Copper Coins

"What's the smell?" Lu Nianqi held her breath when she heard the words. After opening her mouth to say a few words, she silently covered her mouth as if thinking of something, as if she was afraid of something weird coming in from her mouth.

However, after being yelled at by Jiang Shining, Xue Xian, whose five senses are more sensitive than ordinary people, including Xuan Min, could faintly smell a faint...

"The smell of grass and trees." Xue Xian said suddenly.

The smell is like the smell of plant juice that comes out after rubbing some kind of leaves and grass stems. It's neither pleasant nor unpleasant, but it's very strange to smell this smell in a dark tomb. up.

Jiang Shining was born in a doctor's family, and grew up mixed with various herbs and poisons. Even though he thinks he is far behind his parents, he can be regarded as quite researched.Presumably he is far more sensitive to the smell of plants and trees than ordinary people, and he is also very good at distinguishing them.He blurted out such a sentence suddenly, which made the weirdness even worse.

"It's not necessary to cover your nose and mouth." Under Xue Xian's instigation, Jiang Shining boldly crawled out of Xuan Min's secret pocket and poked his head. He saw Lu Nianqi at a glance. He waved his paper-like hand and said: "This smell is probably not familiar to you. To be honest, I don't smell it much, but I have seen people who died of it twice, so I was very impressed. I don't know if you have ever heard of a poison. 'Seven ups, eight downs and nines don't live' means that if you are poisoned by this poison, you will die if you go up the mountain seven steps and down the mountain eight steps, at most no more than nine steps."

"Isn't this blood sealing the throat?" Xue Xian said, "I've heard of it."

Jiang Shining said "Oh", "That's right, you came from the south, the tree can live in the south, but it won't live long here. Generally, if you want to use it as a serious medicine, you have to wait for summer and autumn. Buy some from the drug dealers."

This person always said a few words, and couldn't help but go back to medicine and medicine.

"Did you get to the point a few years ago?" Xue Xianliang asked authentically.

"..." Jiang Shining stopped, and said dryly: "Don't touch anything around, I suspect that the stone wall of the tomb passage, even the feet and the top of the head, are all coated with tree sap. We all have wounds on our bodies, rub it twice , take a few more steps, and the person should be tough."

The more he spoke, the lower his voice, and the weaker his momentum.Just because he was talking, Lu Shijiu turned around and looked at him with a pair of pitch-black blind eyes, then old man Liu also turned his face slowly, his cloudy old eyes stared at him motionless, and finally even Xuan Min jumped up. And looked down at him.

"You——" he muttered two words, and finally coughed dryly, shrunk back from the edge of the pocket cowardly, "Stop staring at me, I'd better go to the bottom of the bag, be careful."

Xuan Min raised his eyes, glanced over Nineteen and Old Man Liu, and then fell on Twenty Seven.

Ever since entering the iron gate from the pool, the order of the crowd has changed somewhat.Originally it was Lu Shijiu and Old Man Liu who led the way, Xuan Min followed unhurriedly, Jiang Shining and Lu Nianqi trailed behind him.Xuan Min, who was in the middle, somehow seemed to be a barrier.

But it's not the case now, Lu Nineteen and Old Man Liu are still at the forefront regardless, but Lu Nianqi is following unhurriedly, Xuan Min no longer serves as that "barrier", Instead, he spontaneously walked at the end of the team, helping everyone to guard against their backs.

Lu Nianqi was covering his mouth and nose before, but now he has put down his hands. He turned his head back halfway through Jiang Shining's speech, turned his back to Xuan Min, and faced Nineteen in front of him, staring at himself without turning away. The blind brother.

Nineteen didn't look at him.

After Jiang Shining finished reminding everyone, he turned around quietly and continued to walk towards the other side of the steps.

The flames between Xuan Min's fingers danced occasionally, and the dim yellow light was projected from behind to forward, and the last bit of light happened to fall on the bottom of Nineteen's feet.In front of him is a large piece of darkness, and behind him is a warm yellow light. Every step he takes, he steps on the junction of light and darkness.

The clothes at the nape of his neck were quite damaged, and his pale neck was half covered by his disheveled hair, casting a large shadow, so that under the dim light of the fire, even if he didn't pay attention, he couldn't see what was wrong there.

And Lu Nianqi's head was thinner than ordinary people, and he was a few steps lower, so he couldn't see that place over his shoulder.

Just as Jiang Shining reminded, the tomb passage is probably covered with sap that sees blood and seals the throat everywhere, and the closer it is to the outside, the more obvious this smell will be.

