Jiajing Spiritual Records

The sound of "rolling wheels" rolling in front of them was unhurried, and a thin layer of water vapor condensed on the road paved with bluestone slabs.I don't know if it was Ning Huan's illusion, but the white mist that dissipated just now gathered again after the ghost woman left, lightly enveloping this eerie and quiet street again.Ning Huan and Su Xian deliberately slowed down their pace, they kept a short distance, and cautiously followed behind the ghost woman.

"Roll, roll", the thin black shadow pulled the old and heavy wooden cart slowly through the entire market, and the raised stones occasionally made the wooden barrel knock on the cart to make a "bang bang" sound. .A bend suddenly appeared in front of the eyes, the ghost woman pushed the car and turned into that bend, and the person disappeared.Suddenly, the sound of the "rolling wheels" also disappeared.

The bluish-white mist became thicker and thicker, and whispers from all around gradually resounded again.The figure that Ning Huan had just seen appeared in the dense fog.As the bustling crowd approached, Ning Huan realized that these people were all paper figurines with pale faces and exaggerated red fat on their faces. They walked aimlessly back and forth on the street with stiff steps and expressionless faces. .

Suxian stared at the white shadow in the mist as if thinking. "Follow?" Ning Huan asked in a low voice next to Su Xian's ear.Hearing this, Su Xian raised his eyes to look at the corner in the distance, and after a moment of silence, he nodded, "Follow."

Those dull-faced paper figurines didn't notice the existence of the two, Ning Huan and Su Xian bypassed them and turned into that bend. "Roll, wheel, wheel", the sound of the wheels of the cart rubbing against the ground sounded again in the distance.

Ning Huan frowned, looking around the corner uneasily.The sky on the top was divided into two halves by an obvious straight line, one half belonged to the gray sky above the market, and the other half was the night that suddenly darkened after they entered the corner.The dark green lanterns hang on both sides of the corner, swaying in the windless moment, light rain is floating in the air, and the sound of the wheels of the car rolling over the puddle can be heard next to the ears, and the air is filled with a slap. An indescribable rancid smell.

The wheels of the wooden cart seemed to have passed a sill, and the wooden barrel lid on the top made a "snap" sound as it was shaken, and suddenly the sound of the wheels stopped abruptly.There was a dead silence all around, Ning Huan covered his nose and carefully controlled his rapid breathing, but the sound was still particularly piercing in the strange and quiet moment.

Ning Huan turned around and looked at Su Xian, and asked with his lips: "What should I do?"

"Follow." Su Xian pursed his lips, with a trace of eagerness in his tone, he replied in a suppressed voice.

Soon the two came to the end of the alley, Su Xian dragged Ning Huan and quickly hid in a shadow around him.At this time, the door inside "Zhi Ya" made a dull sound, as if someone had entered the house.

After a while, Su Xian pulled Ning Huan out.This is the courtyard of an ordinary family, but the red and black paint on the door plaque and the overly damaged courtyard make it look too weird.The dilapidated cart was parked in the middle of the yard, the wooden barrel was tied by a blackened rope, and fell obliquely on it, and there were several half-person-high wooden barrels in the surrounding ground.

Su Xian lifted the lid of one of the wooden barrels, and suddenly a strong smell of blood wafted into the air.Ning Huan poked his probe in and took a deep breath.I saw a person lying there, eyes closed, pale complexion, black lips, bulging veins all over his body, like a piece of rotten bacon, exuding damp and fishy smell and being thrown into a wooden barrel.

"This person..." Ning Huanfang wanted to ask if this person was one of the missing group of people, when suddenly the person in the barrel opened his eyes.He made a trembling sound of "giggling" and slowly stretched out his withered hands towards Ning Huan.

The moment his hand touched Ning Huan, Su Xian swung his knife and chopped it off, and it fell to the ground with a "slap", "What are you thinking about!" Su Xian frowned.

"This...isn't this person still alive?" Ning Huan stammered, looking at the half of his arm under his feet.

Su Xian curled his lips, and looked down at the person in the bucket.The man opened his eyes and looked at Su Xian with resentment, his dry and skinny head looked like a skeleton covered in a layer of yellow skin, and a "clack" sound came from his chest.

Su Xian directly inserted the short blade in his hand into the barrel, "creaking" as if he was stirring inside to find something.Suddenly, the person in the barrel twitched violently, something flew out of the barrel, hit Su Xian's neck, and was cut in half by the short blade. The "clack" sound stopped.Su Xian bent over, and the tip of the knife picked up a half-palm-sized white worm from the ground.

"This is..." Ning Huan asked dully.

"This person has been useless for a long time." The half of the worm's body on the tip of the knife was still twisting, Su Xian frowned and clicked his tongue, "This human head Gu has grown so big, it has already sucked that person dry gone."

Ning Huan looked inside the barrel, and sure enough, the man's abdomen had been hollowed out into a big hole.Su Xianfu turned the half of the worm's body on the tip of the knife again, the worm's head was facing Ning Huan, Ning Huan was startled, and saw a human face on the white worm's head.

