Doe

Collect the body?Presumably, the group of people who came to Ghost Country to explore the secrets last time had his old acquaintances.Baili Jueming scratched his head and asked, "The Yu family or the Xie family? How old were you when they came?"

"The old friend of the king, you can be regarded as the elder of the next." Pei Zhen lowered his eyes and said, "'Death and life are honest', if there is a chance, it is better to welcome the mourning bone back to the hometown."

He looked a little sad, that person was probably an elder who treated him very kindly.Baili Jueming didn't know how to comfort him. Life and death are difficult for ordinary people to find out. Otherwise, why would there be so many ghosts?Even he himself is a poor guy who can't break his obsession. What's more sad is that he died for too long, and he forgot everything about his life, even his own obsession.

He sighed and said: "Although it sounds like sarcastic remarks, life and death are matters of destiny. 'Big pieces carry people to shape, labor to live, lose people to grow old, and slow people to death'. Dead It's pretty good, you won't see troublesome people, you won't encounter troublesome things, so don't think too badly about death."

"Is that so?" Pei Zhen looked at him with complicated eyes.

"That's right," Baili Jueming looked up at the sky, "Sometimes I really want to leave. If it wasn't for Xunwei's disappearance, I would have left a long time ago. Being an evil ghost that can't die is a very difficult thing." Suffering things, one day at a time, every day is the same, it’s so boring. When Xun Wei didn’t come, I tried many ways to kill myself, cut my pulse, hanged myself... I tried everything I could, but I couldn’t help it. The method is useless to me." He thought of something, and smiled crookedly, "Who knows that after Xun Wei came, she saw the rope ring I used to hang herself, she didn't know it, and asked me to make it for her. A swing. I watched her swing, laughed silly, and suddenly felt that being alive was not bad, so I gave up on suicide."

"It's... so?" Pei Zhen was a little dazed.He never imagined that the swing that he loved most when he was young was the thing that Master used to hang himself.

"Life and death, it sounds mysterious, but it's nothing special. Boy, be strong." Baili Jueming patted him on the shoulder, expressing comfort and encouragement. , must be very gratifying." I didn't expect this kid to always smile, and still hide such sadness in his heart.Thinking about old relatives, not forgetting old kindness, is a good boy.Baili Jueming's evaluation of him became higher and higher. He turned around, looked at the narrow building, and said, "Old man Wudu said that two laws must be obeyed when entering the ghost country. Nothing to eat."

Pei Zhen gathered his turbulent mind, raised his eyebrows, and asked, "Why?"

"Who knows, I didn't ask." Baili Jueming said, "Anyway, we'll just do what he said, old man Wudu was talking a little bit, but most of what he said made sense. "

"What about the second rule?"

"I don't know," Baili Jueming scratched his hair, "I fell asleep when he said this. Don't look at me like this. These things are really boring. What kind of ghost mother and ghost boy? What does it matter to me? My head gets dizzy when I hear it."

"..." Pei Zhen shook his head helplessly, he knows best how unreliable his master is, the only thing his master is good at is probably killing and cooking.

When he was in Baochen Mountain in the past, Grandpa Wudu did often mention Huangquan Ghost Country.At that time, it was only an anecdote after dinner, but looking back now, I always feel that he did it on purpose.Why do you want to do this?Even though he is a great master of the Fire Art, he still can't predict the prophets, predicting that they are going to enter the ghost country of Huangquan now.Besides, if you really want them to know about Ghost Country, why not write it down?Maybe he really wrote it, but the master accidentally burned it when he created the lava haunted domain.

Forget it, he brushed off the water droplets on his sleeves, walked down the moss-covered stone steps slowly, and said leisurely: "Second rule, senior should follow closely and never leave."

The two stood behind the door and looked out. The corridor was dark, and the dense and heavy darkness seemed to fill the entire space.Pei Zhen lit up the wind lantern, and the dizzy light illuminated a little bit of space under his feet, and the shadows of the two fell obliquely on the wooden porch.The candlelight swayed back and forth as they walked, and the shadows on the ground swayed like ghosts.Iron chains stretched across the sky above the courtyard, and iron-blue wind chimes were hung all over.However, the wind chimes didn't ring, and there was only the sound of rain between the sky and the earth.

"Those wind chimes are very strange." Pei Zhen stretched out his hand and poked one under the eaves. "It seems to be filled with lead, and the wind can't move it."

There was a strangeness everywhere here, Baili Jueming listened attentively, the sound of thousands of rains was empty, he didn't hear the slightest human voice.Those who entered the ghost building one day before them seemed to have evaporated from the world, and it seemed that they had never been there at all.More importantly, Baili Jueming didn't hear any strange noises, not even the sound of a murderous corpse moving. Baili Jueming murmured suspiciously, "Could it be that everyone is hibernating? It's summer now."

