.

Chu Shuzhi is very familiar with that kind of thing, it is another form of cultivation of corpse way, and he is half of the same school as him.

Most of their cultivators have obsessions or monstrous hatred. In order to be strong, they will often abandon the skins of mortals. Talents like him who are greedy for karma and fate in the mortal world and wander in the world like ordinary mortals is heterogeneous.

The ghost-binding rope that is specially used to deal with corpses, and meeting the same family again, Chu Shuzhi can almost be sure that they are all for him.

He still couldn't figure out why, but his intuition had something to do with Guo Changcheng.

They designed to make Guo Changcheng fall in love with him ridiculously. They thought it was just a farce, but who knew that there were layers of incomprehensible conspiracies underneath.

Thinking of the clear eyes when the child looked at him, Chu Shuzhi felt angry.

He glared fiercely at the half-human, half-ghost thing on the cliff, but with a rope around his mouth, he couldn't make a sound.

The female ghost above stared at him faintly, and her voice sounded like it came from an old radio.

"Let's see if the soul lamp will continue to burn."

After finishing speaking, her expression, like a video tape recorder, slowly and strangely revealed a smile.

Then she loosened the rope in her hand.

twelve,

Chu Shuzhi didn't have time to think about the meaning of that sentence, and a sense of weightlessness came over him.He concentrated on trying to break through the shackles of the rope, but it was obviously not that easy.

However, Kankan fell a few meters, and the sound of rocks and sand rolling across his ears, he found himself miraculously stopped in mid-air.Chu Shuzhi raised his head with some difficulty, and found that Guo Changcheng was supporting the precarious railing with one hand, and was holding on to the rope with the other, holding himself tightly.

Guo Changcheng was thin and lacked strength, and his arm holding the rope had bulging veins. He struggled a lot, but somehow he managed to hold on wobbly.

Chu Shuzhi worried that he would be pushed down by the female ghost next to him in the next second, but fortunately he didn't.

The female ghost stared at Guo Changcheng with a kind of creepy tenderness.

She asked lightly, "Do you like him very much?"

Of course Guo Changcheng didn't have the strength to distract himself from answering, he was struggling to lift the rope up, but Chu Shuzhi had already fallen more than ten meters, it was really difficult to lift him up from such a distance.Blood was gradually oozing from his hands.

Seeing that he didn't answer, the female ghost giggled, "You must love him very much," the female ghost seemed to be whispering to some distant memory, like a whisper between lovers,

"After all, the one on you is my love aperture."

"You are even willing to die for him, aren't you?" The female ghost's voice was bewitching, "He is the most important, more important than anyone else. If he dies, life will be meaningless."

"So, will you choose him?"

Guo Changcheng didn't listen to what she was saying at all, he only had one thought, to pull Brother Chu up.

He didn't realize that he had unleashed a force that was several times greater than usual, and the rope was indeed being lifted up bit by bit, and he felt as if he could do it.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound of something heavy being dragged from behind, and then the thing was lifted over the railing and pushed down slowly.

"stop!!!!"

From the corner of his eye, Guo Changcheng saw clearly that it was a child about ten years old, and his already pale face faded from fright.

He grabbed the child's arm with the hand that was holding on to the railing, which made the side that was holding the rope loose and slipped a lot. He gritted his teeth desperately and stopped.

Now he was holding a person in each hand, relying on the railing to support the weight of his whole body, so that he didn't fall down.

The old railings creaked, and they could be felt to be drifting outwards, and they didn't look like they would last long.

Guo Changcheng's head was filled with blood, and it was his limit to hold on until now. The child in a coma was lighter, but he had no strength and couldn't pull him up, unless...

Unless you let go of the other hand.

The voice of the female ghost beside her was still soft, but the words she spit out were full of chills.

"You can't get them both up, you know. Throw that piece of rope away, so you can get the kid."

Throw away that piece of rope...but that's...Brother Chu.

Hearing that bewitching persuasion, his already stiff brain could only vaguely remember these two words, and then his hands that were already dripping blood even clenched the rope a little tighter.

Brother Chu, Brother Chu, he must not let go.

The female ghost laughed again, as if she heard his inner voice.

"You can't let go, can't you. Only him can't let go anyway."

"Then let go of the other side, that kid. You don't know him. It's not your fault that you couldn't save him."

Guo Changcheng seemed to understand, but also didn't seem to understand, following the female ghost's words, his eyes froze and he held the unconscious child in his hands.

Let go of...that kid...

The female ghost looked at his expression, and then at the white beam of light rushing up to the sky in the distance.

The beam of light seemed to flicker fragilely for a second.

She finally showed a ferocious and satisfied smile bit by bit.