Strange Records of Xijing

Where is this place?

Su Yan stretched out his left hand tentatively, but felt a huge restraining force behind him.He tried his best to turn his neck, trying to turn his head to see what was behind him, but found that he couldn't move the part below his neck.Out of the corner of his eye, he could only catch a glimpse of a blue-green light behind him.

At this time, he felt that his whole body was slowly tilting downwards, and finally he was able to look down easily.

The lower part was covered with bright green mist. Su Yan squinted his eyes and saw that there were seas of people. Some charged with guns, some raised shields to resist, and there were still a group of people riding on horses. Raise it high, as if it will crush the skull of the enemy in front of you in the next second.

It was all so quiet then.

Su Yan counted silently in his heart, from one to five, and found that the crowd below hadn't changed at all.He didn't give up, and counted to twenty, but the crowd still remained unchanged.The next step is to count to fifty, count to one hundred, and even count to one thousand. The crowd below remains still.

Su Yan didn't know why, but this place was obviously beyond the reach of ordinary people.

He turned his head again, and found that there were many people around him who looked down like him...not people?

Because Su Yan was restricted in his actions, he couldn't see himself clearly just now.Only now did he realize that the surrounding human-like existences were all translucent.Several of them closed their eyes and opened their mouths wide, showing a sad look.There are still a few smiling faces, but they are crying.More just closed their eyes, expressionless, as if falling into a deep sleep.

What about Pei Jingxing?

Where is Pei Jingxing?

Su Yan suddenly felt a wave of fear. He tried his best to struggle forward, but he was always held in place by a strong suction force.

He opened his mouth, wanting to shout, a foul-smelling chill directly entered his mouth, forcing him to retch several times.

Pei Jingxing.

Pei Jingxing.

Pei Jingxing!

Bana's eyes widened suddenly, his limbs twitched, and he let out an inaudible tone.

Zhou Yuyi stuffed a veil into his mouth to avoid biting his tongue while talking nonsense.Then he and Ming Dao, who had changed shifts, grabbed Bana's limbs on the left and right.As soon as Zhou Yu touched Bana's eyebrows, a thunderous aura entered from between his brows, and then Bana was restrained.

Bana calmed down, seeing Zhou Yuyi, whom he met in Fengyang Ghost City, and Ming Dao, who had a strange face, and started to struggle again in fright.

"Don't be afraid." Zhou Yuyi tried his best to comfort him, "We will not harm you."

Bana exerted all his strength, and even turned his head to bite the strange Ming Dao.

Ming Dao was not used to him, he used his leg instead of his hand to hold down Bana's left leg, then pinched Bana's face with his free right hand, and threatened viciously: "Benefactor, you'd better calm down."

Bana seemed to be frightened, gave up struggling, looked at Mingdao fearfully, then turned to look at Zhou Yuyi.

Zhou Yuyi tried to release the restraint on his legs, and introduced: "My name is Zhou Yuyi, a Taoist priest. We met in Fengyang, and I saved you from those starving ghosts, remember? ?”

Bana's eyeballs rolled a few times, as if recalling this memory.After a long time, he nodded.

Ming Dao also let go of his right hand and asked him, "You can't speak?"

Bana opened his mouth and uttered a few monotonous syllables without words, wanting to express, but unable to express.

"Can you write?"

Barna shook his head.

All three fell silent.

After a long time, Zhou Yuyi called out without warning: "Su Yan."

"Yes." Bana said involuntarily, giving a clear answer.

This voice startled Bana at first, and he wanted to ask what was going on, but he couldn't speak again, and could only utter monotonous syllables.

"Don't be afraid." Zhou Yu patted him on the shoulder, but didn't tell the truth, just said, "We will help you."

Banner was free, gestured with both hands on his chest, and made a sound eagerly.

Zhou Yuyi asked him, "Want to drink water?"

Barna shook his head.

"hungry?"

Barna shook his head again.

"Still going for convenience?"

Bana still shook his head.

Ming Dao felt that he couldn't stay any longer, so he stood up and said, "Mr. Zhou, please take care of him. I'll go see if Mr. Pei is back."

Without waiting for Zhou Yu's answer, Ming Dao left after speaking.

When he walked out of this simple wooden house, he saw Pei Jingxing standing not far away talking with the guide they had invited.

This is the No.30 two days since they came out of Fengyang.They lost more than a dozen horses along the way, and even three carriages could not withstand their long journey and were scrapped, which allowed them to reach the northwest border.

After leaving the northwest border, they entered a vast and unknown strange area. According to the travel notes of the predecessors, they followed the river and went upstream all the way to the oasis.They did not stay in the oasis, but found a local man who could speak Mandarin. They heard that there was a large unknown mountain group in the northwest, so they filled up the supplies and paid a lot of money for this local man. As a guide, go all the way towards the mountains.

When they entered the mountainous area, they changed into yaks, which are more common among local people, as a means of transportation, and their carriages were replaced with sledges that were easier to move on the snow, and they moved forward with difficulty.

Today, the guide refused to move forward no matter what he said, and insisted on resting where he was.Pei Jingxing had no choice but to find a nearby wooden hut for hunters who occasionally went up the mountain to rest, let Zhou Yuyi and Ming Dao watch the unconscious Bana, and he went with the guide to find some firewood nearby—— There was not much firewood left in the cabin.

"Master Pei, what are you talking about?" Ming Dao walked between the two of them with a smile, and asked, "Let me listen too, and I can give some advice."