"Here we are." Lu Shijiu, who was at the front, stood still at the top of the steps, turned his back to everyone and said, "This is the last section of the tomb passage opposite to the front one. Although I haven't reached the end yet, I guess I will open another Shimen, you can go out."

Although I never got to the end...

It might sound right at first, but after thinking about it a little more, I think it’s not right—since we’ve already come here, and we’ve seen Shimen, why don’t we just go to the end and go straight out?

Old man Liu followed and stood at the top of the steps. From Xuan Min's perspective, one would find that he was half-turning his face, staring at a certain part of the tomb passage in front of him in a daze, appearing distracted and in a trance.

Lu Shijiu didn't take another step forward, but turned his head to look quietly at Nianqi behind him.

"What are you staring at me for? Anyway, you can only see your breath, but not your face." Lu Nianqi paused, his voice hoarse.For some reason, his voice was inexplicably... trembling, as if there was a layer of uncontrollable sadness and fear, "Don't look, you are going, what are you doing here? I have something to say, I am too lazy to listen You are nagging now."

Nineteen said lightly, "I can see your face now, but I can't see it very clearly."

He directly skipped the second half of the twenty-seventh sentence, lowered his head and found the wooden branch he always used in his arms. The red rope tied in the middle had faded, and he didn't know how many years it had been used, but there was no trace of wear and tear. Never had it, it can be seen that it is indeed a good thing.

"You can take this thing for the shaman." Nineteen said, and handed the wooden branch to Twenty Seven.

Twenty-seven frowned and moved away a little, then lowered his eyes and stared at his feet, with an indescribable irritability in his tone: "I don't want it, you take it yourself! Why should I bring you things... Don't talk too much, just stop talking." Get on the road, hurry forward, what are you doing standing there?!"

Nineteen suddenly held the corner of his mouth and smiled faintly: "I'm not leaving."

This was about the few years when the two brothers lived together, one of the very few Lu Shijiu smiled, but Lu Nianqi didn't see it.He lowered his eyes and frowned, not looking at Nineteen, and let out a heavy breath: "Why don't you leave, don't be so unreasonable..."

When he raised his eyes again, the area around his eyes was already red, and he couldn't help stretching out his hand to push Shijiu hard as he spoke, "You should—go!"

The light of the fire in Xuan Min's hand reflected on Lu Jiujiu's face just right, and I saw some subtle changes on his originally pale face, and there were some faint marks on his face, as if new moles were faintly growing They happened to be scattered in the Palace of Fate, and they were exactly the same as the ones on Lu Nianqi's forehead.

"I can obviously meet you, why don't you leave?" Lu Nianqi's eyes were red, she looked at Shijiu with her neck stuck up, and she couldn't suppress the choking in her throat while speaking.He repeated this sentence twice, and seemed to convince himself again: "Look, I can hold your hand, and you are clearly no different from ordinary people. Didn't it mean that ghosts can't be touched... ..."

With a stubborn temper, he stared at Lu Shijiu firmly, but found that his eyes were blurred, and he couldn't even see Lu Shijiu's appearance clearly.He sniffed, reached out and wiped his eyes with water.But when I looked up again, I still couldn't see clearly.

"Don't rub it." Lu Shijiu sighed very softly, and simply stuffed the wooden branch in Nian Qi's arms directly, and then grabbed Nian Qi's hand, forcing him to take a few more steps up.

The more he said don't rub, the more Lu Nianqi rubbed more fiercely. In the end, he covered his eyes with the back of his hand and stood there motionless.

The old man Liu on the side took a few steps forward slowly, and bent down by a wall.After a while, he returned to the steps again, and handed the things in his hand to Lu Nianqi in the same way.

"This is Uncle Liu's purse. It contains the boat money he collected a few days ago, and some medicinal seeds collected on the island. You can bring it back to Mrs. Liu, so that her headache will not be so severe." Lu Shijiu After speaking for old man Liu, after a moment of silence, he said again: "I have nothing to give you..."

He raised his hand to cover the top of Twenty Seven's head, "I'm going to find my father, don't forget to burn some paper for the two of us in Qingming and Zhongyuan, it will bless you with joy and longevity, and your children and grandchildren will be full."

After speaking, he patted three times and withdrew his hand.

Lu Nianqi only felt the chill on his head dissipate, followed by a sudden emptiness in his heart.He hastily wiped away his tears, raised his eyes to look for it, but found that his eyes were still blurry.

He distinguished in the dimness for a while through the foggy blur, and found that Lu Shijiu and old man Liu who were close in front of him had quietly disappeared.He wiped away his tears again, and only then saw a black shadow on the ground two feet away.

Xuan Min raised his heels and walked over, and as soon as the light of the fire shone, he saw two people lying down by the wall of the tomb passage.