They are on the highest floor of the enclosure, which is the fifth floor.Pei Zhen poked a small hole in one of the window screens, and peeped in. It was pitch black, and the light from the wind lamp penetrated through the window screen, and some household furnishings could be vaguely seen, all of which were very old wooden furniture. There was a couch in the front, A few armchairs to the left and right.The walls are decorated with dilapidated pile embroidery, and many faded treasure buildings hang down from the roof.What is more special is that the walls and ceiling are painted vermilion, which is old now, and many vermilion paints have been mottled and faded.But he can still imagine how magnificent it was at the beginning.

Baili Jueming stood behind him and couldn't help but look around, especially behind him.This broken place is dark, and the long corridor is completely dark except for their little light.He couldn't stop paying attention to his surroundings, always feeling that a ghost would appear suddenly somewhere.To be honest, it doesn't seem to be any different from other ghost towns.Who is Baili Jueming, even if he is afraid, it should be because the ghosts inside are afraid of him.But he always felt flustered, goosebumps stood up from his back, and there was a dull pain like a needle prick.

It was as if something in the darkness was waiting for him.

"elder brother."

An ethereal voice came from behind, and Baili Jueming shrugged.

He took out a locust tree leaf from his sleeve pocket and wiped his eyes. Looking back, the corridor was so dark that he couldn't see anything clearly.There are no ghosts, let alone murderous corpses.He suspected that he had heard it wrong, and the frosty hairs grew uncontrollably in his heart, so he couldn't help but stand closer to Pei Zhen.

"Pei Zhen, did you hear anything?"

"No." Pei Zhen asked, "What's wrong?"

Did he hear wrong?Baili Jueming coughed, "It's nothing, I'm getting old, and there's something wrong with my ears."

Pei Zhen smiled, "Senior, don't underestimate yourself, come and take a look at this room."

Baili Jueming obeyed and bent down to spy.

There are many scripture cabinets inside, and there are cowhide drums on the small table painted with red lacquer and gold.

"Is it a scripture hall? Go in and have a look." He stretched out his hand to pull the door knocker, and the cold iron ring rubbed against the top of the ring, making a sound of "Ah--", like a woman hanging her voice, and it spread far away in the silent darkness.While gently pushing the door open, he gently said to Pei Zhen: "I'll go in and find out if there's anything useful, you wait for me outside."

"No," Pei Zhen pulled his skirts and entered the room together, "I want to be inseparable from senior."

When Pei Zhen stepped over the threshold, Baili Jueming in front suddenly stopped walking. He raised his eyes and looked over Baili Jueming's shoulder. Pei Zhen also stopped walking.At the edge of the halo of wind and light, behind an old screen, there is a short figure, sticking to the gauze screen, motionless.

dead?Or alive?

Is it a villager?Or a disciple of Xianmen who is alone?

Pei Zhen seemed to be afraid, grabbed Baili Jueming's sleeve, and said softly, "Senior, protect me."

Baili Jueming gave him a sidelong glance, and cursed in a low voice: "You protect your head, you want someone to protect you and you follow in, don't you mean to hinder me?" Baili Jueming pulled out his sleeve cruelly, without looking He glanced at it and walked straight ahead.

Pei Zhen: "..."

He forgot that he is Pei Zhen now, not Xie Xunwei.The master takes pity on Xie Xunwei, but not on Pei Zhen.It was the first time he was treated so coldly by his master, and he felt unspeakable melancholy.The move is wrong, you have to change the method.

Following Baili Jueming around the screen, the light diffused into the room, and more faint shadows appeared on the embroidered screen. There were many people inside, about four or five.Baili Jueming made a gesture, and Pei Zhen stepped around the screen first, and sure enough, he saw a few hard corpses sitting on armchairs, all of them looked like men, with pale and expressionless faces.There was a man sitting on the uppermost couch, who seemed to be the eldest of them all, or the oldest and most respected person.Only this person was wearing a black gauze, so he couldn't see his face clearly.

"These are the villagers?" Pei Zhen squinted his eyes, "I don't know how long the Huangquan Ghost Country has existed. These corpses must have been there for some years, and they haven't even rotted."

Baili Jueming blocked him, "I don't know if there are ghosts here, don't get too close, beware of ghost possession, the corpse will change violently."

"Don't be afraid," Pei Zhen smiled reassuringly, took out a few finger-length silver needles from his sleeve, and stuck them on the back of the neck of the corpse one by one, "Fix their Dazhui acupoint, even if they are possessed by ghosts, they can't raise the corpse." .”

He put the lantern on the low table, turned around and checked inside.Opening the scripture cabinet, he took out the first book, which was densely filled with weird and distorted words.