The guide looked anxiously at Ming Dao, and said hastily in broken Mandarin with gestures: "Monk, please persuade him not to go any further."

"Why?" Ming Dao asked him back, slowing down and reasoning with him, "We gave you so much money and agreed to take us into the mountains and find what we wanted. You have already collected the money, but we haven't got anything yet." If you find it, why can’t you go any further?”

"I, I thought you, you were just here to dig snow lotus." The guide stammered and explained, "There are many, many snow lotuses in this season. There were people who came to me before, and brought them into the mountain to pick snow lotus. "

"Then why didn't you ask clearly in advance?" Ming Dao asked him again, "You have to do things after collecting money."

"No, no." The guide waved his hands again and again, pointing to the wooden house where Zhou Yuyi and Bana were, "This is the last checkpoint. If you go any further, there will be nothing left."

Pei Jingxing asked him, "Have you been there?"

The guide shook his head again and again: "I haven't been there. The old people say that the front is hell, and you can't go any further."

"Why?" Pei Jingxing asked him, "Why do you say hell is ahead? Who has been there?"

The guide didn't know how to answer, so he could only persuasion: "You can't go any further. Really, you can't go any further."

Seeing that the two still didn't agree, he simply took out the previous reward and forced it back to Pei Jingxing: "Return it to you, give it back to you, I don't want it anymore. I won't go, I can't go any further."

Seeing the guide's determined face, Ming Dao turned his head and asked Pei Jingxing in a low voice: "What should I do?"

Pei Jingxing looked down, thought for a while, and said, "The money can be given to you, and you don't have to go any further, but you have to tell me, what exactly is the hell mentioned earlier?"

The guide was still hesitating, so Pei Jingxing simply grabbed his arm and said, "It's too cold, go in and talk."

Ming Dao picked up the firewood at the side, followed behind the guide, and the three of them entered the wooden house one after another.

Pei Jingxing was a little surprised when he saw Bana huddled in a corner drinking hot water, and asked Zhou Yuyi, "Why did he wake up?"

"It must have been a dream." Zhou Yuyi said a word, then changed the subject, "What's wrong with you?"

"He doesn't want to go any further," Pei Jingxing pulled the guide to sit down, and replied concisely, "He said that the front is hell."

Now Zhou Yuyi became interested, turned his head to look at the guide, and asked the same question as Pei Jingxing: "Why do you say that the front is hell? Has anyone been there?"

The guide hunched his shoulders and shook his head.

Ming Dao, who was standing behind him, patted him heavily on the shoulder: "We've already collected the money, so forget it if you don't go, and don't tell us? You made such a fuss on purpose to scare us. Let me guess, is there you in front of me?" Your accomplices, waiting for us to go, you and them one after the other, surrounded us, murdered and robbed us?"

"No, no." The guide was frightened and quickly denied, "No one dares to go ahead, really. Anyway, from a long time ago, the old people of our tribe said that the front is hell."

Pei Jingxing asked again and again: "Why? Don't you all dare to go in because of a rumor?"

The guide cowardly said: "Some people have gone in. People are always curious. But after so many people went in, they never came out again. Only, only one, a monster that is not like a human, came out."

Pei Jingxing raised his eyebrows and asked him, "Have you seen it?"

The guide nodded: "It happened more than ten years ago. At that time, there was a great hero in our tribe. He said that even if it was hell, he would go to see it. He led people into the mountain. It is said that it was at this sentry point. The others stayed, and he was the only one who went on. Those people waited for more than ten days, but they couldn’t wait, so they returned to the tribe. As a result, seven days after they came back, a monster came out of the mountain.”

"Monster?" Zhou Yuyi asked him, "Have you seen it with your own eyes?"

The guide replied: "Yes. That monster doesn't have an inch of skin on its body, it's full of exposed flesh and blood. Its fingers are black and very long, and it can kill a person with a single scratch. His eyes are also red, and his legs are like It's a wolf's leg, and the calf is covered with long black hair."

"You can see so clearly, have you ever been scratched by a monster?"

The guide shook his head: "I was almost caught by him. But my father protected me. But my father died."

Speaking of this, the guide couldn't bear it anymore and burst into tears.

The three exchanged a look, but did not continue talking.

When the guide had cried enough, he wiped away his tears and continued to persuade: "I really can't go any further. We didn't know about that monster at first, but later it was the wife of the great hero. We only knew it was him because of the hand rope weaved. That monster has no humanity at all, and even killed his own wife."

"You rest first." Zhou Yu got up together, and said to Ming Dao, "Master Ming Dao is here to take care of them, and Mr. Pei and I will go outside to talk."

Ming Dao responded with a smile: "Don't worry, take care of me."

When the two went outside, Zhou Yuyi looked at the white area in front of him and exhaled: "Young Master Pei, what do you think?"

Pei Jingxing expressed his opinion: "This person should be really afraid, and he has never gone in. There is no point in taking him with him."

Zhou Yuyi took out the compass: "The aura here is too chaotic, the compass is useless."

"I can only think of a way to do this." Pei Jingxing recalled the results of the tortoise pattern divination, and said his conjecture, "Zhou Daochang, you said that the big ominous in the four words 'Northwest, big ominous', could it mean our luck? The big murder, but let us go to the northwest to find the big murderous place?"

Zhou Yuyi thought for a moment: "It's also possible."

Pei Jingxing said: "Then let's rest here and set off tomorrow."