The smell of vegetation juice on the stone wall is more obvious than before, and the closer it is, the clearer it is.He glanced at the blood smeared on the wall, and he understood it—probably there were some wounds on the back, neck, or somewhere else, which touched the wall, and the venom that was painted seeped in.

When Lu Jiujiu fell down, there was a bloodstained circle on the ground next to his finger, surrounded by complicated spells, which looked quite shocking at first glance.

Nianqi's vision was blurred and he couldn't see clearly.He wanted to help Lu Shijiu who was falling down, so he entered the circle unintentionally.

Xuan Min saw that the circle of blood that had already turned brown suddenly came alive, Nianqi Mingming Palace and the scratched palm also glowed with blood, but it dimmed again in the blink of an eye.

Lu Shijiu, whose body was already stiff and cold, let out a vague mist from his mouth, circled around Nianqi three times, as if he had finally completed a certain ceremony, and bowed slightly in Xuanmin's direction, as a last favor, it was considered It's over.

Without the Lu family father and son, he might have died in that abandoned temple 13 years ago.Now that one life is exchanged for another, it is very worthwhile for him, and his wish has been fulfilled.

It's just that in the night river of Zhongyuan in the future, Lao Nianqi has to put an extra lamp, I don't know if he will cry...

The fog dissipated, and the moment the change of life was completed, the tomb suddenly became overcast.

Perhaps the yin and yang reversal of life-for-life touched the three hundred dead souls in the tomb, and a sudden gust of wind whizzed behind them, and the thin movements were fast and urgent, accompanied by the impact and shattering of the stone statues. Hooded faces fell on their backs.

Xuan Min patted Nianqi's shoulder, and was about to say "go quickly", but something rushed towards him behind him, and the wind blown by his movement carried an indescribably decayed smell, almost suffocating.

The people in those stone statues may have difficulty in their legs and feet when they were alive, but after they died in this tomb for a few years, they suddenly became as fast as the wind.In just the blink of an eye, dense crowds of people jumped out of the stairway one after another.One is fine, or two, dozens or even hundreds of these Yin corpses are rushing forward, making it difficult to resist.

Not to mention two hands, even eight hands can't take care of it!

At this moment, the tomb passage seemed cramped, leaving people with nowhere to go and nowhere to avoid.

Xuan Min grabbed the string of copper coins around his waist, and his frown showed a trace of reluctance.I don't know if I don't want to use it, or it's inconvenient to use it, or...it can't be used.

The ghost corpses gathered more and more, densely filling the entire tomb passage, and surrounding several people.

The circle was tightened little by little, Yin Corpse bowed slowly, with energy gathered in his waist, kicking his feet, he rushed towards Xuan Min like a dark wave.

"Vald donkey?!" Xue Xian, who was in the dark bag, was dizzy from being shaken. He could only feel a bloody smell spreading around him, and there was an inexplicable smell of medicine in the sweet rusty smell.Some bone in Xuan Min's waist and abdomen suddenly trembled, and his fingers became scalding hotter than when he cooked Xue Xian before.

I don't know if it was because of being burned, or for some other reason, Xue Xian's heart thumped, and suddenly it was empty.

Then the smell of blood became stronger.

No, no, no, how can I get out alive if this goes on?

In fact, as far as Xue Xian is concerned, he is just a golden pearl, and there is absolutely no talk of life or death.Taking ten thousand steps back, even if it involves life and death, he is a real dragon whose lifespan is almost headless, and he can always catch an opportunity to get out from here.

Therefore, the so-called "can't get out alive" is pure nonsense to him, and it is also nonsense to Jiang Shining, who has long since died.

There are only two people who really need to be alive here.

Lu Nianqi...and that bald donkey.

The former has nothing to do with him, and the latter...the latter is just some inexplicable entanglement. For a moment, Xue Xian didn't understand why he felt the situation was urgent.

But in short, he was indeed in a hurry.So he tried his best to get Jiang Shining to push him, and took the opportunity to get out of Xuan Min's pocket. When he came out, he still had the residual heat from Xuan Min's waist, which made him feel indescribable. I don't know if it's because the things I sucked in before are finally digested...

"When—" When the golden pearl fell to the ground, Xue Xian happened to be looking up.

He saw that Xuan Min's snow-like monk robe was half stained with blood, and the flames between his fingers were still there. For some reason, he was beating a little violently, like a wild beast about to struggle out of the iron chains.The Yin corpse almost surrounded him tightly up and down, and it was hard to tell whether it was tearing or biting.But Xuan Min's expression was still indifferent, as if not only was there no difference in other people's eyes, but even his own life was not much different in his eyes.