Pei Zhen recognized this kind of script, Wudu had taught him that it was the script of an ancient Masang tribe in the southwestern border, because they resembled the winding traces left by birds and insects, Wudu called them "feather insect seal".Pei Zhen frowned, this seems to be the chronicle, the chronological method is very different from Xianmen, Xianmen uses the year name to record the year, and this Yinmu village uses the sky star to record the year.

Pei Zhen turned to the first page, the first line read:

"The first month at the pole of the sky, the candle star falls, and the goddess rushes eastward."

Pei Zhen flipped through the book and asked: "Senior, did Grandmaster Wudu ever mention 'Heavenly Maiden'?"

"No." Baili Jueming told him, "You search the cupboard for things, and we will take the valuable ones away as a dowry for Xunwei."

Baili Jueming touched those corpses, hoping to find some treasures.Those who can change Yi Xunwei's pure yin body must have pure yang treasures, such things are usually very expensive, and they may be carried with them.Even if you can't find it, you can pick up some beads and strings of gold and silver and take them out to sell for money.

After fumbling for a long time, he found some sachets, hand bells, and small combs. Baili Jueming flipped through their sachets and muttered: "Can the sachets in Huangquan Ghost Country be sold for money?"

Put it under your nose and smell it, it stinks.Baili Jueming cursed and turned to the person in the first seat.Looking under the wind lamp, this guy was dressed very thickly, the others were all wearing single clothes, only he was wrapped in colorful prayer flags, tied tightly, not even showing his face.Probably an old man who is afraid of the cold, Baili Jueming thought, and lifted his fence.It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, the whole person is almost taken aback by seeing it.This person has eyes all over his face, and the nose and mouth can only be distinguished by looking carefully.All the eyes are narrowed into a thin slit, as if looking at him, the eyes are very evil.

Is this fucking human?Baili Jueming was disgusted and didn't really want to touch his pocket immediately, but this guy was obviously the most distinguished elder, so he definitely had something on him.

For Xunwei!

Baili Jueming cheered himself up, biting the bullet and flipping his sleeves.Pulling back his cuffs, Baili Jueming was horrified to find that this guy's arms were also covered with eyes.Pull back his clothes and look, his chest is also full of eyes.It's terrifying, this man has eyes all over his body, half-opened, with a vicious and cursed look on his face.No wonder you wear so much, it turns out to be to cover your eyes.

Among ghosts, he is the uncle.In terms of strength, he has never been afraid.It's just that this ghostly place is very weird. From the moment he entered it, it felt like a piece of iron was pressing on his heart. It was gloomy and uncomfortable. He really wanted to burn the whole place with a fire.

Baili Cassia touched his sleeve pockets and interlayer hastily and then backed out.It's so fucking evil, Baili Jueming has been dead for so long, and he has never seen such an evil thing.He is not afraid of any evil spirits with crooked teeth and slanted lips, only these weird things.He pulled the man's skirt back and raised his eyes, only to see that the man lowered his head, and his eyes were staring straight at him.

"..."

Where did this fellow face just now?Baili Cassia somewhat forgot.

As if to dispel Baili Jueming's doubts, the thousand-eyed man lowered his head again, almost touching Baili Jueming's nose.

Cold sweat broke out on his body, Baili Jueming felt a little numb in his legs and couldn't stand up.No, it wasn't leg numbness, he found that he couldn't move his whole body, let alone speak.The countless eyes in front of him slowly widened one by one, staring so hard that they occupied his entire field of vision.This bastard's eyes are weird!Baili Jueming gritted his teeth and forcibly used his spiritual power.

Grandma, I will set you on fire.

Black smoke came out from the fingertips, but no flames burst out.The spiritual power became a paste, stuck in the meridian and blocked.He had a bad secret, using the fire method would speed up the decay of his body, and the decay of his body would in turn restrict his spiritual power.At this time, there was a "click" sound from behind his ears, and he caught a glimpse through his eyes, and a few murderous corpses sitting beside him turned their faces away silently.Maybe they haven't moved for too long, their necks creaked with the movement of turning their faces, which sounds creepy.All the corpses moved in unison, staring at him expressionlessly.

It's really embarrassing to throw it at grandma's house now, and he actually followed the tricks of these country bumpkins.

Bae Jin, Bae Jin, Bae Jin!He shouted in his heart.

Pei Zhen was at the scripture cabinet, flipping through the books fascinated.

Where he and Baili Jueming could not see, the silver needle on the back of a murderous corpse's neck was squeezed out inch by inch by the wriggling flesh, and fell to the ground with a thud.Baili Jueming heard the sound, and sure enough, out of the corner of his eye, a murderous corpse slowly stood up.