"This is the Human Head Gu." Suxian said, "Here is the mother Gu, and the child Gu in the outside world. These things were transported here, probably to ask the ghost woman to take out the mother Gu. After all, if the host dies, the If you want the child Gu outside to not die, you have to find the next one."

Su Xian stared at the big wooden bucket lid on the cart in front of him, silent.After a while he suddenly said: "Climb in."

Ning Huan blinked, his round black eyes gradually widened, he repeated Su Xian's words, and asked in an unbelievable tone: "Climbed in?"

"Didn't you want to save your cousin?" Suxian snorted, looked at the barrel, curled his lips in disgust, "Since you want to save your cousin, let that ghost woman take us to find him first .”

Ning Huan was slightly taken aback, and whispered for a while, "Okay...Okay."

Su Xian lifted the lid of the wooden barrel, and the choking rancid smell came straight to the tip of his nose. Ning Huan held his nose and almost retched.A layer of black slag remained at the bottom of the barrel, and there were still some severed human limbs inside.Ning Huan glanced at Suxian, took a deep breath outside, gritted his teeth and jumped in.

Su Xian then stepped into the barrel and closed the lid.Inside the huge wooden barrel, the stench mixed with blood and rotten meat made Ning Huan dizzy, his face was pale, and he reluctantly curled up his body.An inaudible sigh resounded in the darkness, and a warm chest leaned towards him, touching his restrained and trembling shoulders, "Suxian?" Ning Huan raised his head blankly.

"Hush." ​​Suxian cupped Ning Huan's face lightly with his hands, and pressed his head against his chest. He unbuttoned the sleeves on the outside and gently wrapped his body around his body, covering Ning Huan in his arms, " Is this any better?" Su Xian asked softly.

In the enclosed space, the pungent sour smell overwhelmed the familiar cold scent on Su Xian's body.Ning Huan heard the steady heartbeat from his ear, and suddenly felt that it wasn't that bad here.With a blush on his face that he didn't even know, he arched his head in Su Xian's arms, and whispered: "En."

"Squeak!" The door opened, and Ning Huan heard dull footsteps outside.The sound of continuous footsteps stopped suddenly, and Ning Huan's heart tightened slightly.But soon, the wooden barrel was tilted up, the cart started to move, and the "rolling" axle sound sounded again...

Outside the wooden barrel, the shriveled old ghost stared at the half of the worm's body in the ground and remained silent.After a while, she pushed the wooden cart again, and continued to walk amidst the sound of "rolling" the wheels...

After an unknown amount of time, the wheels rolled over the threshold, as if entering somewhere, and the wooden cart finally stopped.Suddenly, someone outside said: "The batch of useless things have already been packed, just wait for the mother-in-law to go in and get them."

"How many died this time?" The hoarse and deep voice asked, it should be the witch.

"Only six." The outsider replied flatteringly.

"Take me to see."

As the footsteps outside gradually faded away, Su Xian and Ning Huan climbed out of the barrel, Ning Huan took a deep breath and stared at the eyes.

This place is like a cellar, surrounded by stone walls, engraved with some patterns that Ning Huan can't understand, under the candlelight, the figures on the walls shone strangely. "Tick tock", the water droplets on the stone wall kept falling and hitting the ground.There are more wooden barrels that Ning Huan has seen just now parked here, and there are occasional sobs coming from inside.

"here it is……"

Su Xian opened a cover beside him, and there was a pale and thin man lying inside, and there seemed to be something surging in his beating abdomen.Su Xian frowned and shook his head helplessly.

The two searched for a few people around, and all the people inside were like this, although they were still alive, they were not far from death.Ning Huan lowered his eyes, his face was pale, and cold sweat oozes from his forehead from time to time.He pursed his lips, not daring to think whether his cousin would do the same.

Ning Huan lifted the lid of another wooden bucket, and a familiar face suddenly appeared inside, "Cousin!" Ning Huan shouted excitedly.

Although Ning Cheng's face was pale, it looked much better than before, and there seemed to be nothing in his abdominal cavity.But he closed his eyes, Ren Ninghuan couldn't push it no matter what. "Su Xian..." Ning Huan raised his head and called Su Xian's name blankly.

Su Xian came over, looked down at Ning Cheng, "It can still be saved." Su Xian glanced at Ning Huan, and said soothingly.Ning Huan breathed a sigh of relief, Su Xian squeezed Ning Cheng's chin, and stuffed a talisman paper into his mouth.After a while, Ning Cheng coughed, and spat out a white worm that was as long as a thumb.

The white worm didn't move, Su Xian poked the human face worm on the ground with a knife, "You killed the child worm and hurt the mother worm, so the mother worm entered hibernation." Then, he cut off the worm on the ground with a sharp knife. The white worms burst out a green pulp.

"Ahem!" Ning Cheng coughed twice, and slowly opened his eyes. "Cousin!" Ning Huan shouted in a low voice in surprise.

Ning Cheng looked around in a daze, and the eyes that looked at Ning Huan gradually returned to focus: "Cousin?" Ning Cheng asked in surprise, "I...why am I here?"