When Xue Xian landed on the ground, he didn't know if Xuan Min heard it, but he moved his finger holding the flame twice.

The golden bead rolled hurriedly on the ground, like a fly without a head, and seemed to be planning something.I saw it bypassing the legs and feet of the corpse, and suddenly bumped into the wall of the tomb passage.

boom--

The stone tomb shook suddenly, as if it had suffered a fatal blow.

Xue Xian was dumbfounded: "..." Can I achieve this effect? !

Although it is true that Jinzhu can have that much force, but when it zigzags back and forth and hits the wall, it will definitely not use much force.He planned to hit it a few times in a row and use his strength little by little.When the strength is really used, let alone this one tomb, he can blow up ten tombs.

But if it wasn't him who knocked it out this time, who was it?

Xue Xian didn't care much, and bumped him twice.

boom--

The stone tomb was shaken again, and countless gravels fell from the dome, covering Xue Xian's head and face with ashes.

Even though he didn't have a real mouth at this time, he still subconsciously "poohed" twice, then rolled around and turned to look at Xuan Min—if he hadn't hit it, then there would be such an effect in this tomb. , probably only this bald donkey.

Sure enough, through the layers of sharp claws of the corpse, Xue Xian saw Xuan Min trace a circle on his copper coin string with his bloody fingers, and the five copper coins instantly had a layer of blood.

I don't know if it was Xue Xian's illusion, but in this extremely dark place, Xuan Min's five normally dusty copper coins actually had a little greasy yellow light, as if they had been polished by blood suddenly.

Seeing Xuan Min's thumb suddenly pressing on one of the copper coins, bright red blood gushed out instantly, washing the whole copper coin again.

boom--

This time, the entire tomb shook violently like an earthquake, the amplitude was so great that Xue Xian rolled back and forth endlessly, almost spitting out the water from the bead.

Xuan Min put one hand on the copper coin, and put the other hand holding the flame in front of his chest, as if performing a Buddha ceremony in the light of blood.His eyes were half closed, and his lips moved silently a few times.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise in the entire tomb, gravels splashed all over the sky, dust filled the air, and the sky collapsed and the ground sank.

Then, icy cold water poured over the gravel, submerging them all in the blink of an eye.

Although the water is equally gloomy and cold, it is quite different from the stagnant water in the previous pool, carrying a fresh chill, like the first north wind blowing in winter.

This is a real living river!

The moment Xue Xian fell into the water, he thought blankly: That bald donkey who robbed me of my job actually blew up the tomb...

However, before he finished his exclamation, he discovered that Xuan Min's blow not only blew up the tomb chamber, but also the whole grave island...

Stones mixed with soil and trees sank one after another, as well as the mighty army of Yin corpses, with a huge momentum.

Xue Xianzheng was a little speechless, and felt the river below him suddenly surging.

It seems that the tomb was bombed so that the Baishi Tuliu Bureau was destroyed, causing the entire river to be turbulent and a huge vortex formed.There are countless dark vortices around and coming here.

All the people, including the shattered stone corpses, were thrown into oblivion by the whirlpool.

Amidst the severe dizziness, Xue Xian was quite annoyed.After digesting the things that had been inhaled into the golden bead, there was finally some movement—at the moment he was annoyed, the scorching air that was sucked from Xuan Min's waist swam through the golden bead, making his whole body swell Pain, as if the bondage is about to break apart, and the skin is ripped apart.

In an instant, black clouds suddenly gathered in the long sky above the river, a pale mysterious light struck down from the sky, and the thunder sounded like ten thousand horses galloping, rolling down from the nine heavens and hitting the river.

The downpour poured down in an instant, and the water mist rose suddenly, and the entire river surface was covered with mist, making it almost impossible to recognize people.

Then, a faint whistling sound came from the bottom of the river, and a huge long shadow loomed in the thick water mist.

With a long stroke, the vortex reached the bottom of the river with a muffled sound. Together with countless corpses and mudstones, it burrowed into the mud at the bottom of the river like a water dragon.

One person is buried in six feet of loess, and the soil at the bottom of the river is sixty feet. I don't know if it can bury these three hundred yellow spring souls.

On the side of the river, a child who didn't know who was too late to hide from the rain was lying on the courtyard wall, holding a plum blossom branch in his hand, pointing blankly at the distant Jiang Tian, ​​and rushing to hug his parents, saying: "Long—— "

The couple subconsciously turned their heads to look, and saw a long shadow looming in the dense fog, riding the clouds and thunder all the way up, and then turned around and jumped into the Haoran River: "God, it's really a dragon..."